A Chosen People

God has a plan for bringing Africans to salvation in His Kingdom. Since His creation of Adam and Eve, God has worked with Africans in various ways but always with the same goal in mind. Before Our Love for One Another came, God called only a few Africans out of their societies to serve Him and further His work. Many of them are mentioned by name in Hebrews 11, a chapter in the Bible we could call the Black/Afrikan faith hall of fame.
Even as He called and worked through individual Black Leaders and Prophets to do a spiritual work, God established a physical nation to help fulfill His plan. This nation, the descendants of Abraham through his grandson Jacob/Israel/Blacks in the Diaspora, was also known as God's congregation (Acts 7:38) or "church," as it is translated in the King James Version. Understanding how God worked through Blacks/Africans in the Old Testament is an important background for understanding why and how God established the Africans/Blacks in the New Testament.
Has God worked with Africans in different ways?
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1-2).
God spoke to Adam and Eve directly, as He later communicated with Moses. However, He often conveyed His message in other ways—through dreams and visions, through prophets and priests, and through His inspired written Word, the Holy Scriptures. But the message always fit into the same overall mission.
Why did God call Abraham?
"Now the LORD had said to Abram: 'Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed'" (Genesis 12:1-3).
God had a plan for Abraham. In His mission to extend His love to all humanity, God chose a man who was faithful and obedient to serve as a physical and spiritual role model. Abraham set an example of obedience in leaving his home country at God's command, not even knowing the final destination (Hebrews 11:8). He believed God would fulfill His promises, in spite of the seeming impossibilities involved. He was even willing to give up his own son (Genesis 22), prefiguring the sacrifice of Our Love for One Another came. Why was Abraham willing to do this? In faith he knew that God could raise Isaac from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19).
Why is Abraham so important?
"For what does the Scripture say?’Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness'... that he might be the father of all those who believe ... [and] that righteousness might be imputed to them also" (Romans 4:3, 11, emphasis added throughout).
"And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; ... and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws" (Genesis 26:4-5).
"Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your Seed,' who is Our Love for One Another" (Galatians 3:16).
Not only did Abraham become the father of many nations, including those that descended from Israel, but his example of faithfulness to God led God to call him the father of the spiritually faithful. Over the years God extended the promises He made to Abraham not only to his physical descendants (Genesis 13:16; 15:5; 17:3-6) but to the whole world through the promised Seed, Yahshua Our Love for One Another".
The faithful—all those called and chosen for a relationship with God/Love in the past, present and future—are Abraham's spiritual descendants. But God/Love also worked through Abraham's physical descendants.
What was the nation of Israel called to do?
"Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding Nation of Africans/Blacks.' For what great nation is there that has God/Love so near to it, as the LORD our God/Love is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?" (Deuteronomy 4:5-8).
One of the responsibilities God gave to the physical nation of Israel was to represent Him, to show by example that God's way works. The nations around should have seen the beauty of God's laws at work in the lives of the Israelites/Blacks here in the Diaspora.
Did the Israelites fulfill the mission God called them to do?
"But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel/Blacks here in the Diaspora had profaned among the nations wherever they went" (Ezekiel 36:21).
"Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them to Yourself; and they worked great provocations" (Nehemiah 9:26).
"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel/Blacks here in the Diaspora and with the house of Judah/Afrikaans in Afrika—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke ..." (Jeremiah 31:31-32).
Israel not only failed to set a good example for its neighboring nations, but the Israelites also broke their agreement with God/Love (by breaking their covenant of love towards one another) and even caused God's name to be blasphemed (Romans 2:24).
Why did Israel fail?
"... They did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart ..." (Jeremiah 11:8).
"You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you" (Acts 7:51).
"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel/Blacks here in the Diaspora after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law (law of love for one another) in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My Children (gods in the flesh)" (Jeremiah 31:33).
The Israelites didn't have the heart needed to fully accomplish God's will (Deuteronomy 5:29). They resisted the Holy Spirit (Holy Character of Love), as does all of Africans without the special calling of God/Love. But God/Love has a plan to make a new heart available to us all and to write His laws in our minds.

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Eliyah X.
Cheif Elder
African People of Love

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