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3 FORE WORD TO THIS COLLECTION OF ITATIONS Thank you very much for downloading and/or reading the Itations of Messian Dread. If you had to pay any money for it, please protest against the one that provided you with this file. This e-book contains all the Itations as they can be found on the I-ficial Home of Messian Dread, a part of the DUBROOM.com website. They are written over a number of years and are mainly to be considered as written thoughts of Messian Dread, concerning a variety of topics. I hope and pray that you will have some blessed hours while you are reading the Itations of Messian Dread. Some things you may find disturbing or even confusing, because they do not follow the lines of "common" Christianity or Rastafari. I would however encourage you to read on and to consider what is written as a personal Itation from a dreadlocked disciple of Yesus Kristos. You can always contact I, or reason in the message board about what you read.

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5 CONTENTS: 1. INTRODUCING MESSIAN DREAD What is (a) Messian Dread or Jesus Dread? A Christian with dreadlocks? A Rasta Christian, or a Christian Rasta? Judge for yourself. In this article I introduce you to my theology and reasoning on Ras TafarI. I am a student of the Messiah, I do not represent any group or cult or denomination. I am learning every day, and I do not want to keep what I have learned for myself. I humbly present to you my thoughts and findings. I hope they are of a blessing to you CHRISTIAN BABYLON "You can fool some people some time, but you can't fool all the people all the time", Bob Marley sang in a song, but it is also the other way around: "You can have some people agree with you some time, but you can not have all the people agree with you all the time". I am always trying to build bridges between Christians and Rastafarians, or as I would rather put it: "Christians who believe Messiah has returned, and Christians who do not believe that". 3. ON THE INTERVIEW WITH THE PROPHET GAD No, there is no official website of the 12 tribes of Israel. The only link I came across during my surfing sessions hunting for new links, was a dead one. I personally could never get any publication by the group. The only things I knew, I knew from books. Until I came across the interview. Some brother sended me a tape and for the first time in my life I could hear the voice of Vernon Carrington, better known as THE PROPHET GAD from the 12 tribes of Israel. 4. MAITREYA, THE COMING WORLD TEACHER? Because we live in a world full of injustice, it is obvious that a wize man could help us out, by his guidance we could evolve ourselves, transform ourselves to a new age of happiness, love and peace. Now, since the mid 70's from the 20th century, the master of the masters came from his seat in the mystic mountains of the Himalayas to live among the people. Messian Dread's comments at the message of Maitreya and the New Age Movement...

6 5. FOLLOWING RASTAFARI Within the movement of Rastafari, as one knows, there are several if not numerous different houses. Now that I have shared some meditations about the things that divide, now I would like to meditate about one of the things that bind together. In this article I witness about the way I see the spiritual richness and importance of the Negus, Rastafari. 6. BLACK PERSPECTIVE It seems that so many people think the movement of Rastafari is a racist movement, that I decided to study some material that claimed Rasta to be racist or partial in race. Is the movement holding one race superior and another inferior as the critics say? Why is it that people seem to think the movement talks about superiority of one race over another? This article is written to serve especially those people that struggle with one of the above questions. 7. A WORD OF PROPHESY TO BABYLON How great are your cities, oh babylon of this present time. Your towers reach beyond the clouds, and your power covers the earth... Your mystery works from the ancient days of Nimrod, until this day, have been covered for the eyes of the world but it has always been clear to the followers of the Mighty One. 8. DREAD MEDITATION According to the story that is told, when the first Rastas began to throw the comb away they were called dreadlocks because people were afraid when they saw someone with locks. It is also said, that dreadlocks can be found in the Bible. This article is not about how to grow your dreadlocks outwardly, this article is an in-depth meditation of the Law on the Nazarites.

7 9. NEW AGE Millions and millions of people, numerous Rastafarians and (other) Christians included, are influenced in one way or another by New Age Thought, without knowing where they are being prepared for. Most of the time these people are sincere in trying to make the world a better place. In this -rather long- article I will try to introduce you to the -unfortunately- horrible truth (and root) behind New Age: Beware, oh children of Jah, for the time is at hand! 10. THE COLOR OF DEATH IS PURPLE In the Netherlands, the country where I live, we currently have a government consisting of three parties. This coalition of Social Democrats, Liberals and Democrats is known under the name "the purple coalition" and is presently in their second term. The binding factor in this government is the Democrat party with the name "D'66". It was their ideal to have a coalition without the Christian Democrats. The Queen of the Netherlands, a woman with the name Beatirx, also played a very strong part in forming this coalition, almost 8 years ago. 11. Born Again Rasta When I reason with either Rastafarians or Christians, I come to realize something again and again. In the vision of many people the two seem to exclude each other. But when I meditate over these things, I can see how definitions are being used, definitions of which you can not say that they cover the truth completely. They are merely an expression of a certain interpretation, driven by personal experiences, yet presented as a standard.

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9 INTRODUCING MESSIAN DREAD What is (a) Messian Dread or Jesus Dread? A christian with dreadlocks? A Rasta Christian, or a Christian Rasta? Judge for yourself. In this article I introduce you to my theology and reasoning on Ras Tafari. I am a student of the Messiah, I do not represent any group or cult or denomination. I am learning every day, and I do not want to keep what I have learned for myself. I humbly present to you my thoughts and findings. I hope they are of a blessing to you... JAH RASTAFARI What do people mean when they say Jah Rastafari? Haile Selassie, in his youth named Ras Tafari, Emperor of Ethiopia, of whom it was said he was a devout christian, is being worshipped as the returned Messiah (Iesous Kristos, Yeshouah ha Mashiach (or in english Jesus Christ) by many Rastafarians. The Negus (Emperor) is highly respected for his struggle for justice in Africa, for his victory against that Icon of the antichrist, Mussolini. Not so many people know that his Majesty is the founder of the O.A.U. the Organization for Afrikan Unity. Haile Selassie thought of scriptures as of great importance. He ordered to have a readable translation made for the people of Ethiopia. Not all Rastafarians see HIM as God, some see him as an Icon or Type of Christ, that is a symbolical reference to Christ, just as King David is a biblical Icon of Christ. This is the way he is presented by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, of which Selassie was the head. Selassie was a well-appreciated and accepted person within all kinds of christian denominations, he attended at an evangelist-congress in Berlin, Germany. MESSIAN DREAD IKONOLGY That means, that in himself Selassie was not Christ, neither is he Jah, but his personality and identity can reveal to us the Savior, just like King David from the Bible. There are great references to Messiah in the function of Negus Negesti. He refers and reveals to us how it will be when Christ will sit upon the Throne. That is the meaning in the greet at the start of this page, which I have taken from the Rastafarian organization "The Twelve Tribes Of Israel", the Rasta-movement I feel the closest connection with. Haile Selassie was filled with the Holy Spirit of Jah, in such a manner that a lot of people confuse the filled and the Filler. Just like the apostles of the new testament were once worshipped because they were so "full of Jah" that the people could not discern. They mistake the Icon for the One the Icon points to! Icons are a way that Jah is using to teach His people, just like the parables. People must be Icons of Jah. When a christian get caught in the act of child abuse, everyone judges him, but judge him double because he is a preacher, and therefore should be a representant of Christ. A cross can also be an Icon. It is a help for us people who are always in need of something touchable. There's a difference between an Icon and a Mediator. A mediator stands in between Jah and us humans, an Icon is human as we. And Icon can become a guide to the Mediator. Many roads to Messiah, one road to Jah.

10 MESSIAN DREAD MEDITATION Haile Selassie said: "I am a man, and man can not worship man". Although some Rastafarians argue that Selassie "just" did not mention that he was God also, that could not convince me. For me, this utterance, especially because it is an answer from His Majesty to the question if he is God, shows clearly, we should look on Selassie as an Icon of Christ, that means as a symbol, or to use an Internet term, a "hyperlink", but not as Christ Himself. Selassie did send Abuna Yesehaq as Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to Jamaica to teach about this. About this you can read in another article in this magazine. It is InI personal obedience to Selassie, that I do not regard him as God. But he is clearly an Icon of Jesus Christ in His Kingly Character: The fact that Selassie is of Davidic descent, and that he is part of a unbroken lineage from Solomon to His Majesty gives an indication, but also his titles, some of which point directly to the returned Messiah. Some of his titles are: "Light of the World, King of kings, Lion of the tribe of Judah". All Ethiopian Kings wore these titles, therefor creating the need for themselves to walk as Christ's representants. MESSIAN DREAD ETHIOPIA The connection between Ethiopia and Jah, the Creator, is clear to see within the Bible, although it is not mentioned in christian churches. A single search under the word "Ethiopia" in my computer-bible Swordsearcher gives me 20 occasions in scripture. That's more than you can say from the United States or the Netherlands. Because of this great unawareness in christianity, many mis-interpretations of Jah's Word the Bible entered the faith. When people read "Ethiopia" in scriptures, most of the time they see this as synonym for "Far-of lands". Ofcourse clearly you can see the western influence in this opinion, since Ethiopia may be far of from the Netherlands, where I live, but not from Israel. It is the movement of Rastafari bringing Ethiopia back on the agenda of the "Scripturologists". Ethiopia needs to be examined when you want to examine the scriptures. She is a part of the garden of Eden, in Gods Plan from the beginning. Christianity was first brought to Ethiopia, then to Europe. Ethiopia is the keeper of the Arc of the Covenant until the Arc will be placed into the final Judaic Temple. The Rastafarian picture you see on your heartical side, shows how the Light comes from Israel, which I consider to be part of Africa. Go south, you will enter into the kingdom of Ethiopia. The kingdom, which has the Arc of the Covenant, the kingdom who's king is an Icon of Christ. The thronekeeper of the throne of King David. MESSIAN DREAD IDENTIFICATION Although some Rastafarians have the same look on His Majesty and Christ Jesus as I do, and therefore I could call myself a Rastafarian without a doubt, I wish to call myself Messian Dread". Not to be another and a new style, or distinction from either Rastafari (the movement) or Christianity. I stand for the One Who gives I life, Jah. A Conscious Dread. A Lion Dread. The truth is, that dreadlocks is a sign of livication to Jah, even ordained by Jah! It is not a style or fashion to wear, dreadlocks is strictly livication to Jah. Other can wear locks, but they're not dreadlocks as in "Dread the Most High". There are Rastas who would say I can not call Iself Dread, there are Christians who would also like to see I cutting I dreadlocks. It is their

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13 CHRISTIAN BABYLON In this meditation I want to share my thoughts about Christianity's view on Rastafari. Over the years that the Itations that you are reading now are online, I've encountered everything, from Rastafarians calling me a "wolf in sheep's dreads" to Christians warning me not to "participate with idol worship". I don't know which judgement I dislike most, but this meditation is especially written for my Brethren and Sistren in Christ, my fellow Christians, who might consider me to be on a straying path when it comes to my reasonings concerning Rastafari. Sometimes I get responses from concerned Christians, sometimes even angry ones, about my meditations. Basically it boils down to one point, the person of Haile Selassie. Apparently, some Christians go so far, that even positive words, even attempts to comprehend the spiritual significance of Haile Selassie, become reasons to judge me. These judgements can go very far. From my side, I notice that many of these people have taken the trouble to mail me, but not to study my meditations. Is mentioning ignorance in this matter just? For some it seems like everything reasoned about Selassie, other than "He's not God" is reason to doubt my faith. Could it be, because I strongly criticize Christianity? I think that I have every right to do so, being the Messian (Christian) Dread that I am. I consider myself part of Christianity. But it sometimes seems like mainstream Christianity's view on Rastafari is one of total rejection: the Rastaman is portrayed as an immoral drug addict, and after all, who wants to listen to an immoral drug addict? I know, I'm being sarcastic here, but only to make my point. And to express my dissatisfaction with the point of view. Let me mention an example of what I mean: I have heard of Christian people saying that the "whole Afrikans in bondage in babylon thing" is nothing but claiming something that wasn't there, and also, wasn't it written [FOOTNOTE 1] in scripture that when there are those claiming to be Jews where they were not Jews, this shouldn't be taken so lightly? But first of all: that scripture does not deal with people directly because they claim to be Jews, because then we could say this of all Jews who do not accept Jah according to the apostle Paulus [FOOTNOTE 2]. One could also argue, that Christianity is in fact "fulfilled Judaism". The scripture Rev 3:9 which we saw earlier, deals with people who were worshipping satan, that dragon formerly known as lucifer. They gathered in the "synagogue of satan". There is an article by an organization called Watchman [FOOTNOTE 3] which I otherwise know to be a good source for information when it comes to cults and sects and groups. They have an article about "Rastafarianism" (sic) in which they claim Rastafari to be racialist. Ignorance? How come, if so? When it comes to Rastafari Christians become strange. Strange: for years mainstream Christianity has been claiming the promises that Jah Jah gave the Jews, because they were "spiritual Israel". In spite of the fact that Israel is moving back to the Holy Land known as the Official State of Israel, until this present day this is theology in many denominations still. Let's bring in something else, too, before I come back to this point. Stuff done in the name of Christianity. Stuff that makes Rastafari doubt the genuinity of Christianity. And it would be so wise for Christians to consider these things before they pass judgements on the Rastaman. I am truly happy with the particular movement within Christianity, that is working towards

14 reconciliation and confessions of sins done in the Name of Yeshua. What I'm about to show you, is in no way a thing from mainstream Christianity (anymore). Still it is done in the name of the god of the slave master that has been used so many times to keep slaves down. And the god of the slavemaster has been given the same Name as the Divine Saviour. Look at the picture below, to see what so called "good Christian folks" do with black people. Your browser will open in a new window and you will see the picture. IT IS SHOCKING so do PLEASE not view this where there are little children. Although this is an old picture, "good white Christian folks" are still killing black people in this time, and they think it is a good thing, a good Christian thing, to do. It is within this context that the movement of Rastafari came to existence, let us never forget that. "Jesus" has been portrayed by the babylonians as the god of the system. "Jesus" has been used, as justification for some of the most terrible actions in modern history. And although this is often wiped away as history, the echo's go on until this day. I strongly believe that if mainstream Christianity had obeyed the teachings of Yeshua, and had set the captives free instead of enslaving them, there wouldn't now be a movement believing Selassie to be the returned Saviour. It is the result of centuries of theological justified slavery and discrimination. And all these things should be considered. I am happy that the average Rastaman is perfectly able to discern the wickedness done in the Name of the Saviour from the Most High Himself. This is what I have been taught by Rastafarians: that black people were taken to babylon for their own sins, and that after 400 years the time has come for the children of Africa to return to their homeland.

15 Now, is it not so, that for those people who have been in slavery and exile for so long, it is obvious and overstandable to call Ethiopia Zion? There are even scriptures [FOOTNOTE 4] which compare Ethiopians (Black Afrikans) and the children of Israel. This close relationship is also symbolized in the marriage of Moses, the first Israeli Leader, with an Afrikan Princess. Is it not so, that in a country where a descendant of David rules, as an Icon of Christ, it is tempting to call that Zion? Or Kingdom of God? But there is even something much more important to be seen, when dealing with this subject. There is a clear similarity to see between the exile of the children of Israel and the children of Ethiopia to babylon. They were both in exile in babylon, in the babylon of their times. The Jews were held captive in what is now known as Iraq, the Afrikans are hold in the Western World, modern day babylon. And this babylon today is very brutal. Ofcourse: it is the final babylon! But it is also a babylon which in name is "Christian". And that is a bigger difference than the geographical location: the religion of the ancient babylon was polytheist, in name today babylon is worshipping the Creator through Christ. The good seed and the bad seed have been growing up together [FOOTNOTE 5], now there is not so much difference to be seen at the surface. Babylon has infiltrated Christianity, and now a babylonian Christianity is ruling babylon. I have always been protesting against the idea, that "the western world" has a Christian Culture. The western world is babylon, and babylon is not a Christian although many babylonians are. But true Christians have always been persecuted from the first day of their existence. Reading of the Bible? Forbidden for centuries for the average person. Materialism and atheism have come into place of a corrupted caricature of true Christianity in blinding the people, and now, when people can speak their mind and believe what they want, who needs a Saviour? In a system that calls itself "Christian", Christians are considered a group of clowns! A thing to consider for the Christian and the Rastaman. It may be true, that Ethiopia is not Zion in the sense that it is not the home of the Jews, and it is not Heaven, but it is also not so, that Afrika is that heathen continent of which you hear Christians speaking. Christianity has been spread to Afrika way before it was spread to Europe. Afrika, Ethiopia has been a part of the land of Eden. And what about Beta Israel [FOOTNOTE 6]? Is it not significant that it is almost certain that the Arc of the Covenant is present in Ethiopia [FOOTNOTE 7]? And that a descendant of King David was until recently still sitting upon his throne, Haile Selassie there? I think that Ethiopia is the keeper of the throne of King David and the keeper of the Arc of the Covenant, until the final days come, in which the temple will be rebuild in Jerusalem and the Armageddon starts to take place. We already see in this times that we are coming to a point in which the Lord Iesous will return to another part of Africa, Jerusalem. But before that,. before He will take His place as rightful Ruler, on the throne, there will be the last days of babylon. All of us in babylon, whether we are Afrikan or not, we have to deal with Christian babylon. Babylon is here and her magic is enchanting everybody. When you are conscious, when you claim to follow Jah, let go the judging at Rastafarians, or at Conscious Christians. We need each other. The time will soon come in which Jah Word cannot be spread freely anymore, so let us fight babylon, satan and wickedness in the Name of Yeshouah.

16 [FOOTNOTE 1] Re 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. return [FOOTNOTE 2] Ro 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: Ro 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. return [FOOTNOTE 3] Link to the article is here. Link to the organization website is here Links open in a new window return [FOOTNOTE 4] Am 9:7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? return [FOOTNOTE 5] Mt 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. return [FOOTNOTE 6] Beta Israel, or House of Israel, is the name that the Ethiopian Jews give to themselves. Others call them "Falasha's". return [FOOTNOTE 7] For a nice article by One World Magazine about the Arc in Ethiopia click here.

17 "Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Who has revealed Himself in this time in the personality of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie..." This is the official greetings of the Rastafarian Organization 12 tribes of Israel, the biggest congregations of Rastafarians with centers around the world. The founder and leader of the movement has been interviewed by Jamaican Radiostation IRIE FM. This article is a meditation about the utterances by Vernon Carrington, the Prophet Gad! TWELVE TRIBES OF RASTAFARI NO, there is no official website of the 12 tribes of Israel. The only link I came across during my surfing sessions hunting for new links, was a dead one. I personally could never get any publication by the group. The only things I knew, I knew from books. Until I came across the interview. Some brother sended me a tape and for the first time in my life I could hear the voice of Vernon Carrington, better known as THE PROPHET GAD from the 12 tribes of Israel. I rejoiced to find out, that I was not the only one having the believe Selassie is an Ikon of Jah, but not Jah Himself. I felt like a fool, thirsty in the abundance of water. Oh yes, I knew it's a controversy, the person of Haile Selassie, as I can witness that some Rastas and some (other) Christians give I tribulation because of my meditations. Sometimes I felt alone. And then Jah says: You are not the only one! I raised my head up high, and wrote down my thoughts. I am not alone in this struggle, I am in good company. The company of the founder and leader of the twelve tribes of Israel, the prophet Gad. No brainwash education As a true Rastafarian group, there is no doctrine pushed upon the members, they are encouraged to find out things for themselves. This has to be done by reading the bible "a chapter a day". So it can be, that some members of the 12 tribes say a different thing than their leader. Until recently it was very hard to get ahold of some of the prophet's teachings. But the prophet Gad, the leader and founder of the organization, was interviewed recently on the Jamaican Radiostation Irie FM. The interview has been transcribed and placed on the Internet, liberating readers like me from the unrealized bondage of ignorance. It is always said, that the prophet believes and teaches, that Haile Selassie is Jesus Christ. Well, this is not the case. He is saying, that Christ is coming to sit upon the throne, he literally "makes a different definition", when it comes to Selassie and Jesus Messiah. It is true, that the King radiates Christ, but he is not Christ. Well, this was a remarkable discovery when I listened to the interview, and spoken with some members of the 12 tribes. No, this is not a recent change of doctrine, I am assured. The prophet has always said this. Close connection with Rastafari With members of the Ethiopian Royal Family in the 12 tribe congregation, and with the teachings of their leader prophet Gad more or less the same as the Ethiopian Orthodox when it comes to Selassie, I find it remarkable that the closer we get to the person of Rastafari (family, his church, etc), the more people assure us that he was

18 an Ikon of Christ, but not Jah or Christ Himself. When you come as closest to HIM as you possibly can, namely to HIM personally, you hear: "I am a man, and man can not worship man." How different this was with those who knew Jesus close: they were all convinced He was God! It is true that we have a lot of members in both the EOC (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) as the TTI (12 Tribes) who still believe that Selassie is God, this is because the 12 tribes members are encouraged to think for themselves, the prophet's teachings are not forced like brainwash education. Spreading the vibe How come that so many people just do not know of these teachings? How come many people don't know, that there are actually a lot of Rastafarian Elders, who do not believe Selassie to be the returned Messiah? How can it be, that there is so much false rumor circulating about the doctrines of the prophet Gad? For example, in the world-famous book Reggae International, it is written that the TTI teach Selassie is Jesus. So then, this is not the case and has never been the case. How come? There must be some strong power, that tries to withhold the truth from coming out. The truth that a lot of Rastafarians know as a fact that Selassie is not Jesus Christ, but he clearly is an Ikon of Jah Messiah, might be an offense for some, but it is not a sin. Even stronger: the truth shall set you free! It is time, that this message spreads across Cyberspace and the (rest of the) real world. The opposition That the TTI have a different definition, is clear to see in the fact that they are not invited in the talks that are organized by another Rastafarian Organization, the relatively young Rastafarian Unification Organization. A group that is committed to the unification of all Rastafarians but they exclude the biggest! That is a remarkable fact... According to the prophet Gad there has never been an initiative from the side of the RUO to have the TTI participate, although Gad is very willing to help. His leading capacities, his connections with the Ethiopian Royal Family, all these things apparently do not matter. Only once were the 12 Tribes invited to help with a school, but that's it. He does not have an explanation for this exclusion, but I think that for some people it seems to be that only those people who believe that Rastafari is Jesus Christ are Rastafarians. And they want to do anything they can to keep it that way. Unfortunately the tribal war has not ended... Bun the Bible? The prophet is asked what he thinks of all those people who say the Bible is not reliable, people who say: "bun the bible". He answers that there are a lot of people that are cursing over the things of Jah. Cursing God, cursing the King. Gadman doesn't really respond to it, he only says, that there are always people who reject Jah and His Word, but that there are also people who accept and give thanks for them. A

19 very good attitude, why waste your time in reasoning with people who are only trying to bring you down? There are nuff people who do want to know what Jah says. Locks and food The prophet is asked about dreadlocks, and diet. He makes mention of the fact, that scripture is not saying that we are saved by our hair, or by what we eat. We are saved by grace alone, through the blood of Christ. This is what the prophet is saying. It is also remarkable, that he as a Rastafarian leader does not wear dreadlocks himself. He does encourage however, that people do wear them. In this thing, he is following the Scriptural way. The prophet says we have to find out if the things he says are correct by reading the bible a chapter a day. He is following the Bible himself. And he is following Haile Selassie, who has said that he was saved by the Blood of Christ, and not by his own character. A true Rastafarian follows Rastafari. A dreadlock is wearing the mark of the Nazarite, of the special livicated to Jah. What one eats or not eats, is a matter of the heart, not of doctrine. The prophet knows and practices the words of Jah, not to become like the Pharisees who say don't eat this, don't eat that. CONCLUZION The interview, which I was blessed to transcribe for publication on the Internet, has been quoted in one of the most blessed books that is available on this subject, a book called DREAD JESUS which is documenting the current Messianic movement within Rastafari. This fact alone shows you the significance of the interview. I thank God for enlightening Gadman that Selassie and Christ are not the same person, and that Selassie is not a part of the Divine Trinity, although he is a descendant of David and annointed by Jah like all kings. BOOK TIP:

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21 MAITREYA - THE COMING WORLD TEACHER? Because we live in a world full of injustice, it is obvious that a wize man could help us out, by his guidance we could evolve ourselves, transform ourselves to a new age of happiness, love and peace. Now, since the mid 70's from the 20th century, the master of the masters came from his seat in the mystic mountains of the Himalayas to live among the people. He is known as the Maitreya to the buddhist people, Iman Mahdi to the Muslims, Messiah to the Jews, and Iesous to the christians. At the same time the start signal was given to unveil the secrets of many occult orders and society's which we now came to know as the New Age Movement. Messian Dread's comments at the message of Maitreya and the New Age Movement... The Master of Masters The master of the masters, the leader of what is known as the great white brotherhood. Does this sound familiar to you? Or doesn't it? Let me help you. We have to get back to the previous century, to the country of India. In that time and place we have a woman called Mme. Blavatsky. She wrote a book called "The secret doctrine". This book was to become the foundation of that movement that tells us every time that we are at the dawn of a new age: the New Age Movement. Blavatsky wrote about a hierarchy of masters, spiritual beings. Among them: Iesous the Christ, Krishna and other gods. This same group has a leader. Maitreya, as his herald Benjamin Creme calls him, has left his mystical place to live among the people. Pretty soon he will be revealed to the whole world. Expected by many, known to a few Thusfar, nothing new under the sun. Benjamin Creme is announcing the revelation of his MAITREYA for a long time now. There have been several occasions in which he has announced the revelation at a certain time, date or hour. It was clear from the start, Benjamin Creme was the chosen one to announce the coming of the leader of the great white brotherhood as it is called by people like Mme Blavatsky and Alice Bailey. All people in the NAM expect this leader. This leader will be their guide into the New Age. They say, all religious people all over the world expect him: christians expect Iesous, Muslims the Iman Mahdi, Hindus Krishna and Buddhists the Maitreya. That he is the returned Iesous is proven by the fact that he came "as a thief in the night", as it is written in the bible: nobody knows his dwelling place, only that he serves as a spokesman for the Pakistani Community in London. That is to be the prophecy fulfilled that He would come as a thief in the night, if we are to believe Benjamin Creme and his people of the New Age Movement.

22 Iesous is Iesious is not Iesous Maitreya has been spotted on several occasions, where he seems to appear out of nowhere to groups of people. He has been photographed when he visited a group of people in Kenya, Africa. The photograph at the top of this article has been taken there. Don't be fooled, you can not start a search operation for this man, because Maitreya has been videotaped as he has been playing the guitar in New York. He looks like a black man over there. So the same man, different appearances. The reason why he appeared to the people in Kenya the way he did, was because they had to believe he was Iesous. Ofcourse he was not Iesous, for he is Iesous' master (according to the NAM) but he appears to people pretending to be Iesous Kristos where he admits at other places that he is not. You do not believe me? Go ahead, and check it out for yourself: they have a website from which you can easily pick all this information. I even have a little game for you: find the sentence where they write that the two world wars were "purifications" and remember that that was the reason Shitler and Mussolini killed the people: purification of the aryan race. So go ahead, check it out, and then please return to read the rest of this article. CLICK HERE for the english version, KLIK HIER voor de nederlandse website van Maitreya. The Message of Maitreya and his NAM Now what is the man saying? The organization of Benjamin Creme is called Share International. And that is the message, at least appears to be when you give a first sight. The rich have to share with the poor. Now, is that not a thing which we are all longing for? Well, Maitreya is going to make sure that we are all going to do that. It is a part of the message of the NAM: share, don't take more than you need. This is why so many people believe that Maitreya is a good man. Jews will believe he is Messiah, Christians will believe that he is Iesous, Rastas will believe he is Haile Selassie. It will all come, for the people of the NAM this is a fact, for I and I this is also a fact because we know prophecy and scripture of JAH! New Agers are sure of this all because we're at the dawning of a New Age, the astrological era of the Water-man or Aquarius. New Age is also a strong and upcoming force within reggae, but also within the movement of Rastafari. A Dutch ganja magazine has a column by a new age rasta. The hunger for righteousness is so big among the people that the NAM finds perfect soil for their message. They say that all religions basically preach the same, and that all believers are in fact expecting the same man: Maitreya. We expect the King of kings to come, Iesous Kristos the Lion of Judah and now we must believe this Maitreya man to be Him, the Maitreya, who even says himself he is not the One Rastafari told us to expect!

23 The Imposter Jah warns us that there will be, in the last years of babylon, the revelation of a leader who will seduce all people. But he can only be revealed when "He that witholdeth" is taken away. Maitreya wants to reveal himself with so much pleasure, but something or someone is holding him from revealing himself. Maitreya, of whom it is said by Benjamin Creme, that he is not Christ, but Christ's Master. Maitreya who pretends to be Iesous Kristos when he appears to a group of people who attended a meeting held by an occultic (duppy) spiritual healeress. And that is what they say on their own website. Let's take a closer look: Maitreya is the head of Iesous Kristos, Iman Mahdi, Krishna, Mohammed and a lot more "masters". The one that the Buddhists expect is... Maitreya. Buddha means: "Light Carrier". Shall I give you the same name in another language? Lucifer: the same meaning: "Light Carrier". We are warned by Jah not to follow someone pretending to be Him, not to follow the devil Lucifer who comes as an angel of light. Maitreya may come with a good message, but his intentions are wrong. Why should someone has to lie and cheat and pretend to christians to be Christ? He is what you want him to be He appears to people in the way that they expect him to appear. Can you see the similarity with those philosophies saying there are more truths? For a Christian, this MAITREYA may appear as Iesous in his visions. For a Muslim he might appear as Mohammed or Allah. He appears as, imposes to be the One we worship, and his words will be sweeter than honey. Just like he knows I and I want out of babylon, the way to transform babylon into something very nice and thing. So we need a lot of discernment in this time. Discernment we can only get from the Source or Truth and Right, JAH Almighty. We get discernment when we root ourselves strongly in Scriptures. Trusting an imposter Can we trust someone who admits that he is an imposter? That he appears as Iesous Kristos, being not Him? Not seeing anything wrong with that? No we can not. Jah says that satan Lucifer is the father of lies. Jah says, that He can not lie. If there would be something like a "Master of Iesous Kristos" he would never impose to be Him. We must not only listen to the message, we must also check back with scriptures. A deceitful way ends in destruction Beware, oh children of the Most High JAH! The time will come in which I and I will be persecuted from pole to pole, no rest will be there for those who refuse to take the NEW AGE MARK OF THE BEAST! All these people who will fall into the temptations

24 of Maitreya the ANTIchrist, will realize they have been fooled. All that sweet talk you hear from the New Age Movement about the Unification of all religions and nations, what purpose you think it serves? They are preparing the world so the world will gladfully and gratefully accept this coming strong "teacher" or "leader". One head of NATO in Brussels, Belgium has supposedly said that the world really needs a strong leader, and that even if he were the devil himself, he would gladfully accept him... Scripture warns us for a coming man, one man with many ikons coming before him (Mussolini) point to his coming, who will come as a tempter and a leader: the anti- Christ. When he would come revealing who he really is, no one would follow him. Would you follower a murderer, a thief, a liar, a rapist, someone 666 times as worse as Shitler? No you would not. This coming anti-christ must hide himsellf under the cover of a social and peaceful man: the Maitreya, the angel of "light". Brave New Age Earlier in this article I have written about Alice Bailey. She functioned as a channel, a medium for a demon or duppy calling himself Dwahl Kuhl, the Tibetan. These books are published by the Lucis Trust Company, formerly known as Lucifer Trust Company. Alice Bailey was a disciple of Mme Blavatsky. Her books contain several blueprints for how it will be in the new age, when the Maitreya has taken over. One of the things is that Dwahl Kuhl gives 1977, when the two sevens clash, or 1978 as the time in which a lot of secrets were allowed to be unveiled. Babylon was just getting used to materialism, atheism and cold war. From that time on the New Age Movement came on strong. Now it is an established pillar of babylon. It is a strange movement indeed: no central authority, but evidently guarded and guided by leading figures. People within the movement receive revelations, the same messages to different people on places all over the world. Every religion has it's "new age branch", these branches work together to form so called "prayer-groups" where each one prays to his own god, who in the end is the same anyway according to the NAM. Little by little, and step by step they are preparing the world for the New Age. The movement is under the leadership of spiritual beings, that identify themselves as the Masters, or the Great White Brotherhood, or the Hierarchy. They are imposters, because they are fallen angels, spiritual servants of the devil. How can they serve the God of Truth if they do not care in imposing to be Christ? And now their leader is here among us, just waiting until he that widthholdeth, has left...

25 FOLLOWING RASTAFARI by messian dread Within the movement of Rastafari, as one knows, there are several if not numerous different houses. To name a few, we have the 12 Tribes Rasta, we have the bobo Dread, Nyabinghy, Orthodox, Jesus Dread, et cetera. Now that I have shared some meditations about the things that divide, now I would like to meditate about one of the things that bind together. And that "thing" is RASTAFARI, HAILE SELASSIE I, CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH! I and I Messian Dread do not believe Selassie is Christ, but I follow Rastafari in my ways and meditation. In this article I witness about the way I see the spiritual richness and importance of the Negus, Rastafari. The fact, that I personally do not believe that Selassie is Jah, does not imply, that I do not see any spiritual significance within HIM. HIM not being Jah is not a central point in my concepts, as I tend to focus on who Selassie is rather than who Selassie is not. As my locks grow longer and my faith gets stronger, I can only witness and say that my love for His Majesty has increased over the years. I really love King Selassie in a growing degree because I see more and more things about HIM that teach I about Jah. Surely, the personality of His Imperial Majesty reveals the Savior, as my brethren and sistren in the 12 Tribes of Israel greet eachother. It is fascinating and thrilling to realize we are living in the last days of babylon and Jah gives signs, warnings and hopeful messages to those who want to see. And Haile Selassie is used in a special way by Jah to teach us truth and right. Haile Selassie (Power of the Trinity) was the 225th in a direct bloodline of Ethiopian monarchs, Menelik being the first. Menelik was a son of Queen Sheba and King Solomon, the legendary son of David, king of Israel. Though questioned by mainstream christianity in babylon, I hold this for a fact. The christian mainstream has an eye-focus on babylon only because they do not even come to the thought maybe Jah does not abide by their white race perspectives. For mainstream christianity there simply does not consist anything right outside their own white/euro-american schemes and concepts. For centuries it has been the white christian establishment closely working together with babylon's leaders to collectively downpress the people. You can not really call that christianity a worship of Jah, so it is a dead believe, resulting in corruption, wickedness and immorality as you can see today taking place in these so called christian nations. Should I believe them when it comes to His Majesty? Where it is clear that they don't want to have an open eye for the first christian nation on earth? I hope this article will work as an eye opener for my evangelical brethren and sistren. The fact I do not believe Rastafari is Jah, does not in any way imply that I embrace this white christianity. How can I deny His Majesty? His ways are truth and right! His teachings are the teachings of a devout Christian. When people tell me that Selassie is not of Solomonic Bloodline and it is clear that they follow a doctrine where there is no room for Ethiopia I will not follow them in that matter. No, I can not empirically prove this bloodline to you, I can only give you my reasoning. If the Ethiopian monarchs are of Solomonic Bloodline then that must show in the country. These signs I see indeed. I see a nation literally covered in biblical symbols. The churches in Ethiopia are build after the example of the Jah Temple in

26 Jerusalem. They all have a replica of the Jewish Arc of the Covenant, and the original is supposedly present in the city of Aksum. The close relationship is also beautifully and symbolically presented in the Bible where you read that Moses who guided the children of Israel out of Egypt was married to Mirjam, an Ethiopian woman. Ethiopia is the first christian nation on earth. Years before it was spread in Europe, Ethiopians already had a form of worship to Jah through the Mediation of Iesous Kristos the Messiah. This is biblical knowledge for the Ethiopian diplomat who was on his way back from Jerusalem to Ethiopia (Acts 3) was converted and baptized, spread the gospel in his own country years earlier than Paulus heading for Europe. Ethiopia was a part of the Garden of Eden, where the first man was planted, the first country outside Israel to have a form of christianity is Ethiopia, perhaps the first country because in Israel the first christians were really downpressed. We see lost tribes coming from Ethiopia where the Jews have been living as a part of the nation. All these things together for I show, that also the Solomonic Bloodline is true. Only when a nation's king is of that bloodline, one sees so many biblical and empirical signs of Jah Worship. What is so important in (acknowledging) that bloodline? I have read christian publications regarding the movement of Rastafari that quote the scriptures where Paulus warns the people not to build their faith upon "endless genealogies". True, if your foundation is a bloodline, you have a weak foundation. You can not hold someone divine (that is: being either the Father, the Son or the Spirit ) just because he is of Solomonic Bloodline. Nowhere in scriptures you see an indication that the Monarchs of Israel were worshipped as being God. But we do not speak about building faith upon endless genealogies just because we make a mention of it. Also those that believe in Selassie's divinity do not base this solely of the Emperor's bloodline. The New Testament opens up with a genealogy, so surely it is not unimportant to take a look at a bloodline and draw spiritual conclusions from that. For example: don't you think there is a spiritual lesson to be learned in the fact that among the bloodline of Jesus Christ a prostitute is mentioned? When a bloodline is mentioned then it is of significance. Haile Selassie was as a Jah Servant with Jewish Royal Blood thus sitting upon a throne of David. As all Davidic kings (oughted to) know, they were part of a lineage that would result in the physical Reignship of Jah the Most High on "their" throne, when Christ returns in Jerusalem. This fact made them living Icons of Christ in His Kingly Character. What I mean with that? The monarchs that sit upon a Davidic throne are symbolical references to the Final King, Omega, Jesus Christ. That is why the throne is there. Look at it as a way from Kingston to St. Ann's, on the road you see signs pointing you to the goal. So the kings are signs, the bloodline is the road, the goal is the Reignship of Jah on earth. When I tell you, that Jah is your father, I do this, to give you an idea about the character of Jah. The concept "Father" by far is not enough to describe the relationship of Jah with his children, but it describes a certain aspect of the Most High. Now, when you hear "Father", what do you think? You look in your area for a father. You see a father and you think:"ah, that is what a father means". Now, ofcourse, this is a simple thing, but the same principle works with Haile Selassie. In the Apocalypse, where John sees visions of the final downstruction of babylon, in chapter 5 the Savior is presented as "the Lion of Judah". Now, when you see this term, "Lion of Judah", you do the same thing. You ask yourself: "what is a lion of Judah". When you look closely you will find in Ethiopia, where kings of the Solomonic

27 bloodline were called "Lion of Judah" even before Christ! As far as I know there is no other place on the earth where there is a mention of "Lion of Judah" apart from Ethiopia. It is a specific title for an Ethiopian king. Take for example the word "president". Suppose that you read in the bible Jah describing Himself as the "President". You would have Bill Clinton in your mind, and you would know what it means. Now, fortunately Jah does not compare Himself with the "President" but with the Ethiopian King. Because He presents Himself as Lion of Judah. He says: when you want to know Who I am, you will learn a great deal when you examine the Ethiopian King. Because of the Euro-centered way of thinking of so many eschatologists, tragically this (as well as many more things) has been overlooked. I see the fact that Jesus Christ presents Himself as Lion of Judah in a context where there is a mention of who is the rightful ruler of the earth, as a message from Jah to look to Ethiopia's Lion of Judah to learn what it will be, when earth's rightful Ruler will finally sit upon the throne of David, which has been kept warm for Him partly in... Ethiopia! Thusfar I have given various reasons why Selassie is more than just a king in just a country. I have shared the vision that he is an Icon of Christ, a living representation of the government system that will function under Jah's rule at his return in Jerusalem. Now I would like to share with you ten specific lessons that I think there is to be learned from the personality of Haile Selassie, because it is not enough to say Selassie serves as a lesson in Theocracy, I must also prove this. Lesson 1 The fact that Haile Selassie ordered to have a bible translation made that was written in ordinary Ethiopian language, teaches us that in the Kingdom of Jah we are all responsible for ourselves. We can not depend on others to fully overstand the written word of God, we must always be able to check things out for ourselves in scripture. This is the same principle that is used by the Prophet Gad: "Check it for yourself, if it is true what I say, read the bible a chapter a day". Lesson 2 The fact there was force needed to get Selassie on the throne, is also what is happening when Christ is going to sit upon the throne. Babylon will not like it, there will be a big fight and clash before Christ will take His Seat. Lesson 3 The fact that His Imperial Majesty installed the Organization of Afrikan Inity teaches me, that Jah wants His children to unite. There is no room for segregation or tribalism. No matter if we are from this or that tribe, we must all unite, to come together, together we must fight against babylon, together we stand strong. Although, when Jah comes and babylon removed, there will no more be wars, in this present day we still have to face babylon every day. We are already living in Jah Kingdom when we are Jah disciples, even before the Physical Reignship has been installed, I and I are already members of this kingdom, therefore also Jah teaches us through Selassie Works how we should behave in this present time of war between good and evil.

28 Lesson 4 The fact that Selassie was the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox church tells us, that in the kingdom of Jah there will be no separation between church and state, that means that within the social structure there will be an eye for righteousness, justice and equality. The state under King Yeshouah will be based upon Jah Law. The head of state is also the head of the church. Lesson 5 The fact that Mussolini, as a type or icon of the coming antichrist, could not prevail against Haile Selassie teaches me this: Rome, as a symbol for corrupted christianity (no offense intended to those readers that live in the city of Rome for I talk about the roman catholic church) tries to conquer the Kingdom of God, and sometimes it seems like they are succeeding in that, but this will not happen. Again I must say, that some things that I see within His Majesty are references to the coming physical Reignship of Jah on earth, other things like this one teach me more about the present situation, in which Jah children, the citizens of the Kingdom of Jah have to face struggle. Lesson 6 The fact that His Majesty granted land (Shashamane) to Afrikans in exile, no matter which tribe they originally came from, teaches me that Jah accepts each and everyone, without looking at geographical origin. Just like the good Shepherd gathers his sheep, Selassie proved to be like a shepherd for the children of Africa, at home and abroad. No matter where you come from, you can always repatriate to your Creator. No matter if your sins caused you to live in (spiritual) exile from the Source of Life (Jah Christ): you can always return. Lesson 7 The fact that His Majesty used his authority to work towards righteousness, equality and justice shows to me, what it means, that Christ will rule with an iron rod of correction. Let me explain: in contradiction to babylon where the rod of money, inequality and injustice rules and 10% of the people get 90% of the assets, in the coming physical Theocratic Global Kingdom of Jah this will not be tolerated! Lesson 8 The fact that His Majesty as a King from the Davidic Bloodline governed over a people consisting of Jews and non-jews is another clear similarity between the Kingdom of Jah and the Ethiopian Monarchy. When Jah comes to rule, unlike Old Testament times where the Kings of Israel ruled only over the people of Israel, King Omega (Christ) will rule over Jews and non-jews. Lesson 9 The fact that His Majesty invited the Beta Israel to join the christian faith shows to me what the binding factor is in the Kingdom of Jah: the worship of Jah through the mediation of Christ. even if you are a member of the house of Jacob.

29 Lesson 10 The fact that His Majesty is called the King of kings makes it clear what that title means: it does not matter what your nationality is, or your race. The Reignship of Jah goes beyond one nation or culture. You do not have to deny your your identity or change it, because Jah is the King over all kings. Queen Sheba made an excellent decision when she went to Israel checking out King Solomon and his wisdom. She stood in awe when she realized that Solomon was even wiser than the stories she had heard. Solomon was the wisest man and his son Haile Selassie I also. Haile Selassie has proven to be an Icon of Jesus Christ, through his personality Jesus Christ reveals Himself when you have eyes to see. I have already given nuff reason why I think he is an Icon of Jah, I have given nuff lessons I think there is to learn from His Majesty's personality. This in itself is enough to stand in awe and respect for this king, just like his grandmother Queen Sheba stood in awe for his grandfather, King Solomon. But there is much more to say about Haile Selassie, which I like to share with you now. When His Majesty found out, that people were worshipping HIM as God, he did not do what a lot of christians do, simply denying that he is Jah and for the rest nothing. No, I think His Majesty gives us a perfect message about how we should follow HIM if we wish to do so. And I must say, I wish to follow Rastafari, because Rastafari shows I the Way, the Truth and the Light: Iesous Kristos. I do not wish to place myself subject under a queen or king that does not serve as an Icon of Jah, that does not have righteousness dwelling. When I look to the woman that they call Queen of the Netherlands, what is there to learn? Haile Selassie I, Rastafari, Lion of Judah on earth, teach I and I! Because His Majesty denied repeatedly that he was Jah, the fact I do not believe as well in his divinity, means I follow the teachings of His Majesty. I follow the teaching of the archbishop Abuna Yesehaq, that is sent by His Majesty to Jamaica for this reason. You can read all about that in a previous article. His Majesty told us to read the bible, to pray to Iesous Kristos, just like he prayed to Iesous Kristos. His Majesty told us to fight for the unification of all righteous people, to work hard for justice and equality where we live. Rastafari teachings! I follow Rastafari because he is an Icon of Jah. I follow Rastafari because he proved to be a righteous king, worthy of the titles that he wore. He was anointed to be a king serving his people in the fear of JAH through Kristos Iesous and he did that. Rastafari told me to pray and do the best I can to praise Jah in my life, not only by my words, but also use I and I ability to achieve this. I also follow Rastafari, because he as head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and "Keeper of the Ethiopian Orthodox Faith" represents Roots-Christianity. The Ethiopian Christian Faith is the oldest in the world. It has never served babylon in the way that other christianity forms have done. Like so many Rastafarians I was born and raised in the Pentecostal Movement. This movement, part of Evangelical Christianity, has been blinded for Ethiopia unfortunately, this in spite of the fact that Haile Selassie embraced this movement. Haile Selassie I attended, even opened, an evangelist congress in Berlin, organized by the famous Billy Graham. Bob Marley showed his love for the same movement by revealing his affection for the books of Hal Lindsey which are evangelical books about the apocalypse. Still the eyes of

30 many of my evangelical bredrin and sistren are closed for the rich visions and knowledge from the Ethiopian Faith. Thusfar I have shared with you my visions of Rastafari as an Icon of Iesous Kristos. I have given you reasons why I believe it is totally rightful and scriptural founded to have this vision of Selassie I and Ethiopia. I have given you 10 examples in which I believe you can vision Selassie I as an Icon of Christ in His Kingly Character as the Lion of Judah. I carried on and tried to share with you the way I follow Rastafari. I hope and pray, that this article has been a blessing for you in one way or another. I have not written this article in an attempt to judge anybody, whether they believe in His Majesty's divinity or whether they are a member of the evangelical world. I sight everyone who calls upon the Name of Jah through His Son, whether they believe Him to be returned or not, as Idren. I only give you my humble visions of Rastafari, the Mighty Lion of Judah!

31 BLACK PERSPECTIVE After reading several "exposes" and other mainstream christian publications about Rastafari, after talking with many people about it, I decided to write an article about one of the most delicate subjects: racism. It seems that so many people think the movement of Rastafari is a racist movement, that I decided to study some material that claimed Rasta to be racist or partial in race. Is the movement holding one race superior and another inferior as the critics say? Why is it that people seem to think the movement talks about superiority of one race over another? This article is written to serve especially those people that struggle with one of the above questions. When it comes to matters such as slavery and black history, Rastafari puts a great effort in educating the minds of the people. After the personality of His Majesty Haile Selassie, this is the second important topic of the Rastaman. Lest we not forget, there are numerous Rasta tracks like the one "Do you remember the days of slavery" from the great Burning Spear. Now I would say that "half the story has never been told" and everyone with a little consciousness in the head can realize that it is a good thing to tell that other half! The truth might be an offense, but is never a sin, and the truth shall also set you free. There is nothing racist about telling things how they are. So there must be another part which "exposers" gladly use to stir up the christian public opinion against the Rastaman. Let me first localize that part of Rastafari Message that people seem to perceive as racist. I can bring it down to just one quote, that of the honorable Marcus Garvey. Marcus said: "When white people look to God from their own white perspective, we as black people will have to look to God from our own Afrikan perspective". Whatever Marcus ment, it is an answer to the downpressing force of babylon. The white man's God had proven himself to be partial in favor of the white man, as he thanks his god every day for the power he has and the money he earns over the back of the slaves. Marcus told the children of Afrika to look to a God that would not be partial towards the white man, but towards the sufferer, the black man. Rastafari compares the western world with babylon in the old testament, and black people with the Jews in exile on the old testament. A strong part of the message is livicated to black consciousness, liberation and repatriation. Are all these things racism? Do these things speak of superiority of the black man over the white man? When Rasta says: "Black is beautifull", does that automatically imply "White is ugly"? It is surely brought as such by these "exposers". And too many upright christians believe them and think that the movement of Rastafari is holding one race superior and another inferior. A serious allegation which has to be rebuked by strong reasoning. I will explain why it is not racist to say what Marcus said, I even will show to you why it is racist to find Marcus Words offensive! Let me start to give four facts to place everything within the right historical and spiritual context: FACT: Over 400 years ago a serious trade in human beings from the continent of Africa started taking place to fulfill the needs of the white plantation keepers that possessed soil stolen from the original inhabitants. FACT: Christianity in a corrupted, white biased form was used to keep the slaves spiritually in bondage, making them believe they are inferior to the white man.

32 FACT: Central headquarters of the most powerful and biggest christian organizations in the world are all located in the western world or babylon. FACT: The richness of the west (christian) world is gathered by plundering the rest of the planet, while the church has been a major supporter and contributor to this wickedness. Now, to overstand how the movement of Rastafari came to exist in the first place, you have to realize the above four facts. Whether you like it or not, christianity has been a leading force in causing the Afrikan holocaust. What do I say? Christianity? I mean white christianity. I have yet to see an Ethiopian Orthodox priest blessing arms of oppression as you can see the pope doing. And that exactly is the point that Marcus Garvey makes. It is obvious to see, that the god of the white man, when he exists, can not be the God of the Ethiopians, cannot be the God of anyone that seriously wants to follow JAH. Because the God of the Bible, Jah, the God of Israel and Ethiopia, is partial, in favor of the sufferers! It is not Jah, that teaches a white racist theology. The way black people are treated by white christians, well, let us call that: "the white man looking to God from their own white man's perspective". Tragically, it is not only white people having this white perspective on the Creator. The doctrine of white superiority has not been abolished together with slavery. Slavery has not been abolished in the economical and spiritual form, just to mention two points. Over 400 years black people in exile have been manipulated and brainwashed by the spiritual institutions of babylon: the churches! This downpressing force has been maintained in a lot of churches until this very day in those places where the movement of Rastafari originated: The Caribbean! Pictures of a white Jesus hanging in black churches, scholars send to bible schools in the United States runned by people who believe it is the grace of the Lord that build America's "civilization", and I do not speak about the American Aboriginal here! There is a strong force trying to keep black people down. There is still too many white people looking to God through their own white perspective, trying to brainwash the children of Africa with their white-centered theology. Trying to keep black people in mental slavery. And white people too, because only a JAH-centered theology can bring freedom. Any theology aimed at holding one race superior and another inferior is slavery in itself. White people keep themselves in slavery when they keep on thinking they are superior (or inferior!) over black people. Maybe a lot of honoust christian people do not realize this, but I have met numerous of them that are convinced, that the richness of the western world today is a direct blessing of Jah. These people forget that it was the green lands of others that was occupied, yellow gold robbed of other civilizations and red blood of slaves and other victims that build the great cities of this modern day babylon. The commandment of Christ to spread His message across the four corners of the earth has been abused to legalize a global plundering. Everywhere the "missionaries" came they brought violence, destruction and sicknesses. The cross became a symbol of downpression rather than salvation for every nation that has been brutalized in one form or another by this white christianity. What they spread was everything but the gospel of salvation, and if they said something about Jesus Christ it was only to portray Him as a white downpressor! What they said was "Jesus in the sky will take you in his heaven when you are a good committed slave"

33 This is the situation in which we find the movement of Rastafari, waking up the sufferers, telling black people not to believe the lies about a white Jesus and America being "God's own country". These are the circumstances in which you can hear the Rastaman's call to look to Africa to find a better perspective on the Creator. Rasta doesn't say that white people are inferior, but Rasta rejects white christianity that preaches white superiority. Rasta doesn't say that black people are superior, but Rasta says that Jah is on the side of the sufferers. Rasta calls upon black people to realize the strong connection that Jah has with Ethiopia because the white babylonian theology preaches that black people are cursed people (the so called curse of Ham). I have also studied some material from so called christian people that claim only white people are human! The white theology speaks lies about black people, blatant lies about the Savior as well! Rasta prophecies to the churches to stop preaching the white Jesus, to stop co operating with babylon in brainwashing black people. Because the movement of Rastafari teaches black people that babylon speaks lies, the people are waking up. Churches can no longer maintain an attitude of ignoring the Rastaman's voice. They have to take a listen to what Marcus Garvey has to say about having a black man's perspective on Jah, not a white man's. Because it does not mean you have to be a blackman to be accepted by Jah, but you have to realize that Jah is the God of the Sufferers. If you are a white person, you should not look to God from the idea that the white race is the most blessed on earth. When you are a white man you should realize that Jah is on the side of the sufferers. That maybe what you see is poor people when you look at the sufferers, but when you look to your black bredrin and sistren with the eye that JAH gives you, you will realize these are the people Yeshouah spoke of when He said: "Blesseth are the sufferers for they will rejoice!" When you agree with the present situation of a christianity that is fooling both black and white people by preaching the superiority of one race or civilization over another, yes then I can imagine why you think the movement of Rastafari is racist or partial towards black people. When you see any act of commitment towards the liberation of black people as threatening to your own spiritual scheme, isn't it time to wake up? When you think, that the western world is build upon the blessings of the Most High, when you honestly think that the western world has had a christian culture for centuries, it is time to read your bible again and compare what you read with what you have been tought at school in your history class. You should open your eyes and realize that (when you live in the white western world) you dwell in babylon, the babylon that is described in the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse. The same babylon that has been vandalizing this planet for centuries, preaching a false Jesus. The same babylon that is going to be totally downstroyed by Jah when He returns as the Lion of Judah. Jah has chosen a black king in this end-time to function as a herald for His coming. People criticize HIM for not embracing the western political system. For a lot of people living in the west, including christians, this system of so-called democracy is the only true one. But the Rastaman knows, that babylon system is going to fall. What is that for a democracy, in which black people are still the sufferers? What kind of a "peoples-rule" (that is the meaning of the word democracy) is that, in which black people are considered inferior and Afrikan Nations "development countries"? I have yet to read a bible scripture which supports this babylon system. Haile Selassie says that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is

34 destroyed there will be war. The Rastaman's war is not against white people, but against mental slavery of black people. The Rastaman says that black people are beautiful people where babylon says they are ugly people. The Rastaman says that black people are Gods chosen people because Jah always takes the side of the sufferer where babylon says the white man is Gods chosen because they are so blessed by material richness and global power. The Rastaman wants to remember slavery and use it as a teaching and babylon wants us to forget slavery and act like it has never happened. Until the racist babylon philosophy of white superiority has been destroyed there will be war. War in the east, war in the west, war up north, and war down south...

35 A WORD OF PROPHECY TO BABYLON AND HER KINGS AND QUEENS How great are your cities, oh babylon of this present time. Your towers reach beyond the clouds, and your power covers the earth... Your mystery works from the ancient days of Nimrod, until this day, have been covered for the eyes of the world but it has always been clear to the followers of the Mighty One. I and I and I know your schemes, oh babylon. I and I and I identify you as the instrument in the hands of satan to become god of this world. JAH has recorded all your actions oh mystery babylon, from the beginning of time when you wanted to make a name for yourself to the near future, in which your complete downstruction is planned. JAH has watched you as you institutionalized your idolatry from pole to pole, deceiving the children of man to leave their Creator to make them serve the fallen one. JAH has watched you as you build your empire of inrighteousness and injustice and has heard the cry of the sufferers, His creations whom He loves, from all the ages. JAH has watched you as your empire transformed itself over and over again, always there where the power is, and has detined the time in which this will end. JAH has seen with Holy Anger how you used the Name of His Precious Son Iesous Kristos to commit abonimable works of downpression. JAH has seen how you took the slaves from Africa and how you put them to work on your great cities JAH see how you still keep them in mental slavery and economical bondage and he has heard the cries of the sufferers from all the ages. JAH see how your New Age Plans come to pass and JAH beholds how you deceive the people of the world, that they gaze after you and worship you. It is only a matter of years, babylon, and not of centuries, that your queendom will utterly and finaly be downstroyed and your injustice shall never be found again. Why are you raging like a roaring lion, oh satan? Is it because you know your time is short? I am calling on to all man and woman of all nations and color, to find redemption and shelter for the coming wrath: call upon the Lord God Iesous Kristos Who has conquered sin, death and babylon.

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37 DREAD MEDITATION "That's the strangest man I've seen, wearing the mark of a Nazarene..." (Bunny Wailer) According to the story that is told, when the first Rastas began to throw the comb away they were called dreadlocks because people were afraid when they saw someone with locks. Later on, the word dread also pointed to the fear of God, and to the dreadfull future of babylon. It is also said, that Rastas took over the locks from Afrikan Warriors. Others point out to the fact that in almost any culture and religion, you can find this "hair style". It is also said, that dreadlocks can be found in the Bible. This article is not about how to grow your dreadlocks outwardly, this article is an indepth meditation of the Law on the Nazarites. It was not until I was about 23 years old, that I started to grow dreadlocks for the first time in my life. Not, that I am a Rasta or a Jah Lover since that age, I "just" did not feel righteous enough to wear them. Where did that feeling come from? It was, I believe, the voice of Jah. Being the son of a pentecostal preacherman, I was brought up with the Bible, I was tought that there is no significance in hair, the standard christian response to a locksman. I knew by feeling, this approach was wrong. In a way, it is the same approach as so many atheist people today who have locks. They "just like it". They don't find any significance of the spiritual (JAH!) kind in it, so they don't care. Oh yes, for sure I wanted to have dreads, I even felt in a way I had to, but even stronger I knew I couldn't. I felt, that the state of my connection to Jah was directly related with the state of the hair on my head. Not as a commandment, but as a natural fact. [footnote 1] "Ah, feeling," one theological founded person might say. "Feeling, that is a most subjective thing, and certainly no empirical prove". Sure. That is true. But when the feeling gets confirmed by later experiences, the feeling turn into a spiritual thing. I was pointed to this scripture, to name but one experience: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: {to separate...: or, to make themselves Nazarites} He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. {separation: or, Nazariteship} {vine...: Heb. vine of the wine} All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. {consecration: Heb. separation} All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. (Numbers 6:1-8 AV) In short, the spiritual wearing of the hair in locks, is installed by JAH. The locks are the outward sign of the inner livication. It does not matter if you are a man or a

38 woman in this livication called "separation". Separation from what? From the grapes, and from the dead. Separation for what? Separation unto the Lord, unto Jah. There is a nice thing to say about this word, separation. It comes from the same word as "sanctifying", which means: "making holy". When you separate yourself for Jah, you make yourself holy for Jah. When you want to wear dreadlocks, you must be ready to livicate yourself to the Most High. Oh yes, it is true, that in almost any culture and religion you will find dreadlocks, without any mention of Jah or Nazarites. Also in modern day babylon culture, where it is each one for himself and: "No absolute truth or One God please", we have dreadlocks who wear it because they like it. This stance is, when it comes to dreadlocks, the same one I have experienced from some parts of the christian world, in which I was brought up. It's okay to have dreads (at best), but please don't mention any spiritual significance. Now, if anyone wants to wear dread for fashion, let that one do just that. It is a personal matter between Jah and the one wearing dreads. Now, let me go back to my story. It was absolutely not my christian upbringing, but the movement of Rastafari that has shown to me the Nazarites by showing themselves to I. I was 15 or 16 when I got introduced to reggae and Rastafari. In that time I was only rebelling against Jah, because I did not want to be like all the christian hypocrites that I saw as a child. I knew I had to stop my struggle against the Most High, but I could not let go of the picture in my head I had of Jah, of a Big Brother up in the sky, just waiting to cut me down. I knew I was sinful, I knew I was not serving Jah (where I knew I had to serve Him) but I did not want to serve the God that was painted for my eyes in the church. Thanks to Rastafari I slowly turned from a rebel in the sight of Jah to a servant of Jah (at least, that's my intention in life). I had to realize that my rebellion needed not to be directed at Jah, but at the hypocritical man-made religious christian shitstems. Rasta had one simple message: "Who are you Mr. christian when you have no love?" Yes, that is what Iesous said: Love one another. It was not after I had surrendered my life to Jah Christ, the One that Selassie I points to, and was tought some obedience (to JAH, not to human institutions), that I started growing them at the age of 23. How can I say it? It surely was not my own complete decision. I felt the need to express my livication, my gratefulness to Jah, by livicating myself to Jah like a Nazarite. My hair was always directly related to the state of my connection with Jah. When the connection wasn't there, I could not grow them. Now I could, and I was grateful. But that did not mean, I was there! It was merely the beginning of another series of lessons I had to learn. A lot of these lessons can be learned, by meditating about the scriptures that deal with dreadlocks. I have named one already, the most important part, Numbers 6. I would like to elaborate a bit more about this scripture, to share with you what I have learned. A lot of words in Hebrew have different meanings. Because the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and before the coming of our Lord and Savior, some research of the ancient texts enriches the measure of blessings in an extensive degree. The Old Testament is an Ikon of the New Testament. Although it is true, that who soever is saved by Christ is not subjected under any law but the law of Love, we see in the New Testament numerous references to Old Testament laws, with a symbolical explanation. I will give you an example: When Paulus, the New Testament Apostle

39 (Who was a Nazarite, by the way) speaks to Jah Disciples in Corinth about him not having to work for his money because he is doing Jah's work, he points to a scripture in the Old Testament that says that when you use a cow on your field you should let him eat from the field as well while he is working. This is a symbolical use of an Old Testament Law. (read the scripture) The fact that he did not make use of this right did not have anything to do with him not having the right. I felt driven by Jah to grow my dreadlocks as a sign of my livication to Him. I am still growing them up until this day. That is a thing, that I can find back in Numbers 6, and in other places of the Bible. What to say about Samson, the strongest Nazarite? He was a Nazarite from the day he was born, it was not his own choice. Sometimes you choose yourself, sometimes Jah makes the choice for you. But whenever you make any decision to livicate, or separate yourself for Jah, this is a direct result of Jah's work in you. What needed I to do? Number 6 told me what to do: Not using grapes, and not being in the middle of the dead. In the first years I took only these outward things seriously. Now, when I grow a little older, I am learning the deeper meanings, which are more important. The New Testament clearly gives us the knowledge that food can not save you, hair can not save you, anything you do or don't must be for Jah. So some people refrain from grapes, other's don't that is not the most important issue. The refraining from the spiritual grapes and dead, that is the importance. Even dreadlocks themselves, they are not important in a way. They're an outward sign. For those who must wear them, it is important that they do, when they have the oppurtunity. I personally wear the dread, as an outward sign of the inner livication. There's some interesting things to say about locks. By looking up the original words, there is absolutely no reason to deny it is actually locks that we speak of. The word used is pera` which can mean both long hair of the head or lock from the head. The word also means leader. It comes from the root pr`, which means "to lead", but also "to let go". When Iesous Kristos walked on the earth, he judged the scribes and the pharisees, who kept the complete law (and even more) for not overstanding a single word. What they did, they took the words and not the spirit. The same thing happens when you only read Numbers 6 and keep the commandments without trying to overstand the spirit. Real Nazariteship does not consist of not eating this and that but by following the Spirit. Samson had to kill the Philistines, he was around dead body's and therefore trespassed against the law, but he abided by the Spirit. [read scripture] When Jah speaks about "letting the locks of the hair of your head grow", He does not only say grow your dreadlocks. Where "head" also means leader, we can easily detect a hidden reference to the Ethiopian King, Haile Selassie for isn't he the Ras (Head, king) for Rastafarians? And there is more, as a true Ikonical Personality there is a Reference to Iesous Himself in this reference to Selassie, Christ being the ultimate Head and Leader or the Ras and King of Kings. Didn't Selassie say he was a servant of Christ? When Ras Tafari is your Head, you must let the Leader of your Head, which is Christ, grow. And growing, the Hebrew word used here is g d l, can mean both growing your hair and to glorify. When scripture says: "you shall let the lock of your hair grow", the spiritual part of it means: "you shall glorify the Leader of your leader". A true follower of Rastafari, I have said this before, is a true follower of Iesous Kristos, because Selassie is a devout follower of Kristos and he is urging

40 everyone to do the same. The head (Selassie) is telling us to let our locks grow long (glorify Kristos). What I also had to learn was, that we do not have to have the outward sign(s) of a Nazarite to be one. I bet you can imagine this to be a ephemism for pride. I realize to the fullness, that in order to make it we have to put all our trust in Jah and separate our lives for Him through Kristos, in other words be a Nazarite, a "separated one" (n aa z I r). But not all of us (are called to) wear the dread. Should everyone wear dreads in order to make it? Should someone wearing dreadlocks also be keeping the other commandments on the Nazarite? Is that what Jah wants? Kristos, of Whom it is said He was a Nazarite [footnote 2] drank wine. You only have to see pictures of the funeral of Bob Marley, to see Nazarites "coming at a dead body". Did they cut their locks, or did they have to? According to the laws on the Nazarites, they had to. Maybe a few did, there were also a few that did not want to attend the funeral, but the majority "broke the rules". Did they? I don't want to say anything negative against people who are keeping the complete law on the Nazarites. It is good to let the locks of the hair of your head grow, not to drink strong drink, not to be eating grapes, or not to be coming at a dead body. But I think, it is more important, to take a look at the spiritual significance of the laws on the Nazarites. Is there more to say? We know, as the prophet Gad of the Twelve Tribes of Israel says, there is no hair or food doctrine, they can not save you. But we must be separated from babylon, for the Lord God Jah. We must all be Nazarites. But not all of us have (to have) (all) the outward signs (food and/or hair). I have already said, that letting the locks of your hair grow spiritually means also glorifying Kristos, the One Selassie said he served. Now I would like to share with you, the spiritual meaning of the refraining from strong drinks, grapes, and the coming at no dead body. The Nazarites had to abstain from wine. We as Nazarites [footnote 3] have to abstain from the spiritual wine as well. When we go to the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse, an angel introduces John to babylon, the great whore. [read the scripture] There is a mention of some kind of an altered consciousness, something like... drunkenness from wine. Not only the kings of the earth, but also the inhabitants are made drunk by the wine of the fornication of babylon. When you live in babylon, look around you. There is a mystery of iniquity [read scripture] going on that is keeping the people asleep. I believe this strong delusion to be the wine that the followers of babylon drunk, as described by John. We as Nazarites have to abstain from the babylonian drinks that make the inhabitants of the earth and their kings drunk. We should identify the mystery of iniquity, and abstain from it. For the mystery of iniquity is the wine we don't want to drink. If you drink from that wine, according to prophecy, you will also drink from the wine of the wrath of Jah. So there is also a promise in this commandment: if you do not drink from the wine of the fornication of babylon, you will also not drink from the wine of the wrath of Jah. Wine is made from grapes, most of the time that is. What are the grapes, we should not eat? From the kernel, unto the husk? Yes, I know that there are fruits called grapes, and that you can abstain from them. Iesous did not abstain from them. If you abstain from them, that is a good thing, do it for JAH. Let no one judge you! But I want to find out, what are the "spiritual grapes"? I believe, that these grapes are the ingredients for the "mystery of iniquity". From these grapes you can make wine, but also raisins, from the kernel unto the husk it they are used. This grape, that we

41 should abstain from, roots for this iniquity, is the most ancient sin: satan's attempts to exalt his throne above JAH [read scripture]. Ever since in the garden of Eden men fell into sin, until this present day, satan is trying to make the children of man rebel against their Creator. You can read in the Book of Enoch, how satan and his angels corrupted themselves and the daughters of man, and when babylon was installed some years after the flood, organized idolatry was installed with her. Not only the mystery of iniquity, or in New Age terms "The Plan", is a product from this grape. All sin, all unrighteousness, wickedness, these are all products from the same grape: the rebellion against Jah. When lucifer ate from this grape, he became satan. When the first humans ate from the grape, they also became enemies of Jah. Becoming a Nazarite in the spiritual sense, means letting go of the sin. Abstain from sin. Now ofcourse, we all know that no matter how hard we try, we will never be without sin as long as we walk in our earthly termples. But it is so, that for those that have surrendered themselves to JAH by acknowledging the fact that Iesous Kristos, the Son of Jah, came and died for their sins and risen again, are free from sin even though they commit sins [read scriptures]. The abstaining from the grapes, from the sins, from the kernel to the husk, is the same as "walking in the Light". Another very important thing that we can read in the law on the Nazarites in Numbers 6, is "All the days that he separates himself unto Jah, he shall come at no dead body". We have already seen Nazarites in scripture eating and drinking grapes and wine (Iesous), and we have seen them coming at dead body's (Samson, Bob Marley's Funeral). What does it mean, when you are a Nazarite, you should not come at a dead body? Another dive into the Hebrew Texts give me a clue: "Body", can also mean "life". You can also read, you shall not come at a dead life. When you are a Nazarite, you are not living a dead life like the babylonians who are all racing the rat race with pleasure, thinking that that is their fulfillment of life. That life is a dead life, in which people follow the god of money (Mammon) rather than Jah. The babylonian lifestyle, of materialism, lovelessness. The wine is the mystery of iniquity, the grapes is the sins, the dead body's is the babylonian way of thinking. The Locks on your head is Iesous Kristos. The Nazarites are the ones, that separate themselves unto the Lord, through Kristos. Just like the prophet Gad of the twelve tribes of Israel says, just like His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie the 225th in the Line of Solomon said, Iman say the same: "only through the blood of Kristos". I think, that Jah is calling on to each and every woman and man to be Nazarites. For some, Jah wants them to wear dreadlocks, the outward sign of the Nazarites. For some, Jah does not find it necessary to wear them. For some, it is impossible. But all of us have to fight against babylon by revealing her wicked schemes and intentions. [read scripture]. All of us have to walk in the Light. JAH Light. These are some of my humble thoughts on being a Nazarite. I wear my dreadlocks with gratefulness, knowing that it is the grace of Jah. Personally I feel, that Jah wants I to grow my natty dreadlocks but I have learned throughout the years, that it is more important what is happening on the inside, than on the outside. In this time of tribulations and confusion, in which even white neo nazi's are spotted wearing dreadlocks, it matters more and more if you are a Nazarite from the inside. May JAH guide you.

42 footnotes Footnote 1: I by no means want to state, that this is a natural fact for everyone. I do not say that only those with dreadlocks are the ones livicated to Jah. This is the personal way that Jah is going with me, I know there are millions more on the face of the earth that also are called by Jah to be livicated as dreads. BACK Jud 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men BACK Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, Have we not power to eat and to drink? Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {wife: or, woman} Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:1-10 AV) BACK Footnote 2: There is a big discussion whether the term "Nazarene" means Nazarite, or simply "someone from Nazareth". I have met christian pastors and preachers who said that He was a Nazarite. Interesting discussion because it is clear Kristos used wine. Only during the installation of last supper, soon before He was arrested, killed and risen again, He said He did not want to take from the fruit of the vine anymore BACK Footnote 3: In this context, I use the word "Nazarite", to point to all people who have livicated themselves to JAH through Kristos, because the word means nothing more or less that "seperated one". BACK And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17:1-5 AV) BACK

43 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, {unto him: or, around him} That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 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; 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. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. {withholdeth: or, holdeth} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 AV) BACK How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! {O Lucifer: or, O day star} For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 AV) BACK But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:7-8 AV) We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10 AV) BACK And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:11 AV) BACK

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45 Bob Marley words: "The truth is an offense, but not a sin". The truth is an offense to the liar. The lie is a sin to the Truth. We still have to live in the land of confusion (babylon), we still have to be watchful. All those that follow Christ, as Rastafari said we should, are following the truth and will be an offense to the liar who denies Yeshouah is the Christ. Therefore we have to get ready and prepare ourselves because some call it a NEW AGE but it's the end of times Jah say... Millions and millions of people, numerous Rastafarians and Christians included, are influenced in one way or another by New Age Thought, without knowing where they are being prepared for. Most of the time these people are sincere in trying to make the world a better place. In this -rather long- article I will try to introduce you to the -unfortunately- horrible truth (and root) behind New Age: Beware, oh children of Jah, for the time is at hand! Slowly, little by little, the face of babylon is changing. In the arena of world politicks these changes are even more clear: The fall of the Soviet Union, Israel and the Palestines, et cetera. We hear politicians speaking of New Age and New World Order. Their mark can be seen on the American one dollar bill (novos ordos seclorum, new world order). A very strong part in all this is played by the esotherical movement that is the subject of this article. I believe, that the New Age Movement (NAM) is preparing the hearts of men for the coming antichrist. The New Age Movement, and where it stands for, fits the biblical description of the movement of the antichrist. I will compare the teachings of Jah with the teachings of the New Age, and I will quote from both sources. After reading this article, it will hopefully be clear that these sources contradict each other on so many crucial levels, that either one is telling the truth and the other one is not. INTRODUCTION TO THIS ARTICLE Before I begin, let me first introduce you to the main reasons why I have written this article, what sources I've used, and what conclusion I have made concerning the New Age. The direct reason for writing this article, is the amount of letters I have read from and written to bredrin and sistren from all over the world, in which they have expressed their sympathy for the New Age. This showed the necessity for this article. I have had numerous conversations as well with New Agers. Some of them are really friendly, most of them, others tried to fight me down. This article is not to attack anyone personally: our struggle is never against flesh and blood (fellow human beings). But because New Age likes to use scriptural language and claims to be the right interpretation of the Holy Books of Jah, they make it necessary for I and I, to study their material as well, to see if it matches. Which it does, but not in the way the NAM claims. I will quote richly from New Age sources. When I quote from new age sources, it is in italics. When you see a link [footnote], click on it to read further

46 commenting. At the end of the footnote you will see a link taking you right back were you were in the main text. NEW AGE SOURCES USED FOR THIS ARTICLE Earlier, I have written an article about Benjamin Creme and his Maitreya. As time progresses and the new age is approaching, it becomes more and more clear, that he is the planned coming leader. Most New Age Organizations recognize Creme and his organization Share International. When they speak, the New Age Movement listens. In this article I will quote a lot from their publications. Also, the New Age Movement is more or less founded on the esotherical books of Helena Blavatsky and her successor Alice Bailey. The latter has written numerous books dictated by a spiritual being called Djwal Kul, these books form a blueprint for the new age in every kind of thinkable aspect: health care, culture, education, psychology, religion, everything. Very scaring indeed. The books are published by a company called Lucis Trust, formerly known as Lucifer Trust. Lucis also published "the secret doctrine" by Helena Blavatsky. This book contains the New Age doctrine and is crucial for studying the NAM. I have also use different information one can find on the web. AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW AGE PHILOSOPHY One strong foundation for New Age thinking is based up Theosophy, a way of thinking introduced to humanity from the country of India, in the 19th century. You will read a lot of about "masters of wisdom", "the christ" et cetera in this article. Theosophy has provided the New Age with a way of interpretation that almost enables them to use any book of any religion to preach their message. Basically, the New Age teaches something they call Self-Realization. In their philosophy, which is a strange mix of pantheism (god is all, all is god) and polytheism (many gods), everything is aimed at the awakening of a consciousness that man is god. All the higher beings in the new age belief system, are helping humanity to grow. The self is what matters. In the personal field, this means that one has to experience various initiations and go through different reincarnations to reach that state of consciousness. When something bad happens to you, this is because you have to "pay karma". That means, you have to get the balance right: for every wrong thing you do, you must do a good thing. When the balance is right then it is right and you have paid your karma. Needless to say this is a clear contradiction with the offer of grace. Helpful tools to pay the price for your own sins are asceticism (depriving one's self from the pleasures of life), all kinds of Yoga (which means: yoke) and other meditation New Age style (emptying one's mind in order to be filled again by an external source). In short: by performing occult arts and seeking the supernatural in any possible way, one seeks to find one's "divine" self. The old lie, with which the devil satan tempted Eve. He told Eve, when she would eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she would be as God, knowing right and wrong.

47 In the political field, New Age stands for total transformation of the governments. By pointing at unrighteous things of babylon (for example: 17% of the people eat 83% of all the food) the NAM strives to establish an economical system which will in name be aimed at righteous distribution of the goods, but de facto will enable them to in- or exclude anyone from any economical activity. When Jah come and righteousness will cover the earth, there will be no need for such a system, but now the NAM uses legitimate arguments to create a world-society based on their own doctrines. By telling us to change the world in our own strength, not in the powers of the Most High Jah, they are bypassing another vital aspect: worship. New Agers do not like to worship, and especially not (a) Christ, not even their own one. Although they claim that they do not want to make another religion, later on you will read, that they write themselves, that eventually they will do this. Christians and Rastafarians alike worship one God, Jah. Too many may not realize that in the New Age, they will be deprived from that obligation, and made to bow down for another belief system. LUCIFER's FALL "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work", Paulus the apostle wrote in the Bible, in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, almost 2000 years ago. This mystery can be traced much further back to very ancient times, before the creation of man, when one of Jah's most beautifull creations decided to rise up against his Creator and take His Place. He failed, but he took one third of the angels with him, and when man was created, he tempted them with the same sin (wanting to be as God) as well. I would like to quote the Bible on lucifer's fall: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (IsaJah 14:12vv) There are two really important things in here we should remember. Lucifer (He that carries light) is called the morning star (in the original language) or Venus. And he wanted to rise up above Jah. There are much more things to say about these scriptures, but these two things are important for this matter. Lucifer, as he was called before he became satan, coming from Venus, wants to be as God. That is his aim. Now we have the New Age Movement claiming that "Lord of this world", coming from Venus, will be the head of the coming "World Teacher", that is the one they would like to welcome as Christ. You will find the name from this "Lord of this world" pretty interesting, I think: SANAT. And I guess his descend from Venus wasn't quite his own choice as well... THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY

48 Many times in the meditations of Jesus Christ, you will hear Him speaking about "the mysteries of the kingdom of Jah". When He speaks about this, He is referring to the principals according to which the kingdom of God works. The kingdom of Jah that is mystically present within the children of Jah, and which will eventually be covering the whole earth according to prophecy. Although the NAM claims to establish this kingdom on earth, and also use this part of scripture for themselves, for now I just wanted to point out to the fact, the principals according to which the things run in the kingdom of Jah, is called "mysteries of the kingdom". Things like: "love your enemy", "worship only Jah", et cetera... When you jump to the second chapter of 2 Thessalonians, you will find Paulus the Apostle meditating over another mystery, the mystery of iniquity. In a previous paragraph I already mentioned it. This mystery, according to Paulus, will be fully functioning after "he that withholdeth", is taken out of the way. The principals according to which the kingdom of iniquity works, are all aimed at uplifting and worshipping satan and blaspheming the Almighty. Therefore, I believe this mystery to be a referral to the struggles and strives to make lucifer (as he still likes to call himself) like the Most High. Surrender yourself to the principals of the kingdom of iniquity, and you might find yourself an active part in "restoring the Plan on earth". Paulus wrote in the same chapter (2 Thessalonians 2) about the coming of one man, in the future, in the so called end-time. This man is called "the man of iniquity", or the anti-christ. A man who will be totally overshadowed by lucifer. He is known under various names: the anti-christ, the beast, the man of iniquity. Like Christ is known to hand over the world into the hands of His Father, so this anti-christ will try to hand over the world into the hands of his father, satan. He will do great signs and miracles, to deceive many. Some New Agers try to make the antichrist an energy, but not a person. Later on in this article I will elaborate on the new age vision on the antichrist. But if you study Jah Words, you will see that the man of iniquity or the antichrist is a person for sure: he decides, heals, speaks, he will get judgement. None of these things can be said of an energy. THE KINGDOM OF INIQUITY OR MYSTERY BABYLON Q: You talk a lot about politics and economics, which are all very materialistic, but is this what the (Maitreya, md) Christ is all about? BC: Yes, indeed. Absolutely. It is indeed. It is not primarily as a religious leader that He is coming. You may look for Him rather as an educationalist in the widest sense of the word, advocating changes in our political, economic and social life. (taken from questions and answers with benjamin creme, the herald of maitreya the so called christ)

49 About the antichrist it is said, he will come to be the leader of a great empire. When you study the book of the Apocalypse, you will discover it is called babylon. Babylon is the name that Jah gives to all the succeeding world empires. Reading the Bible, the book of Daniel, this becomes clear. Although the geographical location of babylon varied through out the centuries of world history, their (spiritual, supernatural) leaders and tenets remained the same because babylon is the satanic worldly empire. Don't be fooled by the ancient name, babylon is alive and wealthy at this present time. The bible calls her a mystery, something that is sealed, covered, not easy to understand. It takes a praying heart ("Oh Jah, show I the truth, in Iesous Name") and a little knowledge about scriptural world-history. To overstand the mystery, you need to know something about very ancient times. Can I take you on a little journey through ancient world-history? According to Genesis babylon was created, after the flood, by Nimrod, who was "a mighty man, a great hunter for the sight of Jah". That means, he was a rebel against Jah. Nimrod was married to a woman who called herself Semirames. That name means "dove". You can see a statue of her on below this paragraph. She was highpriestess of the moon goddess. There is a half moon in the form of two horns on the top of her head. Nimrod and Semirames have been worshipped as gods together with a number of evil spirits throughout the centuries: Semirames as the Queen of heaven (among other titles and names), Nimrod as Bachus (among other titles and names). This couple has organized the mystery religion, a religion with various initiations, adepts, et cetera. This religion has always been an instrument by the political rulers to keep the people down and themselves "most high". Although with different names, the gods have always remained the same. We are tought at school, that the gods from the Greeks and the Romans, were in fact the same gods with different names. This is true, all the religions that came with the world empires were basically the same, a derivate or further work-out of the previous one. They can be traced back to Nimrod and Semirames, and it it's organized form even further: to the times before the flood, the "days of Noah".

50 This pre-flood period is known in New Age circles as "the days of Atlantis". It never rained in that time, but there was a mist in the morning. The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky (picture right) also speaks about the mist.according to the book of Enoch (not to be confused with the Keys of Enoch), in that time the fallen angels (evil spirits who joined lucifer in his fall) married the daughters of men, to create giants or nephilim as their offspring. These giants, a sort of half human, half fallen angel, tought mankind the occult arts and astrology, Enoch says. The building blocks for the post-flood mystery religion of babylon. New Age philosophy, deeply founded in the esotherical writings of Helena Blavatsky, claims to restore the knowledge from Atlantis, that is the knowledge from the days of Noah. Reading Enoch, we know the source of this knowledge. This is a very clear contradiction between Jah Words and New Age teachings.

51 THE MAN OF INIQUITY In order to discover more about the mystery of iniquity or the (final) antichrist, we have to understand that the plan is to make satan rise above the Most High. Scripture warns us that he will attempt to do so by using the antichrist. The antichrist is the ultimate attempt to make lucifer king of the earth. It is the final stone in the proverbial tower that babylon is building today. The most important thing to know for identifying the antichrist or his movement: the antichrist will not confess (preach), that YESHOUAH IS THE MESSIAH! He will make a distinction between Jesus and the Christ which is simply not there, and whoever tries to make this distinction, the bible says, is obeying to the spirit of the antichrist. "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." (1 John 2:22) "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (1 John 4:1-3) This means, you can not separate Jesus and the Christ, as if they were not one and the same. Jesus is always Christ, also before He came in the flesh. Yeshouah is Christ, and only He. The scripture also means, in His position as the Christ He became human. You can also not make a separation between Iesous' Person as being truly human and truly God (Christ). Jesus Christ came in the flesh (became human) as the Christ. There has never been a moment in which there was a Jesus and a Christ. That is what the apostle John wants to say to us. Maybe you do not really understand what it is exactly what John means. Don't worry, when you see what the New Age teaches you will perfectly know why John says these things and what they mean. Please note, this is the method by which we are to recognize the antichrist. Not if he comes with kind or unkind words, not if he comes and speaks about love and sharing and thing, but this: does or does he not separate Jesus and Christ. It would be easy if this antichrist would come only with hate in his eyes and thing, so everyone would recognize. But Jah Jah warns us for the false prophets and their false teachings, that will deceive many. Their mystery (religion) is working this day, it is functioning on the political field, on the social and cultural field, on the religious field. Any possible field, and most important: in the hearts of the children of man. And the people working on the Plan know as much as I and I, we are about to see some real major global changes! They call it a New Age. Heralds of this coming time speak about peace and safety. They speak of a great master, a great teacher that is coming to teach the world. They call him Maitreya, and they say that Maitreya is the Christ. They deny that Yeshouah is the Christ. Read what they say about Him, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: "He was, and still is, a Disciple of the Christ and made the great sacrifice of giving up His body for the use of the Christ. By the occult process of overshadowing, the Christ, Maitreya, took over and worked through the body of Jesus from the Baptism onwards." They are clearly making a distinction.at first they

52 deny Yeshouah is the Christ, at second they deny they say Jesus was only during a part of His life on earth the Christ, or actually not even that. They are speaking about all kinds of things that are supposed to happen in this coming time. But even though some things might seem nice and good in the first place, when the tree is bad and wrong, the fruit can not be good as well. The wolf can put on the sheep's clothing, but will remain wolf. Satan can present himself as an angel of light, he remains to be the father of darkness. And he did not let go of his evil intention, to become god above the Most High. We are told by Jah, to keep our eyes and ears open, when we want to know the times. To even reveal the schemes of satan and reprove them. The New Age System is such a scheme. When you put Jah Light on the matter, that is checking the scriptures as reggae artist Willy Williams puts it, you will find, that it is a slave master's plan: aimed at putting lucifer on the throne. You will find that the NAM fulfills a lot of biblical prophecies, in such an open and clear manner, that you must almost be blinded when you can't see it. John has given us the tool to recognize the spirit and the movement of the antichrist: they blatanly and clearly deny that Jesus is the Christ. They say there is someone called maitreya who is the christ. And it goes even further. When it comes to the antichrist, the New Age Philosophers try to bagatelle every mention there is about the antichrist. They say the beast from the Apocalypse is not the antichrist, but emperor Nero from Rome. According to the Ageless Wisdom, the anti-christ is not one individual who lives at a certain point in time, but is an energy released before the advent of the Christ. It comes to pave the way for the building forces of the Christ by destroying the old crystallized ways that block new growth for society. While the anti-christ is an energy, it does manifest through individuals and has done so at different times throughout history, most notably through the Emperor Nero in Roman times, and more recently through Hitler and some of his closest associates. With the defeat of the Axis powers during World War II, the work of the anti- Christ energy was completed for this age and will not manifest again for over 3,000 years. So to resume what is said thusfar, the antichrist is needed, to "prepare the way" as it were for the coming time in which righteousness will cover the earth. We know from scripture, before the Kingdom of JAH gets established there will be a big clash between Jah and the forces of babylon. We already read Paulus writing about a man that is coming. You can read nuff prophecies in the book of Daniel concerning the coming of a king, a ruler, in the end time. We see the beast in the Apocalypse, a clear description of a person. John writes to us, there is also a spirit of the antichrist, working the mystery of iniquity, in order to establish a new world order, under lucifer's rule. There is not a mention of an energy, but a spirit. But the antichrist, according to the New Age, is cleaning up the earth, so the new world order can be established. According to scripture, the antichrist is the ultimate, the last expression of babylon. After the antichrist, babylon will be destroyed and never found again. There is not a mention in scripture of an antichrist needed to prepare the way for the Lord. The

53 antichrist marks the end of an era, the time of babylon. According to new age, the antichrist is breaking down babylon. According to prophecy, the antichrist is building babylon. This is a subtle difference, but it is there, and it is a very crucial difference. And when we continue to read the above, we see that the New Age Movement claims, we are already living in a post-antichrist time! Well Idrens, when we look around us, we do not see that the antichrist (and the devil satan with him) has been defeated yet! The anti-christ does exist, not as an individual who comes before the Christ, but as an energy. Fundamentally, the antichrist is the First, or Will aspect of God, in its destructive form. It is that energy which destroys thus making way for the new energies of the Christ. The antichrist energy sweeps away the old, outworn forms and prepares the way for the incoming, creative energy. This destructive force has already worked out through the disasters which have devastated the planet: world wars; the starvation of millions every year; earthquakes and other natural disasters. Now they continue to say, that the antichrist is a part of Jah, of God! This is a consequence of another part of New Age philosophy, known as Ying/Yang, which basically comes down to the idea that there is no ultimate good or evil. That evil is an aspect of Jah just as much as goodness. When you believe, that Jah is all and all is Jah, then indeed you will come to the ultimate conclusion, that babylon then must also be Jah, or at least a part of it. How different from what I and I perceive from I and I Faada, Jah the Most High. There is no evil in Jah, in Christ Yeshouah. There is one truthful thing in what they say, because what they call outworn forms, that is the worship in Jah only through Christ, will be subject of the destructive forces on the antichrist. And again, when I look around me, this does not look like a post-antichrist time to me. THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT The NAM is a network of organizations, some of which call themselves "new age", others are more covered. They have rooted themselves firmly within the United Nations. Also in the national political fields of many countries. In all kinds of religious and social/economical organizations. Together, these organizations form so-called SPINs or Segmented Polycentric Integrated Networks. In a SPIN, no organization is crucial, and unreplacable. They just bundle their powers, work together. According to Marylin Ferguson in her revealing book The Aquarian Conspiracy, every segment of a SPIN is self supporting, therefore you can not destroy the movement by discrediting one leading figure or group. And because every organization is more or less self supporting, and sometimes even contradicts another one, this makes it even harder for people to unravel. Ferguson speaks openly about the way the New Age Movement is transforming the world, preparing the way for their christ.

54 Because of the wide variety of new age groups and methods, it is very easy, to get involved in the New Age, and I am sure that a lot of New Agers, especially those who are not initiated (yet), are convinced that they are working to make the world a better place instead of preparing the planet for the father of lies.a lot of them might not even know they are involved in New Age. I can not tell you how many Rastafarians I've met who felt inspired by the things the NAM says. Little by little, and step by step, New Age thought comes in the hearts of men and society as a whole. They speak of the great injustices that are done, for example that 83% of the food is eaten by 17% of the people, and that this has to change and all. This way they appeal to the feelings of all of us, people longing for a better world. We see this happening before our very eyes. The world is being prepared for changes, but what are these changes? I believe, that they are all aimed to bring one man on the throne, the coming anti-christ. Looking to what they teach, and what they believe in, they are really following the old ancient babylonian traditions of mystery. And remember, Paulus has warned us there is a mystery of iniquity and it was working in his time, and will be fully working when the coming antichrist can reveal himself to the world. New Age is a religion with strong fundamental doctrines. It is very important to recognize these doctrines. A lot of them sound very good and with a lot of sense, but when you see them all together and compare them with the warnings of JAH for the end time deception, I am sure you will be shocked. SOME NEW AGE TEACHINGS The NAM is talking about a coming world teacher. They call him "Maitreya the Christ". They say, that the coming of this Maitreya is the fulfillment of biblical prophecies regarding the return of Jesus Christ. We can see by the scriptures I have given already, when Maitreya is the returned Christ, he must confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that He came in the flesh which made Him truly human without losing His Deity, or to put it simple: when Maitreya is Christ, he must be Jesus. In an article called "Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ", the author Peter Liefhebber writes literally "Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ are not one and the same person." According to this article, "Christ is only a title given to a function in the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom, that group of advanced beings who guide the evolution of humanity from behind the scenes." He says that Jesus Christ and Joshua (from the Jericho walls) are one and the same. Don't forget the words of John, that who denies Jesus is the Christ is the antichrist or at least following his mystery or plan! Liefhebber states, that not Jesus is the Christ, but Maitreya is the Christ, and Maitreya "... informed and guided the actions and teachings of His disciple Jesus" (sic). They also teach that Jesus was a man (and not Christ), and that Maitreya "spiritually overshadowed" Him from His baptism to His crucifixion No coming as Christ in the flesh here, seen? Only during a short period when He was 30 years old. Scripture speaks of Christ, Jesus, Jesus Christ and Christ Jesus and all of the time, context makes this clear, the subject is Yeshouah and never anyone else. Read it, all over the new testament, when Jesus is not the Christ, why do the ones so close to him as John, James, Peter, they all write that Jesus is the Christ. There is only one Christ, Jesus. New Agers make a constant distinction between Christ and

55 Jesus. Liefhebber writes that "Jesus was a man who, as a result of the process of evolution, became a Son of God -- as does everyone eventually. Others had gone before him on that path and many have taken it since." This is the teaching, that man is God. It is the old lie of satan, that he said to Eve: you will be like God". This is what the babylonians said, when they wanted to make a tower to "build a name for ourselves". That is cryptic language for: we will be our own God. A central doctrine within New Age teaching. They claim, that even Christ Iesous teaches this doctrine, because they quote Him where He says to the people, that they will be perfect like their heavenly Father, and that Yeshouah also said, that His followers would do greater things than Him. In both occasions, Jesus Christ speaks about things that He works out Himself in the believers. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" the apostle Paulus writes (Galatians 2:20). A new ager might respond and say, well I do not see any mention of Jesus Christ here, just of Christ. The the new ager must make the distinction consequent in scripture, and there is nuff mention of Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ in the new testament. There is no separation between Christ and Jesus. But the New Agers make a clear distinction. This is what the NAM has to say about the return of Jesus (the "disciple" of "maitreya the christ"): "He is one of the Masters Who will very shortly return to outer work in the world, taking over the Throne of St. Peter, in Rome. He will seek to transform the Christian Churches, in so far as they are flexible enough to respond correctly to the new reality which the return of the Christ and the Masters will create." So Jesus is going to the one of the next popes of Rome, where he will find ways to transform, that is totally restructuring, the churches to make them follow maitreya's teachings. Now let me elaborate a bit more on the secret doctrine, the founding story for the New Age belief system. According to New Age philosophy, there is a group of spiritual beings called "the masters of wisdom". This group consists of beings that used to be human, but through all kinds of initiations and reincarnations they have evolved themselves. The masters of wisdom are "the Custodians of the Divine Plan for Earth", they "are the muses of poets and the inspiration behind all of the great thinkers, scientists, leaders and artists of every century." Every now and then, one or more of these masters come into the world to teach humanity. Among these teachers you can find someone called Jesus (not Jesus Christ), Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed. It is interesting to read, that these masters need to work "underground", not visible and audible. Most of them recide in the mountains of the Himalayas and other far off places, from where they guide humanity. According to the teachings of the NAM this is since the big flood. Before that these fallen spirits "had worked openly, outwardly in the world as the priest-kings and god-like beings who gave men the Atlantean civilisation" Reportedly the plan is to bring this situation back again, with Maitreya and "Jesus" and 39 other masters doing again this work. New Agers call the pre-flood world "Atlantis". In an article called Hidden Esoteric Wisdom in the Bible, the reverend (!) Ray Carey writes: "Look at the story of Noah, the ark, and the deluge (Atlantis destroyed)." It is very interesting indeed, that apparently these masters of wisdom that teach humanity lost their physical bodies during the flood. The Book of Enoch, as well as the canonic books of the Bible (Genesis, Jude, Peter) speak of the nephilim, the unholy offspring of fallen angels and daughters of men. These fallen angels and the nephilim were teaching the children of man all kinds of wicked actions, like magic and astrology. The mere existence of the nephilim was the reason for the big flood. Read what writer Aart Jurriaanse has got to say in a piece called "evolution of humanity began over 18 million years ago. "In those early days of

56 Lemuria and Atlantis the primitive masses were led by their priest kings, assisted by Adepts, initiates and disciples, the direct descendants of the former White Brotherhood, who still formed the only real source of intelligent and spiritual guidance". According to scripture, that before man was created earth was there as well as the other planets, the so called stones of fire, inhabited by angels [footnote]. But lucifer fell. It is like reading the same information, but then from the other side. And in fact, it is. They are talking about the offspring of "former white brotherhood", that is the previous inhabitants of this planet (before Adam and Eve were created, before Eden was created), teaching the humans before the flood. We read in Enoch the offspring of fallen angels teaching the humans before the flood. It is the same story. After the flood, the unholy spirits of the nephilim needed to do their wicked works of iniquity more covert, for they lost their bodies in the flood. The message of the New Age, in a sense, is that this Atlantean situation will be restored on earth, at least when the masters of wisdom get what they want. In this context, it is vital to remember the prophecy of Jesus Christ, that during the last days, it will be like in the days of Noah. The New Agers talk about bringing back the pre-flood situation, because all the masters are supposedly coming as a group in this coming time. Again, in physical bodies. Maitreya being their leader. The NAM claims, that this group " was brought into this planet by the Lord of the World, about 17 million years ago..." It might be interesting to know, satan is also called the lord (archon) of this world (John 12:31). As I said before, the New Agers also have another nice name for the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara. They say he is the same as the Ancient of days, which is a title for the Most High Jah. Any child can see this is satan wanting to be as and above the Most High. When you read he came from Venus, as he say so himself, to be our "Planetary Logos". He claims to be responsible for our evolution. On a website dedicated to him, he is even calling: "We have guided you and we have watched over you and it is time for you to incorporate us into you". See a picture of the lord of this world on the left hand side. This is who they say is the Ancient of Days, or Jah Himself (Daniel 7). As you can see, he looks like one of Adolf Shitler's Aryans, blue eyes, white blond hair. Sanat says he has "not made public the truth of my being to humanity, not wanting to over emphasize my role to a planetary consciousness that would not fully understand." [footnote] He stays a bit of the scene, because the people would not fully understand, as he says. Sanat Kumara is the leader of the leader (maitreya) of the masters of wisdom (who have been identified as following the spirit of the antichrist). We also know, the one we both call "Lord of this world", is also the "head" of the coming antichrist and his false prophet. Now what is it what they (the hierarchy, the masters of wisdom) want to bring us humans to? That they once were humans like us, and that they are also god, like us. Because God is everything and everything is God, so they say. Another part of the teaching is reincarnation or rebirthing. ("And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment", Heb 9:27): Although Maitreya teaches that he is not going to make another religion, he is lying. The new world religion that maitreya the antichrist plans to inaugurate in the coming new age, is this: "His teaching will be released in phases, each phase being relevant to the needs of humanity at each stage over the next 2,350 years or so. In the first place, we will find that He will lay the emphasis on the oneness of humanity, on the fact of the human

57 soul, and on the need for sharing and right relationships. He will teach, again, the Law of Cause and Effect and its relation to the Law of Rebirth, showing the need for harmlessness in all relationships. When these ideas have permeated society and brought about the changes in our political, economic and social structures, He will set about the inauguration of the new world religion, bringing together the approaches to God of the East and the West, God immanent and God transcendent. He will teach the Mysteries of the Path of Initiation, the scientific path to God. Initiation will be central to the new world religion. Above all, He will reveal a new aspect of God. This is the New Revelation which He brings." (From the Maitreya FAQ) We already saw, that the New Age belief system is depending on initiations of the people. The more you get involved, the more you get chained to the slave master. And you do not know in front what is happening. The ones that are not initiated are only longing for an initiation. They do not know what is happening afterwards. I ask you, if JAH is the Truth and the Way as we say He is, does the truth needs secret initiations? No, let it shine bright! One of the nestors of the NAM, a man called David Spangler, has written that in order to enter the New Age, mankind must go through a "luciferian initiation". For those who refuse to do so (accepting the mark of the beast) they will be brought to a different dimension where they will be taught the new age [footnote]. Esotherical language for killing all those that refuse to worship (or accept) the maitreya as the Christ. Maitreya the "christ" obviously is aware of the fact, that conscious people will easily recognize him as the antichrist, or at least someone very close to him. In an earlier article I have already written something about it. In "The coming of of the Great Lord", a publication from Benjamin Creme inspired by "the master", he writes that when Maitreya comes, he will convince those that think he is the antichrist, by showing Iesous to them. So expect this antichrist to present somebody that he will call Jesus. This Jesus, pope in Rome, will have a humble attitude towards his master, Maitreya. And this Jesus will deny that he is the Christ. Who was again the one that denied that Jesus is the Christ? Although they speak of love, and sharing with our fellow men, unity, and all good things, we should not be deceived by this. They want to control all the food in the world, supposedly to distribute it propperly. They make use of the fact that 17 percent of the people is eating 83 percent of the food supplies in the world to convince the people that sharing is a must. And indeed, sharing is a must. It is preached and practiced by the early christians and Jesus Christ Himself. I would gladly hand over my possessions and food to Jesus Christ and make Him distribute it good, when He would come to me and say so, but I would never hand over anything to someone that fits the scriptural description of the antichrist. I have already given to scriptural guidelines we need to walk by, in order to get some spiritual discernment. No matter if they come with handful of love and thing to make me accept their mystery, their doctrines, when they deny Yeshouah is the Christ, I know this is the spirit of the antichrist. We see babylon helping out the children of Africa when the hunger is too much. This handfull of love does not make babylon Zion. Scripture warns us for the wolfs in the sheep's clothing. It is true, that Christ Iesous says that you can recognize the tree by the fruits. New Agers use this scripture very much to "prove" that they have a good message. They say, that their fruit is love and sharing and so forth. But

58 these things are the outward things. They are like the clothes. A true messenger of Jah will always confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. It is important to discern the doctrines of people's movements, because the doctrines are the driving energy. It is what makes people do what they do. And even if some things might seem good, they might look like good fruits at first sight, when it is created by the doctrine of the antichrist (not confessing Jesus is the Christ) is is a bad tree. One of the most strong messages of the NAM is that all religions basically say the same. That may be correct when you speak of the mystery religions through-out the centuries that served as a platform for the political leaders (including roman Catholicism) but not when it comes to what Jah says. I am sure that you have heard of the meditation, that no matter if you are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Animist, that everyone is serving the same God. Although this is brought as tolerance and uplifting for the unity of mankind, it is no less than a religion in itself: all religions are transformed to fit one message: the New Age's. You can only bring all religions together, if you take out what separates them by re-interpreting these things. And if you can then make them believe, that they are all waiting for the same person, then you can also provide them with that person. That is exactly how they bring it: they say all is looking for one man, and they know who it is: "All the great religions posit the idea of a further revelation to be given by a future Teacher. Christians hope for the return of the Christ, the Buddhists look for the coming of another Buddha (the Lord Maitreya), while Muslims await the Imam Mahdi, the Hindus a reincarnation of Krishna, and the Jews the Messiah. Students of the esoteric tradition know all these as different names for the same individual - the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher, the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters, and they look for His imminent return now." In the bible, the book of truth, you read that by no means JAH will allow any other god beside Him, let go the idea that He is that other god. All the prophecies you read against idols, all the time you can read Jah telling His people to remember His Name. "You shall bow for no other god," is the message all of the time. The New Age doctrine, that all the gods that people serve is actually the same God, has its fierce supporters in every religion. It is called intolerant, when you keep your faith in Jah only. I think it is intolerant for pushing this doctrine of "every-religion-is-serving-thesame- god" in every body's mouth. It is a great sign of disrespect to any religion as well. It is also a great disrespect for people personally. When I have a different religion they say we must all come together to praise the same God. Sure we must come together as people, yes, we should not fight each other, we should together struggle for a better earth. But we can do all these things without having to say to eachother: "you know, we have a different religion, but we are serving the same God". It does not mean that I want to kill everybody that does not worship my God, when I make a distinction, I am just reading what I read in the book of truth. I read I must love each and everyone, even my enemies. Maybe we can't pray together, for we do not pray to the same God, but that does not mean we have to fight each other. The NAM makes people believe, that believing in one God, or One Way to God, is intolerant. They point to Muslim Fundamentalists and Christian Fundamentalists to "prove" the "danger of fundamentalism in any religion". For, every religion is the same (according to the NAM), remember? Most of these so-called religious

59 fundamentalists, are simple warmongers, fighting over a piece of land or power. Others use the simple faith of the believers (!) to get rich themselves. Using religion as a cover up for political aims. These people are violating the rules of their own religion most of the time. Unlike the NAM's allegation, someone who follows JAH only will not treat anybody different when they have a different faith. Demanding the worshippers of all religions, to bow down for the same god, that is intolerant. New Age theory of knowledge is closely connected to a philosophy that was popular in the days of Paulus, Peter and John. We now know it by the name of "gnosticism". This comes from the word "gnosis" and that means "knowledge". A lot of their books were found in Nag Hammadi, in Egypt. The Nag Hammadi writings have shared a light on the doctrines of these early New Agers. We knew mainly of them from the rebukes in scriptures. The knowledge the gnosticists talked about, in essence was that man was divine, only lost this knowledge somewhere along the way, and must now regain it by meditation, altered consciousness and ascetism. Or by the opposite of it. There is no mention of a Creator and the created, because everything is a part of God, and God is everything according to this philosophy. Theologians call this belief system "pantheism", not to confuse with polytheism. RASTAFARI AND THE NEW AGE Haile Selassie, the Lion of Judah, was a devout christian. Nowhere did he speak of a Christ being not Jesus. When he heard that people thought he was Jesus Christ, he rapidly sended an Archbishop to teach that he was not. He put great effort in worshipping the Most High, a thing unspeakable in the sight of a New Ager. New Agers follow themselves, because they think that Jah is everything and everything is Jah. They follow a doctrine which is in clear contradiction with Jah scripture. Still, unfortunately, New Age thinking has also found its way within the movement of Rastafari. I think there is such a big group of "new age Rastas" now, you can even speak of an esotherical house of Rastafari. Most of them are friendly, lovely people. They strive for righteousness in their own surrounding. I think, most of them don't realize where they are getting themselves into. Taken from scripture, one of the Rastaman's creeds is: "Righteousness will cover the earth". I am afraid, that a lot might not realize the new age proclaims: "SELF-Righteousness will cover the earth". Especially since Haile Selassie left the visible spectrum, a feeding soil for a more mystical, esotherical form of spirituality was created. When perhaps most Rastas believed Selassie to be Christ Jesus, as long as the Ethiopian Lion of Judah was physically present, their worship was directed towards HIM, Rastafari. With the Emperor reported dead, some Rastas began to look inside for Selassie, worship gradually changed into spirituality of the new age kind. I think not so many New Age Rastafarians realize, that there is no place for worshipping Christ in the New Age way of thinking. This is also very logical, for they teach that you are god yourself. The more you get initiated, the more you will realize this.

60 EPILOGUE So many topics that have not been covered yet, I know. But I hope, a foundation for a New Age study is laid. It is the same foundation, as we read in scripture "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." (! Cor. 3:11). Whether you are Christian, or Rastaman, this is the foundation. A foundation which can not be removed. The New Age teachings, as we saw, attack this foundation, when they want to separate Jesus and the Christ. When a Rastaman sights Selassie I as Yeshouah Christ returned, he does not make a differentation between Christ and Yeshouah. Maybe too much Rastafarians do not see the importance of this to the fullness, but they stand on the foundation which gets attacked by New Age teachings. If you like to know more, there is a list of advised literature on this page. Click on the link below to view it. I wish to each and everyone, much wisdom in the decisions and the meditations that will occur after reading all this. One Love, One Heart. messian dread Footnotes When you look to the first two scriptures of Genesis, you will read that Jah created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, and that the earth was without form and void. Looking to the original Hebrew language, it is better to say: the earth became without form and void. It is the result of the falling of lucifer, as I have been reporting in this article. Lucifer was dropped on the earth (from Venus?) because it was all darkness. Therefor Jah re-created the earth with the living creatures such as the birds, the fish, the mammals, and us, sons and daughters of man, in Ethiopia, in the garden of Eden. This garden was created especially for mankind, outside of it lucifer was still there, darkness was still there. [back] I found this transcript online, there is a site dedicated to Sanat Kumara. Click Here to see the page. [back] This initiation is a thing from which they say, everyone will experience it when the new age is there. When Spangler, one of the main figures in the New Age center Findhorn says that we have to undergo a luciferian initiation, he also says that those who will refuse it, will be taken to a different dimension, where they will learn about the new age, before they will re-incarnate. This means nothing else as brutal murder. A lot of things point in the direction, that this is the matter of the mark of the beast. When the aim is, to give every individual on the earth exactly what (s)he needs, there needs to be some kind of technology which will enable this. In order to prevent abuse, every person needs to be linked on some kind of bio-digital network. Revelation speaks of the "mark of the beast", without this mark one can not buy or sell. One gets excluded from the economical activities, and thus will eventually starve to death. One could argue, well we are self supporting. But all the goods of the world needs to be in the hand of this system, in order to be functioning as a "righteous system based upon the principals of sharing". [back]

61 THE COLOR OF DEATH IS PURPLE In the Netherlands, the country where I live, we currently have a government consisting of three parties. This coalition of Social Democrats, Liberals and Democrats is known under the name "the purple coalition" and is presently in their second term. The binding factor in this government is the Democrat party with the name "D'66". It was their ideal to have a coalition without the Christian Democrats. The Queen of the Netherlands, a woman with the name Beatirx, also played a very strong part in forming this coalition, almost 8 years ago. In the time that I write this, our country, the Netherlands, goes through very hectic times. The nation has become world news recently, due to the fact that the Netherlands has the dubious honor of being the first country to have legalized "euthanasia". Euthanasia, a word invented by the Nazi's during the second world war, literally means "soft death". The nazis used it to remove "unworthy" life. I have seen a propaganda movie from the nazi's in which they promoted euthanasia for incurable sick people. Hitler stopped the program after there was too much critique. Please note, I am not talking about the concentration camps, but about euthanasia, doctors killing patients that suffer from an incurable disease. In our country, a doctor can now legally kill a patient, supposedly at the patient's request, when the patient "suffers unbearable suffering". Concerned people in the Netherlands have strongly protested against this law, neighboring countries are very worried about the events as well. Where on one hand old people don't get the right care that they need, on the other hand we have a minister that advises old people to kill themselves. Just days after the euthanasia-law passed the parliament, the minister of "health", Els Borst, gave an interview in Dutch quality newspaper "NRC Handelsblad". In this interview, she stated that she had lost every contact with people that oppose this euthanasia. She used the same words as Jesus spoke on the cross (John 19:30), "it is finished" when asked about the law. Mrs. Borst told a story how she knew two women of age, "they were bored stiff, unfortunately not bored to death", she said about the women. She said the women longed for death and it should be possible, according to mrs. Borst, for such people to take a pill to commit suicide. Only a few days after a euthanasia bill passed the parliament, she wanted to go steps further. And although she said that she was sorry if she hurted anybody, days later she gets interviewed by the magazine of her own party, the D'66. In this interview she is asked what she thinks about the fact that some Christian circles find her the devil. She liked it apparently, because her answer was: "Yeah, interview with the devil, that's a good title for this interview." In my country, when you ask people Who they believe in, the answer of many is: "I believe in myself". Many people have put themselves on the seat of God. We have abortion, which is basically a child sacrifice to the God we proclaim to be. We have euthanasia, the ultimate tool of self-determination. Man wants to be God. And there is another God which is worshipped in the Netherlands. This God is called Mammon. It's the God of money. 100,000's of animals are brutally killed because of economical reasons. In the time I write this, there is mention of a Foot and Mouth disease that is spreading across Europe. This sickness, which is not even lethal for

62 animals, can be easily prevented by vaccination. But the government doesn't want the animals be vaccinated, because otherwise the americans and the japanese will not buy our meat. When I count all the wickedness that the dutch government is currently introducing to the nation, I can only think of one thing: the color of death is purple.

63 BORN AGAIN RASTA? When I reason with either Rastafarians or Christians, I come to realize something again and again. In the vision of many people the two seem to exclude each other. But when I meditate over these things, I can see how definitions are being used, definitions of which you can not say that they cover the truth completely. They are merely an expression of a certain interpretation, driven by personal experiences, yet presented as a standard. These are the kind of things that I hear a lot of times: "I used to be a born again Christian, but now I am a Rasta" "I used to be a Rasta, but now I am a Born Again Christian". What is it, that makes people want to say things like that? What is the reason for this mutual exclusion? Ironically, they are the same for the "Anti Christian Rasta" and the "Anti Rastafarian Christian", so to speak. It comes from a certain definition of Rastafari. What is this definition, or should I perhaps say "Identification", of Rastafari? It's this: "Rastafari is a movement of people who worship Haile Selassie as God" Now, if this definition was a true one and covering the believe of all Rastafarians, it would be very easy to see how Christianity and Rastafari would have to exclude each other. For Christians believe in the Tri-une God, Father Son and Spirit, mystically One and Three. We believe that Yesus Kristos is God Incarnated in the flesh, to come to die to save the lost. Like in every monotheistic faith, there is no other God. But is Selassie really being worshipped as God by all Rastafarians? And what about those who believe that Selassie is the return of Yesus Kristos? Since Haile Selassie has left the visible spectrum, some say he died and others say he didn't, the movement of Rastafari is divided into two main streams. Two streams divided by a difference in meditation about the person(ality) of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I. And it's a difference which, in a growing degree, grows further and further away from that definition of Rasta I gave earlier. Where most Rastas used to believe in His Majesty as the return of Christ, or simply as God, Selassie's disappearance did cause many to re-define their ways. Simply put, there are now two, or three, mainstreams within Rastafari. The first stream says, more or less, that Haile Selassie came to show us "the Christ consciousness". This is a term which comes from ancient Gnostic writings and is currently being used by the New age Movement to describe a spiritual state of mind. In this stream you can also hear a lot of "Fire Bun Geezus". The second stream says, also more or less, that Haile Selassie is not Christ, but was a representant of Christ. In essence, this stream is Christian. Gadman, the head of the 12 Tribes of Israel, is one of the leading figures in this thing. But you can also see Yabby You, the I-riginal Jesus Dread in here as well, although Yabby doesn't call himself a Rasta.

64 The third stream (still) sees Selassie as God the Father, or Christ (God the Son) returned. Although the first two streams are gradually becoming the two main streams within Rastafari, the third stream is (still) being seen as representative for the movement of Rastafari as a whole. I remember this conversation with a Christian who had written a piece on Rastafari, saying that the definition of Rastafari was the worship of Selassie as God. I pointed him out to the fact that the definition he had given wasn't quite covering the believes of all Rastafarians and could therefore not be used as he did. Although this Christian did acknowledge that I was right in my observation, and even quoted me from another publication in which he did acknowledge this, he refused to change his writings nevertheless. The reason for this that he said his meditation was mainly aimed at those Rastafarians who sight Selassie as God. I was shocked to see how truth and reality is apparently not a relevant issue for some, in their zeal to break down a movement they don't care what's happening in it. A serious thing. Equally, I see many Rastafarians whose Rastafarianity expresses itself mainly as a coming from an anti-christian point of view. When you enter with a Yesus Meditation they start to scorn at you. To "Fire Bun Jesus Christ" is a current trend within certain factions. Christianity is unconditionally being portrayed as a babylonian movement, Jesus Christ as the god of the enslavers. These Rastafarians in my view are totally ignoring the fact that His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I was a devout Christian, his works gave him the title "Defender of the Christian Orthodox Faith". And by ignoring HIM's Christianity, they are also denying the existence of a Christianity without babylon. And that is also a very serious thing. It is obvious and clear for many, that manipulation seems to be part of the game for some of them. They are obviously not taking heed into the truth, and they hold on to a definition of Rastafari that might be good for maintaining the status quo but is definitely not in harmony with the current runnings within Rastafari. Does the truth need manipulation? I think that the use of caricatures are very dangerous when they are portrayed as the truth. They are negatively influencing the development of people. It was Christ, Who taught us to speak the Truth, it was Rastafari that rightfully pointed out again, that the truth have to be told. And now, when only half the story is told, yet presented as the "whole truth", one can say, that there is some manipulation going on. and manipulation to make people believe some thing is a serious thing. Many have found their Identity within the movement of Rastafari. Some because they have seen the babylon system and how babylonian Christianity is being used by this same system to keep (black) people down. Some because they have seen King Selassie. An African King of Solomonic Descent proving that Jah thinks different about Africa then babylon system. And many also see, that Yesus Kristos is the Saviour and they want to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ, as Gadman of the 12 Tribes describes it. Are they then "Born Again Rasta"? Perhaps. Does it really matter, I hear some people ask. I think, it matters a lot. I can see some immediate results from upholding a definition like the one I am describing in this Itation. One of these results I can see in the feedback that I'm getting on my Itations. Fortunately, a lot of people feel blessed after reading the Itations. I don't know how many times I've heard: "Finally, I thought I was the only one". But each time I do, I

65 get very happy and realize again and again what a blessing it is to see Jah works! But it is a fact, that a wrong definition make many people feel confused, because inwardly they know something, and the establishment is denying this. Another result is the sometimes very negative response, coming mainly from Christian brethren and sistren. They have been trained (or they are training others) to see Rastafari as another religion, apart from Christianity. The word "misleading" has been put on my Itations. But when you ask, what is the misleading aspect, it is, that I am not following their definition of Rastafari. A definition, which isn't quite up-to-date with the current runnings in the movement. Only Jah knows how many people are currently finding themselves in a situation, in which the establishment is telling them, that they cannot believe what they do. Because it doesn't fit into the definitions. But although they say, that you can't be a Christian and also a Rasta, or vice versa, reality has proven otherwise. There is not a proper definition of Rastafari that would clearly show this.

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67 NO BORDER, NO NATION... WE RE WORKING TOWARDS IT, BABY... by Messian Dread, july 2003 The above picture was shot at the border between France and Switzerland. The border was closed for a lot of demonstrators against the congregation of the rulers and leaders of nations known as the G8 that was held in Evian, France. They were all there: the leaders of France, Germany, Great Britain, United States, Russia and more. And the many-coloured antiglobialist movement was well represented too, with thousands of representants and individuals from all over the world joining hands to raise the voice of the downpressed people. People suffering from the strangling force of globalization, a word used to cover the activities of contemporary Babylon to create the infra-structure for a global fascist state 1. In spite of what many people opposed to the Novos Ordos Seclorum 2 think, the Bible is not a usefool tool in the hands of the forces of Babylon. It had to be kept from the masses as long as possible, then eventually translated in manners that suited the political agenda of the contemporary forces of Babylon, and now that we have arrived in the era of information-gathering as predicted by the prophet Daniel, it has to be discredited alltogether. It is a fact, that globalization is predicted in the Bible and that it is identified as the infrastructure of the coming global fascist state. The Bible calls it 1 Babylon has, since founded by Nimrod after the Great Flood, tried to create a global empire which would then be headed by Lucifer, the chief fallen angel we know as Satan or the Devil. 2 Novos Ordos Seclorum: New World Order, as spelled on the American One Dollar Bill.

68 the mystery of iniquity, and there are many parts in the Scripture speaking about this empire of evil, to quote a former president of the U$A, Ronald Reagan... In the Bible, we can read the Words of JAH to these workers of iniquity in a way that leaves no room for various interpretations, because the message is clear: Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. (James 5:1-5, KJV) Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat? The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. (Amos 8:4-7, KJV) These things are quite obvious: they speak about the things that people primarily protest against, time and time again, when the leaders of nations come together to discuss economic issues, as they call it. These things are utterly condemned by the Most High too, as we read. And to paraphrase Bob Marley, we do not have to stand aside and look while the people are literally being slaughtered and sacrificied to the ancient gods of the Sumerians by using the scripture: these things must come to pass as an excuse not to speak up or even see the wickedness in it. There are current plans and implementations that lead to a global fascist state. Companies get bigger and bigger, and if they do not they are being bought out by a big brother. With the help of Babylon s Banks such as the IMF, poor countries are forced to sell their natural resources including water to companies that will charge people allready living well below official Babylonian poverty level for such basic needs before cutting them off the resource for not paying for offered services. One example of such a practice is the Vivendi Water Company in South Africa, which is the same company that also bought MP3.com after sucking it s blood dry only to deprive the online independant artist community from a promising source of income while maintaining autonomity as an artist. While the company boasts about bringing clean water to the poor people, they do not say that these people have to pay for the

69 water and because they have no money to pay for the water they are cut from their primary source of survival. 3 Meanwhile, in Babylon s major states and cities, people are being monitored everywhere they go: camera s, mobile phones, and the latest tool: the implantable micro-chip or Radio Frequency Identity Device (RFID) which is developed and currently promoted to a target customer potential of millions by a company called Digital Angel under the patented slogan Get Chipped. A Chipmobile is travelling through the United States of America to make people accept this device, a predecessor of the Mark of the Beast predicted in the Book of the Apocalypse. 4 With scaring tactics relating to terrorism and crime, the public is conditioned to become physically attached to a digital World Wide Web if you will. The Veri-Chip can be considered a modem which connect you to a network and it works two ways: the implanted chip tells big brother out there where you are, who you are, and in the near cashless future if you are allowed to buy or sell too, and it can tell YOU things too. And like in the early days of Christianity, it s becomming more and more a challenge to be a follower of Yeshua ha Mashiach. Because the predictions in the Apocalypse are so clear, and the scene is setting itself in front of our very eyes, those who read it can be considered terrorists. This can be read in an official government document of the United States of America: Religiously based domestic terrorists use the New Testament s Book of Revelation -- the prophecy of the endtime -- for the foundation of their belief in the Apocalypse. Religious extremists interpret the symbolism portrayed in the Book of Revelation and mold it to predict that the endtime is now and that the Apocalypse is near. 5 One could argue, that it doesn t say those who believe the Apocalypse to be at hand are terrorists, but it surely does say it is a tenet for religiously based domestic terrorists, so it can be applied to whoever deemed as counter-productive or whatever is the right phrase. And comparing the news of today with the book of the Apocalypse is seen as a religious extreme thing to do. Many people who do sight Babylon and her wicked schemes are fooled by the idea that these forces act out of a certain Christian believe. The alleged Christianity of such rulers as George W. Bush and Tony Blair is 3 Source: Dutch National TV program New Economic Level, online video and more information in Dutch at 4 Source : 5 Source : FBI Report Project Megido, as found on

70 identified as the source for the evil. But these leaders are not Christian. Tony Blair is an initiated New Ager, as press documents revealed 6. And George Bush is a Skull & Bones initiate, a (not so) secret (anymore) society closely related to Hitler s eugenics or wish to create a white super race 7. He is also a frequent visitor of the Bohemian Grove (picture right), where all kinds of ancient Babylonian idol worship is proven to take place 8. The ancient quest for world domination to eventually give to Lucifer is the philosophy that is behind all of this, just as the Bible explains. And this is also the reason why the Almighty God did not want Babylon to become a global state. The Most High JAH is absolutely The Anti-Globalist! Where some within the anti-globalist movement consider Christianity and the Bible as the root of all evil, there s also a sign of defeatism to be found in the upcomming use of the phrase alter-globalist. Clever people have invented the phrase in an attempt to incorporate the antiglobalist movement into their globalist philosophy. It s inevitable, they say. They want to make us choose between a corporate global state or a social global state. Personally I don t buy it. One simple reason: any state system can and will eventually be hijacked by powerlusting workers of iniquity. People suffering must have an option to flee away, and if there s only one state there s no place to run to, under the sun! I don t know who made the grafiti on the border between France and Switzerland. I don t know how angry (s)he was when (s)he wrote it on the wall. But I know that these kind of protests will only make the rulers of Babylon system smile and say: we re working towards it, baby... 6 Source : and 7 Source: Documentary produced by the Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting Company. Part one can be downloaded from and part two from 8 Source : Video of Rituals and information can be found at