About BTD

Meet Betty

Hi, I’m Betty Hall, a bondservant of Messiah Yeshua, called as a prophetic teacher, to deliver an equipping and encouraging message, summoning Messiah’s Ekklesia, the saints of the Most High, Servants of Yehovah, the disciples of Yeshua, from where we are to where we are called to be.

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus. [Phil. 3.14]

Prompted by Holy Spirit, I share divinely inspired words of encouragement, and prophetic teachings. Identifying with the Ekklesia remnant, the Evedim Yehovah/Servants of the Lord. My calling is to summon the servants of the Lord to pursue our calling as a kingdom of priests unto the Lord, to rise above our earthly existence and reach upward toward our heavenly calling in Christ Jesus/Messiah Yeshua.

My Passion

My primary focus is on reminding believers in Christ of our eternal calling as a kingdom of priests unto God [Rev. 1.6, 5.10]. According to the word of God, we are being built, by the Spirit, together with others, being rooted and grounded in Christ’s love. We are together being made into a dwelling place for God [Eph 2.22], the very temple of God [1 Cor. 3.9, 16], so that God may dwell in our midst and manifest Himself among us.

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. [2 Cor. 1:3-4]

Looking Back to our first century counterparts

From the first century, the Ekklesia has been a charismata empowered, apostolically governed, prophetically inspired, spirit-led community, in which the gifts of the Spirit were in full operation for the benefit of all. As a servant of the Lord, I am compelled to live in step with Holy Spirit.

Charismata, the plural form of charisma, refers to divine gifts or spiritual endowments granted by God. In Christian theology, these gifts are associated with the work of the Holy Spirit and are mentioned in several New Testament passages, particularly in Paul’s letters

My focus

Along this journey to follow Holy Spirit, I was led along the unfolding path of discovering the Hebraic roots of Christianity. My journey began with a focus on New Testament scripture, mainly Paul’s epistles. A theme began to emerge. Paul continually addressed issues of the gentiles allowing their pagan customs to worm their making their way in. Paul was adamant. At the same time he addressed the subject of not allowing a legalistic religious mindset to drag New Testament believers back to living under the Law.

I wasn’t satisfied with what others were teaching at the time. I wanted to know more.

The further I want along my journey the more something astonishing came to light. “Why don’t we know this!?” was a common question of mine. I looked at history and discovered more that actually gave me more questions than answers. However, Here’s what I found.

A Bit of History

I think most of us already know that Christianity started out as an offshoot from the first century Jewish root we’ll call Messianic, in reference to Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah). The early followers of Jesus had been predominantly Jewish. They viewed Him as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah.

As the good news spread to Gentile communities, the Messianic movement retained its foundational Jewish/Hebraic elements, at least for a time. Christianity began to drift toward being a separate religion after the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. That act greatly influenced the split between Judaism and early Christianity. Later, during the time of Emperor Constantine, he dynamically altered the foundations and turned the focus away from anything related to our Jewish or Hebraic roots.

Emperor Constantine didn’t just help separate Christianity from its Jewish roots, he grafted it into an entirely different tree. He did this by initiating laws against everything related to the Jews and Judaism. That meant he stood opposed to our biblical heritage and covenant roots.

Constantine was the main proponent for Christianity adopting completely different customs, like celebrating Easter, a pagan holiday, rather than the biblical observance of Passover. He changed the identity of Christianity through the utter rejection and separation of Jewish practices and theology. Even though Christianity had already been infiltrated with pagan practices, it was under Constantine’s rule that Christianity was no longer connected to our biblical covenant roots. Christianity was grafted into a concocted variation that conformed to the demands of the Roman Empire, designed almost exclusively by Constantine. This transmogrification served as a final severing from our original Hebraic heritage.

What Now?

This left me in quite a quandary. I didn’t know what to do. If the church, as I knew it, wasn’t what it was intended to be, than what was I to do? I was dissatisfied with not getting answers from the Christian community. I wasn’t about to divorce myself entirely but I was baffled.

My journey led me through Messianic congregations, which I found to be tied primarily to Rabbinic Judaism. And that was okay for awhile. I wanted to learn about Hebraic roots. It was under one of those rabbis that I studied the Feasts of the Lord. I am grateful for the knowledge.

But again, what was I to do? I didn’t feel like I was actually apart of the community. I had little in common with those who actually were Jewish. The services tended to be more liturgical than I was used to. I was more comfortable with the Spirit-filled community. Yet, I didn’t feel like I fit there anymore either. At the same time, I was thrilled to be on the journey.

Where Do I Fit?

I wasn’t sure exactly. Even now I still don’t know. While I embrace our Hebraic roots I absolutely do not follow Rabbinic Judaism. You see Rabbinic Judaism is in many was as much altered from their origins as Christianity is from ours.

A Bit More History

If you’ve read the New Testament you’ve seen the references to the Sadducees and the Pharisees. The Sadducees accepted only the written Torah as divine authority. The Pharisees however added what they call the Oral Torah, which is a collection of traditions and interpretations.

Rabbinic Judaism, as it is known today, developed directly out of the Pharisees after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Unlike the Sadducees, whose influence was associated with the Temple, the Pharisees developed more widespread popular support. This allowed their traditions to become the basis for the new form of Judaism. Today’s Rabbinic Judaism is built upon that Pharisaic tradition of interpretation and the establishment of the Talmud, which has become the core of Jewish life.

Again What Now?

If Christianity is not connected to the original roots and Judaism is just as off, then what now? Where do we turn? How do we then live? Again, I find myself seeking answers to only come up with more questions. To find direction I had to strip away all the distractions and just focus on Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I stepped away from organized religion. I got alone with God and sought to connect with others of like precious faith.

Discovering A New Breed

What I discovered was that I wasn’t as alone as I thought. Although I still struggle with finding the right words to describe what I’m doing, or how I would define myself and the work, I press on.

I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. Philippians 3:13–14 (AMP)

This I know, as Paul wrote to the Ephesians:

Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:16–22 (NLT)

So then, let us:

• Draw near to God
• listen attentively and learn to discern God’s voice
• purposefully positioning our hearts and lives to live in communion with God
• act upon His instruction – be a doer of the Word
• do not conform to merely religious traditions or applications of the Scriptures

Romans 7.6 (AMP) But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died [through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve [God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter [of the Law].

Inspired by His Spirit

Having received from Holy Spirit, let us put into practice and act upon His word to us.

As a bondservant of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is my desire, through Beyond the Dalet, to serve Him by sharing what I receive, in hopes that it may be an encouragement to others while building up the body of Christ in love.

---