Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ
| The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | http://www.thecomforter.info/ |
"The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ" (ICGJC, also Israelite Church-God & Jesus), formerly known as the "Israeli Church of Universal Practical Knowledge", is a professed Hebrew-Christian group and organization of Black Hebrew Israelites (i.e. they believe that African Americans and not the people known to the world today as Jews, are the real descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible and God's chosen people).
The ICGJC teaches that the descendants of the lost 12 tribes of Israel and true Biblical /Jews are the Black Americans/Negros, West Indians, and Native Americans of North and South America and those scattered throughout the whole planet, but not the Jewish people or the Africans. The group claims that the "Black Israelites" have divine favor and inspiration and are a race superior to "Edomites", whom they believe to be white people, and also have superiority over all other non-Israelite people. They also hold strong apocalyptic views regarding the end of the world. In regards to traditional Christian beliefs, the ICGJC believes that Jesus Christ is God's divine Son and Messiah, and the redeemer for the sins of the Israelites and no other nation, that the Old and New Testament, and Apocrypha, are inspired Scripture, but the group does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group's leaders are "obsessed with hatred for Edomites", and is one of several extremist/supremacist Hebrew Israelite groups that have expanded since 2000 from black inner-city neighborhoods on the East Coast, to cities in 10 US States. Its headquarters are in New York City, and its leader is known as "Chief High Priest Tazadaqyah".
Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ is the second largest Black Hebrew Israelite organization in the United States, the first being the Nation of Yahweh. While "most Hebrew Israelites are neither explicitly racist nor anti-Semitic and do not advocate violence", the ICGJC is and does.
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