The Prophetic Years statement of faith
- There
is one God unified in three divine persons - the Father, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit.
- Jesus
is the Son of God who entered His creation by becoming human flesh born of the virgin Mary.
- The
Father of Jesus was God. Jesus had no natural Father of flesh but was born of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was 100 percent
God and 100 percent man. No man could take Jesus’ life from Him. He willfully laid down His life
as a blood sacrifice so mankind could
be saved from their sins.
- The
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross paid for all past and future sins of mankind. Jesus became cursed for us on the
cross and took our sins upon Himself. Jesus was the Lamb sacrifice whose blood atoned for the sin of the world.
Jesus died, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day as the immortal Son of God.
Now all who trust in Him will be eternally saved
into a sinless new creation.
- Jesus
ascended to Father God and sits on His throne in Heaven until the time appointed by the Father for Him to return
to the earth.
- Jesus
will come again in the same way that He left. He will come in bodily form in glory with all His heavenly host and every
eye will see Him at His return.
- There
is only one intermediator between God and man and He is Christ Jesus. Jesus now intercedes for Christians against
Satan who continually accuses them before the Father.
- All
who believe in their heart that Jesus paid for their sins by His sacrificial death on the cross, believe that Jesus
rose from the dead, and confess this truth will be saved.
- All
who truly believe in Jesus are born of the Spirit into a new creation called the body of Christ.
- There
is one spiritual baptism for all believers, this occurs when they trust in Jesus to save them – In that baptism,
the person of flesh dies with Jesus and rises with Jesus into His new spiritual creation called the Body of Christ.
- Water
baptism is an outward sign of an inward act as a witness to oneself, the world, and the angels that you are now
in Christ. Water baptism saves no one.
- All
believers born of the Spirit are given spiritual gifts for service to God and the Church. The spiritual gifts are
given as God desires and are not our natural abilities, nor are they learned. We are to pray to God for such gifts
to do spiritual service in the name of God.
- Jesus
will return with all His saints and His angels to establish a literal Kingdom of righteousness on the earth for
one thousand years as the prophets foretold. However, Jesus’ rule and His kingdom will be eternal in the new heaven
and earth.
- The
66 books of the Holy Canon of scripture (the Bible) were God breathed to His prophets and apostles and every word
will be fulfilled as originally given to them.
- Any
translation of the Bible is not without minor error but all reliable translations contain God’s infallible word
for faith and practice.
- Paraphrases
of the Bible may be useful but they are fallible views of men and are subject to error and should always be used
in parallel with a literal translation.
- Satan
is an angel who is called the prince of the power of the air and the ruler of this world age. He is the adversary
and deceiver who tempted Adam and Eve to disobey causing sin and death to come into the world. Satan in the end
times will establish his Beast kingdom on earth but it will be destroyed by God at the seconding coming of Jesus
in power and glory. Satan will be bound during the thousand-year reign. Afterward, he will be loosed to deceive
the nations once again. Satan will then be cast into the Lake of Fire and all those who follow him will be cast
into the Lake of Fire for eternity.
- The
Law of God as given in the Ten Commandments are eternal. Jesus did not come to do away with the law but came so
that mankind could be changed to comply with it. All the law is fulfilled by loving God and loving others as you
would want to be loved yourself. The law of God can only be obeyed by being born of the Spirit and by putting on
the nature of Christ. The Sermon on the Mount was the prime example of how we should strive to fulfill the law
and this will be the standard for living for mankind in the millennial reign of Christ.
- All
of mankind will appear before God. Those saved in Christ Jesus will give account for what they did in the flesh
good or bad.
This event will occur before the millennial reign of Christ on earth with His saints. Those
in Christ will receive rewards
or have rewards taken away based on what they built on the house of God.
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All souls who take part in the first resurrection prior to the millennial
reign will not experience the second judgment or second death but will obtain eternal life with God. All who do
not partake in the first resurrection will be judged at the great White Throne Judgment according to the eternal
law of God for what they did in their bodies. All those not found in the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake
of Fire for eternity. This is the second death and all who take part in it will be eternally separated from God.
- Demons
are disembodied evil spirits that roam the earth looking for someone to possess. They
most likely are the offspring of fallen
angels that united with women to create the Nephilim before the flood whose bodies were destroyed by the great
flood. The belief in reincarnation stems from experiences by those who are/were possessed by these evil spirits.
- The
true Church of God are all those saved by grace through faith (trust) in the Lord Jesus. Members of the true Church
can be found in many denominations but the true Church of God is a minority in most denominations. The true Church
of Jesus Christ is a minority of those who identify with Christianity and who call themselves Christians.
- Unity
in Christ cannot be achieved by departing from sound biblical doctrine to obtain it. We reject ecumenicalism that
is based on the belief that all religions worship the same God when the doctrine of the religion, denomination,
or sect denies the Son of God, or God as He is revealed in the Bible.
- The
Pope does not speak for the Church of God on earth, nor does any other Christian leader or any group of leaders.
The Bible is the word of God and it speaks for itself. The Holy Spirit is in the Church and
He acts through Christians
only as God wills.
- The
institutional church is never inerrant. Traditions of men and doctrines of the church often conflict with God’s
revealed word in the Bible. The only reliable authority for men to live by is the Bible.
- The
great commission of the Church is to preach the Good News of the risen Savior for salvation to all who will believe.
- The
Bible does not teach that the Church will christianize the world before the return of Jesus.
It teaches the world
is heading toward judgment. We reject Dominion/Reconstruction/post millennial theology. We reject any humanistic
doctrine that establishes a physical kingdom of God on earth before the physical return of Jesus Christ in glory.
- The
Church has not replaced or superseded Israel. God will fulfill all physical earthly promises that He made to the
natural descendants of Israel. These promises are not to be allegorized and spiritualized to the Church. God will
fulfill all covenants to the descendants of Israel after they acknowledge their offense and they accept the Messiah
that He gave them.
- We
reject amillennial and post millennial doctrine as aberrent views that
cannot be supported through any common sense reading of the scriptures. We believe that true believers that hold this
theology are still brothers and sisters in the Lord.
- We
believe the Bible teaches a pretribulation rapture of the Spirit born Church pleasing God.
This occurs before the wrath of God outlined in Revelation.
- We
believe that a great harvest of souls for God will take place after the rapture and during the great tribulation.
- We
believe God will allow a great deception or delusion to come in the last days for all those who will not believe
the truth. This deception will come by way of the Beast Antichrist incarnated by Satan.
- We
reject all doctrines that teach that man can be saved by good works or by his own merit.
- We
reject that all supernatural experiences are from God. We are to test the spirits. All spirits that depart from
the teaching of the Bible or that deny the Son of God are not of God. For that reason, we reject the religions
of the world outside of true Christianity as containing any path to salvation of the soul. We reject any appearances
of saints, angels, or prophets that deliver a message that in any way conflicts with the revealed word of God.
This includes the popular Mary apparitions with messages that contain a salvation by good works theology as well
as much blasphemy.
- We
believe there will be many forms of apostasy from the truth in these last days and false teachers in wolves clothing
are and will be leading many astray.
- We
reject all latter day movements said to be of the Holy Spirit that appeal to the flesh and that are clearly fostered
by those with unsound minds.
- We
reject the teaching that God has special anointed gurus in the Church that are above reproach or correction. We
all must be like the Bereans and examine all teachings of all men in the light of scripture.
- The
Prophetic Years Ministry will not be classified as either Calvinist or Arminian. We find truth and error in both
views. If you think that is a contradiction, so be it. We believe that man’s knowledge on the nature of God is
imperfect since man is severely limited by his brain and the four dimensions he lives in.
- No
ordinances of any church denomination are required to be followed to receive salvation or for one to stay saved.
- The
Bible teaches the doctrine of eternal salvation for all those who truly believe that Jesus is the risen Lord.
- God
is quite able to discipline His children if they are living in sin but He does not disown them. The ultimate discipline
in the flesh is death of the body so the soul will be saved.
- Those
who deny the Son of God also deny the Father and they thus cannot know God or have any kind of a personal relationship
with the true God of heaven.
- Not
all humans are children of God. Only those who come to the Son of God and
are born from above are God’s children.
Those who do not come through the Son of God are dead in their sins and separated from fellowship with
Father God..
- God
does not make up all of creation. God transcends creation. A perfect God cannot dwell in imperfect sinful creatures.
We are not part of God, nor are we now gods in any way. However, God did provided a way for mankind to become His
children by trusting in the finished work of His only begotten Son at the cross (Jesus).
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The study of end time Bible prophecy (eschatology) is not a distraction or a
diversion. The prophetic scriptures were given to be understood.
- We
reject any watering down of the gospel in order to make Christianity more appealing to the masses. Salvation comes
by hearing the word of God and believing it.