Who Is Fooling The African People

Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

If one listens to the African American community today, it is clear to those of us who know scripture, that someone has fooled our community.

There are many who have been convinced that God has changed his laws.
Some believer God has changed his day, and the Sabbath is no longer binding on men.
Some believe God has changed his health law, and the things we eat are not longer important to God.
Some believe God has changed his mind, and will no longer destroy a wicked generation.
Our ignorance in this area, ar not only putting us into an early grave, but they are also destroying the lives of our children, and future of our race.

It appears someone has pulled a fast one on the African American people, and the Question is "WHO IS FOOLING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE.

After the death of Jesus, and the fall of the Holy Spirit some 50 days later, there was a tremendous growth in the Church. People of all races, and color and creed began to accetp Jesus as Savior from their sin and turned to Him in large numbers. Quickly the Africans who had been travelling to Jerusalem for centureis spread the word in their homeland that the Messiah had come.

The descendants of thousand of Africans that had left Egypt in the mixed multitude wih the Israelites people must have sent word back to the relatives as to the coming of the Messiah who had been promised before.

The Ethiopian Eunoch sent by Candice Amanateree had no doubt convinced the Ethiopian people that Messiah of David had finally come, and had died for the sins of the people. The devil then got angry. he had tried all he could to put an end to Jesus and His follwers, but it was not working.

"Paganish realized that should the gospel triumph, her temples and altars would be swept away, therefore she summoned her forces to destroy christtianity.

The fires of persecution were kindled.
Christians were stripped of therir possessions and driven from their homes.
Christiand were crucified and burnt, sealing their testimony with their blood.
Noble slave, rich and poor, learned and ignorant alike, were slain without mercy.

Christians were accused of the most dreadful crimes.
They were held responsible for the greatest calamities.

Famine were blamed upon them
Pestilence were blamed upon them
Earthquake were blamed upon them.

They were condemned as rebels against the empire, as foes of religion and pest to society.

Great numbers were thrown to wild beasts or burned alive in the amphitheaters.
Some were crucified;

Some were covered with the skins of wild animals and thrust into the arena to be torn by dogs. Multitudes watched and jeered as their dying agonies went up to God in a plea for help.

Under the fiercest persecution these witness for Jesus kept their fait.
Though deprived of every comfort they uttered no complaint.
In vain were Satan's efforts to destroy the church of Christ by violence.
The gospel continued to spread and multitude called on the name of Jesus.
Thousands died horrible death, and thousands more simply converted to fill their positions.

Suddenly Satan devised a new plan. What he could not accomplish through persecution, he would accomplish through trickery.

Satan would devise a plan to fool the world, and the African American people.

Satan would plant his banner in the Christian church.
He would unite Paganism and Christianity, and call it by a new name. Catholicism.
According to the book of Revelation (Sermon A Call to the Remnant of Africa) The church of God, would be a representative of Death, and Hell and the Grave would follow her where ever she went.

Rome the center of Persecution, became the center of Christianity.

Thus persecution ended, and prosperity began.

Idolaters were led to receive a part of the Christian faith while they rejected others.

The barbarians as the Germans and Saxons were called, knocking at the gates of Rome were allowed to profess to accept Jesus as the Son of God, but felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart.

The church was in peril. What Prison, torture, fire and sword were not able to do, prosperity achieved. The foundation was laid, for "fooling the African American people.

A union between Christianity and Paganism took place.
The objects of pagan worship were exchanged for Christian objects.
The Black Madonna was replaced with her European counterpart.
Sunday, the day of the Sun, took the place of Sabbath, the Day of the Lord.

The African Church and the Roman church went their separate way.
Romans followed after paganism, while the African church was lost sight of, Christianity entered a new era.

Satan had offered Jesus the world, if only he bowed down and worship Him,
Now he does the same thing for the church.

Christ had commanded:
Luke 4:8. Thous shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shall thou server.

The church on the other hand, quickly accepted Satan's invitation.

Thus the Papacy was born. It was invested with authority over all Bishops and Pastors.

He was declared infallible, thus the way was prepared for a unobjectionable voice.

Satan was now in control, He now had a man that he could deceive, and if he deceived him, His voice was considered infallible, the foundation of deception was laid, and the people of African descent would be caught in the trap.

Because, If and when the Pope spoke contrary to God plan and command, he could not be challenged.

The bible was banned. People were not allowed to have it in their homes.
The priest and Papacy came to be accepted as the universal representative of God on earth.

The Sabbath Day became a day of fasting, and Sunday a day of celebration.
The Dark Ages had begun.

As the power of this new institution increased, the dark ages deepened.
Faith was transferred from Christ to the papacy.

Men were taught the Papacy and Priests were mediators between God and man, in total contradiction of the Bible which taught there was only one God, One Mediatior between God and man the man Christ Jesus.

Long pilgrimage, acts of penance, the worships of relics, the erection of chruches shrines and altars, the payments of large sums of money to the church were done to appease the wrath of God.

God had commanded: Exodus 20:4

Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Yet Image worships became acceptable. Candles were burned before images, in the custom of the pagans. Crosses were worshiped and worn around the neck as good luck charms, a common practice of the pagans.

Purgatory was created to put fear into men's heart.
Then Penance to get one out of purgatory.

The mass took the place of communion, and confession the place of prayer.

But the worst of Her inventions was the the inquisition. And because of this dreaded institution, the mangled form of Millions cried to God for vengeance upon this apostate power.

From Europe to the New world, Millions were massacred in the name of religion. And from the Alter the book of Revelation show them crying, "How long Oh Lord, How long, until you avenged our blood.

DAN 7:1-7

Dan 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Dan 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
Dan 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

Ancient Babylon. The Golden Cushite Empire.

Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

539 BC Medo Persian. 3 Ribs signifying Egypt, Lydia, and Babylon, the three world powers defeated.

Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

The Grecians under Alexander the Great.

Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; nd it had ten horns.

The Iron Monarchy of the World, Rome, who under the Ceasars beginning in 168 BC terroized the world, and destroyed all in its path.

Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

10 Horns, ten nations of Rome.

The Little Horn.

1. It came up among the ten horns. It would arise out of Rome.
2. It came up after the ten horns. After 476 AD which was the breakup of the Romean Empire.
3. He was different from the first ten.- The others were political, but this will be religious.
4. He would displace three Kingdoms.' The papacy destroyed the Heruli, Ostrogothes, and Vandals.

5. It would have eyes like a man. - Eyes signified divine intelligence, but this was human eye, signifying it was led by a man who presumes the authority of God.

II Th 2:3-5

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
(KJV)
DANIEL 7:25

Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

The apostacy of the Christian church would undermine the authority of God. And those who opposed Him would be worn out.

Gods authority is based on His creator ship.

REV 14:6-7
Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

He demands worship on the authority of His law, and the bases of Creation.
But a man whould come along that would think to change times and law.

PSALM 89:34

Psalm 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the things that have gone out of my mouth.

GOD DID 3 THINGS ON THE SABBATH

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

1. He blessed it
2. He rested on it
3. He sanctified it.

Early in the 2nd Centure Christians began the Crusifixion weekend celebration.
This centered n the day of the Passover, which was the day Christ was crucified.
But people were beginning to associate them with Judaism, so they decided to celebrate the ressurection instead of the crucifixion.

So Sixus Bishop of the church instituted the annual ressurection feast.
The pagan had been celebration Sunday for centuries as the Day of the Son, and they welcomed such a change.

This was resisted by the Bishops of Africa, and other coutry area who feld in was important to continue to uphold Gods sabbath.

In Ad 200 Pope Victor said all bishope who would not follow the plan of the yearly observation of easter would be excommunicated. This of course was just his attempt to show his control over the church. Many north African and Bishops now finds themselves at Odds with the church, and would be persecuted and excommunicated.

"An on the day called Sunday, all who live in the cities or in the country gather together to one place...Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly because it is the first day on which God made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead.

For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Chyristians of Alexandria and Rome on account of some ancient tradition have ceased to do this. Ibid p.

Then in 321 AD Constantine Emperor of Rome, and leader of the Chruch passed the first Sunday law. "On the Venerable day of the Sun shall no work be done"

Richmen who worked on Sunday was fined half their estates, if they continued, they would be made slaves. Servants were flogged, the lower classes were banished from the Kingdom.

In the early years of Christianity, Africa flourished as a Christian center. Ethiopia had been converted to Judaism since the time of Solomon and they were among the first to accept Christianity.
When the world itself, followed Catholicism, and the Crusades and Holy wars raged, there was one nation that was quietly serving God in seclusion. Cut of by Muslims invaders, and fighting for survival, the "Land of the Cushites" vigilantly upheld the gospel of Jesus Christ.

'The History of the church in Ethiopia and Abyssinia is especially significant. Amid the Gloom of the dark ages, The Christians of Central Africa were lost sight of and forgotten by the world, and for many centuries they enjoyed freedom in the exercise of their faith. But at last Rome learn of their existence and the Emperor of Abyssinia was soon beguiled into an acknowledgment of the Pope as the Vicar of Christ.

In AD 330 a number of Phoenicians who were en route to India were shipwrecked off the coast of Ethiopia, among them the two young sons of the leader Merobius. The Ethiopians who were then at war with Rome, killed all except the two lads. These were presented to the king, Abrahan, who took them into his household, one of them Frumentius, became tutor of Abraha, the crown prince, whom he won over to Roman Catholicism. After making other converts, Frumentius returned to Constantinople where he was received by the emperor, Constantine the Great, who was so impressed by his story the he aided him.

St. Athanasius, head of the church made him bishop. Returning to Ethiopia with his aides, Frumentius established the church with Abraha, who was now king, giving hid full support..

Beautiful churches were build, and Catholicism was introduced.
Other concessions followed. An edict was issued forbidding the observance of the Sabbath under the severest penalty. But Papal tyranny soon and it soon became clear to the Ethiopians the plan of the Papacy, so the war broke out.

After a terrible struggle the Romanists were banished from their dominions, and the ancient faith was restored. The churches rejoiced in their freedom, and they never forgot the lesson they had learned concerning the deception, the fanaticism, and the despotic power of Rome. The churches of Africa held the Sabbath as it was held by the church before her complete apostasy.'

But then the African was snatched from his homeland and brought to the new world. In the new world, he was taught a new day.

Newly liberated from slavery, he continued to worship on the slave masters day. Churches such as The AME Zion church sought to build a African Church for the African people, by rather than reforming, they simple changes faces, so as to meet the needs of the black Community.

Convinced the Sabbath had been change by Christ on the first day of the week, the African American continued to worship on this day.

The slave master had so messed up the slaves min, he had controlled the books the slaves read, that the slave new little about the ancestry of His forefathers.

My Mother was a baptist, my grandmother was a baptist, and I will die a baptist
Baptist born, baptist bread, and I am going to be Baptist dead.
This was the cry from a ex slave, who could look no farther back than his great Grand mother who was recently released from slavery.

And they say it with such pride that one is lead to believe that to them the word of God is insignificant, and the expect God to overlook their ignorance just because Mother of father did not know better.

One day the African woke up, and he found preachers moaning from the pulpit, who knew very little of what the bible had to say, but he sure knew how to moaned well.

And without realizing the were walking in the wrong path, the people continued in the tradition of their misled parents.

And for them the words of Jesus, rings loud and clear, in vain, do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Who fooled the African, the Catholics did, and we go to church every Sunday morning thinking we are doing what God said.

Listen to their Testimony Page 8 & 9 of Booklet.
"We observer Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday"

So the Catholic church boast, but the protestant churches, caught in this trap of deception. Refuses to recognize it’s deception. Fearful they will suffer the wrath of the people, preachers are reluctant to preach the truth, but God is saying tonight, don't be fooled, God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

Remember the Sabbath..

Keep my sabbath, that