Why did God send the Israelites into captivity?
God sent the Israelites into captivity because they disobeyed the Lord and served other gods. Through this discipline, the Jewish nation learned to only worship God. Likewise, God may punish us for our sins, but it is always a call to repent and return to Him.Disobedient to the commandments
The Lord saved the Israelites from captivity in Egypt and brought them to the promised land. Before they entered the land, God gave them His commandments. This was accompanied by a solemn warning. If they obeyed the commandments, the Lord would richly bless them. But if they would be disobedient, God’s curse would fall on them. Part of the curse is “the LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known” (Deuteronomy 28:36).After the Israelites entered into the promised land, they did not obey God as they should. For a few centuries there was no king. ‘Everyone did what was right in his own eyes’ (Judges 21:25), instead of seeking the will of God. After that, God gave kings to Israel, but many of them did not serve the Lord. Idolatry was rampant. God sent prophets, but most often the people did not repent and return to Him. The depth of depravity was reached during the reign of king Manasseh. He erected altars to false gods, sacrificed his own sons in the fire and put an idol in the temple in Jerusalem (see 2 Kings 21:3-7).
Captivity of the Israelites
So finally, God did what He had said even before the Israelites were in Israel: they were taken captive and led to another country, Babylon. This happened in three waves. In 605 BC, the Babylonians first gained power in Judah (see 2 Kings 24:1). Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem, captured it, and took some of the most important people, among whom Daniel, captive to Babylon (see Daniel 1:1-7).The second wave happened after Judah rebelled against the Babylonians. In 597 BC, Jerusalem was conquered a second time by the army of Nebuchadnezzar. This time over 10,000 men were taken as captives to Babylon: officials, soldiers, and craftsmen (see 2 Kings 24:10-17).
The third wave happened in the year 586 BC, after another Judean rebellion was crushed by Nebuchadnezzar. This time he set fire to the city, and destroyed the temple. The remaining Judeans were taken into exile to Babylon (see 2 Kings 25:1-21).
Prophecy of Jeremiah
Between the second and the third wave, Jeremiah prophesied that the total time of captivity would be 70 years (Jeremiah 29:10). On the one hand, this emphasized how serious the sin of Israel was. They would not be saved after a few years, as they expected. On the other hand, it showed God’s grace. For He promised to not forget them, but to save them in the end. And He did. The Persians took over the Babylonian Empire, and released the Jews. As Jeremiah had prophesied, 70 years after the first captivity, the first returnees arrived in Israel.The captivity for once and for all cured the Jews of their sin of idolatry. Never again would they bow before other gods. The hard punishment that the Lord gave them for forsaking Him, resulted in their repentance.
Note: During their exiles to these foreign lands they were subjugated to slavery.
Blacks today still rely on voodoo, witchcraft, black magic, and animism with no particular pantheon of Gods, no priesthood, not anything that could develop them past superstition and barbarism.
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In Ephesians 5:6 it reads as follows: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
THE GENERATIONAL CURSES THAT HAVE FALLEN UPON THE BLACK RACE TODAY FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ACCORDING TO RABBINICAL JUDAISM, THE BLACK RACE IS UNDER A BIBLICAL CURSE?
In the Jewish religion, as ordained by the Babylonian Talmud, Blacks are
eternally
cursed through the channel known as "The Curse of Ham." The curse originated in Chapter 9 of Genesis in the Bible, and was applied to Ham, son of the prophet Noah. The origins of The Curse
of Ham originated within the `wise' rabbinic pages of the Talmud, which
damned Blacks to an infinite existence of enslavement. Stated the
rabbis, "Ham is told by his outraged father that, because you have
abused me in the darkness of night, your children shall be born black
and ugly; because you have twisted your head to cause me embarrassment,
they shall have kinky hair and red eyes; because your lips jested at my
expense theirs shall swell; and because you neglected my nakedness, they
shall go naked." Moses Maimonides, Judaism's most celebrated
rabbinic `sage,' has written that Blacks are "irrational mute animals who
are "below mankind but above monkeys ." Maimonides' views are central to the overall Jewish view of Black
people, as his name among Jews is an infallible and holy one. Talmudic
rabbis have deepened The Curse of Ham over time, attributing bestiality
as a regular engagement among Blacks, depraved sexual
fantasies of their ancestor Ham fornicating with dogs and ravens and thus, having his
skin damned with even more blackness for his perversion.
According to Catholic mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich vision, "I saw the curse pronounced by Noah upon Ham moving toward the latter like a black cloud and obscuring him. His skin lost its whiteness, he grew darker. His sin was the sin of sacrilege, the sin of one who would forcibly enter the Ark of the Covenant. I saw a most corrupt race descend from Ham and sink deeper and deeper in darkness. I see that the black, idolatrous, stupid nations are the descendants of Ham. Their color is due, not to the rays of the sun, but to the dark source where those degraded races sprang".
Ham (Africa)
Ham (Heb. "hot" or "Black") was Noah's second oldest son and part of the family of eight who survived the great flood. Ham and his wife bore 4 sons who became the fathers of the nations of Africa. Ham's fourth son Canaan was prophetically cursed because he gazed at his fathers nakedness while he was drunk. This curse would mean later that Canaan would lose his land to the Hebrews and would be subservient to the descendants of Shem. The Hamites were known for their physical endurance.
The Four Hamitic Nations:
1. Cush (The Ethiopians) settled in Ethiopia south of Egypt, also early in their history some of them migrated to an area north of the Persian Gulf (Gen. 10:8-10).
2. Mizraim (The Egyptians) the Bible name for Egypt, settled in northeastern Africa.
3. Phut (The Libyans) sometimes translated Libya, settled in northern Africa.
4. Canaan (The Canaanites) settled above Africa east of the Mediterranean (Later was given to the Hebrews see map below).
#Black Lives Matter began in 2013 but only recently attained great national popularity and prominence with the death of George Floyd, and allegedly on his behalf. Although the name indicates that black lives really matter to this cause, it has not actually helped black folks in the least and is not actually about the welfare of black people at all. In fact, it has arguably greatly harmed black people by bringing in violent outsiders to stir up and lead the crowd – and destroy black neighborhood stores and businesses. However, as the BLM “onion” was peeled back, it was learned, through its founders own words, that the core group was made up of self-proclaimed Marxists. Their mission is – through anarchy and violence – to destroy the nation as founded and install a radically different government in its place. #Black Lives Matter, though originally believed by most people as being a movement working for police reform and lifting up actual black people, became recognized by many as a Marxist political power grab. But as the “onion” has been peeled back still further, it has become evident the #Black Lives Matter movement goes much deeper in its aims and is far darker even than its Marxist political agenda. It is rather a deeply occultic religious group “wearing political garb.”
Indeed, as we listen to the founders and leaders of #Black Lives Matter we discover it is only tangentially a social and political movement. It is guided and informed by the dogma, practices, and dark rituals of an occult religion called Yoruba/Odu Ifa, which originates with the Yoruba people in Western Africa. One of the major tenets and practices of Odu Ifa is divination – calling on and calling up the supposed spirits of the dead and engaging in ancestor worship. Odu Ifa is also the religion of Beyonce, which is exposed by Christian YouTube apologist, nefernitty. She, nefernitty, demonstrates, in her 15 minute exposé titled “Beyonce- Black is King – 10+ Times She Celebrates Yoruba/Ifa” that the religion of Ode Ifa is central in Beyonce’s “Black is King” video. (Beyonce is far from the only celebrity that is deeply involved in dark occultic religion and religious practices. Sadly, the young people that follow these superstar celebrities are probably far more aware of occultic ideas and symbolism in the music they listen to than they are of the Christianity of their parents and grandparents. And their parents and grandparents probably have only a vague understanding, if any at all, of the “spiritual” ideas these stars are foisting upon the young.)
It should be noted that, for the moment, we still have freedom of religion and freedom of worship in this nation, so celebrity actors, singers, entertainers and their followers, as well as the leaders of BLM, have the freedom to believe and practice as they wish. However, the right to believe and worship as one chooses is not the same thing as affirming that all beliefs are equally true or valid. Some beliefs are false and some even dangerous.
One of the Odu Ifa founders of #BlackLiveMatter is Patrisse Cullors, who raised quite a stir amongst conservatives and evangelicals when it was revealed that she and other leaders in the organization are trained and dedicated Marxists. More recently, the deeply occultic religious underpinnings of the group’s core began coming to light. Patrisse Cullors was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness but was drawn to know more about her ancestors and ancestor worship, which led her away from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to a more occult form of religious belief and practice. In “A Prayer for the Runner by Patrisse Cullors,” Patrisse and co-cofounder and Odu Ifa adherent Melina Abdullah, engage in an explanatory discussion of their religious faith and how integral it is to what they do in BLM1. Patrisse explains how she was drawn away from the JWs and inexorably drawn to the West African spirituality of Odu Ifa2:
You know I was always someone who almost obsessed about ancestors, Black ancestors in particular, and I wasn’t raised with honoring ancestors necessarily. I was raised Jehovah’s Witness with a little bit of that. As I got older and sort of feel like I was missing something. Ancestor, ancestral worship became really important, and as you know, the Fowler Museum is so important because it has, it has a bunch of West African traditional, um, pieces inside that museum, and it was one of the first museums that I went to that was speaking directly to African spirituality.
Patrisse and Melina spend a fair amount of time discussing calling up, calling on, and enjoying a close fellowship with spirits whom they believe are spirits of deceased Blacks. This, by the way, is divination or necromancy and is expressly forbidden in Leviticus 19:31:
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Necromancy is the pagan practice of allegedly communicating with the dead (We believe these “spirits” they commune with are not spirits of dead people, but evil spirit beings assuming the identity of the dead) These women have become mediums and necromancers! A few moments earlier, Melina spoke to her practice3 of calling up the spirits of the dead:
…become very intimate with the spirits that we call on regularly. Right, like, each of them seems to have a different presence and personality. You, know I laugh a lot with Waukesha, you know. And I didn’t meet her in her body, right, I met her through this work.” (Waukesha Wilson who was found dead in a Los Angeles jail cell in 2017)
As Melina noted, she did not meet Waukesha Wilson when she was living but built a “very intimate” relationship with a spirit representing itself as Waukesha Wilson sometime after she died. During the conversation with Melina, Patrisse described the offerings they make to the spirits with whom they are communicating. Patrisse Cullors wants the viewers to be aware of how central it is in their rituals to call out the names of the deceased.4:
“It’s a, it is a very important practice, hashtags are for us are way more than a hashtag. It is, um, literally, almost resurrecting a spirit so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.”
They are calling on, having intimate relationships with, and actually being indwelt by spirits, “so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.”
One might argue that their private religious experience, worship practices and core beliefs are theirs – and they are entitled to them – but these issues have no bearing on the movement called #BlackLivesMatter. That might be true IF those beliefs and practices were not directly tied to #BLM. However, this religious belief and these practices are the very foundation of BLM. A #BlackLivesMatter “protest” is a religious ceremony dedicated to and guided by the spirits with whom they are in contact. As Melina Abdullah describes it5:
When we come out into the streets, and we pray, you know, the first thing that we do when we hear of a murder is we come out. We pray. We pour libations, we build with the community there, where the person’s life was stolen. And it took almost a year for me to realize that this movement is much more than a racial and social justice movement; at its core it’s a spiritual movement. When we say the names, right, so we speak their names, we say her name, say their names, we do that all the time. You kind of invoke that spirit and then those spirits actually become present with you. Right?”
Patrisse Cullors fully agrees with Melina, as a few moments later she says, “I believe so many of them work through us.” So, when we see these women at the beginning of a “protest,” practicing what seems to be simply mentioning names of those they believe were unjustly killed by police (who are described as hunting down and killing Blacks), they are actually worshipping, invoking and calling on these spirits to guide and enable them and the protestors. Offerings (libations) are made to those spirits in the process! But no one has to take our word for it, as you can hear this from their own lips. In “The Fight for Black Lives is a Spiritual Movement” By: Hebah Farrag. He reports:
On June 2, 2020, Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles Chapter sponsored an action in front of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s house, demanding reductions in the city’s funding of police. The action, what many would call a protest, began like a religious ceremony. Melina Abdullah, chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-founder of BLM-LA, opened the event explaining that while the movement is a social justice movement, it is first and foremost a spiritual movement.
She led the group in a ritual: the reciting of names of those taken by state violence before their time—ancestors now being called back to animate their own justice:
“George Floyd. Asé. Philandro Castille. Asé. Andrew Joseph. Asé. Michael Brown. Asé. Erika Garner. Asé. Harriet Tubman. Asé. Malcom X [sic]. Asé. Martin Luther King. Asé.”
As each name is recited, Dr. Abdullah poured libations on the ground as the group of over 100 chanted “Asé,” a Yoruba term often used by practitioners of Ifa, a faith and divination system that originated in West Africa, in return. This ritual, Dr. Abdullah explained, is a form of worship.
Please note that BLM “is first and foremost a spiritual movement” and the chanting, pouring of libations (liquid offerings), “is a form of worship.” #BLM has 16 chapters, which fits in nicely to the core teaching of Odu Ifa on the importance of the number 16:
According to oral tradition, the 16 odu ifa were 16 heavenly prophets that came down to Earth and revealed themselves to Orunmila, the prophet of Ifa religion. Orunmila is also known as the deity of wisdom that was present during the creation and allocation of destiny for all human beings6
But there is more:
Each odu contains information associated with the good and the bad. It provides guidance on how to manifest the good and how to keep negative disruptive forces known as Ajogun at bay.
It is through the divinatory processes that the odu currently shaping our lives is revealed to us. This sacred act of divination (performed by an experienced Babalawo or Iyanifa) is what provides the opportunity that allows us to know ourselves better. Furthermore, it allows us the opportunity to know how we can live and maintain a positive life for all. 7
These are the major Odu, and then there are the minor Odu, of which there are 240. Combined there are 256 odu Ifa in the Ifa corpus which is 16×16 cubed:
256 odu Ifa refers to the complete collection of the Ifa corpus. There are a total of 256 odu that make up the foundation of the Ifa religion. The previously mentioned 16 principle or major odu ifa are considered the pillars of the Ifa corpus. The remaining 240 minor odu ifa are derived from these 16 major odu. 8
It should be noted that many black, brown and white Americans who support BLM are, or consider themselves to be, Christian. Yet these tenets, practices, and occult rituals are deeply anti-Christian, and condemned in the Bible. Despite this, #BLM now has the allegiance of liberal and progressive, as well as some evangelical, churches. In addition, they enjoy huge financial backing from major American corporations, sporting franchises, liberal print and social media, and quite a few elected officials. In addition to monetary backing, the trademark of their spiritual movement has been painted on the streets of New York by the mayor, emblazoned on basketball courts and football fields, with the very names of the spirits to be called on stitched on the jerseys and stenciled on helmets of players. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being funneled into the funding of this religious cult by corporations, organizations and even famed retired basketball super star, Michael Jordan, who has pledged to donate 100 million dollars over the next ten years.9
The Spirits are About to Speak
In the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, Bullwinkle J. Moose would lead into a commercial with that famous phrase, “Eenie Meenie Chili Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.” Rocky would ask, “Are they friendly spirits?” That is a question we need to ask as well. #BLM is, as they put it, “first and foremost a spiritual movement” for which the spirits they have called upon are about to speak at their many protests. What sort of spirits are they which cause mayhem, pillaging, looting, burning down businesses and homes and killing or throwing lethal objects at police officers, as well as brazenly calling for the death of police officers throughout the nation? What sort of spirits would cause the injury and even murder of people who would disagree with their politics or methods? These are certainly not Bullwinkle’s “friendly spirits,” but we do believe the spirits behind BLM are actual spirit beings, the “evil spirits” condemned in the Bible, obviously the “negative disruptive forces known as Ajogun” – demons – referenced above in Odu Ifa’s own literature.
It should be apparent to all that these very violent though supposedly “peaceful protests” have absolutely nothing to do with racism. It is a religious battle, which few Christians are prepared for and even less unbelievers understand. This is a spiritual battle for the souls of those living in this nation:
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)Ω
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In conclusion: Based upon my research I submit that the African people were allowed to suffer consequences bearing striking similarities to that of the Jews in ancient Israel for their apostasy and wickedness in serving foreign gods. Therefore, the black African slaves ultimately were allowed to suffer the horrors of slavery as a result of God's judicial wrath for their wickedness, which wrath still continues to this present day through their decendants the unrepentant African Americans.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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