CELEBRATE DR. KING DAY-! ~ Understanding the Dark History of Black History
James Slobodzien
Author - Christian Living / Inspirational Books at Clinical Psychological Services, LLC
By Dr. James Slobodzien?(Revised & Adapted from the Warrior Priesthood Revolution)
“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses,” (1 Tim. 6:12)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the United States. It is observed on the 3rd Monday of January each year and it marks his birthday. For the few that may not know, Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Dr. King who was inspired by his Christian beliefs - advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience. This article is dedicated to Christian Warriors throughout history such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black, indigenous and people of color in the worldwide Black Church that have suffered persecution and death for their faith in Christ. It will explore Africa’s Christian heritage and a Catholic conspiracy. We know that racial misinterpretations of the "Curse of Ham" were used throughout history even by religions of Christianity to justify and prolong the black inferiority myth and the enslavement of black people. The Bible informs us that it was Satan's plan from the beginning to curse and destroy God's chosen "colored" people (Gen. 3:15). The New Testament Bible tells us that the first gentile (non-jewish)?convert to Christianity was an Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-39). Bible scholars inform us that this was the beginning of Jesus’ prophecy to his disciples to be his witnesses “... to the ends of the earth,” (Acts 1:8).?
Today, we have genetic evidence that among the Ethiopian people are Jewish descendants from King David’s tribe of Judah. This is the lineage of Jesus Christ - the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5). Tamar and Rahab (both black women) are also listed in the lineage of Jesus (Mt. 1:3-5). We know that Moses married an Ethiopian (Cushite) wife (Num. 12:1). We now have scientific DNA evidence, that all humans descended from a single migration from Africa in Ethiopia - the biblical location of the Garden of Eden. So, we know that God’s chosen people: Abraham, the Israelites, and Jesus and his Apostles were also descendants from Africa and therefore were a colored people. For further info see: (linkedin.com/pulse/war-racism-angelic-lives-matter-james-slobodzien). In addition, it has been discovered that (the Catholic Priest) Martin Luther’s reforms for Protestantism in 1517, were modeled after Ethiopian Christianity that practiced elements of the faith absent in Roman Catholicism. Luther believed that this first Christian kingdom served as an older, wiser, black sibling to the white Christian kingdoms of Europe. This article is dedicated to the brave Christian warriors of Ethiopia that continue to “fight the good fight,” (1 Tim. 6:12).?
The Ethiopian empire is the only region of Africa to remain defiantly Christian and survive the expansion of Islam as a Christian state. Throughout history, they have remained faithful to Christ, even while facing opposition and religious, racial, and political persecution from Roman Catholicism and Islam. New archaeological evidence has revealed that the African nation of Ethiopia was one of the first Christian Nations on planet earth. Although one of the least known historical empires today, Aksum, Ethiopia was considered one of the four (4) world’s most influential civilizations and great kingdoms of the ancient world alongside Rome, China, and Persia. Legend has it that the Kingdom of Aksum was first established in 400 B.C. by the son of King Solomon of Israel (King Menelik I) and the Queen of Sheba (1 Kg. 10:1-13).?
BIBLICAL CONSPIRACIES
“The next morning some Jews formed a Conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath?not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul,” (Acts 23:12-13)
Conspiracy is no stranger to religious leaders, as we can see in the above verse, when some Jews had conspired to kill the Apostle Paul. Jesus’ religious leaders also conspired to kill him: “Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.” (Mt. 26:3-5). But, why would the Roman Emperor’s (Catholic) Church conspire to conceal the history of the African Eastern Orthodox (Ethiopian) church? Were they threatened by its’ holiness and superiority in the 4th century? We don’t know for sure, but we do know that Ethiopia with its current 109.2 million population, has a unique Christian cultural heritage. It is the home of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - the oldest Christian denomination on earth. Christianity was introduced to Ethiopia in the first century, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (called Tewahdo) is one of the oldest organized Christian bodies in the world. Ethiopia also had a Christian Kingdom or monarchy that ended only in the coup of 1974. The Church of St. Mary of Zion is the oldest Christian church on the African continent. It was built at the start of the 4th century A.D. in Aksum, Ethiopia. There has been a legend for many years that the Ark of the Covenant is in the Saint Mary of Zion Church in Axum, Ethiopia. Ethiopia has served as a symbol of African independence throughout the continent's colonial period. It was also a founder member of the United Nations and the African base for many international organizations. But, are there any ancient biblical connections to Ethiopia being the place where God created Adam and Eve?
ETHIOPIA AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN ~ “The Land of God”
“Now the Lord God had planted a Garden in the East, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed,”?
In the first and oldest book of the Old Testament Bible, we can read about the story and the location of the Garden - east of Eden where God planted the “Tree of Life,” (Gen. 2:8-14): “A river watering the Garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire Land of Havilah (Cush’s son), where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there). The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire Land of (Ethiopia) Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.”?
In the Hebrew Old Testament Bible, Cushites (Ethiopians) are considered descendants of Noah's grandson Cush - the son of Ham. We also know that the “Land of Havilah” (Cush’s son - Gen. 10:1-7) is in Ethiopia. Gold is Ethiopia’s main mineral export and has been mined there since ancient times. In 2011, the Midroc Ethiopian Gold Mine further discovered a gold deposit estimated at 33,000kg (1.18 billion dollars). This is more biblical evidence of the gold in the Land of Havilah (Ethiopia). So, according to the Bible, if we identify the Pishon (first river of Eden) with Havilah, and Gihon (second river of Eden) that surrounds the Land of Cush - then the Garden, east of Eden would be located in the ancient Empire of Ethiopia. All East African countries through which the river Gihon goes up to the Indian Ocean were identified as Biblical Ethiopia or Cush.?
So, how then did the 3rd and 4th rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) end up in the middle east (Mesopotamia - Eastern Syria)? Bible scholars inform us that all four of these (4) rivers including the original Tigris and Euphrates rivers were destroyed, along with the rest of the Earth’s surface features by Noah’s global Great Flood. But in the same way that New York was renamed after York, England, someone long ago (Shem?) re-named today’s Tigris river after the pre-Flood river of the same name. The key is understanding Genesis (2:14) that tells us of a pre-Flood land named “Asshur,” connected to the Garden of Eden. Shem (Noah’s son), one of the seven (7) humans saved on the Ark (besides Noah), knew of the original pre-Flood Tigris and Euphrates rivers that paralleled the land of Asshur, and named his son Asshur (Gen. 10:22). Shem’s son Asshur fathered the ancient Assyrians (Syria) after the Flood and likely borrowed the name for his son. These name links suggest a name ancestry: Today’s Syria was named after the Assyrians who “carried Israel away captive” in 723 B.C (2 Kgs. 18:9-11). Finally, Shem likely re-named the two present-day rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates in Syria in the Middle East after the pre-Flood original rivers (Gen. 2:14). This confirms that the entire Land of Cush, the Land of Havilah, and the Land of Asshur were all located in Biblical Ethiopia - the Garden of Eden (icr.org/article/did-euphrates-flow-before-flood).
ETHIOPIA AND THE GREEK GODS
?" ...?Zeus is at Ocean's river with Ethiopians, feasting, he and all the heaven-dwellers," (Homers' Iliad, 800 BC)
? The geographical Greek name "Aethiopia" for the ancient nation of Ethiopia, first appears in Greek classical sources (twice in the Iliad and three times in the Odyssey). Ethiopia is highly esteemed as a place frequented by the Greek gods (Zeus and Jupiter) in Homer's IIiad, the oldest of Greek texts. Homer's Odyssey tells us that the Ethiopian - Memnon was the King of Persia and Ethiopia and his Ethiopian brother - Emathion was the King of Arabia. Homer believed that the gods lived in the Ethiopian Olympus of Kilimanjaro when they were not in Greece. Poseidon, also spends time in Ethiopia in Homer's Odyssey (800 BC): "But Poseidon, the earthquake lord making his return from Ethiopia where he had visited for a celebration in his honor ...".
ETHIOPIA AND “UTOPIA” ~ The Land of Prester John (Black Panther’s - Wakanda)?
The Biblical account of the Garden of Eden has always been considered a type of Utopia for Christians, along with its counterpart at the end of the Bible, the Heavenly Eden (Rev. 22:1-5). The term “Utopia” was first coined from Ancient Greek (Eutopia - “Good Place”) by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia. It described an imagined place and society that possessed nearly perfect happiness and fulfillment for its citizens.?Scholars have recently reported that More’s book and other utopian novels of early-modern Europe such as “City of the Sun” and “Christianopolis” were inspired by 12th and 13th century legends about an actual Ethiopian Utopia called the “Land of Prester John.” By the early 14th century, the legend of a Prester John told of a wealthy powerful Ethiopian Emperor and Christian High Priest with a utopian kingdom in Ethiopia, where a Christian community had been in existence since the 4th century. This legend goes all the way back to the Apostle John in the New Testament. It continued during the period of the Crusades (11th–13th century), when the Pope and European Catholics hoped to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims. The legend was further popularized by a literary fiction letter sent from Prester John to the Pope, declaring that he intended to go to Jerusalem with his armies to battle the Muslims and regain the Holy Sepulcher - the burial place of Jesus.?
Although the Pope never found the legendary Presber (Elder) John, the Ethiopian people have always considered their land to be a Judeo-Christian utopia. In fact, many Ethiopian audiences reported that their country must have been the inspiration for the utopian Kingdom of Wakanda in the 2018, Marvel Comics movie “Black Panther.” This hidden mountain kingdom was the only country in Africa not to be colonized. Ethiopia also has the unique distinction of being the sole country on the African continent to resist European Colonialism. Similar to Wakanda, Ethiopia, was long concealed in mystery for Europeans during the Middle Ages, as a mythical utopian Christian kingdom of great wealth (having Solomon’s gold). In addition, Ethiopia was home to the legendary Prester John who was believed to be the Emperor of Ethiopia. In fact, Menelik I (who was the offspring of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) was the first Emperor of Ethiopia. He established the Solomonic dynasty in the 10th century B.C. The Christian Emperor Haile Selassie who traced his lineage back to Menelik ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 (washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/27/africas-real-wakanda-and-the-struggle-to-stay-uncolonized).
ETHIOPIA AND ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
The civilization of Cush began on the banks of the Nile over 15,000 years ago and was settled at least 55,000 years ago. Researchers from the University of Khartoum have found a tool workshop in the ancient region of Cush (south of Dongola, Sudan) with thousands of paleolithic axes on rows of stones, dating back 70,000 years. The historian Siculus (60 BC) described the Ethiopian Empire as vast, from Central and East Africa to the Arabian peninsula. The entire continent of Africa was considered Ethiopia in ancient history. Later Ethiopia became synonymous not just with the Cushites, but with all Africans (Ancient African History.com). Researchers have also discovered based on the traditions of the first settlers and the artifacts in this region, that the Ethiopic civilization gave birth to that of “Egypt,” (taneter.org/ethiopia). Egypt is often associated with Ethiopia in the Old Testament (e.g. Ps. 68:31, Is. 20:3-5, Ez. 30: 4-5). In fact, an Ethiopia King became a Pharaoh and he (Tirhakah) ruled Egypt (690-664 BC, 25th dynasty), and saved Jerusalem from Assyrian destruction (Is. 37:10-11). In addition, the Greek historian "Herodotus," informs us that Ethiopians ruled over a joint colony of Egyptians and Ethiopians (the Siwa Oasis). Diodorus Siculus (60 BC), confirms this stating that (consistent with modern archaeological discoveries) Ethiopia is the origin of Egyptian traditions and civilization, and that Ethiopians colonized as far as India: "The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony ... they add that the Egyptians have received from them, as authors and their ancestors, the greater part of their laws," (taneter.org/ethiopia). Note: In 1492, Columbus sailed across the “Ethiopic” Ocean.
ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE
The Old Testament begins by stating that God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, located as previously mentioned in the Land of (Ethiopia) Cush (Gen. 2:13). We know that Noah’s son Ham (meaning Black) had a son named Cush. The Bible tells us that after the Flood: “Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a Mighty Warrior on the earth (Nephilim Giant: Gen. 6:4) ... The first centers of his Kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar (Sumeria). From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh,...” (Gen. 10:8-12). This Ethiopian King named Nimrod first built the Tower of Babel in his Babylonian Kingdom (Gen. 11:1-8). According to the historian Eusebius, Nimrod was married to Semiramis. Legend has it that Semiramis was also his mother, who was a Babylonian demigod that became the Queen of Heaven (Jer. 44:15-19). It was Semiramis (Ishtar) who created the Mystery Babylon Religion (Rev. 17), and spread the polytheistic mother-child cults around the world, after the Lord stopped the building of Babel by confusing their language (Gen. 11:8-9).
GOD DID NOT CURSE HAM ~ Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves ..” (Gen. 9:25)
Cush had another son Canaan - who Noah (his great grandfather) cursed: “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers,” (Gen. 9:25). However, Noah’s curse was directed at the Canaanite nation who God knew would become evil. This curse was fulfilled when God had the Israelites enter the promised land to drive out the Canaanites (Jos. 1-24). The curse of Ham occurs in the Book of Genesis (9:22-27), imposed by the patriarch Noah. It occurs in the context of Noah's drunkenness and is provoked by a shameful act perpetrated by Noah's son Ham, who "saw the nakedness of his father.” Racial mis-interpretations of the “Curse on Ham" in the past have been perpetuated by the Catholic Church and many other organized religions of Christianity to justify racial profiling and slavery, and further the Lie that Black and colored people are inferior. Nowhere in the Bible is it taught that the Black Race, and their historical slavery is the result of Their Skin Color or Noah’s curse on his son Ham. First, Canaan was cursed - NOT Ham. Second, Canaan was cursed because of the moral depravity of his future Canaanite (Nephilim) descendants (Num. 13:33). Historical evidence confirms that this Curse was because of the human sacrifices, temple prostitution, and debauchery with which Canaanites worshipped the Nephilim. Third, Noah’s objective of this “Curse on Canaan” was to justify the enslavement and destruction of the Nephilim Nations (Deut. 7:1-6). God did not want the Israelites interbreeding with white Nephilim genes that would genetically alter the human race, making Jesus unable to be the Savior of the world.?
The Catholic Church previously held the view that blacks were cursed by God. This view “apparently survived until 1873 when Pope Pius IX attached an indulgence to a prayer for the ‘wretched Ethiopians in Central Africa that almighty God may at length remove the curse of Ham from their hearts,” (wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101977726). Catholic theologians have used the racial misinterpretations of the “Curse on Ham” to justify and perpetuate racial profiling, discrimination, and slavery and further the Lie that Black people are inferior. Racism (Gal. 3:28; Rev. 7:9), man-stealing (Ex. 21:16), and abusive servitude (Ex. 21:20) are all forbidden in the Bible. In summary, the claim that black or dark-skinned people are “cursed” by God comes from an anti-biblical, worldly, attempt to justify racism. There was and is no such thing as a “curse of Ham,” and there is no justification for race-based slavery. The Apostle Paul tells us that we are all one in Christ: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus,” (Gal. 3:28). To learn more about America’s “Race War” see: “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.” So without question, Black, Indigenous and all People of Color (BIPOC) Lives Matter and were essential because God has chosen them to be his people to bring the Messiah (Christ) into the world to be our Savior.
MOSES MARRIED AN ETHIOPIAN
We also know that Moses married an Ethiopian (Cushite) woman in 1400 BC, and that God struck Moses’ sister Miriam with leprosy because she spoke out against his marriage to this woman (Num. 12:1-10). By the 740s BC, Nahum - the Hebrew prophet said that: “Cush (Ethiopia) and Egypt were her (Nineveh’s) boundless strength, and it was infinite (Nahum 3:9). The Ethiopian general, Zerah, led an Ethiopian army of one million (1,000,000) soldiers (2 Chron. 14:9, ESV). God used the Ethiopia - Ebed-Melech to rescue the prophet Jeremiah from the cistern in which he was imprisoned (Jer. 38:7-13). There were Ethiopian soldiers in the ancient world who fought as mercenaries (Jer. 46:9). An Ethiopian was also a key military figure in David’s army (2 Sam. 18:21-32). The wealthy Ethiopian queen of Sheba journeyed to see King Solomon, because she heard about his kingdom and great wisdom (1 Kings 10:1-13). Jesus spoke highly of this queen when he said, “The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it,” (Mt. 12:42). Legend has it that the Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopia) was first established and converted to Judaism in 400 B.C. by the son of King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba - King Menelik I. The story indicates that Menelik visited his father in Jerusalem and was converted to Judaism. After some years, Menelik returned to Ethiopia with the Ark of the Covenant, founded the "Solomonic Dynasty" and the Aksumite (Ethiopian) kingdom adopted Judaism. According to legend, the Ark of the Covenant remains in Ethiopia to this present day.?
In the New Testament, we see that an Ethiopian (an official of the Queen of Ethiopia) was the first non-Jewish convert to Christianity (Acts 8), as this conversion occurred prior to Cornelius’s conversion (Acts 10:2). The Ethiopian eunuch's conversion fulfills Jesus’ words in Acts 1:8 (“you will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth”), but how? The Apostles had already shared the Gospel in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. Now Phillip expanded God’s message to Ethiopia considered “the ends of the earth,” and the eunuch went “on his way home”?back to Ethiopia (Acts 8:28). After that, Ethiopia saw Christianity grow and scholars link this growth to Philip's convert. We know that the book of Acts was written sometime after 63 A.D. and that in 70 A.D., Rome destroyed the Jewish temple killing over 1 million Jews. At this time, the Early Church escaped Jerusalem and found refuge in places such as Rome, Antioch and Alexandria. But, it was in Africa (Alexandria, Egypt) where the Early Churches’ Christian Theology was formed by Origen, Clement, and others (The formation of Christian theology in Alexandria, Willem H. Oliver; Mokhele J.S. Madise, Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.35 n.1 Pretoria Jan. 2014).
We know that Jesus and his parents escaped into Africa (Egypt) to avoid being killed by King Herod (Mt. 2:13-18). As Jesus’ skin was dark, he could easily hide in a nation of dark-skinned people. We also know that Jesus died at the age of 33 in A.D. 30. Historians inform us that in 42 A.D. (just 12 years later), Christianity continued to spread in Africa, as Mark (author of the Gospel of Mark) became the first bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa. Later in 70 A.D., many Christians escaped from Jerusalem, and went to Mark’s Church in Africa where our Christian Theology developed. “The greatest secret Africa has never told and Christian Europe has been seeking to conceal for the past two thousand years is the African origin of the concepts, doctrines, sacramental practices of religion, and the documents that became the foundation of Christianity in Europe,” (Darkwah 2005:backpage). Today, more Christians (631 million) live in Africa than any other continent (Gordon-Conwell Seminary, 2018).
ETHIOPIA’S “MIRACULOUS” UNDERGROUND CHURCHES ~ Carved by Angels-?
Ethiopia has given a New meaning to Underground Churches. In a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia, some 400 miles from Addis Ababa, eleven (11) medieval monolithic churches were “each” carved out of one solid rock - underground in the late 12th century. According to legend, King Lalibela (Christian Emperor of Ethiopia) and an Army of Angels carved these 11 churches in one night. These 11 rock-cut, 37 feet high, underground church structures cover about 62 acres, with each one covering up to 8,000 square feet. King Lalibela was motivated by a vision to construct a “New Jerusalem” after having visited Jerusalem in 1187 A.D., just before the Holy City fell to Muslim forces. Since Christian pilgrimages had halted to the Holy Land, he believed that God wanted the Holy City of Lalibela to become a substitute for the Holy City of Jerusalem. King Lalibela also built this Holy City after the 4th Crusade called by Pope Innocent III - in which thousands of Eastern Orthodox Christians were murdered to include women and children. Mostly unknown to Western Christians, Lalibela is still a Holy place of Ethiopian Christianity.
ETHIOPIA’S CHRISTIAN BIBLE
The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth. It is written in Ge’ez an ancient dead language of Ethiopia. It’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains 84 books compared to the 66 book protestant Bible. It is based on the original Hebrew Bible, not the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Old Testament that doesn’t exist (chick.com/Information/article?id=Was-There-A-BC-Septuagint). Experts believe that it was written on goatskin and it is also the earliest example of bookbinding still attached to the original pages. According to the monks that guarded this Bible, the Gospels were written by Abba Garima, a Byzantine royal who arrived in what was then the Kingdom of Axum in 494 A.D. He went on to found the monastery. Orthodox Christianity writes that the survival of these Gospels is incredible - considering the country has been under Muslim invasion and Italian invasion. In addition, a fire in the 1930s destroyed the monastery's church where the volumes were allegedly kept. Recent carbon-testing has given these gospels a date between A.D 330 and 650, suggesting that they are among the oldest gospels in existence. The survival of the Garima Gospels may have been due to the fact that they were hidden for more than a 1000 years, in the Abuna Garima Monastery in the north of Ethiopia, which is in the Tigray State at 7,000 feet - where it is high and dry.?
The Ethiopian Bible includes the Books of Esdras, Buruch, and all 3 Books of the Maccabees. All of these books were excommunicated from the Catholic Bible. It also contains the Books of Enoch and Jubilees in their Old Testament.
1.?Enoch:?The Book of Enoch was written during the second (2nd) century B.C.E. It is one of the most important non-canonical apocryphal works, that had a significant influence upon the Early Church. Enoch introduced concepts such as the fallen angels, the appearance of Melchizedek the Messiah, Resurrection, a Final Judgement, and a Heavenly Kingdom on Earth (sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/index.htm 169). The Book of Enoch is quoted in the New Testament: (“And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day,” (Jude 6).?It was considered as scripture in the Epistle of Barnabas (16:4) and by many of the early Church Fathers. Tertullian, wrote in 200 A.D., that the Book of Enoch had been rejected by the Jews because it contained prophecies pertaining to Christ.?
2.?Jubilees:?The Book of Jubilees is also an important non-canonical apocryphal work, that had a significant influence upon the Early Church. It narrates the genesis of Angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim, and then to their descendants (wesley.nnu.edu/biblical studies/non canon/ot/pseudo/jubilee.htm 78). The Book of Jubilees was also rejected, but why?
THE CATHOLIC ~ ETHIOPIAN CONSPIRACY
One could wonder, why the Ethiopian Old Testament books of Enoch and Jubilees were rejected, banned, buried, and labeled heresy by the Catholic Church for over 1000 years? Were they taken out of the Bible in the 4th century to publicly declare that Ethiopian Orthodox teachings are heresy? Were they taken out to protect the Catholic Church? Do these books reveal the truth of the fallen angels’ past, present, and future activities that may incriminate the Catholic church? We do know that these books give us details of the Holy War that we are currently fighting? Theologians inform us that the ancient sacred text of Enoch was widely accepted and believed to be the inspired Word of God by Jews and Christians alike between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D. The Early Christian Church considered 1 Enoch as Holy Scripture for over 400 years. In fact, Jude quotes directly from the Book of Enoch in the New Testament (Jude 6). Second and third century "Church Fathers" like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origin and Clement of Alexandria all made use of it. Tertullian (160-230 A.D.) called the entire Book of Enoch "Holy Scripture."?
But, the real mystery question would be, how and why was the impeccable Christian heritage of Ethiopia hidden from the world for close to 1700 years? In hindsight after studying the data, it is now clear to me that two words can sum up the reason why and they are “Systemic Racism.” We know that the Catholic Church was competing with the Ethiopian Christian Kingdom for superiority in the 4th century. We also know that the Catholic Church taught the racial misinterpretations of the “Curse on Ham" to justify racial profiling and slavery. It perpetuated the Lie that all “Black” people are inferior to the “White” European Supremacists. Similar to the Romans syncretizing into the Greek religion after conquering them, the Catholic Church believed that they were the first Christian nation on earth. The Romans hated the Jewish Christians because they would not accept Jesus as their New Sun-god. So, they transformed their High Priests into “Popes” and their Jewish Elders into Catholic Cardinals. Following are just seven (7) Jewish - Catholic syncretism's:
1. The Jewish Sabbath day of worship “Saturday” was replaced with the Catholic - “SUN-day.”?
2. The Jewish Holiday “Passover” was replaced with the Catholic (Babylonian) Holiday - “Easter.”
3. The Jewish sacrificial “Lamb of God” was replaced with the “Easter (Pig) Ham.”?
4. The Jewish “Temple” was replaced with Saint Peter’s - “Basilica.”
5. The Jewish City of God “Jerusalem” was replaced with - Rome’s “Vatican City.”?
6. The Jewish “Law of Moses” was replaced with the - “Catholic Canon.”
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7. The Jewish Son of Gods’ name “Yeshua” was replaced with the Roman/Greek name - “Jesus.”
The Roman Catholic Church attempted to copy and incorporate the Jewish Model of religion into their system. They believed that they were the first Christian Nation on earth - that inherited all the promises of God from God’s chosen people - the “black” Israelites. Most non-Catholic historians would agree that the Institutional Religion of Catholicism has historically and directly caused thousands of years of hate, hostility, fear, corruption, greed, moral decay, abuse of spiritual authority, the Inquisitions, the Holy Wars, and the torture and death of millions of men, women, and children. From the birth of Popery in the 7th century (606 A.D.) to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than 50 millions of the human family have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors. This is an average of more than 40,000 religious murders for every year of the existence of popery (Dowling, J., "History of Romanism," p. 541, 542. NY: 1871). Jesus was obviously not leading this Church. So, if Jesus was not behind the Roman Catholic Empire, what Church was the first nation to bring “true” Christianity to the world?
ETHIOPIA ~ THE FIRST CHRISTIAN NATION ON EARTH-!
“ ... Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God,” (Ps. 68:31)
New archaeological evidence reveals that the African nation of Ethiopia was one of the first, if not the first Christian Nation on planet earth (ibtimes.com/ethiopia-first-christian-nation-1110400). As a Catholic being born and raised in an Italian and Polish family in New Jersey, I was taught that the Roman Catholic Church was the first Christian Nation on earth. Later after studying church history, I learned that for centuries historians have widely accepted the argument that Armenia was the first Christian nation. This New “Ethiopian” groundbreaking evidence however, seriously challenges Armenia’s weak claim based upon a 5th-century work of Agathangelos titled “The History of the Armenians.” In it, Agathangelos says as an eyewitness that after the Armenian King Tiridates III was baptized by St. Gregory the Illuminator, he decreed that Christianity was the state religion in 314 A.D. However, recent archaeological studies date “The History of the Armenians” to c. 450 A.D., making it impossible for Agathangelos to have been an eyewitness to Tiridates baptism in 314 A.D. On the other hand, a team of international archeologists recently uncovered a Christian church structure in the ancient Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopia). This discovery has challenged Rome and even Armenia as being the oldest church in the world. Researchers concluded by radiocarbon dating artifacts uncovered at the church site, that the structure was built in A.D. 313. Unlike the case of Armenia, we now have tangible proof that St. Frumentius publicly converted the first Christian Ethiopian King, Ezana in 330 A.D.?
ETHIOPIA ~ A CHRISTIAN WARRIOR KINGDOM-!
“Until the lions have their own historian, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter,”?
(Chinua Achebe, African novelist and poet)
Whoever writes the history of the “hunt,” will praise themselves. If you read the history of the European invasions and colonization of Africa by European historians, you will be informed that all Africans (to include Ethiopians) were “inferior,” “indigenous,” and needed a White man to be their “savior.” You will read that the Belgian King Leopold II, was a hero. In reality, Leopold II exploited the resources of the Republic Democratic of Congo for over 20 years, and he tortured and murdered over 15 million African men, women and children between 1885–1908. You will also not read that many great African Empires to include Ethiopia fought and won Wars using only spears and knives, when the Europeans had bullets and guns (Chinua Achebe, ‘Things Fall Apart,” 1958).
Just as God chose the nation of Israel, God has chosen all believers today to be a part of his treasured possession to include Ethiopia - the first Christian nation. Although not well known today, Aksum (Ethiopia) was considered one of the four (4) world’s most influential civilizations. As a great ancient Kingdom, it stood alongside Rome, China, and Persia in the 2nd century. This makes Ethiopia one of the first regions in the world to adopt Christianity as their state religion. The Aksumite Kingdom first emerged in the 1st century A.D. We know that the New Testament Bible tells us that Philip baptized an Ethiopian eunuch near Jerusalem in the 1st century church. Bible scholars inform us that this was the beginning of Jesus’ prophecy to his disciples to be his witnesses “... to the ends of the earth,” (Acts 1:8). Afterward, “when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing,” (Acts 8:39). So, where did Philip literally fly off to in the Spirit? According to the 2nd century church father Irenaeus of Lyon, Philip was sent to Ethiopia to preach. In addition, Matthias - the Apostle chosen to replace Judas (Acts 1:26), also preached the gospel in Ethiopia in the 1st century.?
We know that Christianity became the centralizing force behind the Ethiopian Empire, which endured from 330 A.D through 1974, despite Muslim invaders and political threats from all sides.?Ethiopia was the only Christian African nation not under Islamic rule, up until 1974. We also know that Ethiopia sent Christian missionaries to Rome in the 14th and 15th centuries, before the age of European missionaries being sent to Africa. In, 1895, Italy (Roman Catholics) invaded Ethiopia, but its forces were severely defeated the following year at Adwa in 1896. As the Afrocentric historian Molefe Asante explains, “After the victory over Italy in 1896, Ethiopia acquired a special importance in the eyes of Africans and black people all over the world alike, as the only surviving African State that successfully defeated a European colonial power in open battle. Italy's government who had viewed them as an inferior barbaric race were brought to their knees and subsequently forced to recognize the African nation of Ethiopia as an equal. After Adowa, Ethiopia became emblematic of African valor and resistance, the bastion of prestige and hope to thousands of Africans who were experiencing the full shock of European conquest and were beginning to search for an answer to the myth of African and black inferiority,” (Pan-africanism in Barbados, New Academia Publishing:2005).
In 1935, a border incident between Ethiopia and the Italian Somaliland gave the fascist Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia, but in 1941 the Ethiopian resistance defeated the Italians again, aided by the British and Commonwealth troops. Many historians believe that this was one of the episodes that prepared the way to fight against Mussolini’s and Hitler’s fascism in World War II. So we can see that the brave Orthodox Ethiopian warriors of the first Christian Nation on earth, have sacrificed their lives to defend our faith from the religions of Roman Catholicism and Islam throughout the ages. Please pray for them, as they continue to be persecuted in the current Civil War they are fighting. In rural communities that are mainly Muslim, Black Christians are often ostracized, denied access to communal resources, and attacked by extremists. For example, on February 9, 2019, local Muslims in Alaba attacked 10 church buildings, killing six (6), and burning the property inside all the structures.
MARTIN LUTHER AND ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANITY
“Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites (Ethiopians) declares the Lord,”?
(Amos 9:7)
Even Martin Luther the Catholic priest who launched the Protestant Reformation in 1517, was fascinated with Ethiopian Christianity. Daniels (2017) reports that, “Luther esteemed the Church of Ethiopia because he thought Ethiopia was the first nation in history to convert to Christianity. Located far beyond the orbit of the Roman Catholic Church, this first Christian kingdom, according to Luther, served as an older, wiser, black sibling to the white Christian kingdoms of Europe. In a sense, the Church of Ethiopia was the “dream” for Luther. As an ancient church with direct ties to the Apostles, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church conferred legitimacy on Luther’s emerging Protestant vision of a church outside the authority of the Roman Catholic papacy,” (divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/martin-luther-and-ethiopian-christianity-historical-traces). As mentioned earlier, Ethiopia has ancient ties with Judaism. The Bible indicates that the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon (1 Kg. 10:1-13). When she returned home from visiting King Solomon, she was carrying Solomon’s son, who became King Menelik I. Soon after, Jewish people migrated to Ethiopia. Today, we have genetic evidence that among the Ethiopian people are Jewish descendants from King David’s tribe of Judah. This is the lineage of Jesus Christ - the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5).
Starting in the 1980s, an estimated 90,000 Ethiopian Jews had returned to Israel by the end of the 1990s, in multiple covert operations called Operation Brothers. These events were prophesied thousands of years ago in the Bible, in which Jewish people that were scattered all over the world would return to Israel: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them One Nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be One King over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms,” (Ez. 37:21-22). For more info see: The Red Sea Diving Resort (netflix.com/title/80240537).?
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION AND ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANITY
The Protestant Reformation began in the 16th century when Martin Luther and many other dedicated Christian scholars studied the Bible and realized that the Roman Catholic Church was teaching false doctrine. These scholars were faced with a difficulty. At that time, no common person could understand the Latin Bibles which the Catholic church read and taught. Bibles were only owned by the Catholic church and read to the people in Latin. The Catholic priests taught only what they wanted the people to believe. They changed the basic teachings of Jesus to support their practices and omitted points that were significant to the Gospel.
As a forerunner of the Protestant Reformation, the Church of Ethiopia practiced elements of the faith absent in Roman Catholicism. Protestants would later adopt these elements such as, having both bread and wine at Communion, and allowing their priest and pastors to marry. In addition, they also translated the Bible into the common (vernacular) language of the people. Absent from Ethiopian Christianity were practices Protestants would dismiss: the primacy of the Roman pope, indulgences, purgatory, and marriage as a sacrament, (christiancentury.org/blog-post/guest-post/martin-luthers-fascination-ethiopian-christianity). So, Luther's reforms for Protestantism were modeled after Ethiopian Christianity based on the Early Church and the New Testament scriptures. But, what happened? It appears that the Protestant churches broke away from the Pope, but continued to model the Catholic church in many other ways.?
This brings us to the concept of Conspiracy. The phrase “Conspiracy theorist” is a derogatory term used to dismiss and slander critical thinkers. President John F. Kennedy once stated that, “we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its influence; on infiltration, instead of invasion; on subversion, instead of elections; on intimidation, instead of free choice. It is a system which combines military, diplomatic, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”?This article primarily focuses on a religious super-conspiracy system that started in ancient times. It includes elaborate plots, clandestine government plans, suppression of secret knowledge and technology, and other supposed schemes behind certain cultural, political, religious, and historical events.?
Now, I want you to take a deep breath and ponder these questions. Have you ever wondered? How can Organized Religions in the name of the God of: love, life, compassion, and peace - continue to hate, kill, practice cruelty, and wage war against other humans that God created in his image ? Why would the God that created our Universe and everything in it, have anything to do with the “Organized Religion of Catholicism” that has historically and directly caused thousands of years of hate, hostility, fear, corruption, greed, moral decay, abuse of spiritual authority, the Inquisitions, the Holy Wars, and the torture and death of millions of men, women, and children? Over 50 million people were were slaughtered in the Catholic Inquisitions alone. Could it possibly be that these religious organizations have falsely used God’s Holy Name-? What if - the "Institutional Religion of Catholic Christianity" was a planned evil conspiracy to:
1. Destroy the Early Christian “Underground” Church that was a spiritually living organism until 327 A.D., after 300 years of true worship and service, and
2. Establish in its place a counterfeit pseudo (fake) powerless dead "Temple” centered organized “Christian” religion with the motives to destroy the work of God by: (a.) Uniting Church and State for absolute power and control in 327 AD; (b.) Attacking Christian families by making the Home Church heretical in 390 AD; and (c.) Attacking Christian marriages by subsequently making marriage illegal for Priests and bishops (Married couples were Early Church Elders: Rom. 16:3).?
In 1022 Pope Benedict VIII banned marriages for priests. In 390AD, a massacre of 7,000 "heretics" in Thessalonica by the Roman emperor Theodosius revealed the early "New World Order" to the world. He ordered that the conventicles (small home churches) were not to be called churches. Many Christian conspiracy theorists believe there is an ancient occult conspiracy started by the first mystagogues of Gnosticism. It was perpetuated by their alleged esoteric successors, such as the Kabbalists, Cathars, Knights Templar, Hermetics, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Illuminati, and ultimately the Jesuits. Their purpose is to subvert the Judeo-Christian foundations of the Western world and implement the New World Order through a New Age one-world religion. Their goal is to prepare the masses to embrace the imperial cult of the Antichrist. Could these Catholic antichrist globalists who plot on behalf of a New World Order, be directed by occult agencies of some sort: unknown superiors, spiritual hierarchies, demons, fallen angels or Satan himself??
THE PROTOEVANGELIUM ~ The First Gospel (Good News) Prophecy
"And I will put enmity between you (Satan) and the woman (Eve), and between your offspring and hers (Jesus and His Church); he (Jesus) will crush your head, and you (Satan) will strike his heel." (Genesis 3:15)
In Christian theology, the protoevangelium (the first mention of the Good News) is God's above statement to Satan the Serpent in the Garden of Eden about how the seed of the woman (Jesus) would crush the serpent's head (conquer death). This scripture also implies that Satan will attack and persecute (strike his heel) the Body of Christ or God’s chosen people - his Church. Is it possible that Satan used the Catholic church to do his dirty work? The purpose of this satanic conspiracy was to destroy independent, sovereign Christian nations like Ethiopia and install a Catholic one-world totalitarian regime with the Pope acting as the “Vicar of Christ” or god on earth.?
JESUS WAS NOT A WHITE MAN ~ According to the Bible, Jesus had dark skin-!
Does the Bible tell us that Jesus was a Black-skinned Jew? Well, we know that Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Judah was the first Jew, and he had five sons by two black women from a Canaanite' tribe. Ham the father of the black race, is the founding father of all Canaanites (Rev 5:5; Gen 38; 9:24 ). Thus, the tribe of Judah began half-black and half-Jewish. Judah also had sex with Tamar (his daughter-in-law) who was posing as a prostitute. Tamar was a black Canaanite women, who is in the lineage of Jesus (Mt. 1:3). In Matthew (1:5), Rahab a Canaanite prostitute is also in the lineage of Jesus by her marriage to Salmon from the tribe of Judah. This black former prostitute is King David's great grandmother. King David married Bathsheba, who gave birth to their half-black, half-Jewish son King Solomon. King Solomon had a black lover: “Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon,” (Song of Solomon 1:5). He also married many foreign women who were of African descent, including a Moabite women. The Moabites were a half-black tribe from whom Ruth the Moabites's, in Jesus' lineage descended.?
So, we can see that this “black seed” of David is in the ancestry of the Virgin Mary and her husband Joseph. In the black community, anyone with at least one black parent is considered black. Being black has very little to do with literal skin color. The Bible only gives us one prophetic description of Jesus’ physical human appearance: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him,” (Is. 53:2). However, Daniel and the Apostle John both give similar descriptions of Jesus’ glorified body. They both describe Jesus’ hair like the texture of “wool” (curly and kinky): “... the hair of his head was white like wool,” (Dan. 7:9) and “... his head and hair were white like wool ...” (Rev. 1:14), and Jesus’ skin tone (arms, legs, and feet) as being “burnished bronze” or dark brown: “... his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze ...” (Dan. 10:6) and “... feet are like burnished bronze (dark brown) ...” (Rev. 2:18, 1:15). In addition in Genesis (49:10) Israel (Jacob) speaks of Shiloh - the coming Messiah (Jesus) whose “... eyes will be darker than wine.” This biblical description of Jesus with dark eyes, wooly hair, and dark brown skin debunks the 14th century European images of the blue-eyed, white Jesus with long blonde hair. These false pictures have infiltrated churches for hundreds of years and have contributed to Satan’s systematic racism to persecute God’s people.
To summarize, Mary, Joseph and Jesus were direct descendants of King David from this Semitic and Hamitic blend of Jew and black ancestry. There is no evidence of Jesus being a White-skinned Jew. Not one drop of Caucasian blood from the lineage of Noah's firstborn son Japheth, father of Caucasians, is recorded in the lineage of Jesus Christ (Mt. 1:1-17). For further info see: “Jesus was a Black Jew: An Inconvenient Truth,” (J. Warden). Historians have confirmed that Jesus (God) was Not a white man - as his ancestry includes Tamar and Rahab (Mt. 1:3-5). Ancient Israelites had dark skin, hair, and eyes: “Our skin was Black like an oven because of the terrible famine,” (Lam. 5:10, KJ). This means that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the entire Nation of Israel, and the bloodline of Jesus up until the virgin Mary were all part Black. However due to ingrained systemic racism, most white people cannot believe that Jesus was a black man and that God’s chosen people were a black race.
ALL HUMANS DESCENDED FROM AFRICA
All this evidence aligns with the most recent DNA evidence that all humans descended from a single migration from Africa in Ethiopia, the biblical location of the Garden of Eden. God’s chosen people: Abraham, the Israelites, and Jesus and his Apostles were all descendants from Africa and therefore were a colored people. The Old Testament documents that the entire Jewish nation spent over four hundred (400) years in Egypt (Africa) before returning to the Promised Land modern-day Israel. In addition as previously noted, historians have confirmed that Jesus Christ was Not a white man, as his ancestry includes Tamar and Rahab (Mt. 1:3-5). Jesus spent part of his life in Africa and the promotion of the Christian religion took place in biblical Africa. So we must conclude that black, indigenous and all people of color are essential to God’s plan of salvation for humanity, as he has chosen them to be his people to bring the Messiah into the world to be our Savior. (“Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa,” Smithsonianmag.com/2019).
So we see that from the beginning, it was Satan’s mission to attack and persecute God’s chosen people of color. Could this possibly be the reason why the impeccable Christian heritage of “Black” Ethiopia has been hidden from the world for close to 1700 years? Do you think that this may have something to do with our present War on Racism or the fake News that we continuously get from the Satanic Social Media? Could it be that millions of babies are being aborted (especially among Blacks and people of color), because the Catholic Church who publicly opposes abortion, condemns birth control that would significantly decrease unwanted pregnancies - to be aborted? Is this the reason why Black men are more likely to be targeted by the police in the War on drugs? Could this possibly be related to the fact that the Coronavirus is killing the lives of Black people twice the rate of white people? Is this why more Black teens attempt suicide than their white peers? Could this be the reason why White christians cannot accept a Black Jesus? Many critics claim that the Eurocentric White representation of Jesus has been used to perpetuate White supremacy and reinforce racist stereotypes that deify Whiteness while demonizing Black individuals. I don’t claim to have the absolute truth, but I do know what constitutes a “Christian Cult.”
THE CATHOLIC CULT?
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths,” (2 Tim. 4:3-4)
In a Christian context, the definition of a cult is a religious group that denies one or more of the fundamentals of biblical truth. The most common teaching of Christian cults is that salvation is not by faith alone in Jesus. A denial of salvation by faith alone results in the teaching that salvation is achieved by our own works. Biblically, the Catholic Church is identified as a Cult because it teaches that outside the Catholic Church there is No Salvation. You are only saved by being obedient to the Pope who is considered the Head of Jesus’ church on earth and the sacraments of the Catholic Church. These false beliefs result in the view that Jesus’ death was insufficient alone to pay for our sins. In addition, the Catholic Church has its origin in the teachings of the Mystery Babylon religions
(The polytheistic mother-child cults around the world, Sun worship, and Mithraism which involved a sacrificial meal ‘Eucharist’ - eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a bull) - not the teachings of Christ or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, apostolic succession, the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, the confession of sin to a priest, petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, the perpetual virginity assumption of Mary as a co-redeemer, the worship or adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary), infant baptism, purgatory, or indulgences. Many Christians are aware of the 16th century Protestant Reformation, but they have not heard of the 11th century Great Schism.
THE GREAT (East-West) SCHISM
The greatest schism (division) in Church history occurred on July 16, 1054. It was six (6) centuries in the making. It marked the split of Christianity and established the separation between the Eastern Orthodox Churches (“Black” Ethiopia) and the Roman Catholic Church in the West.?The main reason why the Great Schism happened in the year 1054 was because the bishops in the Eastern "Ethiopian" Churches denied and rejected the Anointing of the Roman Pope as head of Jesus’ Universal Church. Total alienation came a century and a half later, as a result of the Crusades, when the Pope’s Roman Catholic knights made military campaigns to save the Holy Land from the Muslims.?
In 1204 A.D., the 4th Catholic Crusade was diverted from going to Jerusalem to brutally attack and capture the Eastern Orthodox Church of Constantinople. Thousands of Eastern Orthodox Christians were murdered. This Papal Crusade included murdering defenseless women and children and desecrating and plundering Christian icons, and churches. These atrocities fired-up an undying hostility between the Eastern (Ethiopian) Orthodox Church and the Western Catholic Church. Some still believe that the Pope took revenge against the Eastern Orthodox Church for continuing to defy his authority, and ordered the crusaders to turn against their christian brothers. Efforts at reconciliation to include Pope John II in 1995, have continued to fail.
THINK ABOUT IT ~ We must Return to our True Christian Heritage-!
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like Whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness,” (Mt. 23:27-28)
Just as Jesus condemned his religious leaders the Pharisees, his words continue to hold true for the Western Church (Roman Catholic Institution) that will be judged for it’s “White-Washed” tombs, and “dead men’s bones.”?The Christian church first started in Jerusalem in 33 A.D. But from 70 A.D. up until the 4th century, Christianity was primarily a religion in Africa (a Black man’s religion), until it got hijacked and white-washed by European White supremacists. It is despicable that the Catholic Popes conspired to cover up the Glory of God’s first Christian Nation on earth - Ethiopia. It is mind-boggling to think that Satan has so severely attacked and damaged the Black Race -that was originally created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). Satan has used systematic racism through the “Curse of Ham” since the Days of Noah and slavery throughout the ages. Even up until 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States judged that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people. In other words the negroes (Adam) was not considered human enough to become a U.S. citizen. The 14th Amendment in 1868 changed this.
Martin Luther King Day was established to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King, and to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. While briefly reviewing the dark history of the Roman Catholic Institution during the middle ages, I also became mindful of the many acts of humility and charity of the common Catholic people. This is not to idolize any one church or to elevate any race of people above another. The Apostle Paul said: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all One in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise,” (Gal. 3:26-29). This means that Jesus will unite all spiritual Israelites (born-again believers) globally into his Church regardless of their birth genes, skin color, culture, religion or race. I believe that the human race is at a unique turning point in history for the initial spiritual spark within all of us to catch on fire. But we must first choose to repent, serve Jesus, and join the Warrior Priesthood Revolution to fight the Holy War! Finally, we must fight with God’s Love which is the most powerful force in the Universe:?
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have LOVE, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have LOVE, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have LOVE, I gain nothing,” (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
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