Jacob’s trouble, is this a future event? By Rabbi Simon Altaf
13th Dec 2010
AFNHSS – All quotes from the Abrahamic-Faith Netzarim Hebraic Study Scriptures unless otherwise quoted.
Once again I have been asked by many Christian brothers and sisters this intriguing question, what is Jacob's trouble, is it in the future, will Israel be gathered to be slaughtered by the enemy once again?
Today either the Churches doesn’t like to talk about it or teach that God is going to gather the Jews back to the Land in Israel of which at least two thirds will die and only one third will survive so in essence if there are six million Jews in Israel today then at least 4 million will be killed and only 2 million left alive during the great invasion by the Anti-Messiah forces that will come.
This is the first error!
The second error is that all the present Jews in Israel are all 12 tribes. In fact they are not so Jacob’s trouble cannot come upon those of only two tribes in Israel namely Judah and Benjamin but wait a moment. They are not even that. Yes the majority of the alleged Jews in Israel are Ashkenazi European Khazari converts and not Semitic Jews. The only Semitic Jews in Israel are either the Flashas (Means Black) from Ethiopia since all Jews back in Moses and King David’s time were black and not white. The very few white Jews in the race were called mulattoes and were also considered simply Israel and not like the present eastern European Jewry which came from conversion off the Caspian Sea.
The 13th Tribe p28 by Arthur Koestler
Eldad visited Spain around 880 and may or may not have visited the
Khazar country. Hasdai briefly mentions him in his letter to Joseph – as if to ask what to make of him.] Joseph then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish nationalist, proud of wielding the 'sceptre of Judah”, he cannot, and does not, claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah's third son, Japheth;
In brief Arthur Koestler a Jewish historian wrote that majority of the European Jewry came from conversions while the real Jews the Semitic were wiped in the pogroms and only numbered in hundreds and not thousands as believed. Please see the book the 13th Tribe for a detailed description here.
http://www.fantompowa.info/13th%20Tribe.pdf
This then shows us that the present day Jews in Israel are not what they claim. They are in fact the sons of Japheth and not Shem as needed according to Scripture. However the Flashas, the Black Hebrews in the South of Israel and the Sephardic Jews are Semitic but number a lot less in Israel.
The third error being taught is the one-world government which many Christians try to conjure out of Revelation 13, 17 and 18 when clearly the biblical language speaks of the dominion of the Beast/Empire not a political world government. By the same token the Bible uses words like the HE goat (Alexander the Great) came on the face of the WHOLE EARTH, this is biblical language since we know from history that Alexander the Great never came over the face of the whole earth but only from Mesopotamia right up to modern day Pakistan, that was the Grecian empire’s dominion, this was what Alexander the great conquered. Note He did not conquer all of India but only the Northern parts which are called Pakistan today.
The fact is Alexander the great never touched Western Europe, Christians in order to force their exegesis would have to prove that the "whole earth" of Daniel is the "whole world" and we know that this is not so in the Hebrew language.
Daniel 8:5 And as I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Now you try telling the Biblical scholar that this is not the whole world yet many fail to see this. This tells us one important fact, Biblical language and context are essential to hermeneutics for full understanding else we make one mistake after another and our whole eschatology view becomes flawed.
As a second example we have all heard the story of the three wise men that came from the East to visit baby Jesus well the text there says the following:
Matthew 2:3 When Herodes the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Yerushalim with him.
There it is again, the Hebrew word Kul (ALL) Jerusalem was troubled. Was ALL Jerusalem troubled? Well Mary rejoiced, Elizabeth rejoiced and many gathered to see this baby Yahushua so clearly not ALL of the population of Jerusalem was troubled, if we can produce even one person that was not troubled then that eliminates the need to say that every man, woman and child were troubled. The trouble is most people's perception of the word “ALL” has to be the whole city but it is not. The term “ALL” Biblically means those people who are in the vicinity so in Herod's case above it was “ALL” those people that were around with him who were troubled not the whole population of Jerusalem.
Some churches even teach that in the great invasion four million Jews or two thirds will be killed by the enemy before the return of the Messiah.
The enemy for most churches is the Anti-Messiah who is to come out of the European Union i.e. the Pope or some shadowy figure out of the Roman Church. It is true that the Anti-Messiah is to come and try to destroy Israel but scripture does not mandate a European Anti-Messiah, not a Roman Pope or Catholic of any sorts. For this you will have to read my book "Islam, Peace or Beast" to get a detailed analysis as to why the Anti-Messiah is not from Europe.
The passage most people use to justify the two thirds being killed in the future is one from Zechariah 13:7.
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says hwhy, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
There are a few problems with this view. What these people are saying is that the God of Israel is going to take the Jews back to Israel to have them slaughtered once again, many will be relieved to know that this is not a correct view. With all the PhDs and A to Zs put together they just could not figure this out. Yes could to attach letters to your name but letters do not add Hebraic wisdom.
I normally ask the question is it reasonable to believe this and is this what scripture really teaches? The Bible is a very precise book, God's own words written down by men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to give a very detailed message to mankind. No other book even comes close. God has left no details unturned but made sure everything is very clear for us all to read and know the end from the beginning.
I heard a Pastor once say that a man who went to a London Bible College stopped believing in Yahushua the Messiah because the Bible school could not explain the virgin birth to him therefore he stopped believing in the Messiah. This tells us the disarray the bible schools are in, they are not equipped to teach correct doctrine and many cannot even deal with modern day objections to the bible. Perhaps this is also true about what the Bible schools are dogmatically teaching about Jacob's trouble, even some well known teachers have got it wrong.
I have personally heard them say this but I will not mention any names to discredit them here as the Master will show them in his own good time. My purpose is not to discredit any brothers and sisters in the Messiah but simply to lay out the truth on the table for all to examine and accept or reject it at your own leisure. The Master has given me the understanding and I can only give glory to him yet I was once a Muslim who had no light but God through his Holy Spirit became my teacher and mentor. All Praise therefore goes to him and to no Bible seminary because I attended none and will never do so either since I was once told by God that all wisdom given to me is given by him and no seminary may take credit for it
Psalm 119:100-102 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. 101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word. 102 I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.
But let’s continue...
Isaiah 54:5-8 For your Maker are your husbands; hwhy of hosts is his name; and your Redeemers the Set-Apart One of Y’sra’el; The Elohim of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For hwhy has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in Ruach (Spirit), and a wife of youth, when you were cast away, says your Elohim. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says hwhy your Redeemer.
YHWH has used the term wife of youth for Israel in His covenant relationship and because of their sins He separated (divorced) them but since the covenant is binding by God and not man (Israel) he is going to lovingly gather Israel back to their land and bring them to a right relationship with Him in the millennial reign. Note also that out of YHWH’s two wives (North and South) Israel only one wife was divorced which was the Northern House or the Ten tribes and the Southern House of Judah was not divorced (Isa 50:1).
See Understanding the 10 tribes of Israel article here.
http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/Simon/pdfs/Understanding%20the%20two%20Houses%20and%20who%20are%20the%20Gentiles.pdf
It was for a while that he turned his face away from them but He will be merciful to them to save them i.e. save them in the future when they will also recognise their messiah in regards to their eternal destiny and not just save in the physical sense.
If God wants to kill two thirds of the Yahudim in the world at large, then why lovingly take them back to Israel? It doesn't make sense. This does not prove anything from a divine perspective.
Most evangelicals believe that Jacob's trouble will occur during the time of the Anti-Messiah, unfortunately you cannot mix the day of YHWH (tribulation) i.e. during Anti-Messiah's (future) onslaught with Jacob's trouble (past) which are two separate events.
Our Only problem is someone forgot to tell them that Jacob's trouble has already been fulfilled in the past.
They incorrectly base their whole theory on one verse of Zechariah 13:8.
Let's see if we can reconcile this.
First of all it is estimated that during the invasion of Titus in AD 70 in Jerusalem there were about 3 million Jews in Israel and of that two thirds were killed i.e. about 2 million. This would render this prophecy to have been fulfilled in the past e.g. 70 CE and not in the future. Although the prophecy was given in Zechariah's time (6th century BC) to be fulfilled in 70 AD.
In fact this has nothing to do with Jacob's trouble in the further future or latter times of the tribulation. However it can have a dual fulfilment but not to the same degree since it has had one fulfilment already.
Let's analyze this:
If we look at some noted commentaries
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says hwhy, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Commentary of Matthew Henry - Zechariah 13:8
It shall come to pass that in all the land of Israel two parts shall be cut off and die. The Roman army laid the country waste and slew at least two-thirds of the Jews.
Commentary of John Wesley - Zechariah 13:8
Two parts - Not precisely two, but the greater part shall die a temporal death, by the sword of Titus, or in eternal death under unbelief.
Commentary of Jamieson, Faussett - Zechariah 13:8
Two-thirds of the Jewish nation were to perish in the Roman wars, and a third to survive.
Clearly the earlier commentators also did not believe this has anything to do with Jacob's trouble in the future so I am not in the minority, well perhaps I am, the majority echo the Pastors microphone and believe in something that has already taken place. Now where did the evangelicals get this idea? It is difficult to say but I know this has been around for at least this century.
Now let's turn to Yahushua’s words?
Matthew 26:31 Then said vSwhy to them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Bingo… We see the smoke and have found the gun that fired the bullet.
This sums it up, Yahushua tells us that the shepherd (Yahushua) was going to be crucified and the flock (the present Jewish people 25% who had returned from Babylon captivity) will once again be scattered abroad. From the time the Yahudee rejected the Messiah, the judgment was set, in approximate forty years time, this scattering took place. The destruction of the Temple and dispersion of the Yahudee (scattering of the flock). You may well ask why forty years? This has significance in scripture, a generation is represented by forty years so this generation i.e. Yahushua’s time was under Judgment for rejection of their Messiah, this is very similar to when God brought out the children of Israel and they sinned against Him by murmuring in the wilderness and He punished that generation for forty years by not allowing any of them except Joshua and Caleb to enter the land.
Yahushua was in fact quoting none other than the prophet Zechariah.
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says hwhy of hosts: smite (את) the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
The shepherd (Yahushua) crucified and the sheep (Jews) scattered for unbelief. The little ones here are those who believed in Yahushua as the Messiah.
Then we see the following verse the continuation of Zechariah 13:7 which is yet future, partly fulfilled in Zechariah 13:9.
Zechariah 13: 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, hwhy is my Elohim.
This is very interesting. A third part will be refined but in the future.
This tells us that the Yahudim will be refined and note not the sons of Japheth who presently claim ownership of the land of Israel who are really Khazari converts. They have no right to the land but are occupying it as part of prophecy and in due course will be removed when the real owners such as the Flashas, Sephardic and others that will be gathered from Africa and the Muslim nations. The majority of these will be Black Jewry and not white. Many of these are in the USA and have simply lost their identity and became Christians or even Muslims. YHWH will wake them up one day soon.
The real Semitic blood line Yahudi are still God's people and are being refined through trials, this at least gets rid of the idea of Israel being replaced by the church (anti-Semitism in churches and replacement theology the sort of nonsense one might hear on Sundays).
The God of Israel is testing them. Eventually God says I will hear them and I will say these are my people and they shall also call upon YHWH which means they have to have a knowledge or revelation of the sacred name. Have all Christians received revelation of the sacred name? No. it’s might as well since they would not know how to protect and sanctify it either.
This bit is yet to happen as most of the Yahudi are still in unbelief of Yahushua being their Messiah and have not called upon the name of YHWH. Just take a look at the state of Israel and you will understand what I mean. The majority live lawlessly so how can they ever call upon YHWH when they do not even believe in Him.
When will this happen?
Zechariah 14:14 And Yahudah also shall fight at Yerushalim; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
It begs the question how can Yahudah fight if he is not present in the land?
When the heathens (Muslim nations) around about are gathered as a confederacy to destroy the Yahudim and annihilate them, that is when the Messiah Yahushua will come to their rescue because at that time they will cry out for their saviour and Messiah to come and save them, he will be their only hope at that desperate time. Their 200 Nuclear weapons will not save them at that time.
Zechariah 12:8-10 In that day (Tribulation) shall hwhy defend the inhabitants of Yerushalim; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as Dawud; and the house of Dawud (Real Yahudim and not fake khazaris) shall be as Elohim, as the angel of hwhy before them. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalim. 10 And I will pour upon the house of Dawud, and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalim, the Ruach (Spirit) of favour and of prayers: and they shall look upon me (את) whom they have thrust through, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
This is the time many real Yahudim who are both Flashas and Sephardic will come to faith in the Messiah.
The situation will be so bad that the Messiah will have to come back Himself to save His people, (the Yahudim) will be crying out for Mashiach and praying Hosheanoo (Hebrew), (come save us) Baruch haba b'shem YHWH (Blessed is he who comes in the name of YHWH), Yahushua the Messiah will return and then they will recognise Him and embrace him. This also reveals it’s futile for people to go around preaching and forcing the Yahudim to believe in the death of Yahushua since it’s not meant to happen until the time of tribulation.
So when did Jacob's trouble take place?
I used to believe that perhaps Jacob’s trouble would be the holocaust until I came to realise that the majority of the Jews that died in the Holocaust were really Khazari converts see Arthur Koestler the 13th Tribe. This means they were not Semitic blood line Yahudee. Then when would be say was Jacob’s trouble if not the Holocaust? Well perhaps it can have a milder application on the Holocaust but not full force severe one since the number of Khazari converts that died were estimated to be six million.
Faulty logic of prophecy writers and teachers
Jacob cannot just apply to the tribe of Yahudah and that being the Ashkenazi Jews of European descent who ware not Semitic blood line Yahudee but it largely applies to the ten tribes. In those majority ten tribes we will also have the members of the two tribes who will make up the house of Jacob. You may get shocked to know that this would not have happened in Israel but actually happened outside Israel in the lands of the sojourn of the ten tribes.
The Holocaust of the Africans
We read in the Bible:
Jeremiah 30:5 For thus says hwhy; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of shalom (peace).
The Jews in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and Russia are large scale converts from the Khazari Empire near the Caspian Sea so cannot be accounted for the Semitic Yahudee that were very different. In a letter by a Sephardic Yahudi by the name of Hasadi Ibn Shaprut the King of Khazaria identified himself as the sons of Japheth and not Shem.
The 13th Tribe p28 by Arthur Koestler
Eldad visited Spain around 880 and may or may not have visited the
Khazar country. Hasdai briefly mentions him in his letter to Joseph – as if to ask what to make of him.] Joseph then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish nationalist, proud of wielding the 'sceptre of Judah”, he cannot, and does not, claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah's third son, Japheth;
Read more in the PDF book here.
http://www.fantompowa.info/13th%20Tribe.pdf
Coming back to the Holocaust of the Africans some scholars estimate eight to twelve million Africans were taken as slaves for the transatlantic slave trade however I would put that figure at least to twenty five million Africans. This figure is four times the figure of the European Jewry that perished in the European Holocaust. Jeremiah 30:5 was fulfilled in the people of Africa the real people that belonged to the Ten tribes of which many million in America today are Christians and came to faith in the Messiah.
It begs the question who did the Messiah come for? Popular Christian Church teachings say the whole world. Once again when we remove Christian error we arrive at the true teachings of the Messiah right in the New Testament which the Christians call Scripture ignoring the very words of Yahushua the Messiah.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I have been sent to the prostituting sheep of the Beyth (house) of Y’sra’el.
Christians really should sort out their teachings to see that Beyth Y’sra’el (House of Israel) only applies here to the Ten Tribes that were not present in the land when Yahushua spoke. He was not speaking to the present Yahudim, why would He since He said the sick need the doctor and not those that are whole. The sick were those people who had rejected the Torah and these were the Ten tribes that had been expelled from the land by YHWH.
Luke 5:31 And vSwhy answering said to them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? Therefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
The Africans were so fearful and under such disbelief at what was happening to them during this time. There faces had turned pale not only from the starvation that they had faced at their enemies but also because no help was at hand, no protests from anybody, no one cared, they were a forgotten people facing capture from their own lands. They were literally like a woman in birth pain, hands on their hips. Idiomatic expression to show completely helpless.
Jerermiah 30:7 Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Yaqub's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
How was he going to be saved out it? When they ended up in Europe and America as slaves later they came to believe in Yahushua so technically they were saved but there was a time gap involved as they were hunted like sheep. This was also part of the prophecy that they would be hunted down.
Jeremiah 16:16-17 Behold, I will send for many fishers, says hwhy, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.
This was the time of Jacob's trouble. They were being systematically captured and thousands upon thousands died on the way to the ships and on the way to Europe and America.
This was not seen as any violation of international law as this was a local issue that the slave masters deemed necessary, no one could interfere and say we have a humanity crisis on our hand and we know no one did intervene from the alleged Christian nations who were all part of this slave trade.
At no point in history had this sort of thing happened to a people where all the nations knew but remained consciously silent. This is why in Jeremiah 30:7 it has been called "None like it".
Sadly this was the irony of the situation in the African continent but God had a plan that through this calamity that God had allowed to take place He would eventually deliver His people.
Jeremiah 30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says hwhy of hosts that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
Eventually the slave trade came to an end and the people were free to conduct their own lives. Ironically it was the Christians that started the slave trade and legitimized it and it was also the Christians that finished it and made it illegitimate.
Jeremiah 30:10-11 Therefore fear not, O my servant Yaqub, says hwhy; neither be dismayed, O Y’sra’el: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Yaqub shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 11 For I am with you, says hwhy, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
For truly God was going to save them from this captivity. The Hebrew word used for save is "yasha" that is used in a physical saving aspect like in a battle or war. This also alludes to Yahushua the Messiah. YHWH said I will give you rest and indeed today the Africans (Hebrew Israelites) living in America or Europe have all the freedoms they want but are still not exempt from YHWH’s punishment for remaining in Torahless disobedience. So Christianity is only proved to be a half way house. In order to be fully corrected they must return to Torah obedience.
This was also a type of Judgment on the house of Jacob for their unbelief and profaning God's holy name, God had warned them in Deuteronomy 28:15, not to stray away and profane His holy name but they did exactly that by falling into shamanism and false worship.
Deut 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if You will not listen unto the voice of hwhy your Elohim, to Guard and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:
All the curses that YHWH mentioned literally came upon the African people and no other people have born the brunt of these curses except them.
All the curses of Deuteronomy 28 got hold of them because of their unbelief.
Deut 28:25 hwhy shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies: You shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them becoming an object of terror and shall be removed into all the nations of the world.
The Africans were literally fleeing with no way to hide. They became slaves in all the Western nations even in the east they were made slaves.
The African people were fearful, though some of them put up a fight but they could do nothing against their enemy who subdued them, they tried to flee and many were caught and killed. The nations in the world remained silent about this holocaust against the Africans. Even to this day you do not hear much about it as if it never happened.
Deut 28:26 And your carcasses shall become food on to the birds of the air, and unto all the wild animals of the earth, and no man shall be there to scare them away.
Many Africans died in the long arduous marches to take them back to the ships and many dead skeletons were littered all over the place which other Africans had to step over to get to the ships. It was a terrible affair.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/26/new_englands_hidden_history/
In the year 1755, a black slave named Mark Codman plotted to kill his abusive master. A God-fearing man, Codman had resolved to use poison, reasoning that if he could kill without shedding blood, it would be no sin. Arsenic in hand, he and two female slaves poisoned the tea and porridge of John Codman repeatedly. The plan worked — but like so many stories of slave rebellion, this one ended in brutal death for the slaves as well. After a trial by jury, Mark Codman was hanged, tarred, and then suspended in a metal gibbet on the main road to town, where his body remained for more than 20 years.
Truly this was the case when the Israelites dead bodies carcasses were meat unto the fowls and beasts laid out all across the jungles and beaches. We must not take the Master’s words lightly as they are very descriptive.
YHWH said:
Deut 28:27 hwhy will punish you with the boils of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and with the tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, from which You cannot be healed.
Many African Israelites died in ships with scabs, bruises and boils this is a well known fact of history.
Here is an account from a slave ship;
[1]Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
Conditions aboard the slave ships were wretched. Men, women and children crammed into every available space, denied adequate room, food or breathing space. The stench was appalling - the atmosphere inhumane to say the least. The Reverend Robert Walsh served aboard one of the ships assigned to intercept the slavers off the African coast. On the morning of May 22, 1829, a suspected slaver was sighted and the naval vessel gave chase. The next day, a favourable wind allowed the interceptor to gain on its quarry and approach close enough to fire two shots across her bow. The slaver heaved to and an armed party from the interceptor scrambled aboard her. We join Reverend Walsh's account as he boards the slave ship:
Plan for "stowage" of a slaveship, 1790
"The first object that struck us was an enormous gun, turning on a swivel, on deck - the constant appendage of a pirate; and the next were large kettles for cooking, on the bows - the usual apparatus of a slaver. Our boat was now hoisted out, and I went on board with the officers. When we mounted her decks we found her full of slaves. She was called the Feloz, commanded by Captain Jose' Barbosa, bound to Bahia. She was a very broad-decked ship, with a mainmast, schooner rigged, and behind her foremast was that large, formidable gun, which turned on a broad circle of iron, on deck, and which enabled her to act as a pirate if her slaving speculation failed. She had taken in, on the coast of Africa, 336 males and 226 females, making in all 562, and had been out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard 55. The slaves were all inclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and [were] stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day. As they belonged to and were shipped on account of different individuals, they were all branded like sheep with the owner's marks of different forms. These were impressed under their breasts or on their arms, and, as the mate informed me with perfect indifference 'burnt with the red-hot iron.' Over the hatchway stood a ferocious-looking fellow with a scourge of many twisted thongs in his hand, who was the slave driver of the ship, and whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook it over them and seemed eager to exercise it. I was quite pleased to take this hateful badge out of his hand, and I have kept it ever since as a horrid memorial of reality, should I ever be disposed to forget the scene I witnessed.
As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their dark and melancholy visages brightened up. They perceived some- thing of sympathy and kindness in our looks which they had not been accustomed to, and, feeling instinctively that we were friends, they immediately began to shout and clap their hands. One or two had picked up a few Portuguese words, and cried out, "Viva! Viva!" The women were particularly excited. They all held up their arms, and when we bent down and shook hands with them, they could not contain their delight; they endeavored to scramble up on their knees, stretching up to kiss our hands, and we understood that they knew we were come to liberate them. Some, however, hung down their heads in apparently hopeless dejection; some were greatly emaciated, and some, particularly children, seemed dying.
But the circumstance which struck us most forcibly was how it was possible for such a number of human beings to exist, packed up and wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells three feet high, the greater part of which, except that immediately under the grated hatchways, was shut out from light or air, and this when the thermometer, exposed to the open sky, was standing in the shade, on our deck, at 89'. The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys: 226 fellow creatures were thus thrust into one space 288 feet square and 336 into another space 800 feet square, giving to the whole an average Of 23 inches and to each of the women not more than 13 inches. We also found manacles and fetters of different kinds, but it appears that they had all been taken off before we boarded.
Cross section of the stowage of a slave ship, 1790
The heat of these horrid places was so great and the odor so offensive that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. They were measured as above when the slaves had left them. The officers insisted that the poor suffering creatures should be admitted on deck to get air and water. This was opposed by the mate of the slaver, who, from a feeling that they deserved it, declared they would murder them all. The officers, however, persisted, and the poor beings were all turned up together. It is impossible to conceive the effect of this eruption - 517 fellow creatures of all ages and sexes, some children, some adults, some old men and women, all in a state of total nudity, scrambling out together to taste the luxury of a little fresh air and water. They came swarming up like bees from the aperture of a hive till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation front stem to stern, so that it was impossible to imagine where they could all have come from or how they could have been stowed away. On looking into the places where they had been crammed, there were found some children next the sides of the ship, in the places most remote from light and air; they were lying nearly in a torpid state after the rest had turned out. The little creatures seemed indifferent as to life or death, and when they were carried on deck, many of them could not stand.
Reading these accounts is truly heart wrenching and makes one sick to the stomach.
Jeremiah 30:15 Why do you cry for your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
YHWH is clear the solutions to the African problem is not to become Christian and remain lawless but to be obedient toe the Torah and return to the ancient paths which many are still yet to return so they remain in a kind of slavery still.
If we examine the African nations they are a dump, such beautiful lands one rich in moisture and greenery now look like deserts. The people must return back to Torah to revitalize their lives and their lands back to prosperity. If they continue in obstinacy then they will remain in partial slavery to the west which usurps their resources.
Then the turning point comes and the Master said that he would devour those who devoured them. Part of this prophecy is fulfilled but some yet to take place!!!
Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
YHWH brought judgment upon these nations for crimes against his people in the form of World War I and II. And when these nations went to war and killed each other and then many of these became slaves to others in different ways such as financial and land holdings lost etc. In World War I and II, the Germans were hunting everyone against them such as the Europeans and Americans while they were being hunted by the Americans and British against them. They who devoured Jacob were now being devoured! Millions of people died in those two wars alone.
We saw what happened to Germany and the Nazis after this event, they were defeated and killed and captured the devourer was devoured. Many Germans fled the country to Latin America some were even offered places of protection in the USA. Some of these runaways were later captured by Israel and brought to justice.
YHWH has promised to heal the Hebrew Israelites as a nation and restore them to health and he certainly did this partially though we are yet to see the full force of this prophecy to fulfilment yet.
Jeremiah 30: 17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says hwhy; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Tsiyon, whom no man seeks after.
A couple of weeks ago I listened to a speech by Baroness Filola Benjamin (The only black Baroness in the House of Lords in England) and she described how when she came to England in the 1950s she as an eleven years old child was treated with great contempt and hatred and made fun of in shops and market places by the white British folks. Jeremiah 30:17 sounds familiar as it was applied to the Black Africans who were called all sorts of names and this happened with Blacks both in Europe and America.
Therefore we await the full force completion of this prophecy for the healing but before this Israel as a whole must repent and return to the ways of YHWH, the Torah and their Messiah. The answer is not that we need more Christianity and confusion but we need more Torah and the love for YHWH and His Messiah Yahushua. Unfortunately the modern Christian movement is full of nonsense and confusion. Pastors today teach that the Law of God is done away. Who would believe such nonsense? The white folks believe this whose ancestors berated Blacks as inferior yet it is these very Black people who are more interested in being obedient to God’s law and His Messiah. World’s largest Netzarim Torah believing congregation is in Nigeria of all places proclaiming a membership of one million people. America does not even come close with its messy (messianic) movement.
And YHWH said you Israel shall be my people and I shall by your God.
Jeremiah 30:22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your Elohim.
This was something distant from Jeremiah's time, i.e. in the LATTER DAYS e.g. in our time and even in the future when we are no longer around.
Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of hwhy shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.
Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of hwhy goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
If my analysis of this is correct then the Europeans and American face a very difficult time ahead because the wicked amongst them will go trough punishment that has been appointed by YHWH and is already upon them but little do they know it and it will come in the shape of radical Islam ravaging them. In both Afghanistan daily we have injuries and deaths of coalition forces but this type of information is hidden from the main public. The war in Afghanistan is already lost and both Europe and American continue to bleed to death with accumulating mounting debts. It is estimated that to keep one solider active there costs one million pounds. If this continues the nation of America will be facing catastrophic financial issues for years to come.
One thing we can glean from this is that the Master YHWH loves His people and judges them if they do not follow his statutes (Torah) and blesses them abundantly if they do. Satan in times past tried to destroy the Israelite people so that the Messiah could not come to Israel to redeem them but Satan did not succeed and Satan continues his schemes.
It is time the Hebrew Israelite African people realise to turn to the God of Israel for their help and not to the USA, Russia or European Union. The same applies to us, we should also follow Master YHWH, His Torah, and His Messiah because He is the holy God and he will not be mocked, we must never profane His name or reject His Torah.
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