Embaye Melekin argues the Book of Mormon happened in Africa.

Date
2011
Type
Book
Source
Embaye Melekin
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Embaye Melekin, The African Bible: The Record of the Abyssinian Prophets (Bloomington, Ind: AuthorHouse, 2011), 99

Scribe/Publisher
AuthorHouse
People
Embaye Melekin
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Due to the righteousness of our forefather, Lehi, our ancestors were spared from certain destruction in Jerusalem, as would be the fate of the Jews who rebelled against the Almighty. Hence, they were led through Arabia into the continent of Africa to have the land of promise as their inheritance.

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The African Bible is the record of the Abyssinian prophets who came to Africa from Jerusalem in around 600 BC. The Sabeans (Nephites) and the Agazians (Lamanites) will become the ancestors of the African people. The prophecies of the African Bible have been entirely fulfilled upon Africans, Jews and Gentiles. The Agazians or black Africans were prophesied to dwindle in unbelief as was apparent in the history of the continent. Also, black Africans were prophesied to be scourged, slaved and scattered by the Gentiles, and that was the experience of Africans.

The African Bible, the Book of Mormon, was prophesied to be hidden from the African people, until God's own time, and will first be discovered by the Gentiles. Hence, the prophet Joseph Smith translated them into English from the Sabean script and the Mormon Church had them for almost two centuries without knowing the authentic owners of the records. The records were then to be revealed to the African people by one of their descendants, and that is what I am doing now. I have convincingly proven the Book of Mormon to be the record of the African ancestors and is therefore an African Bible. Hence, Africans are the remnants of the house of Israel and descendants of Manasseh.

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