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Theological Branch: Africa Biblical Studies. Topic: The Sabbath and Sunday among the Akans.  Reference:  THE ASHANTI/AKANS SABBATH IN CONTEXT/CONCEPT WITH THE BIBLICAL SABBATH: A MISSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, Journal of AIIAS African Theological Association 5 (2014): 39-56. (OHN APPIAH, PHD CANDIDATE AND ELISHA KWABENA MARFO, MA. Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, Silang, Cavite, Philippines )  • Concept of the Sabbath to the Ashantis/Akan.  • Who are the Ashantis/Akans? • What is their culture and traditional belief in congruence with the biblical Sabbath?  The Akans are a nation and indigenous ethnic group residing on the Gulf of Guinea in the southern regions of the former Gold Coast region in what are today the republics of Ghana and the Ivory Coast in West African. Akans are the largest ethnic group in both countries and have a population of roughly 20 million people.

Theological Branch: Sacerdotalism Topic: Melchizedekian priesthood and Jethroain Priesthood. The first two Black Priests of YHWH. Blacks in the Bible are identified by the appellations Egypt, Ethiopia and Lybia. Biblical listings are significant in that they identify a relationship. The fact that *Egypt and Lybia and Ethiopia* are usually found in that list format, supposes an exegetical significance. When two or more items in list are separated by "and", we call that a *hendiadies* . This is common in the Bible..eg Sodom and Gomorrah, Heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them...sun and moon and stars, father and the son and the Holy Spirit. This literary structure implies relations within the text. This presentation is going to focus on YHWH's first priests and who will be identified as Negroes... Gen 10:15-16 KJV 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the *Jebusite,* and the Amorite, and the Girgasite... Canaan we have identified as a