Ato Gebremedhin (formerly Aba Paulos, also commonly knows as Aba Diabilos), who claims to be the patriarch of Ethiopia, has just erected a massive statue for himself in the center of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Aba Diabilos builds statue for himself — like Saddam Hussein — while ancient Ethiopian monasteries and churches are currently falling apart due to lack of funds. This is indeed one of the saddest moments in the history of Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
The following is a commentary regarding the statue and other developments in the Church.
መንፈስ ቅዱስን ካሳዘኑ፥ ቅድስናን ከጣሉ ተሳዳቢዎች ጋር መወያየት አይጠቅምም
በብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ መርቆሪዮስ ፓትርያርክ ርዕሰ ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ዘኢትዮጵያ ለሚመራው በሰደት ላይ ለሚገኘው ሕጋዊው የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ቤተክርስቲያን (ኢት.ኦር.ተዋ.ቤተክርስቲያን) ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ምንም እንኳ ቀኖናና ህገ ቤተክርስቲያን በመጣሱና ቤተክርስቲያኗ በአምባገነናዊ የመንፈስ ድቀት በተጎናጸፉ ዘረኛ ቤተክርስቲያኗ መሪ ቤተክርስቲያኗ በካህናቷ በምዕመናኗ ላይ እየተሰራ ያለውን ግፍ አስቀድማችሁ ያወገዛችሁ ብትሆኑም ምናልባት ቀኖና ጣሾች በንስሃ ተመልሰው ልብ ገዝተው ቤተክርስቲያኗ ወደቀደመችበት የአንድነትና የፍቅር መንፈስ ተመልሳ ህገ ቤተክርስቲያን ሊጠበቅና የቀደመ ቦታዋን ትይዛለች በሚል ቅን የእውነት እምነት “ወንድሞች በህብረት ቢቀመጡ እነሆ መልካም ነው፣ እነሆም ያማረ ነው ከራስ እስከ ጢም እንደሚፈስ እስከ አሮን ቂም በልብሱ መደረቢያ እንደሚወርድ ሽቱ ነው። በጽዮን ተራሮች እንደሚወርድ እንደ አርምኒኤም ጠል ነው። በዚያ እግዚያብሔር በረከቱን ሕይወትንም እስከ ዘላለም አዟልና” መዝሙር 132 በሚለው መሪ የእግዚያብሔር ቃል በህብረት በፍቅር ከወንድሞች ጋር ተቀምጦ ለመወያየት ያለ ምንም ቅድመ ሁኔታ ስለ ቤተክርስቲያን አንደነት ስትሉ ሰሞኑን ከጁላይ 24, 2010 ወዘተ… ጀመሮ ባሉት ቀናት ለውይይት ለመቀመጥ ተዘጋጅታችኋል።
አዎ እርቅ ያስፈልጋል የናፈቀንና የራቀብን ነገር ነው። ሆኖም ሰሞኑን አምባገነኑ በክህደት እባጭ በሞት አፋፍ የሚገኙት የቤተክርስቲያኗ የውድቀትና የድቀት ምልክት አባ ጳውሎስ ጭራሽ የምን ቀኖና ቤተክርስቲያን፥ የፈለኩትን ከማድረግ የሚያስቆመኝ የለም በሚል የቤተክርስቲያኒቷ ዋይታ እንዲጨምር፥ መሸከም እስኪያቅታት፥ እስከሚጨንቃት፥ ወደማትወጣበት አዘቅት በመጣል ህገ ቤተክርስቲያኗን በመጣል የክርስቶስ በሆነችው ቤተክርስቲያናችን ላይ ቀልድ፣ ኢ-ኦርቶዶክሳዊ ትምህርት ንስጥሮሱ አባ ጳሎስ ምንም እንኳ በስራቸው ከሞቱ የቆዩ ቢሆንም “ከሞትኩ ቆይቻለሁ፥ እናንተ ግን አይገባችሁም፣ ለኔ ከመስገድ በቀር” በሚል የንስጥሮሱ አባ ጳውሎስ መታሰቢያ ጣኦት ሐምሌ 4 ቀን 2002 ዓ.ም. በቦሌ አቆሙ። አይ ድፍረት!!!
አባ ንስጥሮስ ጳውሎስ ቀደም ብሎ ከሎስ አንጀለስ ጀምሮ የተወገዙ ቢሆንም ህይወታቸው በጨለማ ተጋርዶ በዚህ ቀደሙ ሳይፀፀቱበት ዛሬም ቀኖና ቤተክርስቲያንን በመጣስ በቤተክርስቲያን ትምህርት፣ ታሪክና ትውፊት የሌለ “በላይ በሰማይ፥ በታችም በምድር ካለው፥ ከምድርም በታች በውሃ ካለው ነገር የማናቸውንም ምሳሌ የተቀረፀውን ምስል ለአንተ አታድርግ ዘፀአት 20፡ 4-5” የሚለውን በመተላለፍ፣ የኦርየንታል አብያተክርስቲያናትን ትውፊት በድፍረት በመጣስ አስደንጋጭ ክህደት ስለሆነና የቤተክርስቲኡኗን መፅሃፍት የእውነት ምስክርነት የሚፃረር በመሆኑ፣ ትንሳዔ ሙታንን የሚያስረሳ ነውረና ስራ በመስራት ላይ ካሉት ከጣኦቱ ከንስጥሮሱ አባ ጳውሎስ ጋር በግል የምታደርጉትን “የእርቅ” ውይይት ከቤተክርስቲያኗ የወደፊት ትክክለኛ ጉዞ አንፃር በመመርመር ከንስጥሮሱ አባ ጵውሎስ የግል ግጥር ሰራተኞች ጋር የምታደርጉትን ውይይት በመሰረዝና በመገናናኛ ብዙሃን በማሳወቅ አዲስ አበባ የሚገኘው ቅዱስ ሲኖዲስ ልብ ገዝቶ ሁሉንም የሚወክሉ አምኖበት ወስኖ በመለያየት ቁንጮነትና መሰሪነት በስድብና ከክፉ ባሕርያቸው አድራጎታቸው ከማይጠረጠሩት ተወካይ ብፁአን አባቶች ጋር ታደርጉት ዘንድ እናሳስባለን። አዲስ አበባ የሚገኘው ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ሳይመክርበት ከሚመጡት አራት ሰዎች ውስጥ፤
1. አባ ገሪማ የአባ ንስጥሮስ ጳውሎስ እምባ ጠባቂ፥ የመለያየቱ ዋና መሪና ተዋናይ፥ ዛሬም የእርቁ ተቃዋሚ በፓትሪያርክ ላይ ፓትሪያርክ መሾሙን ቀኖና ቤተክርስቲያን መጣሱን የሚደግፉ የጥቅም ሰው ስለመሆናቸው ከዚህ በፊት ለ ቪ.ኦ.ኤ. የሰጡት ቃለ ምልልስ ስላለን በጊዜው በአየር ላይ እናውለዋለን።
2. ሌላው የግል ቅጥረኛ፥ ሰይፈ ይሁዳ ብንለው ይቀላል፥ መቀራረብ እንዳይኖር ብፁዓን አባቶች ላይ ጸያፍ ዘለፋና ቤተክርስቲያንን በማዋረድ በየሬዲዮ የተሳደባቸው መረጃዎች በእጃችን ላይ ይገኛሉ።
3. ንቡረዕድ ኤሊያስ የአባ ንስጥሮስ ጳውሎስ እንባ ጠባቂ ተላላኪ።
4. ብጹዕ አቡነ አትናቲዮስ እውነተኛ አባት በመሆናቸው ለእርሳቸው ያለንን ፍቅርና የመንፈስ ልጅነት ዛሬም በፅናት እንገልፃለንና ልክ ብጹዕ አቡነ አትናቲዮስን የመሳሰሉ ብጹአን አባቶች ጋር አዲስ አበባ የሚገኘው ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ መክሮበት ብታደርጉ ይሻላልና (የአዲስ አበባው ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ መጀመሪያ ከራሱ ጋር መታረቅ ይኖርበታል)።
አሁን ለውይይት ከተላኩት ሶስቱ መንፈስ ቅዱስን ካሳዘኑ ቅድስናን የጣሉ ተሳዳቢዎች ለቤተክርስቲያኗ ተለያይታ እንድትኖር መዘውር ከሚዘውሩት ጋር ውይይት ማድረግ የማይጠቅምና በአባ ንስጥሮስ ጳውሎስ ጭምብል የተላኩ “ብለን ነበር፣ እምቢ አሉ” የሚለውን የተለመደ ቅጥፈት ከማለት ያለፈ ለቀኖናና ህገ ቤተክርስቲያን መጠበቅ የሚፈይደው አንዳችም ጉዳይ ስለሌለ ለሌላ ጊዜ ብታስተላልፉት የምዕመንነት ምክራችንን እንለግሳለን።
“ዕርቁ፥ ጠቡ በአባ እከሌና በአባ እከሌ መካከል የተደረገ እጅ የማጨባበጥ ተግባር ሳይሆን ቀኖና ህገ ቤተክርስቲያንን የመጣስና የማቃለል፥ መንፈስ ቅዱስን የማሳዘን ተግባር ነውና የተፈፀመው” ግልፅ ሊሆንና ዛሬ ላለንበት የኢት.ኦር.ተዋ.ቤተክርስቲያን ጉስቁልናና ውርደት ተጠያቂነት ነውና በሁሉም ዘንድ ተወዳችነትና ተፈላጊነት ያላቸው የአዲስ አበባው ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ አምኖበት ብፅዓን አባቶች ተወክለው ሲመጡ እንደሚደረግ ሆኖ የእርቁ በር ክፍት ቢሆን የተሻለ ነው።
ነፍሳቸውን ይማርልንና አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ በአንድ ወቅት “ግለሰቡ አባ ንስጥሮ ጳውሎስ ቀኖና ቤተክርስቲያንን የሚፃረሩ የካቶሊክ እምነት አራማጅ ናቸው” በማለት አውግዘዋቸው በመቃብሬም እንዳይገኙ ብለው ነበር። እነሆ በገሃድ ታየ። ጣኦቱ ቤል ንስጥሮ ጳውሎስ ቦሌ ላይ ቆመ። ታዲያ ተዋህዶ ምን ትጠብቃለች? አለን የምትሉትስ የአዲስ አበባ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ አባላትስ ምን ትላላችሁ? ወይ ፍርሃት! ወይ አሳምኑን፥ ወይ እናሳምናሁ። አሁን የቦሩ ሜዳን ታሪክ መድገም እንሻለን። መቼም ከጣኦት ጋር ህብረት እንደማይኖራችሁ እርግጠኛ ከመሆን ጋር፡፡ ቸር ይግጠመን።
አምላካችን እግዚያብሔር ኢትዮጵያን ይባርክ!
ከፀሐዩ ደመቀ፥ ለንደን
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The fake Patriarch Aba Diabilos (Aba Paulos) ordered his killing squads to murder Bahetawi Fekade Sellasie inside St. Estiphanos Church in Addis Ababa more than 10 years ago. Aba Diabilos one day will be judged by the almighty GOD for this killing and other sins he committed.
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July 17th, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Whate can you expect in the Nation where order of Law in any aspect of it is in the hand of fejutive. For him it look like building an Obelisic want to compaire himself to the indigenes Abuna Petrose!
I wander how long this last long the real Petrose stand century after centuery, governement after governement! Yours may be till sun down!
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July 17th, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Does Aba Diabilos know this:
Exodus 20:1-17
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before [a] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,…
7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
Aba “D”: Read Romans 6:23
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July 17th, 2010 at 11:48 PM
አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ በድረ ገፃቸው ያሰፈሩትን እጅግ ጠቃሚ ፅሁፍ ከዚህ ጋር አያይዤ አቅርቤዋለሁ።
ቃለ ውግዘት።
«ዛሬ ካለው የቤተ ክርስቲያን አመራር ጋራ ወደ ትግል ሰልፍ እንድገባ ያደረገኝ የኔ ፈቃድ፥ ዐቅምም አይደለም። በ፲፱፻፹፭ ዓመተ ምሕረት ሐምሌ ፭ ቀን ኦፕራሲዮን ሆኜ በሰመመን ውስጥ በነበርኩበት ጊዜ በሥርዓተ ሙታን ወደ አምላኬ ፊት ቀርቤ የተሰጠኝ ትእዛዝ ነው። በዚያች ሰዓት፤ ከቅዱስ ማርቆስ እስከ ሳድሳዊ ቄርሎስ የነበሩ የእስክንድርያ ፓትርያርኮችና ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት፤ ከአትናቴዎስ፥ ከሰላማ እስከ ብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ ቴዎፍሎስ የነበሩ የኢትዮጵያ ሊቃነ ጳጳሳትና ፓትርያርኮች የእሳት ነበልባል በከበበው፥ የእሳት ልሳን ያለው መጋረጃ በተንጣለለበት በዚያ አዳራሽ፥ በዚያ የግርማ ዙፋን ግራና ቀኝ ተሰልፈው ቁመው ነበር። በኤፌሶን ጉባኤ ንስጥሮስን ያወገዘው የእስክንድርያ ሊቀ ጳጳሳት ታላቁ ሊቅ ቅዱስ ቄርሎስ በመንበሩ ፊት ለፊት ቆሟል። ቀድሞ የተወገዘው ንስጥሮስ የማዕረግ ልብሱን ተገፎ በስተጀርባው ቆሟል። አባ ጳውሎስ በማዕረጋቸው እንዳሉ ተከስሰው ከንስጥሮስ ጎን ቁመዋል። በዐጸደ ነፍስ የሚገኙት የእስክንድርያና የኢትዮጵያ ቤተ ክርስቲያን አበው፤ «አባ ጳውሎስ ሺ ስድስት መቶ ዓመት የኖረ ውግዘት ጥሰው፥ በሥጋው በደሙ የማሉትን መሓላ አፍርሰው የኢትዮጵያን ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሮም ቅኝ ግዛት ስላደረጉ፤ ፍርድ ይሰጥልን፤» ሲሉ ለኀያሉ አምላክ አቤቱታ አቀረቡ። ከዙፋኑ የመጣው መልስ ግን፤ «እስከ ዕለተ ምጽአት ፍርድ የቤተ ክርስቲያን ነው፤» የሚል ነበረ። ይህ ሁሉ በሚከናወንበት ጊዜ የማላውቀው ኀይል ከዚህ ዓለም ነጥቆ ከቅዱስ ቄርሎስ ጎን አሰልፎኝ ከቆየ በኋላ ከዙፋኑ የመጣው ድምፅ፤ «አንተ ያየኸውን፥ የሰማኸውን ለቤተ ክርስቲያን፥ ለምእመናን ንገር፤» ሲል አዝዞ ወደ ነበርኩበት መለሰኝ። ይህ ትእዛዝ ነው እዚህ ሰልፍ ውስጥ ያስገባኝ። ኢትዮጵያዊ፥ ኦርቶዶክሳዊ የሆነ ሁሉም ስለ ቤተ ክርስቲያኑ አጥብቆ መታገል አለበት።» አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ።
በኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን አመራር ላይ ከቅርብ ዓመታት ወዲህ በተደጋጋሚ የተከሰቱትን የሃይማኖት ትምህርትና የሥርዓት መበላሸት በማስመልከት የቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ የሊቃውንት ጉባኤ ሰብሳቢ የነበሩት አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ ችግሩ ሥር ሳይሰድ ገና ከጅምሩ እንዲታረም ማሳሰቢያና ተማጽኖ ለቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ተደጋጋሚ ተማጽኖ አቅርበው ነበር። ነገር ግን ጥያቄአቸው በቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ዘንድ በቸልታ በመታየቱ ምክንያት፤ አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ ባላቸው ከፍተኛ ሥልጣንና ኀላፊነት፤ በቤተ ክርስቲያን ላይ ዐመጽ የሚፈጽሙትን ፓትርያርኩንና ተከታዮቻቸውን ለማውገዝ ተገደዋል። ቃለ ግዝታቸው በመጀመሪያ የወጣው ሰኔ ፳፯ ቀን ፲፱፻፹፰ ዓመተ ምሕረት በ«መብሩክ» ጋዜጣ ላይ ነበር። ይኽም እንደሚከተለው ይነበባል።
« መላው የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ምእመናን ከፓትርያርኩና ተከታዮቻቸው ቃልና እጅ ቡራኬ እንዳይቀበል አገር አቀፍ ጥሪ ቀረበ። የወጣውን ሕግ የተቀበሉ፥ ከሥራ ላይ ያዋሉ እንደ አርዮስ እሱራን ውጉዛን ይሁኑ። አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ ከእንግዲህ የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ተከታይ የሆነ ምእመን በብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ ጳውሎስ ቃልና እጅ፥ በሲኖዶሱ ዋና ጸሐፊ በአቡነ ገሪማና በተባባሪዎቻቸው ቃልና እጅ ቡራኬ እንዳይቀበል በአብ፥ በወልድ፥ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ሥልጣን፥ በጴጥሮስ፥ በጳውሎስ፥ በማርቆስ፥ በቄርሎስ፥ በባስልዮስ፥ በቴዎፍሎስ፥ በተክለ ሃይማኖት ዘደብረ ሊባኖስ ቃልና በራሳቸው ማውገዛቸውን አስታወቁ። አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ ይህን ያስታወቁት የግንቦቱ ሲኖዶሳዊ ጉባኤ አዲስ ያወጣው ሕገ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ላይ ያላቸውን አስተያየት እንዲሰጡንና ሐምሌ ፭ ወይም ፮ ቀን በሚከበረው የፓትርያርኩ በዓለ ሢመት ላይ የእሳቸው አመለካከት ምን ሊሆን እንደሚችል ለመገምገም ቃለ መጠይቅ ባደረግንላቸው ወቅት ነው። ይህንን የአለቃ አያሌውን ሙሉ ቃልና መልእክት የሚከተለው ነው።
«ከሁሉ አስቀድሞ እግዚአብሔር ሥራችንን ይባርክልን እላለሁ። በመቀጠልም ስሜቴን እንኳ መቆጣጠር እስከሚያቅተኝ ድረስ እየተጨነቅሁ በቃለ ጉባኤ ተባዝቶ በጽሕፈት ቤቱ በኩል ለአስፈላጊው እንዲደርስ በተደረገውና ከሚያዝያ ፳፪ እስከ ግንቦት ፮ ቀን ፲፱፻፹፰ ዓ ም በሥራ ላይ የነበረው የጳጳሳትና የሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ስብሰባ ሲኖዶስ ጉባኤ ቤተ ክርስቲያን «ሕገ ቤተ ክርስቲያን» ብሎ ስላስተላለፈው ሕግ ያለኝን ሐሳብና ድምፅ ለመላ የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ቤተ ክርስቲያን አባሎች በኢትዮጵያና በመላው ዓለም ለሚኖሩ ወንድሞቻችንና እኅቶቻችን ሁሉ በእግዚአብሔር ስም አስተላልፋለሁ። በእግዚአብሔር ስም አሰማለሁ።
፩ኛ፤ ክርስቶስ በደሙ የመሠረታት ቤተ ክርስቲያን የምትመራው ወይም አመራር የምትቀበል ከእሱ ከራሱ ከመንፈስ ቅዱስ እንጂ ከሰው አይደለም። ይህንንም ራሱ ባለቤቱ ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ፤ «እስከ ዓለም ፍጻሜ እኔ ከእናንተ ጋር ነኝ፤» ያለውን ቃሉን ሲያስተላልፍ ለደቀ መዛሙርቱ የሰጠው ትእዛዝ፤ «ሂዱ አስተምሩ፤ በአብ በወልድ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ስም አስተምሩ፤» የሚል ነው። ይህንንም መልእክት በሚፈጽሙበት ጊዜ ግን የሚመራቸው ማን እንደ ሆነ ሲያስረዳ፤ «መንፈስ ቅዱስ ይመጣል፤ ወደ እውነት ሁሉ ይመራችሁአል፤» ብሎአቸዋል። (ማቴ፤ ም ፲፰፥ ቍ ፲፱ – ፳። ዮሐ፤ ም ፲፮፥ ቍ ፲፫።) አመራሩም ከሙሴ፥ ከኢያሱ የተለየ በውሥጣቸው ዐድሮ የሚመራቸው መሆኑን፥ ዓለም የማያውቀው እነሱ የሚያውቁት የእውነት መንፈስ መሆኑን በዮሐንስ ወንጌል ምዕራፍ ፲፭ ቍጥር ፲፭ – ፲፰ በተጻፈ ቃሉ ገልጾ ልኮአቸዋል። እንግዲህ እግዚአብሔር በደሙ የዋጃትን ቤተ ክርስቲያን እንዲጠብቁ ጳጳሳትን የሚሾም፥ ጉባኤያቸውን የሚመራም እሱ ራሱ መንፈስ ቅዱስ ነው። በኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የተዋሕዶ ሃይማኖት ትምህርት ይህ ነው። ሰው ጉባኤ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አይመራም። ግን በኋላ ዘመን ራሱን እንደ እግዚአብሔር የሚቈጥር፥ እንደ እሱ ነኝ ብሎ መሥራት የሚያምረው በቤተ እግዚአብሔር የሚኖር ትዕቢተኛ እንደሚመጣ ቅዱስ ጳውሎስ ተናግሮአል። (፪ ተሰ፤ ም ፪፥ ቍ ፬።) ይህ ካልሆነ በስተቀር በቤተ እግዚአብሔር አመራር ሰጪ እኔ ነኝ ብሎ የሚናገር ወይም እሱ ነው ተብሎ የሚነገርለት ማንም የለም። ሐዋርያት ራሳቸውም በመንፈስ ቅዱስ እንደ ተጠሩ በወንጌል ስብከት እንደ ተላኩ፥ የኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ ባሮች፥ አገልጋዮች፥ መልእክተኞች እንደ ሆኑ ተናገሩ እንጂ፤ እንዲሁም ቤተ ክርስቲያን የእግዚአብሔር ማኅበር እንደ ሆነች አስተማሩ እንጂ እነሱ ጌቶች፥ መሪዎች፥ አመራር ሰጪዎች እንደ ሆኑ፥ ቤተ ክርስቲያንም የእነሱ ተጠሪ እንደ ሆነች አልተናገሩም፤ አልጻፉም። የተፈጸመው አገልግሎት በጠቅላላ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ መሪነት እንደ ተፈጸመ፥ እንደሚፈጸም፤ የተደረገ በደል ቢኖር ደግሞ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ላይ እንደ ተፈጸመ ጻፉ፤ ተናገሩ። ሐናንያ የተባለው ሰው የመጀመሪያዪቱን ቤተ ክርስቲያን አቋምና እርምጃ በተጠራጠረና በተፈታተነ ጊዜ ቅዱስ ጴጥሮስ፤ «መንፈስ ቅዱስን ታሳብለው ዘንድ እንዲህ በልብህ ሰይጣን ሞላን? ወይስ እንዴት ሞላ፤» ብሎ ገሠጸው እንጂ የእኔን ቃል፥ የእኔን መሪነት ተላለፍክ ብሎ አልገሠጸውም። እንዲሁም፤ «ሲጾሙና ሲጸልዩ ሳዖልንና በርናባስን እኔ ለመረጥኩላቸው ሥራ ለዩልኝ ብሎ መንፈስ ቅዱስ አዘዛቸው፤» ይላል እንጂ ሰው ለመረጠላቸው ሥራ አይልም። እንግዲህ፤ «ሰማይና ምድር የሚያልፉ ቢሆንም እንኳ ቃሌ አያልፍም፤» ያለ አምላክ የመሠረተላት፥ የሠራላት ሕግ ምን ጊዜም የማያልፍ መሆኑ ቀጥተኛ እውነት ነው። በዚህ መሠረት የኢትዮጵያ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ሲኖዶስ የሚመራ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ መሆኑን፥ ቅዱስ ያሰኘውን ቅድስናውን ያገኘው፥ የሚያገኘው ከመንፈስ ቅዱስ ብቻ መሆኑን ታምናለች። ሥራዋንም በዚሁ እምነት ስታከናውን ኖራለች፤ ታከናውናለችም። ከፓትርያርኩ ጀምሮ ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት፥ ጳጳሳት፥ ኤጲስ ቆጶሳት ሁሉ፤ «ናነብር እደዊነ ዲበ ዝንቱ ኅሩይ ገብር ዘእግዚአብሔር፤» «በተመረጠ በዚህ የእግዚአብሔር አገልጋይ ላይ እጃችንን እንጭናለን፤» በሚል አነጋገር ከሦስት ቍጥር ባላነሱ ኤጲስ ቆጶሳት ድምፅና ተግባር ቤተ ክርስቲያን የምትሾማቸው ሁሉ ተጠሪነታቸው የቤተ ክርስቲያን ነው እንጂ የአንድ ሰው አይደለም። ሁሉም ይህን ያውቃሉ ብዬ ተስፋ አደርጋለሁ። ሐዋርያውም፤ «ክርስቶስ በደሙ የዋጃትን ቤተ ክርስቲያን እንድትጠብቁ መንፈስ ቅዱስ ጳጳሳት አድርጎ የሾማችሁ እናንት ለመንጋውና ለራሳችሁ ተጠንቀቁ፤» ወይም፤ «የተሾማችሁባቸውን መንጋዎችን ሁሉና ራቻችሁን ጠብቁ፤» ብሎ የተናገረ ስለዚህ ነው። (የሐ፤ ሥራ ም ፳፥ ቍ ፳፰።)
፪ኛ፤ ይህ ከዚህ በላይ የጠቀስኩት ቋሚ መመሪያ ሲሆን ልዩ ልዩ መናፍቃን በቤተ ክርስቲያን ውሥጥ በተነሡበት ጊዜ ሁሉ ጉባኤ ጳጳሳት በመንፈስ ቅዱስ መሪነት እየተሰበሰበ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን ከስሕተት፥ ከኑፋቄ ሲጠብቁ ኖረዋል። በኋላ ግን ከቤተ ክርስቲያን ክብር እየሸሹ፥ ወደ ዓለማዊ ክብር እየተጠጉ፥ የእግዚአብሔርን ኀይልና ሥልጣን መከታ አድርገው መሥራት ሲገባቸው በመንግሥታዊ የፖለቲካ ኀይልና ሥልጣን መጠቀም የፈለጉ መለካውያን ጳጳሳትና ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት በቤተ ክርስቲያን ላይ መከፋፈልን ስለ ፈጠሩ በምድር ላይ ዳግማዊ ክርስቶስ የሚባል መሪ አበጁ። የኢትዮጵያ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ግን በዚህ የፈተና ጊዜ በታላላቆችና በአስተዋይ ሊቃውንቶቿ አስተዋይነት፥ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ መሪነት ጸንታ ኖረች። ለሰው አልተንበረከከችም። ይህም በኢትዮጵያ አስተዳደር መንግሥት የለውጥ ጊዜ እስከ መጣበት እስከ ፲፱፻፷፮ ዓመተ ምሕረት ድረስ ጸንቶ ኖሯል። ከዚያ ወዲህ ግን የሥጋዊው ቍስል ወደ መንፈሳዊው ተጋብቶ ይመስላል ኢትዮጵያ በቍስል ላይ ቍስል ተጨምሮባት በሥጋዊ አስተዳደር ኮሚዩኒዝም ያመጣባት በሽታ መንፈሳዊ አቋሟንም ጎድቶታል። በዚህም ምክንያት በቤተ ክርስቲያን ከደረሱት ዋና ዋና ችግሮች፤
ሀ፤ የሃይማኖት ሕፀፅና የሥርዓት መበላሸት፤
ለ፤ በቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ውሥጥ ውሥጥ አደግ የሆኑ መናፍቃን መፈልፈልና የኑፋቄ መጻሕፍትን ማብዛት፤
ሐ፤ ፓትርያርኮቿ ወደ ራስ ትምክሕት፥ ወደ እብሪትና ወደ ትዕቢት በመተላለፋቸው ሲኖዶሱን የግል ግዛታቸው ማድረጋቸው፥ በገዛ ሥልጣናቸው ሲኖዶስ እያፈረሱ ሲኖዶስ መሠየማቸው፥ በመንግሥት የሥልጣን ድጋፍ ወደ ማዕረግ መውጣታቸው ዋና ዋናዎቹ ሲሆኑ፤ በዐምስተኛው ፓትርያርክ በብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ ጳውሎስ ዘመን የታየው ደግሞ በውጭ ያዩት ዳግማዊ ክርስቶስ ተብሎ መሰየምና በፓትርያርክነት ቢመረጡ በአምላክ ፈንታ ሆኖ መንፈስ ቅዱስን መጋፋት፥ ዳኝነቱን መርገጥ ሆኗል። ይህም በቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ላይ የማይጠገን ስብራት፥ የማይድን ቍስል ሆኖባታል።
፫ኛ፤ እኔ በእነዚህ ፳፪ ና ፳፫ ዓመታት አቤቱታዬን ሳሰማ ኖሬአለሁ። ዕድል ሆነና ዛሬም እጮሃለሁ። ድምፄ ግን በውሃ ውሥጥ እንደሚናገር ሰው ተሰሚነት አላገኘም። ግን በእግዚአብሔር ላይ አሁንም ተስፋ አልቆርጥም። እንደገና እጮሃለሁ፤ እንደገና አቤት እላለሁ። የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ምእመናን ፍርሃታቸውን ከልባቸው አውጥተው ጥለው ለቤተ ክርስቲያናቸው፥ ለሀገራቸው፥ ለሃይማኖታቸው፥ ለክብራቸው መቆም እስከ ቻሉ ድረስ አቤቱታዬን አሰማለሁ።
ከዚህ በላይ የዘረዘርኩት እንደ መቅድም ያህል ሲሆን ፍሬ ነገሩ የሚከተለው ነው። እንደሚታወቀው ዘንድሮ በ፲፱፻፹፰ የተደረጉት የቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ጠቅላላ ስብሰባና የሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ስብሰባ አንደኛ በጥቅምት፥ ሁለተኛ በሚያዝያና በግንቦት መገናኛ ከሚያዝያ ፳፪ እስከ ግንቦት ፮ የተደረጉ ሲሆኑ ሁለቱም ጊዜዎች ሸር የተሞላባቸው ነበሩ። ይህንንም እንደሚከተለው እገልጻለሁ።
ሀ፤ በቤተ ክርስቲያን የደረሱት ልዩ ልዩ ችግሮች ሁሉ በሲኖዶስ ተመክሮባቸው እንዲወገዱና እርምጃቸውም እንዲገታ በ፲፱፻፹፯ ጥቅምትና ኅዳር ወር ለሲኖዶሱ ማመልከቻ ስጽፍ መልእክቴ በጌታዬ በአምላኬ ትእዛዝ የተደረገ መሆኑን ገለጨ በአፈጻጸሙ ቸልተኛነት እንዳይታይበት ሲኖዶሱን በሾመ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ዳኝነት ተማጽኜ አቤቱታዬ የእኔ ብቻ ሳይሆን በዐጸደ ሥጋና በዐጸደ ነፍስ ያሉ የኦርቶዶክሳውያን አበውና ምእመናን አቤቱታ መሆኑን ገልጬ ነበር ያቀረብኩት። ነገር ግን የሲኖዶሱ ዋና ጸሓፊ አባ ገሪማና ፓትሪያርኩ ሐሳባቸው እስከ አሁን በቤተ ክርስቲያን የኖረውን የመንፈስ ቅዱስን መሪነት ሽረው የራሳቸውን ጣዖታዊ መሪነት ለመተካት ኖሮ በጥቅምት ወር ፲፱፻፹፰ ዓመተ ምሕረት በተደረገው አጠቃላይ ጉባኤ ላይ ያቀረብኩትን አቤቱታ ጭምር ሳይቀበሉ ከመቅረታቸውም በላይ የመንፈስ ቅዱስን ዳኝነት፥ የሲኖዶሱን ሥልጣን ለግል አድመኞቻቸው ኮሚቴ አሳልፈው በመስጠትና በሱ ውሳኔ ተደግፈው የኑፋቄ መጽሐፍ ማውጣታቸውና መበተናቸው አንሶ ኦርቶዶክሳዊውን የሊቃውንት ጉባኤ አፍርሰዋል።
ለ፤ ይህ በዚህ እንዳለ ሲኖዶሱ ተሰብስቦ ጉዳዩን እንዲያይ በግል ማመልከቻ፤ በነጻ ፕሬሱ በኩልም ተቃውሞዬን በማሰማት ላይ እያለሁ ሚያዚያ ፲፰ ቀን ፲፱፻፹፰ ዓመተ ምሕረት የቅሬታ አስወጋጅና የሰላም ኮሚቴ በሚሉት የግል ኮሚቴያቸው ድጋፍ እኔን ካባረሩ በኋላ ከሚያዚያ ፳፪ እስከ ግንቦት ፮ ባደረጉት በአፈና የሲኖዶስ ስብሰባ ሕግ አስወጥተው በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ፈንታ ራሳቸው ፓትሪያርኩ ሲኖዶሱ ወንጌልን ለሚሰብክበት፥ ቀኖና ቤተ ክርስቲያን ለሚያስተምርበት ጉዞ አመራር ሰጪ (ጣዖት) ወደ መሆን አድገዋል። በቤተ ክርስቲያን ስም ተሰይመው እግዚአብሔርንና ቤተ ክርስቲያንን ሊያገለግሉ የተሾሙ ኤጲስ ቆጶሳት፥ ጳጳሳትና ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት የሲኖዶሱ ዋና ጸሓፊ ሳይቀር ለቤተ ክርስቲያን ተጠሪ መሆናቸው ቀርቶ ለፓትሪያርኩ ተጠሪዎች እንዲሆኑ ሲያደርጉ በዚያ ሚያዚያ ፴ ቀን ተፈርሞ ጸድቋል በተባለውና በጽሕፈት ቤቱ አማካኝነት ለሚመለከተው ሁሉ እንዲተላለፍ የቃለ ጉባኤ ትእዛዝ በተሰጠበት ሕግ፤ ቤተ ክርስቲያን እስከ አሁን ስትሠራባቸው የኖሩት ሕጎችና ደንቦች ሁሉ በዚህ ሕግ ተሻሽለው ከስፍራቸው ሲወገዱ፥ አባ ጳውሎስ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ፈንታ የቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱን የአመራር ሰጪነት ቦታ ሲይዙ በቤተ ክርስቲያን ላይ የአምልኮ ጣዖት ዐዋጅ ታውጆባታል። ፓትሪያርኩ በሾማቸው በእግዚአብሔርና በቤተ ክርስቲያን ላይ በፈጸሙት ተግባር ታላቅ በደል ፈጽመዋል። ከሳቸው ጋር ቃላቸውን ለማጽደቅ፥ ምኞታቸውን ለሟሟላት በሕጉ ላይ ፈርመዋል ተብሎ ስማቸው የተመዘገበላቸው ፴፬ቱ ጳጳሳትና ሊቃነ ጳጳሳትም እንደ ተባለው አድርገውት ከሆነ ለተፈጸመው በደል ተባባሪዎች ናቸው። ይህም እጅግ የሚያሳዝን ነው። የሚገርመው ደግሞ በዚሁ ሕግ በአንቀጽ ፲፬፤ «ፓትሪያርኩ የተዋሕዶ ሃይማኖትን የሚያፋልስ፥ ሕግጋተ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን የማይጠብቅ፥ ማዕረጉን የሚያጎድፍ ሆኖ መገኘቱ በተጨባጭ ማስረጃ ሲረጋገጥ በምልአተ ጉባኤ ያለአንዳች የሐሳብ ልዩነት በቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ከተጠና በኋላ በቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ውሳኔ መሠረት ከማዕረጉ ይወርዳል፤» የሚል ቃል አስፍሮ ሲኖዶሱን በአፈና ልዩ ሥልጣን ተጠቅመውና እንደ ሌለ አድርገው ካሳዩ በኋላ፤ «የኑፋቄ መጻሕፍት በማሳተም የተዋሕዶ ሃይማኖትን አፋልሰዋል፤ ሕገ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን ሳይጠብቁ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ከምታወግዛቸው ጋር የጸሎተ ቅዳሴና የማዕድ ተሳትፎ አድርገዋል፤ ቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ከምታወግዘው ፓፓ ቡራኬ ተቀብለዋል፤» እያልን እየተቃወምን ለተቃውሟችንም ተጨባጭ ማስረጃ እያቀረብን፤ እሳቸውም ይህንን ሳይቃወሙ ይህ እንዳይቀጥል በሥልጣናቸው ተጠቅመው ኦርቶዶክሳዊውን የሊቃውንት ጉባኤ ሲያፈርሱ ጉዳዩን አይቶ ውሳኔ በመስጠት ፈንታ እንደገና በሕግ፥ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ስፍራ ተተክተው ለሲኖዶሱ ሥልጣንና ተግባር አመራር ሰጪ ይሆናሉ፤ የሲኖዶሱ አባሎች ሁሉ ለፓትሪያርኩ ተጠሪ ይሆናሉ፤ ሲል የወጣው አዋጅ አፈጻጸም ነው። ይህ ሕገ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ተብሎ የታወጀው ሕግ፤ «እስመ ሜጥዋ ለዐመፃ ላዕሌከ፤» «ዐመፅን ወደ አንተ መለሷት፤» ተብሎ እንደ ተጻፈ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን መካነ ጣዖት፥ ምእመናንን መምለኪያነ ጣዖት የሚያሰኝ ስለ ሆነ ምእመናን ሁሉ በሙሉ ድምፅ እንድትቃወሙት በእግዚአብሔርና በቤተ ክርስቲያን ስም እጠይቃለሁ።
ሐ፤ ከአሁን ጀምሮ ማለት ይህ ቃል በነጻው ፕሬስ ከተላለፈበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ በብፁዕ ወቅዱስ አቡነ ጳውሎስ ቃልና እጅ፥ በሲኖዶሱ ዋና ጸሓፊ በአቡነ ገሪማ ቃልና እጅ፥ ይህን አሁን የተጻፈውን ሕግ የቤተ ክርስቲያን ሕግ ብለው አጽድቀው በተባባሪነት አሳልፈዋል የተባሉ ጳጳሳትና ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ሁሉ እውነት ሆኖ ከተገኘ የበደሉ ተባባሪዎች ናቸውና በነሱ ቃልና እጅ ቡራኬ እንዳትቀበሉ፥ እንዳትናዘዙ፤ ስማቸውን በጸሎተ ቅዳሴ የሚጠሩ አለቆች፥ ቀሳውስት፥ ካህናት ካሉም የአምልኮተ ጣዖት አራማጅ ናቸውና ተጠንቅቁባቸው፤ ምክር ስጧቸው፤ እንቢ ካሉም ተለዩዋቸው። እንዲሁም ሐምሌ ፭ ወይም ፮ ቀን ይከበራል ተብሎ ሽርጉድ የሚባልለት በዓለ ሢመት የአሮን የወርቅ ጥጃ መታሰቢያ ሆኖ በቤተ ክርስቲያን ሊከበር የማይገባው ስለ ሆነ በዓሉ ከመድረሱ በፊት የሲኖዶሱ አባላት በአስቸካይ ተሰብስበው ሕጉን ካልሻሩና በጣዖትነት የተሰየሙትን አቡነ ጳውሎስን ከሥልጣናቸው ካላነሡ ምእመናን ይህንን በዓል እንዳታከብሩ ለቤተ ክርስቲያን ደሙን ባፈሰሰ አምላክ ስም፥ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን በሚመራና በሚጠብቅ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ስም ጥያቄዬን አስተላልፋለሁ። ምናልባት የሕጉን ጽሑፍ አንብቦ መረዳት የተሳነው፥ ግን በልዩ ልዩ ደጋፊዎቻቸው ተጭበርብሮ በቸልታ የሚመለከተው፤ ከዚያም ዐልፎ በሥልጣናቸው እየተመኩ ለቤተ ክርስቲያን ጥያቄ ጆሯችንን አንሰጥም ብለው ይህን በደል ያደረሱትን ፓትርያርክ አቡነ ጳውሎስን፥ በሦስት የሹመት ስም የሚንቀባረሩትን አባ ገሪማን፥ ለነሱ ድጋፍ የሚሰጡትንም ሁሉ፤ ጌታዬ አምላኬ፤ «በምድር ያሰራችሁት በሰማይ የታሰረ ይሆናል፤» ሲል በሰጠው ቃል በአብ በወልድ በመንፈስ ቅዱስ ሥልጣን፤ በጴጥሮስ፥ በጳውሎስ፥ በማርቆስ፥ በቄርሎስ፥ በባስልዮስ፥ በቴዎፍሎስ፥ በተክለ ሃይማኖት ዘደብረ ሊባኖስ ቃል፤ ኃጥእ ደካማም በምሆን በእኔም በቀሲስ ወልደ ጊዮርጊስ ቃል አውግዤአለሁ። ይህን ሕግ የተቀበሉና ከሥራ ላይ ያዋሉ ሁሉ እንደ አርዮስ፥ እንደ መቅዶንዮስ፥ እንደ ንስጥሮስ፥ እንደ ፍላብያኖስ፥ እንደ ኬልቄዶን ጉባኤና ተከታዮቹ እሱራን፥ ውጉዛን ይሁኑ። በማይፈታው በእግዚአብሔር ሥልጣን አስሬአለሁ።
ለአብ ለወልድ ለመንፈስ ቅዱስ ምስጋና ይሁን አሜን።
ማስጠንቀቂያ፤ አምላኬ ሂድ ተናገር ያለኝን ትእዛዝ ለእናንተ አድርሻለሁ። ሩጫዬንም ጨርሻለሁ። ከእንግዲህ ተጠያቂነቱ የእናንተ የምእመናንና ታሪክ ተጠያቂ ያደረገው የመንግሥት ነው። ለዚህም ምስክሬ ራሱ እግዚአብሔር፥ ቅዱሳን መላእክት፥ ሰማይና ምድር ናቸው።
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July 18th, 2010 at 12:49 AM
I blame that double beccone cheese burger which was poulos’s wediablos choice in Vaga Bond inn next to USC in LA. Matter of fact g.Medhn used to live in that area.
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July 18th, 2010 at 1:04 AM
If this is wrong god will take care of it. Who am I to get involved in religious stuff. Kind of weird though.
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July 18th, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Did he die or he sow him self dead in his dream ? How many people can live on that money he spent on this piled stone ? I am sure one day he will die in some one’s hand and this piled stone can be broken in to pieces.
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July 18th, 2010 at 2:24 AM
is it true? if it is it is unnescessary to Orthodox believers to have statue it is Evil work
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:10 AM
One of the traits of Christianity is not to be judgmental but these kinds of stuffs always tempt us to judge, to curse and to be unchristian, Aba Paulos is not only squandering our Church’s fund that could have made a lot of difference in so many peoples lives as well as saving many poverty ridden monasteries that are under heavy stress due to lack of capital and threat by the muslims but he is also making us to commit the sin of being judgmental and profanity against Church figures. I don’t see any point of erecting a statue for himself, as far as I know, our Church strongly condemns statues and are labeled as Idols which are strictly forbidden in our books. Our early Church fathers and even Emperors of the past have never even attempted to build something for their own vanity, Emperor Lalibela, with all his architectural sophistication and power and with all the love he was loved by his people, he never even tried to put his name in any of his rockhewn Churches, King Ezana, King Kaleb and all our former leaders on the throne only made us remember them by their good work for their nation and Church not by personal “amour propre” acts. I pray to God to forgive me for judging this person while my own shoulders are on the verge of being broken by my own burden of sins and may God give us all brains that can think straight. God Bless Ethiopia and all the human race.
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:39 AM
ቅ/ፓትርያርኩ ለ18ኛ በዓለ ሲመታቸው የ3.4 ሚሊዮን ብር መኪና ተሸለሙ
(ደጀ ሰላም፤ ጁላይ 12/2010)፦ የቅዱስ ፓትርያርኩ 18ኛ ዓመት በዓለ ሲመት ሲከበር ትናንት በቦሌ በተደረገው የሐውልት ምረቃ ዝግጅት ላይ የአዲስ አበባ አድባራት የገዙላቸው ነው የተባለ የ3 ሚሊዮን 332 ሺህ ብር የ2010 አዲስ ቶዮታ መኪና ተሸልመዋል። የአዲስ አበባ ሀ/ስብከት ሥራ አስኪያጅ ሊቀ ማዕምራን ፋንታሁን ሙጬ የሀውልቱ ምረቃ በዓል ላይ እንደገለፁት ከሆነ መኪናውን 3.4 ሚሊዮን ብር የገዙት የአዲስ አበባ ገዳማትና አድባራት ናቸው። በትክክሉም ብሩ የወጣውን ከነዚህ ገዳማትና አድባራት ነው። ግን እንት ሊያወጡት እንደቻሉ ሊቀ ማዕምራን ፋንታሁን አልነገሩንም። እያንዳንዱ የአዲስ አበባ ቤተ ክርስቲያን እንዳቅሙ ከ45 ሺህ እስከ 65 ሺህ ብር በግድ እንዲያዋጡ መገደዳቸውን አልተናገሩም።
ስለዚሁ ጉዳይ ሊቀ ማዕምራን ፋንታሁን ባለፈው ሳምንት በጠሩት ስብሰባ ላይ የአዲስ አበባ ገዳማትና አድባራት አስተዳዳሪዎች እና ፀሐፊዎች ተገኝተው ነበር። በወቅቱ እያንዳንዱ ቤተ ክርስቲያን በነፍስ ወከፍ 85 ሺ ብር እንዲያዋጣ የታሰበ ቢሆንም አስተዳዳሪዎቹ እና ፀሐፊዎቹ “ኧረ ሕዝቡ ምን ይለናል? አይቀበለንም” ባሉት የተቃውሞ ሐሳብ መጠኑ ተቀንሶ የሚችሉ 65 ሺህ ብር፣ ገቢያቸው ትንሽ የሆነ ደግሞ 45 ሺህ ብር እንዲያዋጡ ተወስኖባቸዋል። ይህ ሁሉ ብር የቤተ ክርስቲያን ብር እንጂ የአቡነ ጳውሎስም፣ የፋንታሁን ሙጬም አልነበረም።፡ታዲያ እንዲህ እንዲጫወቱበት መብት የሰጣቸው ማነው? ቅ/ሲኖዶሱስ ይህንን እያየ ዝም የሚለው እስከ መቼ ነው? ይህ ወንጀል አይደለምን?
የነገሮችን አካሄድ ለመመልከት እንደሞከርነው በመኪና ግዢ፣ በጉባዔ እና በሐውልት ምረቃ ስም በቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ውስጥ ሰፊ የገንዘብ ምዝበራና የሥርዓተ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ጥሰት እየተካሄደ መሆኑን የሚያሳዩ አንዳንድ ፍንጮች አሉ። በዚህ ወንጀል የተባበሩና እየተባበሩ ያሉ ሰዎች አንድ ቀን በሕግ (በፍትሐ ብሔርም ሆነ በወንጀል) ሊጠየቁ ይችላሉ። አሁን ባለው ሁኔታ ግን ሰዎቹ ለመንፈሳዊውም ሕግ፣ ለዓለማዊውም ሕግ የሚገዙ አይደሉም። መንፈሳዊውን ሕግ የያዘው ክፍል ዝም ብሏል፣ የፍትሐ ብሔሩንም የያዘው ዝም ብሏል። መንፈሳዊው ሕግ አለመፈፀሙ የሚያስጠይቀው ቅዱስ ፓትርያርኩን እና ቅዱስ ሲኖዶሱን ሲሆን ዓለማዊው ሕግ አለመፈፀሙ ደግሞ መንግሥትን ያስጠይቀዋል። ቅዱስነታቸው አሁን እየፈፀሙት ባሉት ድርጊት ቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱን በማዋረዳቸውና ንብረቷን በማስዘረፋቸው (ዘርፈው ለዘራፊ በመክፈታቸው) ራሳቸውም በሕግ ከመጠየቅ ማምለጥ የሚችሉ አይመስሉም። ማምለጥም የለባቸውም። ይህ ድርጊታቸው ከፕትርክናቸውም ሊያስሽራቸው አይገባም? መንግሥት በበኩሉ እነዚህ ወንጀለኞች እንደፈለገ እንዲፈነጩ ዝም በማለቱና ሕግን ባለማስከበሩ፣ የሕዝብን መብት በማስደፈሩ ሊጠየቅ ይገባዋል። መንግሥት የነዚህ ወንጀለኞች ተባባሪ መሆኑን ከቀጠለ መንግሥትን መቃወም ኢትዮጵያዊ ግዴታችን ብቻ ሳይሆን ሃይማኖታዊ ግዴታችንም ይሆናል ማለት ነው።
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:51 AM
With the fall of the Tribal Junta, his statue will be dismatled like Sadam Hussein and will be annihilated from history for good.
History repeats itself! You & I hope to see it soon.
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:55 AM
Worship not Aba Diabilos! Worship the LORD (Psalm 96:9)!
We saw with our own eyes his standing statue in the middle of the city of Addis Ababa; next, we will see his Ethiopian Vannozza (Giovanna) dei Cattani and of his many illegitimate children from her.
When I saw for the first time on the Ethiopian Review (thank you, Elias) the new and costly statue of this prostitute Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, I felt exactly the way Moses felt when he beheld the Golden Calf standing in the middle of the Israelites’ camp. Out of his burning anger, uncontrollable rage, and a burning zeal for the Almighty God, Moses took down the Golden Calf the idolatrous Israelites had made, burned it in the fire, grounded it to powder, scattered it on the water, and forced the Israelites to drink it (Exodus 32:19-20).
If the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church have had a leader like Moses, responsible for his people, responsible for the worship of the true God, and responsible for his leadership, the statue of the adulterous and the greedy Patriarch, Aba Paulos (Diabilos), would not be standing in our capital city of Addis Ababa today while many Ethiopian homeless and starving children are roaming the city for a piece of bread.
Of course, people erect statues for their heroes and saints who have done so many good and memorable things for humanity; for example, we can erect statues for Mahatma Gandhi, for Martin Luther King, Jr., for Mother Theresa, and for many other heroes, but we should never erect a statue for a person, like Aba Paulos, who has done more harm than good for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church: the prostitute Patriarch, Aba Gebre Medhin, has divided the Ethiopian Orthodox Church into an Amhara and a Tegaru Church; the Tegaru Church is at home in Ethiopia, worshiping the statue of Aba Paulos, and the Amhara Church is in exile, serving the true God of the Ethiopian people.
Following the foot steps of his master, Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi), who has been ruling Ethiopia on ethnic lines, Aba Paulos, who came from the same region where dictator Meles came from and appointed by the same murderer dictator to lead the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, has stolen many valuable artifacts from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Churches and monasteries, and he was caught few years ago while he was trying to find customers to buy the Arc of the Covenant from the Axum Zion Church. He was stopped by the courageous Ethiopian monks in Jerusalem as he was attempting to sell one of the houses of the Ethiopian monks there. Also, Aba Paulos has blood in his hand because in January 1997, he murdered an innocent Ethiopian monk at St. Stephen’s Church in Addis Ababa while the monk was preaching and criticizing the corrupt Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church just like John the Baptist who criticized King Herod Antipas without fear and who denounced him for marrying his brother Herod Philips’ wife, Herodias (Mark 6:17-19).
Aba Paulos is the most hated Patriarch the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church ever has in its entire Ethiopian Church history, and the most heinous crime he has ever committed is not the murder of that innocent Ethiopian monk, but he has made himself the laughing stock of the whole Christina and Muslim world for erecting a statue for himself before while he is alive on this earth of ours.
I don’t know how many Ethiopian legislators, ministers, army generals, governors, foreign dignitaries, popes, clergies, debteras, deacons, priests, Imams, and selected singers with their horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, drums, and with all kinds of music have attended for the dedication of the great statue of Aba Paulos (Diabilos). Dictator Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) may have ordered the erecting of this degrading statue to be set up in the middle of the city of Menelik II, and as soon as the statue was set up, Meles may have summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, including Al Amoudi, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the statue and to give homage to the image of Aba Paulos (Diabilos) If there are some Ethiopian Shadrachs, Meshachs and Abednegos who refused to worship the statue of Aba Paulos, they will be thrown into the Qaliti jail if not into the burning furnace (Daniel 3:1-23).
Shame on you, Aba Gebre Medhin! Shame on you Dictator Meles Seitanawi! Shame on you the Ethiopian Legislators! And shame on you, Jezebel (Azeb)! All of you are responsible for turning the Ethiopian Christians and the Ethiopian Muslims from worshipping the true God to worshiping the Statute of the illegitimate Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. The Almighty God will never forget your endless crimes! One day, the Jealous God will bring to the Ethiopian people a person like the Biblical Jehu who destroyed the house of Ahab by killing Ahab, his wife Jezebel, and their 70 children and there by cleansing the land of Israel from worshipping idols or statues (2nd Kings 10:29) Watch out Meles Seitanawi! Watch out Aba Paulos (Diabilos)! We the Ethiopian Christians and Muslims will bring down your statue, smash it into powder, grind it into particles, and spread it into the Awash River.
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July 18th, 2010 at 8:16 AM
The so called aba g/medhin (owner of ak 47 rather than cross) and shifta at his best is real diablos who represents
only the gang is not other than the guy in minilik palace who held the Ethiopian
Orthodox church hostage for the last 20 years and his statue only exists till the end of woyanne black history
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July 18th, 2010 at 9:13 AM
በጣም ይገርማል በዚች ድሃ አገር ስንቱ አየተራበ ባለበት ሰዓት አሳቸው ሃውልት ሲያሲሩ ትንሽ አያፍሩም ደግሞሰ ክሌሎች አባቶች የበለጠ አሳቸው ምን ሰርተው ነው ሃውልት የሚቆምላቸው ሰልጣን ላይ ያሰቀመጣቸው ምድራዊ ገዢ ክሰልጣን ሲፈነገል የሳቸውም ሃውልት አንደ ሳዳም ሃውልት ተጎትቶ ጉድፍ መጣያ መውደቁ አይቀርም
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July 18th, 2010 at 9:16 AM
አባ ዲያብሎስ (አቡነ ጳውሎስ) በገብዘብ ፍቅር ያበዱ መሆናቸውን በአሁን ጊዜ በወዶ ገብነት ተመልሰው የተፉትን በመላስ ላይ የሚገኙት ከሃዲው አቡነ ገብርኤል ከጥቂት ዓመታት በፊት በሬዲዮ የተናገሩትን የምናስታውስ ብዙዎች አለን። እንደማስታውሰው ከሆነ አቡነ ገብኤል ስለ አባ ዲያብሎስ ሲናገሩ “ወርቅ በጣም ይወዳሉ በአንገታቸው ላይ የሚያንጠለጥሏቸውና የሚያጌጡባቸው ልዩ ልዩ ፈርጦች በከፍተኛ ዋጋ የተገዙ ናቸው” ብለዋል። አቡነ ገብርኤልም በሃሰት የፖለቲካ ጥገኝነት ከጠየቁ በኋላ “የአሁኑ ይባስ” እንደሚባለው ተረት ተመልሰው ከአባ ዲያብሎስ ጋር አንድ አካል አንድ አምሳል በመሆን በቤተርስቲያናችንና በአጠቃላይም በአገራችን ላይ የሚሰሩት ግፍና በደል እንዲሁም ዘረፋ ህዝብ ጠንቅቆ የተረዳው መሆኑ አሌ አይባልም።
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July 18th, 2010 at 9:34 AM
በአገራችን ታሪክ መቼም “በዲያብሎስ” ስም በሕዝብ የሚጠራ የሃይማኖት አባት ታይቶም ተሰምቶም አይታወቅም። እንደውም በዓለም ታሪክም በገዛ ምዕመኑና ህዝቡና “ዲያብሎስ” ተብሎ የተጠራ ፓትርያርክ የለም። ከዚህ የምንረዳው እኝህ ሰው ምን ያህል አስከፊና መጥፎ መሆናቸውን ነው። በቤተክርስቲያን ቅጥር ግቢ ውስጥ በግል ታጣቂዎቻቸው ባህታዊ ፍቃደ ስላሴን አስረሽነዋል። በቤተክርስቲያ ደጀ ሰላም ውስጥ ህይወያቸውን ከነፍሰ ገዳዮች ለመታደግ የተደበቁ ንጹሃን ወጣቶችን አስለቅመው በጥይት አስደብድበዋል። አባ ዲያብሎስ እጃቸው በደም የተጨማለቀ የሰይጣን መሳሪያ ናቸው። ስለሆነም የሰይጣን ማምለኪያ ጣኦት ቢያስተክሉ የምገርመን አይደለም። በነቢዩ ኤርምያስ ዘመን የነበረውም “በኦል” ይባል የነበረው ጣኦት ከነቀሳውስቱ የት እንደደረሰ ስለምናውቅ ኢትዮጵያችን ትንሳኤሽን ያሳየን እያልን በተስፋ እንጠብቃለን።
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July 18th, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Wayane will keep building cults, statues, totalitarian systems and soon the little holy cult little gray books.
The trend is clear. Action from dictator Wayane. Only reaction from the opposition. Hmm…
For the opposition, Marathon writing for the sake of marathon writings as an end in itself with no ability and courage of translating the talking and the writings in to actions as well as succumbing to the deepest silences when the critical time comes for actions and expressions of voices like during the current TPLF election robbery and through that silence legitimizing injustices adds up to accepting defeat and going home to sleep.
All such incapacity of the dispersed oppositions only encourages the totalitarian dictator and its supporters to go even more wild as to covert all the Ethiopian nature and wilderness in to the dictator’s grazing lands and cult building wastelands.
Do you think both the dictatorship and its supporters would have been too motivated and dared to raise huge funds and huge moral and start building useless statues, useless national and international false propaganda tower houses, fat secret bank accounts, bad governance structures from the top to the bottom if and only if the Ethiopian oppositions would have been determined and decisive as to take it upon itself and exercised its democratic and human rights to publicly oppose the election robbery like the brave ODINGA of KENYA and others who took back his stolen votes using all the means available to him.
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS and now every party to the struggle knows his/her limits while democracy functions and functions using the available balance of power minus corrupt chest pumping dictatorship.
In reality most of these lame duck oppositions are good at keeping an eye on each other while pretending to be united and opposing the totalitarian one man minority dictatorship in favor of the 80 million wretched Ethiopians.
Hence, the so called none existent strength of the dictatorship is in fact simply due to the shameful weakness of the bickering and wavering divided oppositions being infiltrated by petty parochial short and narrow sighted elements helping the statues mushroom instead of mushrooming democracy, welfare and well-being, equality, pluralism and justice for all.
If we are doing all what we have always been doing in the last 20 years, we will also be getting all what we have been getting up to now and even worse slavery and extremely bad governance. :)
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:09 AM
ከላይ ስለ አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ የተጻፈውን ሳንብ መምህር ዘበነ ለማ ልክ እንደ እሳቸው “አለቃ” ተብሎ ለመጠራት መጓጓቱና እልህ አስጨራሽ ሽኩቻ ውስጥ መግባቱ በጣም የሚያሳዝንና የሚያሳፍር ነው። የማይገባውን ማዕረግ መፈለጉ ባዶ መሆኑን የሚያሳይ ነው። አለቃ አያሌው እኮ የኢትዮጵያን ቤተክርስቲያን ተዝቆ የማያልቅ ትምህርት ለረዥም ዓመታት ተምረውና ከፍተኝ አገልግሎቶችን ለረዥም ዓመታት ሰጥተው ነው ለዚህ ከፍተና ማዕረግ የበቁት። ከጴንጤ ትምህርት ቤት ሰርተፍኬት በመቃረም ግብረገብነትና ኢትዮጵያዊ ሥነምግባር አይገኙም። በቲፎዞ፣ በማስፈራራትና በፕሮፓጋንዳ ሳይሆን የቀደሙ አባቶቻችን ለማዕረግ የበቁት እግዚያብሔርን ፈርተው ህዝብን አክብረው ከልባቸው መንፈሳዊ አግልግሎትን እጅግ ከባድ የሆኑ መስዋዕትነቶችን እየከፈሉ በማበርከት ነበር። መምህር ዘበነ እኮ እራሱን ተራራ አሳክሏል ግን ከእነ አለቃ አያሌው ታምሩ ጋር ሲነፃጸር ኩይሳም አይሆንም። እሱ አለቃ በሉኝ ሲል “ጩሎ” ነህ መባል እንዳይመጣ መጠንቀቅ ይበጃል። ቀስ ብሎ እየሰሩ ማደግ ይሻላል። “ሳይሞቅ ፈላ” መሆን እጅግ አስከፊ ነው፡። ‘እወቁኝ ያል ደብቁኝ ይላል” የሚለውን ብሂል መመልከቱ ይበጃል።
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July 18th, 2010 at 11:17 AM
we don’t have our beloved country anymore we are occupied by foreign invaders
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July 18th, 2010 at 12:02 PM
What does this really mean? is this man Sadam Husen of Iraq or our own Mengistu Hailemariam???mine yelutal ahune mine alebete endaw ..
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July 18th, 2010 at 1:17 PM
The intent of the Patrirch is to belittle the sacred perception of Ethiopian Christians towards the orthodox church and eventually trash and dismantle the spiritual culture. The Orthodox church has been always the main vanguard for safeguarding Ethiopian territory and integrity. By planting distrust and by focusing on things that divides us, they are trying to tarnish the very essence of the church and shrink its role in people’s life. Now families percieve the chruch just as corrupt as any Municipalities and administrative offices. This is what they tried and, unfortunately, achieved.
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July 18th, 2010 at 1:36 PM
Wow, Woyanne’s high priest has his own statue, I think this tribal junta have lost their mind. As if they are not the most hated group in Ethiopia, now they added one more symbol that makes them even more despised.
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July 18th, 2010 at 2:30 PM
What an arrogant man! Priesthood is not about your ego it is about the believe in christ and making a difference in people’s lives! OMG
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Oh, my country Ethiopia. Oh, my church, u even lack one person; who defends u!
Enezihe yemender shiftoch mechawecha aderegun aydell; Go armed struggle fighters, please come up with your stratgy please, I will promise to join you. Please ….. I can lost my county, but I can not afford to lose my traditional orthodox religion.
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Dear Editor,
Thanks for the update. Things really getting worse. Pls follow thi link for a wondeful commentary on the issue,
http://www.danielkibret.com/. I feel it would be great if more people see it.
Best,
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July 18th, 2010 at 5:10 PM
What a way to show humility, soon Aba Diablose is going to place a drop-box by his statue for Ethiopians to put offerings, light candles and bow-down to worship his statue. Woyanes are making a mockery of the oldest religion in the world–Ethiopian Orthodox Church! Millions of Ethiopians are expected to die for lack of food and water and Woyanes are spending hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Tax Payers’ money on useless, worthless woyane puppet statue. Ethiopian Muslims and all Christian Ethiopians should demand this statue to come down. This is a disgrace to say the least. I hope I live long enough to see this statue drag down on the streets like Saddam Hussein’s statue.
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July 18th, 2010 at 6:14 PM
europa yalenew wendoch enjera endemngagir aba diablosm ende weyane semtew nqewnal min thonalachiu new yemilun yeabatachin abune petros metasebia balebet ketema yebanda hawlt meqomu asazagn tarik new and qen endemifers rgtegna bhonm lene mot new behywet eyale hawltun yegeneba bequmu yemote new
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July 18th, 2010 at 6:22 PM
This is very disturbing! Really.
We all know Woyane suffers from inferiority complex. but this time they have overstepped the line.
This is to show that Woyanes authority in politics and religion. I doubt if the patriarch was amhara or oromo or gurage (other than from Tigray) this cursed statue would be erected. This is all about Woyane and their power grip in Ethiopia today. all ethiopians should condemn this sinful and illegal act. shame shame shame!
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:02 PM
I am christian but how about the million Eslmawi teketai hezboch? Is that not a little disregard for them to have a statue of this man with a cross in a popular square in Addis?
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:41 PM
While at the subject and a must listen/read for the times (Recommended):
1.”አልፈርድም እኔ” – መዝሙር በይልማ ሃይሉ::
2.”አክራሪ እስልምና” – ስብከት በዲ.ዳ.ክ::
3.”ተኩላው ማነው” – ስብከት በዲ.ዳ.ክ::
ተዋህዶ ኦርግ
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:54 PM
A stone headed, illegitimate ‘patriarch’ built a stone statue of himself.
In a way he is telling us that he is dead. But hard to swallow is, what good did he do other than distroying our church to desrve a statue.
What an earthly flesh covered in the garb!
May the Lord deliver our church from these evils.
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July 18th, 2010 at 11:09 PM
What surprises me the most is the people who were gathering arround the statue and loughing and smiling.
A group who came as a historical accident keep on doing owe and shoke on Ethiopia, its people and on every fabrics of its establishements.
1, Breaking apart its parts and let any part of the country go away- starting from red sea boundary, afars, Eritrea with out any fear of treason and historical crimes associated with it.
2. They eliminated all bank workers who opposed a principle and replaced them with any body who wants to work in their behalf.
3. They dismissed 44 university professors in which the country paid a huge sum of its wealth as an investment to train and educate them so that they teach their back ward society in order to bring to modern thinking and be part of the contemporary society
5. They dissolve an existing structure of the orthodox synod with out giving a single respect for its rules and traditions and substitute everything with their fellow newcommers in arms and sent the syond to exile.
6. They reintroduced ethnic baggages to the Ethiopian society that was devised by Mussolloni to weaken the strength of the Ethiopian people to subjugate them–which is purely a mokery of the social dvelopment of the ethiopian society, saying that they are not yet beyond thinking their ethnic groups, so it is good to contain them as goods and furnitures by their types only–which are ethnic shelfs, which by the way make them herders than leaders..they need to control crowd than to lead them with vision to take them where they were not been before.
7. They outsource what is an asset of uniity and affinity to Ethiopians– selling roads and streets of Addis Ababa to foreign names which have nothing to do with Ethiopia and its people. But instead if a street is named say as: Harra street, Wollega avenue, Bahirdar street, Gondar avenue, Debrezeit road, Mekelle street, Awassa road, etc. when a person from the farout part of Ethiopia gets a name of a place where he came from in another part of Ethiopia, specially in Addis Ababa, he will immediately feel that he indeed is part and parcel of Ethiopia and be joyful.
8. They make a mokery on the Ethiopian people by treating them like children who are not even capable of understanding when they are cheated and insulted politically, socially and calturally. The staute erected for the person is one such an insult. Putting potentially wining political opponents in prison not only to kill their political ambitions but their spirit, or hidden illimintaion.. so that the maximum a political opponent can be is to play a good cheerleader of a pseudo-democratic process.
The list of plunders, mokery and sinister actions are so many, but few of the Ethiopian people keep on smiling–unlike the Mussolloni time.. eventhough the actions are exactly the same if not more to Ethiopia and its people.
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July 18th, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Is there anyone here who wants to bet with me who will erect his statue next? Anyone? I say Meles is next. As always he will blame the effort on his supporters as he blamed his ghoulish cliques for staying in power for ‘another term’. They will erect one for him first in Adwa and then in a secure spot in one of Addis neighborhoods dominated by his vassals. Mark my word for it. It may take one year or five years, it will happen. Such individuals with despotic infections are also greatly self-gratified by erecting billboards with their portraits and statues gazing at some distant places all for no reasons. When that happens, it will be the ugliest face you can see on a statue anywhere. Period. Those poor people have to put up with such arrogance in places of worship and in the streets.
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July 18th, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Well, why any one is surprised? As the old saying goes, “in a country of the blinds, a one eyed man is a king”. And this “king” has been Mr. Legese Zenawi for well over twenty years. He may not be tempted to built a statue for himself, knowing quite well that it will be very temporery, & perhaps to be dragged down as soon as he makes his fast gateaway from Empror Menelik’s Palace to one his “secrect” overseas’ villas. However, there is nothing more that pleases bandas and dictators than to make fun of real patriots who died for the mother land. The other motive stems from an attempt to re-make past history. The fact is, Abuna Petros deserves a statue & will remain there for centuries to come.
The current fake statue, however, will be added to all the fake TPLF/eprdf: constitution, elections, ethnic demarkation, democracy and double digit-development etc as part of the case load to be presented before local or an International Criminal Court as an abuse of political power against the citizens of Ethiopia.
The irony is the “Abune’s” statue will not be well accepted anywhere, not even in his home state of Tigray, let alone a few miles away from the statue of the patriot & the real Abune Petros, who gave his life for ETHIOPIA.
Please God/Allah, spare us from any more humulation, by a such groupe of gangs, who worship money & gold statues to make them feel “happy or powerful” over our poor citizens and over the ever weak oppositions of all kinds.
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July 19th, 2010 at 2:18 AM
OMGWTF! I wish I just can end my life right about now! We, Ethiopians must have done something or our ancestors must have pissed of GOD to deserve this. My happiest moment would be the day this statue smash to pieces. Never in Ethiopian history, this kind of arrogance was displayed by the leader of our church. I remember his holiness Abune Tekelehaymanot was so down to earth, he was literally pressured from the military leadership – Mengae et an al, to start wearing shoe. Because his holiness would be walking bare foot even when he was making trips outside of Ethiopia. His daily consumption was Kolo also.
Well, Lets God do his work; while we do what is expected of us. God works in mystrious ways sometimes. These arrogant kimalams are just defecating on Ethiopia, until their times up. One thing for sure is nobody can escape from Time.
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July 19th, 2010 at 2:59 AM
This is the worst shamfull stupied historic event in Ethiopia Orthodox Tewahido church as well as 50 million folwers, I have got no word to say.
Aleka Ayalew Tamiru served the EOC and flowres with his full of knowlge for more than 50 years, he was remined in his house until his last time with no even pention.
This Stupied,Egotism,Crazy and Hiypocratic,Slander and mad man, he made his own status useing Curch as his own privet cash box.
We will remove Ato Gebrmedhins statu and we will replace Like Likawnt Ayalew Tamirus setatu. this is the matter of time.
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July 19th, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Hard to believe this can ever happen in Ethiopia. The only instance is for Abune Petros who was martyred by the Fascist Italians for opposing them.This reminds me of the Russian Orthodox church during the communist era. It was actually communist cadres that used to run the church appointed as patriarchs by the state.
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July 19th, 2010 at 9:46 AM
tena yistiligh kristianoch?
Please pray for God to send His mercy.
Aba Diabilos is working his best so as to ruin Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church in collaboration with his disciples: seitan begashaw.
Psalm
{115:4} Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
{115:5} They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
see not:
{115:6} They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
smell not:
{115:7} They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
{115:8} They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that
trusteth in them.
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July 19th, 2010 at 10:05 AM
አቶ ፓዉሎስ ማለት እኮ የደጋ አጋሰስ ማለት ነዉ፡፡ ባረቄና በዉስኪ ናላዉ የዞረ ጳጳስ ነዉ፡፡ እንዲያዉም እብድ ይመስለኛል፡: እግዚአሀሄር ኢትዮጵያን ይጠብቅ፡፡አሜን
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July 19th, 2010 at 10:26 AM
It is the dark age for Ethiopian Orthodox church. It is sad in 21st century this kind of ignorance. 700 years ago happened in Europe with church leaders, because of simony and nipotism. After seven centuries it is happening in the cursed land with the administration of Abba Paulos. So guys there is need of reformation with this kind of corruption the church is dying.
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July 19th, 2010 at 12:01 PM
I do recognize that I am a creature that has fallen short of the glory of God.Even in my fallen state I cannot imagine how much the mind of a church leader should be calcified to do what Abba Paulos has done.This is an insult and mockery to the entire Christiandom in general and to the Ethiopian Orthdox membership in particular.He should be told to build God,s Kingdom and not Abba Paulos’s kingdom.He has dethroned God to crown himself.Remeber God can be very swift in delivering His wrath when we step too far into the a forbidden territory that is exclusively God’s.
Rwanda Burundi
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July 19th, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Oh MY GOD! WHAT?!! this is a DISGRACE!!!
WHAT’S NEXT? MELES ERECTING HIMSELF A STATUE OF DOMINATION AND OPRESSION?
WOW! THI IS DISGUSTING – IN YOUR FACE
ARROGANCE. NOT GOOD AT ALL REGARDLESS OF WHAT POLITICS ONE BELIEVES IN.
GOD DELIVER US FROM EVIL!
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July 19th, 2010 at 12:33 PM
PLEASE STOP calling him “ቅዱስ ፓትርያርኩ”
He is not “ቅዱስ” and should never be allowed to become ፓትርያርክ::
He has put the Ethiopian Church and Ethiopians in danger.
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July 19th, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Let us see this from a positive angle. I do not know why we react negatively for every thing. Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia, a Christian Island. The majestic statue of Patriarch, no matter the intensity of the gauges have held against the Pop, he carried and raised the cross high over the City. Our cross represents our religion, Christ reign over Ethiopia, and triumph over death. It is very sinful to compare this with the statue of Sadam. We have to salute who ever concoct this idea and the statue with its cross in hand shall receive people coming to Ethiopia for ever!
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July 19th, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Something feels oddly strange, out of place and may be pompous. The piety all in glittering cover of a statue while he is alive and built by the very “Patriarch”. There is such a difference of feeling in coming across, remembering and/or growing around observing THE GREAT ABUNE PETROS’ STATUE and comparing it with such VANITY.
His golden outfit is commonly worn by the high priests of Ethiopian Orthodox churches in times of service. It is beautiful and glorifies the sense and highness of God in terms of religion art, but the patriarchs and overall the general standard of garment had been either black and/ or other choice out side of religious services. In his unusual case 100% white. The golden mask does not seem to fit right for a statue.
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July 19th, 2010 at 3:58 PM
Salute,
if he want to see cross over the City why didn’t he erect just the cross over the city instead of his own statue. This despacable and setanic act. God will question all who are responsible for this statue.
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July 19th, 2010 at 4:05 PM
#44,
There is enough history that shows Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian country in the world…If we take what you said to be true…then why not a statue of Jesus Christ, instead of a fake Patriarchy statue?
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July 19th, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I am curious to know why people become such silly. Why people insult and curse His Holly Petros? Afterall who are we to judge His Hollyness?
I am sure his Holly St. Paulos is an extraordinary leader in history of Ethiopian Orthodox church. His Holly has done an outstanding work in transforming and modernizing church’s systems and structures.
Lets evaluate leaders/heros… by their vision and performance/achievements, not by their ethnic group or political affilation.
Lets honor our leaders and our heros.
To produce more leaders and heros we need to honor and respect the existing ones.
GOD BLESS Ethiopia
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July 20th, 2010 at 12:56 AM
The statue will fall down very soon along with Woyane. Shame on you TAGAY PAULOS.
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July 20th, 2010 at 1:16 AM
ቸር ወሬ ያሰማን
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July 20th, 2010 at 1:39 AM
Let God kill abaDiabilos with already started him of diabetics. Ethiopian Orthodox will be free soon from Meles and Diabilos
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July 20th, 2010 at 3:06 AM
Don’t worry christians because the erecting of a statue alive person signifies that aba diabilos has admitted that he is as dead as a stone. Let the revenge be taken by our God.
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July 20th, 2010 at 10:06 AM
If the intention of constructing a statues is to put a cross over Addis Ababa, why most churches of Addis Ababa have put woyane’s flag over their dome above the cross.
Please, at least, do not collaborate with the internal enemies (a green snake in the grass) of the church such as Ato paulos. It is time to identify aba diabilos from his camoflaging with holiness. After all holiness cannot be manifested by dressing the closes of patriachate. Rather it is by being practical holiness, doing holly deeds in practice
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July 20th, 2010 at 10:17 AM
According to the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church doctrines, the Church leaders are suppose to elect and ordained their Patriarch. This Diablos was picked and assigned by tyrant Meles. A friend of a tyrant is also a tyrant. Aba Diablos never once criticized Meles for all the Human Rights Violations he has committed on innocent people. He never said a word against Meles when young men and women gunned down around Ethiopia in 2005. In fact, when a lot of people run in Ethiopian Orthodox Churches to save their lives from Agazi Army in 2005, Aba Diablos was the one who ordered the priests to chase out the people and hand them to their abusers. What kind of religious man is this? iwnetem diablos!
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July 20th, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Meles ordered his slaves-the security to prepare a nice song for him self and they(the security) prepared a nice one using the voice of the dead pig called Solomon Tekka….now his spritual father, Aba Paulos has erected a statue for him self!! They tried to get a respect from the public using azmaris’ song and statue!,,,I’m really surprised!!
why don’t they tired to get a respect moving on the right track-doing a good job!!!
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July 20th, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Emmm! I like the statue but the price of tomatos in Addis may soar sooner…
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July 20th, 2010 at 3:24 PM
For everyone that reads this message. We have an earnest plea to make, that is for all of us who honestly believe that there is a curse made by the ELDERS on our country and its people because of the ocean of innocent blood that was and is being shed by evil regimes for their selfish ego of power and a never satisfied greed had brought the terrible and untold suffering on our people and country. Therefore, it is our obligation to fast and pray until GOD ALMIGHTY turns his face toward us and save us from Armageddon. Egzio Belu, all of the monks in the monasteries have foretold that days that are far worse than these are to come. Egzio Enbel!! As if what is going on in our country was not enough, look at what is happening to us in the Diaspora, the Dallas and the D.C. St. Michael Churches, everywhere where there are Ethiopians they cannot live together in harmony. Why? Because we have been cursed by the elders of our country. I know this makes sense to those of us 30 and above, I don’t know how many of the younger generation understands the gravity of what is happening to us or to our country. Egzio Belu!! Entsum, entseley, Egziabeheren enematsen!! Yesewun enetewew, menem yetekemen neger yelem. Egziabehere Yirdan!!
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July 20th, 2010 at 8:06 PM
The statue of Lenin was walking toward the airport, when the time came it did crumbel. Aba Diablos is standing and waiting for the gates of hell to open and for Lucifer to receive him, it won’t be too long for he and his cronies to catch fire.
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July 20th, 2010 at 9:26 PM
ኦሪት ዘዳግም
(Deuteronomy)
1፤ በእግዚአብሔር ዘንድ የተጠላ የሠራተኛ እጅ ሥራን የተቀረጸ ወይም ቀልጦ የተሠራ ምስልን የሚያደርግ፥ በስውርም የሚያቆመው ሰው ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ መልሰው አሜን ይላሉ።
2፤ አባቱን ወይም እናቱን የሚያቃልል ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
3፤ የባልንጀራውን የድንበር ምልክት የሚገፋ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
4፤ ዕውሩን ከመንገድ ፈቀቅ የሚያደርግ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
5፤ በመጻተኛ በድሀ አደጉም በመበለቲቱም ላይ ፍርድን የሚያጣምም ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
6፤ ከአባቱ ሚስት ጋር የሚተኛ የአባቱን ልብስ ገልጦአልና ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
7፤ ከማናቸይቱም እንስሳ ጋር የሚተኛ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
8፤ ከአባቱ ወይም ከእናቱ ልጅ ከእኅቱ ጋር የሚተኛ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
9፤ ከአማቱ ጋር የሚተኛ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
10፤ ባልንጀራውን በስውር የሚመታ ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
11፤ የንጹሑን ሰው ነፍስ ለመግደል ጉቦ የሚቀበል ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
12፤ የዚህን ሕግ ቃሎች ያደርግ ዘንድ የማያጸና ርጉም ይሁን፤ ሕዝቡም ሁሉ አሜን ይላሉ።
BLESSING AND CURSE.
For the purpose of impressing upon the hearts of all the peoplein the most emphatic manner both the blessing which Israel (Ethiopia) was to proclaim upon Gerizim, and the curse which it was to proclaim upon Ebal, Moses now unfolds the blessing of fidelity to the law and the curse of transgression in a longer address, in which he once moreresumes, sums up, and expands still further the promises and threats of the law.
THE BLESSING. If Israel(Ethiopia) would hearken to the voice of the Lord its God, the Lord would make it the highest of all the nations of the earth. This thought, with which the discourse on the law terminated, forms the theme, and in a certain sense the heading, of the following description of the blessing, through which the Lord, according to the more distinct declaration would glorify His people above all the nations of the earth. The indispensable condition for obtaining this blessing,was obedience to the word of the Lord, or keeping His commandments. To impress this conditio sine qua non thoroughly upon the people, Moses not only repeats it at the commencement but also at the close in both a positive and a negative form. The way in which Israel was to be exalted is pointed and thus the theme is more precisely indicated, and the elaboration of it is introduced. All these blessings (those mentioned singly in what follows) will come upon thee and reach thee. The blessings are represented as actual powers, which follow the footsteps of the nation, and over take it. The fulness of the blessing of God in all the relations of life is depicted in a sixfold repetition of the word blessed. Israel will be blessed in the town and in the field, the two spheres in which its life moves blessed will be the fruit of the body, of the earth, and of the cattle, i.e. in all its productions; blessed will be the basket in which the fruits are kept, and the kneading-trough in which the daily bread is prepared; blessed will the nation be in all its undertakings (a coming in and going out; … Moses not only proclaimed the blessing to the people, but desired it for them, because he knew that Israel would not always or perfectly fulfill the condition upon which it was to be bestowed. May the Lord be pleased to give thine enemies . . . smitten before thee; i.e. give them up to thee as smitten (to give up before a person, to deliver up to him), so that they shall come out against thee by one way, and flee from thee by seven ways, i.e. in wild dispersion. “May the Lord command the blessing with thee (put it at thy disposal) in thy barns (granaries, store-rooms) and in all thy business. The Lord will exalt thee for a holy nation to Himself… so that all the nations of the earth shall see that the name of Jehovah is named upon thee, and shall fear before thee. The Lord had called Israel as a holy nation, when He concluded the covenant with it. This promise, to which the words “as He hath sworn unto thee” point back, and which is called an oath, because it was founded upon the promises given to the patriarchs on oath, and was given implicite in them, the Lord would fulfill to His people, and cause the holiness and glory of Israel to be so clearly manifested, that all nations should perceive or see “that the name of the Lord is named upon Israel.” The name of the Lord is the revelation of His glorious nature. It is named upon Israel, when Israel is transformed into the glory of the divine nature. It was only in feeble commencements that this blessing was fulfilled upon Israel under the Old Testament ; and it is not till the restoration of Israel, which is to take place in the future according to Rom. xi. 25 sqq., that its complete fulfillment will be attained. ”Superabundance will the Lord give thee for good (i.e. for happiness and prosperity), in fruit of thy body” etc. He would open His good treasure-house, the heaven, to give rain to the land in its season and bless the work of the hands, i.e. the cultivation of the soil, so that Israel would be able to lend to many, according to the prospect already set before it. By such blessings He would “make Israel the head, and not the tail” a figure taken from life, the meaning of which is obvious, and is given literally, “thou wilt be above only, and not beneath” i.e. thou wilt rise more and more, and increase in wealth, power, and dignity. With this the discourse returns to its commencement; and the promise of blessing closes with another emphatic repetition of the condition on which the fulfillment depended.
THE CURSE, in case Israel should not hearken to the voice of its God, to keep His commandments. After the announcement that all these (the following) curses would come upon the disobedient nation, the curse is proclaimed in all its extent, as covering all the relations of life, in a six fold repetition of the word “cursed, as above and the fulfillment of this threat in plagues and diseases, drought and famine, war, devastation of the land, and captivity of the people, is so depicted, that the infliction of these punishments stands out to view in ever increasing extent and fearfulness. We are not to record this, however, as a gradual heightening of the judgments of God, in proportion to the increasing rebellion of Israel, although it is obvious that the punishments threatened did not fall upon the nation all at once. The bursting of the threatened curse upon the disobedient people is proclaimed in all its forms. First of all, quite generally in “The Lord will send the curse against thee, consternation and threatening in every undertaking of thy hand which thou earnest out till thou be destroyed, till thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, because thou hast forsaken Me? Curse or Malediction; consternation produced by the curse of God, namely, the confusion with which God smites His foes is the threatening word of the divine wrath. “The Lord will make the pestilence fasten upon (cleave to) thee, till He hath destroyed thee out of the land . . . to smite thee with giddiness and fever, inflammation, burning, and sword, blasting of corn, and mildew (of the seed); “seven diseases there fore (seven as the stamp of the works of God), whilst pestilence in particular is mentioned first, as the most terrible enemy of life. To burn, and to glow, signify inflammatory diseases, burning fevers… Instead of Sin, the sword as the instrument of death, used to designate slaughter and death, heat or drought, according to which there would be four evils mentioned by which human life is attacked, and three which are injurious to the corn… drought is threatened to singe or blacken, to be yellowish, to two diseases which attack the corn: the former to the withering or burning of the ears, caused by the east wind the other to the effect produced by a warm wind in Arabia, by which the green ears are turned yellow, so that they bear no grains of corn. To this should be added terrible drought, without a drop of rain from heaven. Instead of rain, dust and ashes should fall from heaven. When the heat is very great, the air in Palestine is often full of dust and sand, the wind assuming the form of a burning sirocco, so that the air resembles the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace. Defeat in battle, the very opposite of the blessing promised. Israel should become “a moving to and fro”, i.e. so to speak, ”a ball for all the kingdoms of the earth to play with. ”The corpses of those who were slain by the foe should serve as food for the birds of prey and wild beasts the greatest ignominy that could fall upon the dead, and therefore frequently held out as a threat against the ungodly. The second view depicts still further the visitation of God both by diseases of body and soul, and also by plunder and oppression on the part of their enemies. Four incurable diseases of the body are threatened: the ulcer of Egypt the form of leprosy peculiar to Egypt, elephantiasis (Acgypti peculiare malum) which differed from lepra tulerosa, however, or tubercular leprosy in degree only, and not in its essential characteristics. A swelling, rising, signifies a tumour, and disease of the anus: in men, tumor in posticis partibus; in women, durius quoddam in utero. It was with this disease that the Philistines were smitten to scrape or scratch, also a kind of itch, of which there are several forms in Syria and Egypt. In addition to this, there would come idiocy, blindness, and confusion of mind, three sychical maladies; mental blindness. Israel would grope in the bright noon-day, like a blind man in the dark, and not make his ways prosper, i.e. not hit upon the right road which led to the goal and to salvation, would have no good fortune or success in its undertakings. Being thus smitten in body and soul, it would be only utterly oppressed and spoiled evermore. These words introduce the picture of the other calamity, viz. the plundering of the nation and the land by enemies. Wife, house, vineyard, ox, ass, and sheep would be taken away by the foe; sons and daughters would be carried away into captivity before the eyes of the people, who would see it and pine after the children, i.e. with sorrow and longing after them; “and thy hand shall not be to thee towards God”, i.e. all power and help will fail thee. This threat is summed up in the following manner: the fruit of the field and all their productions would be devoured by a strange nation, and Israel would be only oppressed and crushed to pieces all its days, and become mad on account of what its eyes would be compelled to see, “the Lord will smite thee” Moses resumes the threat to set forth the calamities already threatened under a new aspect, namely, as signs of the rejection of Israel from covenant fellowship with the Lord. The Lord would smite the people with grievous abscesses in the knees and thighs, that should be incurable, even from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head so-called joint-leprosy, a form of the lepra tuberosa, “from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head”; it is evident that the threat is not to be restricted to this species of leprosy, since “the upper parts of the body often remain in a perfectly normal state in cases of leprosy in the joints; and after the diseased parts have fallen off, the patients recover their previous health to a certain degree.” Moses mentions this as being a disease of such a nature, that it would render it utterly impossible for those who were afflicted with it either to stand or walk, and then heightens the threat by adding the words, “from the sole of the foot to the top of the head. Leprosy excluded from fellowship with the Lord, and deprived the nation of the character of a nation of God. The loss of their spiritual character would be followed by the dissolution of the covenant fellowship. This thought connects and not the thought that Israel being afflicted with leprosy would be obliged to go into captivity, and in this state would become an object of abhorrence to the heathen. The Lord would bring the nation and its king to a foreign nation that it did not know, and thrust them into bondage, so that it would be obliged to serve other gods, wood and stone and would become an object of disgust, a proverb, and a byword to all nations whither God should drive it even in their own land the curse would fall upon every kind of labour and enterprise. Much seed would give little to reap, because the locust would devour the seed; the planting and dressing of the vineyard would furnish no wine to drink, because the worm would devour the vine. They would have many olive-trees in the land, but not anoint themselves with oil, because the olive-tree would be rooted out or plundered. Sons and daughters would they beget, but not keep, because they would have to go into captivity. All the trees and fruits of the land would the buzzer take possession of… to buzz, a rhetorical epithet applied to locusts, not the grasshopper, which does not injure the fruits of the tree or ground sufficiently “to take possession of” to be applicable to it. Israel would be utterly impoverished, and would sink lower and lower, whilst the stranger in the midst of it would, on the contrary, get above it very high; not indeed “because he had no possession, but was dependent upon resources of other kinds“, but rather because he would be exempted with all his possessions from the curse of God, just as the Israelites had been exempted from the plagues which came upon the Egyptians… with the terrible threat, ”These curses shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever” for the purpose of making a pause, if not of bringing the whole to a close. The curses were for a sign and wonder that which excites astonishment and terror, in as much as their magnitude and terrible character manifested most clearly the supernatural interposition of God For ever “applies to the generation smitten by the curse, which would remain forever rejected, though without involving the perpetual rejection of the whole nation, or the impossibility of the conversion and restoration of a remnant, or of a holy seed. The fourth view. Although in what precedes every side of the national life has been brought under the curse, yet love to his people, and the desire to preserve them from the curse, by holding up before them the dreadful severity of the wrath of God, impel the faithful servant of the Lord to go still further, and depict more minutely still the dreadful horrors consequent upon Israel being given up to the power of the heathen, and first of all the horrible calamities which would burst upon Israel on the conquest of the land and its fortresses by its foes. Because it had not served the Lord its God with joy and gladness of heart, “for the abundance of all” i.e. for the abundance of all the blessings bestowed upon it by its God, it would serve its enemies in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and want of every thing, and wear an iron yoke, i.e. be obliged to perform the hardest tributary service till it was destroyed for. The Lord would bring against it from afar a barbarous, hardhearted nation, which knew no pity… “from afar, from the end of the earth.” The greater the distance off, the more terrible does the foe appear. He flies thence like an eagle, which plunges with violence upon its prey, and carries it off with its claws; and Israel does not understand its language, so as to be able to soften its barbarity, or come to any terms. A people “hard of face” i.e. upon whom nothing makes an impression a description of the audacity and shamelessness of its appearance which spares neither old men nor boys. This description no doubt applies to the Chaldeans, who are described as flying eagles in as in the verses before us but it applies to other enemies of Israel beside these, namely to the great imperial powers generally, the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Romans, whom the Lord raised up as the executors of His curse upon His rebellious people. Isaiah therefore depicts the Assyrians in a similar manner, namely, as a people with an unintelligible language, and describes the cruelty of the Medes in with an unmistakable allusion. This foe would consume all the fruit of the cattle and the land, i.e. everything which the nation had acquired through agriculture and the breeding of stock, without leaving it anything, until it was utterly destroyed, and would oppress, i.e. besiege it in all its gates, till the lofty and strong walls upon which they relied should fall. It would so distress Israel, that in their distress and siege they would be driven to eat the fruit of their body, and the flesh of their own children. This horrible distress is depicted still more fully where the words, “in the siege and in the straitness” etc. are repeated as a refrain, with their appalling sound. The effeminate and luxurious man would look with ill-favour upon his brother, the wife of his bosom, and his remaining children, “to give” (so that he would not give) to one of them of the flesh of his children which he was consuming, because there was nothing left to him in the siege. ”His eye shall be evil” i.e. look with envy or ill-favour on account of there not being anything left for himself. The delicate and luxurious woman, who had not attempted to put her feet to the ground (had always been carried therefore either upon a litter or an ass: from tenderness and delicacy her eye would look with envy upon the husband of her bosom and her children, and that because of (for) her after-birth, which cometh out from between her feet, and because of her children which she bears (sc. during the siege)for she will eat them secretly in the want of everything” that is to say, first of all attempt to appease her hunger with the after-birth, and then, when there was no more left, with her own children. To such an awful height would the famine rise! The fifth and last view: And yet these horrible calamities would not be the end of the distress. The full measure of the divine curse would be poured out upon Israel, when its disobedience had become hardened into disregard of the glorious and fearful name of the Lord its God. To point this out, Moses describes the resistance of the people as not hearkening to the voice of the Lord to keep all His commandments, which he (Moses) had commanded this day, or which Jehovah had commanded, but as “not observing to do all the words which are written in this book, to fear the glorified and fearful name,” Jehovah its God. Doing all the commandments of the law must show and prove itself in fearing the revealed name of the Lord. Where this fear is wanting, the outward observance of the commandments can only be a pharisaic work-righteousness, which is equivalent to a transgression of the law. But the object of this fear was not to be a God, according to human ideas of the nature and working of God; it was to be “this glorified and fearful name” i.e. Jehovah the absolute God, as He glorifies Himself and shows Himself to be fearful
in His doings upon earth. If Israel should not do this, the Lord would make its strokes and the strokes of its seed wonderful, i.e. would visit the people and their descendants with extraordinary strokes, with great and lasting strokes, and with evil and lasting diseases and would bring all the pestilences of Egypt upon it. Inasmuch as Israel was set free from them by the deliverance out of Egypt… every disease and every stroke that was not written in this book of the law, not only those that were written in the book of the law, but those also that did not stand therein. The diseases of Egypt that were written in the book of the law include the murrain of cattle, the boils and blains, and the death of the first-born; and the strokes the rest of the plagues, viz. the frogs, gnats, dog-flies, hail, locusts, and darkness an uncommon and harder form of … Israel would be almost annihilated thereby. “Ye will be left in few people (a small number whereas ye were as numerous as the stars of heaven”. Yea, the Lord would find His pleasure in the destruction and annihilation of Israel, as He had previously rejoiced in blessing and multiplying it. With this bold anthropomorphic expression Moses seeks to remove from the nation the last prop of false confidence in the mercy of God. Greatly as the sin of man troubles God, and little as the pleasure may be which He has in the death of the wicked, yet the holiness of His love demands the punishment and destruction of those who despise the riches of His goodness and long-suffering; so that He displays His glory in the judgment and destruction of the wicked no less than in blessing and prospering the righteous. Those who had not succumbed to the plagues and strokes of God, would be torn from the land of their inheritance, and scattered among all nations to the end of the earth, and there be compelled to serve other gods, which are wood and stone, which have no life and no sensation, and therefore can hear no prayer, arid cannot deliver out of any distress. When banished thus among all nations, Israel would find no ease or rest, not even rest for the sole of its foot, i.e. no place where it could quietly set its foot, and remain and have peace in its heart. To this extreme distress of homeless banishment there would be added “a trembling heart, failing of the eyes (the light of life), and despair of soul“. “Thy life will be hung up before thee”, i.e. will be like some valued object, hanging by a thin thread before thine eyes, which any moment might tear down, that is to say, will be ever hanging in the greatest danger.” Thou wilt not believe in thy life” i.e. thou wilt despair of its preservation In the morning they would wish it were evening, and in the evening would wish it were morning, from perpetual dread of what each day or night would bring. Last of all, Moses mentions the worst, namely, their being taken back to Egypt into ignominious slavery. “If the exodus was the birth of the nation of God as such, return would be its death”, “In Ships” i.e. in a way which would cut off every possibility of escape. The clause, ”by the way whereof I spake unto thee, thou shalt see it no more again” is not a more precise explana tion of the expression “in ships” for it was not in ships that Israel came out of Egypt, but by land, through the desert ; on the contrary, it simply serves to strengthen the announcement, “The Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again” namely, in the sense that God would cause them to take a road which they would never have seen again if they had continued in faithful dependence upon the Lord. “I have never seen a passage which describes more clearly the misery of a guilty conscience, in words and thoughts so fitting and appropriate. For this is just the way in which a man is affected, who knows that God is offended, i.e. who is harassed with the consciousness of sin.” This was the way to Egypt, in reality such a return to this land as Israel ought never to have experienced, namely, a return to slavery. “There shall ye be sold to your enemies as servants and maids, and there shall be no buyer.” i.e. no one will buy you as slaves. Egypt is simply mentioned as a land where Israel had lived in ignominious bondage.
THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES (DEUTERONOMY).
C. F. KEIL, D.D., AND F. DELITZSCH, D.D.
ባንድ አሳብ ባንድ ቃል የጸና ልቦና:
ለወገን ለሃገር ጠቃሚ ነውና::
እንትጋ ላንድነት እንደ ቅዱስ ቃሉ:
መለያየት ይቅር ወንድሞች አስተውሉ::
- ይ.ኃ
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እባክህ ተመለስ በታላቁ መከራ እንዳትከሰስና
እንዳትወቀስ በማዕበሉ ተዉጠህ እንዳትከስከስ::
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July 20th, 2010 at 11:45 PM
While we focus on other misdeeds, we must not forget our own sinful errors. Kidus Paulos, the premier doctor of the church, admonishes us for many of our modern day shortcomings.
During the historical invasion of Israel by Assyria, which is identical to the present day Ethiopia, Idolatry (love money, Marxism & Lenninism included) of the people was mentioned as being the primary reason why.
[1 Samuel 15:23 - For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected 1 Samuel 15:23 – For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being]king.]]
Colossians 3:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.
Galatians 5:20 -
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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July 21st, 2010 at 12:07 AM
for the sin we made , God has left us to this kind of time ……
bad goverment and devil prist
so we have to all come back to our God and ask for mercy
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July 21st, 2010 at 4:04 PM
He should have erected it at Dedebit Tigray not in Addis Abeba. When the time comes it will be blown up like Sadam’s.
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July 21st, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Elijah’s Dramatic Appearance
Heroes of the past: ኤሊያስ እና ኤልሳ
Elijah appeared on the stage of public action during one of the darkest hours of Israel’s sad history. He is introduced to us at the beginning of 1 Kings 17, and we have but to read through the previous chapters to discover what a deplorable state God’s people were then in. Israel had grievously and flagrantly departed from Jehovah, and that which directly opposed Him had been publicly set up. Never before had the favoured nation sunk so low. Fifty eight years had passed since the kingdom had been rent in twain following the death of Solomon. During that brief period no less than seven kings had reigned over the ten tribes, and all of them without exception were wicked men. Painful indeed is it to trace their sad course, and still more tragic to behold how there has been a repetition of the same in the history of Christendom.
The first of those seven kings was Jeroboam. Concerning him we read that he “made two calves of gold,” and said unto the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made . . .” (1 Kings 12:28-32). Let it be duly and carefully noted that the apostasy began with the corrupting of the priesthood, by installing into the Divine service men who were never called and equipped by God! Let it be duly and carefully noted that the apostasy began with the corrupting of the priesthood, by installing into the Divine service men who were never called and equipped by God!
Now it was in the midst of this spiritual darkness and degradation that there appeared on the stage of public action, with dramatic suddenness, a solitary but striking witness to and for the living God. An eminent commentator began his remarks upon 1 Kings 17 by saying, “The most illustrious prophet Elijah was raised up in the reign of the most wicked of the kings of Israel.” That is a terse but accurate summing up of the situation in Israel at that time: not only so, but it supplies the key to all that follows. It is truly saddening to contemplate the awful conditions which the prevailed. Every light had been extinguished, every voice of Divine testimony was hushed. Spiritual death was spread over everything, and it looked as though Satan had indeed obtained mastery of the situation.
- The Life of Elijah, by A.W.P
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July 21st, 2010 at 8:29 PM
Ayee christians the curse of Satan is coming in every Church inshAllah.
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July 21st, 2010 at 8:54 PM
self-glorification — sad day.
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July 21st, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Now we wait for Zebene himself to erect his statue on the mall in DC. Birds of a feather….
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July 22nd, 2010 at 8:38 AM
Please…leave discussion of Islam out of this as it has nothing to do with anything in this article. Ethiopia’s strength has always be in it’s mix of people and religion (Christian, Islam, and Judaism) together in harmony. Funny thing…All recognize the same God, or did you forget that?
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July 22nd, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Heroes from the past: Elijah ኤልያስ & Elisha ኤልሳ
Elisha appears to have come from a wealthy land owning family, if the number of oxen they had for ploughing is anything to go by. When the prophet Elijah arrived suddenly his response to his call was immediate. Elijah made it clear that it was up to him whether or not he responded to God’s call when Elisha asked permission to say farewell to his parents. To demonstrate his determination to follow Elisha dramatically severed his links to his past life by slaughtering the pair of oxen he was ploughing with and cooked their meat over the wood of his plough and gave it to his friends and relatives. Scripture tells us that he then left and became Elijah’s attendant or servant in similar way, perhaps, to that in which Joshua had served Moses.
Two external factors dominated the early years of his ministry: Famine and war. We know that both of these were signs of God’s covenantal curses being carried out on a stubborn and disobedient nation. Such curses effect both the guilty and the innocent and in many ways Elisha’s activities lifted the burden from those who had been faithful to the Lord.
Elisha had earlier solved the town of Jericho’s problem with its water supply, but twice now he intervened on behalf of the company of the prophets in order provide them with food. In the first instance one of the company had made the communal meal inedible by adding the gourds from a poisonous plant to the stew. As it appears that the company numbered around a hundred, such an occurrence meant a considerable amount of valuable food was going to be wasted, Elisha therefore performed a miracle and rendered it edible again (4:38-41). In the second incident he miraculously made twenty barley loaves feed a hundred men, anticipating a greater miracle later to be performed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
When a group of children from Bethel taunted the prophet for his baldness, Elisha cursed them in the name of YHWH and two female bears came out of the forest and mauled 42 of them.
Excerpts from The Life & Times of Elisha by R I. Bradshaw.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 8:17 PM
min ydenkal dingay lerasu dingay biyakom
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July 28th, 2010 at 5:50 AM
እኔ ማለት የምፈልገው ነገር ቢኖር እግዚአብሄር ለሁሉም ፍርዱን ይስጣቸው:: ፍርድ ከላይ ነው::
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August 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 PM
O My GOd! Egzio Meharene!
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August 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 PM
እግዝእብህር ይፍርዳእ
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August 13th, 2010 at 4:38 PM
John #67,
You are absolutely wrong Christians and Jews recognize the same God.
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August 14th, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Dear Elias, Chief Editor,
#73: that is not what I said, and you know what wrote.
I have no idea why you are afraid of mentioning the name Islam or Muslim? You are not living in Saudi Arabia. If you are able to post what is happening in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, why don’t you also post what is going on about the planning to build a huge Muslim Mosque at the Ground Zero in New York City?
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Elias Kifle replies:
August 14th, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Dear Assta, Ato Gebremedhin does not represent EOTC. Writing about him is not in any way insulting or expressing hostility toward the EOTC.
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August 14th, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Correction:…and you know what I wrote, not what wrote.
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August 14th, 2010 at 9:19 PM
These days in-home and abroad Ethiopian religious leaders are getting greedy and change the direction of Ethiopian orthodox religion in to buisiness. These shows the judgement day is getting closer. 1. Any patriarch of Ethiopia should not exile no matter what unless the government force them not to teach christianity. In other words, they can not be exile by making excuse. like the former patriarch the one who resides in America, did ” I can not work with this government” He have to stay in his country whatever the out come will be. 2. The exsisting patriarch, abune poulos should not erect his statue. As a religious leader, he should not strive for fame. Jesus Christ did not teach his appostels to strive for fame. Instead, he teach them to put themselves down and give others a chance or priority. To teach about honesty, love, forgiveness, shring and all the good stuffs. In my opinion, “Abune Teklehaimanot” was the only real God fearning Patriarch in Ethiopian history after the “Abune Petros”- The patriarch during the Italy inveders who lost his life for our religion. The rest …we don’t have yet. Even here in America, it is very a shocking situation what we see among Ethiopian priests. One more thing: no matter what, it is not us to critisize their sins. God will give them judgement himself. We as the people, we are not allowed to say bad things about any patriarch or priest. God is the one who allowed them and give them this precious chance to teach us and God is the only one who make the judgement when it come religion leaders. People, do not make any cusing, foul language to priests. If we do we will carry their sins. That is not good.
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October 28th, 2010 at 8:53 AM