Why Black Man dey Suffer today
The biggest problem of the Black Race is not poverty or
under development. It is disunity. All other problems the
Black Race face are a symptom of this one problem and until
we address it, all our efforts at changing our destiny to one
of progress in all spheres of the human development index
may be an arduous one.
And disunity will continue to be the problem of the Black Race
as long as we remain ignorant of our origins as a people and
why we are so prone to division.
It is no coincidence that Haile Selassie, the former Emperor
of Ethiopia, was along with Kwame Nkrumah, the pioneer of
pan-Africanism. He was very well versed in the history of the
Black Race and understood how we got to where we are as a
people.
Ethiopia or Cush (the King James Version uses Ethiopia but
almost all other versions use Cush) is actually the First
Nation mentioned in The Bible in Genesis 2:13.
Ethiopia or Cush was a generic name given to what is today
known as black Africa.
Scholars of The Bible understand that when the Old
Testament of The Bible makes reference to the nation that is
known today as Ethiopia, the term used is Seba or Sheba.
This evident in Psalms 72:10; Isaiah 43:3; 45:14 as well as
the entire chapters of 1 Chronicles 9 and 1 Kings 10.
It is only in the New Testament (written centuries after the
Old Testament) that Ethiopia was used to refer to what is
today the modern nation of Ethiopia.
The term Ethiopian (or Ethiope in the works of Shakespeare)
referred not to a person from Sheba, but to a person of the
Black Race and we see proof for this in Jeremiah 13:23:
“Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard
take away its spots?”
In translating that verse some other translations (Holman,
Young) use the word ‘Cushite’ instead of Ethiopian. Cush
simply means a Black person.
Now, investigate for yourself the meaning of Cush in Hebrew.
I have a Hebrew dictionary here and the meaning of Cush in
the Hebrew language is black. http://
www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/cush.html
From Genesis 10:7 we understand that Seba or Sheba was
actually a grandson of Noah and the son of Cush.
It may come as a surprise to many that the original
inhabitants of Egypt were black folk just as the face on the
Sphinx is the face of a black man.
This is actually a historic fact.
Wikipedia says about Ham that “According to the Hebrew
Bible, Ham was one of the sons of Noah and the father of
Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan, who are interpreted as
having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The
Bible refers to Egypt as “the land of Ham” in Psalms 78:51;
105:23,27; 106:22; 1Ch 4:40.”
Noah gave birth to Shem, Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:32).
Ham is the father of the black race which is known in The
Bible as Cush. In fact, Ham was the father of Cush who was
the father of Nimrod, the first man who tried to rule the whole
world.
The original name is not quite Nimrod. People familiar with
the origins of the Yoruba people (the largest tribe of Black
People in the world) will actually be surprised at Nimrod’s
real name.
In Arabic, Nimrod is known as Namrud.
Long before they had contact with Arabs or Europeans, the
Yoruba had an oral history of their origins which they traced
to Odùduwà (also known as Oòdua) who they cite as the son
of Lamurudu, a priest/King from the Middle East.
The Arabs have Namrud and the Yoruba have Lamurudu.
Could this be a coincidence?
The people of Cush or the sons of Ham as they were called
were the people who enslaved the Hebrew nation for 400
years in Egypt hence Psalm 78:51 says “He struck down all
the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents
of Ham”.
You might ask yourself, if this is true, then why are the
people in modern day Egypt Semitic Arabic people?
Ezekiel 29:19-20 answers that question.
“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going
to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will
carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay
for his army. I have given him Egypt as a reward for his
efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the
Sovereign LORD (NIV).
The ancient Egyptians were invaded and defeated by King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who drove away the Cushite
Black descendants of Ham and repopulated Egypt with his
Persian and Chaldean people. This was Nebuchadnezzar’s
modus operandi and he did the same thing in other nations
he conquered.
Now, it you think that this is far fetched, then read Ezekiel
30:4-5:
“A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come
upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be
carried away and her foundations torn down. Cush and
Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the
covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt” (NIV).
If you actually read these verses in The KJV, the word used
instead of Cush is Ethiopia.
At the time God used Moses to deliver the Israelites from
their bondage in Egypt, this great prophet was married to a
Black woman.
Numbers 12:1 says “Miriam and Aaron began to talk against
Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a
Cushite” (NIV).
Moses was a prophet sent by God. He foresaw the coming of
The Messiah in Deuteronomy 18:15. However, many of the
customs Moses implemented were already in existence.
A number of my readers would have grown up in African
villages. consider that even before the white man came, if
you committed a sin in any African village and you go to the
native priests, you had to sacrifice an animal as a sin
offering.
This practice exists in every black African village.
Before the white man came, if you were married and you died
without a child, the brother that is next in line to you inherited
your wife.
If there was a dispute between people, you went to a shrine
to swear an oath.
If you wanted to divine the future or to know if a person died
a natural death or was murdered, you went to a diviner who
would throw the divining beads or instrument on the floor and
read it.
All these practices existed in Africa before the coming of the
white man. But guess what? All of them were also practiced
by the ancient Hebrews from the time of the exodus out of
Egypt till this very day.
A lot of the practices of the ancient Hebrews were derived
from Egypt, and a lot of the practices of ancient Egypt were
derived from Nimrod’s empire. That is the nexus.
As I have elsewhere written, there is a reason why the buffalo
is hunted by the wolf and it is not for lack of strength on the
buffalo’s part. One on one, the buffalo is stronger than the
wolf. However, because buffalo will not unite to fight wolves,
they become weaker because the wolves are united.
Again, as I have previously written, the biggest culture shock
Africans have when they travel outside Africa for the first
time, especially for studies, is to find out that they are more
intelligent than the average person in their host nation one on
one.
However, because black folks are not willing to unite, we are
weaker as a people and that is why we have become
subservient.
Genesis 11:6 says:
“The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same
language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan
to do will be impossible for them”-(NIV).
You see, the most successful nations are those nations who
understand the principle of Genesis 11:6 and they are trying
to replicate Babel by bringing all the races of the earth to live
in their country as one united people.
That is the idea behind the United States of America. That is
the idea behind the United Kingdoms of Great Britain,
Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the British Isles. That
is the idea behind the European Union.
China has caught this spiritual principle and is now opening
her doors to all races. The Arabs have also caught the vision
and have the United Arab Emirates, UAE.
When you hear of the term ‘The New World Order’, think
Babel revisited.
But, why is it necessary to know these things?
Hosea 4:6 says “my people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge”.
Hosea 6:6 gives the antidote to that destruction when it says
God ” I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God”.
That knowledge of God is what is known as Hagia Sophia in
Greek, translated into English as Holy Wisdom.
John 8:32 says you shall know the truth and the truth shall
set you free.
Even the Philosopher, George Santayana corroborated this
verse when he said “those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it”.
The problem is that the black race has not had leaders who
have known this truth so they can begin the process of
delivering their people.
Daniel 9:1-3 says:
“In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent),
who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom—in the
first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the
Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to
Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would
last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded
with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth
and ashes”-(NIV).
If not that the Hebrew nation had a man like Daniel who
studied the Word of God and knew that the Israelites were
only meant to stay 70 years in Babylon principally as a
punishment for not keeping the Sabbath, the Hebrews would
have continued there beyond 70 years.
You see, the reason why the Black Race is disunited is
because Black people ruled the world through Nimrod in
Babel and they United the human race against God which is
why God said in Genesis 11:7:
“Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they
will not understand each other”-(NIV).
It is not that God did not want the human race to be united.
God loves unity. It is rather that He did not want the human
race to be united against Him.
Language was God’s weapon to fight the unity of the human
race against Him thus He concentrated that weapon amongst
the Black Race because they were the driving force of the
resistance against Him.
This is the reason why you find that the darker a people are,
the more languages they speak and the lighter they are the
less languages they speak.
In fact Nigeria has over 350 languages and that number
increases to over 500 if you add dialects!
So what’s the solution?
The Black Race needs leaders that understand the times we
live in and who can foster unity amongst Africans, but this
time, a different type of unity from the one we had in Babel
which was unity against God.
In 1 Chronicles 12:32 we read:
“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do;
the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren
were at their commandment”-(KJV).
The reason why the men of Issachar had rule over their
fellow Israelites is because they “had understanding of the
times”.
The reason why the black race are under the influence of
other races is because those races have “understanding of
the times” while we fighting each other.
African leaders have to begin to study the core values that
made black people dominate the world in Nimrod’s empire of
Babel and those core values were unity and understanding
the value of time.
Then the leaders of the Black Race have to understand what
destroyed the hegemony the black race enjoyed in Babel,
which is that our unity was against God.
The greatest commandment is to Love God and then to love
your neighbor. The only things you can use to project both of
these loves are first time then money. The only way you can
amplify the effect of these is by building unity at any level
and the only sustainable purpose of unity is to use it to serve
God and humanity.
In other words, if the black race can unite under God, begin
to value time over money, and devote the best and the first of
their time and money to serving God and humanity we will
return to the place of strength we once occupied in Babel.
May God bless you and open your eye of understanding as
you read this piece.
Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian
Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to
God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation
with Reno Omokri (Monday at 12am on San Francisco’s
KTLN, Chanel 25 on Comcast).
under development. It is disunity. All other problems the
Black Race face are a symptom of this one problem and until
we address it, all our efforts at changing our destiny to one
of progress in all spheres of the human development index
may be an arduous one.
And disunity will continue to be the problem of the Black Race
as long as we remain ignorant of our origins as a people and
why we are so prone to division.
It is no coincidence that Haile Selassie, the former Emperor
of Ethiopia, was along with Kwame Nkrumah, the pioneer of
pan-Africanism. He was very well versed in the history of the
Black Race and understood how we got to where we are as a
people.
Ethiopia or Cush (the King James Version uses Ethiopia but
almost all other versions use Cush) is actually the First
Nation mentioned in The Bible in Genesis 2:13.
Ethiopia or Cush was a generic name given to what is today
known as black Africa.
Scholars of The Bible understand that when the Old
Testament of The Bible makes reference to the nation that is
known today as Ethiopia, the term used is Seba or Sheba.
This evident in Psalms 72:10; Isaiah 43:3; 45:14 as well as
the entire chapters of 1 Chronicles 9 and 1 Kings 10.
It is only in the New Testament (written centuries after the
Old Testament) that Ethiopia was used to refer to what is
today the modern nation of Ethiopia.
The term Ethiopian (or Ethiope in the works of Shakespeare)
referred not to a person from Sheba, but to a person of the
Black Race and we see proof for this in Jeremiah 13:23:
“Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard
take away its spots?”
In translating that verse some other translations (Holman,
Young) use the word ‘Cushite’ instead of Ethiopian. Cush
simply means a Black person.
Now, investigate for yourself the meaning of Cush in Hebrew.
I have a Hebrew dictionary here and the meaning of Cush in
the Hebrew language is black. http://
www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/cush.html
From Genesis 10:7 we understand that Seba or Sheba was
actually a grandson of Noah and the son of Cush.
It may come as a surprise to many that the original
inhabitants of Egypt were black folk just as the face on the
Sphinx is the face of a black man.
This is actually a historic fact.
Wikipedia says about Ham that “According to the Hebrew
Bible, Ham was one of the sons of Noah and the father of
Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan, who are interpreted as
having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The
Bible refers to Egypt as “the land of Ham” in Psalms 78:51;
105:23,27; 106:22; 1Ch 4:40.”
Noah gave birth to Shem, Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:32).
Ham is the father of the black race which is known in The
Bible as Cush. In fact, Ham was the father of Cush who was
the father of Nimrod, the first man who tried to rule the whole
world.
The original name is not quite Nimrod. People familiar with
the origins of the Yoruba people (the largest tribe of Black
People in the world) will actually be surprised at Nimrod’s
real name.
In Arabic, Nimrod is known as Namrud.
Long before they had contact with Arabs or Europeans, the
Yoruba had an oral history of their origins which they traced
to Odùduwà (also known as Oòdua) who they cite as the son
of Lamurudu, a priest/King from the Middle East.
The Arabs have Namrud and the Yoruba have Lamurudu.
Could this be a coincidence?
The people of Cush or the sons of Ham as they were called
were the people who enslaved the Hebrew nation for 400
years in Egypt hence Psalm 78:51 says “He struck down all
the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents
of Ham”.
You might ask yourself, if this is true, then why are the
people in modern day Egypt Semitic Arabic people?
Ezekiel 29:19-20 answers that question.
“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going
to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will
carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay
for his army. I have given him Egypt as a reward for his
efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the
Sovereign LORD (NIV).
The ancient Egyptians were invaded and defeated by King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who drove away the Cushite
Black descendants of Ham and repopulated Egypt with his
Persian and Chaldean people. This was Nebuchadnezzar’s
modus operandi and he did the same thing in other nations
he conquered.
Now, it you think that this is far fetched, then read Ezekiel
30:4-5:
“A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come
upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be
carried away and her foundations torn down. Cush and
Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the
covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt” (NIV).
If you actually read these verses in The KJV, the word used
instead of Cush is Ethiopia.
At the time God used Moses to deliver the Israelites from
their bondage in Egypt, this great prophet was married to a
Black woman.
Numbers 12:1 says “Miriam and Aaron began to talk against
Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a
Cushite” (NIV).
Moses was a prophet sent by God. He foresaw the coming of
The Messiah in Deuteronomy 18:15. However, many of the
customs Moses implemented were already in existence.
A number of my readers would have grown up in African
villages. consider that even before the white man came, if
you committed a sin in any African village and you go to the
native priests, you had to sacrifice an animal as a sin
offering.
This practice exists in every black African village.
Before the white man came, if you were married and you died
without a child, the brother that is next in line to you inherited
your wife.
If there was a dispute between people, you went to a shrine
to swear an oath.
If you wanted to divine the future or to know if a person died
a natural death or was murdered, you went to a diviner who
would throw the divining beads or instrument on the floor and
read it.
All these practices existed in Africa before the coming of the
white man. But guess what? All of them were also practiced
by the ancient Hebrews from the time of the exodus out of
Egypt till this very day.
A lot of the practices of the ancient Hebrews were derived
from Egypt, and a lot of the practices of ancient Egypt were
derived from Nimrod’s empire. That is the nexus.
As I have elsewhere written, there is a reason why the buffalo
is hunted by the wolf and it is not for lack of strength on the
buffalo’s part. One on one, the buffalo is stronger than the
wolf. However, because buffalo will not unite to fight wolves,
they become weaker because the wolves are united.
Again, as I have previously written, the biggest culture shock
Africans have when they travel outside Africa for the first
time, especially for studies, is to find out that they are more
intelligent than the average person in their host nation one on
one.
However, because black folks are not willing to unite, we are
weaker as a people and that is why we have become
subservient.
Genesis 11:6 says:
“The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same
language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan
to do will be impossible for them”-(NIV).
You see, the most successful nations are those nations who
understand the principle of Genesis 11:6 and they are trying
to replicate Babel by bringing all the races of the earth to live
in their country as one united people.
That is the idea behind the United States of America. That is
the idea behind the United Kingdoms of Great Britain,
Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the British Isles. That
is the idea behind the European Union.
China has caught this spiritual principle and is now opening
her doors to all races. The Arabs have also caught the vision
and have the United Arab Emirates, UAE.
When you hear of the term ‘The New World Order’, think
Babel revisited.
But, why is it necessary to know these things?
Hosea 4:6 says “my people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge”.
Hosea 6:6 gives the antidote to that destruction when it says
God ” I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God”.
That knowledge of God is what is known as Hagia Sophia in
Greek, translated into English as Holy Wisdom.
John 8:32 says you shall know the truth and the truth shall
set you free.
Even the Philosopher, George Santayana corroborated this
verse when he said “those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it”.
The problem is that the black race has not had leaders who
have known this truth so they can begin the process of
delivering their people.
Daniel 9:1-3 says:
“In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent),
who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom—in the
first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the
Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to
Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would
last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded
with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth
and ashes”-(NIV).
If not that the Hebrew nation had a man like Daniel who
studied the Word of God and knew that the Israelites were
only meant to stay 70 years in Babylon principally as a
punishment for not keeping the Sabbath, the Hebrews would
have continued there beyond 70 years.
You see, the reason why the Black Race is disunited is
because Black people ruled the world through Nimrod in
Babel and they United the human race against God which is
why God said in Genesis 11:7:
“Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they
will not understand each other”-(NIV).
It is not that God did not want the human race to be united.
God loves unity. It is rather that He did not want the human
race to be united against Him.
Language was God’s weapon to fight the unity of the human
race against Him thus He concentrated that weapon amongst
the Black Race because they were the driving force of the
resistance against Him.
This is the reason why you find that the darker a people are,
the more languages they speak and the lighter they are the
less languages they speak.
In fact Nigeria has over 350 languages and that number
increases to over 500 if you add dialects!
So what’s the solution?
The Black Race needs leaders that understand the times we
live in and who can foster unity amongst Africans, but this
time, a different type of unity from the one we had in Babel
which was unity against God.
In 1 Chronicles 12:32 we read:
“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do;
the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren
were at their commandment”-(KJV).
The reason why the men of Issachar had rule over their
fellow Israelites is because they “had understanding of the
times”.
The reason why the black race are under the influence of
other races is because those races have “understanding of
the times” while we fighting each other.
African leaders have to begin to study the core values that
made black people dominate the world in Nimrod’s empire of
Babel and those core values were unity and understanding
the value of time.
Then the leaders of the Black Race have to understand what
destroyed the hegemony the black race enjoyed in Babel,
which is that our unity was against God.
The greatest commandment is to Love God and then to love
your neighbor. The only things you can use to project both of
these loves are first time then money. The only way you can
amplify the effect of these is by building unity at any level
and the only sustainable purpose of unity is to use it to serve
God and humanity.
In other words, if the black race can unite under God, begin
to value time over money, and devote the best and the first of
their time and money to serving God and humanity we will
return to the place of strength we once occupied in Babel.
May God bless you and open your eye of understanding as
you read this piece.
Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian
Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to
God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation
with Reno Omokri (Monday at 12am on San Francisco’s
KTLN, Chanel 25 on Comcast).
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