The Twelve Tribes

Movement·Founded 1972 CE·The community reports something over 2,000 members across communities in around a dozen countries. There is no external count.

Judaism → Christianity → The Twelve Tribes

The Twelve TribesArchiveJudge Mahady's 1984 opinion, published by the community itselfThe recordWorld Religions and Spirituality Project — Twelve Tribes

Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Twelve Tribes Discussion

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →
Y Yahshua, not Jesus. The community uses the Hebrew name and refuses the Greek one, along with the creeds, the cross as an image, and the word Christian — all of them treated as marks of the falling-away. Domain The restoration of a people, and the returnStanding Son of Yahweh, worshipped; the refusal of the name Jesus is doctrinal, not stylistic Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The church fell away, and is being restored now. The community holds that the body described in Acts ended within a few centuries and that what followed was not it. Its own existence is the restoration, in progress and unfinished. Go deeper — context →
Everything in one purse. No member owns anything. Wages from the community businesses go into a common fund and everything comes back out of it, which the community reads as the plain sense of Acts 2 rather than as an ideal. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
The nature of reality

A world in its last age, waiting on a restored people rather than on a date

After death

Three eternal destinies — the holy, the righteous of the nations, and the unjust

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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