By Sam Adeoye
A stream of water that disassociates itself from the ocean will surely run dry. A flowing river that stops flowing will not only die but will also become a dead trap for as many that find themselves trapped in it.
So many people in our world today are only living but never trace or pay closer attention to their origin. And it’s a shame on us all.
While the religious scholars in the world made us believe that Christianity came from Isaac and Islam from Ishmael, and kept creating religious wars among mankind, they forgot to tell us that Abraham was an Idol worshipper in his days and so were Isaac and his two sons, Jacob and Esau, and so were Jacob and his Twelve sons.
Joseph was so deep in idolatry that he married the daughter of the Chief Priest in Egypt, Potipherah, he was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, he was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife by Pharaoh, in Genesis 41:45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.
And Genesis 41:50-52; she bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim. Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
The worship and the practice of the Ark of the Covenant were purely a practice of idealism. But religion will not let people pay attention to this because religion programs people to think and see things the way their religious leaders presented it to them that it is and never the way it is.
And till today, the practice is still going on even in our subconscious mind.
While Christianity has the cross as its symbol which they call the cross of Jesus Christ, Islam has the Half Moon as their symbol of faith.
Let’s break it down. Cross was originally made for punishment of crime that must end in death. Though, we were taught that the Cross, is the principal symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the redeeming benefits of his Passion and death. Cross existed before the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the two thieves on His right and left received their judgement and hanging before Jesus Christ.
As a result, all the churches in the world today either have the Cross or the status of Jesus, Mary, Peter, Paul or any of their late serving leaders they called saints that they bow down to and pray to. That is a practice of idols, get it straight.
The Muslims on the other hand have the Waxing Crescent Moon as their symbol. The Waxing Crescent phase is often referred to as the rebuilding phase. Once the moon has re-emerged with new energy, it is the perfect time to set new intentions for the month ahead and work on self-improvement.
A Waxing Moon however Is any phase of the moon during the lunar cycle between the new moon and the full moon. A moon that is waxing is getting larger each night.
The wise In heart ask why is the Waxing Crescent Moon so important in Islam? Well, in the Islamic calendar, the Waxing Crescent Moon marks the start of a new month. Even though it takes 29.5 days for the Moon to go through all of its phases, it isn’t practical for a month to have half a day. An Islamic month therefore can have either 29 days or 30 days.
The Traditional worshipers on the other hand have all kinds of items as their symbols of faith. And according to findings; there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, or ultimate concerns across the world and they all have their symbols.
These symbols their followers held so dear to heart and it doesn’t matter what you say to them, with those symbols they believe they can reach God and have the answers to all their life challenges and circumstances.
These religions emanate from a group of people in different nations of the world.
However, we were told that Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. But The first the word Christian was used was in the New Testament, in Acts 11 after Barnabas brought (Saul) Apostle Paul to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says that “the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” Acts 11:25-26 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year, Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Antioch once hosted famous visitors and personalities such as Constantine the Great, Trajan, Julius Caesar, John Chrysostom, and Diocletian. Antioch was the capital of Ancient Syria and the leading city of the Roman East known today as southern Turkey.
Jesus Christ did not start a religion called Christianity. Jesus Christ only exists to create a direct path for mankind to reach God and this he made clear when he said in John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the lie. No one comes to t’e Father except through me.
Christianity is a creation of Man, not God and not Jesus Christ.
Now I know that some individuals will be quick to quote Matthew 16:18 where Jesus Christ said, and I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
One, the church Jesus Christ was talking about here is not Christianity or the building we meet that we call church. The church Jesus Christ was talking about here are the individuals that are ready and willing to be sold out to God. Individuals that are ready to die for what they believe Christ is and this Jesus Christ made clear in Matthew 16:24-26; Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
To be a Church is to be sold out to God not to be going to a building for a brainwashing that we called fellowship.
Unfortunately, Islam understood this teaching of Jesus Christ more than the Christians. A Christian would rather live and be wealthy than sacrifice his or her life for the cause he/she believed in.
Now, just as the battle of superiority is going on between the Christians and the Muslims so also is going on between the light-skinned nations called the Europeans and the Black-skinned nations called Africa.
In Genesis 25:22-26 we have the account of what happened between God, Rebekah and her pregnancy. It was clearly stated that; the babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one person will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
Looking at the verses again…the first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. This illustration shows that Esau was a White Man. What we call the Europeans today.
After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them. Since the look of Jacob was not mentioned, it is obvious he was born with the skin nature of his father Isaac who we all know is the offspring of Adam.
The name, Adam In Hebrew means “son of the red Earth.” Its meaning comes from the Hebrew word “adamah” meaning “earth,” from which Adam is said to be formed. Now, the Earth is dark not light or red. This means Adam was Black, not White and if Adam was Black Abraham and Isaac were black. And so are the sons of Jacob.
Every religion is a nation within that hibernates the human mind and reprograms the mental state of everyone who subjects themselves to it.
More so, all human beings on earth are either Blacks or Whites. Who came into existence as a result of God’s covenant with Isaac.
Now, let’s break this down for us to understand.
In Genesis 12:1-3 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
This is a promise, not a covenant. Pay attention to the words God used, “I will”. Which means, He will do it, He has not done it.
In Genesis 22:15-19 it was said that the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.” Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Here, the covenant was made and the covenant was established on the offspring. Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me.”
Offspring is singular, not plural, and the offspring God was referring to here is Isaac. This was clearly stated in Genesis 17:18-21 where it was said that, and Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
God brought two nations to bear through Isaac and Rebekah. The Black Nation, Africans and the White Nation, Europeans.
While Jacob the Black was a livestock farmer the lifesaver; Esau the White was a hunter, the life-taker.
Let’s look at it critically. All the weapons of war including ammunition, chemicals, warplanes, jets, marines etc. are all made by the White Skin nations be it China, Asia, Europe, America or Canada. At the same time, the source of livelihood in all these countries is being gotten from Africa either by Colonization, fraud, stealing or causing unnecessary uprisings in Africa.
Jacob, the Black-skinned nations are brain people. Smart, intelligent, brilliant. Blacks succeed anywhere and everywhere they find themselves because their brains are superb and the only thing that is impossible for a Black man to do are the things he told himself is not possible.
Black have the habit of taking things without pretending. For a good Fourteen years Jacob understudied Laban’s business and family structure and in Five years, he ripped him off his livestock farming business and Laban and his sons couldn’t do anything.
I will not be surprised if one day, African Men and Ladies become leaders in all the White Skinned nations across the world. No one knew it could happen in the United States of America until Barack Obama became the president. Meanwhile, Barack Obama was never the first Black president in America. Abraham Lincoln was a Black man and a President.
In 1848, Frederick Douglass became the first African-American presidential candidate in the US. His candidacy largely preceded black suffrage and coincided with legal slavery in the U.S.
If Frederick Douglass and Barack Obama could do it, any other persons can and will do it.
If there is anything that is dividing us all in the world today, it is religion, politics and nationality measured by the colour of our skin rather than the capacity of our brains and the skillfulness of our being.
No wonder Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr said; I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Our world is divided by the colour of our Skin, the White against the Black and the Black against the White, even when some pretend to be interested in the wellbeing of one another.
Our world is being destroyed by our artificial superiority, Christianity against Islam, Islam against Christianity even when some pretend to love each other regardless.
Our lives and destinies have been debatable on the table of politics. Making laws that are bent to put us all under the control of some individuals with little or no capacity to lead.
For our world to be at peace, productive and liveable, we all must consciously live our lives and love each other beyond religion, see each other beyond the colour of our Skin and support each other’s dreams and aspirations beyond politics.
Until we can achieve these successfully, our world will remain in chaos and it will continue to be a thing of brothers against brothers, nation killing nation. That will be a terrible thing for us all.
Until we can turn our backs against the manipulations of some individuals who are in the habit of setting us up against one another for their advantage and benefits, we’ll continue to wink in the dark. Picking enemies with individuals we should be friends with and indirectly destroy our opportunity to meet and benefit from our helpers of destiny.
Until we can turn our backs against religion and say no to the manipulations of Men; we’ll continue to believe in lies and live our lives in falsehood. The wicked one in the world will continue to take advantage of our ignorance and use it against us.
The majority of us are too gullible to believe everything we’re told even when they are lies. Freedom from the manipulations of man and the wickedness against humanity can only emerge when we question every act, weigh every action and respond in love instead of hatred when aspersions are cast against us and the human vultures are waiting to see what our reaction will be so that they can feed on the carcasses of our foolishness and wine on our ignorance.
To say that I love you because you belong to the same faith as I am, have the same colour of skin as mine and probably speaking the same language is never love but a dance of shame to the rhymes of foolishness and flowing from the treasure of manslaughter.
Love transcends tribes, cultures, traditions, languages, nationalities, age, height, position, gender, qualification or colour of skin. Love is a life. A life you give to others and live for yourself. A life that is worth sacrificing all in other to have it all. A life you live far and above every other thing or person in life just to see others find purpose in life and fulfil destiny.
It’s so disappointing and heartbreaking to see how all religious faith in the world, roughly 4,200 of them all, with Christianity topping the list followed by Islam all claimed to love God, all claimed to be serving God, all claimed to be sons and daughters of God, all claimed to be doing the will of God and you hate each other and are ready to destroy and even kill one another; the evil desires planted in their heart against humanity by their religious leaders and wicked.
Maybe you don’t know what was said regarding loving your fellow human being. Let me show you. In 1 John 4:20-21, Apostle John said; if anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.
If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen if we do not love others, whom we have seen. The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.
You cannot claim to love God or claim that your religion is about love and hating people because they’re not part of your religious faith. No, your religious faith is not love is hatred. No, you do not love God, you are a killer and Apostle John made this clear in 1 John 3:11-18 saying; the message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right. So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you. We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death. Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them. This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others! If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God? My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
Jesus Christ was not talking about the church or Christianity, nor was He missing words when He said in John 3:16-21 that; “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
What God did here was very straight and simple. For God so loved the humanity, not Christian, Born Again Christian or Church goers that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in the son, not whoever is a Christian, Born Again Christian or Church goers shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Shame on all of you Pastors, Bishops, and Church Leaders who are always so quick to condemn others even when you have no Idea of God’s rationalities behind the person’s actions. God did not send Jesus Christ to condemn humanity, Jesus Christ did not condemn humanity; as a matter of fact, Jesus Christ said in Luke 6:37-38; “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” But you all are blind to verse 37 because it will not fulfil the desires of your evil heart. So, you’re always interested in verse 38 which says, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Sir, Ma, you’re a thief, a murderer and a destiny destroyer. Your father is the Devil and that is the reason why you have no conscience. That is the reason why you dare to condemn people so that you can exploit them.
Jesus Christ went on to say “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This means I don’t have to be a Christian, Born Again Christian or Church goer to believe in Jesus Christ. I can believe in Jesus Christ and still be living my life. I can believe in Jesus Christ and still not belong to any denomination or religion. To believe is to believe is to believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And this Apostle Paul made clear in Rom 10:10-13 saying; for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Jesus Christ went further to say that; this is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.” This is the exact thing all the world leaders had been doing from religious leaders to political leaders, business leaders and national leaders. They are all agents of evil, lovers of darkness and their deeds are nothing but evil; and that is the reason why they are always against anything that will unite the people, because they know that the unity of the people across the world will bring about the light, e.g., the truth. And once the truth about their evils in the world is exposed, then the end of their exploitations and manipulations of mankind will end. And only one thing will be their result, become as common as the rest of us.
This they don’t want to happen to them. So their next strategy is divide and rule. Cause chaos be it religious, political or economic among the people and leave them to fight for their lives. While you are busy fighting, they are busy stealing from you and eating you dry. No wonder Jesus Christ said in Matt 25:29 that everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
What does this mean? If you don’t know how to put your brain to work; even the little you’ve gathered together will be taken away from you by individuals who have developed their brain capacity and know how to increase their revenues and maximize their profits. The question now is, can you? I doubt it.
You can’t because you don’t know how to and even if you want to learn, there are so many Gallows built already by the industrial leaders before you. Systems that are made to destroy your efforts even before you rise.
The greatest evils in our world were carried out by those who wrote the Laws never by those who broke the Laws. Laws be they religious, political, business or career are not written to help you grow. Rather, they are written to place limitations on your potential and render you incapacitated for the rest of your life. Laws, or rules whichever one you want to call it are meant to be broken, but it takes the strong-hearted to break the laws and the rules.
I love what Jesus Christ said in Mark 10:5 saying, “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law… NIV
I love how TMB puts it; “Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways.
GNT version knocked it out completely saying; “Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach.
Meaning, that God did not give Moses the Law, Moses wrote the Law all by himself because the people were too hard to teach and since he could only put them under submission and control by teaching them what he believes is right, he had to come up with the law and since he knew that the people are afraid of God, it will be easier to say that the laws are from the Lord and the people will fall for it and that was the exact thing that happened.
For example, one of the religious laws in the church is “You must not lie”. Well, that was not part of the Ten Commandments and yet so many people lied in the Bible including God teaching Prophet Samuel to lie in 1 Samuel 16 and Jesus Christ lying that he was not going for a feast in John 7. Everything Moses wrote in Lev 19:9-19 David, Solomon and several others did in the bible and nothing happened to them.
“’When you reap the harvest of your land,
…do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.
Do not steal.
Do not lie.
Do not deceive one another.
Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Do not defraud your neighbour or rob him.
Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the Lord.
Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favouritism to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly.
Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
Do not do anything that endangers your neighbour’s life. I am the Lord.
Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour frankly so you will not share in his guilt.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.
Keep my decrees.
Do not mate with different kinds of animals.
Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
As long as we need to serve God and be of good behaviour towards one another, it is also important that we identify the fact that there are forces strategically positioned to divide us, derail us and destroy us. We must guide against such, stand against such and if possible put an end to such.
God did not create humanity to be isolated from one another. Neither did He create us all for religion or political exploitations. God created us all to be of one heart and mind so that together we can create a better world for the coming generations.
Pastor Adeoye, lives in Lagos.