Our History & Heritage | Prt. 3

It is abundantly clear that the Bantu People and them alone have historically fulfilled the chastisement of all these curses, through their historical experience of tribulations such as the scattering (exile), commonly known as Bantu Migration, the Sub-Saharan Slave Trade also known as the East-African or Arab Slave Trade, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonization and Partition of Africa, Apartheid, Poverty, Diseases, Economic Disparity and Exploitation . . .

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Bantu Migration also known as Bantu Expansion, which began around 2500 - 3000 years ago, when the 10 Tribes of Yashar'Al from the Northern Kingdom were first of all exiled by the Assyrians, then at the fall of the Assyrian Empire migrated as Nomads from (modern day) Yemen into West Africa, before migrating eastwards and then further spreading southwards across the vast largely uninhabited African continent (Asareth); is indeed the fulfillment of the curse of "scattering," which is outlined in Deuteronomy 28:64-68. Not forgetting also that when the Temple in Yahushalawam was besieged and destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D, the remaining Two Tribes: Yahudah & Benyamin would subsequently also become scattered, joining their kinsfolk in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Additionally, the Bantu people were captured by the Arabs, transported, and sold as slaves across the Sahara Desert, then ferried in Ships on the Atlantic ocean, through both the Arab (Sub-Saharan/Trans-Saharan, East African) Slave Trade which ferried the Hebrews from the 10 Tribes into Asia, Europe and South America and the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, which ferried the Hebrews of the Kingdom of Yahudah into Europe, Islands of the Caribbean and North America. This is indeed the historic fulfillment of the curse of enslavement outlined in Deuteronomy 28:68, which especially makes mention of the fact that they would be taken into slavery in ships.

Additionally, the Bantu people were dispossessed of their land through colonization, and were forced to live in abject poverty and marginalization, which is a fulfillment of the curses of poverty and oppression outlined in Deuteronomy 28:48-52.

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Furthermore, the prophecy given to Abraham in Genesis 15:14-15 states that his descendants would be enslaved and then continue to experience oppression for 400 years, before they would be freed at the time of the harvest (Second Exodus). This prophecy refers to the experience of African-Americans in the United States of America especially, due to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that was followed by oppression to the present.

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which began in the 16th century, saw millions of enslaved Hebrews from the Kingdom of Yahudah brought to the Americas, including the United States, to work on plantations and in other forms of forced labor. This period of slavery and oppression has lasted for approximately 400 years, from the early 1600's to the present. During this time, the Hebrews were stripped of their culture, language, and identity and were treated as a commodity and property.

 

They were subjected to brutal conditions, including physical abuse and forced labor, and were denied basic human rights such as freedom and education.

 

As a result of this Great Tribulation, the Bantu People have all but forgotten their true identity, yet the very fact that they've experienced all this is, is exactly what stands as a testament of YAHUAH's faithfulness in fulfilling His Word. It is these tribulations that are a perpetual SIGN (mark) and a WONDER (reminder) upon all who are of Hebrew Genealogy, demonstrating to the entire universe, whose people we are. 

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Further, the Hebrew prophets speaking under inspiration of the Ruah Ha'Qodesh said . . .

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"Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins. They will know that I alone am YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and that I was serious when I said I would bring this calamity on them."

(Yehezeq'El/Ezekiel 6:9)

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“YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will drive you. There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. But if from there you seek YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah, you will find Him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in GREAT TRIBULATION and suffering all these things, then in the latter days you will return to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah and listen to His voice. For YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah is a merciful Aluah; He will not abandon nor destroy you nor forget the covenant He made with your ancestors, which He confirmed to them by oath."

(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 4:27-31)

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“At that time,” declares YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “I will be the Aluah of all the families of Yashar’Al, and they will be my people.” This is what YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 says: 

​“The people who survive the chastisement (of curses) will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Yashar’Al.” YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Yashar’Al, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with joy. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of ShamarYAH; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit. There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim: ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Aluah. This is what YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 says:

“Sing with joy for Yaqob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, save your people, the remnant of Yashar’Al.’ See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a GREAT MULTITUDE will return here. They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Yashar’Al’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son." (YimreYAHU/Jeremiah 31:1-9)

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"After this I looked, and there before me was a GREAT MULTITUDE that no one could count (the scattered Tribes of Yashar’Al who are gathered) from every nation, people and language; standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:​

“Salvation belongs to our Aluah, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”​

All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, saying:​

“It is so! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our Aluah for ever and ever. It is so!”​

Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes — who are they, and where did they come from?” I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation (of curses); they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they are before the throne of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and serve Him day and night in His temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. ‘Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them,’ nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

(Hazon/Revelation 7:9-17)​