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WebRTC – Ski Lifts for Contact Centers
Minimizing costs is the most important goal of most contact centers. Talking with a few contact center executives, their bull's eye is on minimizing the amount of time an agent used to get prepared to help a user. If helping the user is skiing down the mountain, then, today, the agent (and the user) are slowly and painfully hiking up the other side first. WebRTC is then a high-speed chairlift, enabling the user and agent to use their time skiing down the mountain, rather than struggling to get to the top of the mountain. A ski lift that saves the contact center, and the businesses that it serves, a lot of money (agent time).
A Tale of Two Calls
The example above shows a user initiating two sessions to a WebRTC-enabled contact center (calls 1 and 2 in blue), and another user initiating two phone calls to a call center (calls 1 and 2 in red). Note the relative time length of the red sessions (the out of band phone calls to the contact center) – this out of band model causes the user and agent to hike up the mountain before they can ski down it (address the user's problem).
Step 1a – the user seeks help from a contact center:
- In the two contextual sessions, 1a is a short and productive step – like getting on to a ski chairlift. The user navigates the contact center's WebRTC-enabled application (web-based or a native mobile app) to try to solve her problem. The user is in control and can easily find the information she seeks.
- In the out-of-band calls to the contact center, the IVR is in charge of step 1a. The user is at the mercy of IVR trees and wastes valuable time.
And this graph assumes a very good (and expensive) IVR with excellent CTI to pass information, and therefore eventually gets the user to the same level of value as 1a of the contextual session, but with longer time and higher costs.
Unfortunately, that is the best case scenario! In other cases, the out of band step 1a will be very long and expensive, yet still not generate any value – a long hike most of the way up the mountain, only to tumble back down before reaching the top. How many times have you wasted minutes of your life in queues and IVR trees, only to be connected to an agent that then starts you back at square one, at the bottom of the mountain? Note also that if the user first tried to do self-help on a website or app, then the information (and value) from that session is not connected to his phone call.
Step 1b – the user connects with a contact center agent:
- In the WebRTC-enabled contextual sessions, the user chooses when to add the agent to the session. Critically, this is not a new session, it is an extension of the session started in step 1a. This extended session, contextual communications paradigm means that the WebRTC application has already taken care of identification and authentication during the self-help stage (1a). It means the WebRTC app has also already initiated a session (behind the scenes) with the contact center, including adding information from relevant systems and databases (based on your credentials) to the session. So, when you choose to hit the contact button, the sessions are linked such that the contact center agent already has all the contextual information, including all the information learned during your WebRTC app self-help stage (1a) such as the key information from your clicks, swipes and touches in the WebRTC app. This not only means that the agent is able to help you from an excellent starting point, but also that the agent himself can be selected to be the one that best matches you, your information and the actions you took on the app. A linked, continuous, contextual sessions is your high-speed ski lift to the top of the mountain.
- In the out-of-band call, 1b starts when the agent answers the call. In most cases, the agent will then need to use more time to do further identification and authentication. After the agent has spent this precious time, he next needs to slowly query one or more systems that house your data: find out what products or services you use, check out your history, grab your financial information and view your call history (remember, that was all done behind the scenes during 1a for the contextual session). You are at the top of the mountain, yet you still can't quite ski. If you are fortunate, that agent will solve your problem.
However, we all know from experience that it is not uncommon to be thrown back into a queue to be transferred to another agent. In the out-of-band model, you are still hiking up the mountain for much of 1b. Helped by an agent, but still hiking.
In sum, this is why you see in the graph above that the red 1a and 1b takes so much longer and costs the contact center so much more money (agent time) than in the blue 1a and 1b.
Step 1c – the contact center session is terminated:
- In the contextual session, most of the information is retained. The information gathered is therefore also valuable to future sessions. This could include a transcription of the session, possibly enabled for quick keyword-based search that also enables the contact center to efficiently watch relevant sections of the video or listen to select part of the audio.
- In the out of band session, when you hang up, most of the past 30-minutes of your life are wiped out. The fact that the call took place will be logged and maybe the agent will enter some notes. If there is an audio recording then it will be an independent artifact – not correlated or connected with the rest of the session. Any information that could have been derived from your self-help session is effectively gone (perhaps "retained" in some web server logs; not connected or correlated in any way with your phone call).
Steps 2a – 2c – another session from the same user, but one with a head start
The subsequent sessions shown in the graph above – steps 2a – 2c – mainly mirror the first sessions. The key difference is that the contextual session builds on the information gathered in the first contextual session – notice where the blue 2a starts, compared to where the red 2a starts.
This means the second contextual communications session can be even more effective and quick than the first session. On the other hand, for the out-of-band session, if you call again in five minutes, then you will be back at square one, back hiking up the mountain via IVR prompts and back struggling through music-on-hold ice patches, and an agent will eventually be wasting time again (costing the contact center money), also starting from square one. So, not only does the WebRTC call center save time and costs on each call, they save even more time on subsequent calls (from the same users).
Other cost savings?
The example and graph above focused on the agent costs and time that contact center executives feel is the most important and viable to minimize. There are of course many other costs that can be saved by WebRTC call centers, especially once sessions become end-to-end VoIP and video over IP. These costs include PSTN costs (including toll-free), PBX costs, CTI costs and agent endpoint costs (replace expensive desk phones with software on agent computers, tablets and mobiles). It also makes it easier and cheaper to distribute call centers (including to homes), leverage cloud-based services and easier to make changes (compare making web site changes to making IVR, ACD and PBX changes).
Can WebRTC also help the revenue side of contact centers?
WebRTC call centers can also add value (revenue), especially to relationship-driven call centers. To simplify, let's consider two types of contact centers (and some of course are really in the middle):
- Cost-driven contact centers. These contact centers deal with calls about transactions that are relatively low-value, low-interaction and low repeat sale oriented. The performance of these contact centers is not perceived as moving the needle on the revenue side of the house. The CFO has this contact center on the top of her list, but the sales and product VPs barely know it exists.
- Relationship-driven contact centers. These contact centers seek to maximize customer satisfaction. They are focused on relationship management, support, sales and marketing of high-value, high-touch, repeat-business, long-term relationship focused products. Sales and product VPs work hard to get budget allocated to improving these contact centers because these centers generate revenue.
I will discuss the potential revenue-side benefits (especially to relationship-driven contact centers) in more detail in other posts, but the overall drivers are that WebRTC enables the contextual communications sessions described above (which can add value, in addition to decreasing costs), and can add revenue driving functionality such as screen sharing, persistent chat and video. Meanwhile, one quick example below.
Adding faces to contact centers
As a quick example of the revenue benefits of WebRTC, how much better would it be if you could choose your favorite contact center agent, similar to how you might walk into a store and choose your favorite clerk or salesperson? In some cases, you could schedule the session to make sure you get the contact center agent that you like to work with – similar to how you might choose a specific doctor, mechanic or hairdresser. WebRTC can help humanize and personalize relationship-driven call centers. How does that help revenue? We buy more when we are comfortable and we are less inclined to move our business if we have strong relationships.
Contact center agents don't need to be presented as faceless, interchangeable commodity parts. This won't make sense for all contact centers – specifically some of the cost-driven contact centers – but WebRTC can help enable our relationship-driven contact centers to show us brief profile and videos of each available agent, and let us initiate a video session with our agent of choice, and then let us choose that agent for future sessions if our experience is good, even scheduling the interaction ahead of time.
Contact center conclusions
There are many verticals and domains that WebRTC could help. I think contact centers are one of the strongest, partially because they have a cost-side business case. Business cases based on cost savings tend to move quicker than cases that are only based on the revenue side, especially in the communications industry. Meanwhile, there is tremendous revenue potential around WebRTC-enabled contextual communications sessions as well.
Of course, it is not *just* WebRTC. The combination of pervasive retail Internet access, mobile and tablet proliferation, cloud-based applications and data analysis and correlation are the building. But WebRTC is the door that will enable many contact centers to walk in. And enable many of us to take the high speed quad chairlift up the contact center mountain.Google+


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Based upon the Academy Award(R)-nominated film, How To Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Dragons is back for its second season of epic adventures and high-flying hijinks on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. (ET, PT) on Cartoon Network. In the new season, DreamWorks Dragons: Defenders of Berk Hiccup (Jay Baruchel, This Is The End) and his dragon Toothless lead the way as the gang graduates from experienced riders to confident defenders. The group will face a surprising enemy, rare and wild dragons and exciting adventures.
As an unforeseen villain emerges, the trainers must develop their skills and defend the Viking Island of Berk. The kids take it upon themselves to protect Berk and form a secret "Dragons Flight Club" to battle old foes with new dragon knowledge and flying skills. Hiccup tries his hand as an inventor, while Fishlegs (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad) becomes the most popular man in town. The group also learns the important lesson of not taking your dragon for granted.
The first season of DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk, premiered on Cartoon Network last September and quickly became a ratings success. On average, season one's premieres ranked #1 in their timeslot among key boys 2-14 versus all other TV networks, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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A musical homage to the life of French singing star Edith Piaf will be held at Sheringham Little Theatre.
Je ne Regrette Rien will be performed by Julie Hewitt on Saturday June 21 at 7.30pm.
The one-night only concert will feature Edith's most treasured songs, and those of her friend and fellow performer Charles Aznavour.
Sung in both French and English, songs will include La Vie en Rose, Autumn Leaves, Padam Padam, She and Edith's torch song Je ne Regrette Rien.
At only 4ft 8ins high, Edith Piaf was known as the Little Sparrow.
Her real name was Edith Lamboukas and she ended up becoming France's most beloved and iconic singers.
She was born on December 19 1915 and died on October 10 1963.
Her music was often auto-biographical with her singing often reflecting her life including the themes of love, loss and sorrow.
She was named Edith after the First World War Norfolk nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping French soldiers escape from German captivity.
The singer had a tough early life, which included living on the streets of Paris, but her singing talent was discovered in 1935 by Louis Leplée who owned a Le Gerny nightclub off the Champs-Élysées.
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It started with three friends and a supper club at Yale. Grad students Christopher Kieran, Brad Baer and Andrew Hapke joined a vegetarian dinner club, known as "Veggie Dinner," which quickly grew to 300 members and eventually inspired a website, Zokos, to defray the costs through crowdfunding. It works just like Kickstarter, except backers pledge to attend the party and chip in a minimum amount.
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"Our goal is bringing down the barriers to entertaining, so we can have better parties, more often," Mr. Hapke wrote in an email. "With zokos, anyone can host parties and have their friends chip in to cover costs—we call it 'friendfunding.'"
The three diners teamed up with a friend and web developer, Roger Vandervort, and founded Zokos in June, 2011. They launched it privately in September 14, 2011 and invited 900 beta testers to the site who have hosted over 400 parties. "Thirty-one percent of testers said they're already hosting more parties than usual, thanks to Zokos," said Zokos in a press release.
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These black supremacists hang around Center City and make everyone super uncomfortable. While I disagree entirely with their belief that people of color are God's ONLY chosen people, they are definitely part of the urban fabric that makes this city what it is.
Rather than get into a debate about religion or race or anything contentious, let's just OBSERVE these people....
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eyeofodin: 19th Jul 2008 - 00:41 GMT
Great post. Louis Theroux of the BBC did a great episode for his 'Weird Weekends' about Black Nationalism, and concentrated his time in Harlem. He was able to enter the headquarters and interview a few Black Isrealites. I highly recommend watching all 5 parts on youtube. Here is the link to the first part: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1579176587803637562&q=louis+theroux+Black+Nationalism&ei=cjWBSLe2K5SOrQPv8IybBQ
Elijah: 19th Jul 2008 - 03:02 GMT
And with his chariots, like a whirlwind.............. That's how Christ is coming back. In the so called mystical thing that you see on the X-Files every Friday night. All the so called U.F.O 's. These U.F.O.'s are not little green men from Mars, Extra Terrestrials as you think. But they happen to be the spirits that dwell in the Heaven of God, the Angelic world. Those are the vehicles that they travel in, and those are the same vehicles that they delivered The Prophet Elijah in. When they took Elijah up by whirlwind and separated him from Elisha. It's the same vehicles that are coming back to save the Children of Israel, and when they come the White Man is aware of it. He's putting weapons in Outer Space every month on a global level, they are sending up the space shuttle to put weapons out there to try to fight and prohibit the Second Coming of Christ. That's why the shuttle goes up with secret military payloads. Particle beam weapons, Space Mines, Electromagnetic rail guns, Kinetic energy weapons. All kind of mickey mouse toy weapons that your sending in outer space. You think you can fight God, but you can't even make a deal with Fidel Castro.
Jamie: 21st Jul 2008 - 15:09 GMT
Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little bit of racial supremacy. Us white people have been doing it for centuries. It's all in the name of good fun. Except it isn't.
Willing to die for truth: 4th Sep 2008 - 19:00 GMT
To me white folks love the position they are in. I mean they have heaven here on earth, they get everything they want, or take.My question is, do you think they have heaven on earth, or am I just seeing things. My mother said" everybody if they beleive in Jesus (only what they have put in) will go to heaven. I am asking for understanding on this, WHY, they have never loved God EVER, so why would they get heaven here on earth, then get to go to heaven all over again. Why would God make use suffer here, an they will be with us in heaven. That is a double scoop of heaven. An I ask again WHY.
Ezekiel: 5th Oct 2008 - 12:59 GMT
God is just their rule is come to an end The Father and his chosen shall rule.All praises.
Arit: 26th Apr 2009 - 00:39 GMT
As a black woman who is Halakhically jewish, i'm disturbed by these people. They depict G-d as being only for them and preach hate towards most other groups of the world. To me they are an embittered fringe group attempting to claim glory and respect they have neither earned nor deserve by using their twisted vision of G-d to put others beneath them. Their circus performances will not bring them any higher in G-d's eyes and they need to have respect for the people who have kept G-d's commandments faithfully for centuries which include people of african, arab, persian, spanish, indian, european etc descent.
Sean Hopkins: 26th Apr 2009 - 04:28 GMT
I wonder if they stood in front of the "Extra Service" sign for a reason
Peter: his headband matches...
Tom Jones: 31st May 2009 - 18:51 GMT
We have some in Seattle, they were downtown yesterday (May 30 2009)
Kim D.A.: 2nd Jul 2009 - 19:53 GMT
I just caught a few minutes of the Hebrew Israelites' show "The Hidden Truth" on a local public access channel here in VA. At first I found their program merely odd, until I began to hear such anger, paranoia, fear-mongering, supremacy talk, and their frantic (and loud--they were yelling) and unusual interpretations of the Bible. They insist that their particular interpretations are the one and only "truth" and that those who don't believe exactly as they do are doomed to hell--a claim of exclusivity that marks extremists in any nation and religion. It's up to them to believe what they want, but they also preach and engage in violent and intolerant acts against many other groups. (I've read of them harassing white people and Jewish people to the point of tears). Worst of all, some people actually believe what these supremacists are saying and are willing to join right along. Scary.
It's also curious to me that the videos showing the Hebrew Israelites' aggressive tactics seem to have been removed from just about any site at all....including this one.
To Arit: I'm really glad that you spoke up here. It's more important than ever that we all remember that the extremists of ANY one group/sub-group do not represent the majority of that group/other branches of it. Namaste.
Anya: 17th Aug 2009 - 03:53 GMT
I.C.G.J.C. We're not saying we r the only hebrew israelites in the world, but we r the only true representitives of the ALMIGHTY JESUS CHRIST! We r THE CHURCH of the Holy Bible; of Ex. 12:37, Deut. 7:6 & we r without a doubt THE CHURCH of Rev. the 7th chapter. We r of the promised seed of Jacob(Israel)! All ur questions can be answered Fri. afternoons @ 15th & Market Sts. Come. Hear ye the word of The Lord!!!
buddmar: 16th Dec 2009 - 00:03 GMT
Well, as a Buddhist, I really can't comment on the theology of these people. It sounds to me that they are "Wannabe Jews". I have read that modern day Jews, you know - the Sephardim, Ashkenazim, Mizrahi, Romaniot, Cochin - the all the branches of modern day Jewry have been scientifically linked as descendants of the Jews of since Antiquity through DNA and the Human Genome Project. Recently the National Geographic Magazine exposed the Jewish ancestry of Spanish-Mexican families of New Mexico and Arizona who were descended from Sephardic Jewish "Muranos" who escaped to the New World after the Inquisition of 1492. They had the exact same DNA markers of second and third generation Israelis of Polish/Lithuanian/Russian background!
Xavivi: May God forgive and bless us all!
CartLegger: 1st Jan 2010 - 13:28 GMT
Wow. Thanks pinefish. That musta been some party you were at last night. I guess the keyboard was next to the dip or something, to keep you coming back. Appreciate your contributions!
Igboinexile: 15th Feb 2010 - 03:33 GMT
The noise you are hearing now is a noise that has been suppressed for a long time.In a little while you would not be hearing any noise.We will be leaving very soon.Why blame them? Why not blame and negatively critized the people who control the system which was designed to keep our people ignorant of our true identity. Slavery been over a long time ago and why are we still in bondage.Becaude as you know that unlike our fathers who went into Egypt as free men,Our Ancestors were brought into this Egypt in ships to serve their[our]enemies in these lands -which were unknown to them and their fathers before them.....Jeremiah chpt.17.And just like the Pharoah of ancient Egypt the ruling families -the off shoot of the Confederates of Psalms 83-they will be glad for us to leave.This basicly is the reaction you would expect from any bunch of people who were maliceously held in the dark for a very very long long time.They have seen the LIGHT thats all.
Shapat : 24th Feb 2010 - 21:00 GMT
Blacks (Israelites) were slaves as punishment from the MOST HIGH now white folks
Scorzi: 5th Mar 2010 - 06:30 GMT
You can believe anything you want, but when a group harasses people in the street--shouting, shoving, spitting on people, getting into people's faces and being confrontational--for any religion that is NOT okay. These guys are at the Staten Island ferry all the time. I am white and I respectfully say nothing, but even when black people politely walk by they try to force them to take a flyer, will confront interracial couples by getting in the man's face and surrounding them, and will shout at white people that they should be murdered in a racial uprising. That is not Christ-like at all. They also have a branch in Florida that had people arrested for weapons possession. This is not a healthy off-shoot to be involved in.
The Creator Watchmen: 21st Apr 2010 - 16:33 GMT
As a hebrewisraelite for the pass 30th years,YHWH choose Israel as his first born son. Christ is a nother lie to decive people of colour in america. People of Afraican desent had know knowledge of christ until their slave master beat them like dogs. then they were force to serv christ. Yah said this would be our punishment for disobedence to him.Yah said, he will reach his hand out a second time to the House of Israel. Only a remnant will return this time. So don't think for one moment, because you say your the choosen one,you will not go under the rod of judgement. Yah will judge his people first. So the best thing you can do as a hebrew is, go to leviticus 26, and confess,the pray of daniels in chronicles 2. These are the word of Yah!
Tia: 22nd Apr 2010 - 17:51 GMT
these people are nuts, i avoid them seriously, theyre one of the reasons i don't hang out more in Harlem, and on the subways they are even worse. If you do not subscribe to their racist egalatarian outlook on life then you have no place in their universe. They hate whites, and non blacks in general. The regalia they wear is also ridiculous. They really get a kick out of intimidating women on the street too, Black just is, such is any other color ethnicity, why the need to "reclaim" histories we never had, don't we have plenty to be proud of, didn't we struggle, arent we doing things, i just dont get why so many black people always have to hijack someone else's culture to validate themselves
Elieazer dov bear: 10th May 2010 - 17:19 GMT
i serve with them in the Israeli army and i see them around the country here in israel they don't do any of what they do in new york
Overstander: 3rd Jul 2010 - 17:14 GMT
Well to begin,
But why waste my time explaining when 85% of people are blind deaf and dumb?
ron: 8th Jul 2010 - 02:30 GMT
if jesus said he dont come 2 send peace but a sword now a sword is used 2 cut so plz stop thinkin god is all lovy lovy thats wat i hate, the same old god that destroy the world with water
is goin 2 be the same old god that will destroy the world with fire so do that sound like a lovy god hell no the scripture also says gods wrath is like of a consumin fire
so plz dont say god dont hate thats a lie he hates, jacob i love and esau i hated if you ppl don't have knowledge of the 12 tribe of israel why comment wat they do i research thir teachings according to the bible wat they say is truth
again god is not everybody god if that was so the bible wud never address him the god of israel known as jacob had 12 sons wich represents the 12 tribes becuz who did god made an covenant 2 israel god said i have not dealt with no other nation so all other nations can't not say he's everybody god that wud be a lie becuz he just said i have not dealt with no other nation and he god made no covenant with no other nation
Sara'i : 12th Jul 2010 - 22:07 GMT
There are many clasification in the Hebrew Yisraelite community. Many of us do not read or believe in the new book. Many of us are Torah oriented and do not believe in violence unless we are violated.99.9% of us follow the ancient ways. There are many who are taught to be agressive and will get in your faces to express thier points. What I see here is that you the readers of this site clumps us in one bag as you did when your ansestors did when they brought us to these shores. They thought that all black people were alike and did not take the time to see that we were diffrent culturally, the way we eat, dress, the way we live and the way we serve our G-d. The Creator choose the Yisraelites as a nation of priest to guide and show other nations to Him.He has stated that all knees shall bow before Him. As I live I have found that there are radical people in all walk of life and all just want to be heard. Many radical however go about it the wrong way. Do when you see the brother on the streets making noise as you say, just walk away with a smile. You do not have to listen to their noise. But by chance you want to know anything about us "who are peaceful" look us up and visit us and see what we are all about. Do not condem what you do not understand.
Zayan Shal Ahmath: 19th Aug 2010 - 00:08 GMT
people need to stop with this bullshit "Yisrael" thing stop putting that damn y in front of a english translated word its Israel in english Yasharahla in hebrew you can't put both of them together it just looks stupid....
YDude: 19th Aug 2010 - 03:17 GMT
I do not even know my ancestors, and I sure as heck did not control them and they do not control me.
mythdebunker: 3rd Sep 2010 - 08:46 GMT
i have videos on youtube that debunks and dispoves the black hebrew israelites claims and interpretations. black american history is modern and its american history so its all taught in american schools but jews full history is not all modern and some may fall into a religious aspect and schools in america can't teach religion just out my videos on youtube here is the URL to my channel
Arnold Johnson: 17th Sep 2010 - 17:52 GMT
LOL, extremely loud! if you were a people cut down to the point the whole reality of your history was the disgusting story of the slave experience in America and all of the sudden the possible truth comes out, you'd be in their position, awe mixed with rage. They are doing pretty good considering they could be engaging in outright violence and mindless retribution. Once the newness wears off, they will work on having grace along with righteousness. That is when the real fun begins, cause if they/we really are God's people His presences will be obvious. You have to endure the new car smell until then.
Btruthful: 26th Oct 2010 - 02:41 GMT
Until they recover Jacob's remains and prove its Jacobs, then there is no valid DNA test that can be performed. If they are testing AshkeNAZIs to Mildle eastern people then they are just related to them, remeber Jacob had a twin Esau maybe they are from him, maybe they are Araibian or maybe they all are imagrants to that area. Obadiah does say Edom(Esau)moved into Jacobs land and NOAH did say that YHWH would enlarge(entice/deceive strongs #6601pathah) Japhet and he would dwell in Shems tents. Japhet had a son named Gommer who had a son named "ASHKENAZ" so let GOD be true and every man a lair especially the people in high places, read the scriptures its all in there.
favvideos : 27th Oct 2010 - 03:13 GMT
i have videos that debunk their myths here is the link to my youtube channel URL
favvideos : 27th Oct 2010 - 03:14 GMT
there sorry that away no one needs to copy it
Hebrew7: 17th Nov 2010 - 20:04 GMT
Hebew Israelite groups are independent,some spewing hate others telling the truth,listen and read
Hebrew7: 17th Nov 2010 - 20:10 GMT
Hebew Israelite groups are independent,some spewing hate others telling the truth,listen and read
van: 25th Nov 2010 - 03:28 GMT
If we all read and studied the Bible we claim to believe is the Word of God - Yahweh we would understand that satan would use a ploy such as a group who does not shww the love or Truth of Yahweh in anything they do or say to keep people blinded to the Truth that screams to us from the Bible.
You don't need to believe that African Americans (one of the many names we have been given in the various lands of captivity that we are still in)are true descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is more proof in the Bible than you could ever digest--The whole Bible is about the salvation of the whole House of Israel scattered all over the world since 70 A.D. and the salvation of the nations second.
This group and others who distort the Word of God are a smokescreen. The world loves to highlight the evil Black people do. How many 'serious" videos have you shown of brothers bringing the truth about who we are--- in love and truth? They are out there. You post this for sensationalism. It's very American of you to do so. Why don't you pray for them instead?
One study of Genesis 10 would tell you the people in Israel right now claiming to be of the Children of Israel are mostly Germans called Ashkenaz and ALL of them are Gentiles just as the Bible prophecies would be in the last days.
What is funny and quite crazy is all the Christians who are Black and love Messiah believing they are Gentiles of the seed of Japheth--- descended from White people.
As for the Holocaust of the JEWS that was bizarre. Germans killing Germans--Ashkenazi hatred of Ashkenazis. As horrible as it was for all those people to die that way, they were not the Children of Israel and Hitler knew they were Germans. That's why he hated them. Now ask why he hated them and Black people together.
There is more than meets the eye in all this and it's past time for Christians to do their homework.
Finally, there is nothing wrong with English speaking people calling Messiah by Jesus Christ. If I preached the Gospel to a french person would I expect him or her to learn the English language first? Ridiculous.
Yahweh told me who I am and because I have been in the Word for over 30 years I had no doubt I am Hebrew Israelite and know those people in Israel could not be who they say they are. Seed is determined by YAHWEH through the father not the mother. So the Twelve Tribes of Israel are determined by the male ancestors not the female. Women have never and will never produce seed. She carries the seed of the children. Point is Yahweh knows who His true Children are every one of us no matter where we are in the world. He will do this ALL by Himself.
mr sike: 19th Feb 2011 - 01:30 GMT
first off i am not a hebrew isrealite by everyday standerds but everything that is racially popular is not my stance i happen to believe that those radical black isrealites are telling the truth with extra incentives if anyone cares to comment and have knowledge of self feel free any nationality or what have you im deep if u r deep lets situate humane politics on a mental and average level no hard feelings so bring on the issues open minds and futuristic , contructive idealistic conversations of rel life people and folks of all kinds
Ira the Jew : 19th Feb 2011 - 13:54 GMT
I love these guys. Where do they buy the dresses they where ?
anon (50-90-137-175.res.bhn.net): 10th May 2011 - 01:45 GMT
Shalom! We need to stop the division I too am a Hebrew a so-called blackman here in America for the last 5 years i have been studying those who don't believe what we are saying it's fine all won't recieve this truth as the bible says butknow this if you don't believe what we say and it's right here in the good book then you my friend are calling Yah the father a lie and i will pray that you too will find the light sooooon Shalom.
Mpeyton: 12th Jul 2011 - 00:33 GMT
As Hebrews, we need to focus on awakening the lost sheep out there that still believe they're Hamites, instead of what white people have done. I think we can all agree that the white man has wronged up for a long time, but we're only in this fix because we spat in the face of the Most High by not keeping his laws. Now we need to cast aside the slave religion, Christianity, and re-read the Scriptures to understand what their really saying.
Amikeyballa: 10th Dec 2011 - 14:18 GMT
Right on and well said Mpeyton The most high or God also said that he will save the stranger attached to isreal as well as his first born
Amikeyballa: 10th Dec 2011 - 14:28 GMT
People need to stop making this a black and white thing when its really about Good and evil right and wrong When we first came out of captivity in the dessert we came out with hebrews as well as EGYPTIANS the same people that kept us in captivity.
anon (pool-108-52-86-122.phlapa.fios.verizon.net): 31st Dec 2011 - 01:56 GMT
What I heard in Phila. today from the Isralites was disgusting. They were holding a picture of a white Jesus and calling him a faggot.We all have the same god. He has no color. Stop the prejudice now. What is wrong with these people? I will pray for their souls.They were screaming death to the white race. How can they be allowed to do this? Would it be okay for a group of white men to scream death to the black race? I think there should be arrests made.
me: they do strongly they called the KKK
Anonymous: 1st Apr 2012 - 14:10 GMT
If it 'doesn't apply', then walk on by. That is what those offended by Hebrew Israelites should do. Instead, they confront the group and end up looking stupid when faced with the KJV Bible scriptures.
It has been my experience that evil liars hate for others to have the opportunity to hear the truth. That is why they stop and make themselves look like fools by trying to argue with the scriptures being read.
Now they evil people can no longer convince everyone that the Messiah was white they insist that the 'color doesn't matter'.
If it doesn't matter, why get so angry when the fact that He is Black is spoken?
Know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
MohamedSmh: 23rd Aug 2012 - 04:05 GMT
Hello, I categorically use reading your posts, acknowledgment you for the gifted notify!
star child: 10th Sep 2012 - 20:15 GMT
To all who respond on this blog.Beware of what you say and speak because if you are wrong you will pay a price for your ignorance. Jesus said there would be unbelievers any they would turn there ears from the truth to hearing fables. You can believe in santa claus and reindeerss but you can't believe God can choose one people as his own. Who are you as the creature to determine the creators position on his creation.
star child: 10th Sep 2012 - 20:22 GMT
Don't you know all you gainsayers are doing is fulfilling propecy. you are doing exactly what God said would be happening in last days. when the scriptures says in jeremiah 14:2 judah mourneth and the gate lanquish they are black unto the ground and the cry of jerusalem is gone up. What do you think the term black means. The scripture already gave you there state mourning. Why do people mourn something has happened to alter the life such as death, slavery, captivity. So the black is strictly a reference to their color.
Dear Star Child: 10th Sep 2012 - 23:19 GMT
People might take you seriously if you brush up on your grammar and spelling. But as for now, you look like an ignorant freak spouting garbage on the internet. Seriously.
notanks: 11th Sep 2012 - 03:08 GMT
oooo this reminds me!
Sharnita Jones/ Sherman: 10th Jan 2013 - 15:02 GMT
I never heard of Black Israelites until I met Anthony Sherman. I was attracted to his knowledge of the book. We married on December 20,2012 and I seen him in a different light. He was abusive mentally and physically. All he wanted was to get oral sex and for me to clean and do degrading things. I was nothing but good and faithful to him, but yet he treated me like a dog. Is this common for a black Israelite to act like this?
gm: Yes they are abusive and i know one
gm: Now that is very educational
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