biafranation: If funny and hypocritical how Afonjas are now claiming Jews, and Igbos are not interfering. But let it be Igbo article by Reno, and watch afonjas invade to attack. Go to all social media page even on youtube on Igbo origin, you will see Afonjas there, and you ask yourself, what are these people doing in Igbo pages? The funny thing is Igbos don't go to their pages. LOL
So because Reno wrote his story means Yorubas are claiming Jews...
fagbemiakintayo: you can't finish reading it, because the article is not for people like you. Have you ever sit somewhere and think or imagine how 2 people ADAM and EVE multiplied and there descendants spread around the world?
You're adding that Bible myth to African history. Don't you know African history is millions of years old? The Bible is only 6000 years old, hell the Great Pyramids are 100,000 years and more!
Queen Sheba is the bloodline of Nimrod the King of Babylon who was cursed because he tried to build a tower to the Dome of Heaven, which is the dome over the flat Earth. God cursed Nimrod to have no son heir to his throne so all his daughters became virgins queens. By remaining a virgin and unmarried this left the Queen to be the absolute ruler. When Alexander conquered Lower Kemet/Egypt he made his way towards Upper Kemet/Egypt called Nubia, sometimes called Kush, TaSeti, the land of the Bow. The real ancient house of Ethiopia not the current one.
In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Aksum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is. He was an extra-Biblical son of Cush, son of Ham, said to have founded the city of Axum. In English, and generally outside of Ethiopia, the country was once historically known as Abyssinia.
From Upper Egypt the Queen Mother Sheba was the ruler of the entire Earth, she is the Egyptian Isis. Africans occupy all the Earth today, we are the only people who occupy all 7 continents in great numbers. That is because we are the true man and other races came about because of man mixing with Neanderthals using Eugenics. Queen Sheba's lineage still continues...as does all African ancient royal bloodlines. We are the only people with Ancient Kings and Queens in abundance. Before there were races there were bloodlines. We warred in ancient times over bloodlines not race. What you are doing is promoting your bloodline or ethnic group over the others if you are from Ibjebu. I would agree that a Queen from the line of Queen Sheba is buried in Ibjebu but the lines still continues.
The purpose of knowledge is to expand current thought. This article does not only do that, it also goes on with facts and sources to provoke argument. Howbeit, anyone who sits and arm chair theorizes negating Reno's postulations should also take the time to research with the aim of disproving all he has said. I believe for a non related person to go to the extent of searching such out, he deserves respect...Mr Reno Omokri, TAKE A BOW!!
Kolping: "The Fulani were notorious for raiding tribes of the lower Niger. They called the Igbo Yar’Miri, which is a derogatory name that they still call them in the North (Nyamiri). The Yorubas they called Yar’Iba. I know the meaning of that word and it is so derogatory that I will not reveal it here. "
Some people are seeing the light and the truth is gradually coming out... the Europeans were not the slave raiders. The slave raiders had armies. Have you ever wondered why the Nigerian Army is older than the country Nigeria? Who were the Nigerian Army before it's formation? (or rather transformation) in 1863?
Very eye-opening, but what I disagree with is Jerusalem. Jeru means city while salem means peace.It's the blending of the two morphologically that becomes JERUSALEM, the city of peace. Muslims have altered the word salem a bit to SALAM. So,they say asalam alaikun etc.
Biglittlelois: I couldnt finish reading cos this is one of the most nauseating write up ever, anyone can come up with this claiming there is a connection between Jerusalem and his country, anyone can do that,
I am Yoruba and for Reno to come up with this claiming Ijebu people are Isrealites, Jerusalem bla bla bla is disgusting, what is the essence of this claim? does he want the Yoruba tribe to be bashed, trashed and insulted? Of what use is these claim to the world today? this is very low of Reno Omokri.
Why dont you do little research yourself to find out the truth instead of talking trash
Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans By Ewen Callaway DAILY NEWS 6 May 2010
Any human whose ancestral group developed outside Africa has a little Neanderthal in them – between 1 and 4 per cent of their genome, Pääbo’s team estimates. In other words, humans and Neanderthals had sex and had hybrid offspring. A small amount of that genetic mingling survives in “non-Africans” today: Neanderthals didn’t live in Africa, which is why sub-Saharan African populations have no trace of Neanderthal DNA.
kokomilala: Very eye-opening, but what I disagree with is Jerusalem. Jeru means city while salem means peace.It's the blending of the two morphologically that becomes JERUSALEM, the city of peace. Muslims have altered the word salem a bit to SALAM. So,they say asalam alaikun etc.
If this were true, there would have been many cities in Israel beginning with Jeri. Jeri DOES not mean city. Even the Bible says it clearly in the verses he quoted in the article that Jebus is the old name for Jerusalem.
He has a point. A lot of African culture were taken and converted to European.
Take for example, Thor god of thunder is actually Sango, yoruba god of thunder.
The Israelis you see today are not the true Israelites.
Google is your friend.
Most of these things are true but Africans are too dumb to even know.
This is because the Celtics were Africans.
Africans are indigenous to Europe not Caucasians so all of ancient European history are Africans. Celtics were Africans, the Runic Alphabet is African. The Caucasian never created an alphabet and unless its the magical alphabets that anyone can create.
The First President of the United States George Washington was a Moor which is African. America is Al Morocco the head of the Moor Empire. The Moors had two homes besides them living in Europe along with Africans from Ethiopia and the Congo. It was Morocco that gave the United States is first recognition as a nation.
@anku90,you're funny.You're relying only on what he wrote.I had researched on Jerusalem years back.Where in the Bible is it established that the Ijebu are Jebusites?I'm not sure you study your Bible well enough. Another research may well throw off Reno's article. When you study,you spread your tentacles,sieve facts from fiction and be intelligent critic,The internet has a plethora of falsehood and the impressionable can easily consume it. I once told a class that Caleb,Joshua's lieutenant was a Kenizite. The Bible confirmed it.He was adopted as an Israelite.Someone at the gathering said I shouldn't teach it that no one would believe me.Some yes later, my American friend posted it on FB and I smiled. Works can be critiqued but facts must be established for consumption.
Typical African who can't read and learn new things......there is much sense in what Reno wrote and I will be doing a study for fur clarification....God created Adam and Eve alone.....We all migrated from somewhere....Try to challenge the known....Read and study.....The world belongs to those who are not mentally lazy.
If you are a Christian and believe in the bible and go to church everyday , then you will understand that we are all probably practicing incest if truly their should be any word like that. the bible says God created Adam and Eve and they gave birth and multiplied. I am sure their children must have slept with one another to reproduce and it went on and on. i guess the different languages and tribe thing started when an attempt was made to build a tower to heaven and God disorganised them by making them speak different languages.
but this bible self, who write am. what language did adam and eve speak when they were created. everything is very confusing
YouthsPC0: The Ijebu, The Yoruba and Their Influence on The Bible and Judaism
First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday Thisday of September 30, 2018.
By Reno Omokri
One of the most fascinating aspects of the history of the Black Race is hidden in plain sight and I have known this for years, but I have been a coward. I know my people. I know how some of us love to deprecate their own selves. And I was afraid that if I wrote about the truth, I would be attacked. But when has it ever been that truth was first celebrated?
For the truth, it has always been as Mahatma Gandhi said “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” I have no interest in winning. I just want the truth to be out there.
But as I woke up this morning, a Force propelled me. I was so restless and I asked myself why I was restless. And the words of John 8:32 were emblazoned on my mind:
“you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Elsewhere, I have written about the biblical Nimrod (the first world emperor) in Genesis 10. I showed in actual fact that there was nothing like Nimrod. His real name is Namrud in Aramaic and Arabic. From where the European translators got the name Nimrod, I would not know. But the name found in the Pentateuch is Namrud. Do not take my word for it. Google it. Or go to a reference library.
I had also said that that Namrud was no other person than Lamurudu, the father of Oduduwa, the father of the Yoruba people. If you want evidence, Google my article ‘Why Black Man dey Suffer today.’
But today, I want to reveal the truth about a place called Jerusalem.
Many people do not realise that the original name for Jerusalem was not Jerusalem but actually Jebus. If you doubt me, stop reading right now and Google the word Jebus. Or go to a reference library.
The Jebus, were a tribe that occupied the modern day Jerusalem before they were conquered by King David. This is a historical fact. It is also recorded in the Bible.
In Joshua 11:3, we read:
“And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.”
Now, note those words “the Jebusite in the mountains”. It is very important, as I will explain later.
Do not be confused by the use of the generic term ite after the names of tribes. They were not used in the original Hebrew Scriptures. It was the European and specifically the English translators of the Hebrew Scriptures, that added the generic suffix, ite.
So for example, in their eyes, a person from Canaan would be a Canaanite. The children of Ammon would be called Ammonites. And those from Jebus were called Jebusites.
I do not know why they did this. Did they do it to deceive, confuse, or hide the truth? Or, did they do it for ease of reference? Your guess is as good as mine.
Now, if you read 2 Samuel 5:6, it says:
“The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there.”
The King here, refers to David. David attacked Jebus and defeated them as we can see in verse 8 of 2 Samuel 5 which says:
“David had said, "Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those 'lame and blind' who are David's enemies."
In verse 9, we read that David defeated the Jebusites, but did not take up residence in the mountains, where most of them lived (remember I told you to remember the mountains).
He chose to reside in the lowlands surrounding the mountains as we read in verse 9:
“David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.”
In actual fact, the name Jebus that you read about in The Bible, refers to a tribe now known as Ijebu in Southwest Nigeria.
I have just blown your mind. I know. It sounds like blasphemy. Heresy. But please let me land!
The Ijebu do not really call themselves I-J-E-B-U, the way an outsider would pronounce all syllables. They actually call themselves J-E-B-U, with the I before jebu silent.
And the Ijebu people are unlike other Yoruba tribes in that they do not claim Yoruba heritage. They have something you would find nowhere else in Yoruba land. They have a king called Awjujale.
The Awujale of Ijebu, Sikiru Adetona, revealed in an interview, (which I urge every reader of this article to read: simply Google Middle East origins of the Ijebu), that the Ijebu originally came from the area around the Middle East to the Sudan.
This agrees with the biblical references in Joshua 11:3 and 12:10 as well as 2 Samuel 5:6-10.
So if the Jebus were the original inhabitants of Jerusalem, where does the word Jerusalem come from?
You see, the Ijebu or Jebu is the name of the tribe. However, they name their towns, villages and habitations after the topography of their environment.
So for instance, in modern day Nigeria, the Ijebu towns are known by the prefix Ijebu, followed by a suffix indicating their topography. Today, the Ijebu towns are known as Ijebu-Ode (which may loosely mean outer Ijebu), Ijebu-Igbo (which may loosely mean forested Ijebu). You also have Ijebu-Remo, Ijebu-Isiwo and other Ijebu towns, villages and communities that begin with the prefix Ijebu and end with a suffix depicting their topography or to a lesser extent, their history.
Now, recall that I urged my readers to remember that in Joshua 11:3, the Jebus were referred to as living in the mountains, but in 2 Samuel 5:6, the Bible records that the Jebus lived in Jerusalem.
Psalm 125:2 reads:
“As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.”
Jerusalem is a town surrounded by mountains. Even today, some residents of Jerusalem live in the mountains, others live in the lowlands or valley.
The Jebus who were living in the lowlands of Jerusalem and who were conquered by King David in 2 Samuel chapter 5 were Ijebu-Isale, loosely meaning Ijebu of the lowland or valley.
It is that Ijebu-Isale, which the natives would have called Jebu-sale (both i’s after Ijebu and Isale would have been silent) that was mispronounced as Jeru-Sale by King David and his men, because 2 Samuel chapter 5 quite clearly states that King David built the city of David in the lowland. Jeru-Sale became Jerusalem.
The challenge many Black People have is that we do not read. It is still true today that if you want to hide something from a Black man, you hide it in a book.
These things you just read are not secrets. They have been hidden in the most popular book in the world for centuries! They are in The Bible!
It grieves me when I see Black People, especially people of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria, say that their culture is derived from Jewish culture. That is not true and I will prove it using only Scripture.
Many people do not realise that there is a difference between being a Hebrew and being Jewish.
Hebrews are the descendants of Abraham. Jews are those who profess the faith of Judaism.
The faith of Judaism is not actually traced to Abraham, although the God of Judaism (whom I believe in) is the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The fact is that the prophet Moses (Moshe) was the founder of Judaism. But how did he come about his spiritual knowledge?
Moses was an Egyptian general of Hebrew descent. For the first 40 years of his life, he lived in Egypt and had no connection with the one true God.
It was only when he ran away from Egypt after killing an Egyptian, that he met God.
Moses sought asylum in Midian, where he lived for forty years. He married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian (also known as Reuel). This is very important. Why? Because Jethro was Black. How do I know? The Bible tells us.
Numbers 12:1 reads:
“And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.”
If you read the same verse in the NIV, it says:
“Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.”
Cush is the Hebrew word for Black. Do not be confused by the use of Ethiopian by the King James Version. When the KJV uses the term Ethiopian, what it actually means is Black Africa. You see, when the King James Version was written, Africa was known as Ethiopia and Black People were called Ethiope.
Google the word Ethiope if you doubt me. The nation now known as Ethiopia is referred to as Sheba in the Old Testament. It is NEVER referred to as Ethiopia (except in the New Testament). Hence, the Queen of Ethiopia who visited King Solomon is referred to as the Queen of Sheba, not Queen of Ethiopia.
So Moses was living with Black People in Midia and married the daughter of their Black priest. It was while he was there that he had the encounter with God described as the Burning Bush experience of Exodus 3.
A lot of the spiritual and physical laws which Moses passed on to the Hebrews in the form of the religion of Judaism were actually taught to him by his Black father-in-law. How do I know? Because the bible says so.
Exodus 18:24 says:
“Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.”
This is the reason why there are so many similarities between Jewish culture and Black African culture.
For example, in Deuteronomy 25:5, Moses taught that if a man dies without a seed, his brother, who is next in line, will produce seed for him through his widowed wife.
In the New Testament, the Sadducees threw this law at the face of our Lord Jesus in Matthew 22:24 which reads:
“Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.”
This custom is present in the original customary laws of almost all Black African tribes. Africans did not learn this from the Jews. The Jews learnt it from Africans.
Africans need to realise that the very first nation mentioned in the Bible is the Black Race. Genesis 2:13 reads:
“The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.”
That word Cush is the Hebrew word for the Black Race till this very day.
Even the way that the Jews consulted God (divination) is of Black origin. Many times, when we read that God told a Jewish prophet something, it is not that God came down or spoke to them in dreams or through an angel, which did happen. However, by far the most consistent way that the Israelites consulted and heard from God, was through the practice of divination. It is in the Bible.
Aaron was a diviner. He cast lots, using holy jewelled beads called Urim and Thummim.
Exodus 28:30 reads:
“Also put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece, so they may be over Aaron's heart whenever he enters the presence of the LORD. Thus Aaron will always bear the means of making decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the LORD.”
David was recorded as a good king because he regularly practiced divination (casting the lot).
We see this in 1 chronicles 24:31
“They also cast lots, just as their relatives the descendants of Aaron did, in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelek, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites. The families of the oldest brother were treated the same as those of the youngest.”
Even the land of Canaan was divided amongst the tribes of Israel by divination.
Numbers 26:55 reads:
“But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.”
Even in the New Testament, the disciples of our Lord and Saviour used divination to choose a successor to Judas Iscariot.
In Acts 1:26 we read:
“Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.”
This practice of casting lots, is a very ancient and still common practice amongst the Jebu or Ijebu people of Nigeria specifically and amongst the descendants of Oduduwa.
Just as the Jewish priests use beaded jewels known as Urim and Thumim, so do the Jebu or Ijebu and the Omo Oduduwa use beads for their divination.
If you have ever watched a Nollywood movie where a traditional priest threw beads on the floor and saw the future or identified a culprit who stole or predicted the outcome of a given venture, that was the ancient Black African science of divination.
Now, I have used the word, Yoruba, to describe the Omo Oduduwa as distinct from the Jebu or Ijebu. But ask any Yoruba elder for the meaning of Yoruba and they have no clue. The truth is that before the British came, there was NOTHING like Yoruba.
You were either Egba, Owu, Ijesha, Awori, etc. You will not find any document bearing the word Yoruba from the 18th century. The omo Oduduwa now called Yoruba used to call themselves omooluabi.
The word Yoruba actually comes from the word Yar’Iba. It is a Fulani word dating from the days of slavery. If you read the memoirs of Bishop Samual Ajayi Crowther, he did not refer to himself as Yoruba.
In his memoirs, Ajayi Crowther revealed that he was raided from his village in Osogun (in present day Oyo state) by Fulani slave raiders (different from slave traders).
The Fulani were notorious for raiding tribes of the lower Niger. They called the Igbo Yar’Miri, which is a derogatory name that they still call them in the North (Nyamiri). The Yorubas they called Yar’Iba. I know the meaning of that word and it is so derogatory that I will not reveal it here.
It was the British, who in search of an ethnic identity for the Omo Oduduwa, took the derogatory word Yar’iba, and mispronounced it as Yoruba.
The actual name for the Yoruba or the Omo Oduduwa, is omoluabi, which is a word that evolved from omo-ti-olu-iwa-bi, meaning the child that the lord of character begat.
Many people, including many modern day Yoruba speakers, think that Oluwa means Lord. No it does not. Oluwa connotes Lord, but it does not mean just lord. It means Lord of Iwa, meaning character, or good morals.
Now what is the origin of omo-ti-olu-iwa-bi? Many, myself included, think It goes back to the origin of Adam, the child that had no mother or father but was begotten by the Lord as we read in Genesis 2, which itself agrees with the folkloric origins of Oduduwa’s ancestral line through Lamurudu.
I know that these revelations may be shocking and could even seem like heresy to some of my readers, but I urge everyone who has read this to behave like the Berean people.
Acts 17:11 reads:
“Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
Please search the Scriptures. Everything you have read here is based on Scripture, shocking as it may be.
Reno Omokri Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years, and other books. Avid traveller.
If you have questions stemming from this article, you can reach me on info@renoomokri.org.
Lol so the Yoruba's don't know there history na you go tell em ABI! Continue. I never knew you had PHD in Yoruba history to tell me and my people our history. We for long saw the hand writing on the wall.....that there's a sponsored propangada to try and divide the west.
1.) Yoruba Muslim/ Christian name calling did not appear from thing air....it was an effort to sow seeds of discord. 2). Then the Afonja tag...against anyone who has contrary opinion to certain people. 3). Yoruba/Ijebu a way to create a divide between Ijebus and other Yoruba states.
biafranation: If funny and hypocritical how Afonjas are now claiming Jews, and Igbos are not interfering. But let it be Igbo article by Reno, and watch afonjas invade to attack. Go to all social media page even on youtube on Igbo origin, you will see Afonjas there, and you ask yourself, what are these people doing in Igbo pages? The funny thing is Igbos don't go to their pages. LOL
We know who we are...perhaps you should help us ask where he got his own version of history from.
Lol so the Yoruba's don't know there history na you go tell em ABI! Continue. I never knew you had PHD in Yoruba history to tell me and my people our history. We for long saw the hand writing on the wall.....that there's a sponsored propangada to try and divide the west.
1.) Yoruba Muslim/ Christian name calling did not appear from thing air....it was an effort to sow seeds of discord. 2). Then the Afonja tag...against anyone who has contrary opinion to certain people. 3). Yoruba/Ijebu a way to create a divide between Ijebus and other Yoruba states.
You get am. Reno is delusional enough to think his silly and crazy history can actually be taken seriously. So many political intentions hidden in the write-up. He needs to try harder. Yoruba are not desperate and stupid to see such a stupendous article written with bad intentions. Reno the hungry dog looking for political relevance neeeds to stick to writing rubbish about his own people. What a jumbled and psychotic mess.
Biglittlelois: I couldnt finish reading cos this is one of the most nauseating write up ever, anyone can come up with this claiming there is a connection between Jerusalem and his country, anyone can do that,
I am Yoruba and for Reno to come up with this claiming Ijebu people are Isrealites, Jerusalem bla bla bla is disgusting, what is the essence of this claim? does he want the Yoruba tribe to be bashed, trashed and insulted? Of what use is these claim to the world today? this is very low of Reno Omokri.
The form Yerushalem or Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) first appears in the Bible, in the Book of Joshua. According to a Midrash, the name is a combination of "Yireh" ("The abiding place", the name given by Abraham to the place where he began to sacrifice his son) and "Shalem" ("Place of Peace", given by high priest Shem), then the two names were united by God"
Wikipedia
Reno got some weed from FFK to write that overreaching nonsense
Mortiple: It just dawn on me that Reno Omokri is a jester who shouldn't be taken serious.
What is the correlation between Salem (which means PEACE) and Isale?
Nimrod has suddenly become Lamurudu!
This claim is a subtle insult to the Ijebus because the Jebusites were Canaanites, who were conquered and sent packing by the Hebrews.
I thought Reno is a Pastor?
Well I know Reno, he is up to something.
its even wrong to think the Jébúsìte who are canaanites were sent packing, they are as a matter of facts the old philistines and new Palestinian, David ruled over both tribes in Jerusalem.
Neoteny: "Jerusalem, known as Yerushalem in Hebrew..."
The form Yerushalem or Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) first appears in the Bible, in the Book of Joshua. According to a Midrash, the name is a combination of "Yireh" ("The abiding place", the name given by Abraham to the place where he began to sacrifice his son) and "Shalem" ("Place of Peace", given by high priest Shem), then the two names were united by God"
Wikipedia
Reno got some weed from FFK to write that overreaching nonsense
please stop quoting wiki please, Abraham never got to Jerusalem no where in the scriptures was that mentioned.
Beautiful writeup. Black history is really coming up and many Blacks in the US are digging up old history. The slave trade that destroyed the Kindgom of Judah in Africa(The Kingdom was called Ajudah or ouidah). These history seems like thrah but when you read closely it makes complete sense. When Bob Marley sings about Africans as the Isrealites we thought it was due to drug use, but as years go by it makes more sense.
The Bible corraborates many of these history and when Solomon says "i am black" you understand what he is saying, when Amos says the Jews are like the Ethiopians the scripture becomes clearer, when Isaiah prophesies that God will bring back the Isrealites from the lower part of the Nile you understand what it means. When the first prime minister of Egypt asked why Isreal left Palestine as Black people but came back as whites you will understand what he is saying. There are books that documents these things, they will never be taught in schools.
Don't you know African history is millions of years old? The Bible is only 6000 years old, hell the Great Pyramids are 100,000 years and more! 