Dear Nibure-Id Ermias, Ethiopia Kingdom of God Services servant,

I am L'ul-Ras Iadonis Tafari of the Lion of Judah Society of His Imperial Majesty and sn Executive member of the Patriotic org, the Ethiopian World Federation, Incorporated in 1937 by Dr. Melaku AmanuEL Bayen. Dr. Melaku is an inspiration and testimony of faith under adversity and enormous odds... His wife was African-American born and even in that is a YosEf type of the 'yeteq'ebawin'...
I say this because your response to Selamawi Amare and your brief outlining of the principles upon which you have taken your stand being the Mewahad of Faith (Spiritual) with Ethiopiawinnet (Word Made Flesh), the Hebrew idea of the "Ha-Adam" to say THE MAN, made in the Image (Melke) of the SEDEQ (Righteous-ness/Justified- justification my extension, based upon my overstanding of the G'Iz, IbrayisT' and the ROYAL "Amharic".... There is a point to be made for the endurance of the AG'AZI-ness based on the purity of the Zephaniah 3:9 Royal Amharic used in the H.I.M. HOLY BIBLE which we have evidence that certain Nicoliatians in the outer 'church' have tried to suppress and even tamper with the original 1961 text.... Yet, that is for a more fuller and comprehensive detailing....
I must also introduce my consort, my sEt to compliment my wend...(wendina sEt), I praise the grace of the Dingil in the illumination of virtue that has "kissed" the Faithful Ityopiyawit... My sister-wife is an Ethiopian "Maryam", Her name and noble title is Woyzero Tehetena Girma-Asfaw of central Highland descent. I am from the Ethiopian-Hebrew diaspora from 400 plus year earlier known biblically as the Exile and called the Captivity (the new millennium marked the prophetic 70th year that the Nebiyat spoke of....) As for she, my teQ'edami ImabEt, she is Native Ag'Azi born and we are both blessed by the Geta ina Medanit: IYYESUS KRSTOS of His Imperial Majesty to be able to serve the Father (Ab) and the Welid (Son) through the menfes Q'dus according to His Will and guided by His Word.
To explain, my new name (not my baptismal one, but my 'given' non-slave nomen) is spiritually based upon faith in the revelations given concerning Nehemiah chapter 3 verse 7 and thus name Yadon in Nehemyas and "Iyadinos' in 2nd Esdras ('Izra). I explain this because N'gush Selomon says that "...a good name is rather to be chosen..." And, thus I as a Hebrew exile is guided by the Menfes Q'dus of Abbatachin to the Way of IYYESUS KRSTOS, the Ethiopian to reclaim the Holy Covenant of my righteous ancestors, at home and abroad. I am a so-called "African-American" who has come to comprehend my Identity in Christos restored to us "lost sheep" as being Ethiopian-Hebrew like those faithful patriarchs and matriarchs, many being martyred in the late 30s, 40s and in the 50s and 60s they lost sight of Ethiopia and got conned into "civil rights" and wandered in the wilderness, like the disobedient 'Israelites' of scriptures in the wilderness of the "North Country", i.e. North America and the Caribbean.... PROPHECY FULFILLED! More to come...
However, beloved, I shall be brief for now. I was inspired by the Menfes Q'ddus to send you a word of encouragement and 'Hulle Tamagn!' (Always Faithful!) I had read your first book and was interested in the way you courageously and faithfully presented your case and facts that gave evidence to your testimony. In our fraternal society, named the "Lion of Judah" (Mo'A Anbessa Ze'Im Negede Y'huda Makh'ber) we have also discussed and review much of your works and ministry. I must express that I did not agree with you on all points of view and opinion, namely related to H.I.M. HAILE SELLASSIE I, our "Abba"; nevertheless, you did boldly addressed the Rastafari brethren who wrote you to express his views.
The important fact is the exchange of ideas and the fruits of the faith in its many fold revelations and teachings based upon the Sovereignity of His Christos, IYYESUS of Nazret, "the Ethiopian" - Ag'Azi! We seek to fellowship more with you all and share the revelation and testimony that we have based upon our faith in the King of Kings in and according to the Way of the KRISTOS based upon the Word, the H.I.M. HOLY BIBLE which we regulary study and teach His disciples from in the Menfes Q'ddus.... AmEn.
Please feel free to visit our websites, namely the EthiopianWorldFederation.org, the sister-site: EthiopianWorldFederation.com. Our Rastafari outreach ministry to preach and teach the Way of His Imperial Majesty based upon the Testimony of His Christos is aimed at strengthening the true Tewah'do Haymanot amongst the brethren, sistren and to the upcoming generation of we, Hebrew-Ethiopians... www.LOJSociety.org.
We have been also persecuted and even exiled, on the one hand, by some 'Rastas' who seek to vainly deny the Krstinna of Grmawi Negushenegeshtu! Woyo! And on the otherhand by so-called 'believers' and those who come and say they are "Christian" and prove their apostasy by their lack of grace and holy spirit inspired conversation... These and those worship the anti-kristos image and deny His True Humanity, or as we would say, His Ethiopiawinnet! And, thus they refuse to "Come out of Egypt!" when the Sovereign (GEta) 'parted the Ertra (Red) Sea" and we came out on dry land...
My beloved brother and all gathered here... I did say that I would be brief, yet your site is so refreshing and uplifting that I could not pass up the opportunity in His Love to share a few words and hope for these words to reach you all with your eyes lifted up to the Hill from whence cometh our Help - EL'Azar! All the best and blest in the New Millennium... For a Day with Our Saviour - Medkhanitach'n is as An'd Shi Amet!
I shall close with this admonition and encouragement to the poor, righteous seekers..."Come, My people! Enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you! Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past! For behold, the LORD comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity! The earth will also disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain. (Isaiah 26/20-21)

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

We send you our prayerful best wishes.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
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I just happen to serf on the web and found your interesting web page, specially the Q&A Page.

What is "Fitat" the ceremony that carried out when a member of Orthodox Church dies? Why do we baptize some one at his/her infancy? Is it not make a decision on ones behalf? What is "Sir'ate Qurban" and the feast ceremony is it bibilical? Egzi'abher Yistilign!

2) We Ethiopians remained all through the ages to this day, Believers, Worshippers and Children of God. This is because of our Faith that is based on the Seven Holy Covenants whose existence spans from the beginning of the time of Adam and Eve to the final age of the Advent of the Virgin Mary Mother of God and Her Incarnate Son Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our status of being "the Children of God" is, therefore, realized even while we still were conceived in the wombs of our human mothers. The reason why we are brought to the Temple and presented ceremonially to God is to confirm publicly our Spiritual birth from God. Circumcision which takes place on the 8th day of our physical birth is part of this process. As we do not question the reason why we entered into a Covenant with God through the Sacred Sacrament of Circumcision even at that early infancy, we need not question why we are baptized on the 40th or the 80th day of our birth, the male and the female respectively.
This is because we are already Children of God through the Holy Covenants and through our parents who had already endorsed the acceptance of their Faith in the God of the Holy Covenants of their own free will of adulthood, just as we follow suit and confirm our acceptance of the Faith by the time we grew up and reached adulthood. (Ex.13/2; Lev.12; Luk.2/21-24)
The Gospel of Christianity was preached to the Gentiles and Heathens who worshipped idols or the Devil, and who did not know anything about God, not to Ethiopians. The Gentiles and Heathens were the ones who needed to learn the teachings of the Faith, and after understanding the religion completely have to make the decision to believe or not to believe, and then to be baptized, if they accept the Faith. (Matt. 28/16-20)

3) "S'r'ate-Qurban is a Biblical (of Old and New Testaments) Ceremony of Prayer and Offering of Sacrifice to God that is conducted in the Church by ordained priests with the representation of the Bread and the Wine which become the Body (Flesh) and the Blood of the Incarnate God Jesus Christ. The reason why this Service is continuously observed in the Church is:-
a. Because of the Ordinance that Our Lord Jesus Christ gave to His Apostles at the Last Supper He had with them on the eve of His Crucifixion and Death on the Cross, at which occasion He Himself performed the first Sacred Ceremony.
b. So that each one of us, after repenting for any and every sin that we think to have committed, eat the Divine Bread and drink the Divine Wine, and be united with God physically, mentally and spiritually, finally to maintain our individual and collective good life in this world and in the coming Eternal World of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. (See Gen. 14/18-20; Matt. 26/17-29)

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, you have to read those books and publications publicized on our web site, including the Q & A Section.
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.

We send you our prayerful best wishes.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
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I have a question regarding receiving Holy Qurban within my Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
There seems to be some confusion after receiving Holy Qurban from Ethiopian baptized members, as to greeting one another with the traditional three Holy kisses or making normal hand shake of hands or simply making physical contact with anyone even a baby or child. I live in England and found this to be the case in many Ethiopian Church Congregations. I have been to Churches in Ethiopia and found the same result, for some Church members it is ok to give greetings and some not.
I have asked many priests in both countries and all their views are different. Some believe you will lose the blessing, as after fasting and receiving Holy Qurban, if you make contact with someone who is less clean than yourself who has fasted and received The Body and Blood Of Jesus Christ our God. Some say man can not take away your blessing given from God, and it is ok to give greetings after Holy Qurban. I understand keeping the mind and body clean after receiving, i.e. no sex, foul language, spitting etc.
Could you tell me what you believe to be the correct order, as I prepare and receive Holy Qurban very regularly? And I would like to be more confident when I explain to my brothers and sisters in Christ why I may not give them any greetings. Beselam, Wolde Timket.

Just like your views on two points:
1) Why do we as Tewahedo Orthodox Christians do not eat any food when we attend Kidasse on Sundays even if we are not taking the Holy Quroban?
2) It has been said that there is a tradition that in the 2000 Millennium that falls in the year of St John, something will happen - and it could either be the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or some spiritual phenomena that will shake the foundations of mankind! We are in year of St John, do you believe that anything will happen during this year and are you aware of this tradition?

Beselam, Tesfa Mariam

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
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I realy liked your website than everything; and admire you a lot. JESUS CHRIST & HOLY MARY BLESS YOU!!!

A) When I greet other persons, I used to give my hands. And after reading your books, I was convinced that I did what I do not know. BUT now, when I practice "NOT SURRENDING HANDS" many of my friends refuse and some tell me not to do it NOW. SO PLEASE, TELL ME WHAT I HAVE TO DO?
B) As we all know wrongly the current EOTC (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewah'do Church) is to celebrate the birth day of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. BUT as we read your books, they tell us the right. If so, should we leave this month's celebrity?

For to day IGZIABHEAR YSTLGN!

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your email carrying your question concerning masturbation (watch your spelling of the word).
A "person" (and any reference to this term in our ensuing response should be recognized as the Ethiopian, i.e., a Believer in and Follower of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God of the Holy Covenant) who masturbates is no more virgin morally (i.e., in Soul) and spiritually, even physically. That person lost his/her virginity, when he/she knowingly, willingly and intentionally succumbed to the actual commission of the lustful act of masturbation. (This, of course, excludes nocturnal emissions, i.e., in dreams.) By that wanton act, the perpetrator has committed a sin, and he/she becomes a sinner, according to the Word of God (Genesis 38: 8-10).
When one inherently feels the sensation and the urge to masturbate, there and then is the natural signal given by The Creator to that human person for him/her to realize that the time of the age of his/her physical body has reached maturity, at which age he/she has to look immediately and seriously for the Sacrament of Marriage to be fulfilled, without any delays and excuses. Until then he/she has to stay virgin through abstinence, not only from sex, but also even from masturbation. That is why, the act of masturbation is considered to be unnatural, therefore, a sin: In marriage, sex is an act of righteousness; while its perversion, like masturbation, is an act of sin, just as homosexuality is.
The person, who committed the sin of masturbation, therefore, has to acknowledge it as a sin and repent for its commission, i.e., he/she needs to ask the Divine Pardon from God, as he/she is required to do so for any other sin; and believing he/she is absolved from the sin, may continue to receive the Holy Communion as usual, with trust that, through genuine repentance, any sin, with the exception of apostasy, is already granted by God.
This does not mean that that person has to return to and maintain such sinful behaviour. No, he/she has to abandon such behaviour by abstaining from the act of the sin, i.e., masturbation. Here, the alternative for the person to undertake will be to get married, without resorting to any excuses for the delay to the contrary. Such marriage is easily achieved with the person's complete trust in God Who then, through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit, readily offers the wife to the young male, and the husband to the young female, as He had originally done to Adam and Eve.
Yet, if conditions do not allow the individual for all such remedies to take effect, and the natural urge to commit the sin of masturbation prevails, he/she need not panic and be discouraged and run away from his/her stance of love of and faithfulness to his/her God; he/she has a cause to persevere: Thanks to the Atonement and the Redemption of Our Incarnate God, Lord Jesus Christ Born of The Virgin Mary, he/she has to simply and sincerely continue to repent every time he/she failed to resist the temptation and the urge of masturbation; The Saviour knows his/her weaknesses more than he/she does, because He is his/her Maker; He knows that particular weakness, (and for that matter any of his/her human weaknesses), including its intrinsic and subtle nature to the extent of its paradoxical perplexity, whereby it is labeled as "weakness" but its potentiality is so real and powerful that he/she are incapable even to resist its temptation, let alone to do away with its commission.
At the time of such state of personal crisis, there might be moments when he/she would feel deep anxiety or doubt as to why God condemned him/her to such uncontrollable infliction and dilemma. There and then, he/she needs to stay strong and confident: The truth of the matter is, through the challenge of the person's current predicament, God simply wants to see, whether the victim, remaining steadfast in his/her Faith, really seek Him and truly love Him, or whether he/she is easily discouraged and, failing the test, would run away from Him in search of another god. Our God, when He permits this entire episode to take place, He does not mean to let the concerned person down. No; as soon as His Faithful Believer finds himself/herself a fallen victim of the intransigent sin, God, in His Omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, instantly comes to his/her rescue.
That was why He ordained, for each one of us, to benefit from the endless pardon to our sins committed daily, even if they seem to be innumerable, as long as we, on our part, fulfill our obligation: To be preoccupied with ceaseless Repentance. And Our Gracious God did this to us, once and for all, just for one purpose: Yes, in order that human beings in general, and we His Believers and Followers in particular would never fall out of His Divine Care and Protection of His Eternal Fatherhood and The Motherhood of The Virgin Mary. His Words, Teachings and Parables, pertinent to our sin and His Pardon, and written in all Scriptures, especially in the Gospels, testify to this Truth. (Mat. 18/ 21-35; Lk. 15).
If you are a serious and concerned Ethiopian, 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, you have to read those books and publications publicized on our web site, including the Q & A Section.
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, to the attainment of the True Life of Tranquility in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

May God Bless you. Thank you

Yours, Welde-S

Thank you for your recent email that carries your compliments.

We are happy that you are satisfied with the answers to your questions we provided you in our previous response.
From the single inquiry you made in your present email, we learn that you seem to be unfamiliar with the contents of our web site; you also seem to have no knowledge about who Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God is as well as about the Services we are rendering to Her.
Please be informed that neither do we call our Ethiopian Church nor do we allow others to refer to Her as "Orthodox", because She is not. In that context, we prefer to use our only indigenous word of Tewah'do just to specify the Doctrine of our Biblical Faith and Worship of God. We Ethiopians are older and greater than orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is something that appeared lately around the Mediterranean lands in the 4th century after the Birth of Christ, and brought into Ethiopia by the Egyptians at that time. We are The Ethiopian People, The Church and The Kingdom of God of the Holy Covenant with an age of 7500 years that spans from the time of Adam and Eve to this Day.
For you to know who Ethiopia and Ethiopians are, and for more explanation and information about orthodoxy, read our books posted on our web site, and consult all our various sections incorporated therein.

God Bless you too.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

And how can I stop that to masterbate? Please tell me the way. I tried many times, but still I can't; and my age is 26 years old. Even I stopped taking Holy Communion, since I do the same thing after taking Holy Communion; and now, I am ashamed of it.
So, what kind of advice that you have for this kind of man? Please tell me your advice.

My Dear brother HailePetros,

This is NOT a joke. They are probably more serious than you and I. This is a time of great spiritual upheaval. Please let us be quick to hear, slow to speak, and leave judgment to the Judge ... lest, by chance, we find ourselves opposing the Holy Spirit.

Thank you and please pray for the One Holy Church of Christ, and pray for me a sinful servant.

Tibebe-Iyesus

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Dear Tibebe-Iyesus,

I know that you are busy, but have you taken a look at the doctrine of these false prophets?
I would love to forward the e-mails [to you] that they have written, but they are extensive, because this guy [or guys] take a month to draft-up foolishness and then write back with pseudo-refutations. They are worse than Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelicals, because they are masking themselves as 'orthodox', although they say that the word orthodox is a foreign term forced upon Ethiopians: "Yep!"

"Don't confess to a priest, because all of the priests are apostates..." Another quote from this group.

Pray for me please.

Sincerely in Christ our Very God,

HailePetros

My lord,

Although I did not go through their website, I was impressed by the Nibure'Id after reading a large volume he had authored. In that book he raised a lot of burning issues and tried to give his answers to them. Although I did not like some of his quite exotic claims (Our Lord is an Ethiopian, was born on Meskerem 1, etc.) nor the tone (self-righteous??), generally I agreed with him and even emailed to say thanks. I had no suspicion that he was trying to break away from the church that he served for a life-time (including as headpriest of Axum Tsiyon, Nibure'id!) or start a new church. His getting entangled in etymological/historical concerns, I simply took as an instance of eccentricity!
However, dear sir, he dares raise issues that everybody else seems too afraid or careless to address. If he errs in the solutions he advocates then he risks following in the footsteps of Luther who initially did have legitimate cause against Roman excesses and indulgences.
My real intention was to remind the teaching of Gamaliel: "And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." (Acts of the Holy Apostles, Ch. 5)
There is no denying that we are facing a crisis. Just repeating His Holiness, His Holiness... is not going to get us anywhere. Let us not shoot the messengers is all I am saying.

Thanks.
Tibebu

This is to acknowledge receipt of and to thank you for the copy of the email you sent me with the purpose of informing me of the correspondence you undertook with Haile Petros concerning that of our earlier one made between him and me.

To be frank with you, I intended to write you this email after finding out, from the list of impending emails I browsed today, that it was still there, "kept as new", and waiting action. So, considering that it merits a positive response, I resolved to send it to you accordingly, regardless of the overdue delay incurred thereby, for which I apologize.

I admire your courage and outspokenness. We, Ethiopians of the present generation, badly need this positive attitude and course of action especially at this critical epoch of our precarious existence, which subject I treated extensively elsewhere, and which you might have probably came across.

Please accept my appreciation of your complimentary views on some issues discussed in one of my books you read, and particularly of your personal notion that you conveyed in your email to Haile PeTros that would certainly help to dispel the suspicions and presumptions of some people who may think otherwise and in the negative terms with regard to my vocation, to the extent of "trying to break away from the church that he served for a life-time... or start a new church." to quote from your own sentence.

Yet, I could not simply overlook your inexcusable and severe remark that goes as far as labeling the Divine Messages of the Divine Truth as "some of his quite exotic claims (Our Lord is an Ethiopian, was born on Meskerem 1, etc.) which you admitted by saying for yourself that, "I did not like, ...nor the tone (self-righteous??)", again to quote from your own writing. Since I have already expounded on and dealt with these issues profusely in several occasions and in the series of my email responses, and as I believe you might have read some of those materials in my books and in the various forums of our web site, I would leave it there only with a strong categorical refutation of your above quoted observation. As the aforementioned observation amounts to blasphemy, I exhort you sympathetically to submit yourself to immediate and genuine repentance to your Divine Saviour and His Holy Mother, if you consider yourself a True Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant.

Let me respond briefly to the two remaining challenging points included in the above quoted statement of yours: "I did not like," and "nor the tone (self-righteous??)".
1) It does not matter with me "whether you liked it or not", as it is your inalienable right to feel and say so. That is not my guiding principle in my long-standing vocational career; it has never been, and it will never be. The guiding principle of my vocation remains always, as a servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, only to be committed to and engaged in the Cause of Serving the Divine Kingdom under the Sovereign Guidance and Protection of the Priestly King Jesus Christ and of the Motherly Queen The Virgin Mary.
Yes, we, in these Services, do serve people, but only through the Divine Supervision of Our Priestly King and Our Motherly Queen; and follow only Their Orders and Their Words through the Inspiration and Guidance of the Holy Spirit. As Ethiopians, we are here only to please Our Divine Sovereigns, and to please people only through Them; and this is because, the services and the pleasures that people need are deemed to be truly the ideal only if they are rendered through Our Divine Sovereigns. Here, the difference between us and those who serve humans, or man-made idols, material or immaterial, physical or spiritual, and/or the Devil is distinctively manifest.
This was the path I followed in my career of this service right from the time of my childhood to this day. You mentioned in your email my post as N'bure-Id of Axum Zion. Yes, all the official posts I held prior and subsequent to that position were results not of my personal desire or dream, effort, petition, pressure, or social, educational, service, age, or birth status, or any other merit that I know of, but simply of the Divine Will and Ordinance that conduct the life of each one of us based on our individual choices worthy of His Blessing. That is why I continue to persevere in the pursuit of my service-oriented vocation even in the current unrelenting adverse situation.
Now, be honest with me, as you are with God, to give your own confession to yourself with regard to the following inquisitive statement I pose to you: Had those Divine Truths and Messages delivered by me and branded by you as "quite exotic claims that you did not like" been brought up and told by any foreign professional and/or authority, or even by any native Ethiopian, who was educated abroad, or graduated from a foreign-oriented modern educational institution with any degree or honour, let alone with possession of a PhD or any sort of Doctoral Qualification or Professorship in any field of learning and occupation, would you imagine to have been as critical and as skeptical with that person as you turned out to be with me? No.
This is the attitude of every Ethiopian of the present generation: I do not mean only the secular, but surprisingly, also the religious, the spiritual and even the pious. Do you see, how difficult and terrifying it is for the generation to accept whatever is Ethiopian, and presented by an Ethiopian, while it is easy and gratifying for the same generation to accept readily and gladly whatever is foreign, and presented by a foreigner? Your email correspondent Haile PeTros, far from being immune from this malevolent deficiency, made himself, in this aspect, a champion of the prototype of the generation, when he typified, in his email to you, my first written response I sent him as "foolishness" that took "this guy a month to draft-up and then write back with pseudo-refutations" .
However, God never sought for and called upon these humanly recognized and acclaimed personalities for any of His Services; He always looks for those individuals who are rejected and despised by the secular world as foolish to convey His Divine Truth and Divine Messages. We find this fact best exemplified in the following quotation of the Word of God:
"Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God-and righteousness and sanctification and redemption- that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD." (1Cor. 1/25-31)
2) I could not understand how on earth would it be possible for the Divine Truth or the Word of God, especially concerning Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, ever to be told or communicated to others in public, if and when, for anyone, simply to believe in the Divine Faith of the Holy Covenant, and to live it by himself, as well as only to speak and write about it, and finally to commit himself to its services amount to victimizing his works with such label of incrimination, as being "self-righteous tone".

Even if I know that I had already responded to the final email of Haile Petros, and that this email to you may seem outdated, I could not resist the temptation of disregarding the resentful expressions directed towards me and our services that appear in the copy of his email to you; and I deemed it necessary to state herein our reaction to them:
1) This fellow seems to be chronically obsessed with the blind maintenance of "Orthodoxy". It is perplexing to read his email to you in which he alleged against us that "they are masking themselves as 'orthodox'." I hope by now, he is convinced that it is not us, but he and his likes that put the mask of "orthodoxy" on their Ethiopian True Faith and true faces. It is amazing to imagine how difficult it became for him to understand the Divine Truth that we still claim that the Ethiopian can never change his or her face or skin, which implies his or her identity, by any means, including even by masking himself or herself, according to the Prophet's Word of God (Jer. 13/23). As far as we, who belong to the Church of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of Ethiopia, are concerned, we never wore the mask of orthodoxy, but only Tewah'do. Even though he could not hearken to what we say and write, that false allegation of him has been categorically denied many a time, and this unwavering stance of our Ethiopian Church was publicly declared.
2) His blind persistent advocacy to "the authoritarian power of the clergy", that is reflected in his manipulated quotation from our response that says, "Don't confess to a priest, because all of the priests are apostates..." gives rise for one to suspect that he seems to be determined to become an ordained priest himself, so that the status quo should be maintained whereby he would benefit from the possession and exercise of the authoritarian power of the present clergy in the Egyptian (Coptic) Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, or the so-called Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
3) From his allegation of making us "worse than Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelicals", one could quite evidently and easily deduce that the Devil in him seems to be so angry with us that he forced him to dare identify the servants of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God with those foreign religious congregations he named, and even make the former worse than the latter. The fact that he could not even control himself from uttering such uncalled for and flagrant accusation against us simply demonstrates the extent and the intensity of the desperate anger of the Devil, who especially realized that his long established grip in Ethiopia and among Ethiopians is radically threatened and destined to be completely annihilated.
4) Again as to his reckless statement that reads, "this guy [or guys] take a month to draft-up foolishness and then write back with pseudo-refutations", the Word of God quoted above and herein suffices to expose his true identity as being the medium and spokesman of the adversary of God. (Matt. 21/42; 1Cor. 1/18-31; 2/14-16.)

Thank you again for quoting the teaching of Gemaliel: It is perfectly a fitting and pertinent quotation that applies to our case at hand.

I believed the Holy Spirit spoke through you in your initial email. And let us continue to be inspired and guided only by Him in all our Ethiopian commitments of the Holy Covenant we retained with God for millenniums and to this day, and which we continue to do so for Eternity.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kngdom of God.
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My dear brother in Christ Ermias Kebede Wolde Eyesus, Nibure Id:

May our Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you and your family as you continue to be a fountain and source of inspiration to many! May Almighty God strengthen you and grant you length of days in righteousness and peace to continue your writing!
I have read your work " Ethiopia: The Classic Case"; and I am at present reading it for a second time. I find the quality of your writing and the depth of your knowledge of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Faith, one I believe I can trust through the Grace of the Holy spirit.
Is it possible for you to elaborate on the relationship of the High Priest Melchizedeck in his relationship with Shem, Ham & Japheth, the Sons of our Patriarch Noah. In your book you refer him to be (if I am not mistaken) the root (Father of all Ethiopians): I am slightly confused. Could you please help my understanding? As Biblically, we only have Genesis, Psalms and Hebrews as our source of information on the High Priest Melchezedeck. Although I am aware of his relationship as a proto type of the Son of God: "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchezedeck." (Ps. 110) together with the offering of Bread and wine He offered to our father Abraham.

Thank you.

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your email with remarks of compliments and expressions of prayerful good wishes.

I apologize for not responding to your e-mail in due time; as always, the delay was simply the result of my busy schedule.

I am glad that you read my book, "Ethiopia: The Classic Case" and found it enlightening.

I wish you read and understand our Vernacular Ethiopic (Amharic). If so, you would have obtained the detailed information you inquired about Melke-Zedeq from the books and literatures that I produced in the above mentioned language and posted on our web site. Until those works are translated into English, you may still continue to visit our web site and peruse the materials placed in the various sections, especially in the Q & A forum, for some more enlightenment on the subject matter.

Now, for your immediate need of answering to your question you raised in your email, let me briefly explain the following concerning the same: According to our Ethiopian Tradition, Melke-Zedeq and N'guse-Salem are dual TITLES each with two combined Ge'ez words whose meaning is: The True King or The Righteous King, and King of Peace or The King of Jerusalem, bestowed upon the Priest of God whose name was "Ethiopis", our First Atsie, i.e. Elect of God, from whose name the designation of "Ethiopia" and Ethiopian" derived. (Ge'ez, claimed to be the dialect of Adam and Eve, is our original and primordial, classical and liturgical language still effectively in use by Ethiopians.)

The Three distinguished Melke-Zedeqs mentioned in the Ethiopian Tradition and in Scriptures are:
The First One was the contemporary of Noah from whom he, i.e., the First Melke-Zedeq inherited personally the Sacred Heritage of the Holy Covenants that Adam and Eve as well as that which Noah himself had made with God, and who became the first Ethiopian custodian of the same, and the Founder and Sovereign of the City of Jerusalem;
The Intermediate One was the contemporary of Abraham by whom the latter (Abraham) was blessed;
And The Last and The Eternal one was Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, whose predecessors including the above two were all about whom the Psalmist of Ps. 110 and the Writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews chapters 5-7 related.

It is narrated in the Bible that the three sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth along with their respective offspring partitioned the Earth, separated themselves from each other and were dispersed throughout its expanses. This process developed to such an extent that it finally culminated in classifying each one of the three sons of Noah, as the ancestor and father of the branch of humanity whose descendants, in their racial identity and skin colour, became to be known: those of Shem, as Semites and "Reds" or "Yellows", those of Ham, as Hamites and "Blacks", and those of Japheth, as Japhetites and "Whites" respectively. (Gen. 10)

While this reality still remains the actual state of affairs of human experiences even today, the Divine Will to preserve the unity of humanity and the assurance of its continuity after Noah was effected by the birth of Ethiopis from the fusion of the selected seeds of the three races through intermarriages of the same. With the nucleus seed of the offspring of Ham united with the seeds of the offspring of Shem and Japheth produced "Ethiopis", the First Melke-Zedeq.

Here is the elaborate line and link of the tripartite racial union brought about through the intermarriage that had begotten the unique person named Ethiopis who was destined to be the precursor of Our Lord Jesus Christ, possessing the Three Graces God bestowed upon human beings He created in His Image: Divine Birth, Priesthood and Kingship: On the first lineage, one of the elder sons of Ham married one of the elder daughters of Shem, and begot sons and daughters. On the second lineage, one of the younger sons of Ham married one of the daughters of Japheth, and begot sons and daughters. On the third lineage, the eldest grand son of Ham and Shem married the eldest grand daughter of Ham and Japheth and begot a son. And that son who was begotten from these grand children of two quarters of the seed of Ham, and one quarter of that of Shem and of that of Japheth each, is Ethiopis, the First Melke-Zedeq.

Let us all pray for the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit in all our individual lives, professions and ventures.

N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Yesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
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Dear Nibure-Id Ermias, Ethiopia Kingdom of God Services servant,

I would like to express my deep heart-felt respect and admiration for what you are doing with respect to protecting the Holy heritage of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. I have found a lot of useful insights from your book "Ethiopia: Ye'Alemu Meffareja" and "Ethiopia inna Ethiopiawinnet". I also read your website and I have heard a little about you from people who distantly know your family. I appreciate your determination to stand in isolation and stigma for what you believe is true.
However, there is one thing that is difficult for me to accept. If you don't mind, I would like you to accept it as a serious suggestion instead of a question. But still I would like you to say something on it. My question is why did you choose not to serve in an ordinary church either in Ethiopia or abroad? I have read your manifesto that you don't identify with either of the synods and you don't identify with the "Coptic" culture in the church. That is respectable. But wasn't it better to be in the church and try to produce as many disciples as possible? Was there a time in history that the Ethiopian Church was completely free of heretics? I think there always were heretics in the church; may be today the magnitude is higher; but nothing different has happened. What I am saying is during serious splits like the catholic, the 'qibat' and 'kara', and other differences, the Ethiopian church fathers fought from "with in" the church; and not by staying out and saying "I am pure from the blood". I think in the past the Church has gone through lots of threats on its spiritual and administrative rituals. Definitely, churches were sometimes put under control by aliens. But Ethiopian fathers fought and got burnt in the Church with out saying "this is under the control of an alien, so I don't identify with it".
So, wouldn't it have been more effective if you were in the church? I have asked some people who are familiar with your books and attitudes. Many of them do not have much problem to accept, or at least take as an alternative explanation, what you have mentioned in your books. But the only problem is you are not part of their day to day spiritual and administrative experience. No matter how dirty it is, some times I think strong people like you should go into the dirt to bring others out of it. You have good spiritual and secular world understanding. You could have been a guide to many youngsters if you were part of their day to day world. There r many fathers that I know who are sick and tired of the administrative and religious procedures of the church. They concur at many points with what you have written in your book. (For example, I know a good respected "tirguame memher" in the north who believes that Jesus was Ethiopian; but he never went out of the church. He is still there; sad by current situations, but still teaching.) They want to get their corner and stay out of everything; probably by going to a monastery. But they think of the people around the church and the youth in Sunday schools and they don't go away; no matter how sinful the priests are and no matter how wrong is what is being done. Rather they try to correct it by teaching after liturgy, at "serk gubaye" and so on. And usually they are fruitful. At least one person listens to them and God also helps them. And they have no other system/branch of spiritual service except the church. So why didn't you choose that kind of path? I really need some explanation and perhaps you should seriously think about it because you can produce lots of disciples for the proper church education if you are in the church. Even if you think that the spiritual power of the church is gone, you can use the same spiritual power you now use to pray for your families in a church you may be hired in or be in charge of. Why not?
My other related question is are all the 35,000 churches in Ethiopia now empty of Divine Power because of the administration? What about great monasteries like Wald'ba, Axum Tsion, Debre-Wegeg, Qull'bi etc.? Are they not still holy? How can we differentiate which church we should go?

Dearly, Selamawi

In the Name of the Divine Father, the Divine Son, and the Divine Holy Spirit, One God!
In the Name of Our Holy Mother and Country, Temple and Queen
The Virgin Mary Mother of God!
In the Power of the Holy Cross of Our Saviour and Priestly King Jesus Christ!

Ethiopian Greetings!
Dear Ato Selamawi Mare:
Thank you for visiting our web site and for your email with remarks of compliment.
We apologize for not responding to your e-mail in due time; as always, the delay was simply the result of our busy schedule.
I am glad that you read my books. I heartily appreciate your expressions of good will and compassionate consideration that crystallized in your presentation of positive recommendations which meant to contribute to the enhancement of my vocation. In fact, being touched by such cordial frankness on your part in matters of mutual as well as personal concerns, I am obliged to reiterate here, what we had stated in an earlier response to another email, though of a negative nature, with similar attitude of frankness:
Yes, we, who are in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, do admire and appreciate such openness. This is a very rare phenomenon among Ethiopians, because what Ethiopians unfortunately and inherently lacked so far, from among positive elements in their personality, is the simple but important virtue of frankness. The disposition of frankness, complemented by sincere thoughtfulness, like the one you have shown in your email, is not only surprising, but also promising, because it is a good sign for what the present Ethiopian generation desperately needs to foster. Ethiopians, especially of this generation, if truly want to survive and develop as the oldest independent and surviving nation on earth, as well as to continue their survival as a healthy and prosperous one, not only physically and materially, but also, mentally and, in particular, spiritually, yes, one of the prerequisites that they imperatively need to acquire is, surely, the disposition of frankness.
Soliciting your tolerance of that much wordiness for the preamble, now, let me come to answering your questions and responding to your suggestions:
1) As to "Why I did not choose to serve in an ordinary church either in Ethiopia or abroad?" I did not make such choice, neither was I granted the chance, nor the right, to choose. It is the Church's authoritarians, the so-called synods or PaPasat, the ousted and exiled as well as the incumbents, who arbitrarily, illegally and uncanonically made the choice and the decision to ban and banish me, even from my ancestral Parish Church of Saint Qirqos of Addis Ababa, where my grandfather was the founding elder priest (Qese-Gebez), my father was an executive priest, and myself served from birth to this day as deacon, priest, elder priest -succeeding my grandfather as Qese-Gebez- and finally as its Head Administrator (Aleqa). This is, of course, leaving out the contemporaneous higher official posts that I held along with the foregoing in the various Houses of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, until the advent of the reign of terror of Dergue.
Yet, don't think that I feel as if I am ousted from my Church, the True and Indigenous Church of Ethiopia that remains always part of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, and that my ancestors and myself served and still serve. How on earth would one imagine that I would be excluded from and would be outside of my Church whom I served my whole life and still serve with dedication, even if the adversaries aforementioned exerted and continue to exert by all means all their efforts to ostracize me?
Do you think that, simply because the incumbent and the previous Church authoritarians had passed secret decisions, without my knowledge and without directly notifying me, and had taken such brazen and drastic measure against me, that one could possibly assume or consider me to be outside of my Church?
No, I am still in my Church, the legitimate Church of Ethiopia with Her Rich Divine Treasures of the Holy Covenant and a span of a Glorious Age of 7,500 years, which is being served everywhere, in the mainland of Ethiopia and in foreign lands, by Her Contemporary Faithful Clergy and the Laity whom only the Holy Spirit currently recognizes.
It is the members of the twin synods and their accomplices who are banned, ousted and banished, not only from the Church, but also from the whole of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, not by the human power or authority of excommunication, which they still pretend to possess and presently boast of, but by the Divine Condemnation of the Omnipotent Power and Authority of the Holy Spirit.
So, you see! I am challenging these apostates and these traitors, of course with the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit, not from without, but from within, and am combating them not only spiritually and intellectually, but also actually and physically, through the realities of my living body, my way of life, my word of mouth, my literatures as well as through the modern means of the mass media, including the internet.
The Incarnate God Jesus Christ did it Himself, and instructed His Believers to follow His suit, and, they, His Faithful Servants: Those before His Incarnation, His Prophets, and Those after the Descent of His Holy Spirit, His Apostles and Disciples, as well as His righteous and Martyrs, did the same. The struggle was always from within; it has never been from without. And what my colleagues and I, with the Inspiration, Guidance and Power of the Holy Spirit, are currently engaged in is not different. Our struggle is primarily from within.
So far we had fought, and are still fighting, and will never stop fighting the same adversaries, not only from within, but also from without; not only from every corner of Ethiopia, but also from that of the Universe; not only the henchmen of the Devil, but also the Devil himself. And, we are fighting them to the last Triumphant Ditch attained by the Sacrificial Atonement of The Ethiopian Lion of The Holy Covenant and of the Tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ born of The Virgin Mary, which End and Occasion will be the herald of His Glorious Return.

2) For all I stated to you heretofore, and for all the realities that are obvious in what I have done so far, and continue to do now, how would you understand and interpret the sense and the significance of your statement that says, "I am pure from the blood", and how would you apply it to me?
I am doing what I am required to do in service of my Sovereigns of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Holy Queen Mother The Virgin Mary, to whom I am directly answerable as any True Ethiopian is. But, as regards the current transgression of the Holy Covenant perpetrated and being committed by the present Ethiopian generation, I cannot be part of the human blood with which the hands of my adversaries, the opponents of the Divine Truth, are stained and where the shedding of the blood grew, not only to be handful, but also overflowing. Here, I have nothing to do with my adversaries, except to continue to offer my prayers for the Mercy of God towards them, through the invocation of the Holy Covenant sealed by His Incarnation from The Virgin Mary and His Redemption of humanity from eternal perdition. And From this point of view, I must say, "I am pure from that blood".
Why do I persevere in my lifelong commitment of serving with resolve the causes of Ethiopia: The Kingdom God? The answer is simple and clear: By fulfilling my obligation as an Ethiopian, it is to absolve myself from being accountable for any accumulated crime or sin, and in order not to finally shun the responsibility that is inevitable to be incurred at the Last Judgment. Yes, from this point of view, I cannot circumvent in any way the verdict to be rendered and the requirement to be demanded by the Supreme Divine Authority and Judge. And your statement, "I am pure from the blood" remains in force upon my head to the last.

3) I cannot help but to impart with you, in testimony of the Divine Truth, the fact that I do not condone either the attitude or the action of those Ethiopian Orthodox Church intellectuals or scholars, to whom you referred as "Church Fathers".
Please note that I always refrain from using such reference, for fear of denial of the admonition of Our Lord in which He said, "But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in Heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. (Mt. 23/8-12)
It is needless to relate to you, here and now, all the catastrophic consequences of the status quos, witnessed throughout our Ethiopian existence of millenniums, which testify to the detrimental attitude and behaviour of the majority of our leading learned men, the so-called "Church Fathers". There and then, they are found red-handed rendering help, encouragement, and strength, not to the Sacred Cause of Our Faith of the Holy Covenant, but to that of the Devil.
Their actions were deliberate. Even if ignorance, infidelity, timidity, fear, naiveté, silence, submissiveness, greed, elusion, indifference, subtlety, connivance, opportunism, etc., were utilized by them, they could and would not serve as excuses. Such negative manners of human weaknesses and tools of the Devil have never ever been mentioned in the enhancement of the worship of The True God of the Holy Covenant. The opposites of the aforementioned: Knowledge, loyalty, confidence, valour, wisdom, outspokenness, resistance, generosity, honesty, concern, transparency, revelation, integrity, etc., were the positive characters of human potency that had been utilized by Our Predecessors, the Gallant and Trustworthy Servants of God of Ethiopia and Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant. I invite you to visit recent additions to the Q & A forum of our web site for details about the special significance of status quos.
Just to mention, as an example, one of those virtuous strong characters reserved for the choice and use of our predecessors, I need not go far or deep, but simply refer to your own valour to come up with your e-mail of cordial frankness and constructive suggestions. What Our Father God and Our Mother Country all the time need are persons like you, not like those whose attitude and action you commended and offered to exemplify the case in point. God never needed or called politicians and diplomats, or any one who acts as such, to deliver His Message or undertake His Service. Those branches of the profession are only meant for people without God, for seculars, for imposters, for apostates, and for the henchmen of the Devil who is himself "the Liar and the father of lie itself" and whose "deceit" constitutes the base and core of his own being and his makeup of deception. (Jn. 8/44-45)

4) Our predecessors, similar to what the present Ethiopian generation is undergoing today, experienced in the past several horrendous incidents that used to crop up once in a while in the life span of the Faith of the Holy Covenant that God made with Ethiopians. And one of these is proven to be the pernicious misdeeds of "false teachers", or "false fathers", or, in the Words of Our Lord, of "false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves".
The latter include those who, through their apparent teachings and exploits, distort and abuse the Message of the Divine Truth of the Holy Covenant to the extent of deceitfully presenting It as a genuine one, in the guise of the image of authenticity devised by Satan himself. They are preoccupied with such sinful manipulation just to gratify their own carnal and worldly benefits. (Mt. 7/15-20)
Let me briefly tell you, a little more about those "Church Fathers", recalling some relevant features from a previous response with similar context. In your email, you referred to them as exemplars whose attitude and action I need to emulate for the success of my current calling; and these are the ones who, in your opinion, being within the Church, seem to disseminate the true teachings of the latter and produce more disciples.
To that suggestion, the scriptural accounts of Saints John the Baptist and STifanos the Deacon may be pertinent to relate and provide clues of helpful revelation. However, since everyone, including you, knows well enough about the faithful services and martyrdoms of both these Holy Men, I refrain from going into the details of the accounts, and confine my exposition to simply pointing out few correlations between the latter and the question at hand.
For an Ethiopian, to deserve to be qualified for membership of the Church of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, let alone to be called "Church Father", requires more than what is being done and pursued by the latter. The uncompromising prerequisite for the attainment of the aforementioned status of membership and "fatherhood" is martyrdom, more than anything else. By martyrdom, I do not mean the jeopardizing or sacrificing of one's life by shedding one's blood for the cause of the True Church of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. That is the Special Favour and Honour to be opted for by any pious individual himself or herself, and to be bestowed upon by God the Holy Spirit.
By martyrdom, I mean what each and every one who claims to be True Ethiopian, as Faithful Believer and Servant of Jesus Christ and The Virgin Mary, ought to do on his or her part: And that is, first to know thoroughly about and believe honestly in the Divine Truth about Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and the Ethiopianhood; and then, to give testimony of this belief in front of the Incarnate God and His Holy Mother in the worship of the Divine Truth and the Holy Sprit, and to live It as such; and finally, to proclaim about It publicly without fear of anyone, but only with the Spiritual Fear, Blessings, Wisdom and Power of God.
However and unfortunately, what we are currently witnessing from most of these "Church Fathers" is not this noble and sacred act of martyrdom, but the resemblance of the undertakings and manipulations of "false prophets", or politicians or diplomats, to the extent of collaborating with the adversaries of God of the Holy Covenant of Ethiopia.
Look at Our Leaders Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother, The Virgin Mary, as well as at their Followers, who serve us as our Examples and Role Models: They all could have avoided every sort of persecution, crucifixion and martyrdom, by conforming with the contemporary and prevailing state of affairs, as do the present so called "Church Fathers" and the rest of the laity, clergy and the authoritarians of the Church. But the latter, without exception, did not prefer to pay that sacrifice for their Faith of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God of the Holy Covenant. Those, the former, did what their Faith required them to accomplish: First and foremost, they learned and knew about It, believed in and lived It; then they taught and preached It; finally, they died for It as Martyrs.
Today, what the Church of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God needs are "Church Fathers" who stand and fight for the Divine Truth in spiritual dynamism, and who are even prepared to sacrifice their lives for the Sacred Cause Saints John the Baptist, STifanos, the Deacon, PeTros, the Ethiopian Patriot, Mary, the Magdalene and Krstos Semra, the Ethiopian Mediator were Martyrs. Yes, this is what is expected of the "Church Fathers" of the present generation as exemplified by True Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant that include you and those in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

5) As this is the final critical period of our survival as True Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant within Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, each one of us who claims to be True Ethiopian, needs to come out of his or her detrimental pretensions and be outspoken, as you had displayed in your present e-mail, by openly identifying himself or herself with whom or against whom he or she is. Yes, each one of us has to make the bitter choice of declaring and acting, accordingly, whether he or she is with the Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, which is the so-called Ethiopian Orthodox Church, or with the True and Indigenous Church of Ethiopia which is the integral part of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God whose Basic Creed is the Holy Covenant and, the Basic Doctrine, Tewah'do, as enshrined in the hearts of True Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant, and inscribed in the documents posted in the section of "Faith" of our web site.
Such bitter choice is the decisive factor that distinguishes the True Ethiopian from the false one, in any field of livelihood and profession. There is no other way or alternative in the choice for each and every one of us to decide and make. Each and every one of us has to identify himself or herself with the True Ethiopian Church, expose the falseness of the status quo, and testify to this Divine Truth by willingly committing himself or herself to the required martyrdom of the present time, as "Ethiopian fathers fought and got burnt in the Church without saying 'this is under the control of an alien, so I don't identify with it'", to quote your own statement.

6) As to participating in the "Serk Guba'es", one incident may suffice to cope with your suggestion: Prior to that verdict of banishment passed on me by the incumbent Church authoritarians, over and above the previous ones, a program was arranged by representatives of my own Parish Church for a presentation of a sermon on the last day of one of the annual F'lseta's Fasting Seclusions to which I was the invited speaker. That arrangement was bungled with an overt and deliberate act of sabotage, leaving every person present to a state of bewilderment.
7) Be reminded that the vocation we in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God had embarked upon is not something that is humanly conceived, constituted, established and directed. It is the exclusive and unique Divine Creation of the Holy Spirit. We are simply a willing, obedient and dedicated team of Servants of the Holy Spirit. Despite our adversaries' prevalent and energetic opposition against our Services whose entire focus is on the Cause of Ethiopia: The Kingdom, look, how persons like you are enthused to communicate and share their views openly and constructively with us!
Whose work do you think this is? If it is not of the Holy Spirit, who else's would it be? None, except being that of the Holy Spirit. It is only through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit that the Divine Truth and Will, revealed and consummated 2000 years ago by The Incarnate God Jesus Christ Himself born of The Holy Virgin Mary, will be manifest, on the Divinely Appointed Day, to those blind apostates and unbelievers, in its immutable and everlasting Triumphal State of Awe-inspiring Glory.

8) You have mentioned something about the necessity of producing disciples on my part, as it is customary for others to do. Whose True Discipleship is that to which Ethiopians of the present generation are called upon to receive? Mine or any human being's? No, nothing of that sort. The Discipleship offered to be received by any willing member of the generation is that of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God whose inspiration, calling and electing is conducted through the Holy Spirit. Presently, it seems to me that you yourself are the one Disciple called by the Holy Spirit to remain Faithful to and continue to serve your True Faith and Identity, Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God of the Holy Covenant.
9) The root malady of our existing situation, in which the present Ethiopian generation is languishing, has been already solved and remedied, fundamentally and eternally, once and for all, by the Consummate Divine Work of Atonement and Redemption of Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And one of the components of this Divine Grace is: The Natural and Spiritual Aptitude bestowed upon each one of us by the Holy Spirit to Make ourselves the Temple of God, of Him, the Incarnate God, our Priest and High-Priest, and of His Holy Mother The Virgin Mary.
This goal, if only we have the sincere desire and the complete willingness to acquire it, is rendered achievable, and the status is made attainable through our personal commitments to the Adherence to the Faith of the Holy Covenant, as well as to the Exercise of the Sacraments of Repentance and Partaking of the Holy Communion, as authenticated by both the Covenants of the First and the Last Melcke-Zedeqs, the Last being Jesus Christ.
Once this status, i.e., the status where one raises himself or herself up and become the Temple or Church of God, is personally acquired in line with the procedure stated above, for that True Ethiopian, to remain at home and worship God individually or with the family is rendered completely viable. Now, even if this person chooses to go to any church and participate in the Service there, he or she is at liberty to do so.
The current dilemma, in which the present Ethiopian generation is stuck, both in Ethiopia and worldwide, should not be considered as something peculiar. It had appeared at every stage and in every age of the Nation's existence. However, in order for His True and Faithful Followers be capable to cope with such grave and trying periods, there is a guideline that Our God of the Holy Covenant had granted and prescribed for them to abide by. And, this is His Word that we, Ethiopians, need to obey and apply:
"Come, My people! Enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you! Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past! For behold, the LORD comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity! The earth will also disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain. (Isaiah 26/20-21)
Of course, the prevailing harsh condition of our Country, Church and People remain in effect only until the present gloomy state of affairs of all the Three Houses of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, at home and abroad, is totally cleansed through the Purging Grace and Power of the Holy Spirit.

10) The 35,000 Rural, Metropolitan and Monastic Churches across Ethiopia and overseas, including those you mentioned by their names, will, I believe, remain holy, as long as they are found, in the eyes of the Holy Spirit, even harbouring only two or three members among the clergy and/or the laity who are Faithful to the Holy Covenant of God that Ethiopia and Ethiopians preserved to this day. Otherwise, how can any True Ethiopian, or, as a matter of fact, any Christian, who is truthful to his/her religious faith would ever conceive of the possibility of the presence of the Holy Spirit, where the Holy Covenant of God is blatantly denied and overtly violated by all so-called believers and ecclesiastics? (Mt. 18/ 19-20)
You may find hints of relevant answers from our responses given to several other e-mail questions posted in the Q & A Forum of our web site Home Page.

Praying for the continued Blessings of the Holy Spirit to all of us, wherever we live, and in whatever virtuous occupation we are engaged, I wish you all the best.
N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

E-mail from K'nfe-Gebriel about MAH'BERE-Q'DDUSAN, dated Nov. 6, 2007:-

I am (was) a regular attendant of your web page. Especially I visit your question and answer part. But the message you wrote about MAHIBERE KIDUSAN made me amazed. I further tell you that it triggers serious reaction. I don't want to blindly argue about Mahibere Kidusan. But I have many observations of the organization. And I dare say that you have written a very biased and unnecessary message regarding this organization.
Do you know what this organization is doing currently in the country? Let me forward some: This organization publishes magazine and newspaper called Hamer and Sima Tsidk. Both publications are distributed worldwide for Ethiopians and all teach about Tewahido. Was that sin? Who else do you see doing that? In addition to this, the organization has published hundreds of books, in many millions of copies, all witnessing and teaching about Tewahido, the covenant we got from Our LORD and etc. In every colleges and universities, this organization has established GIBIE GuBAES, where every Tewahido member student learns about his/her religion Tewahido. Nowadays, thanks for the effort of this organization, a spiritual education curriculum is developed by this institution, and supporting books are published in many thousand copies and are being distributed to students ( many for free and some with reasonable pay) at colleges and universities. Who else do you see doing this? If you go to the rural area, and in fact in urban areas too, this organization has developed many income generating projects for and many churches and monasteries are now becoming economically self dependent. Who else do you see doing this? This organization is paying salary for ABINET MEMHRAN on remote corner of the country so that they will not be displaced. Who else do you see doing this? For those who live abroad, the organization has developed web site. The main aim of this web page is to preach Ethiopians about their religion Tewahido. Was this a crime? In every church you go, members of this organization are doing their level best for their religion Tewahido. In every corner of Ethiopia, you will find the cell of this organization starting from kebele (the lowest administrative unit) up until the top. All this doing of the organization is to support the church in various dimensions. So many spiritual song and preaching are prepared by VCDs, DVDs, cassettes. Who else do you see doing this?
I can testimony many more. But you are writing messages which are diametrically opposite to what this organization is currently doing. With due respect, I am telling you that you have made a very big mistake. I am not arguing that they are perfect. If there is any mistake they commit, as a father, advise was expected from you rather than scold, insult and unnecessary comments. You, being in America, may not know the reality in the country. There is a very high pressure of Muslims and other enemies to down our church. This organization is among the strongest organizations who are trying to defend this. This is the time to unite and defend our faith. Not to divide and eat ourselves, our sons and daughters. The so-called fathers divided the synod into two, and wandered the followers on this critical time where pressure is becoming strong from every side. You again are disseminating unhealthy comments on the last organization the church had. Where to go? Is this wisdom our Lord taught? The strong and unhealthy critics you fire upon one another are killing many souls and GOD needs the blood from your hand, especially those of you who do have strong spiritual education and are priests. Please teach us the gospel, not hatreds upon one another. The government on one hand tells us our difference rather than our unity. Our historical enemies too are doing their best to divide the nation. Our only hope was (is) our church. Unfortunately, you members of the clergy are always denouncing one another. Where to go for your sake?

In the Name of the Divine Father, the Divine Son, and the Divine Holy Spirit, One God!
In the Name of Our Holy Mother and Country, Temple and Queen
The Virgin Mary Mother of God!
In the Power of the Holy Cross of Our Saviour and Priestly King Jesus Christ!

Ethiopian Greetings!

Dear K'nfe-Gebr'el:

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your recent e-mail. We apologize for the delay of our response caused by our busy schedule as usual.
By the way, be informed that my home is in Ethiopia; I am living here in my country, not in America, as you indicated in your email. Although I travel thereto once in a while to render my services to Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant and Servants of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, I still reside in Ethiopia with my family. It is while I am in my home-country, Ethiopia, and not in America, that I received this e-mail of yours and responded to you hereby.
I am glad you expressed your sentiments with open heart. We, who are in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, admire and appreciate such openness. This is a very rare phenomenon among Ethiopians, because what Ethiopians inherently and unfortunately lacked so far is the simple but important virtue of openness. The disposition, like the one you have shown in your openness, is, not only surprising, but also promising, because it is a good sign for what the present Ethiopian generation desperately needs to foster. We, Ethiopians, especially of this generation, if we truly want to survive and develop as a healthy and prosperous nation, not only physically and materially, but also, mentally and, in particular, spiritually, yes, one of the prerequisites that we imperatively need to acquire is, surely, the disposition of openness.
Besides, we found your open e-mail a source of incentive for us to elaborate several unheard-of features that have relevance and significance to the focal issue you raised therein, with some details, concerning Mahbere Q'ddusan. And this issue is the one that requires proper handling and consideration on our part amounting to thorough examination and detailed explanation, as well as inviolable protection of the Ethiopian Living Heritage and Identity. Please note that terms such as "the Church" or "their Church" and "they" or "them" or "Association", wherever they occur hereunder, mean to refer to the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Tewah'do Church and to Mahbere Q'dusan, respectively.
As an outsider, I cannot claim to know everything about Mahbere Q'ddusan; but I have some knowledge about them, even if it may not be as much as you do. We, in the Services of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, had taken, on our part, the initiative of making the appropriate approaches for mutual contacts with the Association, accompanied by gifts of our books. If you had visited and consulted our web site, you could have learnt of such measures from our relevant letters and various responses to e-mail questions posted therein, wherein they are expressly stated. But they, Mah'bere Q'ddusan, on their part, being unwilling to maintain any connection with us, chose to remain unresponsive and uninterested, unfriendly and covertly antagonistic, rendering all our efforts for cordial relationship useless. Even the gestures they showed once in a while, in the way of reciprocity that was prompted by our earlier approaches, were never realized. Those gestures extended to us through requests for personal interview by some of their leading officers, and which requests were accepted by our Services, were all aborted by them for unknown reason on our part, and even without informing us of the cancellation.
Of course, what Mahbere Q'ddusan are doing from the beginning to the present is commendable as far as their commitment to the specific cause they stood for is concerned. But when viewed from the perspective of The Divine Truth, what they are doing is not enough: They have to go further and deeper, outside the scope of their present confinement of the status quo, in search of the remedy for the underlying syndrome of malady that remains the main cause of our national ailment and retardation for centuries on end. Yes, they have to proceed with dynamic willpower in their search for that remedy until they arrive at the Divine Truth about Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopianhood, by the power of which that chronic national curse called the status quo shall be radically exterminated. It is only there and then that they will prove themselves, beyond any reasonable doubt, to be True Ethiopians who serve only their own Mother Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and Her People, Her Church and Her Administration, and not any other cause that pertains to Her adversaries.
I do not want to infringe, in any way, upon the rights of any body let alone theirs. Whatever they do, it is their privilege. However, I always respond and present my opinion regarding them only when I am asked to do so about them, just as you have done now through your e-mail. Please beware of this initiative of yours. As it had happened previously, via other e-mail inquiries, now also, the instigation to make me respond concerning them came not from me, but from you; you are obliging me to reply to the allegation you put across in your e-mail. I am not to blame for the reaction that my response may engender from any corner.
From your e-mail, one could easily deduce that you already prejudged in favour of them and against us. Why? Because you are well-informed and intimately know about them on one side, whereas, on the other side, either you know nothing, or are misinformed about us. If this is the case, you have already jumped to make your own biased conclusion against us. And that is not fair. Under the circumstances, I would have not been bothered to deal with your e-mail at all, until you assured me that you have enlightened yourself with the knowledge of who we are and what we are doing as Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services, at least through the books and literatures posted on our web site. But, setting aside such course of action just for one time, I will proceed with commenting on the substance of your e-mail.
You see: This is another one of the main deficiencies that handicapped the healthy process of our mutual understanding among Ethiopians of the present generation. We do not exert and commit ourselves, to the utmost of our ability, to the pursuit and attainment of the truth, not the human or the Devil, but the Divine Truth, before we pass our personal judgments on others. For such human deficiency, we need to heed to what Our Lord Jesus Christ reprimanded us, saying, "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. (Matt. 7/1-5)
What God, Our Creator, Provider, Saviour and Priestly King, personified in the Incarnate Jesus Christ, and Our Holy Mother of God, Our Country Ethiopia, and Ecclesiastical Queen, personified in the Virgin Mary, together with Their People require of the present young generation of Ethiopia is to search for and find the Divine Truth, as I mentioned earlier, not the human or the evil truth, but only the Divine Truth. However, it is so surprising to witness the contrary: The fact that Ethiopians of the present generation, even after two millenniums of years lapsed, are still falling short of the maturity and faithfulness of their Ethiopian Religion of the Holy Covenant.
They do not as yet bother to bring themselves to the standard status whereby they will be qualified even to ask the question put forward by the gentile Pontius Pilate to Our Lord Jesus Christ saying, "What is truth?" let alone for them to be fit to recognize, believe and live up to The Divine Truth, as their ancestral predecessors did. And these ancestral predecessors of the present Ethiopians were known, in their respective contemporaries, as Ag'azians, Axumites, Christians, Zagwes, Amharas, and Ethiopians. To that question of Pilate, Our Lord Who is Himself the embodiment of The Divine Truth answered beforehand, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the TRUTH. Everyone who is of the TRUTH hears My voice." (Jn 18:37-38)
The other setback that this Ethiopian generation is infected with and suffering from, along with the foregoing one, is the temperament of naiveté or greed, or both, in its outlook towards everything that is foreign. So, all the adversaries of Ethiopia, whether they are secular or religious, utilize these elements of weakness to mastermind whatever manipulation they deem necessary to play on the latter for their domination and exploitation as well as for the destruction of what is Ethiopia and Ethiopian.
With the foregoing statement serving as a preamble, let me point out to you few highlights that distinguish our Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God from your Mah'bere Q'ddusan:
First of all, you must realize that we are serving Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, in which the Church of Ethiopia (the House of the Priesthood) is one of the two integral Houses that branch out from the main House of the People, the other branch being the House of the Administration (i.e., the Government).
Whereas, Mah'bere Q'ddusan, are serving only the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Tewah'do Church. As such, it is quite evident for any one to see the fundamental difference that exists between their and our religious basics and with those of the scopes, magnitudes and purposes associated thereto.
Secondly, we, in the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God claim that The Church of Ethiopia, with Her foundation laid by God Himself at the time of Creation as one of the Tripartite Entity of His Kingdom, with Her life span extending for 7500 years, and as the only unique and indigenous religious Entity of Ethiopia.
Whereas, Mahbere Q'ddusan believe in and serve a Church that is foreign-oriented and officially recognized to be established by the Egyptian Orthodox Church in the fourth century after the Birth of Christ.
Thirdly, based on the above premises, the Service of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God follows and propagates the Teachings and Traditions of the indigenous Ethiopian Divine Truth of the Holy Covenant, by maintaining and consolidating all those elements that are Truly Ethiopian and beneficial, after, of course, identifying and rejecting all those appendages that prove to be alien and damaging to what is purely Ethiopian. Here are few examples from among the many Sacred Heritages that merit cleansing and retention for their Ethiopian significance:
a) The identification of The Virgin Mary Holy Mother of God as "Ethiopia", and as such, of Her Son The Incarnate God Jesus Christ as an "Ethiopian";
b) The identification of the "Ark of the Covenant", i.e., the Tabot and Ts'llat, as The Virgin Mary Holy Mother of God and as Her Son The Incarnate God Jesus Christ;
c) The present implication and utilization of Tabot/Ts'llat in relation to the New Testament Doctrine of Incarnation;
d) The Mysterious Transformation of the human body of a True Ethiopian Believer of the Holy Covenant into a Living Sacred Temple of God upon whom the Divine Graces of being the Child, the Royal and the Priest of God are bestowed, in the Order and because of the Covenant of Melke-Zedeq and through the Blessing of the Holy Spirit;
e) The use of MATEB in the Ethiopian Sacrament of Baptism to be effected with the three threads each coloured in green, yellow and red, representing the symbol of the Rainbow that God made the Sign of the Covenant with Noah, and preserved in the Ethiopian Flag, rather than the "mateb" that the Egyptian Orthodox Church had introduced as the black, white and red, the colours of the Egyptian national flag;
f) The Dates of the Incarnation of The Son of God Jesus Christ in the Womb of The Virgin Mary at the Annunciation of St. Gabriel, the Archangel, and of the Conception of The Mother of God in the Womb of Her Mother Hanna, that fall on Tah'sas 1 and 7, rather than Megabit 29 and Nehassie 7 as imposed by the Egyptian Orthodox Church respectively;
g) The overlapping Dates of The Births of The Divine Son Jesus Christ and The Holy Mother of God The Virgin Mary that both fall on Meskerem 1, rather than Tahsas 28 or 29, and Genbot 1, again as imposed by the Egyptian Orthodox Church respectively.
Whereas, Mahbere Q'ddusan continue to justify and enhance indiscriminately everything that was introduced and imposed on Ethiopia at the discretion of the Egyptian Orthodox Church long ago, by discarding all that is Ethiopian, and substituting in its stead all that is Coptic, in contempt and to the detriment of the Divinity and Seniority of the Ethiopian Entity and Identity that are embodied in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
Fourthly, I invite you to visit once again our web site and click the Forum of Faith shown on the Home Page. There, you will find our religious belief, and the related scope, magnitude and purpose that are attached to it, articulated as concisely as possible. There, you will find the expressed belief of True Ethiopians as their Mother Country Ethiopia constituting the Unity and Trinity of their Divine Kingdom comprises the Three Houses of: the People, the Priesthood and the Administration.
Be aware of the fact that there is only one Kingdom that God established for humans to live in this world and in the next. There is no any other. If the Devil and humans on earth reject this Divine Arrangement and establish their own man-conceived and man-made states and governments, let them do, as had been the case from the time of Adam and Eve. They had, and still have, the inherent God-given Right and Choice to do so. But, His Believers or Followers who claim to be and call themselves Christians in general, and Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant in particular, ought to abide by Their God's Will and Arrangement. They should remain and serve, as Her Members and Citizens, only that One Kingdom of God, Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, headed by their Priestly King Jesus Christ and their Holy Mother Country and Ecclesiastical Queen The virgin Mary.
Whereas, Mahbere Q'ddusan believe in and serve the satanic doctrine of "separation of Church and State" that the enemies of God conceived, advocated and aggressively promote to this day in trying to destroy all that is Ethiopia and Ethiopian: The Work of God.
Fifthly, True Ethiopians believe that Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God with its Three component constituencies existed from the time of Adam and Eve to this day, whose age spans already 7,500 years.
Whereas Mahbere Q'ddusan accepted, fortify and pursue the false notion, instigated and introduced by foreign powers, that characterizes Ethiopia as a non-religious country of a human creation existing for not more and not less than the last 100 years, as declared by the incumbent secular authorities of the present Ethiopian generation, or for the last 1600 years in the Christian Faith, as declared by the Egyptian Orthodox Church, or still for the last 3000 years inaugurated by the advent of the Jewish Faith, as established by the Bete-Israelites.
Sixthly, as you witness, Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services is committed and labors to uncover and reveal, maintain and disseminate The Divine Truth about Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, and about True Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant with their primordial Sacred Tradition and Heritage.
Whereas, what Mahbere Q'ddusan, in reality, are currently implicated in is a perilous preoccupation that is contrary to the interests and to the detriment of their own Mother Land, Mother Church and Mother Kingdom Ethiopia, and of Her People of the Holy Covenant that amounts to the betrayal of the latter.
This assessment is a result of the obvious situation that prevails at present, despite their effort to portray themselves to the ordinary human being in general, and to the Ethiopian in particular, as if they are contributing to the constructive enhancement of their Church. They are advancing such sinister objective not only with the particular awareness and premeditation of the very few in the leadership of the Association, but also in connivance of the incumbent Church authorities. However, the need to investigate whether it is with or without the prior knowledge and endorsement of the whole membership that the leadership dared to be engaged in such camouflaged campaign of adverse nature is at the discretion of the former.
Individual members of the Association or proponents like you may not recognize the subtlety and danger of such maneuvers. Yet, the few leaders as well as the mass membership both have the religious responsibility to know the nature of the subtlety and the threat of such undertaking by the Association, and take the necessary step to rectify the dangerous trend before it is too late. The accountability of all concerned in the matter at hand is not committed to temporal powers and authorities, religious or secular, to handle, but more importantly it involves the Divine. So, this is a critical and an immediate issue that needs prompt reaction by all implicated.
Seventhly, before dealing with the seventh item, it is necessary for you and for us to have a consensus on the meaning of the term the "status quo" in order for both of us to arrive at the common understanding of the end result. The term is Latin, and it means: The ways and the things as they now exist.
Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God Services is determined and committed, with the inspiration, guidance and omnipotence of the Holy Spirit, to keep all the Divine, the Good and the Ethiopian Heritage that deserve conservation, and to do away with the pernicious status quo, not only the physical, but also the mental, even more significantly, the spiritual, with all its evil and alien vestiges that pertains to anything that constitutes detrimental to Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. Yes, the status quo that seems to be permanently impressed on the mind of the preceding and the present Ethiopian generations for centuries must be wiped out. Yes, the status quo in the disguise of which the worship of the Devil, and the reign of secular wisdom, wealth and power dominates ought to be eradicated. Yes, the status quo where misinterpretation and perversion of the Word of God, abuse and misuse of spiritual authority, unbridled corruption and greed are rampant requires riddance. Yes, the status quo by means of which human and foreign religious control, adulteration and distortion of the indigenous Ethiopian and Divine Sacred Heritage are rooted needs extermination once and for all.
Whereas, the basic purpose and activities of Mah'bere Q'ddusan seem to prove, from its inception to this day, the opposite of the foregoing stance of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. And this turned out to be the retention of the status quo that continues to generate a negative impact upon the existence and survival of not only Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, but also of the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Church itself whom they seem to serve in dedication, and what remains of the whole nation of Ethiopia.
What the Association is pursuing now is simply a means to sustain and fortify the status quo of the Church, through which the True Divine Entity and Identity of Ethiopia, of Her Kingdom, of Her People and of even Her Church is jeopardized, negatively affected and badly distorted. We feel and see clearly that the leadership and membership of the Association are being manipulated by the notorious and relentless, long-standing and deep-rooted adversaries of Ethiopia. The condition created by such submissive posture of the Association proved conducive for the evil forces to systematically, covertly and slowly dismantle, and finally destroy the age-old Divine Works of Our God of Ethiopia of the Holy Covenant.
As this is the supreme cause for whose ultimate goal all the adversaries of Ethiopia strived for centuries and still remain determined to achieve, the current resulting state of affairs of Ethiopia simply manifests the collaboration of the Association with those adversaries. Even if the latter, with the aid and cooperation of the Church and the Association, seem to succeed and prevail in their sinister objective for the time being, the Merciful and the Omnipotent God, in keeping the Divine Stipulations of His Holy Covenant, continues, as always, to neutralize and incapacitate such human intrigues in due course.

Now, let me ask you: Are you in favour of the status quo that has been briefly described heretofore? Do you think it is worth accepting it and believe in it, and continue to keep it, foster it and fortify it with the aim to prolong its survival at the expense of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and all that is Ethiopian, in line with and in the limitation of the scope of what Mah'bere Q'ddusan are presently doing? You ought to realize that accepting and believing in and retaining the status quo in such a way is tantamount to accepting and believing in all the false human-made or evil premises that were fabricated by the adversaries of Ethiopia, and introduced and imposed on Ethiopians for millenniums, the present generation being the current victim. Do you fully understand what acceptance of the status quo means and constitutes?
Let me give you few but major instances that illustrate various status quos that showed up at different stages of the independent and uninterrupted existence of Ethiopia: The Kingdom God. Here, it is interesting to note that all the status quos witnessed in the Ethiopian scenarios, however critical, always ended up in no more than putting to the test and positively affecting, in some way or other, the sheer survival of the Divine Kingdom and Her People of the Holy Covenant. They passed away merely leaving indelible memories that provided succeeding generations respectively with warning signals for them to learn from the past ones. But the perpetrators and manipulators of the Status quos never succeeded in their determined purpose of destroying Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
1. Look retrospectively at the healthy society, the constructive development and vigorous progress of our Axumite civilization, characterized by the tranquility and prosperity of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and Her People at that time. Her People, then, were called Ag'azians, the appellation by which those forerunners of the present Ethiopians were known, and the name meaning "Themselves remained Liberated from the bondage of sinful life by the Holy Covenant" and "Liberators of Others from similar curse by the same Sacred Means". That period of greatness was climaxed by the legendary and Divinely inspired majestic Pilgrimage of the Ethiopian Queen Makk'dda with Her impressive entourage to Jerusalem, and evidenced as yet by the exquisite steles still standing in Axum. This auspicious state of the nation was enhanced by the Advent of Christianity in Ethiopia through Abemelek, the Ethiopian Eunuch, that came about at the dawn of the Prophetic Era of the New Testament, at which time, the appellation of the people switched from "Ag'azian" to "Christian".
Such was the grandeur of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and Ethiopians of the Holy Covenant right up to the 4th century AD, when it had been disrupted and crippled by the undue introduction and imposition of the foreign influence of the Egyptian Orthodox Church. Had the divergence from the right track of Ethiopian Divine way of life been challenged and corrected, and the emergence and prevalence of the status quo created by the Coptic been dealt with appropriately in its disposal on time, the ensuing retributive bloody overthrow of the contemporary rulers of the so-called Solomonic decent with all their establishments, as well as the concurrent extensive destruction of the Church by the ruthless Judith could have been averted.
2. When the contemporary penitent generation of the then Ethiopia deserved the Divine Mercy of the Holy Covenant after forty years of violent persecution, again the same pattern of life in peace and grandeur that recall the Axumite Era reemerged and prevailed across the nation. How? Through the restoration of the Sacred Identity and Divine Sovereignty of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God that was accomplished by the Zagwes, who were the Consummate Believing Members, Proponents and Promoters of the Divine Realm. And Her same people now came to be called "Amhara" meaning "Free Nation in which all tribes, colours, religions, languages and cultures in the whole land became one in the Faith of the Holy Covenant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God."
Those Zagwes were the Holy Wise Men whose memorable reigns as "Atsies", meaning "Elects of God" or "Priestly Kings in the Order of Melke-Zedeq", or, in the legendary term used by Europeans as "Prester Jans", are still fresh in the minds of True Ethiopians. Their successive enthronement though lasted for only less than three and half centuries, left an ineffaceable monumental masterpieces that continued to be manifest, to this day and for the unforeseen future, in the perpetual embodiments of the solid rock-hewn Churches. These Exquisite Sanctified Edifices remain standing as shining living relics on the highlands of ancient Roha and the present Lalibela.
Such revival of the superb state of the nation was again rendered victim of the same fate the previous Axumite Era endured through the same sinister interference of the legacy of the Egyptian Orthodox Church: The reinstatement of the rulers of the antiquated Old Testament Order of Succession that constituted a violation of the Divine One of the New Testament. This grave sin of transgression was committed deliberately by the perpetrators with full knowledge of the reality that the Old Order was substituted by the New One, as inscribed in the Gospel of Saint John. Here is what the Scriptures say, underlining the foregoing Divine Truth: "But as many as received Him [Jesus Christ], to them He gave the right to become Children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (Jn. 1/12-13)
The New Order was inaugurated 2000 years ago by the Birth of the Incarnate God Jesus Christ from the Holy Virgin Mary, and by His ultimate Sacrificial Atonement that resulted in the bestowal of the Gracious Gift of the Divine Privilege upon every True Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant. And this Gracious Gift of the Divine Privilege involves the conferral of the Right of the Spiritual Succession on that True Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant making him or her eligible, as one of the Children of God born of the Holy Spirit through the Sacrament of Baptism, even to the Throne of the Divine Kingdom, as "Elect of God".
Thus, the return to the defunct tradition of the Old Testament Succession Order in defiance of the above referred New Testament One, with the unruly retention and dominance of its status quo, brought nothing good for the country and the people but those same miseries that always inflict both the latter. And the inevitable deterioration and decadence finally attracted the invasion of Ahmed Gragn, resulting in the downfall and complete devastation of all the extant establishments that included the Church, and the consequential deterioration of the country.
This tragic state of the Nation, in turn, opened up the way for, and facilitated, not only the hostile expansion of the Oromos as far as the interior, and even to the far north of the country, but also the entrenchment of the Roman Catholic clergy who came into Ethiopia under the cover of the Catholic Portuguese army that was invited to help repel the Islamic invasion. While the penetration of the former ended up in the favourable assimilation with the rest of the population, that of the latter triggered a religious war among the Christians that ended up in the dreadful fratricidal bloodshed.
3. No sooner had the Ethiopian generation of that period committed itself to the Genuine Penitence and came to its senses than it recognized the legitimacy and sovereignty of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God of the Holy Covenant and effected Her reinstatement forthwith. Accordingly, with the advent and enthronement of the gallant defenders of the Ethiopian Faith, initially the Martyr Atsie Gelawdewos, and subsequently the famous Atse Fasil, began to lead the Nation towards its former Glorious Era; and the Country and Her People, once again, came to flourish. That Era is exemplified by the distinguished achievements of both Atsies respectively, first, in the annihilation of the Islamic invasion and the consolidation of the sovereign land, then, in founding the Metropolis of Gondar as the Center of Ethiopian Faith of the Holy Covenant, Culture, Learning, Music and Arts with its Castles still standing witnessing its time of Greatness.
However, this Eminence was short-lived; and after a span of some two centuries, again, the invariable predicament befell the Country as had happened in the previous periods. The same cursed fate reappeared when the leaders, the clergy and the people in the three Houses of the Divine Kingdom succumbed to the habitual malevolence of returning to the status quo. And the consequence of such move always proved to bring those series of catastrophic demises of every thing that was gained by the toil of the Nation. Here, it culminated in the fragility of the Sovereign Kingdom and the disintegration of the Country, resulting in the subsequent fratricidal conflicts.
4. To make the long history short, the more conducive situation, similar to those preceding happy eras seemed to reemerge, after protracted regional conflicts, and, of course, through the same process of Genuine Repentance on the part of the contemporary Ethiopian generation. As a result, leaders like Atsie Tewod'ros, Atse Tekle-Ghiorgis and Atse Yohannes, were finally called upon and successively crowned as "Elects of God" in accordance with the Divine stipulation embodied in the Holy Covenant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God quoted above from Scriptures.
As such, they unified the Country and, to some extent, began to restore Her Glorious Days by repulsing foreign invasions that were all armed with overwhelming military power, including those waged by Islamic Egypt. These Atsies were the ones who were considered by the partners of the secret accord made between the Solomonites and the Egyptian Orthodox Church to be ineligible for succession to the Throne by reason of their common birth. Violation of the New Testament Divine Order by the aforementioned intransigent partners of the secret accord, with the unfailing concomitant reappearance of the status quo, remained, all the time, one of the main sources and causes for the grave tragedies the Country and the People endured for centuries.
With the investiture of Atse Menelik II to the Throne, the recovery of some lost territories of what was originally part of Ethiopia, and the astounding and decisive defeat of the Catholic Italian invading army by Ethiopians under his leadership and that of Itegue Taitu at Adwa highlighted the apex of the era. The peaceful and prosperous period with added development-oriented progress continued during the time of Queen Zewditu whose enthronement and reign in line with Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, served as a reminiscent of those of the Glorious Ethiopian Queens Candace and Makk'dda, the Illustrious New Testament and the Legendary Queen of Sheba of the Old Testament, respectively.
This significant era was again traumatized by the advent of the present generation of Atsie Haile-Sellasie whose reign proved beyond doubt to be detrimental to Ethiopia and Ethiopians, because of the inducement for the resurgence of the status quo that brought about that entire terrible calamity on him, his government and the Nation. The cause of such situation cropped up from nowhere else, except from the covert and absolute denial, travesty and perversion of the Holy Covenant, which cause was intentionally meant to undermine, with the motivation of foreign influences, the existence of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. Such contemptible attitude and brazen behaviour of Atsie Haile Sellassie's regime was found guilty of monstrous crime perpetrated on the Divine Truth and Deed. The retribution deserved an equal price and magnitude that the accumulated, vindictive and mighty military power of Fascist Italy was released and dispatched to discharge the equivalent punishment on the Atse himself and his regime, as well as on the Church and the people of Ethiopia.
However, even the miraculous restoration of Atsie Haile-Sellassie to power and his triumphal return to the Throne, brought about by his eleventh hour Genuine Repentance, did not convince him and his contemporary generation to renounce their former negative attitude and behaviour of revulsion of the Holy Covenant that God made with Ethiopia: His Divine Kingdom; neither did it prove capable to persuade them to rely henceforth solely on the same Divine Covenant. On the contrary, the same generation with its leader the Atse, both relapsed, without a speck of remorse, to the conduct of their previous stance of the status quo, and even proceeded to intensify their covert and overt hostilities with greater vigour against Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. This unwarranted action, however, turned out only to trigger the current wild affliction that violently brought the ultimate demise of Atse Haile Sellasie, his regime and everything he toiled for, and to aggravate the relentless retribution to continue to this day to torment his recalcitrant generation.
Do I need to relate to you what happened ever since? Would you be unable to visualize and realize the truth that the appearance in Ethiopia, in 1967 E.C., of the allied evil powers of the Beast embodied in the guise of the Dergue and the current incumbents, as well as the False Prophet represented by the Leadership of Bete-K'hnet, then and now, both spearheaded by the Devil mentioned in the Book of the Revelation, all working hand-in-hand to destroy systematically and gradually Ethiopia: the Kingdom of God? Are you not on the stage participating in the joint operation, assumed also by the present generation in partnership with both allied evil powers mentioned above, for the fulfillment of the aforementioned objective of the annihilation of Ethiopia: The kingdom of God?

The foregoing status quos that afflicted the various Ethiopian generations at different times are characterized by the recurrence of pestilences, starvations, wars, exiles, imprisonments, terrorizations, tortures, poverty, homelessness and all kinds of plagues and persecutions. These tragic events that took place from the Axumite Era to the present, and whose major cause was attested to have derived from the sinister stratagem of the status quo that was instigated and introduced by the Copts of Egyptian Orthodox Church, are briefly explained above in the case of Gudith the Jew, Ahmed Gragn the Moslem, the Fascist Mussolini the Catholic, and the Atheistic Menguistu of the Dergue, just to quote the recent precedents. Those recurrent vicissitudes, generated by the status quos, always flourish whenever foreign interferences and influences are given precedence over and above the Holy Covenant that only Ethiopia and Ethiopians, as custodians from the time of Creation, preserved to this day.
Who do you think rejoices and feasts on the outcome of all those tragedies caused by the status quos: On the shedding of the human blood in the fratricidal wars and on the dead bodies that lie in cities and towns, in concentration camps, in prisons, in fields of the war zones, in villages and rural areas, in the wilderness, and in foreign lands? While God and His Mother together with all Their Holy Hosts, human and angelic, physically and spiritually, lament on such situations, only the Devil and his hosts rejoice and feast. God, at all times, saves lives, but the Devil devours.
Wherefrom and from whom would you imagine that the present Ethiopian generation gathers the bitter fruits of miseries and death which it is forced to swallow for the last 33 years, up until now? The answer is simple: It is from the accumulated filth of the status quos, and from its overseer, the Devil.
Now, if Ethiopia and Ethiopians have the desire and the will to restore their past Glory in its full manifestation, both the filth and the overseer should be purged from the existing Ethiopian scenario, once and for all, through the Genuine Repentance of the generation itself and the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whose momentous result will surely be manifest in the reinstatement of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Before concluding, there are a couple of items that have relevance to the question under discussion, and that is worth mentioning here for you and for all those concerned to ponder upon and benefit from:
1) There is one single significant thing that, lately in my life, draws my attention and that continue to perplex me to this day: On the one hand, the prevalence of Ethiopians in multitudes who ostensibly look and behave like Ethiopians but are prone to be committed to serve and actually serve, as determined, devoted and accomplished catalysts, for whatever is foreign, religious or secular, ideological or material, even knowing that the purpose of their instrumentality is detrimental to their own identity and survival, let alone their country and fellow compatriots.
On the other hand, the interesting part of this phenomenon is when it comes to considering the aspect of serving what is Ethiopian, or ones own. Here, one finds a peculiar factor that is conspicuously evident: The lack or the non-existence of Ethiopians who have even the least desire or the will to work for, or to serve what is Ethiopian. Even more, to find those who have the inspiration of genuine patriotism, or the positive impetuous, zeal and determination, dedication and vigour to serve what is Ethiopian, is unthinkable. But, to gather, within a short notice, a mass of traitors who are negatively driven to the extent of insanity by those passions, and succumb to the will and whim of the adversaries of Ethiopia when they are lured to anything that is foreign and detrimental to whatever is Ethiopian, it is simple and easy.
2) The whole Creation, including our Soul, Body and Spirit belongs to God, The Maker. The foregoing three phenomenal entities of our person are made and given to each one of us by Him. Therefore, He is the One who always owns them. So, there is nothing we individually own. We even could not claim ourselves to be ours, and say "This is mine!" Hence, each one of us should not and could not allow the Devil or any other creature, human or angelic, physical or spiritual, man-made wisdom, or acquired wealth, or assumed power, to own him/her, or to claim him/her as its property. Each one of us is the Precious Treasure of God, unless he/she, of his/her free will denies Him and His Holy Covenant.
As such, each person, in his or her creation of human nature and of the image of Divinity, is individually bestowed upon by the Divine Grace of Our Creator with the Natural Gift of Unlimited Freedom to make any kind of Choice, and the Authority to Decide what to do with that Choice, and finally the Capacity to Execute that Decision, to the extent of even denying the Creator Himself. No created being has the power to restrict that Transcendent Privilege. Even Its Donor God Himself, from the time of Its inception onward, had ordained to render even His Divine Omnipotence to refrain from interfering in the human exercise and application of this Sacred Personal Right. And the implementation of this Divine Ordination was witnessed in the first act of deviation made by Adam and Eve, as told in the first part of Scriptures.
Therefore, based on the above two premises, whatever measures you, or Mah'bere Q'ddusan, or we, had taken in the past, and would take in the future, concerning any aspects of our individual or collective lives in this world, and of Our Mother Country and Church, People and Government that we believe in, serve and call Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, it is our inalienable RIGHT granted by Our Creator to each one of us to do so with full freedom. But, the one most important thing for each one of us always to bear in mind, in this connection, is the existence of a concomitant, established and immutable Divine Verdict of Personal Obligation on our part that goes with this Divine Privilege: The fact that each one of us remains accountable for the proper usage and fruitfulness, or for the misuse and barrenness of this Unique RIGHT, now in this age, and finally at the Last Judgment.

Here, you are done with us. As far as we are concerned, we feel that we had provided you with adequate information about Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and about the Services we are committed to offering Her of our own free will. Now, in order to make your unbiased judgment, go to the leadership of Mahbere Q'ddusan, and ask them yourself openly as you have done to us, what their position is with regard to the above information we provided you with all that related to Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God and the Services we are rendering for Her cause, as well as what they think about the whole subject-matter that we have dealt with inhere so far. Wait for their answer.
However, let me warn you beforehand in the likely event that the unexpected happens: Don't be surprised if they ignore or set aside your inquiry concerning us; or don't be confused if they continue with their silence, or provide you with some unending excuses for the procrastination of their reply. Don't be exasperated even if they reprimand you for visiting our web site and perusing our materials therein. Don't be stunned if they advise you, and instruct you to communicate this advice to others, not to read any literature, let alone our books and publications, that is issued by us and/or by any other body. Lastly, don't be offended if they warn and proscribe you from being involved in the future, in any way, with things and matters that implicate Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, or our Services.

In my presentation of the Divine Truth responding to your email heretofore, somehow and somewhere, I may possibly and incidentally hurt someone's feelings to the extent of invoking hatred upon me and our services of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God. This is indeed the inevitable outcome of our perseverance in our commitment to duty, as seen on all occasions that involve the same situations, spearheaded by Our Lord The Incarnate God Jesus Christ and succeeded by His Messengers: the Prophets, the Apostles and the Martyrs. Relying on this Divine Truth, I would like to conclude by quoting a famous Ethiopian maxim that directly relates to the issue discussed herein: "Ye'Iwnet Zaf, Q'Telwa Merara, F'rewa G'n TafaCH New!" "The Leaves of the Tree of Truth are Bitter; but its Fruits are Sweet!" The positive interpretation of the above maxim would be to your advantage and to the advantage of all others like you if applied, inasmuch as we applied it to our benefit.
I hope and pray that the inspiration of the Holy Spirit continues to guide all of us, wherever we are, and whatever we do for the cause of the Divine Truth about Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, and for all that is Ethiopian of the Holy Covenant. At the same time, I admonish you and all concerned, including the leaders and members of Mah'bere Q'ddusan, as well as any of the readers that may come across this e-mail and this response, to meditate seriously on the Divine Truth that is revealed herein and elsewhere, and accordingly to rectify, without delay, any wrong done at any time and anywhere, through Genuine Repentance.
N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyyesus,
Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God

In your Q and A there are many Ethiopian issues that are really scary. Please can you tell me how Ethiopia is now? What is the relation between Muslims and Christians in Ethiopia? I am in bad condition after I read the Q and A about Ethiopia. Please pray for our Churches, our family and our mom Ethiopia? Is it current the information in the e-mails about the Muslims in Ethiopia? Please let's pray for Ethiopia? I am not in good condition about my mom-Ethiopia?

Dear Zehafta Tekea:

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your email question.

If you are, or claim to be an Ethiopian, there is a reason why you felt scary after you went through our Q & A forum: Your fear is simply a reflection of your Faith. Such is the symptom of a wavering Faith that is not firmly founded on the Divine Truth of Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopianhood of the Holy Covenant.
The current status of Ethiopia is, of course, not in good shape, fundamentally and wholly; and it will remain as such, until the present Ethiopian generation, that includes you, comes to its senses and reinstates itself to its True Ethiopianhood of the Holy Covenant through genuine Repentance.
The healthy and longstanding status quo of the relationship of the Muslims in Ethiopia with the Ethiopians (Christians of the Holy Covenant) should be maintained as it had remained for the last millennium and four centuries. Each community of the former and the latter has to commit itself to the maintenance of such status quo, as it is the religious obligation of all parties to do so for their own wellbeing and in order all would benefit.
This objective can be achieved by both concerned as long as Ethiopians and the Muslims allow, of their own respective faith and volition, to accept the Divine Truth and Reality that Ethiopia is required, for all time, to preserve Her Status of Entity as The Kingdom of God.
While the foregoing statement answers for the question of how this could be effected, the following short account would suffice to answer for the question as to why it should be effected: Because Ethiopia, as The Kingdom of God, exercised its Divine-given privilege of hosting the first Muslim refugees and rendering Herself an asylum for them from the earliest days of their persecution perpetrated against them by all religions and peoples of the world, including their own countrymen, at the birth of their religion, Islam, and continued its hospitality and protection to them, even to this day, and possibly for the unforeseen future.

As an Ethiopian, and as long as you remain True and Faithful to your Holy Covenant of Our Priestly King Jesus Christ and Our Eternal Queen and Holy Mother The Virgin Mary, you should not experience any bad sensation about yourself and your family, your Church and your Mother Country Ethiopia, but rather you would feel comfortable trusting and relying on the Divine Care and Security guaranteed by Our Holy Covenant. All we need is to live up to our Faith and Precepts of Ethiopianness of the Holy Covenant, and continue to be committed to our Prayers, Fastings and Charities for the cause of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God, that comprises the Church of Ethiopia.
If you are a serious and concerned Ethiopian, you need to be knowledgeable about such and all other minor and major issues pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopiawinnet. To achieve this goal, you have to read those books and publications publicized on our web site, including the Q & A Section, for your follow-up of the situation in Ethiopia.
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 Ethiopianness, 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, to the attainment of the True Life of Tranquility in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God
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Selam lenante yihun.

I just want to ask what the description or meaning of the sign of Lion with its Cross and Ethiopian flag is. I can guess the woman may be Ethiopia praying to God. Waiting for your reply.

Selame Egziabher kenante gar yihun.

Ye'Igziab'her selam ke'irs'wom gar y'hun! S'leselamtawo Igzer y'sT'll'n.

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your e-mail question.

The Sign in colours is the Divine Seal of Ethiopia: the Kingdom of God. As you noticed, it is composed of three parts whose meaning is depicted as follows:
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 Japhet; and c) Ethiopia, as the Nation and Kingdom of God constituting the People, Church and State of the Holy Covenant; (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, you need to be knowledgeable about such and all other minor and major issues pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopiawinnet. To achieve this goal, you have to read those books and publications publicized on our web site, including the Q & A section.
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 Ethiopianness, 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, to the attainment of the True Life of Tranquility in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God
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I have heard, every now and then, that there is a prophecy concerning the one who will bring peace to Ethiopia aka, ?Tedros?. What can you tell me about that? Or what have you heard.

Dear Meron:

Thank you for visiting our web site and for your e-mail question.

Beware of so-called prophecies! There are no more prophecies, revelations and dreams, neither true nor false. All these Old Testament phenomena are already fulfilled, terminated, and rendered non-existent by the Advent of the Consummate Prophet, Jesus Christ Himself, The Son of God, born of The Holy Virgin Mary.
This is the Divine Personage to whom you referred above as "the one who will bring peace to Ethiopia"; not only to Ethiopia, but also to the universe at large. You do not have to wait for anyone, human or angelic being, to come. Don't be misguided by false disciples of charlatans. There is no one forthcoming. The Priestly King, Our Lord Jesus Christ had already come two millenniums ago, brought with Him the Eternal Peace of His Divine Kingdom to Ethiopia and to the World, reigned for the last 2000 years, and is now reigning, and continues to reign forever with His Holy Mother as the Eternal Queen. This is Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God in Which we, as Her Children and Believers, live and serve peacefully. And, if you sincerely and faithfully aspire to live and enjoy that Peaceful Life of Service, yes, you can; it is at your discretion, as described below.
Because humanity in general rejected The Incarnate God, Jesus Christ long ago, and we, Ethiopians of the present generation, in particular, denied Him and His Holy Covenant publicly in the 1967 (Ethiopian Calender) atheistic revolution, ever since then, He withdrew Himself and His Peace from this apostate, evil and adulterous generation and the country. To restore that Peace, which you and many like you deeply desire for Ethiopia, as well as for the whole world, a simple, but genuine act is required from each Ethiopian involved, and for that matter, from any Christian living on earth. And that requirement is: to reinstate oneselfe to the True Faith of the Holy Covenant through repentance.
If you are a serious and concerned Ethiopian, you need to be knowledgeable about such and all other minor and major issues pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopians and Ethiopiawinnet. To achieve this goal, you have to read those books and publications publicized on our web site, including the Q & A section.
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 Ethiopianness, 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 to the attainment of the True Life of Tranquility in Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.

Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God
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Thanks for that information...but when I say prophecies it is simply stating just that.
I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say that there are "yebeku sewoche" or "Hermits" as westerners refer to them( like St. Anthony the great…look him up), who can foresee certain things and heed followers of the Orthodox faith to fast and pray for trying times, are foreseen to them. I don't know if you consider that witch craft but it is what it is.
What have you to say to that matter oh....wordy one?

And that Divine Will and Mission is: To inspire each one of us to exert all our physical, mental and spiritual efforts to elevate ourselves to the exalted status of these "Yebequ Sewoch". It is not to make any one of us to worship the latter, or always to rely on them and beseech for their intercession, or to seek their insights as to what would be your destiny, or to extort from them wishful predictions about what is forthcoming.
Do you know what the true "Yebequ Sewoch", wherever they may be, would offer to all those who come to them? They simply send those men and women back home with their exhortation to fulfill the Will and Words of The Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother The Virgin Mary, as specified above: They advice them to do away with the Devil worship in any form once and for all, to repent wholeheartedly for all their sins and to partake the Holy Communion, thus to make themselves ready for the Last Call or Coming of Our Saviour, Priestly King and God.
If your previous email was sent to me with the aforementioned motive that is transpired therein, you were absolutely mistaken. Otherwise, why did you submit to me those inquiries and even mention the name "Tedros"? If you had read the letters posted in the appropriate forum of our web site, particularly that which concerns Pretenders in the name of "Tewod'ros", you wouldn't have taken the trouble of writing and sending us your email in the first place.
I know that the majority of Ethiopians are more prone to and interested in such worthless intricacies rather than committing themselves to issues of greater religious significance: That of fulfilling the Will and Word of the Incarnate God and His Holy Mother, as explained above. And this deeply-rooted and detrimental tendency proved to be one of the major causes that crippled the healthy physical, mental and spiritual development and progress of our Ethiopian nation for centuries; and, therefore, must be eradicated eternally, by any means.
It is obvious that your present email carries a sarcastic question. Whether you are sarcastic or not, and in order to appease your provocation, it is our duty to respond to your question as decently and satisfactorily as we can. So, we could not help but act in the same manner and still be considered wordy in your mind. Despite your unwarranted allegation of characterizing our response as wordy, we still continue to act as such. Why? Because it is our avowed commission to offer you full service in our dissemination of the knowledge of the Divine Truth. And the service we are rendering to you is for the sake of your own Ethiopian salvation. Not for us. For us, we have nothing to gain or lose, because, praise be to Our God, we are already living the "Consummate Life" in what is Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
What else could the purpose of our service be in your opinion? Did you think it is for lack of other preoccupations or for pleasure on our part, that we are obliged to pursue it with such fullness and effectiveness? Not at all. It is entirely to help you restore yourself to the True Ethiopianness and save yourself from the doom the present Ethiopian generation is heading for, knowingly and/or unknowingly. You need to be alerted and provided with a comparable knowledge that would eliminate even the preliminary imminent danger of the identity crisis that emanated from the ignorance that was imposed upon the generation, and which knowledge it had been deprived of purposely so far, by all the three Ethiopian Houses: the Houses of the People, of the Priesthood (the Ethiopian Orthodox Church) and of the Government.
For such reciprocity of ungratefulness on your part and for the generation of that disposition, what the aphorism of our predecessors described as "Simetrullet y'neCH!", the Apostle of Our Lord had elaborated it in his Epistle: 2nd Timothy chapter 3; it is for you to read it.
No wonder you represented the typical Ethiopian character of the generation and behaved as such in your cynicism even after you presumably went through those articles posted in our web site that continue to exhort each one of you to rid yourselves of such vestiges of evil and negative tendencies such as that you exhibited in your email. No wonder that the long assortment of such tendencies brought the national downfall and the tribulation that ensued to inflict relentlessly to this day the stubborn and miserable generation. We hope you will refrain from implicating yourself further in such vain maneuver with grave consequence of Divine retribution.
I apologize for not satisfying your need that you sought or expected from me. You might have the wrong impression about me, or some one might have misled you in this regard. I hope you have realized by now that I am simply serving, humbly and faithfully, and to the best of my capability, The Divine Truth about Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God.
N'bure-Id Ermias Kebbede Welde-Iyyesus, The Servant of Ethiopia: The Kingdom of God
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