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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
you know you mentioned the 12 tribes...I once went with a friend and spent a few days with them here in Brazil...very nice people...but a very false doctrine...so sad...They were so sweet and gave me one of their few beds...I had the impression they lived very poor. Sad that people with such false doctrines sacrifice so much in vain....
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Was that the Mate' farm in Quatro Barras? they have a community in Itapecerica da Serra, and a few others. They are sweet people and in order to join one must give up all their worldly possession. Bank accounts, houses, and businesses. All are to be either sold or given over to the community. Their favorite candy stick verses are
Acts 4:32, and
Acts 2:44. Everything revolves around that they are the restoration of truth. Living communal is salvational, because the only way to live for God is to be in a communal situation.
The 12 tribes has businesses in all their communities. In Spain the community makes olive oil. In Argentina the community makes Mate'. In Fort Myers Florida they were making soaps and shampoos. All their communities in the United States are IRC 501(d) which provide exemption for a religious or apostolic association or corporation which have a community purse.
As far as the name of Yahshua, and Yahweh they claim that those are the original names. I was talking with them in their community in Fort Meyers with their leader Eugene Spriggs (Yoneq) and asked them if they spoke Hebrew. They all answered in chorus with a resounding NO! I laughed. But again they are sincere, they are sweet, and they are giving people. But I can find the same thing at a Jewish Kibbutzim, or Hindu Ashram. The Bible isn't their basis for their teachings. Their group meetings are comprised of everyone taking a turn to talk and testify about their teachings. They also do Eastern European Chabad style dancing, blended with 1960s Height Ashbury Woodstockian Greatful Deadish spirit. The men in their meetings all wear headbands because in their "church services" called menhas the headband is their diadems. Which they will one day throw at Yeshua's feet. I had something more grandiose in mind when I read that scripture. But the hippy stuff is big for them. All the men have cut hair but have a ponytail in the back. All members must change their birth names to Hebrew names on conversion through baptism in Yahshua's name. No one is required to stay and if you no longer feel the need to be a part of the community you may leave. Just a little lighter of your possessions. So, they are Sacred Name, Hebrew Roots. Everything rotates around their eschatology and what part they play as restored truth in the end times.
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