About CCGJ-GCC

ABOUT US

ORIGINS: WHO WE ARE

Welcome to the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem and our Global Council from Christ (CCGJ-GCC). We call CCGJ-GCC the Temple.

We are a continuation of the disciples and apostles of Jesus Christ by their words recorded in Holy Scripture (Holy Bible). Jesus Christ is the Son of God. See Matthew 16:13-19.

By the term "God" we mean his and our Creator and Maintainer, often called the Father, residing in the heavens surrounding the earth and in the midst of us on earth through His Holy Spirit.

We continue this successorship from Jesus and his first 12 apostolic elders (Overseers) council (Acts chapter 1, Matthew 5:22). We do this by help of the Holy Spirit delivered to us by words from God detailing how, especially words from Jesus' teachings recorded in His Holy Bible. E.g. John 14:12-21.

Jesus and his 12 apostolic elders remain our previous physical authority whom we consult by their recorded words in the Holy Bible. They remain a constant leadership authority from which each church succeed authentically by power of the Holy Spirit.

God can enable you to be a successor to any one of our (His) disciples, deacons, evangelists, apostles, or Overseers from Jesus, or Jesus himself, for example. One most aligned to God by and with Holy Scripture is equal authority when harmonious to and thereby transparent for others to see God's will, words, and example through them as Christ.

"One who received you received me, and one who received me received Him who sent me." Matthew 10:40.

The Holy Bible is the written authority giving us our affirmative direction from God by His Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ. The words of Jesus Christ from God by His Holy Spirit direct us in how to be His Temple favorably as a person, local community, and international body for His greatest blessing.

We who follow God according to Jesus His Messiah (One anointed, sanctified) are initially called His disciples. We who follow God according to Jesus His Messiah more closely and maturely are called His Messianist or Christians, especially our Temple servants entitled deacons, apostles, and Overseers.

The the foundational cornerstone of the collective Temple is first Jesus and the individual most closely following God according to Jesus Christ, especially by God's Holy Spirit. The larger foundation of the collective Temple is the local assembly most closely following Jesus Christ, especially by God's Holy Spirit and adfirmed by the Holy Bible. The local assembly is where two or more disciples gather for prayer, fellowship, Bible study, or sacred festive observances such as the Passover (also called the Last Supper, the Lord's Supper). The local assembly may grow more mature to develop deacons, evangelists, apostles, and Overseers. Two or more Overseers, and no more than 13, comprise a local assembly Overseers council.

ANCIENT HISTORY TO PRESENT

The earliest local central Christian Church that followed Jesus Christ most closely originally developed maturely in Jerusalem. The first 13 Overseers council comprised Jesus and his 12 disciples who later became deacons, apostles, evangelists, and Overseers. That Church later began to acquire monetary gifts, sometimes called tithes, from other local churches springing up from Jerusalem globally to support financially weaker churches internationally by apostles such as Paul and Barnabas. Our Global Council (of Overseers) from Christ in our Christian Church of God from Jerusalem continues to strive to accomplish this great commission.

Historically, the Temple suffered persecution, its members tortured, imprisoned, and/or murdered, and its structure and organization became less apparent in some places, especially as it operated in hostile locations less detectable. Eventually, in many locations new local church structures and organizations with teachings by less developed disciples began to emerge all over the earth. Those novel churches today still need guidance to grow maturely in Spirit, and according to the Holy Bible. They are like people, some more or less developed than others.

God has done something miraculous in these last days. He blessed the hearts and minds of former criminals in prisons after they repented, were baptized, and received His Holy Spirit. God gifted them with deep insight into His Divine matters as the Holy Bible affirms! Those Divine matters include insight about God's Sacred Name, our relationship to God our Father in Heaven, and even the ancient structure and organization God intended for our Temple from His Holy Spirit, which is seen affirmed by the Holy Bible!

The Holy Bible was also produced by God's Holy Spirit over thousands of years past to present, and some of the holy souls God blessed to produce some portions of the Holy Scripture, like apostle Paul, were also once murderers and prisoners! See this true in the Bible's recorded book of Acts, e.g verses 8:1, and 16:16-28.

Likewise, it was prisoners who initiated this continuation of the original Christian Church of God from Jerusalem containing her Global Council from Christ structure, organization, and mission from the United States of America. Those founders include William J.LeMatty, Antonio Peeler, Joel McGee, and Anthony Brooks.

The Christian Church of God from Jerusalem (CCGJ-GCC) is a continuation of men and women walking with God since the early days of mankind’s creation, even the days of Jesus Christ, as recorded in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Holy Scriptures called the Holy Bible. We continue to manifest those holy assemblies of God’s disciples through Christ that began in and around Jerusalem after the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, collectively called the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem.

We continue spreading the gospel (good news) of eternal salvation from God through His Holy Son Jesus Christ. We continue to receive God’s empowerment to remain true to His Holy Scripture, worship, praise, wisdom, individually with collective powers and inheritance handed down to us for you from the disciples of God through Jesus Christ. By your full commitment to God, there is no deeper and more comprehensive Spiritual understanding, awakening, awareness, moral compass, satisfaction, and empowerment on the planet.

Our Holy Scriptures defining our Church structure and organization predate all modern churches, including Eastern Orthodox Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant denominations such as Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecost, Baptist, Jehovah Witness, or new age houses of Yahweh’s and any others.

Holy Scripture, which represents the continual and consistent material affirmation of God’s eternal powers and authority, is the basis for our leadership for over two billion Christians and all other souls on the earth.

While our foundations and origins are ancient, which we aim to maintain, we also aim to continue generating establishments for modern times and challenges that are loving, welcoming, flexible, resilient, Bible-moral guided, and powerful.

Our LOGO SEALS

IDENTITY

IDENTITY BY LOGO-SEALS

We have inherited a variety of holy logo-seals that bear meaning, quality, and reminding of God's words. Statutes and images are not worshiped, but have been integral Judeo-Christian inheritance items. See cherubim in Exodus 25:20, especially Ezekiel 41:18-20, 25-26, temple relief images from which our seals are derived.

Please view pictures on this page, slide and tap them to reveal identity and representation for each picture. Below explanations reveal more.

ANCIENT JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES LOGO ON CLAY JAR CONTAINER

ANCIENT JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FISH

ARK (CONTAINER) FOR OLD
COVENANT SCRIPTURE COMMANDMENTs

JUDICIAL TRIAD

mAGEN MESSIAH

LION OF JUDAH

JERUSALEM, HOLY GATHERING,
LIKE PENTECOST. ACTS 2:41

MESSIANIST SEAL

One of the earliest symbols for Judeo-Christian, Messianist, and Judeo-Christianiny. We are not Messianic Jews, we are Jewish Messianists (Christians).

THE MEANING OF THE LOGO-SEALS

JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HOLY SCRIPTURE SEAL-LOGO

The Judeo-Christian trisymbol------a Levitical Candelstick, Magen David (Star), and Fish, three interconnected into one symbol-----is an ancient Messianist (Christian) Holy Scripture Seal-Logo.

ITS HISTORY AND MEANING

It was used originally to identify jars of clay containing Old Covenant and New Covenant Scrolls. Thereby it represented the beliefs and people identified as Judeo-Messianist (Judeo-Christians), those who followed the Jewish Messiah (Jesus Christ) identified in the Holy Scrolls (Holy Scriptures/Holy Bible).

The Levitical Candlestick in Judaism represented the Old Covenant priesthood and Tabernacle-Temple of Moses and Aaron. It was called a manrah, later a menorah. Exodus 25:3.

The "Magen David" (star) in Judaism represented the ancient kingdom of David over Jerusalem. Its identified as the "shield (magen) of Saul" in the Old Covenant, pointing to the beginning of David's kingdom shared with the Levitical priesthood. 2 Samuel 1:21.

It became an emblem of the king's military, and later of the modern state of Israel. 1 Chronicles 5:18. Messianist modified it to bear the sword and rod of the Messiah in it due to the book of Revelation.

The Judeo-Messianist Fish in Judeo-Messianism (Judeo-Christianity, for Judeo-Christians) is called the Qawom Dag in Hebrew (pronounced: kaw-wom dawg) and called the Anastasis Opsarion in Greek (pronounced: an-as-tas-is op-sar-ee-on).

It means the "Fish of the Raised (One/Son)" from Hebrew, and "Resurrection Fish" from Greek.

It points to the fish eaten by Jesus after his resurrection and shared among his disciples, thereby it symbolized the resurrection of Jesus (his Hebrew name is יהושׁע = Yahwashag). Luke 24:42, John 21:9-10, 13.

It also symbolized a deep prophetic meaning. From among the closest disciples and apostles of Jesus alive today in the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem, it also symbolized God's apostles sent out as the prophesied sailor fishermen beginning the Kingdom of Heaven's New Covenant "reconstitution of all things." See Matthew 16:14-21[Luke 5:1-3], Jeremiah 16:14-21, Acts 3:19-26, Hebrews 7:1-28, Revelation 21:1-27, Acts 1:6-9.

From Ezekiel's prophetic vision (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-12), with the fish bearing and providing money to appease Jews (Matthew 17:27), the fish represent the abundance and prosperity that will be present in the New Jerusalem (New Eden) under the New heavens and on the new earth described in Revelation 21:1-2, 22-24, 22:1-17.

THE LIONS OF JUDAH

This symbol primarily represents the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem, Global Council from Christ (CCGJ-GCC) local church assemblies individually and collectively.

The lions represent honorable triumph and inherent fearless courage from God, His love, and His familial love in us, which includes Our parental discipline.

The male lion symbolizes the masculine severe strength of God in His coming Messiah. The husband lion united to the wife lion, represents also the noble grace and mercy of his wife, at times tempering his wrath and together producing Wisdom and longevity.

The female lion symbolizes the church as a courageous woman of marriage who is a gracious merciful bride of the coming Messiah.

She is a female who, it must not be forgotten, is presently from the past inherently strong too. At times she will back and support her husband’s wrathful vengeance and predatory strength for carnage to survive victoriously to God’s glory.

“Look a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion they shall not lie down until they devour their prey.” Numbers 23:24; Ephesians 5:22-33; Revelation 19:11, 19, 21:9-10.

THE JUDICIAL TRIAD

This symbol primarily represents the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem_Global Council from Christ's (CCGJ-GCC's) council(s) of overseers, each council of overseers, local ones and those at global levels ( Mathew 5:22 Revelation 3:20-21 4:4-4 1 Corinthians 6:1-3), in their individual and/or collective judiciary capacity for doctrinal integrity, the balance of justice, discipline, war, and their triage approach to any crisis of members or local churches on the earth.

The image is derived from ancient inner Temple relief depictions of Old Covenant lion-man head with their faces facing opposite directions, flanked by Palm trees, which we have also used before. See Ezekiel 41:18-19.

Our Judicial Triad is representing both Old Covenant and New Covenant, with emphasis on the Messiah’s prophetic future authority as our Salvational Judge.

The lamb head symbolizes mercy, meek longsuffering, retreat, life-giving grace. Opposite, is the lion head symbolizing severity, pre-emption, charge, and carnivorous deathly condemnation.

Both Lamb-Lion Spirit from God are in the judicial balance of decision in the collective head of the Son symbolizing the Salvational Judge from Heaven on earth.

The Lion-Lamb Heads also represents a King-Priest Crown of the Salvational Judge, which is represented as the coming prophetic collective headship of our Messiah. John 1:29; Revelation 5:5, 19:11; 2 Timothy 4:8.

THE MAGEN MESSIAH

This symbol primarily represents the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem’s Global Council from Christ (GCC).

GCC’s mission is to oversee local church to church ministry, especially for financial and Spiritual supportive exchange between local assemblies, and therefore locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.

This is a continuation from apostle Paul’s ambassadorial commission to take up gifts or tithes and help churches. This provided a balancing strengthful exchange among churches from their powers from God to each other. See for example, 1 Corinthians16:1-3, 15-17; 2 Corinthians 8:1-5, 13-14, 24, 11:7-9.

As with Holy Scripture, some verses can have multiple valid meanings, such as the coming of Christ in his own physical body, by Holy Spirit in another’s body, and in the body of believers, past, present and in the future.

This symbolic seal has multidimensional meanings.

The symbol of the Magen Messiah is comprised of the Magen David, meaning the Shield of David represented as a star from the heavens, also called Solomon’s Seal.

The Solomon’s Seal, Magen David, and/or Magen Messiah comprises two interlaced triangles, one white pointing to the light of the heavens and the other pointing to the darkness, surrounding earth and Messiah.

It has historically been associated from and named after the two kings of ancient Israel and Jerusalem, David and his son Solomon, who sought from God His wisdom from His words and thereby the meaning the Seal and Shield represent.

It is a Shield and Seal of Divine Wisdom. It means that Solomon and David fell short at times to maintain from God the Divine order, which Christ does fulfill in and through his disciples (cf. Deuteronomy 17:14-20; 1 Kings 11:1-4, 14, 23, 26; 2 Samuel 11:2-11,12:9-11).

The term “Magen” comes from the Hebrew language and means a shield, a guard, a buckler (a means of protection or defense), a protector, and a hide, as from the crocodile used for durability on some ancient shields.

It also means to encompass, rescue, and hand over or surrender. It is translated in some English Holy Bibles as “shield.” “The word of the LORD (from Hebrew יהוה = Yahwah) is proven…He teaches my hands to make war…You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great” while “Your right hand has held me up.” 2 Samuel 22: 3, 35-36; Psalm 18:35.

And as where God said to Abram, “I am your shield” Genesis 15:1, “the shield of Your help and the sword of Your majesty!” Deuteronomy 33:29.

Magen Messiah symbolizes a Kingly Priestly intercession, between God in the heavens and mankind on the earth, between the Spiritual and earthly matters, indicating that effective interactive relationship for salvation.

Ultimately, it symbolizes the reconciled balance called unity and justice between mankind and our heavenly Creator through our Messiah, our Priest after the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 7:1-28.

The black (or darker) and white (or lighter) interlaced triangles represent more than earth and heaven, or dark and light.

In a separate specific context, for example, the personal spiritual balance against the opposite extremes humans experience which birth sins, is also represented.

Examples arise in overindulgence and overabstinence, hedonism and asceticism, gregariousness and reclusiveness, debauchery and celibacy, over praise/flatter/dissipate/reward and over censure/offend/withhold/punish. Ecclesiastes 7:16-18; Jeremiah 31:18-19.

At the individual level, one is reminded from God about His Way, Wisdom, to guard against such extremes, avoiding disappointment, disadvantage, and/or ultimate peril from extremes prolonged.

Executing the extremes is only to the cautious degree of what is necessary to attain counter-balance for perfect justice, and harmony to God, and thus Wisdom.

Thereby comes the Magen Messiah, the defensive weapon of Wisdom from God called the Shield, the Shield of the Kingly Priest and Messiah.

A Messianist of perfect understanding and conduct from God has experienced those extremes, likely first as a debaucherous hedonist and then the other as a celibate ascetic, perhaps for years in each when not externally imposed by man.

However, ultimately and maturely that Mediator lives life entirely in neither extreme, because intercession for God as Kingly Priest is neither entirely in heaven or in earth, neither in heaven as if God the Father absolute, nor entirely in the earth as if the dirt of Satan absolute.

The Messianist of servant disciplined “mastery is temperate in all things” before God. 1 Corinthians 9:25 (KJV); Titus 1:8, 2:2; 1Corinthians 7:1-5; 2 Peter 1:6; Acts 24:25. The servant attains the best from all things God offers. 1 Corinthians 9:25.

At center of the Magen Messiah is a sword crossed with a rod, both sword and rod are symbols of power. The sword is ultimately a symbol of the weapon of war, spiritually and physically, and the rod a symbol of Kingly and Priestly discipline, spiritually and physically.

Both historically, presently, and in the future have been, are, and will be utilized to maintain the reconciled unity, and balance called Divine justice, between the heavens and earth.

The Magen Messiah also represents the past cross upon which Jesus was crucified with the sign-over-head in three languages declaring him KING; that is for example, King of the Jews, the Jews whom God made temporal representative rulers over some people from Him for preparatory precedent.

The Magen Messiah therefore represents the present Holy Scripture references to future prophecies of the sword and rod of the Messiah, amidst our overall black universe with white stars, mingled and triangulated for universal Divine balance and life maintenance.

The Magen Messiah in such symbolism also represents the balances of God managing our cosmos, such as the forces of heavier severity and lighter mercy.

This includes the interdependence of them, and perfection or justice in the resulting moderation and wisdom of their combined effect from God.