New Covenant Church of God (Sweden)
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The New Covenant Church of God (or B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh) is a former Latter Day Saint break-off that considers itself to be charting a course mid-way between Christian Evangelicalism and Messianic Israelitism. The faith has been known by various other names, including Restoration Christian Fellowship, Independent Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independent Church of Jesus Christ, and New Covenant Christian Fellowship.
The church was organized as the Restoration Christian Fellowship in Oxford, England in 1986, after its founder and Presiding Patriarch Christopher C. Warren, then a member of what is now called the Community of Christ, claimed to have a revelation. In 1988, the church moved to various locations in Norway. In 1990, the church cropped the phrase of Latter Day Saints from its name.
In 1992, the church changed its name to the New Covenant Christian Fellowship and abandoned its earlier acceptance of the Latter Day Saint scriptures, and embraced the Bible, as well as scriptures received by Warren. The group came to believe that Mormonism was a fraud perpetrated by fallen angels (called the Watchers), who had deceived Joseph Smith, Jr. into accepting incorrect doctrines and counterfeit scriptures.
The church proselytes avidly throughout the world, particularly in India. It also has a theocratic bent, and an affinity for Jewish symbols, rituals, and practices, including kosher dietary practices.
The group believes in God the Son, Jesus (whom they call by the Hebrew form Yah'shua) but believes he is subordinate to God the Father (whom they call Yahweh). The Father, Son and seven-fold Holy Spirit (in Hebrew Ruach haQodesh, whom they call the Heavenly Mother and identify with Sophia and Chokhmah) constitute God (Elohim) or the Godhead.
The Church has moved to a mixture of Hebrew Christianity, including seventh-day Sabbath keeping and also the Old Testament festivals. Their seventh-day Sabbath is observed according to the calendar week.
The Church also believes in the Khazar ancestry of the majority of Jews, and almost all Ashkenazim and endorses the book The Thirteenth Tribe.
