Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Christianity will become revived when it turns this Bible verse as a tool to advance the discussion of reparations for slave trade. This is not about Africa wanting vengeance, this is about Europe demonstrating repentance. But it has not repented because it still loots Africa till present date.
The Head of the Anglican Church is the government of England, the Monarchy. It was the head of the Church of England (Anglican Church) that launched slave expedition into Africa.
This is not the time to say that Africans partook in the trade and sold their brothers, the point is that Christians at some point have obtained something by false accusation.
In the RCCG where I was a Sunday school teacher, where I served with all true heart to inform the people in the will of the Lord and no alterior motive or inclination to take money off the people in God's name or to please any man, we taught the story of Zaccheus as the story of Restitution, an act which the Lord finds pleasing. It is a general RCCG consensus.
Would England and America therefore atone for the sins of their forefathers? Would Christians atone for the sins of their fellows past? Or would they be proud as to not acknowledge the sins of their forebears?
Leviticus 6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found.
I only think of one thing, How Africa will be liberated?
Christians can use their religion to create the sentiment that creates the argument that God wants Africa to rise and be dominant in world affairs. And it can begin to stir its people into the dominant consciousness.
It must be used to create a people who will stand against all forms of oppression and face all forms of unholy intimidation with a righteous fury.
All that Christianity does is create sentiments around what it wants to achieve. For instance, when people want to discuss on why you must pay Tithes, they know how to create the sentiment and when they want to justify no need to pay Tithes, they know how to use the same document to create that sentiment.
Conscious Africans should also develop/evolve the understanding of the Bible for Africans in order to lead them (us) in the 21st century into a positive righteous global influence in the 22nd century.
But that can't be possible for now:
The wisdom to create the science needed for that advancement is presently hidden from the black race. There are libraries containing several information that are considered "classified".
Knowledge of science, history, astrology and complex engineering that are being worked out and worked on to generate the social realities we have, are kept very secret. Tonnes of information presently in the Vatican Bank in Rome, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. Top Secret, they are.
But whatever the Pope might be hiding in the Vatican Bank, it is evident that there is an unchristly attitude that had been demonstrated by the white ancestors of the Christian faith which placed the Whiteman as a master over the Blackman who was used as a slave and upon the abolition of slave trade was called 3/5 (Three Fifth) of a human.
This unlike Christ judgment and action set a tone that places Africa at a disadvantage today in its ability to cater for itself and its native people who despite all odds are multiplying and thriving and peace loving.
Will the Christian faith restitute for the sins of their brothers past? Or would they assume that we should keep moving on like nothing happened and is happening?
What would the prophecies for the future look like?
Who will not be able to predict accurately that calamity is at the end of non repentance?
Woe unto him that says peace when it has not been commanded.
Let us repent and embrace peace!
FREE AFRICA. COMPENSATE AFRICA. APOLOGIZE TO AFRICA. GROW AFRICA.
By Ayobami Ogedengbe
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