And I think it is important to note that Homestead Heritage now has two doctrines swirling around the born-again experience.
James 1:8 (AV)
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
When they are talking to folks they know as oneness, they will try to sound as if they still believe similar to the tract “The Apostle’s Doctrine” by S. R. Hanby (Stanley, passed in 1995) with whom they were close in the mid-70s and which tract they utilized. They will try to say that nothing has changed.
E.g. they are nourishing some UPC connections and spoke as a Conference in St. Louis hosted by the UPC in 2022 relating to community. In that environment they will not let on their actual current teachings.
Now, in public teaching with a mixed audience including charismatics and Baptists, the two-fold born-again experience (
John 3:5, “Except a man be born of water and the Spirit”) is gone-doctrine.
You easily pick this up in the Evangel Life Ministries broadcasts, likely also in their Exodus Conference videos. Note that they do at times, from what I’ve seen, remove a talk.
They will in fact, in a tedious round-about fashion, affirm speaking in tongues as the sign of the Holy Spirit baptism. Using traditional apostolic explanations.
(We should be aware that many give this as a facade, it is not necessarily “as the Spirit gave the utterance”
Acts 2:4 (AV). So we cannot say for sure if Homestead Heritage newbies receive the genuine Spirit baptism, although they definitely did in early years. Since their key doctrine is “Yahweh-worship”, it is in God’s hand to give a sure determination.)
However, in these public explanations, the Spirit baptism is not connected with water baptism as part of the two-fold born-again experience. And, beyond that, they are very slow to declare that the water baptism is for remission of sins. In early days this was crystal-clear and often the person baptized would receive the Holy Spirit coming out of the water!
The reasons for their double doctrine shell game are complex. One factor is all their confusion and error on Yahweh, Yahshua and Yeshua. (Yahweh is a dark-side abomination and yahshua is gibberish, they affirmed Yahshua, even in their writings and even in water baptism, for many years, but seem to avoid that word Yahshua publicly now, going to Yeshua, which is Hebrew to English. They have a satellite of sorts in Israel and I conjecture that those folks told them that Yahshua is gibberish.)
Another factor is how water baptism morphed into a vow of submission to the community and its elders and leadership. That specific vow now is the needed affirmation, in writing and/or by voice, this scripture is not sufficient.
Acts 8:37 (AV)
And Philip said,
If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered and said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
In fact, due to their Bible text confusion, usually using corruption versions, they avoid any reference to that beautiful verse in Acts. They also avoid the heavenly witnesses as non-scripture, except where they find it convenient. Another example of double-mindedness.
Yours on Jesus name!,
Steven
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