A Covenant of Peace

WHO WE ARE

Miqdash Bethel was founded by Elder Kepha Arcemont of New Orleans, Louisiana — blues-rock musician, vocalist, covenant servant, and founding signatory to the Counsel of Peace. This work spans music, covenant study, prophetic commentary, and formal peace documents addressed to world leaders — grounded exclusively in the authority of the Hebrew Tanakh as the revealed Covenant of Yahweh. (We are not affiliated with any other religious group or organization)

WHAT WE DO

Miqdash Bethel operates at the intersection of scripture, music, and covenant truth-telling:

• Producing formal covenant peace letters to world leaders engaged in the Israel-Iran-USA conflict and other conflicts of our time
• Providing commentary and research on current events through the lens of Yahweh’s Covenant
• Teaching Covenant law through Lessons, Studies, Reports, and Documents — free from the opinions and traditions of men

Music assembly through The Kepha Arcemont Experiment and Peace of Blues

Miqdash Bethel reveals the difference between:

1. The ceremonial/sacrificial system — which required the Temple and is acknowledged by all parties (including Orthodox Judaism) to be suspended
2. The moral, ethical, and covenant law — which the Tanakh itself declares eternal, written on hearts, accessible to all nations, and never suspended!

OUR FOUNDATION

“The Covenant of Yahweh is the eternal, binding agreement between the Creator and humanity, established through His own name, governed by His own instructions, and open to every nation willing to walk in it.”

— Mission Statement — Miqdash Bethel Covenant Institution

The Covenant of Yahweh is not a religion, as defined by Yahweh. It is a governmental rule and plan for peaceful life and co-existence, given to all of humanity by the Sovereign Creator. It belongs to no single man and no single assembly as a personal agenda for profit or misuse.

Elder Kepha Arcemont makes no claim of greatness — only obedience. This Miqdash was not founded on human ambition but on a simple answer to a divine call: to gather in Yahweh’s name, to teach His covenant ways, and to seek His face.

It is founded in the hope that Yahweh’s people — from every background and every nation — will find their way to understand and obey truth as the Creator has always desired:

“Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

— Shemot (Exodus) 19:5–6

“Here is the conclusion of the matter: fear Elohim and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”

— Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 12:13

“Let them construct a Miqdash for Me, that I may dwell among them.”

— Shemot (Exodus) 25:8

“Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His Miqdash.”

— Tehillim (Psalms) 96:6

YAHWEH is my shepherd; I shall not lack.

In pastures of tender grass He causes me to lie down;

beside waters of rest He guides me.

My soul He restores; He guides me in tracks of righteousness for the sake of His Name.

Even when I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,

for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

You have anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Surely goodness and covenant-love shall pursue me all the days of my life;

YAHWEH — and I shall dwell in His house for length of days.

THE INSTRUCTIONS OF YAHWEH — A COMPASS FOR ALL PEOPLE

The covenant of Yahweh as preserved in the Hebrew Tanakh was never designed for one nation, one race, or one era. It was designed for all of humanity — a divine moral compass that cuts through every barrier of culture, language, politics, and time.

No person is excluded from its invitation. No nation is beyond its reach. Yahweh made this covenant wide enough for every human being willing to receive it — not because any assembly declared it so, but because He did.

Yes, Yahweh chose a people — the Children of Yisra’el. And within that same covenant text is the open path for every nation and every person to walk in covenant with Him. The choosing of one people was never the exclusion of all others. It was the beginning of the invitation to all others.

When people live by these instructions, the result is not restriction but liberation — a life of genuine peace, purpose, and joy that no government, no ideology, and no amount of wealth can manufacture. The chaos the world experiences today — the wars, the corruption, the broken families, the fallen nations — is not evidence that the instructions failed. It is evidence that the world has not yet tried them.

We are not the answer to that chaos. Yahweh is. This Institution exists only to point in His direction.

Miqdash Bethel began with one man hearing a call he could not ignore. 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 at age 11, believed it, and said yes. What 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.

True and lasting peace does not begin with this Institution. It begins the moment any human being returns to the instructions their Creator left behind. We are grateful to be part of that return. Nothing more.

“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