| by Ray Daly (Lincoln, North Dakota) |
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| “Their Past History” The following information comes from a number of sources, but for those that would like to have an overview of what I am reporting, they can look up a book written by J.N. Andrews, and L.R. Conrad. Titled: “Early Christianity in Africa”. Consider this one quote from their writing. “Africa received the light of the Gospel in the first century of the Christian Church.” Other sources show that this “light” came as a result of the Levite Barnabas and his nephew Mark taking the Gospel message to Ethiopia, just after Paul and Barnabas had parted company for a while. We have an Old Testament witness of a close relationship of the Ethiopians with the Jewish religion. This was when the “Ethiopians” helped Jeremiah, when the latter had been thrown into an empty water pit. As well, we have a New Testament witness that shows Philip going with the Gospel message to an “Ethiopian Eunuch”, whom was on his way home after attending Jewish services in Jerusalem. Notice the influence this Ethiopian Eunuch had in Ethiopia. “A man of Ethiopia. An eunuch of great authority under Candace…Who had charge of her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship.” Acts 8:26+ Another report states that at the end of the first century AD, the Ethiopians (now Christians) received the new Canon directly from the hands of “Mark”. Known also as John. It would have been this John Mark that wrote the book of John, and the three letters of John. This Canon was exactly the same as the New Testament books we have today. With the exception of the book of Revelation, which was not a part of said Canon. I won’t cover it here, but it is Scripturally and historically supported that it was John the Baptist that wrote Revelation. But back to the story line. Christianity in Black Africa. It seems that the Ethiopian Church carried the Gospel message to the rest of Black Africa. Which ran all the way through central Africa. Not only were they Christians per se, but they were Sabbath observing Christians. And, like the early Pilgrims in America, they were “deists”. Keep this “deist” comment in mind for later in this report. The above was the way Africa was up until the c.1100’s AD. This was the time when the militant minded Islamists came from Arabia. When we read “militant minded Islamists”, think Amalekites. Or today’s terrorists and their forced converted allies. These Islamists began to force the black Christians to either choose Islam or choose death. It seems that most of the Christian blacks chose death. Though some changed to Islam, and today are the terrorists of Africa. However, there came a time that said Islamists needed money to continue to function. So, they began to set aside the most likely blacks, and “sold them as slaves” to the eastern countries. Arabia, India, and further east. There is some evidence that pockets of these “Sabbath” observers still exist in some areas of south Asia. The warfare against black Christians continued westward. Then came the time when European interests began to settle in the islands of the Caribbean. Their purpose was to grow food for their European peoples. But they needed labor. So, they began to buy black servants from the Islamist forces that needed the money. In a sense, by purchasing said blacks from Africa, many blacks were saved alive. Had they not been sold, they would likely have been killed, or forced to become terrorists themselves. Actually, said blacks likely would have been much better off if there wasn’t a major problem. One which is likely, how the “servant blacks” became known of as “slaves”. Said major problem being the following. The blacks were, as mentioned earlier, “Sabbath observing Christians, and deists”. However, their owners from Europe were “Sunday observing Christians, and trists”. In conclusion. It would seem obvious that most of the problems that came about in the US, was not so much one of differing colors, but rather of differing “days of worship”, the Sabbath or Sunday, and the number of those that were worshipped. Two or three. |
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