{"id":67,"date":"2026-05-01T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelofyah.is\/index.php\/faq\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:24:46","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/israelofyah.is\/index.php\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently asked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Frequently asked.<\/h1>\n

Short answers to the questions most often raised at the gate. If yours isn’t here, write to apply@israelofyah.is<\/a> — we read every message.<\/p>\n

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Is the Trust a tax preparation firm or a law firm?<\/h2>\n

No. The Trust is an ecclesiastical private trust — a covenant fellowship under Yahweh’s authority. It is not a 501(c) organization, not a state-chartered church, not a marketplace of services. We do not give tax advice or legal advice. Members remain solely responsible for the application of any guidance received within these walls.<\/p>\n\n

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What does covenant membership include?<\/h2>\n

One ongoing covenant offering carries everything: shepherding through the journey at the pace Yahweh sets, encrypted private records in the Vault, weekly fellowship, prayer, and the ministry’s ecclesiastical covering. The Trust stands with the household, not above it.<\/p>\n\n

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What are the two stages of the journey?<\/h2>\n

Stage 1 — The Coming Out<\/strong> is the answering of Yahweh’s call. The household begins to walk by His lawful weights and true scales rather than Babylon’s. With a steward, in prayer and conversation, the patterns of debt, anxious provision, and material striving slowly give way to simplicity, generosity, and trust.<\/p>\n

Stage 2 — The Crossing Over<\/strong> is the deeper crossing — for those Yahweh draws further. It is walked privately, household by household, in conversation with a steward who has walked before. The Trust’s covering attends every step. The particulars are not published; they are covenant matters, opened in due season.<\/p>\n

Both stages are walked under one covenant. Stage 2 may be entered at the start, or in due season — whenever Yahweh’s hour for it has come.<\/p>\n\n

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Why two stages?<\/h2>\n

The Exodus pattern itself is two-fold. Israel first came out of Egypt — the Coming Out. Forty years later, a remnant crossed the Jordan into the Land — the Crossing Over. One Passover lamb covered both. The Trust mirrors that pattern. The same covenant membership carries you through both stages, walked at whatever timing Yahweh appoints.<\/p>\n\n

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Do I have to walk Stage 2?<\/h2>\n

No. Stage 1 bears its own fruit and is fully sufficient covenant standing. Stage 2 is for those Yahweh specifically draws further; many of His people will walk a faithful Stage 1 and never feel the call to the deeper crossing — in the same way most of the generation that came out of Egypt did not enter the Land. The Trust honors both.<\/p>\n\n

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What does “lawful weights and measures” mean?<\/h2>\n

It is Yahweh’s own standard, given plainly:<\/p>\n

“Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure: just balances, just weights… shall ye have.” (Leviticus 19:35-36)
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The world’s economy runs on unjust scales — debt-money, hidden levies, fractional measure. Yahweh requires honest weights in commerce, in courts, and in covenant. To walk by His scales is to refuse the unjust ones. This is the heart of both stages, and the spine of the whole journey.<\/p>\n\n

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Why is “Come out of her, My people” relevant now?<\/h2>\n

Because John heard the cry spoken specifically for the last days, before Babylon’s fall:<\/p>\n

“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4)<\/p>\n

In every generation Yahweh has kept a gate open for His remnant. He keeps one open now. The Trust exists to companion those who hear the call.<\/p>\n\n

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How is this different from a regular church?<\/h2>\n

A church is generally a 501(c)(3) corporation under state law, gathered for worship and teaching. The Israel of Yah Trust is an ecclesiastical private trust gathered for covenant standing, household stewardship, and the walk out of Babylon. The two callings are not opposed — many members remain in their local fellowship and bring the Trust’s covering home with them. The Trust does not seek to replace where Yahweh has already planted you.<\/p>\n\n

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How is the offering structured?<\/h2>\n

The free-will covenant offering carries the road in two parts:<\/p>\n

Stage 1 — ongoing covering, every year:<\/strong><\/p>\n