“His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire.”
— Revelation 1:14“Do not judge by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment.”
— John 7:24“When the truth is buried under centuries of lies, revelation becomes revolution.”
— Minister Brendan Kashta
Unveiling the True Face of Yeshua
At Meditation Church, we honour the inner Yeshua—the Christ Light within all—as beyond ethnicity and race. Yet we also affirm the historical Yeshua: a first-century Afro-Asiatic mystic, revolutionary healer, and living embodiment of Christ Consciousness. He was not European. He was a dark-skinned, woolly-haired, Black Jew born into an oppressed Hebrew community in ancient Judea.
The widely circulated image of a pale-skinned, blue-eyed Jesus has no basis in Scripture, archaeology, or historical fact. It is a colonial distortion—a tool of erasure and control.
1. The Bible Speaks: Woolly Hair & Burnished Bronze
“His head and his hairs were white like wool…” (Revelation 1:14)
“His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace…” (Revelation 1:15)
This is not metaphor—it is texture and tone. Wool refers to tightly curled hair. Burned bronze describes deep, rich skin tone. These verses parallel the ancient Hebrew prophets like Daniel (Daniel 10:6), who described divine beings with skin like polished bronze and hair like wool.
The tribe of Judah, from which Yeshua descended, was not white-skinned. As Lamentations 4:8 tells us:
“Their visage is blacker than a coal…”
2. Afro-Semitic Identity in the Scriptures
Yeshua’s people were mistaken for Africans often:
“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt?” (Acts 21:38)
Paul, like Yeshua, was called Egyptian. This wouldn’t happen if he looked European.
When Joseph and Mary fled with the Christ child to Egypt to hide from Herod (Matthew 2:13), they blended in among African people. A pale-skinned child in North Africa would not have gone unnoticed.
Yeshua’s survival in Egypt confirms his Afro-Asiatic appearance.
3. Early Art: Black Jesus in the Roman Catacombs
Long before Renaissance painters reimagined Christ as European royalty, the early followers of Jesus—especially in Rome, Egypt, and Ethiopia—depicted him with brown skin and woolly hair.
In the Roman catacombs, such as the Catacombs of Domitilla frescoes from the 2nd to 4th centuries portray Christ and the apostles as dark-skinned men with short curly hair.
The Ethiopian and Coptic Churches, whose traditions predate Roman Catholicism, have always painted Jesus as a Black man.
These depictions were not political—they were ancestral memory made visible.
4. The Oldest Known Depictions of Jesus
The oldest images of Yeshua come from the 3rd century CE, and they paint a very different picture than the whitewashed Christ of European tradition.
🕊️ The Good Shepherd – Catacomb of Callixtus (c. 250 CE, Rome)
Yeshua is shown as a dark-skinned, beardless man with short, curly hair, —calm, youthful, and Afro-Semitic in features.
🐑 The Good Shepherd – Catacomb of Priscilla (c. 225–250 CE, Rome)
A gentle, youthful figure with woolly-textured hair, no beard, and a complexion reflecting the people of North Africa and the Near East.
🌊 The Healing of the Paralytic – Dura-Europos Church (c. 235 CE, Syria)
One of the oldest house churches in the world. Jesus is depicted in Afro-Semitic look with plaited hair or dreadlocks.
This visual detail confirms not only Yeshua’s African heritage but his spiritual identity as a holy man of the people, carrying the crown of sacred ancestry.
“They tried to erase his skin tone. They tried to repaint his features. But his woolly- hair, his sacred locks testify still.”
— Minister Brendan Kashta
5. Why It Matters: The Power of True Representation
This truth is more than skin deep.
For centuries, the false image of Jesus was used to justify colonialism, white supremacy, and the enslavement of African peoples. But the real Yeshua was one of the colonized, not the colonizer. He stood with the poor, the outcast, the brown-skinned, and the broken.
To restore his true image is to restore dignity, liberation, and divine identity to people of African descent and all who’ve been marginalized.
At Meditation Church, we don’t worship Yeshua as an idol—we embody his light. But we also reclaim the sacred memory of his skin, his bloodline, and his hair—because truth heals what centuries of falsehood tried to erase.
Yeshua, the Black Jew, is not returning from the sky—he is rising in our memory, in our consciousness, in our sacred truth.
Come Remember With Us
Meditation Church is devoted to truth, to love, to spiritual awakening. We are building a future of Inner Peace, Christ Abundance, and Self-Love in Divine Love —one truth-telling at a time.
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