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Sacred Writs /

The Kemet Christian Connection

Nile Valley religious tenets and traditions have been misinformed and misrepresented. However, Kemetic religious doctrines have informed the foundations of Christian belief and practice. In other words, Nile Valley religious text demonstrate that there is the Kemet Christian connection. The evolution of Christian theology and doctrine owes much to roots planted in the religion of Kemet.

“The Kemet Christian Connection”

Conceptions of God and the universe in both Nile Valley and Christian accounts are strikingly similar. In both a self-created God creates heaven and earth. He divides the waters, creates light, which is separated from darkness, and creates humankind. Researchers who were predominantly Christian weighted historical information to align with their particular convictions. They skewed information so as to portray African religion as Polytheistic, anthropomorphic, or idolatrous. However, Africans have viewed God as One from the conception of time. The Netchery were simply aspects or manifestations of that one God.

Kemites First Believers In Everlasting Life

The Kemet Christian connection may be observed in the fact that the people of Kemet were the first human beings to express belief in a doctrine of everlasting life. Their yet undiscovered process of embalming was developed to preserve the bodies of the dead. Prayers and litanies were placed with the entombed body to prepare the soul for safe passage to the next world. The so-called Book of the Dead was really the “coming forth by day”. These ancient Nile Valley texts were a reference to the rebirth or resurrection of the soul of those departed.

Source Material For Ten Commandments

Another aspect of the ancient texts of Kemet is its probable source for the ten commandments on which later Christianity is grounded. Consider that Moses, who is credited with giving the commandments, was educated in Egypt. The content of the of the 42 Declarations of Maat is mirrored in the commandments. Nevertheless, the Declarations were written at least 1500 years before the Ten Commandments. Kemetic tradition of placing focus on the Netcherw was severed by Pharaoh Akhenaton. He taught a singular personification of God worshipped as Aton. It is surmised that Moses was a disciple of Akhenaton from whom he obtained his concept of “One God”.

Moses Learns Commandments In Kemet
Biblical Warfare /

A Whore’s Son Judges Israel

Israel does evil: turns from Yehovah

Because Yehovah’s people practiced evil, biblical history records a whore’s son judges Israel. A revolving cycle of Israel’s struggle with evil and returning to God continues in Judges 11 -12:7. Whereas this particular event records how a whore’s son is called by God to deliver Israel from the attack of the Ammonites. Jephthah, the son called, is a mighty warrior and gang leader who had been ostracized from his father Gilead’s inheritance by his half-brothers.

A Whore’s Son Judges Israel

Although Jephthah had been kicked to the countryside by the men of Gilead, nevertheless, they valued his fighting prowess and spirit. Therefore, they invited him to become head over their army and region. Consequently, all the people gathered at Mizpeh and consented before Yehovah that Jephthah be acknowledged as head over Gilead. Following his commission as commander-in-chief and king, Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon demanding to know why he was being attacked.

“A Whore’s Son named Jephthah Asked to Be Ruler over Israel”

In answer to Jephthah’s inquiry, the king of Ammon replied that Israel had taken his land when they came out of Egypt. He insists that the land be returned peaceably. Using a diplomatic counter, Jephthah recounts how Israel had been denied passage through Edom and Moab. And how, after requesting passage, Sihon, the king of the Amorites, had come out to attack Israel. As a result, Yehovah defeated the Amorites and gave their land to Israel. Since Yehovah had given the land to Israel, Jephthah posits, shall we give it to the Amorites? Jephthah, then, expresses his faith that the Lord will judge between Israel and the Ammonites.

Yehovah’s Spirit moves Jephthah to attack the Ammonites

As it was, the king of the Ammonites not listening, the stage became set for war. Judges declares that the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah prompting him to pass over Manasseh and Mizpeh of Gilead to attack the children of the Ammon. With a vow, he asked Yehovah to deliver the children of Ammon into his hands. And, through the battle, the Lord did indeed deliver them into his hands. He returned home to great triumph of victory. However, his vow that he would offer up as burnt offering that which first greeted him from his house became a grief that would bring him low. For it was his daughter, his only child, that turned victory into defeat.

Jephthah’s vow brings him low

Apparently, the Ephraimites did not think very highly of Jephthah and their brothers the people of Gilead. Because of their envy at Gilead’s victory over the Ammonites, they proposed to burn out Jephthah and his household. However, Jephthah beat them to the punch by capturing the fords of the Jordan and killing every Ephraimite who could not correctly pronounce the word Shibboleth (stream). His victories through faith, his might in the power of the Holy Ghost made this son of a whore a judge in Israel for six years.

Jephthah takes the fords of Jordan

Regardless of your birth or the circumstances of your background, Yehovah can make of you a powerful force in your community and world. Trusting God, no matter what people think of you, will pay off even though you suffer a little while. What God has given to you do not count of little value to be stowed or given away. Let all of the light he has provided shine forth as a bright noon day. Your gift is not to be vowed as some bargain with God but used to bring him glory.

Biblical Warfare /

Power Grab At Shechem

Conspiring for power

Power grab at Shechem

Israel returned to his old ways of falling away from Yehovah to worship the gods of Canaan after the death of Jerubbaal (Gideon). Jerubbaal had fathered a son by his concubine in Shechem whose name was Abimelech. Upon the death of his father, Abimelech sought to make a power grab at Shechem by conspiring with his mother’s family. Consequently, the plot which they concocted involved Abimelech proclaiming himself as king after killing off his sixty-nine half-brothers from other wives of Jerubbaal.

Power Grab At Shechem

Yehovah not pleased with the power grab

Abimelech’s and his conspirators’ treachery resulting in the power grab at Shechem did not go unnoticed by Yehovah. Jotham, the surviving son who had hidden himself, hearing of the dirty deed, prophesied they would be turned against one another. When Yehovah sent an evil spirit between the two parties, the men of Shechem turned their treachery against Abimelech. God set in motion a series of events which resulted in the conspirators paying the price for shedding the blood of Jerubbaal’s sons. Men of Shechem, becoming disenchanted with Abimelech’s rule, began an insurrection in the mountains. They bad mouthed Abimelech and started robbing everyone who came along their way.

Shechem suffers a beat down

Gaal, the leader of the insurrection, had been signifying against Abimelech. And Zebul, ruler of the city at Shechem, heard his boasts and sent word to Abimelech. Zebul advised Abimelech to march through the night and set the attack against the city at daybreak. As Gaal looked out the gate at dawn he saw a horde of four military companies coming down the mountains in attack mode. Zebul chided him for his boasting and prodded him to join the fight. Abimelech chased him; and he and his fellows were thrown out of the city. The next day Abimelech beat down the city and burned out the men and women who fled to the hold of the house of their god Berith.

Abimelech felled by a woman’s hand

Consequences of power grabbing

Following the fall of Shechem, Abimelech went on to set the battle in array against Thebez. He succeeded in conquering the city. However, there was a strong tower within the city to which all the men and women fled. They got to the top of the tower and proceeded to shut off access. Abimelech fought against the tower; and came close up to the door to burn it with fire. As fate would have it, there was a certain woman who threw a millstone from the tower which landed on Abimelech’s head, breaking his skull. Consequently, Abimelech asked his armorbearer to kill him so that it would not be said that he was killed by a woman.

Therefore, this biblical narrative in Judges 9 concludes that Yehovah has rendered evil upon those who have conspired through evil to make a power grab at Shechem. Jotham’s prophecy, although not immediate, had eventually come to pass. This example begs the question regarding people who have corrupted their way in order to grab power, how will they indeed be recompensed by God?