Judah Awakening

By Yahnwe Okeke

As the prophet was commanded in Ezekiel 40:4, so too was author Yahnwe Okeke instructed to document everything that was disclosed to her through dreams and visions concerning the Judaic roots of the Igbo people of Southeast Nigeria. In Judah Awakening, she chronicles the day-to-day experiences-cum-revelations. A written record of her spiritual encounters and confirmation from internet research, she shares details of her visions and dreams as they happened on different days beginning July 1, 2018, and continuing until the last day, January 24, 2019. Okeke summarizes her journey and highlights the key words which symbolize the core message of her experience. Judah Awakening presents an insightful journal of Okeke’s supernatural revelations of the Israel ancestry of the Igbos of South-East Nigeria, providing the words the Holy Spirit spoke regarding any connections between Israelites and Igbos. It offers a work that touches on religion, science, culture, and so much more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Oct 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781684707683

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Copyright © 2019 Yahnwe Okeke.

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This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

ISBN: 978-1-6847-0769-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6847-0768-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019913760

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Scripture taken from the World English Bible.

Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 09/13/2019

To my two children, Benedict and Emmanuella, whom I collectively call Bella. They understand in their own unique ways. I love them both.

The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

—Ezekiel 40:4 WEB

Acknowledgments

Thank you, Sister Eudelyn Joseph, for believing and encouraging me on this path that is trodden by a few, even when it looked and sounded outlandish. My profound appreciation goes to Mr. Uchenna Mefor, the deputy leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) for conceptualizing this book before I did. Finally, my unreserved gratitude goes to Mrs. Onyinye Mefor for her tireless support and love. I could not have asked for a better friend and sister.

Introduction

This chronicle contains my day-to-day experiences-cum-revelations, which started on July 1, 2018. They are supernatural revelations concerning the Israelite ancestry of the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria. This is not an academic work. Instead it is a written record of my spiritual encounters and confirmation from internet research. As the prophet was commanded in Ezekiel 40:4, I was also instructed to document everything that was revealed to me and to send it first to the Ministry of Aliyah and Integrations in Israel and then to the descendants of Jacob in Nigeria.

The first part of this book contains the details of my visions and dreams as they happened on different days, beginning on July 1, 2018, and continuing until the last day, which was on January 24, 2019. It also includes my attempts to find confirmation regarding them through research.

In the second part of this book, I have summarized the journey that I have been on so far and have highlighted some key words and numbers, which symbolize the core message of my experience. An addendum can be found in part 3, which is the final part of this work. The addendum consists of more events, dreams, and visions that occurred subsequently after the summary in part 2.

I hope this work will impart meaning to you, the reader, especially readers from the house of Israel, both in diaspora and at home.

Shalom.

PART 1

The Experience

Day 1

July 1, 2018

I can’t remember the exact time, but I know my kids were already in bed, so it was roughly between eight and nine o’clock at night when this experience began. I was catching up on Nigeria’s news online when a link suddenly caught my attention. It read, Benin and Igbo connection, (otedo.com). It was an article written by the US-based, renowned Nigerian computer scientist Philip Emeagwali.

In the article, Emeagwali traces his ancestry to Eze Chima, who, according to him, rebelled against Benin royalty and therefore was expelled from the Benin kingdom. He further lists several Igbo-speaking communities that exist west of the Niger River, including his native Onitsha, as descending from this Eze Chima. In his attempt to persuade his readers, he also compares some linguistic expressions of the Onitsha-Igbo language and Edo (Benin) language.

In conclusion, he further opines that the Igbo-Benin connection might also extend to Yorubaland. He states that one in every four Igbo people can trace their roots to Edo and Yorubaland through their ancestors who fled slavers in the Benin kingdom. In response, some of his readers have supported his hypothesis, while others have disagreed vehemently.

Responding to his latter submission, some commenters were displeased with the idea of Igbos tracing their lineages to Benin and Yorubaland. What got my attention in their debates was that every tribe in Nigeria, especially the major tribes, seems to be certain of their origins except the Igbos. Previously, I read other sources on the origin of the Igbos and reached the same conclusion as well: the origin of the Igbos has been nothing but speculation.

This realization made me ask myself rhetorically, Where could the Igbos possibly have come from? Then suddenly something strange happened. I heard a still, small voice coming from within me. You could say that it came from my heart or from my belly and from inside me and not outside me. The word I heard escaped through the roof of my mouth and bypassed my tongue. I did not say it aloud. It said, Israel.

The voice was subtle, almost as if nobody had spoken. Yet I couldn’t shake the fact that I had heard something, because I had felt a gentle energy or force leaving my mouth and had clearly understood what had been said.

At this point, I would like to mention that having that subtle voice speaking within me was not a new experience, but it had never escaped through the upper part of my mouth like that before. In addition, that voice had never failed me each time that it had talked to me, except during my early days as a Christian when I had not been used to it. Not that it had failed me, but I had missed some opportunities because I had not then been acquainted with it.

So, my response to the voice was, There is no way I am buying into that Igbo-Jew-Israel-Hebrew-roots theory! Yes, it was one of those Igbo-Hebrew-origin speculations or theories that I had been conversant with. Frankly, in the past, I had wished that those Igbo-Israel or Igbo-Jew theories of origin had been true. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be a part of the winning team or the special people? But as time went by, I matured and decided to quit the pipe dream. I even started viewing anybody who espoused an Igbo-Jew-Hebrew-Israel-roots theory as being a desperado. I scorned the desperation of those Igbos who even converted to Judaism to prove their point.

Well, I believed that the voice, which I had known from experience and from the Bible, was the Holy Spirit’s voice. I asked him to confirm that he had really spoken to me. I was surprised and confused by what I had just experienced. However, nothing dramatic happened. After a little while, I decided to push it to the back burner of my mind and bothered no more about it.

Soon afterward, I opened my Facebook page, and the first posting I saw was a news article about the Igbos people’s DNA results. Apparently, 124 members of a synagogue in Nnewi, Southeastern Nigeria, had their DNA tested for Jewishness by Jonathan Bernis’s Jewish Voice Ministries International in association with an American-based