What Is In Your Hand?
Getting To The Next Phase of Fulfilling The Time Of The Gentiles
There is
without doubt many people who have their view of biblical eschatology and I am
no exception. For those Black Americans
who have awakened to their identity as Judah, some have an expectation in one
train of thought of 2019 or sometime thereabouts being the year of deliverance
for them. If that were to happen it
would awesome especially of it meant the return of Jesus to restore the kingdom
of Israel, but I am not of that viewpoint.
Those who are a part of mainstream Christianity do not fully understand
prophecy because they do not understand the concept of the ages and the
centrality of Israel in God’s movement within human history.
Before I get
to the gist of this writing, let me state that one of the reasons I am not a
proponent of the theory of evolution which it is just that a theory is because
it serves only to confuse and has no relevancy to human history. For example, there was recently a BBC show
about the Cheddar man of Europe being originally from Africa and dark skin. There was a reconstruction of his face where
he was dark brown with straight hair and blue eyes. As always there were the ones who revolt
against anyone with dark skin being an accurate depiction and then there are
the assumed Black folk who parrot smugly that modern humanity begin with Black
people in Africa.
In my
estimation, the view that everyone was once in Africa and there was a migration
out is incorrect and contradicts the bible which holds that under Nimrod a son
of Ham everyone was somewhere around where modern day Iraq is and even Abraham
dwelled in Ur among the Chaldeans. It would make sense once the tower of Babel
was destroyed that people dispersed from a central locality and Cheddar man
represents the Black Japhetic/Indian type people that went to the isles of
Europe and became the ancient Minoans, Greeks, Etruscans etc and went into Asia
(South, Central and East) whereas Black Shem was somewhere in the middle of
Asia and the Hamites went down into parts of Africa. Stating that people migrated out of Africa
serves to confuse the identity of true Israel by maintaining that Sub-Saharan
Africans never left their area and had anything to do with Egypt or other
societies in antiquity.
Simple minded
white supremacist gentiles love this argument, but Satan will do anything and
use anyone to confuse the true identity of Israel because unlike what Jesse
Duplantis said in a speech about Black Americans, Satan doesn’t hate Black
Americans because they are talented and kept singing amazing grace while being
as he stated hung, burned, and having other atrocities committed against them
and never blamed God. Why would Satan
care about whether someone like Michael Jackson was a good entertainer or any
other talented Black American? He has a
kingdom he is trying to maintain and if anything they are a threat to that
kingdom being that just as they were the key to Jesus’ arrival they are the key
to his return.
Also, Jesse Duplantis comments about the
suffering Black Americans have endured illustrate why it is White Christians
and Black Christians do not know the identity of true Israel. The major flaw of gentile Christianity is
that they amputated a major part of God’s character so that he is one
dimensional and only about love and spiritual self improvement. He is more like a giant marsh mellow than the
God of the bible. They forgot about the judgment aspect of his character that
often resulted in the death of Israelites when their apostasy and
transgressions were too great and unrepentant of. Otherwise why would Black Americans have had
to endure such atrocities that he cited.
Does God punish a group of people with such calamity for no reason? No he does not.
This is
where I agree with those who criticize the pagan aspect of Christianity. The apostles were not pagan gentiles and
unlike the church today would not be observing Christmas and Easter. Many Christians including pastors in
justification for not observing the original Sabbaths and feasts of God rely on
Paul’s letter to the Colossians in 2:16-17 where it states, “Therefore, let no
one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or
Sabbaths.” “Which are a shadow of things to come but the substance is of
Christ.” (vs. 17). The key word here is
“are”. What many Christians do unconsciously
in this verse is change the present tense ‘are’ to past tense ‘were’. Paul never in this verse invalidates the
proper Sabbath commandments and feasts of God.
He invalidated the pretentious judging of what people did during those
feasts by those who wanted to impose
their own religiosity or spin on it which he called the commandments and
doctrines of men. (vs.22).
It is my contention that if Paul and the other
original disciples and Hebrews were around today they would still be observing
the Torah ordinances with the exception of Levitical sacrifices because Israel
is in exile. Without doubt if gentiles
had not stopped observing these ordinances and scrutinizing scriptures as they
did in Paul’s day to see if certain assertions were true, they would not have
severed a major part of God’s character and would have had much less difficulty
in identifying who is true Israel from a heritage standpoint and prophetically.
Also, continuing the commandments and observances would have probably curbed
some of the doctrinal and behavioral excesses found in gentile Christianity.
One
characteristic of social media is that it gives everyone an opportunity to vent
about one matter or another. Black
people take full advantage of this technology. Whatever
the genre, Black people find it an ideal place to air disagreements/ beefs with
each other. This is no less the case
among newly awakened and old Hebrews. In
the apostles day if they had an issue with another believer they confronted him
and talked about it in person. Now men
just get easily offended and never address the issues other people bring up
like the observance of the law. Another
pastor Omar Thibeaux who is now aware of being true Judah made such a video in
response to a law oriented Hebrew who made his own video in critique of Omar’s
understanding of law observance.
This is when
I came to the conclusion that I do not think the staff of deliverance is or
will be necessarily in the hand of a man.
What do I mean by this? In
certain points in the time of Israel’s history God used or sent a man to be the
main conduit of his power so to speak.
In the deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt he sent Moses but he used
something that was already a part of Moses to be a vehicle for his power. In Moses case, it was a staff. When he sent Elijah to confront the false
prophets of Baal and to divide the river Jordan, it was Elijah’s mantle, the
same mantle which Elisha used. He gave Joseph and Daniel the gift of being able
to interpret dreams. When Jesus came he was the embodiment of the
Word so all he ever had to do was speak or issue a command. In keeping with this theme, the two witnesses
of Revelation I believe will be the catalyst for many of the events on earth
such as the seals being opened as seen by the apostle John.
Speaking of the
book of Revelation Pastor Omar did a message on Revelation 14:6-11 where it is
stated that Billy Graham was the first angel of that scripture due to his
impact on the world with the gospel. As
much as that may be true about Billy Graham’s impact, Pastor Omar is
incorrect. He does something that many people
do and that is take Revelation out of its context by applying it to certain
current events. Without getting further
into it because Revelation is a whole series on its own, I maintain for us to
be in the context of Revelation there must be an igniter and that igniter is
the person who God has called and sent with their particular staff/gift which I
am now inclined to believe may be a woman along with true born again Judah who
are mature and are like Gideon’s 300, which may suffice as the least amount of
people needed to get the job done.
In other
words my view of prophecy is not one where we wait for Satan to fumble the ball
and we run into the end zone. My view is
that Judah are the ones who propel events forward and that God always works in
concert with human agency however dicey I think that is, to move events along
prophetically toward their ultimate conclusion.
Pharaoh never initiated the deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery, God
initiated their deliverance by his calling and use of Moses. If it was left up
to Pharaoh, the Israelites would have never been freed. Likewise If it is left up to Satan we’ll
never be free of him and this age.
Why A Woman?
Since I
begin this blog and study of the identity of Black Americans biblically, I have focused my gaze upon the community
from all aspects. I have paid attention
to pop culture, politics, the state of the community, rascism, colorism, negative black female and male relationships
which some broadcast all over social media and which I wasn’t really aware of
and just the whole gamut of issues. It
can be sort of exhausting really. Life
before social media was in some aspects a peach. As with any new technology there are pros and
cons and the internet can be a very informative place and it exposes you to a
variety of information and viewpoints.
On the other hand, it is a feeding ground for the dysfunctional parts of
the Black so-called community to display ignorance, animosities and
stupidity. It is where I first learned
there is a Black twitter. I still don’t
know what that is or where it’s located, but point being Black people are truly
the people of the book because they always put themselves on “blast” as they
like to say. And it won’t be long
before they put everybody else on blast who are doing all sorts of things. It could be one reason why folks didn’t like
Israel. The bible and their scrolls put
everybody business out in the open.
Anyway, one of the issues of the day is Black females lack of finding
viable Black men for marriage and family.
There are a hosts of opinions blogs, and videos on this subjects. What is interesting is that Black women tend
to not marry out- that is to other racial groups at the rate of Black men.
They tend to stand on the battle field alone trying to save a community
where their men are basically absent from the fight. They tend to champion Black love where you
never hear of Black men saying such things.
They fruitlessly try to be a one-legged stool or a one sided foundation
for a house which is next to impossible because you can’t build a house with
one side of a foundation. They are out
there in the social media world trying to hold on to the wisp that is black
love particularly with this millennial generation and surely the one after
where Black boys are trained or just
desire to see themselves with anyone but Black girls.
The die-hard
Black women are waiting for their “Kings” who don’t want to be kings and who
frankly have no kingdom world wise anyway.
Those who haven’t left and exercised other options or at least
entertained exercising other options, are hanging on by a thread wondering if
their Black Kings will ever materialize to rebuild the Black community. In
this way, they my sisters remind me of the two Mary’s who waited by the tomb of
Jesus in anticipation of something happening.
Because of their clinging to hope that he really was more than a man,
they became the first witnesses to his resurrection. The men on the other hand had moved on as men
do. They were probably getting their
tackle together to resume their fishing careers. It seems that women tend to care more about
their racial/ethnic group and community than men.
Men will leave a community in a minute to
fulfill his own personal desires whereas women especially Black women wait by
the tomb of their dead community hoping for a resurrection. Well, I don’t know if Black secular America
will ever come back to some sort of functioning community, but if I were a
young Black woman out here today, I would not wait for an ideal Black man to appear. Young Black males live for themselves not
for the community or racial integrity. I
see this in my own family. We have our
share of males and a female who married or date out the racial group. I am sure there was never a thought about
Black people as a whole and their own probable future disappearance
genotypically and phenotypically into the white Japhetic race via their
descendants. There is no point in a young Black female who
has good values and morals dying on the vine waiting on a long gone Black
male. If the community will diminish and
disappear you may as well not be the sacrificial lamb trying in futility to
hold it together on your own.
This used to
concern me a little because obviously an authentic Judah/Israel is needed for the
end of the age and I’m thinking ‘what a chess move by the opposition’ but then
I realized everyone is not needed. I think it can be done with a little as 300 Gideon type people.
Anyway, the two Mary’s is why I think a Black woman will be the one with
the staff for the purpose of the conclusion of the age and also I think just like David could not build God a temple because there was too much blood on his hand, I think it the same for the men of Black Judah. They carry a heavier level of responsibility and judgment. The two Marys were faithful and
held on to the hope of Jesus rising and likewise Black women over the course of
the captivity in America have been the staple of the Black church. For good or
bad, there is no Black church without Black women. I had a pastor who used to say when people
came out of the world it was always someone’s mother or grandmother who was on
her knees praying for them. I never heard him mention fathers and grandfathers.
When I look
at where we are prophetically, I am amazed
at how the answer to the question of what fulfills the times of the
gentiles is so close you can kiss it on the cheek. If only Judah knew what is in his hand. I liken the situation to this. A person goes to a restaurant and runs up a
big bill. He has in hand the right amount
of money to pay the bill but instead he ask the owner if he could work in the
restaurant a couple years until the amount is paid, or let him go to a bank and
take out a loan and all the while in his hand is the money for the bill. Another example is the remake of the movie
the Wizard of Oz with a Black cast and
renamed the Whiz. It starred Diana Ross
and Michael Jackson. I remember watching
that movie when I was kid and liked the scene where the people of Oz kept
changing colors to their clothes at the command of the Wizard. I watched it again recently and I was struck
how the remake was really an adaptation of slavery /captivity here in
America.
Diana was
taken from her home by storm and placed in a land very different from her
own. In this land she encountered the
scarecrow which believed he wasn’t smart and needed a brain, the tin man who
wanted a heart and the lion who wanted courage. These three characters are a representation
of the Black man in America where is he considered to be not smart, doesn’t
have a heart to feel pain like other people and lacks courage to face his
enemies. The other Black people they
encountered were working as slaves to one of the wicked witches of Oz a
representation of true spiritual nature that governs the United States, a
symbolic Babylon. She frees them and they continue their journey to see the
Wizard. It should be noted that it is
Dorothy A Black woman who frees the people.
When she realizes the Wizard is a fake, she thinks she will never get home until she has a
visit from the good witch so to speak which tells her everything she ever
needed to get home was already in her possession. They were on her feet. The slippers she wore was her conduit of
power to return home. She needed only to
click them which I think she did three times.
I’ve said
before people in Hollywood demonstrate an understanding of spiritual things
that I’ve never even seen in the church.
They are just on the opposite side of the mirror. The
Wiz is very much an apt analogy for True Judah to return home. There is a way which doesn’t consist of
fifty millions arguments about the law, who Esau is or any of those
things. There is a way out of here and
it as simple as clicking our heels so to speak, but it is not without turbulent waters. It is born of our
relationship with the father and that is where the power is. David was able to do the exploits he did
because God was his father and he treated him as such. He acted like a son whereas Saul behaved like
an acquaintance. It is likewise with
Jesus. He was able to do what he did
because he had a relationship with God who he called his Father whereas the
teachers of the law did not. The power
dear people is in the relationship. When
you are in the relationship with the Father and need help you don’t need to do
500 push ups and 1000 sit ups before he will save you from drowning.
There is
much I wish I could go into, but this post is already very long. I am like the angel with sword drawn that
stood before Baalam who set out to curse Israel. I want so very much to let it find its mark
but I yet wait for those who can see that deliverance is
a straight line, the shortest distance between two points as opposed to
scraggly lines and loops that lead you everywhere but home. I have included a video of Callie Day below
rehearsing a fragment of Hear My Prayer.
I recently became aware of this video and when I heard her singing and
just the range of her voice and the beautiful playing of the lady pianist, It
made me say “ Yehuda.” Dear People there
is something to be said for obscurity.
Mrs. Day has a beautiful voice but it’s the sincerity and relationship
that this woman has with the Lord that makes this song special. I am convinced that if an awakened Judah
ever sang the "Have Mercy" part of this song like Mrs. Day, it conceivably could cause Jesus to stand up from
his throne and say “I hear my people
calling me.” And if He hears want he
wants from his people and their singing to him, I can imagine him readying his
battle gear. Dear People, sometimes
less is more.
To God
Always
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