Hebrew-Israelite Heritage

The Society of Fundamental Truth and Historical Accuracy Presents

Hebrew-Israelite Heritage Restoring the Forgotten History to a Forgotten People

Volume One A journey in truth about the unwritten origins of African Americans

Portrait of a People Lessons I through V

The 5800 Project Press

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Table of Contents Lesson I: The Problem of African American History.............. Page 1 Lesson II: Archeological Evidence of Black Faces.................. Page 12 Lesson III: Color of a Chosen People...................................... Page 22 Lesson IV: The Khazars........................................................... Page 32 Lesson V: The People Marker................................................ Page 46

This is for the Children of Light, Living in Darkness.

Deny Bondage and Fight if you want Freedom.

-the poet Lo

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Lesson I: The Problem of African American History

Malcolm X was the first person to popularize the understanding that history had been whitened. The thought had come to his mind either from his own studies while in prison or from the teachings of his mentor Elijah Muhammad. This ideology suggested that the history of the world, from the standpoint of American textbooks at least, had been written by white Europeans.

The perspective of world events had shown and fully supported the superiority of the white man. Malcolm X also suggested that factual truth, as told through the eyes of the non-white non-European peoples around the world, was more accurate, especially in their portrayal of white men as being devils—lustful, conniving, Malcolm X’s essay: “Learning to Read.”

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marauders thirsting to own everyone and everything.

Thus, Malcolm X coined the phrase “white devils.�

What does all of this have to do with African Americans? It is without a doubt impossible to accurately trace the lineage of African Americans. Not even the most scholarly historian can go back more than half a dozen generations. Many Americans can trace their family lines back to the first intrepid immigrants to the New World, some four hundred or more years ago. Still, others can go even further and find the root of their family in the land where they originated long before the discovery of the western hemisphere. For blacks, however, to follow their ancestral trail to the point when the first slave ships crossed the Atlantic ocean would be impossible at best. Blacks share in the knowledge that their historical trail stops at a clearly identifiable point.

To go beyond this point in history there is a void.

No historical evidence has of yet been able to identify and recount who African Americans were during the years prior to the slave trade. For as much as can be determined, black history extends back only four hundred or more years, making African Americans the only people in America with no history of origin. The average person from Japan or that has family that migrated from Japan is called a Japanese American. That person can clearly find information about his family in Japan Origin is defined as the parentage, ancestry, or extraction; the point of derivation of something.

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and might even be able to find distant relatives with a little effort. This is true for people of all creeds, ethnic groups, and colors except one, and African Americans have been left to ponder over this dilemma by themselves.

Geneticists have claimed that they can identify from which tribes in Africa blacks originated. They use a databank of DNA similarities to place blacks with certain ethnic groups. But this method is hardly accurate.

As many blacks have discovered, many different African tribes share genetic traits, so one’s results might determine that they come from two or more totally isolated tribes in totally opposite parts of Africa that claim to come from totally different ancestries. The genetic solution offers no closure.

So, what information if any do African Americans have to go on in solving their lineage mystery? Dotting the Atlantic coast of the continental Africa reside small but blatantly clear clues to solving this dilemma. In several locations, African and Arab traders brought men, women, and children to slave ports where they were sorted for merchandise before they packed them onto ships. These building structures still exist today. But the men that marauded down these trails irrevocably vanished into the folds of history taking their knowledge of the origin of the people with them.

Countries like Sierra Leone, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ghana have sites significant to African American history. In fact the majority of African Americans’ ancestors were brought to these “Slave Warehouses.”

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Some scholars and theorists have idealized who African Americans were long before the slave trade, and from where they might have originated, but no hard evidence to support any theory has emerged, and the overwhelming loom of ignorance to the truth has prompted the engineering of several now accepted assumptions about African American origins. These erroneous books, written by self-proclaimed experts try to tie blacks into countless cultures the world over, with nothing more than dubious evidence and unfounded speculations. One need only search their local library or the internet to prove this for them self.

Obviously, it is impossible that the people now called African Americans have no history other than slave history. The slaves had to have come from somewhere; perhaps it was somewhere in Africa. After Columbus’s so-called discovery of the New World, European monarchies sent their militaries and explorers across the Atlantic to stake a claim to the land. These Europeans had for centuries before, during, and after the slave trade been plundering Africa for her natural resources and dividing and confusing the people.

They used this same method of confusion to overthrow the indigenous Indians living in the Americas. The Indians were enslaved, as were African people, brought in the cargo holds of ships, from across the It is now common knowledge that Christopher Columbus did not actually sail to the mainland, but fell short by grounding out his ship in the Bahamas.

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Atlantic Ocean. So lucrative a business it was, some Europeans even established companies to commercialize the exporting and rendering of slaves. They assumed that certain topographic features of the African terrain produced a particular breed of African. A good stock of people lived on suitable lands. Poor terrain produced a poor stock. Europeans exploited this tall tale to fund expeditions deeper and deeper into Africa.

Because of the slave trade, slaves were deposited throughout the western hemisphere. There are several major regions where still today, African people, however mixed with European and Native American cultures, exist and thrive. It is from these regions, scattered about, that Africans migrated into other parts (countries) in the Americas. This can be proven by understanding the major resources in the America’s, how accessible these resources were, and by measuring the concentration of African descended people in such areas.

We can begin to paint a picture of where the slaves worked, lived, and even what European country is responsible for bringing them there. A very heavy concentration of slaves were deposited in Brazil, for example, and from there, after their emancipation, some moved further inland into parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay. We know this because while Brazil’s total population is almost forty percent African or mixed A 2006 demographical census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics gives Brazil a population of roughly 92.1 million people of some Black African ancestry, the largest population of Black origin outside of Africa.

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therewith, the four countries surrounding Brazil boast African populations of less than five percent each, indicating that there wasn’t substantial African slavery in those countries.

The countries where African slave labor was most substantial are, in no specific order, the United States, Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Uruguay. Many European countries are tainted with the trade of slaves.

Brazil, still being used as an example, is the only country in the west whose official language is Portuguese. Brazil was controlled under the monarchy of Portugal for several hundred years. We can conclude that the Portuguese profited in Brazil from the slave trade.

The Spanish (Spain) were also crucial players in the slave Diaspora. Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela were settled as Spanish slave territories. The British settled in what is now the United States, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and Suriname. Other Europeans, including the Dutch and French, settled in other parts of the New World and purchased at auction African and Native American slaves, fueling the business of human trafficking.

The Emancipation Proclamation consisted of two executive orders issued by President Lincoln to free all slaves in the Confederacy.

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After the Great Emancipation, the collective effort of Great Britain and the United States to end commercial slave trading, another problem arose. All of a sudden, the newly freed black man had rights. Plantation owners and others that had once profited so much from the exploitation and misuse of blacks now saw them as pitiful pests. Blacks were for the most part, completely uneducated, penniless, and solely dependent on the handouts and generosity of their white neighbors. For whites, freed slaves meant that the backbone of their livelihood was no more, and carefully calculated attempts at annihilating blacks were commonplace. Whether through lynching them, denying them education, welfare, or even by some more diabolical means, Africans throughout the Americas have survived through conditions that brought certain doom to countless other peoples.

What has kept African Americans alive is both surprising and appalling. Africans were not primarily used as the dominant slave labor force in the west, but once African slaves were introduced, their superior strength and immunity to disease were marketable traits. Slave owners forced healthy slaves to procreate—say for instance, a healthy man would be locked in a room with half a dozen healthy women and best not leave until each was pregnant—and then the slave owner sold off Many people believe that the introduction of heroin, crack, and other drugs, along with crimes related to drug trafficking and abuse, and various communicable diseases are more modern forms of genocide, population control, and destabilization in black communities.

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the children or taught them to work or bred them to increase work output and his financial gain. A young woman would be forced to continuously bare children as long as she produced a healthy stock. This process is described as thorough-breeding; the same as people do with horses.

Thorough-breeding lasted blacks throughout slavery, keeping their numbers high and counteracting “die-off,” the process by which a slave died from natural causes, disease, mortal wounds, or birth defects. After the emancipation, the system of large-scale multiplication that once helped plantation owners thwart “dieoff” had become so ingrained into black culture that freed blacks still raised dozens of children, came from large families, and had multiple partners.

The “Willie Lynch Letter” explains the thorough-breeding process in detail.

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Some Food for Thought: 1. Look around today at all of the young people having children outside of marriage. How old are they?

More than half of all teenage pregnancies in the United States occur with African Americans, and less than one percent of these mothers are married. Ironically, this statistic is nothing new. African Americans have been conceiving children outside of marriage since slavery. In recent years, it has become less taboo and thus, people are more open about it and less ashamed of society’s reproach.

However, It stands as a testament to the effectiveness of the thorough-breeding process that all of the tools geared toward the destruction of blacks have failed. Despite all the lynchings, injustice, and persecution African Americans have faced; regardless of all the atrocities slave owners committed, the genocides; in spite of all the disease and sickness that blacks have in record numbers, something has kept them a constant presence in the Americas.

2. How far back into the history of your family can you go? If you could read about the life of someone in your family line that survived the trans-Atlantic journey

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would it change you in any way?

Once you get to the farthest point in your family history, consider what you know about those people.

What language might your Trans-Atlantic surviving relative have spoken? What knowledge of your common ancestry might they have known? Imagine that you were able to go back twice as far as you are now. What would that knowledge change about your self-identity?

3. Do you think that keeping records of family trees and ancestral lineages is important?

Consider that every society has tried at least in some novice form or another, to keep a record of their ancestry. For whatever reason, people of other cultures, past and present, slave and free, monarchal and tribal, taboo and mainstream, have deemed it necessary to record their heritage. Explore the reasons why. Unfortunately, the thorough-breeding and merchandising that slaves had to endure makes it impossible to connect to the people of the trans-Atlantic time. There is just an explosion of births, very few marriages, and absolutely no record keeping.

4. Would you like to know who your people were long

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before they were slaves?

For that, you have to go back‌ way back‌ You have to journey back to a time before there was an America, and even before Europeans sought to explore and own the entire world. You must discover the girdle of civilization and work your way forward to plug in the gaps. Keep reading.

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Lesson II: Archeological Evidence of Black Faces

It has been estimated that the civilization of Ancient Egypt rose from the dust in about 5500 B.C.E. Egypt is in fact, the oldest known and recorded civilization on the face of the earth. Ancient Egypt was the center of the world for over five thousand years, up until about 525 B.C.E. when the Persians successfully ended Egypt as it once was. The domestication of animals, speech characterized into written language, dam-building, the irrigation and rendering of crops, the discovery of gold and precious natural resources, government, military strategy, and even flight among other things, are attributed to the knowledge of the Ancient Egyptians.

Egypt was developing into a city state long before the rise of its first Pharoahic dynasty.

The era is called the “Predynastic Period.�

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It stands to reason that Ancient Egypt has affected the world even today in an immeasurable way. If you have ever wondered why when you look at a map of the world Egypt is always in the center, well wonder no more. To talk about what all Ancient Egypt has contributed to the modern world would take several books just to explain briefly, in vague detail. There are countless books written by people the world over if that is something you’re inquisitive about. Rather, to get familiar with the Ancient Egyptians, we need to know less about what they did and as much as we can about who they really were.

Known in his home town of Hertfordshire, England as “Tring’s Poet”, Gerald Massey had an enduring reputation for his unparalleled ability to piece together historical connections between cultures. Massey was an English writer and the author of the book, “Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.” It is from his book, for starters, that Ancient Egypt first comes to light in the western world. Amazingly, prior to the nineteen hundreds, not many people cared about Ancient Egypt and very little was actually known about it in Europe and America. It wasn’t until the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb with all of its artifacts that white people started to grow a fascination for Egypt. They even developed an entire field of study to it called EgypBecause Ancient Egyptian royalty commonly practised incest, marrying close relatives, historians believe that the Pharaohs and their families suffered from incestuous diseases. “The Boy King,” King Tut, died from complications due to a severely broken leg, according to a post-mortem x-ray. Had his immune system been normal, he might have fully recovered.

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tology. This was in November of 1922.

Gerald Massey’s writings on Egypt had become the number one source of credible information about Egypt. He was truly ahead of his time in some respects, as he died in 1907, a decade and a half before the tomb’s discovery. About Egypt, Massey wrote, “The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro.” (pg. 251) The “dignity” of Egypt was a reference to the height of Egyptian civilization in Massey’s understanding, and he claimed in his book that it belonged to a time period when Egyptians were black.

The true historical complexion of the Ancient Egyptians is far different from what you might have expected. The Hollywood portrayal of sandy-colored Egyptians is not historically accurate, but this is the depiction that most people associate with the Egyptians. Why? In a documentary about the mass media’s influence, which featured interviews with several acclaimed journalists including Robert Jensen, a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin, the narrator stated that “Americans rely on the news media and television for information about events occurring around the world.” The narrator further stated that “the news, and especially television... exerts a powerful influence on The documentary is called “Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

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American’s perceptions. It tells Americans which issues are important and shapes their understanding of the issues.”

If you ever researched the cast of any famous movie about Egypt you would be shocked at where the cast members are actually from. In “The Mummy” series, the actors and actresses that play the roles of the Egyptians aren’t even Egyptians at all. Most of them are white, Hispanic, or Samoan-Pacific Islanders that the director has cast for their sandy-colored complexion.

The following are some other notable historical figures’ perspectives on Ancient Egypt’s color.

Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey saying, “You are quite right about the “AFRICAN” origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it.”

Scientist, R. T. Pritchett, stated in his book entitled, “The Natural History of Man,” -In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an “AFRICAN” race (pg. 124-125).

The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Arnold Vosloo starred as High Priest Imhotep. He is actually from South Africa. Patricia Velasquez, who played Anck Su Namun, is from Venezuela.

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Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E. saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as being “black-skinned with woolly hair.”

Anthropologist, Count Constantine de Volney (17271820), spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus’ discovery when he said:

“The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it’s original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of it’s original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument, able in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people. What a subject for meditation, just to think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech.”

Egypt had ceased being solely African in approximately 700 B.C.E., as they began to allow Asiatic settlers to infringe their borders. In 525 B.C.E., the powerful Persians, led by Cambyses II, began their conquest The standing rumor that Napoleon fired his cannon to disfigure the Sphinx is not necessarily true, as there are drawings predating Napoleon as far back as the fourteenth century depicting the Sphinx without a nose or beard. Sufi Sheik Sayim al-Dahr, who also mamed monuments throughout Arabia is credited with trying to destroy the Sphinx in 1378 C.E.

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of Egypt, eventually capturing the Pharaoh Psamtik III at the battle of Pelusium. Cambyses II then appointed himself Pharaoh, but ruled Egypt from his home of Susa, leaving Egypt under the control of an Egyptian ruling family he personally appointed. Egypt was never able to permanently overthrow the Persians. Nectanebo II, who ruled Egypt from 360 - 343 B.C.E., was the last native born Egyptian ruler.

In 332 B.C.E., Alexander the Great conquered Egypt with little resistance from the Persians. The Greeks were welcomed by the Egyptians as a deliverer.

The administration established by Alexander’s successors, the Ptolemies, was based on an Egyptian model and headquartered in the new capital city of Alexandria.

The city showcased the power and prestige of Greek rule, and became a seat of learning and culture, centered at the famous Library of Alexandria. The Ptolemies even created commerce and revenue-generating enterprises, such as papyrus manufacturing.

However, Greek culture did not supplant native Egyptian culture. The Ptolemies supported time-honored Egyptian traditions in an effort to secure the loyalty of the populace. They built new temples in the Egyptian style, supported traditional Egyptians cults, and portrayed themselves as Pharaohs. Some of the traditions merged, such as the worshipping of Greek and Egyptian Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., his successors competed for his throne. Divided among five of Alexander’s generals, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Cassander, Antigonus, and Seleucus, wars ensued. After the defeat of Antigonus at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C.E., there were four kingdoms. The wars lasted until 281 B.C.E. and resulted in the establishment of three main kingdoms: Egypt, Asia Minor, and Macedonia.

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deities, forms of sculpture, and traditional foods. But despite their efforts to appease the Egyptians, the Ptolemies rule was challenged by rebellious uprisings, bitter family rivalries, and the formation of powerful mobs.

In addition, as Rome was beginning to rely more heavily on imports of grain from Egypt, the Romans took great interest in the political situation in the country.

Continued Egyptian revolts, ambitious politicians, and powerful Syrian opponents made the situation in Egypt even more unstable, leading Rome to send forces to secure the country as a province of its empire. The last ruler from the Ptolemaic line was Cleopatra VII, who committed suicide with her lover Marc Antony, after Caesar Augustus had captured them.

It is crucial to understand how important a role Egypt played in antiquity. It is perhaps even more crucial to know that Egypt has not been ruled by a native Egyptian for over two thousand years. It is from these facts that we can begin to see why and how the appearance of the Egyptians changed. The Romans were the egocentric pagan maniacs history has portrayed them as.

This is one of the few things “whitened history” has gotten correct. “White History” starts in Rome. Predating the Roman Empire, race or skin color was not an issue; it wasn’t even defined or used to classify people.

Western philosophy and history glorifies whites On August 12, 30 B.C.E., after losing the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra VII and her lover Marc Antony committed suicide by allowing a poisonous snake to bite them.

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and Europeans, although the majority of their knowledge was taught to them or stolen by them from Ancient Egypt and other non-white non-European nations.

But, because they could not deny what all they acquired from Egypt they saw it fitting to make the world believe that the Egypt they’d visited was as white as possible.

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Something to Think About: 1. Find a picture of a modern Egyptian on the internet.

What color is their skin?

If you were to ask pretty much anybody about what color the ancient Egyptians were, they will more than likely say they were sandy. At best, you might get the person you asked to admit that “there are blackskinned Africanized people living in Egypt.�

2. Okay, Egypt was an interesting stop on our journey, but what does Ancient Egypt have to do with the potholes in African American history?

Consider what you have just learned about the physical appearance of the Ancient Egyptians. If historians would knowingly change the physical color of a nation of people as vast and important to our modern intelligence as the Egyptians, what might that mean for other equally or more important nations throughout history?

3. Besides the historians mentioned earlier in the lesson, where can one find more proof of the African or black-skinned origins of the Ancient Egyptians?

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A very unlikely source for more information about Ancient Egypt is the Bible. Surprisingly, almost half of what we now know about Ancient Egypt, such as who the Pharoahs were in succession, comes from the accounts written of in the Bible. To know what the Bible has to say about the Egyptians, you have to keep reading.

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Lesson III: Color of a Chosen People

The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been translated into more than a hundred and thirty different languages, it is the cornerstone for more than a dozen denominations of Christianity and over a hundred recorded cults. It has been used to justify wars, condemn people to death, inspire peace, and spread hope in times of desperation. There are more scholars and philosophers, PhD’s and religious fanatics dissecting, studying, analyzing, and preaching from the Bible than from any other singular book ever written. The existence of numerous ancient societies have been confirmed and studied based solely on accounts of them recorded in the Bible.

Although it may seem like there are many great types of Bibles to choose from for personal study, the King James Version of the Bible is truly the best. The NIV, Applified, and the host of other variations of the Bible only further the confusion surrounding Biblical accuracy. “The Scriptures” version and the 1611 Edition KJV are good as well, though not readily available.

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So then, what exactly is the Bible? For starters, the Bible is the entire self-written history of a nation of people known throughout the world and many other historical and religious texts as the Hebrew-Israelite nation. The Bible is their autobiography; it details their relationship with each other and their neighbors, it gives the most widely accepted account of God, it tells how the Hebrew-Israelites grew to become a prosperous nation, a world power, and how their empire ultimately collapsed. This, however, is just the surface of the iceberg.

According to the Bible, the Hebrew-Israelites originated from the direct blood lineage of Adam, the first man ever to exist. From Adam, the Bible lists all of the generations through to Noah (Gen. 5: 1-30). Noah had three sons. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Hebrews are descendants of Shem. A descendant of Shem named Abraham, was the first person to be call a Hebrew. He is known as the father of the Hebrews, and is where the name “Hebrew” is derived. The name “Israelite” comes later from Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, whose name was changed to Israel. Israel had twelve sons whose descendants became the twelve tribes—the tribes that established the nation of Israel. One of these twelve sons was named Judah.

As the Bible states, the Israelites divided into Gen. 14: 13 - “Abram the Hebrew”

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two separate kingdoms because God promised to loose the kingdom from Solomon’s son, (I Kings 11: 1-12).

These two kingdoms, Israel in the north and Judah in the south, both are invaded and enslaved by the rival nations of Assyria and Babylon. Once the Israelites returned from slavery, they all united in the location of the southern kingdom, under the nation of Judah. The New Testament Messiah as well, belonged to the tribe of Judah. These two reasons are why the entire nation is sometimes called the Jews.

However, to call the Israelites “Jews” has sparked a major controversy. Orthodox and religious Jews do not believe in the New Testament Messiah. They call themselves Jews based solely on their return from slavery and the religion they practice called Judaism. Throughout this work, we shall not refer to the Hebrews as “Jews,” for reasons that will be explained later.

How did the ancient Hebrews physically look?

One could argue that there is no written description in the Bible, or elsewhere for that matter, of the physical appearance of the Hebrews. We can, however, find in the Bible supporting evidence that the Hebrews were a thoroughly black-skinned people.

Ham is generally spoken of as the father of all black-skinned or African people. Many Bible scholars will attest to this. Ham’s son, Cush, was the predecessor Lesson IV of this series, “The Khazars,” explains the controversy surrounding the title “Jew.” It is important, just for now to understand that the title “Jew” does not refer to or include Hebrew-Israelites of authentic Abrahamic stock.

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of the Nubian and Ethiopian nations. These two nations as we all know are black-skinned nations. The brothers of Cush were Mizraim, father of the ancient Egyptian nation; Phut, father of the Libyans and Somalians; and Canaan of the Canaanites. These ancient nations, even today, are all black-skinned nations. All four of Ham’s sons were black-skinned men who fathered black-skinned nations. One of the most overlooked clues proving that the Hebrews were black as well was that they were constantly being compared to and mistaken as descendants of Ham.

There are numerous examples of this mistaken identity paradigm. Take for instance, the story of Joseph the Hebrew. After Joseph was sold into Egyptian bondage by his brothers (Gen. 37), he interpreted several dreams for the Pharaoh, and eventually became the Viceroy of all of Egypt. Due to a devastating famine, Joseph’s brothers came into Egypt to buy food and supplies. Joseph, according to Genesis 42: 1-8, recognized his brothers but they didn’t recognize him. Remember, the Egyptians are descended from Ham, and are historically a black-skinned nation. Therefore Joseph, a Hebrew, was black himself, and his brothers saw him as an ordinary Egyptian.

Today, the world believes the Hebrews are the nation of people currently living in Israel. The sole hisThe Nubians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Libyans, Somalians, and the ancient Canaanites all settled in and around Northeast Africa, in much the same regions where these nations are located today. Prior to the excavation of the Suez Canal in November of 1869, passage from Egypt to Saudi Arabia was uninterrupted. The descendants of Shem, though vastly outnumbered by Ham’s descendants, also settled in the same geographic area.

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torical reference fueling this belief is rooted in the mass media, in television, and in the Jews’ own accounts of their history preceding and following the Holocaust. It was Jewish writers of late like Anne Frank, Elie Weisel, and others that give further historical support to the claim that the Jews were and are the ancient Hebrews.

However, if Joseph the Hebrew was of the same skin color as Anne Frank the Jew, he would have easily been recognized by his brothers in Egypt.

When Jacob died in Egypt, the Israelites carried his body to the tomb where his father and grandfather’s remains were buried. Many Egyptians joined the Hebrews as they travelled to the tomb. The local Canaanites, whom themselves were a black-skinned nation descended of Ham, saw the great group of people and recognized them all as Egyptians—not as white Hebrews and black Egyptians (Genesis 50: 7-11).

Further proof lies in the story of Moses the Hebrew. The Pharaoh in that time made a decree to kill all Hebrew boys to prevent the furtherance of their race (Ex. 1: 22). Moses lived forty years as the Pharaoh’s grandson, inside the Pharaoh’s own palace as a black Egyptian. After killing an Egyptian guard Moses runs out of Egypt to escape death. He ends up in Midian, where he runs off some aggressive sheppards and helps two girls water their camels. The girls’ father asked them We can clearly deduse from evidence in the Bible that the Hebrews looked like the ancient Egyptians. Understanding how the ancient Egyptians looked is a major clue in discovering the true identity of the Hebrews.

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how they were able to water the camels so quickly and they said that an Egyptian had helped them.

Moses later returns to Egypt to free the Israelites.

He was so convinced that no one would believe God had sent him that Moses was given several miraculous signs to perform as proof. One of these signs called for Moses to put his hands inside his robe and pull them out, at which time they would turn “leprous as snow” (Ex. 4: 6-7). Then, once Moses had performed this, he would stick his hands back again, and “they would be as his other flesh,” or they would return to his original color. Therefore, unless Moses the Hebrew was black, the two girls from Midian would not have called him an Egyptian, the miracle would not have worked, Pharaoh and the Israelites would not have believed him, Moses would have probably been killed, and the stories about the Exodus would not be true.

The young Messiah also hides in Egypt to escape a Pharaoh’s decree. At this time in history, white Romans were in control of the entire Mediterranean Sea. The Hebrews were worrisome second class citizens. An angel tells Joseph, the Messiah’s father, to flee into Egypt because the Pharaoh had ordered his guards to kill every Hebrew boy two years old and under, hoping to stop the rise of the Hebrew Messiah (Matt. 2: 13-14). The Black Hebrew population would have been very noticeable The countries that make up the “Middle East” have a mixed populace of East Indian and Slavic (out of Russia) stock. Farther east, into Afghanistan and Pakistan, the populace has stronger Indian influences because of their proximity to India and Oriental Asia.

Northern Africa, along the Mediterranean Sea, has a populace with stronger Indo-European influences. Most of the African influence in these regions has been ostracized.

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amongst what scholars believe was four to five million white Romans and other Europeans. But in Egypt, amidst so many other black families, there was no way for the Pharaoh to find and kill the baby Jesus.

The Apostle Paul was also mistaken for an Egyptian. Paul was a Hebrew from the tribe of Benjamin, as he stated out of his own mouth in Romans 11: 1. While in Roman custody in Jerusalem, Paul asked to speak to the Chief Captain of the guards, (Acts 21: 33-39). The Chief Captain, so surprised that Paul could speak his language, asked him if he was the same Egyptian causing the uproars he had heard so much about. Paul then told the Captain he was Hebrew.

These are just a few of the many occasions when a Hebrew is mistaken for an Egyptian. In each case, the person making the mistake must surely have known how an authentic Egyptian looked, in order to make the comparison with the Hebrews. The truth is, historical evidence in support of the Hebrews being black is astounding.

According to what the Hebrew-Israelites wrote of God in the Bible, they were divinely set apart as a people. Their ethnocentric ideology comes from their admonition and belief that God had enacted a specific purpose and provision solely for them and their children. Exploring whether a society, ethnic group, race, or culture is right or wrong for separating themselves from their neighbors is beside the point. The bottom line is

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Something to Think About: 1. Can the Hebrews, based on the information presented in this chapter, still have been originally white?

The simple answer is “Yes.� It would be useless to try and convince anyone to believe that the Hebrews looked like this or like that. On the contrary, for those people who choose to explore the facts, the evidence is clear.

2. Does race, ethnicity, or skin color even matter?

Let’s face some reality. If a person says they truly believe the Bible, they must believe that the people in the Bible physically walked the earth. If those people really and truly walked the earth, then they had to have had a skin color, beit white or black or whatever. The Romans were the first people to distinguish people by the color of their skin. If anyone is to blame for this separation of people and the confusion and hatred it causes, it is them.

3. How can we know with some assurance that the Hebrews were and are a black nation? that this is the way many ancient societies thought. Rather than debating over if they were justified or not, we should strive to understand what factors caused them to think and act in such a way.

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A more appropriate question to ask rather is, “what evidence is there to support that the Hebrews were and are white?” Information and evidence to support the Hebrews being black is apparent.

4. Okay, so the Hebrews are black. What does that change?

Imagine for a minute that you attended the funeral of a close friend. Let’s say this friend of yours was badly burned in a car fire and the funeral had to be closed casket. When you walked up to touch the casket and say farewell to your friend you notice that they had placed a picture next to him. You know your friend to be black, but the picture is that of a white person.

Well, you turn to ask the family why they had the wrong face on the picture when you notice that everybody in the service was fanning their faces with the paper fans funeral practitioners pass out during services. Let’s assume all of the fans had the same white face. What would you do? What would you think, and feel? How could your friend’s family celebrate the life and legacy of your friend but give all the credit to a false image?

My point is that knowing the true image, being able to identify truthfully with who someone is, is a very important step in understanding your role in the mix of things.

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Consider this, if the color of the Hebrews is so unimportant, why is it so hard for you to see them as black?

5. If the original Hebrews were black, who are the people in the land today? Who are the Israelis? Who are the Jews?

The short answer- they are imposters. The long answer starts on the next page.

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Lesson IV: The Khazars

Four centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, while Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages, another world power had emerged from the frozen wilderness of Central Asia. They called themselves the Khazars, and had it not been for their military efforts, the Arabian descended Moslem crusaders would have converted the whole of Europe to Islam. The Khazars were a seminomadic people who founded the independent Khazar kingdom in the 7th century C.E. in the southeastern part of today’s Europe, near the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. In addition to western Kazakhstan, the Khazar kingdom also included territory in what is now eastern Ukraine, southern Russia, and Crimea.

By a combination of both accident and design, knowledge of this early medieval empire was lost to the world until very recently.

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The first significant Khazarian appearance in history is found in Russia, when Khazaria sent troops in support of the campaign of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius against the Persians. During the 7th and 8th centuries, Khazaria and the Byzantine Empire fought a series of wars against the Islamic Arab Empire, helping to stop the Arab expansion into Eastern Europe.

Afterwards Khazaria extended her boundaries from the Caspian Sea in the east to north of the Black Sea in the west. Originally, the Khazars practiced traditional Turkic shamanism, focused on the sky god Tengri, but Khazar customs were also heavily influenced by Confucian ideas imported from China, notably that of the Mandate of Heaven.

Even despite Europe being in the Dark Ages, the reasons the Khazarian Empire was so successful was because of its geographic location (its proximity to East Asia) and because the people were free to practice any and every religion they desired. In fact, a ruler who for any reason failed at anything had clearly lost the favor of the gods and was typically ritually executed. This open religious tolerance was in dramatic contrast to the rest of Europe, where kingdoms and tribes alike were in constant conflict with religious institutions, monastaries, and pagan Christian crusaders.

In 750 C.E. one Khazarian king named Khagan The internet is probably the best source for general information about the Khazar kingdom if it is something that may interest you. Most of the information in this lesson can be referenced to www.Khazaria.com.

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Bulan decided to thwart his being assassinated by converting all of Khazaria to one religion. He sent caliphs, or missionaries into Spain, into the then crumbling Byzantine Empire, and into Palestine to bring back priests of the three largest monotheistic religions to come and debate before him and persuade him to convert the people to that faith. Well, seeing that the Khazars were the superpower of the time, and their region separated the starving European peninsula from the riches of East Asia, missionaries from all over the known world travelled to teach Khagan Bulan their faith, hoping to convert the people and gain access to the trading routes.

In the process, Khagan Bulan dismissed any notion of multiple gods. He knew that this would cause disputing among the people, and possibly his assassination. He listened rather to the doctrine of the Byzantine representative for Christianity, the Spanish Moor and his version of Islam, and a Jewish Rabbi out of Palestine.

The Christian and the Muslim argued back and forth for days. They would not agree on any aspect of their religions. The only thing the two had in common was their mutual respect for the Hebraic scrolls.

Khagan Bulan was so impressed with how precisely Christianity and Islam derived the essential aspects of their religions from the Hebrew scrolls that he decided to learn all he could about the Judaic faith. The Khazar The form of Judaism the Khazars acquired was not identical to the faith practised by Abraham or the Hebrew-Israelite nation. Not until the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple in 70 C.E. and the final exile of the Hebrews by the Romans did the “Oral Law” transcend the “Written Law.” Series II, Lesson V, “The Pharisaic Perversion” explains how the Pharisees wrought the Talmud, the “Oral Law.”

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royalty and nobility later agreed to adopt the Jewish faith as the national religion, however mixed with their pagan idolatries, sorcery, and mysticism. Most of the general population of Khazaria later converted into the form of Judaism. Thus, Khagan Bulan is known as the father of Khazarian Judaism.

Within a hundred years, Khazarian traditions had been completely supplanted with traditional Hebrew names, alphabetic characters, and symbolisms. A later king named Obadiah strengthened Khazarian Judaism in the ninth century, inviting architects into the kingdom to build synagogues. Judaism became the dominant tradition in Khazaria.

In the tenth century C.E., a Khazarian king named Joseph corresponded briefly with a Hebrew named Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, who was living in Spain at the time.

Shaprut acquired in his youth a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, the last-named language being at that time known only to the higher clergy of Spain. He also studied medicine. Appointed physician to a clergyman named Abd ar-Rahman III from 912 to 961 C.E., Shaprut, by his engaging manners, knowledge, character, and extraordinary ability, gained his master’s confidence to such a degree that he became ar-Rahman’s confidant and faithful counselor.

Secretly, ar-Rahman was allowing Shaprut to Hasdai Ibn Shaprut was a Hebrew-Israelite of traditional Abrahamic descent, unlike the Khazars. During this time period, most of the Hebrews had been displaced from the land of Israel and were living in various places throughout Europe and East Asia as servants and bondmen.

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supervise trading embargos going on in the Port of Córdoba. In 949 C.E. an ambassador was sent by Constantine VII to form a diplomatic alliance between the hard-pressed Byzantine Empire and the powerful aristocracy of Spain. Among the presents brought by the ambassador was a magnificent codex of Dioscorides’s work on botany, which many physicians and naturalists valued highly. Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, with the aid of a learned Greek monk named Nicholas, translated it into Arabic, making it thereby the common property of the Arabs and of medieval Europe. The alliance lasted on shaky terms and included several correspondences.

Because Shaprut was so familiar with the languages and religions of the time, his abilities were put to good use. Before they could be sent off, every correspondence between the kingdoms of this new alliance was sent to Shaprut. It was his job to make sure that the letters contained no material that could be mistaken as derogatory to any culture or religion. Shaprut was so trusted that he had the authority to remove or change any objectionable matter in the letters.

Shaprut was very active on behalf of his co-religionists and scientists. But one day, after he had heard that in Central Asia there was a Hebrew state having a Hebrew ruler, he desired to enter into correspondence with this monarch, and when the report of the existence The actual correspondence letters between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut and King Joseph can be found at the Library of Christ’s Church in Oxford, England and in the Leningrad Public Library in Leningrad, Russia.

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of the state of the Khazars was confirmed by two messengers, Mar Saul and Mar Joseph, who had come in the retinue of an ambassador from the Croatian king to Córdoba, Shaprut entrusted to them a letter, written in good Hebrew and addressed to King Joseph, in which he gave an account of his position in the Western state, and asked for detailed information in regard to the Khazars, their origin, their political and military organization, and anything else the Khazarian king wanted to disclose.

The king, Joseph, did receive Shaprut’s letter and returned several of his own. This correspondence lasted from 954 to 961, and is one of the few self-written historical accounts of the origin of the Khazars. In the letter, Joseph revealed to Shaprut that the Khazars are descended from Japheth, from the line of Togarmah. He further stated that Togarmah, who was the brother of Ashkenaz, had ten sons and the Khazars represented the seventh son.

One of the letters reads:

You ask us also in your epistle: “Of what people, of what family, and of what tribe are you?” Know that we are descended from Japheth, through his son Togarmah. I have found in the genealogical books of my ancestors that Togarmah had ten sons. These are their names: the eldest was Ujur, the second Tauris, the third

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Avar, the fourth Uauz, the fifth Bizal, the sixth Tarna, the seventh Khazar, the eighth Janur, the ninth Bulgar, and the tenth was Sawir. I am a descendant of Khazar, the seventh son.

-King Joseph, the Khazar

Now, according to Genesis 10: 2-5, the sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. “By these people,” the Bible says, “the Isles of the Gentiles were divided in their lands, everyone after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.”

Despite the common belief among todays Christians that everybody that is not Jew is Gentile, the Bible clearly states that only the descendants of Japheth are Gentiles. The New Testament division of the people as either Jews or Gentiles exists only because the Hebrews were living in and around Israel while Israel was a province of Rome. The Romans controlled the entire Mediterranean Sea. The only descendants of Ham or Shem living in the Roman state were the Egyptians and the Hebrews.

Very little about the descendents of Japheth is present throughout the Old Testament. The Bible in this Testament basically focuses on the Hebrew descenThe historical account of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut’s correspondence with King Joseph of Khazaria doesn’t include Shaprut’s reaction to learning that the Khazars weren’t actually authentic Hebrew-Israelites at all.

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dants of Shem, how they battled with the descendants of Ham, and how they came to possess, lose, and repossess the land of Canaan. Only in the New Testament does the Bible reintroduce the Gentile nations of Japheth. The prophets Daniel and Ezekiel mention the arrival of Japheth, but only prophetically as one of the four winds.

A brief, mostly overlooked prophecy supports and explains the previous two paragraphs. In Genesis, after the Great Flood subsides, Noah and his sons are charged with repopulating the earth. The Bible states that Noah planted a vineyard and got drunk from the wine. Ham, Noah’s son, walked into his father’s tent and sees Noah’s nakedness (Gen 9: 20-27). When Noah awoke, he knew what had happened. The Bible states that Noah curses one of Ham’s son’s line of descendants and continues to prophesy more. Genesis 9: 27 says, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem...” Keep in mind that the Romans are descendants of Japheth, and during the height of the Roman Empire, they lived in the land of Israel. The Genesis 9: 20-27 prophecy was fulfilled.

Eighty-five percent of all the Jews today are Ashkenazi Jews. Ashkenaz descended from Japheth. The other fifteen percent are consider Sephardic Jews, or the Arab Jews. The Bible explains where these Sep“The Four Winds” were Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. These nations were prophesied to come upon the Israelites as punishment for their breaking the Law.

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hardim come from as well. In 2 Kings 17, the Bible explains how the Israelites were exiled from their land by the Assyrians. The King of Assyria then brought men from other nations the Assyrians had conquered, “and placed them in the [Hebrew] cities instead of the Children of Israel,” (2 Kings 17: 24-28). One of these nations of people was from Sepharvaim.

Now, the Bible mentions that God (Hebrew Yah) was very unpleased with the new people the King of Assyria had placed in the Holy Land. The people brought with them their customs and traditions. The Bible states that the Lord killed many of the people because they did not follow the strict lifestyle of the Hebrews. So the King of Assyria sent one Hebrew priest back into Samaria to teach the people how to “fear” the Lord. Thus, the Sephardic Jew was conceived.

Writer and Jewish historian Authur Koestler, a leading expert on the history of the Khazar Jews and author of the book, “The Thirteenth Tribe,” states that though they professed to be descended from Togarmah, Ashkenaz’s brother, the Khazars called themselves Ashkenazi Jews because of a prophecy in Jeremiah 51: 27 about Ashkenaz conquering the land of Babylon, which the Khazarian kingdom partly overlapped.

In no way are the origins of the Sephardic or Ashkenazi Jews connected to the Hebrews of original The Balfour Declaration of 1917 signified the Jews pilgrimage to and acquisition of Israel from the Palestinians and other Arab non-Jewish peoples. A later series entitled “The Unholy War,” will explore the connections between the Rothschild Family, the Balfour Declaration, and the illegal occupation of the Promised Land.

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Israelite authenticity. Obadiah Israyl, founder of the Hebrew-Israelite Organization in Chicago, whose studies and works greatly contributed to this series, states that “Judaism is a misunderstanding or perversion of the customs of the ancient Israelites.” Both sects of modern Jews are imposters, as mentioned in Revelation 2: 9 and 3: 9. Perhaps this is why the premise of “False Jews” is illustrated in two separate instances.

Rev. 2: 9; 3: 9- “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” 3: 9 “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

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Some Food for Thought: 1. If the people that call themselves Jews are truly imposters, does that mean the Biblical Hebrews no longer exist? Did God cast them away?

Read Romans 11. The Apostle Paul clearly explains that God did not and would never permanently and completely do away with His people. In fact, the Lord will bring a remnant of the Hebrews back to the Holy Land. This remnant will do the job the Chosen People were always supposed to do but never did—teach the world the correct way to worship God. So, authentic Hebrew-Israelites must still actually exist.

2. There have been perhaps millions of Bible scholars and theologians studying the Bible. Preachers study the Bible, church goers, and historians. Are we to believe that no one, including the true Hebrews, has ever been able to figure out this information besides you? If so, how can this be?

It is a conundrum, but how it is that no one has ever concluded the same is irrelevant. The Bible speaks for itself, regardless of anyone’s input, assumptions, assertions, or understanding. Here is what the Bible says: John 4: 22 states, “Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.” Although this translation uses the term “Jews,” John was really referring to the Hebrew-Israelites. He writes that “Salvation is of the Hebrews.” What John means is that only through the Hebrews can the rest of mankind recieve salvation.

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Isaiah 1: 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Hosea 4: 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee…

Romans 10: 2-3 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge…

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Perhaps God has a reason for not allowing the millions upon millions of Bible readers to know the information presented in this series, information that comes from sources the world over. It is only fairly recently that the internet has made world knowledge accessible to the masses. Maybe that has something to do with it.

3. Why was Hasdai Ibn Shaprut so interested in the Khazars? What is so significant about his correspondence with the Khazarian King?

By the time Shaprut and King Joseph of Khazaria

one has the opportunity to make it to Heaven. This is true; any person that obeys God’s way (according to Romans 11: 13-25 and Ezekiel 47: 21-23) becomes a Hebrew-Israelite with full inheritance to Israel’s birthright, which is salvation.

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began their correspondence, the Hebrew-Israelite nation had already been dispersed. This was in keeping with several prophecies. Some of the Israelites had been taken away into other nations as slaves (most likely by Arab traders) while other Israelites wandered off into other parts of the world, fleeing from slave traders and oppression. Their rich culture, scrolls, and sacred artifacts had suffered the same worldwide dispersal.

The Hebrews had been a sovereign people for over two thousand years before the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E. After over a millenium of desolation, Shaprut, a devout Hebrew-Israelite, was thrilled with the notion of his people having re-established themselves as a legitimate nation, rather than as scattered nomads and passersby.

The earliest forms of Khazarian Judaism closely resembled authentic Hebrewism in some respects, beit the heisted artifacts and or whatever else it took to convince a devout educated Hebrew as Shaprut was, that Khazaria was a sovereign Hebrew state. Shaprut no doubt knew of other Hebrew-Israelites, also living as servants and slaves, in Spain and abroad. Mar Saul and Mar Joseph, although it is unclear if they were of genuine Hebrew-Israelite stock, were acquaintances of Shaprut, and we can assume that because they travelled about the region, they probably came across numerous Through historical information found outside of the Bible, prophetic evidence, and scriptural references, there is proof that some Hebrew-Israelites did establish Hebrew settlements outside of the Holy Land after they were exiled by the Romans. After the Maccabean wars ended, thousands of Hebrews fled from Jerusalem into Ethiopia. The kingdom of Aksum, (as known spelled Axum) is one of the many places said to be home

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Hebrew wanderers and settlements, but none as significant as the Khazars.

4. If authentic Hebrew-Israelites do still actually exist, does the Bible explain who and where they are?

Yes, but you have to turn the page to find out what it says.

to the displaced Hebrew refugees. In 1977, Israel’s Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, facilitated Ethiopia’s Falasha Jews’ return to Israel. Another African community with claims of Hebrew authenticity are the Lemba of South Africa.

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Lesson V: The People Marker

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

-Deut. 7: 6

The Hebrew-Israelites were God’s chosen people—chosen not to be better than anyone else, but chosen to be priests (1 Pet. 2: 9). They made a contract with God to teach the rest of mankind how to worship correctly. As a reward for them fulfilling this contract, the Bible states the Israelites would receive many blessings. On the contrary, if they chose not to fulfill their People have always debated Deuteronomy 7:6. Some people argue that God doesn’t favor any one people more than any one else. Unfortunately, these people lack an understanding of what the “Chosen” in chosen people really and truly means.

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contract, they would suffer a great many curses. The blessings and curses can be found in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, among other places.

Unfortunately for the Hebrews, they did not fulfill the requirements of the contract. God spoke to the Hebrews through the prophets, trying to encourage them to uphold their end of the bargain, chastising them for their disobedience, and warning them about upcoming consequences for their continued failures. Over the years, each new prophet brought with them a deeper understanding of the blessings and curses, profound visions of the future, and a greater sense of urgency in persuading the people to turn back to God and fulfill their contract. All of the forewarning was of no avail.

However, God did not take pleasure in punishing His chosen people. Rather, He used small samples of the greater ultimate punishment to convince the Hebrews to change. It was only after all other attempts had failed that God decided to enact His ultimate plan. This plan was magnificent and appalling in its complexity.

Daniel 9: 11 states that the curses (referring to the curses written in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28) befell his people because they continually disobeyed the words of God. Daniel is among the many Hebrew writers and historical figures that warned the Israelites that specific curses would befall them as punishment for breakpurpose on earth was to redirect the Israelites back to the Law. He Himself lived and died under the Law, as did all the prophets before Him. His entire ministry was spent in Hebrew cities talking to Hebrews about returning to the Law and telling them that He was the Messiah. Essentially, the Messiah was also a prophet. A deeper understanding of the prophets of the Bible is to be had in Series II, Lesson III, “The Prophets.�

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ing the Law; we need only to read the Old Testament books of the Major and Minor Prophets. Therefore, as one writer put it, any group that claims to be the true Hebrew-Israelites must be able to identify with these punishments and curses.

Obadiah Israyl, of the Hebrew-Israelite Organization in Chicago uses the Bible to outline the basic characteristics of the Hebrew-Israelites. He emphasizes what he calls “key scriptures” in determining the predispositions of the modern day Hebrew-Israelites. As such, these predispositions serve as people markers, and are expressly needed qualifiers (according to the Bible prophets) to support any people’s claim to be the Hebrews. Obadiah’s research focuses in on Deuteronomy 28:46, which states:

“And they (the curses) shall be upon you (the Israelites) for a SIGN and WONDER, and upon your seed (the modern day Israelites) forever.”

Obadiah explains in his writings that a “sign” is an indicator, so whatever group of people is suffering under the curses’ sign found in the Bible are truly Israelites.

A “wonder” is defined as a cause of astonishment or surprise. To “wonder” is to marvel at something extraordinary about the future. So, to say the curses would be The website for the Hebrew-Israelites Organization in Chicago is www.HebrewIsraelites. org.

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upon the Israelites for a “sign and wonder” means that in the future people would be able recognize who the Israelites were and are by understanding the curses.

To say that the curses would be a sign and wonder for “forever” means that the curses would be a continuously recognizable sign in the world still today. The Bible writers reinforce that the Israelites must still exist, that they could be, and would be identified by the Bible curses.

This ultimate punishment, implemented by God Himself, would be so complete and powerful that only He could rescue the Israelites from it (2 Thes. 2: 10-11).

The Bible, based on this evidence, is blatant in its attribution of the curses to a particular people and has detailed enough information for us to identify who the true Hebrews are.

The Slavery Marker Deuteronomy 28: 41, 68 Isaiah 5: 13 Jeremiah 2: 14 Luke 21: 24

One of the major themes in the punishment of the Israelites was slavery. The Bible writers explain how the physical slavery experience would be; how it would The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is the only significant event in history that meets all of the parameters of the Biblically prophecied exile and slavery.

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be similar to and different from the slavery they experienced in Egypt. References to this experience are explained in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. In Deuteronomy 28: 41, for example, the Bible clearly explains that future generations of the Israelites would go into captivity. In verse 68 of the same chapter the Bible further states that the people would be brought into slavery onboard ships, carried away to a foreign land.

The Exile Marker Leviticus 26: 17, 33-34, 36-38, 41, 44 Deuteronomy 4: 27; 28: 25, 31, 48, 63-64, 68; 32: 26 Nehemiah 1: 8 Jeremiah 9: 16, 13: 24, 49: 32

The Holy Land was promised to the Israelites by God through Abraham in Genesis 15. As part of their punishment, the Israelites would be forcibly exiled from the land, dispersed over the whole world, and would be greatly oppressed by their enemies, even though the Israelites were a mighty nation that during ancient times had defeated all of their enemies. The Exile Marker reveals that the Israelites would not be rescued from God’s ultimate punishment, as they were rescued from Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian bondage.

The Israelites were at one time displaced from the land of Canaan as a stipulation of their slavery. They were carried into Babylon and Assyria for a time and enslaved. However, they were eventually allowed to return, in scarce numbers.

Read II Kings to gain a deeper understanding of the Babylonian and Assyrian slaveries.

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The Sickness Marker Deuteronomy 28: 59-61

Throughout the Bible, disease was used as a sign for God’s hand at work. Moses turned his hands white as snow with leprosy. Miriam was turned white with leprosy. Naaman was ordered to dip in the Jordan river seven times. Job was stricken from head to foot with boils. In fact, sickness and disease would also befall the Israelites many different times in Israel and while they suffered in the land of their enemies. Consider in these verses how the Bible writers explained the sickness marker.

The Prison Marker Isa. 42: 22 Deut. 28: 62

The Hebrews would be a people locked away in jails and prisons. This sign also repeats throughout the written history of the Israelites. God warned the Israelites that He would greatly multiply the number of people in prison. They would be a “nation” of bondmen and women. The Israelites would be left few in number. A great number of Israelites would suffer under the prison marker as punishment.

The Bible explains that as slaves the Israelites would remain powerless in overcoming their oppressors in the future if they continued to break the law.

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The Poverty Marker Deuteronomy 28: 29, 33, 43-44

The Hebrews would be a non-prosperous people, the lowest class of citizens wherever they were in the world. They would be subjected to total denial of all the favor they were once endowed by their God. It would be a complete reversal of fortune.

The Byword Marker Deuteronomy 28: 37 Psalms 83: 4

The Hebrews would be known by many derogatory names. In fact, the Hebrews would have their original names completely erased.

The Forgotten Heritage Marker Jeremiah 17:4 Psalms 83: 4 Isaiah 1:3 Revelation 2: 9; 3: 9

The Israelites would suffer in bondage for a long time, so long in fact that they would lose all knowledge of who they truly were and that they were once favored As this harsh 400 years of slavery progressed, the Israelites lost more and more of who they were. Without their land, their original language, their names, and forced to deny everything that could be traced to their original historical root, the Israelites began to accept the delusions of their oppressors. The Willie Lynch letter explains this process, as depicted in the movie, “Roots,” when Kunta Kente’s name was changed to Toby.

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over all others in the sight of God. Also, other nations would conspire to make the Hebrews forget who they were. These nations would then claim to be the Hebrews themselves.

The 400 Years Marker Gen.15: 13

The slavery and oppression of the Hebrews would last for a period of roughly four hundred or more years.

Many schlors have debated this issue; whether the Israelites fulfilled this prophecy in Egypt. The Bible says that the time the Israelites sojourned in Egypt was a total of 430 years, counting from the day Jacob and his sons relocated to be with Joseph to the day Moses led the people into the wilderness. But none of the other markers came into fulfillment in Egypt. Rather than suffer these stipulations one by one, the Israelites would recieve their punishments consecutively.

The Religion Marker Deut. 28: 36, 64

Because the Israelites had chosen not to obey God, but worshipped instead the idols and pagan deities of other nations, the Lord would curse them further Upon inspecting the 430 year period the Israelites spent in Egypt, several facts don’t add up. The Israelites were not enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, as required by Genesis 15: 13. In Exodus 1: 8, the Bible states that not until a Pharaoh came into power that didn’t know anything about Joseph did the Israelites enter into slavery. Series II, Lesson I, “Out of Egypt” explains this further.

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by causing them to worship even more false gods while they were being punished in captivity. This would prevent the Hebrew-Israelites from calling on the Lord to save them.

Only when all of these markers are programmed into the equation does the true identity of the modern Hebrew-Israelites come to the light. The written historical clues recorded in the Bible identify the true descendents of the Hebrew-Israelites. They were exiled out of the Promised Land, dispersed throughout the world among nations known and unknown, and carried away on ships as slaves during the Trans-Atlatic Slave Trade.

African Americans are the only people whose history supports such a claim. Their history predating the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been lost and forgotten, just as the Bible said would happen to the Israelites (Ps. 83: 4; Jer. 17: 4). They were carried off into slavery and bondage on ships (Deut. 28: 68). They were called coons, Negroes, colored, and other bywords (Deut. 28: 37). They were powerless against their captors (Lev. 26: 37). They are a people stricken with disease and sickness in record numbers (Deut. 28: 59-61). They are impoverished and locked away in penitentiaries and prisons (Isa. 42: 22). They are the most religious of all people, with members in every religion, cult and faith in the world, (Rom. 10: 1-3; Deut. 28: 36, 64). We can As the Israelites near the end of the 400 years of prophecied slavery, God will begin to awaken the chosen remnant of Abraham’s seed and restore them to their birthright, as mentioned in Ezekiel 37, “The Valley of Dry Bones.”

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand the second time

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identify them today almost by these curses alone.

Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26, and hundreds more verses throughout the Bible portray poignant, undeniable images of African Americans. Their profound, prophetic depiction as slaves in the ancient world and as sufferers under the Mosaic curses illustrate a condition that mirrors what the institution of slavery was and what life after slavery is for blacks in America and the world over. The clues in the Bible are tell tale signs of something extraordinary and awesome, baffling and beautiful. The concept, engineered by God, is without question the most elaborate and exacting identifying marker of a people. It points to a people depressed and beaten, forgotten by mankind and in ruin.

But now, even amidst all of the calamities and distractions in the world today, God has decided the time is right to remember the covenant He made with Abraham. God has broken the seal of Daniel’s scrolls (Dan. 4: 12) and touched a select few with insight into the deluded past. No longer can the lies and misrepresented facts of the history distort complete, accurate, fundamental truth. The Children of Light are beginning to rise, becoming an exceedingly great army. The truth has been revealed and the truth shall make us all truly free. to recover the remnant of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.� -Isa. 11: 11-12

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Something to Think About: 1. How can African Americans be the true HebrewIsraelites? How can the entire world not know this to be true?

It can be an extraordinary experience to learn something new. The answer here is threefold. 1) According to what is written in the Bible in Psalms 83: 4, a confederate of nations plotted against the Israelites in order to force them to forget who they were. Why would God allow this? 2) God allowed this confederate of nations to entreat the Israelites as both a punishment for their continuous breaking of the Law and to implement a greater purpose that has yet to reach fulfillment. 3) This confederate of nations then dispersed the Israelites throughout the world (Joel 3: 2) and assumed the identity of God’s chosen people ( Rev. 2: 9; 3: 9) to deceive the whole world.

2. What about African American churches? Are the millions of black Christians, Mulsims, etc. living a lie?

Not a lie, a strong delusion; and there is nothing initially wrong with being deceived. This is how it was The “Greater Purpose” referred to is the second coming of Christ. The “Rapture” doctrine is not Biblical. Rather, the true followers of God’s way will be led into the wilderness, just like when the Israelites left out from Egypt. A deeper understanding of this subject is to be had in Series III, “Into the Wilderness.”

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supposed to be. God designed this strong delusion so that the power, glory, and truth of His salvation could be understood. People get into trouble with deceptions when they believe them with all their heart, so much so that they reject the truth when they are taught truth.

This is what “The Parable of the Seeds” is all about.

Read Luke 8: 4-15.

3. I’m not rejecting truth. I just want to be sure that the information presented in this workbook is the truth. Is there any certainty?

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

-2 Timothy 2: 15

The only certainty comes from faith in God. This is why we study. You must take the information before you and reread it, analyze it, challenge it, and question it.

Remember, factual truth needs no aliby.

4. Does this journey of discovery into African American origins end here?

We’ve only just scratched the surface. This series

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” -2 Thes. 2: 10-11

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only lays the foundation for a much larger, more intricate discipline. This journey is not for the faint of heart.

It is a lifelong voyage into the Bible realm, where one will discover ultimate truth, the cornerstone of the gospel, and the tumultuousness of a wicked adversary.

The next stop on our journey is to meet the people themselves. We will endeavor to understand the world in which they lived. We will witness their rise and fall, and come to truly know the God they served that made us all. Join us if you dare, as we explore the righteousness and disobedience of a rebellious people.

The facts are undeniably blatant as to the descendants of Trans-Atlantic slavery being the Lost Children of Israel.

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To contact the author about any part of this book, or to ask questions, or comment, please send an email to: jmartin.writer@gmail.com or call 832.317.1254.

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