And God said, "Let there be light. And there was light. Gen 1:3
All
endeavors and modes of thoughts have a beginning and that is no less true for
the subject of this blog as a whole.
However, my thoughts about the curious case of African-Americans which I
expressed in an earlier same named article and as I discussed in that article
begin many years ago. My principle
question at that time and which was revived thanks no less than to a popular
television show dubbed Scandal, was “Why were Black Americans enslaved in this
country and then subsequently seemingly beset by an endless array of obstacles,
oppressions and once given civil rights in this country careened quickly down
the hill of dysfunctional culture decline.”
I was not looking for a surface answer, but one found in the mind of
God.
I had for a about a decade or so
been dealing with prophetic issues and the place of Israel which I first
articulated in a writing I called The
Principle of The Second (The Age To Come) and which can be found on Amazon
kindle. It was a time when my thoughts
were not in the direction of Black Americans as I never thought of them in
relation to prophetic events. However, one day a couple of years ago I was in a
conversation with my mother about Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. I was asking her some questions since she led
a pro-life organization and she of course recounted how after slavery Blacks
became the target of the Eugenics movement and subsequently the primary target
for abortions in the U.S. It then occurred
to me there had been only two other times biblically in the history of men that
a specific group of people were targeted
for extermination and that was during the time of the Israelites in Egypt and
during the time of the birth of Jesus.
During the time of the Israelites bondage in Egypt, I related in
Prophetic Speaking Part 1 how in the midst of the Pharaoh’s call for the
killing of Hebrew boy babies that Moses a prophetically significant figure
would be born. It goes without saying that Jesus was the major prophetically
significant figure of Israel’s history.
I had for sometime already thought
of the U.S. as a type of Egypt and with an Egyptian obelisk in Washington D.C. and pyramid on the U.S currency such a thought is additionally validated, but it was in relation to the present occupants
of Israel. It was not until I had done some writing on the book of Revelation
that I realized Egypt was symbolic for the foremost nation at the time-a nation
of widespread influence. The U.S. fits
this meaning perfectly as of today; however, it is not the Egypt of Revelation. As I begin to ponder Black Americans more, in
another conversation with my mother I told her, “God never became exercised over
pagan nations.” If Black Americans were
the descendants of some off brand pagan tribes somewhere off the west coast of
Africa, what on earth did these tribes do to earn the wrath of God and cause
them to lose all knowledge of self and to be perpetually at odds with
themselves and others going around and around the" it’s racism “ mountain.
I begin to look earnestly into the
question of whether Black Americans could be the Israel of ultimate
dispersal. I read books on the subject
and website writings, but I was not wholly convinced because of the time and
distance between the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 Ad. and the movement of people
over so vast amount of places. Besides
in the wake of trans-Atlantic slave trade or the Black diaspora you had Black
people everywhere; thus how would one determine who the pertinent Israel would
be? To boot, according to some historians some Blacks were native to the
Americas before the slave trade. Also, I
begin to again consider all the people who come to the U.S. legally and
illegally and how they seem to easily prosper here not that they don’t work
hard, but they do so without the unresolved issue of slavery, lack of
identity and collective community cohesion that afflict Black Americans.
Perhaps, the most seemingly
innocuous aspect that made me consider the peculiar state of Black Americans is
music. I was having a conversation with
a friend one day and somehow the subject of schools and kids came up and then
conspiracies. I told him I definitely had one conspiracy that I believed in and that was the deliberate destruction of
Black music. I said, “How do you destroy
Black music?” “If Black people could not do anything else in this country we
were great musicians. Who does that?” I
am going to address the issue of music in another article, but suffice it to
say, it added to my sense that Black Americans were still targets for
destruction. I use as an example, Jeff
Majors musical interpretation of the 23 Psalm of David. I was looking one day for a musical version
of the song thinking I would run across a good “Jewish version” and came across
his. When I finished listening to that
song, I thought “We must have been in the tribe of Judah.” It was the best
version I had ever heard. Oh, the
irony.
After my readings , a lot of
thinking, inquiry of God and one little detail about the history of Israel in
exile, I concluded that as Nathan the prophet confirmed for David that he was
man of his parable about one man who had much taking from one man with little
in regards to his adultery with Bathsheba, Black Americans are the “man” of the
ultimate dispersal of Israel and upon them ( Or least those of them who are
really Israel) lies the answer and the power to the conclude the age and the fulfill the time of the gentiles.
Your earlier comment about not ever feeling part of this country and your longing to go back where you belong, coupled with a deep respect for the prophetic Word of God will hold you in good stead. Your ability to collect and sift through volumes of material and glean significant nuggets is a gift from God. All of these qualities together with the continuous search for more knowledge about self will ultimately lead you back home - completely dependent on the Most High.
ReplyDeleteOne of the sacred secrets of discovering who we are is acknowledging that this current world we live in is ruled by invisible evil and wicked spirits. Although the white European is the focus of much hatred, we must have the ability to see behind the scene and identify the Master Puppeteer - Satan.
The other sacred secret that eludes most is the fact that the Most High knows who His people are in the midst of a lot of people who look like us, but are not us. This is yet another subterfuge of Satan to confuse the unwary and dampen the enthusiasm of the searcher. Remain confident in God's ability to know who His people are. In fact, in the Book of Ezekiel is the key to understanding how the identification will be made. The prophet has a vision in which he sees a man dressed in linen with a writers inkhorn at his hip. His task, in the vision, was to walk through all of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of all those who were moaning, groaning and sighing over the detestable things that were going on in Jerusalem. Following that man were six men with weapons in their hands and their task was to kill all those without the mark in their foreheads.
What about us? Are we moaning, groaning and sighing over the detestable things we see happening all around us? If we are of the "remnant" we "see" and "hear" the Word of God in our soul and are repulsed by the wickedness and evil we see. We long for the Most High to intervene, destroy this wicked system and establish His Kingdom on earth. This is the Kingdom we have been praying for since we were children - 'thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done, in earth as it is in heaven'. The times of the Gentiles is coming to an end. Are we eagerly looking forward to it? Or are we afraid of the terrible things that are coming upon the earth? I pray you are among the former, my sister, for they have the potential to survive into that new earth promised. Peace.