12 Tribes-Lion of Yehudah: Yishmaelites (Arabs); Yisraelites; Rastafarians.

There are three distinct races or Groups of people today who are identified as 12 Tribes. These are the Yishmaelites, called Arabs, who are the 12 sons of Avram. When Avram was given the name Avraham, he then had a son named Yitzkok who was blessed with a son called Yaaqov whose name was changed to Yisrael by the Almighty Creator. Yisrael was then blessed with 12 sons who were referred to as the 12 Tribes of Yisrael. After the slavery of the 1400-1600's slaves were taken out of west Africa mainly, through Ghana and went into the West Indies and other countries of the Caribbean. These slaves of Jamaica had a distinct group or society which rejected the colonial masters ways of governance and broke away to live a secluded life in the mountain regions and inner lands. They refer to themselves as the 12 Tribes of Yisrael then later Rastas. The question now remains, 'who are the real 12 Tribes'?

When Avram was blessed with his son Yishmael through the Mitzreimian Hagar (The Stranger (Beresheit [Gen.] 16:15), the Almighty elevated Avram to Avraham and gave him another son of whom was to be a blessing even though Avram desire Yishmael to be blessed (Beresheit [Gen.] 17:18), but the Almighty reassured him that it would not be Yishmael but Yitzkok rather, who will come from Sarah (Beresheit 17:19). The Almighty then blessed Yishmael to be 12 Princes (Tribes) with exceeding riches, which they possess today, but they would also be a wild erratic and violent people.

Then there is Yitzkok(Isaac), son of Avraham and Sarah. He was the one YAH had blessed and he too was blessed with 12 sons who became the 12 Tribes of Yisrael. These sons made up the Kingdom of Yisrael, firstly under the Benyaumites, King Shaul (Saul), then shifting to the Yehudites thro

ugh King Daweid and after, King Sholomo. After the period of King Sholomo the Kingdom was split and chaos immerged.

This caused the Yisraelites to be punished for their evil and scattered around the world to these modern times (Aumos 9:9). During present times from the 1400's the Almighty has given the Yisraelite ease from slavery and the oppression of the Yafites (Europeans) giving them time to study and learn their true accounts through Scriptures as being the chosen people of YEHOWAH (Zekaryah 1:17), this gave rise to the Yisraelites mainly in Jamaica who connected themselves to the 12 Tribes of Yisrael in Scriptures.

The 12 Tribes of Yisrael, commonly phrased as Rastafarians in Jamaica, woke up to the fact they were the people spoken about in Devaureim (Deut.) 28:47-50, 68. This truth was then tainted by them giving praise to a man on earth, namely Haile Selassie. This Ethiopian Hamite was mistaken to be of the seed of King Daweid due to a relationship to a cousin called Menalek II who was a descendant of King Sholomo (Solomon), hence, a descendant of King Daweid. How did this happen!!?

Before Queen Makitah (Queen of Shebah) visited King Sholomo, they practiced Polyandry, where a female is married to multiple men. So prior to having a child for King Sholomo, the Queen had sons for other men which would make the children related as brothers and sisters and cousins. This was how Haile Selassie was connected to Menalek and assumed the seed of King Daweid, but in actuality he was not. He was only related as cousin, not by seed.

Why do Rastafarians ascribe to the country of Ethiopia over Eretz-Canaan in the mid East!!? Lack of Studies. It is clear Avraham came out of Mesopotamia and went southwards into Eretz-Canaan. This region today is divide up to the Israelis, Palestinian and Jordanians, all of whom are not the proper people of the land. In the Scriptural accounts, the first two Hamitic people to migrate from the mid East into the Continent of Africa were the Mitzraim (Egyptians) and the Cushites (Abyssinians-Ethiopians). This means Haile Selassie was not of the Shemite race which produced the Yisraelites. So, the true country of the heritage of the 12 Tribes of Yisrael is the Mid East and not Ethiopia. Also, the true King to serve and worship is not a man on Earth, but the ever living King and Creator YEHOWAH Almighty.

Sar Elisha Yisrael