For the African Preachers : Part 1

I often wonder, what if Mbuya Nehanda was possessed by the Holy Spirit? And what if Ganyire, Mashayamombe, Mukwati and Kaguvi were the prophets deeply possessed by the Spirit of God? Would they have architectured the first Chimurenga? What if Pasipamire was possessed by the Spirit which was upon John the Revelator instead of the spirit Chaminuka? Would he still have foretold of the coming of the land grabbers?

Would Mbuya Nehanda still have uttered the venerable words "Tora gidi uzvitonge!"? Or would she rather have turned the other cheek? After their land had been taken would she offer up her people as slaves in supplication? Would she have forgiven and forgotten about the brutal slaughter of her kin and the stealing of their land?

And then I also wonder, what if Sekuru Kaguvi was Jacob, would God still have let his descendants be subdued by another nation? And later give them strength to rise up against their captors, Moses-like, in some kind of second chimurenga through a red sea of war? Or would he rather have told Jacob not to worry about earthly riches, carry the cross of being dispossessed and pursue the riches of heaven?

What if Josiah Tongogara was King David? Would God still give him the strength to vanquish his enemy and take back what the Philistine Western Supremacist Goliaths had taken from his people?

I often wonder.

I often wonder how we came to believe words that never made sense at all. They gorged our eye out, and when we tried to get our eye back they told us, "an eye for an eye makes the world blind." And we stopped. But we weren't trying to gorge their eye, we were only trying to get back our eye. How did they trick us?

They told us our ancestors were possessed by ancient demons, and that they were evil. Then I wonder how can a demon say the same words to Nehanda that God said to David? One nation was defending its heritage and another, priests and all, was pillaging what wasn't theirs, who had the demon here?

Doesn't it make you wonder how our primitive apparently pagan ancestors managed to uphold values of right and wrong? How can a demon possessing a spirit medium pull that off for centuries? Do you not wonder how they could see the value of their land, going up against guns with arrows and spears, willing to sacrifice their lives protecting their children's heritage? Dying for us like Jesus did. They knew they were going to die but they were sending a message to the future.

They believed in us, our apparently primitive and apparently pagan ancestors believed in us to the point of dying. And what we have done about the message they sent to us in a language only us their descendants could understand? If we do not heed it who will? You see, somebody brain-washed us and told us they were evil, a somebody who wanted to take their place as our guardian and milk our inheritance.

I believe even though they didn't know Him by the name Jesus, they still knew his Spirit, and they could recognise the voice of Good. And they knew evil too, and knew to avoid it. And to fight it even if it came holding a Bible.

Remember God was the original author of this, when the first earthlings were trying to build a tower into the heavens, he split our languages, and we formed tribes around our languages, and we formed religions around our tribes. And the religions of world are mostly language based.

Do you seriously believe God dumped all the other tribes and stuck with Israel? No. He chose Israel but he didn't forsake the other tribes, that would have been unGodly. He still spoke to the other tribes in languages only that particular tribe could understand, and the other tribes couldn't. No wonder white settlers didn't get our ancestors' religion.

Has the Gospel changed over the centuries? Since when has it not been a requirement to return what you stole after your repent? How can we just live as brothers and sisters when you haven't returned what you stole from me? Something a primitive Chaminuka knew, that justice should be rendered. What strange Gospel is this?

Jesus said the Kindgom of God is like the parable of talents. What would you do if your talents were stolen from you? Would you work for the guy who stole your talents? And you if took them back, would you rent them out to him because you are too lazy to figure out what to do with them? And would your master reward you with heaven when he came back? No. We should figured out what to do with our nation, and be productive with it.

Every Preacher should be preaching this. How do you expect to defend your heavenly reaches if you can't defend your earthly riches? What is bound on earth is also bound in heaven, has that changed? The Kingdom of God is like the Parable of the Mustard seed, a seemingly helpless Africa shall sow her meagre resources, her little knowledge, her slightly backward technology and through Faith she shall reap a very large Tree!

This is the Truth of the Gospel of Christ that every preacher should be preaching. How would you expect to get to heaven when you die if you never applied your faith when you were alive? The last shall be the first, Africa! What twisted gospel are you  listening to?

Do not be fooled, those priests who sailed across the sea did not come to save your soul, they came to take your soil. They didn't belong to the system of God they belonged to the system of Babylon. Babylon and the corrupt prostitute church that sat on top the seven hills of the Roman Empire. The seven hills that were the nations Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal.The same nations that scrambled for Africa.

No, they were not preaching the Gospel of Salvation, they were doing the bidding of their mother, the system of Babylon, the system of corrupting the Gospel and using it for their gains. And Rome was the architect of that system, she stole the Gospel of Christ from the Jews and corrupted the Gospel  and used it to colonize Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. Her hunger for power and wealth. And when these nations came to Africa, they were only doing what their mother had taught them, hiding their rifles behind their bibles.

Babylon the great demon was at work in them. A system so merciless that even when their own kin declared UDI here and stopped expatriating resources to there Imperialist mother, it sanctioned them.

Babylon the beast, the corrupt gospel of keeping peace at all costs, being hit and when we want to hit back they wave a cross in front of our face like we were vampires. A system of dependence that whosever does not have the mark of the beast shall neither buy nor sell, if the leaders do not agree to the terms of the beast their people will be kept in poverty. Be eternally humble and calm and have our economies depend on our former colonisers' life blood like we were vampires? What madness is that?

War is unavoidable. Which species has ever existed peacefully on this planet? What atom of matter has ever stayed undisturbed on this Universe? Which Law is that? If stars collide and meteors hit planets, if volcanoes erupt and forcefully melt rocks, if lions still hunt antelope, if a virus still preys on its host, it is definitely not the Law of God! I have witnessed an army of ants take down a live caterpillar. 

War is unavoidable, the best we can do is resort to less violence. The Christ I know violently cast out the peddlers who had taken over his Father's Temple in the name of trade and development and investing and modernisation. Why should let them peddlers corrupt our minds with evil vermin and milk our resources to feed their children? What about our children? Nehanda knew we needed this. Are we not capable of managing our God given talents? Our own nation? Are you not you who is reading this?

We have got to war and take control of our faith, and discover the truth of the gospel of Christ in our lives.