Ari Kohan Ranaan Bar Iami

Family.  At the mention of this word depending on who you are, where you are, how you were raised, and who you are talking to, you will get mixed reviews, opinions, and perspectives.  Family is a subject all too familiar, pun intended.  Family being etymology related to " familiar" is a clue into the purpose of this missive.  Is Family Familiar? When most of us ponder that question, our knee jerk reaction is to say yes.  We all think we know our family.  Unfortunately those of us that have been classified " Colored"  "Negro","Nigger","Black", or "African American" in America only know up to Grandparents and a few third cousins in some photo albums.  There are a select remnant of families that have yearly family reunions; however that is as far as it goes.  In contrast with European culture, which has birthed "White Supremacy", they have a complete history of their bloodline, family trees, ance...

Upon first reading the Holy Bible as a youth; and in those days it was sporadic, and at the instructions of a preacher or in the parameters of Sunday School or Bible Study, a common instrument that was always mentioned was the trumpet .  Someone was always "sounding the trumpet".   Most references in my mind from these scriptures of course is your first point of reference in the paradigm that was created for you from parents, family, school, and environment.  From those four sectors of your created You ,  everybody was told a  trumpet is a gold looking open ended horn with buttons connected some how.  In Western Culture this is  what one gets introduced to as a trumpet.   The only reference you have when reading the Scriptures, at best from movies one may reference a Greek or Roman trumpet, due to romanticism of Greek and Roman mythology embeded throught the world ...

As a child my introduction to  Y'shua  was to say the least, distorted. For the sake of this epistle I will ferer to  Y'shua  in the Greek translation of Jesus , this translation is most used in canonical writings and is historically recognized globally.  My Mississippi born Chicago raised Grandmother, I know from the whole totality of my heart meant well in her zealous spiritual tutelage.  To the point as her energy permeates through my DNA and she breathes on me from the realm of the ancestors, I feel her smiling as I carry her torch of love of righteousness.  Only a few generations removed from slavery grandparents, parents, preachers, teachers, the state, and America have all given a distorted view of Yoshua.  Jesus as we are taught in America was a meek gentle white man who is the most Divine to walk the earth and who all of mankind should worship him and if not feel the wrath of his Father in Heaven.  Don't forget all the p...