Founder & Elder
Covenant servant, teacher, blues-rock musician, former firefighter, and founding signatory of the Counsel of Peace.
Elder Kepha Arcemont does not present himself as a prophet, the founder of a new religion, or an authority over any person. He is a covenant servant — a man who read the Word of Yahweh, believed it, and said yes. The assembly that has grown from that yes does not belong to him. It belongs to Yahweh.
He claims no answers of his own. He points only to what the Tanakh has always said — that Yahweh has the answers, that His covenant is the only road to lasting peace, and that the invitation is open to every human being willing to walk in it.
Kepha Arcemont is a New Orleans native who returned home after approximately 30 years in Texas. His roots run deep — his genealogy spans approximately 1,000 years, including Acadian, Indigenous (Wabanaki/Mi'kmaq/Penobscot), and French lineage. His Arcemont/d'Entremont ancestry traces back through the Great Acadian Deportation, to the barony of Nova Scotia, to resettlement in Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.
His Indigenous heritage flows through Chief Madockawando of the Wabanaki Confederacy — a lineage that gives weight and depth to his covenant work as a man who stands at the crossroads of multiple peoples, multiple histories, and one ancient covenant.
Kepha served as a New Orleans firefighter and as volunteer fire chief for the Irish Bayou Volunteer Fire Department. He retired early due to an on-the-job injury — an act of service carried with him alongside a deeper inheritance of sacrifice.
His father, SFC Terry Gilman Arcemont, was decorated with the Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Oak Leaf Cluster. He was killed in action on the Imjin River, South Korea, in 1967, following multiple tours in Vietnam. That loss — a father taken in war — grounds the moral authority Elder Kepha brings to all peace and justice work. He does not speak of peace as an abstraction. He speaks of it as a son who knows what war costs.
Kepha spent approximately 20 years as an ordained Elder and Judge within the House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas before departing in 2008. He co-founded the Counsel of Peace alongside Asayah Y. Hawkins, a voice he has known since the 1990s. He visited Tel Arad in Israel in 2008 and has a relationship with Howshua Amariel, a Hebrew Israelite scholar and archaeologist.
In 2008, he established a Miqdash Bethel assembly in the Philippines — where he maintains deep family ties through his brother, son, and brother-in-law. Miqdash Bethel is not an American ministry. It is a covenant witness to all nations.
Since returning to Louisiana, Elder Kepha has produced dozens of formal covenant studies covering birth control and abortion, cannabis and qaneh bosem, Malakim and Ha-Satan, Hindu traditions, covenant marriage, the Sexuality Household Study, the Tent of Meeting series, the Government of the Hebrew Nation series, studies on rebellion, Molek worship, and occultism, racial healing, and slavery. He operates themanbehindthename.com as a documented witness archive.
Elder Kepha has been conducting an active multi-front covenant correspondence campaign, including: formal letters to Tucker Carlson (beginning March 10, 2026); a formal response to Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor of the Al Habtoor Group (Dubai); outreach to ten Israeli rabbis with bilingual English-Hebrew contact materials; a Bangsamoro covenant peace study with a 38-contact Philippine officials directory; a response to Pastor Mark Burns's CPAC statements on Iran; and a formal open letter on oil futures trading and war profiteering.
The Iran-Israel-USA Covenant Peace Study draws on Tucker Carlson Network transcripts and applies the Devarim 19:15 two-or-three-witnesses research standard throughout. He also completed a comprehensive Netanyahu Files study and a Third Temple: A Covenant Solution brief, drawing on Dr. Asher Kaufman's northern location theory.
"He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Yahweh require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim." — Mikhah (Micah) 6:8
Kepha is a blues-rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter performing as The Kepha Arcemont Experiment (KAE). KAE has released two albums — Are You Experimental? (August 2025) and Rock's Not Dead (September 2025) — and two singles: Change the World (November 2025) and Do You Believe? (March 2026). Sessions feature legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff and bassist Philip Bynoe, recorded at Studio in the Country (Bogalusa) and Marigny Studios (New Orleans).
He plays with the house band at Cafe Negril on Tuesday nights and participates in the open mic jam at the Spotlight in Metairie on Wednesday nights. His music connects the blues tradition to the Levitical zamar (זָמַר) heritage — the ancient covenant of music that has always been part of the worship of Yahweh.
Learn more at thekephaarcemontexperiment.com.