I want to start by saying that this post isn’t intended to offend anyone or challenge anyone’s beliefs. This is the information that was revealed to my family and I during our studies. If the Ruach is leading you to read this post, I pray that you will approach it with eyes wide open (Isaiah 42:7 KJV). If you don’t understand then take it as a grain of salt — this post is not for you — it may not be your time to receive it.
Embarking on a Long Journey
What I’ve learned on my journey is that everything the Ruach (Holy Spirit) makes you curious about can be understood through the sacred text. It only requires you to listen, read, and study and that’s exactly what I did.
When I first embarked upon this journey, two and a half years ago, I encountered two types of people. First, I encountered the type of person who all but called me crazy. They would tell me things like “you are a conspiracy theorist” or “you’re completely overthinking things” and at times I would believe them and bring my research to a halt.
The second type of person I encountered, was on the same journey that I was on, but never really connected the dots or did any real scripture study. They would say things like, “the law is done away with” or “ultimately, there is not just one group of people that make up the “chosen people”, for if you believe in Christ then you are chosen.” That would be all well and good if the prophecy didn’t hang on the chosen people being scattered, revealed, and regathered.
It was understanding prophecies like Isaiah 11:11-12 and Jeremiah 16:14-15, just to name a few, that drew my curiosity. If Yahuah’s chosen people are the Jews in Israel today, then why does it say,
“In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth” (Isaiah 11:11-12).
and
"The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but it will be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors” (Jeremiah 16:14-15).
I know what you may be thinking, these prophecies could relate to the Jews that are in Israel today based on historical references — that’s what I thought as well, but my spirit wouldn’t let it go. A year later, this question came up, in my mind, again. This time, I was on a spiritual growth journey, but at the time, I did not realize it.
My desire to figure this out led me to immerse myself in the Word. I had an urge to read the Bible from cover to cover but this time, I wanted to truly understand it so I took my time. Josh and I worked our way through Genesis, mapping out the genealogy and taking particular interest in the four main prophecies: Genesis 3:13-19, Genesis 6, Genesis 12:1-3, and Genesis 15:12-14.
Most people have spent exhaustive time on Genesis 3:13-19, Genesis 6, and Genesis 12:1-3. They are the popular ones that you’ve mostly heard about: the serpent and the seed prophecy; the prophecy about the great flood, and the prophecy about Abraham’s descendants. The one that has been overlooked or at least not discussed in an exhaust, is the prophecy about Abraham’s descendants being “strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years”.
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.” Genesis 3:12-14.
The interesting thing is that when I first read this scripture, I automatically assumed that it was referring to the Israelites time in Egypt found at the end of Genesis and at the beginning of Exodus. Exodus 12:40, however, states that the Israelites sojourned and dwelt in Egypt four hundred thirty years — not four hundred. This led me to search the scriptures reviewing the Israelite times in captivity: Babylon, Assyria, Philistines… none of them resulted in a four hundred year captivity as prophesied in Genesis to Abram. This led me to the question; who, if anyone in history served and was/is being afflicted for four hundred years? I knew that if I could answer this question, I would be able to identify who exactly the Israelites are today.
As I resumed my reading of the Torah, I made my way through Exodus reviewing the commandments and the law of Moses starting in Exodus and ending in Numbers. Once I made it to Deuteronomy, I was exhausted, to say the least. Nevertheless, even through my exhaustion, the message spoke to me loud and clear as Moses was leaving the Israelites with a final word from Yahuah.
In the 28th chapter Moses tell the Israelites the blessings they would receive for obeying Yahuah’s laws, statutes, and commandments (Deuteronomy 28:1-14), and then he tells them the curses they would receive for disobeying Yahuah’s laws, statutes, and commandments (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
If we follow their story through the Bible, including the beginning of the new testament during Yahusha’s walk on this earth, we can identify that the Israelites rejected the Word — Yahusha (John 1:1) which is the law (or Torah) — and shed His innocent blood (Matthew 27:24-25; Psalms 94:21) which is an abomination to Yahuah (Deuteronomy 19:10). Not only did they take responsibility in Matthew 27, but they also said, “His blood be on us, and on our children”; essentially sealing the deal for their descendants. Therefore, they caused the curses to come upon them.
What are the curses?
Before we review Deuteronomy 28:15-68, I would like to define a few words in Hebrew in the hope of aiding your understanding of scripture.
Qelalah (קלָלָה): a curse.
Derived from the root word Qalal ( קָלַל): meaning to be slight, swift or trifling; contemptible
According to BibleStudyTools.com, a curse is often used in contrast with "bless" or "blessing" (Deuteronomy 11:29). When a curse is pronounced against any person, we are not to understand this as a mere wish, however violent, that disaster should overtake the person in question, any more than we are to understand that a corresponding "blessing" conveys simply a wish that prosperity should be on the lot of the person on whom the blessing is invoked.
Mitsrayim (מִצְרַיִם): Egypt
Coined as the “house of bondage” (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6; Deuteronomy 6:12)
Ebed (עֶבֶד): Bondage
Slave, servant
According to BibleStudyTools.com, bondage is used in two senses in Scripture, a literal and a metaphorical sense. Additionally, it is the condition of the Hebrews ('abhodhah) in Egypt (Exodus 1:14; Exodus 2:23) which is frequently called "the house of bondage" ("slaves," `abhadhim), Exodus 13:3,14; 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6. It also refers to the condition of the Hebrews in Babylonia (Isaiah 14:3, the King James Version) and in Persia (Ezra 9:8), where a slightly different form of the same root (`abhedhuth) is used in the original.
Ok, let’s get started. I decided not to include the entire scripture here, because it is really long. I believe it is really important and I encourage you to spend some time in it and ask the Ruach to reveal this message. I pulled out the parts that wouldn’t take too long to explain, but again, I encourage you to look at scripture for yourself.
While you make your way through, you will notice that I included my notes under each verse in the hope to illustrate the checklist I created while I searched for these people.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
The people will be cursed wherever they go.
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
The people will have trouble with their finances and savings (the storehouse)
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
Everything that these people would start will be spoken about negatively; people would get annoyed with them easily; people will rebuke their actions.
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
These people would have to work in extreme weather conditions without relent.
The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
These people will be tormented by their enemies and it will never stop causing them to be conquered and scattered.
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
Their dead bodies will lay on the ground for the beast of the earth to devour or their bodies will hang exposed to the fowl of the air.
The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
These people will grow mad (mentally and emotionally) because of their harsh treatment
These people will be blind to who they are
Because they are mad because of their affliction and blinded to who they are, they will be astonished that people could actually treat them with such enmity.
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
While in bondage, their wives will be taken away and raped
These people will build houses but will not live in them
These people will plant crops and they will not be able to eat of them
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Their sons and daughters will be sold away from them
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
These people will work and build a nation but they will not be able to enjoy the land, they would be oppressed and crushed way. Therefore, they will be mad at the things they see
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
These people will be sick with surface skin diseases that cannot be healed.
The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
While in bondage, in a land that was not known to people during that time, they received a religion that made them serve other gods and idols.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
These people would be called by many derogatory names in the land of bondage and these names will be known all over the world.
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high, and thou shalt come down very low.
These people will be low in overall status in their land of bondage in the form of education, finances, social class, etc.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Because they are low in status, they will not be able to lend to anyone, instead, they would have to borrow.
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Yokes will be placed around these people’s necks and they will be in need for their basic human rights to food and water.
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
These people will be in bondage in a land that is far from the ends of the earth assuming that in the time of their captivity they did not know about the western world because the east was populated.
The land of bondage would be as swift as an eagle.
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
These people, in large quantities, will be sick and largely die from new, never heard about, internal diseases.
And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
These people are scattered and are ingrained in every nation of the world.
And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
These people will arrive in “Egypt” (Mitsrayim) in ships. (Keep in mind that geographic location of Egypt in relation to Israel.)
Lastly, why did all of these curses happen?
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Because they denied the Word and did not keep the laws, statutes, and commandments of the Most High.
My Findings
From the curses identified in Deuteronomy 28, you should be able to identify the true Israelites based on the assumption that you should still see these curses in play today, because Yahuah says, “forever”. Additionally, by assuming that all of the prophecy must be true and not only a portion of them, which group of people (as a whole) fit these descriptions? Of course, there will be a few outliers, but in the grand scheme of things, one group fits everything!
What I concluded is that the prophecy of Genesis 15:12-14 and these curses match the people who are descendants of the African-American people and those whose ancestors where shipped and sold during the transatlantic and subsaharian slave trade.
If you don’t want to take my word for it, have you looked at the bills your government passed this year. On January 8, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the H.R. 1242 Act that commemorates the 400 years of African-American History in this country which will encourage the development of and the carrying out of activities throughout 2019 into 2020. The first slave is said to have set foot in Virginia on August 20, 1619. Therefore, 2019 would officially be the 400-year anniversary. If you don’t want to take my word for it, have you looked at the bills your government passed this year. On January 8, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the H.R. 1242 Act that commemorates the 400 years of African-American History in this country which will encourage the development of and the carrying out of activities throughout 2019 into 2020. The first slave is said to have set foot in Virginia on August 20, 1619. Therefore, 2019 would officially be the 400-year anniversary.
Likewise, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has opened the Right of Abode to African descendant or the diaspora — people scattered — in light of the 400-year anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade. I say all of this to say, people are recognizing this particular group of people, just as the prophecy predicted.
In addition to people in government recognizing who the true Israelites are and the 400-year prophecy, people within these communities are waking up to the truth each and every day. Isaiah 29:10-14 says that the Yahuah poured out a spirit of deep sleep and closed the people’s eyes, but Isaiah 32:3 give hope when it says, “And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammers shall be ready to speak plainly.” And, Isaiah 52 also gives more about the awakening of the people.
Something big is about to happen and I’m looking forward to it. My encouragement for you is to seek Yahuah diligently with your whole heart. Do not cling to the doctrine of man (Matthew 15:9) but seek the Word and allow the Ruach to lead you.
Well, I can go on forever, but I think I will end here. Stay tuned for part 2 where I discuss what it means to be the chosen people, the gentile, and what all of this mean. I truly believe that everyone has a place in the kingdom and everyone (all people) are identified in the Bible.
Until next time; Shalom.
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