Who is yahweh ben yahweh

As the Nation of Yahweh thrived, however, its dark side played out in apocalyptic preaching against "white devils," a firebombing, the hostile takeover of a South Florida housing complex, the beheading of a temple dissident with a dull machete and the murders of white Floridians whose ears were hacked off as trophies.

After Yahweh and six members of his "Circle of Ten" security force "death angels" were imprisoned in , many of Yahweh's followers left the Nation's Temple of Love headquarters, or abandoned the Miami area altogether.

Shocking disclosures from the trial about Yahweh's involvement in killings and sexual relationships with underage girls caused many followers to renounce him.

Most of the Nation's many properties were foreclosed and seized. For a while, the Nation of Yahweh all but disappeared. In , the same year Yahweh ben Yahweh was paroled, the Nation held two lavish conferences in Montreal, Canada. Followers also created a website — www. New posts to the site continue to this day. The only reason I can think of is because of his messiah complex. In their teachings, Nation followers defend claims that Yahweh ben Yahweh is the one true messiah by referencing the dictionary even more than the Bible.

Citing Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary to the page number, the Nation of Yahweh website provides definitions of "father," "Christ," "Messiah," "Jew," and "Israelite" before concluding: "From these facts, Yahweh ben Yahweh, the son of Yahweh, is the Christ, the Messiah, who is the expected or awaited King and Deliverer of the tribe of Judah, the Hebrew Israelites, descendants of the patriarch Jacob.

Its legal arm, the Miami-based Abraham Foundation, provides legal representation to "innocent, indigent Hebrew Israelites.

No police signed up for the overtime duty, in large part because the funeral fell on Mother's Day. Instead, the Nation hired a private security firm. One of the guards on the premises identified himself to the Report only as "Jerry," a licensed private investigator who'd been working for the Nation of Yahweh for several years.

What he could reveal was that "these people pay me very well. In fact, they pay extra for me to be loyal to them. Believe me, those people have a lot of money. Which is what makes their missives about overthrowing wicked governments disconcerting. Many current posts on the Nation of Yahweh website demonstrate that members continue to believe that the FBI, CIA and other government agencies are plotting against them. In their "Rising of the Beast Out of the Sea" lesson, Nation of Yahweh leaders decry their enemies: "They refuse to cooperate or submit to the power of [Yahweh].

The "Word War" article drips with anti-Semitism, arguing that "mainstream Jews" — that is, Jews of European descent — exert "control over the publishing and entertainment industries, the educational and judicial systems, and all other businesses and professions of this world.

Coming Soon: 'The Roundup' One of the more infamous figures of the Nation of Yahweh, Job Israel was convicted in along with Yahweh and five followers for his role in at least 14 murders, including that of would-be Yahweh follower Leonard Dupree, whose head Job Israel bashed in with a car jack. Job was the Nation's master barber. According to Khalil Amani, the former member who testified against his former comrades, Israel also was the most charismatic and fanatical member of the Nation.

He was blinged out before it was popular," says Amani. He was so righteous you couldn't talk to him about anything worldly. And he was a killer. While imprisoned for nine years with his leader an arrangement he begged the judge for , Job taught barbering and cosmetology to inmates.

Upon his release, he built his own hair and beauty products business called Judah's Gold. At Yahweh's funeral, Job wore a custom-fitted white military uniform with black embroidery. Gold and diamond jewelry graced his pinky finger, neck, jacket epaulettes and turban. Inscribed in each pendant and ring were the Hebrew letters for Yahweh. His head had been severed. Then, Amani was known as Brother Yehuda.

Today, he is a grandfather who lives in Green Valley Ranch and works as a lab tech. But these homeowners are leaving it up — to teach a lesson. He knows differently now. Amani first heard about the Nation of Yahweh in when a fraternity brother of his at Miami Dade Community College showed him some of their literature, which taught that black people were the real chosen people of Israel and that Yahweh Ben Yahweh would lead them away from white oppression.

Miami, at the time, was ripe for a cult leader like Yahweh Ben Yahweh to thrive. Just after the group started, the city exploded in violent protests when four white police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance agent. Eighteen people were killed over three days of riots, according to the Miami Herald.

As a black man, his eyes weren't black-folk eyes, which were either dark brown or black. His eyes were hazel, blue or gray, very light-colored, and would vacillate between those colors. He would say in class that Jesus had eyes that were like a flame of fire, which further added to my resolve that I am in the presence of Jesus.

Mitchell, born Oct 27, , in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, then raised 39 miles north in segregated Enid, to the son of a Pentecostal minister and the oldest in a family of 15, hasn't yet adopted the name Yahweh ben Yahweh. In Miami, he's still holding small gatherings and anywhere groups can meet.

Things are unsettled in Liberty City and all hell is about to break loose. There are three police brutality and abuse cases in leading up to what would become known as the McDuffie riots the following year.

The first in January included a white state trooper sexually molesting an year-old-black girl and only getting three years of probation. Another incident in February took place when detectives mistakenly entered the home of a black school teacher with a search warrant. The teacher was seriously injured in the struggle, but a grand jury said there was no criminal wrongdoing on their part.

In September , an off-duty Hialeah police officer shot and killed a year-old black man, but his actions were only negligent, not criminal, a grand jury said. But, in , when a black insurance agent named Arthur McDuffie is chased by police while riding his motorcycle after running a red light and dies from the Miami-Dade police officers allegedly beating him, it's the last straw. When the four white Miami-Dade police officers are acquitted after a trial in Tampa on May 18, , Liberty City erupts in flames.

It becomes Miami's first major race riot since the s. And he said the town would go up in flames. He did not want us, as Hebrew Israelites, to take part in any riots. By this time, Ock Moshe has quite a following.

And his teachings and his popularity is growing. So is his cash flow. Amani says by this time he is firmly entrenched in Ock Moshe and his teachings. The place that the Yahwehs would live with their spiritual leader is a 15,square-foot warehouse, a former food stamp redemption center and shopping market that would become the group's headquarters at NW 62nd St.

Sydney P. Freedberg, the former Miami Herald reporter who won a Pulitzer prize for her coverage of Yahweh ben Yahweh and went on to write a book called "Brother Love: Murder, Money and a Messiah," says the group's headquarters was "in the heart of the riot zone.

By , Ock Moshe would begin his metamorphosis. Then one day, only a few months after announcing himself as Yashua, in front of or of us in the temple, and he came out into the middle and he said, 'How many of you know who I am? It was a scene out of a holiness church. This would also be the beginning of Yahweh ben Yahweh's ascension into the mainstream of Miami, as a redeveloper, a member of the chamber of commerce, an honoree and a hero to many in the community.

He bought up numerous hotels and opened restaurants and stores even rubbing shoulders with local politicians. There was even a Yahweh ben Yahweh day proclaimed and a large gathering at the Miami Arena. Fair's introduction goes like this: "Who is this man Yahweh ben Yahweh?

We who are black people in this county seek salvation every day. We are the descendants of those who have suffered years upon years and if you know anything about our history, you know that each time we feel that the world is coming to an end, someone comes our way. I never reacted to his religious philosophy, in fact, I don't know what that is today.

But I did react to him trying to mobilize and galvanize the black community to begin to become economically sufficient, and his ability to purchase and operate commercial property, as well as rental property.