We are Torah-keeping Latter-day Saints. That phrase has two parts and we mean both of them — fully, without apology, and without contradiction.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."
Matthew 5:17We worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — Yehovah, whose personal name He revealed to Moses at the burning bush and whose covenant He has never revoked. We approach Him through Yeshua HaMashiach, the firstborn of the Father, who kept Torah perfectly, fulfilled the sacrificial system in His own body, and now intercedes as our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. The Name matters. We use it.
The heavens opened again. Angels returned. Priesthood was restored. The Book of Mormon came forth — a second witness of Yeshua and a record of covenant Israel in the western hemisphere. We receive Joseph Smith as a prophet called of God, the Doctrine and Covenants as ongoing revelation, and the Restoration as a genuine work of Yehovah to regather His scattered people. We are not former Latter-day Saints who lost our faith. We are Latter-day Saints who found more of it.
The Torah given to Moses on Sinai — the instructions, statutes, feast days, Sabbath, dietary laws, and the entire fabric of covenant life Yehovah prescribed for His people — was not nailed to any cross. Paul's letters address specific misunderstandings in gentile congregations and must be read in their historical context; they do not annul what Yehovah wrote with His own finger. Yeshua said he did not come to destroy the Torah but to fill it full. We take him at his word. Keeping Torah is not legalism. It is love. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15).
Yehovah rested on the seventh day, hallowed it, and set it apart before there was a Jewish nation or a Mosaic law (Genesis 2:1–3). The Sabbath was not changed by the resurrection of Yeshua. The shift to Sunday worship happened through ecclesiastical decree centuries after Calvary. We keep the seventh day — Friday sundown to Saturday sundown — as a sign of our covenant with Yehovah and a foretaste of the coming rest of the Millennial Kingdom.
Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Shavuot (Pentecost), the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot are called "the feasts of Yehovah" — not the feasts of the Jews (Leviticus 23). They were rehearsals of Yeshua's first coming and previews of his second. We observe them as Latter-day Israel because they belong to us, because they are beautiful, and because keeping them is obedience.
Ezekiel 37 is happening now. The Stick of Joseph (the Book of Mormon) and the Stick of Judah (the Hebrew scriptures) are being joined in the hands of those who receive both. We understand ourselves to be of the house of Israel — by lineage, by covenant, or by adoption through Yeshua — and we understand the Restoration as the beginning of the prophesied ingathering. The mission of this ministry is to help Torah-keeping people find the Restoration, and Restoration people find the Torah.
The call of Revelation 18 — "Come out of her, my people" — is not metaphor and it is not fringe. Babylon is any system, religious or civil, that substitutes the traditions of men for the commandments of Yehovah. We do not leave in bitterness or fear. We leave in obedience, and we try to help others find the door.
That question has a different answer for different people in this community. Some of us remain active members and engage from within. Others have found the institutional tension too great and worship elsewhere. We do not make church membership a test of fellowship. What we do hold in common is a belief in the Restoration — in Joseph Smith's mission, in the Book of Mormon as scripture, and in the covenants restored through him. The institution and the Restoration are not the same thing.
Only if you misread what Paul was writing about. Paul's letters to Galatia and Rome address a specific controversy: whether gentile converts needed to be circumcised and take on full proselyte conversion to Judaism in order to be saved. His answer — no — is correct and important. But Paul himself kept the Sabbath, observed Passover, took Nazirite vows, and said "I delight in the law of God after the inward man" (Romans 7:22). He never said the Torah was abolished. What he said was that Torah-keeping does not save you. Neither does faith alone save you — "faith without works is dead" (James 2:26). We keep Torah not to earn salvation but because we are in covenant with the God who gave it.
We have deep respect for Messianic Judaism, and many of our resources and teachers come from that tradition. But we are something distinct: we are Latter-day Saints who keep Torah. We hold the Book of Mormon as scripture, we receive the priesthood restoration through Joseph Smith, and we understand the Restoration as the fulfillment of prophecy about the gathering of Israel — including the Stick of Joseph. That is a position few Messianic congregations hold, and it shapes everything about how we read both Testaments.
The temple endowment, rightly understood, is ancient. Its patterns — washing, anointing, clothing in priestly garments, passing through veils, approaching a Holy of Holies — are found throughout the Hebrew scriptures and in the Dead Sea Scrolls. That Joseph Smith drew on Masonic ritual in the 1840s is historically documented; it doesn't trouble us, because Masonry itself drew from ancient sources, some of which overlap with Israelite temple practice. The endowment is better read alongside Leviticus and Ezekiel than alongside nineteenth-century church history.
The best first step is to subscribe to our weekly email — you'll get the Torah portion, the latest teaching, and occasional notes. From there, reach out through the contact page. We are a small and growing community and we take connection seriously. We're not trying to be a big organization. We're trying to find the people Yehovah is drawing.
