Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Every person on this earth was born in pride, and pride is sin. Pride attempts to recreate (for the benefit of itself) what God has created . Pride is in every part of the American system – our workplace, churches, schools, government and our homes. America was not built on the Bible; it was built on pride (using the Bible). Pride is the opposite of love which makes it the opposite of Christ.
People who live in pride have a close relationship with Satan. They love money, they steal, they lie, they kill, they only approve of things which they think are beautiful or acceptable to the eye, they live for the approval of others, are extremely sensitive to how they look to others, are narcissistic, and vindictive. They are everything God is NOT.
Pride is fueled by natural vision (the eyes of man), which is the opposite of Spiritual vision (the heart of God). The closer we get to God, the less we need our natural eyes. We follow Christ in Spirit and everything in the earth is first seen in the Spirit. The Bible says that if your natural eye offends you, pluck it out so you won’t be hendered in the kingdom. You can always know who is closest to Satan by their reaction to what they see. People in pride laugh about things that God cries about, and the things that He calls beautiful (because He created it) – they call ugly.
Racism derives from pride (which is a sin of the natural eye) and it is the biggest sin under heaven. Racism exists because sin exists. It seems the only one in this whole wide world who truly loves dark skin is God: who made all nations of people for His glory (red, yellow, black and white). We are different in appearance, are built differently, our hair and skin are different – on purpose. He gave dark skinned people their bounds of habitation – Africa.
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!
But over 400 years of racism and abuse have robbed the black community of its identity. Abuse is passed on to the person nearest you, which has been a reason for our self-destruction as a people for many generations. The soul of the black community has been extracted and used by the prideful and privileged, while the discards have been thrown back in our faces with no apology (and none intended) because they say they don’t see racism. But God sees it, and we must continue to cry out for justice so that when God brings judgement, everyone will know why. God brings sin to the light before He judges. In the Old Testament, God commanded Moses to tell Pharaoh to release Israel – knowing that he would not let them go – but as a warning before judgement. He can’t judge you on what you don’t know…and nothing God does is a surprise.
Black people are starving for identity, heritage and healing. And When you’re starving, you’ll consider eating just about anything. Most African Americans are not able to travel to Africa, their homeland, so they rely on others to feed them. But sometimes in our search for freedom and identity, we run from any resemblance of our slaver (European Christianity). The only way to get back to our identity is through the creator, God. Since He made us, He knows how to fix us to make us whole.
People all over the globe who are touched by racism are doing their part to speak against it in their own way. Everyone knows Beyoncé. She is an artist who expresses herself in music and dance, so when she says something, many tend to listen. But Beyoncé is not a Christian, and Christians should not look to her for spiritual guidance. In Beyoncé’s music video album Black is King, her goal was to uplift and empower black people by showing us our true origin that our slavers have hidden.
The history which is portrayed are facts: we originated from Africa and are descendants of kings and queens, are special in the eyes of God, very wise and knowledgeable; and many parts of Africa also worshiped other gods (nature, animals, our ancestors, etc.).
But the truth is: just because we were born in sin doesn’t mean we continue in it. Jesus came to call for a better way – life, not death. Everyone has done things they weren’t proud of before they met Christ, but Jesus came to give us a new start. Yes, we should know our past, but we should be more concerned with where we’re going. This is not the end of our journey.
In the beginning of Beyoncé’s song “Bigger”, she says that we’re “not just some words in a bible verse”, which told me she was not planning to give me Jesus in her video. She also sings that “we” are the living word, which places power in our own hands rather than God’s. That’s when I knew I would be watching this musical through an anti-Christian lens.
Jesus is the only Living Word and every word in the Bible breathes life.
our roots
Africa has always been a place of refuge for God’s Sons. When Jesus (God’s only begotten Son) was being sought by Herod as an infant, God sent His parents to Egypt to escape being killed. After Herod was dead, God sent for them and brought them out of Egypt. After Israel (God’s first-born Son) went into Egypt due to the famine, God brought them out of Slavery with a mighty hand when they called on His name.
Jesus walked this earth as a black man and Africa was the first nation to be introduced to Christianity. Christianity began to spread first in Egypt after the death of Christ. But Ethiopia was the one country that embraced Christianity as a whole. It is known for its dominant and most ancient population of African Jews, and is the only African country that was never colonized – it has always been independent. While many other African countries were still worshiping nature, Christianity was being spread throughout the world.
Europeans, over time, began to reintroduce Christianity to Africa as a distorted brand laced with slavery and pride. The European Christians wanted to strip Africans of all their beliefs and culture, tell them how to live, take their things and replace it with their religion. Islam came much later and what made it so appealing to the African countries is that it incorporated the ways of their existing culture and rituals with Islamic beliefs, creating a melting pot of ideas. Africa saw Islam and readily accepted it as a better alternative to the Christian religion (the Europeans means to control Africans in Africa and slaves during colonization). Therefore, Islam became the religion of choice for many parts of Africa, but for Ethiopia, Christianity remained the principal religion.
I often wonder about Europe’s spiritual roots over 400 years ago that would make them roam the earth like Satan “seeking whom he may devour” stealing and colonizing. What evil spirits has Europe passed down from their ancestors that cause them to enslave, torture, murder and rape a whole nation of human beings for 400 years – with no conscience?
our branches
I was listening to a Christian radio station a month ago and a caller asked the Jewish host to help her identify modern day Jews, in order to be respectful to them. She asked him if there was a skin color, a look, a religion or region of the world where they resided. He could not answer her – and he was a “proud” Jew.
It’s been made a thing today to idolize white Jews and holocaust survivors (and capitalize the word “holocaust” – referring to them as “precious”) to put them on a pedestal to worship and rescue them. God never told us to idolize them. America is always looking for an idol…. or someone to judge. In first Samuel, Israel didn’t want God, they wanted a King. We always want something lesser… and God will let us have it when we are determined.
I don’t know that it really matters who the twelve tribes are. Does it matter if you have a little Jew in your genes? God wants to know who you are today.
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
I’d rather “sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel” than just be identified as an Israelite. Israel is who God says Israel is. God chooses individuals, tribes and nations, but He also judges individuals, tribes and nations. Israelites are those who have been scattered abroad away from their homeland for four hundred years and are lost and need God to redirect them; those who have been enslaved and abused; those who have lost their identity. God is calling His Israel back to Him one last time…through Jesus…and we need to answer the call. I believe it is too late for America – but the church: individuals, tribes and nations, are who He is still calling to obedience. Israel is scattered and I believe He is calling the NEW Israel out of America and everywhere else they are.
There is only one big pedestal and one judge who sits on it – God. Jesus was the last person God sent for us to follow (and gave His life) – but instead of Him, we want Israel.
If God is calling you and you refuse to answer, He will eventually hang up (whether you are black, white, red, a white Jew or a black Hebrew Israelite). While man is looking on the outer appearance at what an Israelite should look like, this is what the Father said:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Revelation 3: 21).
We will have to ‘overcometh’ many things – and racism and idolatry are two of them. It’s not enough to be anti-slavery or anti-racism – God wants us to be righteous. We can only overcome by the blood of the lamb. Adam is God’s first created son; Israel is His firstborn son; but Jesus is His only begotten son who taketh away the sin of the world. Of all three sons, Jesus was the only sinless one who finished it (John 19:30 “… It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost”).
From beginning to end, He sought His father’s will and performed it to death and resurrection sinlessly… perfectly. Everyone else had to be replaced because they didn’t…and they are (still) dead. God always has a remnant… even if it is a remnant of one.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
I attended a church for about a year and the church had a few hundred members. On Wednesday night at bible study there were about 100 people and the pastor asked a question. The correct answer was delivered to me by the Holy Spirit within seconds. I got ready to speak but then the co-pastor began to answer the question. The Spirit immediately told me to allow him to answer. He basically gave the same answer that I was going to give. Then the Spirit told me that Spirit never strives with Spirit. That it doesn’t matter who says it as long as it’s said.
our Identity
Jesus came to the earth and commanded that we spread the gospel throughout all nations. But the spread of it among black people in America has been difficult and sporadic in the past and present because it was wrapped in slavery, covetousness, lying and abuse of Europeans colonizing in the name of Jesus…and it continues today with the contemporary money-grubbing hypocritical preachers selling Jesus; So many modern black cultures are giving up on Jesus because of the wrapper instead of the content – searching for something else more appealing.
Our identity comes from God – literally. Since God created us, He knows who we are, who we are to become, and He loves us. He gives us our identity – which is to look like Him on the inside. God placed Africans on the Continent of Africa with the richest resources in the world. We didn’t need to beg borrow or steal. But when we took our eyes off Him, we began to drift (much like Adam and Eve). We must continue to speak out about injustice, but also forgive. Hurt turns into unforgiveness and unforgiveness is sin. Vengeance belongs to God. As we walk with God, He wipes away all traditions, baggage, and teachings that are not like Him and walks us forward (but ironically backward, to our original places of creation) to become whole – Africa.
