Name: E-Mail: ETHKOGSERV will reply to you with an answer ASAP!

Our Response:-

1) Very true, that the Messiah was an Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite from the tribe of YHWHDH (Judah). I hope you brethren in Ethiopia recognize that your ancestors are Ethiopian Hebrew Israelites who were sold during the Transatlantic slave trade, or in other words African Americans, Black Cubans, Black South Americans, etc., are Ethiopian Hebrew Israelites as well.

2) Do I have to be a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in order to have my new born baby son circumcised?

Our Response:-

Christ is Risen from The Dead, and ascended to Heavens!
In Supreme Glory and Command!

as is written in Scriptures:

The LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that sprung by reason of wine. And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts: He put them to a perpetual reproach…God is gone up in joyful ululation, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises unto our King, sing praises!
(Ps. 78/65-66; 47/5-6)

1) The ambivalent assertion that you postulated and highlighted in your first email "that the Messiah was an Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite from the tribe of YHWHDH (Judah). I hope you brethren in Ethiopia recognize that your ancestors are Ethiopian Hebrew Israelites who were sold during the Transatlantic slave trade, or in other words African Americans, Black Cubans, Black South Americans, etc., are Ethiopian Hebrew Israelites as well" needs to be cleared from any sort of ambiguities. It, therefore, deserves scrutiny and clarification, before it is branded as "True", let alone as "Very True".
Here is the justification for our observation aforementioned: It is a well known biblical and historical fact that Ethiopia and Ethiopians existed and remained Children of God long before Abram, the pagan and the worshipper of idols, who searched for the True God, found Him in Faith. Immediately after that phenomenal episode, he was called and sent to the Ethiopian Melchi-Zedeq by God for his orientation to the Divine Worship and to the fulfillment of the Covenant of Circumcision before he was named Abraham, and became the Patriarch of Hebrews, Israelites, or Jews (Judians).
The ancestors of Ethiopians are Adam and Eve, Noah and Melchi-Zedeq, preceding the time they, the Ethiopians, accepted Abraham, Moses and David as their Patriarchs, in consequence of the latter's prior Ethiopianization and their Partnership in the process of the Holy Covenant. Each of the Covenants that God made with these latter individual Patriarchs was finally brought to Ethiopia and to the Ethiopians who abided by all of them and conserved them together with their respective Sacred Living Symbols even to this day and for eternity.
This Divine Truth is accentuated by the following Words of God enshrined in the Old and New Testaments: "Are ye not as children of Ethiopia unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD," and the Parable of a Father, symbolizing God, and of the two Sons of that Father, the Elder Son personifying the Ethiopians, and the younger son representing the Israelites, as told by Our Lord Jesus Christ thus: "A certain man had two sons:" (Amos 9/7; Luke 15/11-32). The same Divine Truth is also amply outlined and elucidated in the book, entitled Ethiopia: The Classic Case, by Nibure-Id Ermias K. Wolde-Yesus, posted on our web site.
What the Divine Truth reveals and affirms is not your assumption, but the fact that The Messiah, Jesus Christ, is simply an Ethiopian, Whose Identity as such resulted in His Birth from The Holy Virgin Mary, the Ethiopian, identified by the Prophet as "Ethiopia that stretched out Her Hands to God!" He is The One Who salvaged those Divine Covenants and Graces granted to the Hebrews, Israelites or Jews on account of the True Faith and Deeds of their Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but that were rejected by the former only and finally to be delivered to the Ethiopians for their eternal custody. (Ps. 68/31)
We Ethiopians in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God will never allow any more ambiguity and distortion of any kind whatsoever to be committed in any form on the Divine Truth about Ethiopia, Ethiopians and Ethiopianness. What had been done so far in this regard suffices, even if the same had already been rectified. Those peoples who accept the Holy Covenant in Its entirety, and claim to be descendents of the Hebrews, Israelites or Jews, ought to recognize that their ancestors are True Ethiopians, not the vice versa.

2) As to the question you put forward in your second email, the answer, preceded by our congratulation to you for having a new baby in your family, is as follows: Yes, we think that you need to be a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in order to have your new born baby son circumcised. It is conventional that you have to be a member of any particular religion that accepts circumcision as its sacred rite to be performed on the new and prospective member as a sign of a covenant made with God, and as an initiation procedure to membership. Such is the established practice in Our Church of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

House of Israel:
Below is my reply to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawehedo Church of San Jose, CA reply to a comment I posted on the Churches website; the Churches reply to my comment begins under the heading titled:
Christ is Risen from The Dead,
and ascended to Heavens! In Supreme Glory and Command
Before you refer to the message, I would like you to refer to the link Fula People and then refer to the heading titled History; if you have been reading my past Message to the Hebrews and Gentiles, you will be familiar to this wikipedia article and if you paid very close attention to the heading titled History, you will notice the devil recently inserted the following before the start of the paragraph ==> ===Origins and spread=== (There is no historical evidence for the narrative that follows).
However if you continue to read the below message and the HOLY BIBLE, you will realize that indeed this too is a lie, because the Bible and history clearly teaches us that the Hebrew Israelites were a people of Ethiopian origin. For example we agree that the Romans enslaved the Hebrew Israelites, right? Well the great Roman and Jewish historian Cornelius Tacitus said this about the Hebrew Israelites in his writings titled "The Histories - Book Five (1 -13)-The Jews", "Many assure us that the Jews are descended from those Ethiopians who were driven by fear and hatred to emigrate from their home country when Cepheus was king."
Funny thing the day my daughter Milcah Zipporah Morrison was born on 06/08/2008, as I was checking my wife into the hospital delivery room, the nurse at the front desk, an African lady from Senegal West Africa, commented me on my dreadlocks; I told her the Hebrew Israelites of the Bible are our people and wore their hair in dreadlocks; she said she knew this and that her husband was from the Ibo tribe of Nigeria, another Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite tribe in which many of the so called slaves of the Arab and Transatlantic slave trade were taken from. She went on to say that unfortunately not many of our brethren and sisters of the slave trade don't know this, and she encouraged me to teach this information regarding our Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite of our brethren/sisters who don't know this.
The Bible clearly teaches us of our Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite heritage, and this heritage should not be forsaken. In school we are taught European and other histories, but very little or no Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite history at all is taught because Europeans have instead misled us into thinking they are the Hebrew Israelites. Funny thing another lady from Senegal West Africa commented me on my dreadlocks while I was in Safeway; again I told her the same thing as the lady in the hospital, and she said she already knew everything I had explained to her regarding our Ethiopian Hebrew Israelite heritage. Even one of my wife's classmates from Ethiopia said the same thing!
Well below is my reply to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawehedo Church which if many of you did not know is the Church mentioned in Matthew 16:18 and the Church of the 12 Apostles in the Book of Acts.

To Whom it May concern:

Very well said! 100% agreed upon! Many people need to recognize that the Messiah YAHshua (Jesus) was indeed an Ethiopian, as well as the 12 Apostles, Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of YAHshua (Jesus), ALL the 12 tribes of Israel, etc. If you do the genetics of the Bible going back to Adam and Eve, you will in fact realize they too were Ethiopian. However I just want to point out to the EOTC that their brethren in America, the so called African Americans, Black Cubans, Black South Americans, etc., of the Arab and Transatlantic slave trades are Ethiopian Hebrew Israelites as well because of the prophecy fulfilled in Deuteronomy 28:68. For example, if you take a look at this link here Fula People and refer to the heading titled History you will understand what I am saying; also if you refer to this link Wodaabe, these people are also of the Fula people, and very clearly they are Ethiopians! The majority of African Americans, Black Cubans, Black South Americans, etc., are from the Fula tribe; notice the word Fula is strikingly similar to Fulasha (Falasha)? If you read from the top of the article, you will notice these Fula people are also found in Ethiopia. The entire continent of Africa is nothing more than many different Ethiopic tribes.

Our Response:-

This is to acknowledge receipt of and thank you for your recent email containing two brief articles on our Sacred Heritage of Ethiopian Origin and Lineage that substantiate and consolidate the Divine Truth about Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopianity of the Holy Covenant under The Kingdom of God.

Believing in Our King of Kings and Eternal Priest Jesus Christ & Our Queen of Queens and Our Country St. Virgin Mary, I like to say "Tenawn Ystlgn!"
Dear N'bure Id. How're you? Glory to HOLY GOD and MARY, I'm fine.
This week, I read my personal letters that I sent to you confidentially in your Q and A forum, the one posted in the Home page. And I really felt sorry, because I think you should ask prior permission from me before you post it up. But you didn't do that. However, that is not this much serious as far as my permission is concerned. However, what is your policy regarding this?
Sincerely Yours. Thanks.

Our Response:-

In the Names of Our Triune God and The Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
Ethiopian Greetings! I am quite well, Praise be to Our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Thank you for your recent email in which you expressed your disappointment for the email correspondence that took place between you and me being posted in the Q & A forum without your permission.
Please be advised that it is the standing procedure of our Service not to withhold any information from publication or earmark the same as classified unless otherwise explicitly requested by the person concerned like you, or we deem it necessary and appropriate to do so.
In the Realm of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and in the relationships and dealings among Her Faithful Members, there is no such thing like obscurity, secrecy, cover-up, ambiguity or ambivalence, but light, openness, transparency, certainty and clarity. As far as confidentiality is concerned the same is reserved for the judgment and discretion of the individual. This would mean that it is the sole prerogative for any one to confide and impart his/her secrets, sin included, to The Eternal Priest and Arch-Priest Jesus Christ who serves each one of us as Our Personal Confessor. The precondition for the ultimate consummation of such Providential Grace remains the composure of the Divine Truth in each one of us that invokes the Divine Medium of The Holy Spirit. Here again is the testimony for the indispensability of and the reason why each one of us needs the Divine Faithful Confessor.
You might have observed that the full name (most of the time) as well as the email address of the questioner are not disclosed in the Q & A forum of our web site. Because the majority of the physical, moral and spiritual questions, the experiences encountered in life and the requirements for survival that were presented in the emails, together with the answers provided therein, are predominantly in the minds of your contemporaries, we felt that, through posting those questions and answers, the former would benefit and save their valuable individual times as well as ours. In addition, it is worth noting that I did not sense or identify any particular personal matters, affairs, wrongdoings in your email contents that deserve confidential classification.
Even in some cases, when we knew that an individual Ethiopian, a repentant sinner, was determined to act, such as taking the decisive step of finally partaking the Holy Communion, we thought we found in that person another hero and exemplar, like you, who bravely came forth openly witnessing to the present Ethiopian generation for the Divine Truth of our cherished Living Faith of the Ethiopian Holy Covenant that is blessed with a duration of seven millenniums and a half years. As you might have read in one of the items included in the Q & A forum, that was why we expressed our elation and spiritual joy on Earth with that of the Angelic Hosts in Heavens for the triumphal achievement of that repentant sinner.
Scriptures never covers up, but, at all times, presents and brings out to light the Lives of the Children of God, of His Prophets and of His Disciples, of the Righteous and of the Martyrs in both aspects: not only the good but also the bad, not only the virtuous but also the sinful, as it is quoted hereunder. This Sacred Tenet that guides the conduct of our vocation in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services is based on and in concordance with such Divine Words enshrined in Scriptures.
Now, being mindful of your previous situation and your present condition, try to recognize what a noble achievement you have made as a result of which you exalted yourself to the highest status of Ethiopianness. Read the following few sample verses of the Word of God. They relate to you exactly who you were before and who you are presently, the experiences you have gone through, i.e., what you did and how you came to attain your current status as a True Ethiopian.
By the time you finish reading them, I am sure you will feel quite contented and proud, not only for finding and proving to yourself of being heroic in bringing your life to such status, but also for being a witness for the Divine Truth and for your Ethiopian True Identity of the Holy Covenant, and for being one of the role models for your fellow Ethiopian contemporary generation.
1) "Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in Heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before my Father Who is in Heaven… Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in His Own Glory, and in His Father's, and of the Holy Angels." (Matt. 10/32-33; Lk. 9/26)
2) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. (Matt. 5/11-16)
3) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in Heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.
4) "Now Peter sat outside in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, 'Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.' But he denied before them all, saying, 'I know not what thou sayest.' And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, 'This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.' And again he denied with an oath, 'I do not know the man.' And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, 'Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.' Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, 'I know not the man.' And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the Word of Jesus, Who said unto him, 'Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice.' And he went out, and wept bitterly." (Matt. 26/69-75)
5) The episode where King David committed the grave sin in the callous assassination of Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, whom the King married consequently to beget Solomon is thus summarized: "Thus saith the LORD," to the repentant David, "Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. …And David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him. (2Sam 11 & 12/1-25).
6) Remember also the Parable, told by Our Lord Jesus Christ, of "a certain man who had two sons: the younger, who sinned against his father and who said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired servants!' But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him… Now his Elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, 'Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.' And he was angry, and would not go in: Therefore came his father out, and entreated him… And he said unto him, 'Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found'"…
7) And Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in Heaven in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." (Lk. 15/1-32)
Viewed from the Ethiopian perspective, the Divine Teachings and Accounts conveyed in the above Scriptural Passages fully portray your case that actually happened when your email questions and our answers were posted in the Q & A forum for the public witness.

Let the Blessings of God The Holy Spirit be upon all of us!

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Yesus
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Selamta! Dear Nibure'Id Ermias

I have many other questions for you. Who has the right to bless the people? If just Priests have the right to bless the people, what is the difference between the blessings of a father unto a son, from the blessings of a priest by his Mesqel?
How does Tewahedo stand in the matter of blood transfusion? Did transfusion ever come to Ethiopia?
Sexual immorality can be cause of breaking the matrimonial union. Are there other causes to a matrimony break-up (for example, violent madness)?
Can you tell me whence does the Ethiopian calendar trace its origin? Are there any biblical concordances, especially with the calendar of the Book of Enoch?

Our Response:-

The following are brief answers to your questions:
1) Every True Ethiopian, at the time of his/her Baptism, is anointed and appointed by the Divine Grace of the Holy Spirit, for the full positions and priviledges of the three Houses of the People, of the Priesthood and of the Government of the Divine Kingdom. The aforementioned individual attains such sublime Status on account of the Covenant of the First Melchizedeq, the Ethiopian who received custody of the Sacred Heritage from the Patriarch Noah, that was ultimately eternalized by the Covenant of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Ultimate Melchizedeq, born of the Ethiopian Virgin Mary. Here, Jesus Christ exemplifies the male, and The Virgin Mary typifies the female. The precepts of the Holy Covenant that are the basis of our Faith of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God stipulate this Divine Truth.
As such, and unless the individual is required to get the necessary educational training for the permanent clerical profession, there is no difference between the blessing of a father who places his hand upon the head of his son and the blessing of a priest who crisscrosses his Mesqel upon the people. Accordingly, seniority would remain the only factor to determine who will have the right to bless the people among equals.
2) In accordance with our Ethiopian Tewahdo Faith of the Holy Covenant, Our human body that constitutes the physical and the mental, i.e., the flesh and the soul together with the spirit that is of the Holy Spirit, are all made by and emanated from God respectively. As such, they are the property of God Himself, and are His Gifts to the individual person. God brought them to this world, gave them the potential to live and finally takes them back out of this world. No one, even our individual self, has the sole right on our individual self, late alone the monopoly, to dispose of even one of these components or part thereof of his/her own being except the Divine Creator, the Life-Giver and the Ultimate Appropriator Himself.
So, based on the foregoing premise, for the Ethiopian Faithful Believer to involve himself/herself in blood donation or transfusion, i.e., to give one's blood or to receive another's is just like implicating oneself in a commission of suicide, which act is regarded as a grave sin because of the belief that provides that the individual has no right to dispose of any part of his/her physical body or life.
It is only The Incarnate God, Jesus Christ, Who gave His Flesh in the sign of the Bread to be eaten, and His Blood in the symbol of the Wine to be drunk, by the human believers for the absolution of their sin, for the purification of their soul and for the invigoration of their everlasting life. As a result, transfusion is not acceptable in our Ethiopian Faith.
However, such stance of our Faith does not and should not jeopardize the conviction of sacrificing oneself to the extent of not only donating one's blood for transfusion, but also laying down one's life for the salvation and sake of the cause of his/her Faith of the Holy Covenant and/or of the sacred human cause.
Although transfusion is publicly accepted and carried out officially in Ethiopia, especially after the establishment of Ethiopian Red Cross, a branch of the International Red Cross, I know of no doctrinal or canonical guideline that was ever issued from the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Church in this respect to this day.
3) Yes, there are misconducts other than sexual immorality like violent madness, for example, that can be causes for breaking up a matrimonial union. However, all such causes, even the sexual immorality, are absolved and annulled by Penitence, provided that both the couple or one of the concerned spouse consented to do so; and the matrimony could continue to remain intact forever, Praise is to the Atonement of The Lord Jesus Christ, born of The Holy Virgin Mary.
4) As the Ethiopian Calendar is the first of its kind and the source of all the other calendars, it traces its origin to none other than its own self. With regard to the existence of any biblical concordances, especially with the calendar of the Book of Enoch, no doubt, there are in their original G'i'z versions. However, these concordances, locked up in the treasuries of our parish, rural and monastic churches for fear of pillage, need to be visited, brought out, studied and analyzed by future True Ethiopian scholars.
It is my understanding that you have read and perused all my books and materials that are published on our web site, including the Q & A Forum. Yet, in the unlikely event that you did not, please do so. This is because a variety and a multitude of questions and issues are already answered and dealt with extensively therein, and you may find your prospective items responded and handled accordingly. By applying this measure, we would surely save time and effort on our both sides.

N'bure-Id Ermias K. Wolde-Yesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Selamta! Dear Nibure'Id Ermias.

These will be my last two questions.
In your last response concerning blood transfusion, you said that it is generally forbidden. But, in the case of life or death, how does our Church stands?
Could you explain the tripartition of the human being, as Body, Spirit, and Soul, how do they relate each other, what are they made of, and which are the eternal ones? And: what is actually the "Mind"? What is Qeddus Pawlos referring to while saying "I will pray with my mind and with my spirit"? Which faculties have mind?

Our Response:-

Here are the answers to your questions:
1) The position of our Ethiopian Church of the Holy Covenant with regard to blood transfusion "in the case of life and death" was reflected and implied in the statement of our previous response. That statement transpired "the conviction of sacrificing oneself to the extent of not only donating one's blood for transfusion, but also laying down one's life for the salvation and/or for the sake of the cause of his/her Faith of the Holy Covenant and/or of the sacred human cause", i.e., to save another person's life.
2) a) The mysterious and phenomenal nature and creation, constitution and relationship of the tripartite state of the human entity (the person) comprising the physical (Flesh), mental (Soul) and spiritual (Spirit) bodies is extensively and sufficiently explained in my books posted on our web site, especially in the First Volume of the book entitled "ItioPia inna ItioPiawinnet". These three integral parts of the human person are created by God, are made of the Divine Creation (the Flesh) and Nature (the Soul and the Spirit), and are Divinely ordained to exist for ever, even the Flesh that constitutes the elements of earth, water, air and fire, through True Faith and the Holy Communion. The Soul and the Spirit both emanate from the Nature of God. When the Soul chooses of its own freewill the Good Way of Life, the Holy Spirit dominates over both the Soul and the Flesh, and that person is destined for the Blissful and Eternal Life of the Divine (like Henok). Or, if the Soul chooses of its own freewill the Evil way of existence, the Evil Spirit dominates over both the Soul and the Flesh, and that person is condemned to the Miserable and Infernal Existence of the Devil.
b) The "Mind" is the Soul. Therefore, when the Soul, i.e., the "Mind", is dominated by the Holy Spirit, the resourcefulness, the effectiveness and the determination of the Mind is inspired and guided by the Grace of Holy Spirit. Or, if the Soul, i.e., the "Mind", is dominated by the Evil Spirit, the resourcefulness, the effectiveness and determination of the Mind is greatly influenced and enhanced by the forces of Evil Spirit. This is the relevant interpretation of the message of Q'ddus Pawlos when he wrote in his Epistles, "I will pray with my mind and with my spirit".
c) As far as your question of "Which of these faculties has mind?" is concerned, without misconstruing and infringing upon the interpretation of the above (3), we can safely assume with relative degree of perception that all the three components, i.e., the Flesh, the Soul and the Spirit, have "Minds" with different characteristics and capacities. In the case of the Flesh, it is "Deme-Nefs", the "Instinct" or the "Sixth Sense". In the case of the Soul, it is the "Image of God". In the case of the Spirit, it is the "Infinite Divinity".

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

I have read books written by Nibure Id Ermias Kebede W/Yesus. These books changed not only my attitude and my stand but also my friends' in general. Besides, I visited your website.
But, I want additional information about some issues. e.g. 1. Can you give me detail information about the exact Location of the Garden of Eden? 2. About the prophet Enoch, where he was living, the original language that The Book of Enoch was written, and who wrote the book?
I want to contact you via this website or the e-mail address by which you are going to reply my requests(above).
Here in Ethiopia, we had formed an informal discussion group about the ancient Ghion civilazation, its destruction (theft and robbery) by whites, the exact and correct place of Ethiopia(ns)in the Bible, etc., and the mechanism to save Ethiopia and its people from the calculated risks designed by Anti-Ethiopia(ns) elements in and out of the country. But, we are at infant stage, few in number, suffering from shortage/lack of information /books/ and so on. Thus, please we need your strong cooperation in order to fill the knowledge gap of us and our people by sending the required information.
I(We) believed you will reply for all the information (I) we'll ask.

Your brother in Christ.

Our Response:-

I am glad to know that you have read my books that relate to the above subject, and thanked God for the positive effect and fruitful outcome that they brought about in your attitude and conviction. It is also inspiring to learn that you, together with your peers, became seriously concerned about our Ethiopian entity and identity, and formed a discussion group to cope with the same subject matter. We, in this Service of the Ethiopian Cause of the Divine Truth and of the Holy Covenant, encourage and urge you to proceed vigorously and faithfully on such noble endeavor to the last, completely trusting and solely relying on the guidance of the Holy Spirit of course.
I would also like to comment favourably on your remarks that relate to your current status as being "at infant stage, few in number, suffering from shortage/lack of informations/books/ and so on." On the contrary, please recognize that you, as True Ethiopians, are the Living Fruits of antiquity that spans an age of 7,500 years and of infinity that extends in the Divine life of Eternity, with the Heavenly Assembly of numerous Angelic Hosts and Righteous Ethiopians, enjoying a vast treasure of the Divine Knowledge -Wisdom- that is inherently inscribed in your individual hearts and minds.
In addition to that, we all need to be mindful of the Divine Word given to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ in connection with the subject in focus: It reads: "Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 18/19-20) It is worth mentioning, here, the Divine Truth that we, True Ethiopians, do not rely on human intelligences, inventions or works for our Faith and Deeds, but only on those of the Divine ones aforementioned.
Therefore, based on the above premises, be assured of our unwavering "strong cooperation in order to fill the knowledge gap of yours and your people's by sending the required information."
Saying that, now let me come to answering your questions. According to the Living Ethiopian Tradition and Scriptures, particularly the Incarnate Bible, i.e., the Divine Knowledge that is inherent in and the Word of God that is inscribed on the hearts and minds of the True Ethiopians:
1) The exact location of the Garden of Eden is at G'sh Abbay, the source of the River Abbay, that makes up Lake Tana, thus confining it (the location) within and around the same vicinity in Godjam, Ethiopia. The Mist that is identified in the Scriptures as "a mist from thence it was parted," that "went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground" and the One River that is identified as "a river" that "went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads" is Lake Tana. (Gen. 2/6-15)
With Ethiopia, the only country mentioned in the above context, and with the remaining Ge'ez manuscripts that are preserved and hidden in the archives of our urban (parochial), rural and monastic churches still waiting exposure, the continuous modern archeological and paleontological researches and findings, such as the discovery of Lucy, substantiate the above Scriptural Truth. We also hope the new and forthcoming analytical study made by our Service that is pending publication would complement and meet your requirements for detailed information on this subject.
2) The prophet Henok (Enoch) lived and is still living in the above location. The original language of the Book of Enoch was Ge'ez, as it is written in Genesis 11/1: "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech"; and its author, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, is Henok himself.
We, in this Service, pray for and look forward to your faithful Ethiopian perseverance and martyrdom to the last, keeping your own word of commitment to Ethiopiawinnet.
N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Greetings in the Name of Our God and Saviour Jesus Christ!

Dear Nebured, I read in your writings 2 very important statements about the history of Ethiopian and biblical civilization. First, that Mary, and of course Jesus Himself, were Ethiopians. Why do you think this? The second is that Ge'ez was the original language of mankind. Can you give me biblical or traditional proofs? Let me know, please, I'm sincerely interested.

Thanks and Blessings.

Our Response:-

I trust you have read my book entitled Ethiopia: The Classic Case that I wrote in English, even if not those authored in Ethiopic. Bearing in mind the relevant accounts presented therein with regard to your email questions, and based on the Divine Truth that is accentuated by the following pertinent biblical episodes and the Ethiopian Tradition, I hope the references itemized hereunder would provide you with the required answers:
First, to explain "why Mary and, of course, Jesus Himself, were Ethiopians":
1) The Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is none other than the Prophetic "Ethiopia" that "Stretches out Her Hands to God!" As such, She and Her Begotten Incarnate Son Jesus Himself are Ethiopians for ever. As a result and following suit, any human being who remains faithful to the Holy Covenant, is identified and referred to as an Ethiopian. According to Scriptures and the Ethiopian Tradition, the designation of "Ethiopia", from the time of Adam and Eve to this day, represents "the Children of God" characterized by righteousness, in contrast to "the Children of Men" typified by wickedness. (Genesis 6: 1-8)
2) As the first Adam and Eve were created in the present Ethiopia, specifically in and around Lake Tana, from where Noah's Ark, after "The waters of the flood was on the earth for forty days, increased and lifted it up, and it rose high above the earth", so also are the Second and the Last Adam, Jesus Christ, and the Second and the Last Eve, The Virgin Mary, unequivocally from Ethiopia. (Gen. 7/17)
3) The emergence of the Ethiopian Melchizedeq, who was the forerunner and image of Jesus Christ;
4) The advent of Moses from Egypt to Ethiopia in the likeness of Jesus Christ, and his Ethiopianization that resulted from his education and orientation in the knowledge and worship of God, his domicile and marriage there to his Ethiopian wife Zippora, a representation of the Virgin Mary, and who bore him two sons, finally to be sent by God to deliver the Children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt;
5) The appearance of Queen Makk'dda (Queen of the South or of Saba), the prototype of The Virgin Mary, and her Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in order to bring about the fruitful completion of the Divine Will for the fulfillment of the Covenants of Moses and David through her meeting with King Solomon, another precursor of Jesus Christ, and from whom she bore Menelik, the forefather of The Virgin Mary;
6) The coming into Ethiopia of the Ark of the Covenant, the predecessor of The Virgin Mary, and Its custody in the hands of Ethiopians.
7) The genealogies of Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke portray the full characterization of Ethiopianness, i.e., the unified personality of the Ethiopian through the assimilation of the three races of humanity: of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Last but not least, the living and the strong Ethiopian Tradition corroborates the above details with concrete evidences that affirm the sojourn of the Infant Jesus and His Holy Mother in Their Homeland Ethiopia from the early days of Their Flight to Egypt up until Jesus' twelfth year of age.
The characterization of the Ethiopian Tradition as a living one, as stated above, bears special importance. It underlines the fact that this Heritage of the Holy Covenant is preserved and transmitted not simply by means of the human work of inscriptions on objects of inorganic nature, but exclusively through the Divine medium of the living person of THE ETHIOPIAN.
And the person of the Ethiopian, finally rejuvenated by the New Covenant, served God for the past seven and half millenniums, i.e., from the time of Adam and Eve to the present, as the Divine depository of these Seven Covenants.
As such and as any true Christian is meant to be, the Ethiopian is the Bible Incarnate, comprising the Old and the New Testaments. Yes, the Ethiopian is the Living Testimony of God's Covenants with Man, as witnessed in the lives of True Ethiopians even to this day.

Secondly, to explain "that Ge'ez was the original language of mankind":
Based on the premises of the above details outlined in the First item, particularly those described in sub-section 1 and 2, Ge'ez is the first and original language that is referred to in Genesis 11/1 as "Now the whole earth had one language and one speech." This Divine Truth is authenticated by the following simple and unique characteristics of Ge'ez:
1) The inherent, literal and dual meaning of the word Ge'ez is "The First" and "The Free".
2) Each of the alphabets of Ge'ez constitutes and is identified by seven characters and phonetics, based on the Divine Number of Seven.
3) The first character of the alphabet of Ge'ez, as the basis and the key for the rest of the six characters, being itself non-phonetic, i.e., without vowel or soundless like a consonant, is designated as "Ge'ez", i.e., "The first".
4) The first character of the alphabet of Ge'ez "A" was used by the Biblical God for the first time into the making of the word that related to the specific name, "Adam", the name constituting both the first male and female human beings created in the Image of the Divine Creator.
5) While all the other languages and alphabets of the humans derive their designations from the names of the peoples who speak and write them, Ge'ez is the only language that is called by its own name that relates its unique status and nature.
6) There is a universal and conventional knowledge about the initial words that virtually all babies that are born of the human beings to inhabit the face of the Earth, whatever the language spoken and the alphabet written of the family and community to which they belong and in which they are reared, utter, right at their early infancy. It is invariably: "Ab Ab Ab", in short "Ababa!", which literally means in Ge'ez, "Father Father Father" meant to address the biological male parent, and "Im Im Im", in short "Im'ma!" which literally means in Ge'ez, "Mother Mother Mother" meant to address the biological female parent.
7) Ge'ez opens its alphabet by the first character "A", called "Aleph" in Ge'ez and closes with the "Last" character "O", called the "Seventh", both referred to as "Alpha" and "Omega" by the then contemporary Greek vernacular. When the Creator, known to and addressed by Ethiopians in their Ge'ez terminology as "Igziab'her", became Incarnate, born of the Holy Virgin Mary and revealed Himself to the world as Lord Jesus Christ, He affirmed the Divinity, Seniority and Originality of Ge'ez by assigning to Himself the same characters and nature of the Ge'ez Alphabets with His Apocalyptic Words that says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." This Divine Verification of the identity of the Language of Ge'ez demonstrates the Divine Truth that Ge'ez has been, not only the Divine Language God used to communicate with Adam and Eve, but also remains the Sacred Language by which He conveyed His Messages to humanity and His Faithful Ethiopians continue to worship Him. (Rev. 22/13)

It is worth noting here that the above specifics are substantiated by series of archeological and paleontological discoveries in modern times.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Yesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Christ is Risen from The Dead!
In Supreme Glory and Command!
He Incarcerated The Evil Entity!
And Liberated Humanity!
Henceforth, Joy and Peace Prevail!
In The Kingdom of God, The Eternal!

I wrote you today because I wanted to thank you from my heart. Today, I will Receive the Holy Communion. It is you who told me that I have to receive the Holy Communion. So I thank you for your support and teaching.

Our Response:-

Glory is to Our God and to His Holy Mother! And Congratulations to you! Now, it is gratifying to all of us to hear that you received the Holy Communion, i.e., the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate God, born of Our Holy Mother The Virgin Mary, according to Our Faith of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
As a result, you acquired the decisive victory over the Evil Power, Sin and Death through your determination and perseverance in your Faith. Thus, you are crowned with the Final Consummate Status of an Ethiopian Believer leading a Blissful and an Eternal Life in the Earthly Kingdom of God, Ethiopia.
We all share the Divine Ecstasy that you are now blessed to enjoy as a True and Faithful Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant in the Word of Our Lord, enshrined in the Gospel: Luke Chapter 15.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Wolde-Iyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

First of all, thank you for your urgent respond.
I understand your organization /services is not ORTHODOX. So, this organization does not know Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, ok.
I ask to you one question. Do you live by God or god, because your motto is Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services? This is not true, because God's services are only by Angles and Church; but your Symbol is Lion; what is this? What is the meaning of the lion?
Let the Virgin Mary, Mother of God be with you and yours! God bless Ethiopia!

Our Response:-

Dear Tigist Shiferraw:

1) You seem to be a completely new comer to the knowledge of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. If you do not know about, and if you do not believe in Ethiopia as a Kingdom of God, and live as a True Believer in such Faith, as far as our Ethiopian Faith is concerned, you are not considered as an Ethiopian yourself, even if you claim to be an Ethiopian. And the Church you are talking about, or seem to refer to, is not an Ethiopian Church, according to our Faith, but it is a branch Church of the Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox Church, that the Egyptians claimed to have established in Ethiopia in the 4th century AD (i.e., some four hundred years after the Birth of Jesus Christ).
However, the Church we call our "Ethiopian Church" (with our Ethiopian Doctrine of Tewah'do) is the Church that maintains the designation of the House of the Priesthood, and existed as one of the two integral parts of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God; the other integral part being the House of the Government. The date of the establishment of this Divine Kingdom in Ethiopia with Its Church by God Himself dates back to the time of the Creation of Adam and Eve, that spans 7, 500 years to the present.
2) Can't you read the statements that are written beneath The Divine Sign and Seal of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, and understand their meanings that describe what the figures and symbols you see thereon represent? They explain clearly that the lion portrays "The Conquering Lion of The Tribe of Judah, who is The Ethiopian Jesus Christ, The Eternal Priest, King of Zion, and King of Kings of Ethiopia" as is written in Revelation chapter five; and the figure of the lady depicts "Ethiopia Stretching out Her Hands to God, who is The Ethiopian Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Holy Mother, and Queen of Zion and Ethiopia, as is written in Psalms chapter sixty-eight.
To elaborate our answer to your question, the following excerpt with the appropriate Biblical References is quoted for your perusal from one of our books entitled Ethiopia: The Classic Case:
The Sign in colours shown on the front page is the Divine Seal of Ethiopia: the Kingdom of God. It is composed of three parts which depict:
1) on the upper part, the Ethiopian Flag symbolizing Noah's Rainbow; the oneness of the flag and the three stripes of green, yellow and red typify the Unity and the Trinity of: a) God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; b) the Ethiopian, as the offspring of Shem, Ham and Japheth; and c) Ethiopia, as the Nation and Kingdom of God constituting the Covenantal People, the Church and the State; (Gen. 9/ 8-17)
2) in the middle part, Ethiopia stretching out Her Hands to God that personifies the Virgin Mary, Mother of God the Son, Queen of Zion, of Ethiopia and of the Universe; (Ps. 68/31)
3) on the lower part, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah representing God the Son Jesus Christ, Eternal Priest, King of Zion and King of Kings of Ethiopia and of the Universe, (Rev. 5/5).

If you are a serious and concerned Ethiopian Believer, you need to be knowledgeable about such and all other minor and major issues pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopianity. To achieve this goal and for more information on the subject you raised, you need to revisit our web site and read those books and publications posted thereon, including the Q & A Forum. By fulfilling this Ethiopian commitment, you will, not only benefit from the acquirement of the priceless information on the Divine Truth about Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopianity, but you will also save the valuable time and energy that we, on both sides, would unnecessarily spend in our exchange of emails.
So, we urge you to do that before you try to send us any more questions on any item that relates to the above subject matters. Wherever you are, this is the way to bring yourself, as an Ethiopian Believer, to the attainment of the True Life of Tranquility in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Dear:

Now, I understand; and thank you for your Answer of Explanation. But I need your help. Can you help me?

Yours respectuly, Tigist Shiferaw

Our Response:-

Dear Tigist Shiferraw:

Please be assured that we are ready to help you acquire all you need to know and understand about the Divine Truth regarding Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopiawinnet. However, in order for us to fulfill this commitment on our part, you ought to read the books and publications posted on our web site, as well as the materials contained in our various sections therein, including the Forums of Faith and Q & A.

I am interested in purchasing some of your books, but can't read Amharic; and, as far as I can see, only one of your books is in English. Which books are available in English? Thank you

Our Response:-

Dear Ato Ghebre Berhan Selassie:

Unfortunately, for the time being, among our published books, the English version is only one, as you stated, whose title is Ethiopia: The Classic Case.
However, we are in the process of translating the Ethiopic (Amharic) versions into English; and God Willing and hopefully, they will be published in the long run.
Until then, please peruse the sections, especially the Q & A forum, of our web site whose texts are composed in English.

Dear Nibure'Id Ermias,

I have two theological questions for you.
Could you explain the meaning of the Unction of the Lord Christ, by the woman who shall always be remembered wherever the Gospel might be spread? Does it concern the Unction of the sick?
Which among the Beluy Kidan Festivals do still occur in Christian Ethiopia - I also refer to the First Fruits occasions-?

Our Response:-

Dear Ato Ghebre Berhan Selassie:

Let me provide you with the answers to your two questions:-
1) In the Old Testament Religious Tradition, there was the ritual of using Unction for the dead. This ritual to be performed on His Body was foretold by Our Lord Himself and was fulfilled accordingly upon His Death and Burial. (Mt. 26/6-13)
Some women among His followers led by Mary of Magdalene hastened in the early morning of Sunday and came to His Tomb to perform this rite only to find, to their surprise, that He was already resurrected at midnight long before their arrival, in keeping His Word which He also foretold to them. This meant that they brought back their stuff they carried to the Tomb of Our Lord untouched, including the unction that proved unnecessary. (Luk. 23/54-56; 24/1-3)
This Unction performed by that sinner woman on the Living Body of Our Lord has nothing to do with the unction of the sick. Even to conceive of the Divine Healer of the sick to be Himself a sick person who needs unction would amount to blasphemy, let alone to believe and pronounce it. (James 5/14-15)
2) None of the Old Testament Festivals are still observed in Ethiopia: They are all substituted by the New Testament Festivals. For Example:
a) the Feast of Harvest, the Offering of the First fruits of the labors which the Israelites have sown in the field, (Be'ale-Metsellet=The Feast of Tabernacle) by BE'ALE-T'MQET (Epiphany);
b) the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when unleavened bread was eaten for seven days, as God commanded the Israelites in remembrance of their exodus out of Egypt, (Be'Ale-Na'it= Fasika = Passover) by BE'ALE-T'NSA'E (Easter); and
c) the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when the Israelites had gathered in the fruit of their labors from the field, (Pentecost=Be'ale-Hamsa), by BE'ALE MENFES-Q'DUS. (Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:13-17).

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Yesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Believing in the Conquering Lion of Judah Jesus Christ and His Mother Ethiopia who Stretches Her Hands to GOD, I want to submit my Ethiopian Greetings.

Dear Nbure Id.
I read the answers you sent for my questions, "IgziAbHear Ystlgn!"
Moreover, I'm glad that you are willing to be my priest. I know that I must rely on our eternal priest Jesus Christ. It was because that I couldn't find a priest who teaches and serves me about Ethiopia and Ethiopianism like you.
Dear Nbure Id, if this is so I have one personal question to you. That is, can I use our mail contact to confess my sins and transgressions? And get your orders of repentance? Please write me back.
Besides, allowing GOD, I have read the policies of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of GOD Services from your book "Etyopya Yealemu Mefarega." Therefore, how can I be the member of your services? Is there another thing expected of me?

Our Response:-

Dear Ato Msgana:

I appreciate and admire your eagerness to enhance your spiritual life by creating a special pastoral relationship with me, and your dedicated interest to participate in the services we are rendering to Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
Here are my suggestions that would respond favourably to the two questions you put forward in your email:
1) You do not need to confess your sins and transgressions to me, using our email contact. In the first place, it is not conducive and appropriate. Moreover, it is not the Will, the Deed and the Teaching of Our God. Such practice is human made.
You seem to be not yet cognizant of the Divine Truth that I am trying to convey and impress upon you and upon others like you. In all my publications that carry the Divine Message, this factor was the one that I was driving home: No feeble and unworthy creature, like myself, can effectively substitute and/or dare to take upon oneself the unique Divine Authority of The Eternal Priest and High Priest Jesus Christ in absolving the sin and transgression of individual believers. To transgress this Divine Precept is not beneficial for your physical, moral and spiritual welfare; on the contrary, it is detrimental to your good life that God planned and arranged for you as well as for me.
The confessional relationship that you desire to create with me under such circumstances neither could last long nor end in goodness, since we both are humans with all our weaknesses and failures, as you continue to witness and prove yourself in the apparent gross delinquency of the multitude of the living priests.
A human being and a servant priest, I am simply a subordinate to the Eternal Priest and High Priest Jesus Christ and an intimate spiritual Counsel to you. As such, my commission is to deliver to you the Good Tidings of the Kingdom of God that proclaims the absolution of every sin and transgression each one of us commit, the defeat of the forces of the Evil Spirit and the annihilation of the power of Death, all acquired through the Atonement of The Incarnate God Son. The scope of my duty is not only limited to the foregoing, but also to disclose to you all the Mysteries of God's Benevolence and His Infinite Mercy, and encourage you to adhere to Him, the Faithful Eternal Priest and High Priest Jesus Christ, and to confide all that you stored in your heart and mind only to Him.
As you know, the exclusive prerequisite that is incumbent upon anyone for this Divine Grace to be viable is merely to believe in the existence of God, revealed in the Incarnation and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Once, you maintain this belief, and it is quite evident that you are a Faithful Ethiopian, every sin without exception is forgiven for you, as long as you repent truthfully. This is the kind of Eternal Grace of Mercy that God granted to each one of us, once and for all, through the Sacrificial Crucifixion of His Son, Jesus Christ, born of The Virgin Mary.
You may remember the various materials that explain in details the Divine Truth with regard to this topic posted on our web site. Please revisit our web site and review the aforementioned to refresh your mind.
Based on this premise of understanding, I assure you to continue to serve your spiritual needs that require my attention through our email correspondence.
For now, this is my priestly directive to you: Through your daily worship of God in the Divine Truth and in the Holy Spirit, confess to your Faithful Eternal Priest and High Priest Jesus Christ every thing that is in your heart and mind that you consider to be a sin and/or a transgression, whereby you will be assured instant absolution. And being engaged in charitable deeds to others, continue to pray, fast and genuflect in front of your physically unseen but spiritually omnipresent God, until Easter Sunday, on which Feast Day you shall partake the Holy Communion (Q'ddus Qurban).
2) I am glad you read the guidelines of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services included in one of my books. Accordingly, the service that Our God The Priestly King Jesus Christ and Our Holy Mother Country Ethiopia The Virgin Mary expect from each one of us to render to their Kingdom, as well as to our compatriots at present is simply to bring ourselves first to the awareness and recognition of our Ethiopian Identity of the Holy Covenant, then to its attainment, and finally to serve Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, just as you had offered yourself now for the fulfillment of the same. We hail you for such achievement.
Until there comes further call and notice for each one of us individually as well as collectively from The Holy Spirit what to do next, this is what you need to do now: Stay where you are by retaining whatever you had accomplished so far with regard to your Ethiopianness of the Holy Covenant. Fortify your religious and spiritual accomplishments by your continuous prayers and fasting, readings and meditations. Maintain your Ethiopian Faith of the Holy Covenant by fulfilling your commitments in deeds, and by disseminating to others, such as members of your family, relatives, neighbors, friends and co-workers, the Divine Knowledge that you had acquired for yourself, as well as by urging them to read our books and to visit our web site.
I hope you had already made your testimony of your Ethiopian Faith of the Holy Covenant by now. This is the testimony that each one of us conduct of our own will and by our own self while standing and prostrating in worship of the Divine Truth and The Holy Spirit, in front of Our Lord God Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother The Virgin Mary. At the end of this ceremony, we tie around our neck the Seal, i.e., the MATEB (the symbolic sacred filament made of the tricolors of the Ethiopian flag). If you did not fulfill this commitment, you need to do it now. The procedure is found in our publication, entitled, "Ethiopia and Ethiopiawinnet".
As soon as you complete this process, your name (Baptismal Name) will be written by The Holy Spirit in the Book of the Eternal Life of The Kingdom of God, and you will become Member of our Service.

I pray for the ever increasing inspiration and guidance of The Holy Spirit to be with you in order to strengthen you in your Faith and Deed for the attainment of your Divine Ethiopian Goal.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyasus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

Believing in Our King of Kings and Eternal priest Jesus Christ & Our Queen of Queens and Our Country St. Virgin Mary, I like to say "Tenawn Ystlgn!"

Dear Nbure Id,
I've received your answers for my urgent questions. And it was much unexpected and great, "IgziAbHear Ystlgn!"
If I've told you before, I'm a graduate student of this year from AAU (Addis Abeba University). And today's question is raised from much prospective graduate students of AAU, who are also believers of Ethiopian Tewahdo Church.[I'll use 'we' to implicate these students]
As you may know, for any college or university graduation ceremony, prospective graduate students usually establish GC [Graduate Committee], where member students are elected from every section of departments. And the aim of this GC is to find sponsors, raise money, arrange vacations, and print T-shirts, edit magazine with photos of graduate students.
Unfortunately, beginning from the last three or four years in AAU's GC, we couldn't find Ethiopian flag and numbers in any of T-shirt designs. When we find out the reasons, this occurred because there are students in the GCs from Oneg {Oromo Liberation Front} and protestants an the like believers, who always refuse to have their country Ethiopia and all thing which belongs to Her. In same way, the current GC of the AAU also came with Arabic numbers in Ethiopian calendar and with no Ethiopian flag.
Therefore, refusing this GC, we have organized ourselves to have T-shirt and magazine that reflect Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Tewahdo Church. Moreover, we have decided to have T-shirt design up on which The Conquering Lion of The Tribe of Judah, and Ethiopia Stretches out Her Hands to GOD [i.e. the Divine seal of Ethiopia [n Church] and true Ethiopians, that we see in your books and web sites], with unified color photo print in 180 g T-shirt, for those who want to buy it and us. (emphasis in italics ours)
Meanwhile, one of our friends went to Mahbere Kdusan and asked one of the members about this Divine Seal. This man who also read your books and knew your services amazingly answered to our friend like this "This seal does not belong to our church and is imaginative conception of the author. [i.e. you]"
Hearing this bullshit wrong devilish answer from the so-called preacher or responsible member of Mahbere Kdusan, this friend of us alienated himself from being part of us and decided not to have that T-shirt.
Here, what we like to ask is, "Are we allowed to have that Divine Seal on our T-shirts? Means, is there some thing that prohibits us doing so?

Our Response:-

Dear Ato M'sgana:

Congratulation to your forthcoming Graduation!

We admire your devotion and tenacity in your commitment to and pursuit of the Ethiopian Holy Cause. You are perfectly free to use the Divine Seal of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God for the noble purpose you described in your email and as long as you are cautious not to sacrilege It in any way. It is the Sacred Symbol of the Entity and Identity of every Faithful Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant who accepts and believes in our ancient Divine Faith of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. I enclosed you the Divine Seal for your application, in case you require It.
As you know, the Seal comprises the figures of Ethiopia personifying The Virgin Mary with Stretched out Hands to God, and the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah with the Ethiopian Banner on His Shoulder, typifying Jesus Christ.
You must realize that our unique Divine Seal of Ethiopia, while It was implicitly and explicitly denied long ago (particularly after Meskerem 1, 1967) by the current leadership of the so-called Ethiopian Orthodox Tewah'do Church, was not given originally by God to the same. This is because, the said Church was never Ethiopian, but a Church that the Copts (the Egyptians) claim to have established in Ethiopia in the 4th century AD, and, as such, which simply came to be recognized as the Coptic or the Egyptian Orthodox Church in Ethiopia.
Whereas, the existence of our indigenous Ethiopian Church, as the integral part of the Kingdom of God, spans an age of 7500 years, dating back to the time of Adam and Eve. You, therefore, need to distinguish between the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Tewahdo Church and Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
I did not understand why the individual whom you referred to as "one of our friends" approached that "so called preacher or responsible member of Mahbere Kdusana"? Did not any one of you read about this Association in items of our web-site, particularly the analytical expositions posted in the Q & A forum therein? Since the same Association is run under the strict control and guidance of the above-mentioned Church, none of us in our Services was surprised with the negative reaction of that "so called preacher or responsible member of Mahbere Kdusan". And no wonder that your colleague who reached out the latter and betrayed you, both fell easy and feeble preys of the Arch Adversary of God, consequently both exemplifying the present faithless and unreliable generation of Ethiopia.
Please advise the rest of your colleagues always to remain steadfastly faithful to, vigilant for, and well-versed in our Ethiopian Knowledge of the Divine Truth by consulting every information, material and publication posted on our web site.
We wish you all the best and pray for the success in your concerted effort to bring about a fruitful and harmonious result in the preparation of your graduation through your unique 2000 AD Graduation Committee.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Wolde-Iyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

This is a message from the prospective graduate students about whom I told you before. They & I are very pleased by your reply and like to say "Thank you very much!", "IgziAbHear Ystln!"

Selamta Nibure-Id Ermias & Tena Yistilign, INKWAN MELKAM FASIKA ADERSN!
I Ras Iadonis Tafari, co-founder of the Lion of Judah Society, was just visiting your site again and the Holy Spirit had me search my name thinking that I was going to find the article and the response that you gave and instead found a flattering serpent misrepresent what we had said very clearly.
All this talk about my Father, Qedamawi Haile Selassie being "Jesus Christ" or 're-incarnation' like the hindu-rastas is not what we teach and we would like you to know that the point of our refering to a Sis. Kaya IsesaJah and her group of Orthodox pseudo Rastas to your site was because she and other pseudo-Rastas have joined the "Egyptian Orthodox" dominated church that belittles the True Ethiopian faith, i.e. TEWAHDO!
But instead I see my name and ministry being cunningly implicated with others who don't know Amharic, can't read Amharic or G'Iz and furthermore think that "Rastafari" translates as 'head creator' instead of the "Head to be respected; feared" (in the biblical honour bestowed to our rulers/i.e. and the Elohim of IsraEL).
I just wanted to briefly respond to this because they are "Orthodox" followers. We know that certain aspect of what we admit may not be accepted by you or your people presently. However, for certain individuals to use "Ras Iadonis Tafari" say this and that and never to quote me or refer to anything that we have said regarding H.I.M. and Ethiopia is dishonest and reminds me of what certain dissemblers did and their methodology.
We were forthright and honest with you Nibura-Id, Ermias Kebede Wolde-Yesus and said from our first writing that we did not share your negative comments concerning His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I in your earlier book, yet embrace the passion for the TEWAHDO doctrine of Holy Ethiopia. According to that teaching which is biblically based and referenced, when one is born of God, through Iyesus Kristos, the Father and the Son "sup" with and become "One" or 'AHAD' that is the root/related etymology shemitically of the word TEWAHDO/Mewahad.
So, if one accepts the True GOD (who is spirit) and the Testimony of the Son, Yeshwa/Iyyesus Kristos according/being faithful to the word, then the Father and the Son sups with and becomes ONE. We in Royal Rastafari know that this is the basic principle "God and Man" as "ONE"/A-TONE-MENT. All of this is because of YESUS according to the New Covenant based upon the fulfillment of the Old. We site the words of H.I.M. that further explains this and have taught that as well. We don't teach re-incarnation like many pseudo-Rastas do and have done much to rebuke that! So, how one would gossip and call out my name in a weak theological debate is trifling and dishonest.
HOWEVER, since ones have opened their own can of worms, let's crush some heads... Sis. Kaya IsesaJah doesn't even have an Ethiopian or biblical name, maybe "Orthodox" but they don't teach you any Royal Amharic. Claims to be some sort of a minister or missionary but doesn't know the bible. Why some people pretend to be "Rastas" I don't know! They are dissemblers like Marcus Garvey who was a Roman Catholic Jesuit spy. We defend and promote the work of Dr. MELAKU EMMANUEL BAYEN who was one sent to the Diaspora of Black People who are the lost sheep of the House of IsraEL.
Your reply, to our first letter, explained much about the work of EDUCATION still needed on both sides, by both members of this HOLY FAMILY, the Ethiopians at home and those of us abroad especially Royal Rastafari. The idea that H.I.M. is related in some spiritual way to the manifestation of YESUS KRISTOS must not be doubted or trifled. I noticed that at times you put all the blame on H.I.M. and then add His generation.... Are you beloved not a member of "that" generation? Yet, when you recount the historical failures related to the Holy Covenant you simply say "the generation" or use 'contemporary'.... That is your right and choice you knowest.
Thank you for this opportunity to write you again and as always we look forward to your response. Yet, we never said you said anything other than what you did say and quoted your reply in full... It was to address Kaya IsesaJah and her Egyptian Orthodox/Ethiopian Orthodox campaign online and we referred her to the Tewahdo teachings of the True Ethiopian Church...
The real point is this "EOTC"? How can she or other visit your site and pick on those of us who have our Tewahdo based faith and then miss the points made about the corruption of the so-called 'orthodox'? She wanted to address it to me and to her because of "certain Rastafari"? If we see YESUS KRISTOS or even His Spirit being manifest in H.I.M. whose business is that of a "Orthodox"/leaven of the Pharisees to single us or H.I.M. out for slander and finger-pointing? Notice, she still wants to establish an "EOTC" in her area and not a "ETC"? That shows the message you are trying to communicate is not heard by some...
In closing I would like to quote you when you wrote replying to us in brief: "I admire and commend the individual and the collective commitments you and your compatriots are making and the ventures that you are undertaking in the pursuit and promotion of the cause of the Ras Teferians (Rastas). I believed from the beginning that this Movement came into being to serve, not only the cause of the latter, but also, the present apostate Ethiopian generation in its desperate need for a new inspiration, an exemplary character and a beacon of hope."
We still receive your word and know that if we see YESUS KRISTOS in and through the Krstna of H.I.M. many will persecute us for this but all that "certain Rastafarian" talk is useless. The issue is Orthodox V. TEWAHIDO and the main point that you outlined in your first response. I am shocked at the backstabbing and underhanded way of certain people who obviously lack an Ethiopian sense of Honour/KBR. Our word always to Rastas has been and will continue to be H.I.M. accepted YESUS KRISTOS according to TEWAHIDO so why don't you my brother/sister? This is my word not He "is Christ" or "there is Christ" except in the sense that KRISTOS/Meshih means to be "anointed" and every HEBREW King, because YAHWEH is God of the Hebrews is "Anointed."
In that sense not with all this Rastas this and that nonsense of people who claim to love Ethiopia and don't have biblical or even Ethiopian names and don't speak the Royal Amharic or read/write based upon the H.I.M. HOLY BIBLE/ THE 1961 AUTHORIZED VERSION IN AMHARIC that the current "EOTC" and Mahbere Qdusan would like to go to Belfast and get 45,000 English pound to produce an obviously pro-foreign domination version.
Grace, Peace and Love be with you all! S'ega, Selamina Fi'q'r,
L'ul Ras Iadonis Tafari, Woyzero Tehetena Girma-Asfaw (Teqedami Imabet) www.lojsociety.org, Lion of Judah Local Thirty-Three (33), www.EthiopianWorldFederation.org Ark of Mariam Local 31 (sister-site FL-JA) www.EthiopianWorldFederation.com

Our Response:-

Dear Mr. Ras Iadonis Tafari:

I am glad that you are inspired again to respond to and expound more on the issue raised in your email. Your effort greatly contributes to dispel any misunderstanding, misconception and distortion involved therein. To that effect, we will publish your email in the Q & A forum of our web site, as we had previously done, so that others would benefit from learning the truth about the controversy raised and the explanation given therein, finally to make their own judgment.
As commonly known by True Believers, the Ascension of Our Lord signified the Grand Episode of the Unique Divine Mission Accomplished by the Incarnate Son of God. Following that Episode, the Descent of the Holy Spirit, as substitute, inaugurated the Consequential Eternal Grace of God. As a result, for the last two millenniums, every minute sector of the conduct of the individual, familial, communal, national, international, global and universal activities is guided and controlled within the Supreme Knowledge, Command and Auspices of the Holy Spirit. Nothing exists and is done outside such Awareness and Realm of The Holy Spirit.
If this is the Divine Reality, let us simply do our part to the full extent of our personal and collective capacity, and commit the rest to the care and management of the Omnipotent and Omnipresent Providence of God, The Holy Spirit. Let us not worry at all about any aspect of our lives, thoughts and activities: He, The Holy Spirit, will deal with and take charge of every thing with pristine exactitude and optimum perfection.
Lastly, to comment on your critical reference to my seeming disregard of the apparent participation in the guilt of the generation, I would simply reiterate that I was quite explicit in stating the truth to that effect in my book, Ethiopia: The Classic Case and the subsequent publications. The evidence that I had my share in paying the price thereof also speaks for itself.
However, even though I am part of the generation, I never ceased, from the early days of my youth to this day, to teach and inform, admonish and warn, through various means and media, with the aim to awaken the same generation and make it realize what is in store and forthcoming that was detrimental to its survival. This anxiety began to appear and came to be transformed into action, as aforementioned, by the time I was conscious of the imminent d