Covenant for the Nations | Miqdash Bethel Covenant Assembly

Section I — Our Philosophy

Yahweh's Counsel of Peace

✦ What the Counsel of Peace Is

The Counsel of Peace is not a political organization. It is not a lobbying group. It is not affiliated with any party, government, or foreign interest.

The Counsel of Peace is a covenant-based governance organization — founded on the eternal principles of Yahweh as revealed in the Hebrew Tanakh — dedicated to calling nations, governments, and leaders back to the standard of justice, truth, and peace that Yahweh alone defines.

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The Foundation

The Counsel of Peace was founded by Asayah Y. Hawkins — a covenant leader whose vision for Yahweh's standard of governance is the bedrock of this organization. Elder Kepha Arcemont's signature is on the founding documents. He has shared this conviction — that a covenant-based Counsel of Peace is both necessary and possible — with Asayah since the 1990s. This is not a recent movement. It is a decades-long covenant commitment to the truth of Yahweh's Word applied to the real world.

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צְדָקָה

Tzedaqah — Righteousness

The covenant standard of right relationship — not mere virtue, but the active maintenance of justice between all parties before Yahweh.

מִשְׁפָּט

Mishpat — Justice

The just order that governs every nation — what Yahweh requires of every ruler, every court, and every law: that the widow, orphan, stranger, and poor are upheld.

שָׁלוֹם

Shalom — Wholeness

Not the absence of conflict — the presence of completeness. The condition in which every part of a people functions as the Creator designed it to function.

Section II — Our Approach

What We Believe & What We Do

True and lasting peace among nations cannot be manufactured by diplomacy alone.
It cannot be imposed by military force.
It cannot be purchased by economic pressure.

True peace flows from one source —
covenant alignment with Yahweh and His Word.

Every government, every nation, every leader will ultimately be measured — not by their military strength or economic power — but by whether they walked in the covenant of peace that Yahweh established from the beginning. We believe that covenant. We stand on that covenant. We speak from that covenant.

What We Do

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Produce formal covenant documents addressed to world leaders and heads of state — grounded exclusively in the Hebrew Tanakh as the revealed and authoritative Word of Yahweh

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Engage directly with national and international governance frameworks — calling governments to constitutional and covenant accountability

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Call governments to constitutional and covenant accountability — measuring every law and every policy against the eternal standard of Yahweh's Word

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Support the pursuit of peace in active conflict zones through the authority of Yahweh's Word — offering a covenant framework that no political negotiation alone can provide

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Bring the prophetic voice of scripture into the public square — standing where the ancient prophets stood: at the intersection of heaven's standard and earth's governance

"Seek peace and pursue it."

— Tehillim (Psalm) 34:14

"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace."

— Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 52:7

Section III — Recent Engagements

Formal Covenant Peace Correspondence

Miqdash Bethel has produced and delivered formal covenant peace documents to figures and offices at the highest levels of national and international governance. Every document is grounded exclusively in the Hebrew Tanakh as the revealed and authoritative Word of Yahweh.

President Donald J. Trump & Board of Peace

Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff

Senior Advisor Jared Kushner

Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter

Mojtaba Khamenei — Islamic Republic of Iran

Reza Pahlavi — Iranian Opposition

Tucker Carlson — Four Transmissions

Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor — UAE

Israeli Rabbis — Bilingual English/Hebrew

Bangsamoro Officials — Philippines

Pastor Mark Burns — CPAC Response

"Our standard:
Seek peace and pursue it." — Tehillim (Psalm) 34:14

Section IV — Lexical Foundation

Why We Say "Covenant" Instead of "Torah"

You may notice that in our studies and teachings, we frequently use the word covenant where others might use the word Torah. This is intentional, and we want to explain why.

The Hebrew Word

תּוֹרָה

Torah — H8451

From the root yarah (יָרָה — H3384): to direct, to instruct, to point the way — as an archer aims an arrow toward its target. Torah literally means instruction or direction. It is not, in its original Hebrew meaning, the exclusive property of any one religious tradition. It is Yahweh's instruction to humanity.

Why We Use Instead

בְּרִית

Brit — Covenant — H1285

The word the Tanakh itself uses most often to describe what Yahweh established with humanity. He made a brit with Noach — who was not Jewish, not Christian, not Muslim. He made a brit with Avraham before any of those traditions existed. In every case, the covenant is Yahweh's direct agreement with human beings — not a denomination, not a culture, not a sect.

Over centuries, the word Torah has become so closely associated with rabbinic Judaism and its specific legal traditions that many people — particularly those coming from Christian or Islamic backgrounds, or from no religious background at all — hear the word and immediately assume it does not apply to them. They hear a religious label. They do not hear what it actually is: the foundational agreement between the Creator and His creation.

Yahweh Himself says in Bereishit (Genesis) 26:5 that Avraham obeyed His voice and kept His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws — before Sinai. Before the Levitical priesthood. Before the Temple. Before any of the traditions that grew up around the covenant texts. The covenant is older than all of them — and larger than all of them.

When we say "the Covenant of Yahweh," we are saying: this is not a Jewish document. This is not a Christian document. This is not an Islamic document. This is the living agreement between the living Elohim and the human beings He made in His image — every one of them, regardless of what religious label they carry.

"For out of Tzion shall go forth the instruction [Torah], and the word of Yahweh from Yerushalayim."

— Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 2:3

It goes out from one city.
It is addressed to every nation.
That is why we say covenant.

Section V — The Prophetic Mantle

Truth in the Gates — The Word Against the Narrative

The ancient prophets of Yahweh did not sit silent while kings made war and nations suffered. They stood in the gates. They spoke to power. They measured every earthly event against the eternal standard of Yahweh's Word — and they called what they saw by its true name.

Miqdash Bethel carries that same prophetic responsibility today.

Elder Kepha Arcemont researches, analyzes, and speaks to current events — war, government, economics, justice, and peace — through the uncompromising lens of the Hebrew Tanakh. Not through the lens of Republican or Democrat. Not through the lens of mainstream media narrative. Not through the lens of any foreign government's agenda. Through the lens of Yahweh alone.

"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression."

— Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 58:1

"Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."

— Mishlei (Proverbs) 31:9

This is not commentary. This is the covenant watchman's mandate — as ancient as Yirmeyahu, as urgent as this morning's news. Every covenant document Elder Arcemont produces is a fulfillment of that mandate: I have set you as a watchman. Warn them.

Section VI — Active Engagement

Current Focus — The Iran War & the Covenant of Peace

✦ Current Covenant Research Focus

Miqdash Bethel has been actively researching and speaking truth to the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict — a war launched without Congressional authorization, without the consent of the American people, and at enormous cost to American families in blood and treasure.

Our position is grounded not in politics, but in covenant. Yahweh commands His people to seek peace and pursue it. When governments choose war over available peace, the prophetic voice must speak.

Key Research Findings

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The war was launched without a Congressional vote — in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act

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Peace negotiations through Oman were actively underway when the bombing began — a diplomatic path was available and was bypassed

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The conflict is costing American taxpayers nearly one billion dollars per day

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American families absorbed a 14% spike in gas prices in a single week as a direct consequence

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Over seven American soldiers have already given their lives — with no Congressional declaration of war

Miqdash Bethel has produced formal covenant peace letters to world leaders involved in this conflict — grounded exclusively in the Hebrew Tanakh — calling all parties back to the covenant responsibilities of peace before Yahweh.

Our Research Principles

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We follow the facts wherever they lead. We name what we see without fear of political consequence.

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We measure every claim against the Word of Yahweh. The Tanakh is the final authority — not the editorial board of any news organization.

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We speak for the people — not for governments, not for media, not for foreign agendas.

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We pursue peace as a commandment, not a compromise. "Seek peace and pursue it." (Tehillim 34:14)

Section VII — Ongoing Work

Areas of Ongoing Research & Covenant Witness

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The Israel-Iran-USA Conflict

Covenant implications of the current conflict — Yeshayahu 19 highway of nations, Koresh the anointed, financial siege of 80 million Iranians, and the path to Brit Shalom.

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The Constitutional Crisis of Undeclared War

The U.S. Constitution requires a Congressional declaration of war. The American covenant with its own founding document has been violated. Miqdash Bethel names this plainly.

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Economic Justice for the American People

The petrodollar system, sanctions regimes, and the financial architecture that transfers wealth upward while the American middle class pays the cost of endless wars.

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The Hebrew Tanakh & True Governance

The 15-part Government of the Hebrew Nation series — the complete covenant-constitutional framework Yahweh established for just governance of any people on earth.

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Music as Prophetic Ministry

Zamar (H2167) — the Levitical musicians — the blues as covenant expression. The 30-part Witnesses to the Wound series documenting music industry exploitation.

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Covenant Peace Frameworks for Nations

Brit Shalom applied to actual conflict zones — Palestine, the Philippines Bangsamoro region, the Iran-Israel corridor, and the geopolitical architecture of the post-petrodollar era.

Elder Kepha Arcemont shares regular commentary and research on Facebook and other social media platforms. Follow the ongoing covenant commentary there.

Section VIII — Documents