Wow Is this how AFrica Got Her Name?

ANSWER

The answers below refer to Phoenician, Greek and Roman sources on the subject. From earliest Egyptian sources, officially dated at circa 2500 BC, Kh-afre, fourth king of the 4th dynasty reveals that an early Egyptian king had the name "Africa". That is because modern Egyptologists and others often mix the order of the hieroglyphs that the ancients wrote. Thus Kh-Afre is Afre-Kh or Africa.

The ancient Jewish records are supposedly silent on "Africa" but that is because the Hebrew name for the continent, "Auphirah" is usually written "Ophir". In I Kings 9:28, we read that the sailors of Solomon of Israel and Hiram of Tyre went to "Ophir-Auphirah". Then in the next verse, I Kings 10:1, we read that the Queen who "ruled" or "administered" [Hebrew sheb (Shin, Beit, Aleph)] Ophirah-Africa, came to visit Solomon and probably put in a courtesy call to Hiram of Tyre as well (circa 950 BC). Only one queen ruled Egypt, Nubia, Sudan and Ethiopia of those days and her name is Hat-Sheba-Sut or Hatshepsut. Her temple at Deir el-Bahari evokes the words of Song of Solomon "Oh my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the stairs". She was the great African Queen after whom even river boats and Hollywood films are named.

However, this analysis depends on accepting that Egyptian chronology is wrong by 600 years and that all the dynasties of ancient Egypt are misaligned with other countries' histories by error factors of 600 years on average. That's why there are so many mysteries over what really is quite a simple answer. To see how complex answers otherwise become, read those below. The complexity in what surely should be a simple question-answer is revealed by the excellent research shown below. But the real situation - assuming the chronological problems/solutions noted above are in fact so - is surely much simpler and more obvious.

Also, the name Afre-Kh or Kh-Afre, noted above, probably simply means the "Kh of Ophir" or perhaps "Spirit of Africa".

One of the answers below explains that "Punt" is East Africa. Today, the British supported government of North Somalia is named "Puntland" on some maps. However, Amenhotep III said "When I look to the sunrise, I come to the countries of Punt". One Egyptian poet likened holding a girl in one's arms to be in "Punt". Somalia and East Africa were never such wonderful places. But Israel in the Days of Solomon was. Thus Hatshepsut's extensive report of her journey to "Punt" obviously refers to Sheba's visit to Jerusalem in 950 BC. However, Jerusalem in the soon to come Messianic Kingdom which many Sudanese already believe exists in modern Israel will make Solomon's Jerusalem pale in comparison. Jesus said "Hatshepsut-Queen of the South" would rise up at the resurrection and judge the leaders of Israel who rejected Jesus of Nazareth. This little aside shows that distorted history has been used to prevent people knowing what's in store for them if they believe and worship the true God (and what's in store for them if they do not). There is a good reason why the authorities do not want people to know the origin of the word (name) "Africa" because its great queen (Hatshepsut-Sheba) rejected her pagan gods and turned (repented) to the God of Solomon and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of Israel.

In summary, the oldest sources for the name "Africa" come from the Bible (Ophir) and Egyptian records (Kh-Afre or Afre-Kh). Attempts below by the linguistic community to derive the origins of the name "Africa" get swamped by borrowed traditions from the Biblical source and by loan-words that migrated through various languages after the Tower of Babel (circa 2200 BC).
It is now virtually impossible to tell which language borrowed from another or which language 'lent' a word to another via trade, assimilation, culture-swapping etc. However, certain things dominate no matter what. The ancient Egyptians had difficulty distinguishing between 'b' and 'p' in speech. Today, an Egyptian still says "Egypt is very boor". Generation after generation of invaders, while they may have changed much of the face of Egypt they could not prevent their children imitating the speech of the indigenous culture.

Answer

The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra � "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) � for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
The origin of Afer may either come from:

• the Phoenician `afar, dust;
• the Afri, a tribe � possibly Berber � who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area;
• the Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names);
• or the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny.
  
  
  The historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (?????, meaning 'cold and horror'), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. However, the change of sound from pH to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.
  Egypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge.
  -DJ Craig

HEBREWS, PLEASE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS Of YAHUWAH

THE COMMANDMENTS

Mal. 3:6 tells us that YAHUWAH does not change.


Heb. 13:8 tells us the same thing about Yahushuah.


Isa. 8:20 tells us that if people do not speak in accordance with the law and the testimony then there is no light in them, Also see John 7:16.


Hosea 4:6 tells us that if you reject His knowledge, YAHUWAH will reject you. And if you forget His laws, He will forget your children.


Prov. 28:9 tells us that he who refuses to listen to YAHUWAH’s laws, even his prayers is an abomination.


Ps 119:118 tells us that those who stray from YAHUWAH’s statutes, YAHUWAH rejects.


Deut. 18:18, 19 is a prophecy about the coming of Yahushuah, a Prophet like unto Moses, and that YAHUWAH shall cause Him to speak His words-His laws and His testimony (Isa.8:20). See also John 7:16-19, Isa. 48:16-19, Matt 7:21, Luke 22:42, John 6:38, Rom. 12:2, Heb. 13:20, 21. What is Yahushuah love? It was doing the will of His Father. See also Ex 25:16, 21, 31:18, II Chron. 23:11, John 3:32-34.


Acts 13:42, 43 tells us that the Gentiles also kept the Seventh-day Sabbath, even though they were “under grace.” And take note that no one “corrected them on this, for it was in keeping with all the testimonies of Yahushuah and the Apostles.


Luke 16:17 tells us it is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to pass, or fail, or for that matter to be annulled or rescinded.


Matt. 5:17-19 and Rom. 13:8-10 tells us that YAHUWAH’s laws and commandments are the same thing.


I John 34 tells us that sin and lawlessness are the same thing. Rom. 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death.


James 2:10, 11 tells us that if you transgress in just one point of the law then you are guilty of breaking the whole law. This is Satan’s greatest trick-to get us to believe that if we break just a minor one, we will be ok. This also is the deception of replacing YAHUWAH’s chosen day of worship, and the malignancy behind it.


I John 5:2, 3 tells us that this is how we know we love YAHUWAH, that we keep His commandments.


I Peter 2:21 tells us that The Meshiac is our example, and we should follow Him, Also see john 15:10.


Matt. 5 17-20 tell us that Yahushuah did not come to end, destroy or abolish the law, but rather to fulfill it.


Rom. 8:1-4 tells us that if you are in The Meshiac, then you also will fulfill the righteous requirements of the law. Verses 5-9 tell us that the carnally minded cannot keep the laws of YAHUWAH. Now, while Rom. 8:3 and 3:20 tell us that we are not saved by the works of the law.


Rom. 4:1-4 tells us, particularly in verse 4, that we do not do such works to be saved, but rather out of debt, because we have been saved.


Matt 7:21-23 tells us that Yahushuah will reject those who practice lawlessness, on judgment day.


Matt. 24:20 tells us that The Meshiac still expected people to be keeping the seventh-day Sabbath even in the future, so this passage speaks about the destruction of Jerusalem, which didn’t happen until 70 A.D.


Rom 3:31 tells us that the law is not made void by faith or grace.


Rom. 3:19-22 tells us that we are saved by faith, not by the works of the law, but this does not make void the law, or in other words, it does not mean that the law doesn’t not apply-verse 31.


Rev. 12:17, 14:12 and 22:14 tell us that those who overcome the Devil will be those who keep the commandments of YAHUWAH and have the testimony or faith of Yahushuah.


Luke 18:18-23 tells us that Yahushuah did teach the law and indeed that it was the way to eternal life, when coupled with love. I hope you can see that the doctrine which teaches that grace makes void the law is a false one.


Ezek. 13:9 tells us that prophets or teachers who envision futile ways and speak lies shall not be in YAHUWAH’s everlasting assembly. See Isa 1:19-20, 5:20 and Jer. 5:20-25, 30, and 31.


Ex 31:13-18 tells us that YAHUWAH made the Sabbath to serve as a sign for us that we may know that it is YAHUWAH who sanctifies us, as opposed to the other heathen peoples, and also that it is a perpetual covenant in itself. To those who say that it applies only to Israel, Gal 3:29 tells us that if we are The Meshiac’s, then we are Abraham’s seed. So that one may know that it is the children of faith, not the children of blood, who are spiritual Israel, or the spiritual inheritors of the Abrahmic blessings.


Isa. 24:4-6 tells us that it is the changing of YAHUWAH’s statutes, or the transgression of it that destroy the earth, and cause it to languish. That to transgress His laws is to defile the earth.


Rev. 11:18 tells us that He will destroy those who do this.


Dan 7:25 tells us that one would come who would seek to, or actually the key word here is “think to change times and laws” the only law that is also a time is the Sabbath commandment. Emperor Constantine of Rome is the one who changed the Sabbath to Sunday. You will have to read about this elsewhere. I am going to note a few starting places to read about it.


A book called The Didache-the last paragraph on 291-292. There is a very important reason why the Sabbath commandment is the only commandment that begins with, REMEMBER Ex 20:8. This YAHUWAH said because He knew that men would forget. The Sabbath commandment is the only one of the Ten that makes no worldly sense. He knew it would be the easiest one for Satan to deceive people over, for that very reason. By the wisdom and reasoning of the world, what does it matter which day we worship on? Well, it matters to YAHUWAH. I John 3:4 and James 2:10, 11 The new Covenant was actually foretold in the old testament. And you might be surprised by what it says. See Isa. 54:10, Jer. 31:33, Ez. 36:26, 27 and Mark 14:24 If all Scripture is given by the inspiration of the Ruach Ha Kodesh 2 Tim. 3:16, then the Ruach Ha Kodesh is the actual author of all Scripture. Now if YAHUWAH and The Meshiac never change Mal. 3:6 and Heb. 13:8, then the testimony of the Ruach Ha Kodesh must remain consistent throughout the Scriptures, both Old and New Covenants, which is what I am presenting to you in this Bible study. Indeed, this is also what Yahushuah tells us in Matt. 5:17-20. This also should tell you that those who teach that grace makes void the law are not in keeping with what the Scriptures themselves, and instead are teaching license for iniquity, which is another word for lawlessness, I John 3:4. Just as Yahushuah did not come to save us IN our sins, but to save us FROM our sins, He also did not come to set us free from His Laws, but rather to expound upon them and to write them upon the tables of our hearts, that we might not transgress against Him Ps. 119:11, 33-40, 97-120, 137-144, and 169-176. So those who teach that the law no longer applies because of grace are in fact teaching you to sin.


Matt. 5:19, 7:21-23, I John 3:4 tells us that sin is the transgression of the law. II Thes. 2:3-12 tells us about the coming of the mystery of iniquity (or lawlessness). The mystery is how do you get to heaven without Keeping YAHUWAH’s laws? There are those who would state that Yahushuah only laws are to love YAHUWAH before all, and to love thy neighbor as thyself Matt. 22:35-40. But then I ask you, can you love YAHUWAH in disobedience? Could you love your neighbor if you kill him, or steal from him, or sleep with his wife?


I john 5:2,3 In John 14:15,23,24 The Meshiac tells us that if we love Him we will keep His commandments, and that His word is the word of the Father as well (in other words He speaks His Father’s words), and that those who do not keep His commandments do not love Him, Indeed we are told that His commandments are love Matt. 22:35-40. So you cannot love if you are breaking the commandments. Note: As you can see, YAHUWAH’s law is a transcript, if you will, of His character. It can no more change or end than can the eternal YAHUWAH,

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The difference between Hebrews & Modern Jews

As we approach the year 2012, something very wonderful is happeing faster than a person has a chance to understand it. It's happening to people who have been called, "African Americans" and not just African Americans only, but this phenomenon is happing simultaneously all over the world in, India, South American, Europe, and Africa.

So, just what is going on? Well, seemingly, almost overnight, many people of color are simply starting to " wake up to the reality that we are the hebrew decendants written in scripture". Since I live in the United States, I will focus on what is happening here! Everyday, more and more African American's, Hispanics and Native American are starting to declare that they just awoke from a slumber and are studying the scriptures to discover that they fit in every detail, the of the conditions that are found in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. 

When those scriptures are looked at carefully and slowly it is obvious that the Most High was prophesying the events of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade that became full blown around A.D.1611-1865.  This would be a little more than 1.5 days after the death of the promised Meshiach. Remember the scriputre tells us that 1 day with Yahuwah is as 1000 years and 1000 years is as 1 day.

Historically, it can be proven that the first enslavement that the Hebrew's expierenced did not last 400 yrs as has popularly been taught. The misunderstanding comes from this verse: GENESIS 15:13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age." (NKJV) Please read this article for clearity

But the prophesy in Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, “You shall never see it again.” And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you. Now you should do some research on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade to verify verses 16-68 of Deutoronomy 28. and Leviticus 26.

Food for Thought, if you have an American $1.00 bill, please look at the symbol of the Pyramid on the back signfiying that when the Hebrews were brought as slaves to the shores of America we were entering back into Egypt.  So, today the difference between the Hebrews and the Jews is a matter of origin. 

The modern Eastern European Jewish people were Khazars who converted to the Abrahamic faith in 747 A.D See: "The Thirteenth Tribe" by Arthur Koestler, Read Book Here.

Mr. Koestler was an Ashkenazi Jew and took pride in his Khazar ancestry. He was also a very talented and successful writer who published over 25 novels and essays. His most successful book, Darkness at Noon, was translated in thirty-three languages. As expected, The Thirteenth Tribe caused a stir when published in 1976, since it demolishes ancient racial and ethnic dogmas...At the height of the controversy in 1983, the lifeless bodies of Arthur Koestler and his wife were found in their London home. Despite significant inconsistencies, the police ruled it a suicide.

(BUT, IT IS OBVIOUS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED..) SEE THAT'S THE FUNNY THING, PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HIDE THE FACTS, CANNOT STOP THE TRUTH FROM COMING FORTH..BECAUSE THE MOST HIGH HAS THE FINAL SAY ON THE MATTER! 

 

Although being Jewish has become very popular in the later 20th and 21th Centuries, neither Eastern European Jews nor Judaism, should not be mistaken as the same as, the Biblical Hebrews or biblical worship. Hebrews are still scattered around the globe, in the same conditions discribed in those verses mentioned above.  I could go into many scriptures and historical documents to prove my case, but there are so many other Hebrew's doing such a good job of this already.

The reason it is important to understand the difference between the two groups is because, just as the Most High scattered us (The Hebrews), he has promised to regather us, and bring us back to our own land. That is precisely what is happening, every week someone emails, or calls me and tells me that he/she "just woke up" I completely understand..this is not the work of any one man, it is the work of the Most High Yahuwah, so it cannot be stopped. The Hebrew people are like the sand of the sea in number, all the prophesy's will be fullfilled. It can only continue its rapid spread around the globe as we are witnessing each day.

It is truly fascinating because things are happening so fast to among the Hebrew people, customs, ways, patterns and abrupt changes in diet and worship; it is as if a genetic code suddenly got swtiched on inside every Hebrew descendant of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. It is appropriate because we are comming to the "End of the Age" and it is at this time that the Most High promised to re gather his children. Isaiah 43:5-7 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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