When I had started the ministry, I came across a statement in Acts 24:5 which alludes to the fact that Apostle Sha’ul (‘Paul’) was the leader of the Nazarites!
This verse stunned me because, firstly, I am a Nazarite; secondly, it had never come to my attention that the Nazarite church is mentioned in the Bible except the one that was established by Shembe.
1.Shabbat Shalom to the saints. The topic for this sermon is: “AS A NATION, LET US REVIVE OUR FAITH SYSTEM.”
2.There is such an English saying: THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE MAD AT YOU FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH ARE THOSE WHO ARE LIVING A LIE. KEEP SPEAKING THE TRUTH!
3.In 1992 I was invited to attend Interfaith Conference in Pretoria on behalf of the church of the Nazarites.
4.In that interfaith conference, the main topic was the status of the new South Africa in the context of legalization of other religious formations and how they would use government mass media channels in propagating their respective religious messages.
5.Lord A.K. Shembe (Shembe III) had mandated me to render this church independent from other mainstream religious denominations!
6.Indeed, I got the Nazarite church registered as NAZARITISM.
7.In the morning of the 4th of January, 2010, while I was with Senior Counsellor, MaNxumalo, I saw an angel kneeling before me; she then said to me:
8.“I am being sent by Shembe, Lord Galilee, to you. He says you must build him Yahuah’s house. Yahuah’s house is the church congregation.
9.In that church formation YOU WILL TEACH ALL THE PEOPLE ABOUT AN APPROPRIATE WAY OF WORSHIPPING YAHUAH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BIBLE AND THE NAZARITE HYMN BOOK.
10.YOU WILL DERIVE ALL THAT YOU WILL TEACH FROM THE TEACHINGS OF PROPHET ISAIAH SHEMBE WHICH HE IMPARTED TO THE NAZARITES!”
11.That is why, in this Nazarite Church of God, we always refer TO YAHUAH OUR GOD BECAUSE THAT IS THE FAITH DOCTRINE THAT THE ANGEL SAID SHEMBE WANTS US TO FOLLOW!
12.When I had started the ministry, I came across a statement in Acts 24:5 which alludes to the fact that Apostle Sha’ul (‘Paul’) was the leader of the Nazarites!
13.This verse stunned me because, firstly, I am a Nazarite; secondly, it had never come to my attention that the Nazarite church is mentioned in the Bible except the one that was established by Shembe.
14.But if one is sent by God, it is He who identifies a way that ought to be followed!
15.While I was still taken aback by this verse, I then discovered a book that relates the history of Yisra’el during the age of the Judean kingdom.
16.In that history book I discovered that there were three main sects under the faith system of Yahuah during the time of Yeshua: the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Nazarites.
17.In the same history narrative it was explained that YESHUA WAS THE LEADER OF A NAZARITE SECT which was then led by Apostle Sha’ul years after his demise.
18.This narrative then addressed my question around where the notion that Sha’ul was the leader of the Nazarites came from!
19.Thereafter, I came across a statement by Jerome, who was a scribe in the gentile religion and the one who translated Hebrew scriptures into Latin.
20.In the article, called ‘Jerome – Epiphanius…,’ Jerome says:
21.“We shall now especially consider heretics, who… call themselves Nazarenes [Natsarim]; they are mainly Jews and nothing else!
22.They make use not only of the New Testament, but they also use in a way the Old Testament of the Jews; for they do not forbid the books of the [TORAH] Law, the Prophets, and the Writings…
23. and they profess all the dogmas pertaining to the prescriptions of the [TORAH] Law and to the customs of the Jews, except they [also] believe in Messiah…
24. They preach that there is but one god, and his son Jesus [Yahusha].
25….they are to this day bound to the Jewish rites, such as CIRCUMCISION, THE SABBATH, and the other ceremonies.”
26.This textual extract from Jerome’s writing was the very first source that gave me undisputable evidence that the name of Yeshua’s church was the Natsraye.
27.Secondly, I discovered that it is an offence to follow Yahuah’s faith system within the religion of the gentiles!
28.The Judeans were prohibited from observing Yahuah’s Law, including the Shabbat!
29.Then, I also found a book by Rav Sha’ul, a white Jewish author, entitled: “THE NAZARENE: betrayed… beaten…begotten.”
30.In the book, this author says Yeshua, the Nazarite, was betrayed to his enemies AND WAS THEN BORN AGAIN!
31.Sha’ul explains that after the execution and demise of Yeshua, his name was then obliterated by the gentiles from the annals of history since they then came up with a saviour who is unknown within Yahuah’s faith system!
32.On page 10, this author says: “Many are beginning to realize that the followers of the Messiah were called Nazarenes and were never called by the pagan name.
33. With modern discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is a collection of over 800 texts, dating back to the time just before Yeshua was born and into the first century, WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE SECT OF THE NZARENES THAT FOLLOWED YESHUA.”
34.On page 25, Sha’ul proceeds: “We know that the Nazarene sect was established by the great Prophet, John the Baptist, who was given “the way” of Salvation by Yah.
35.John’s role was to instruct and mentor the Messiah in the office of High Priest and teach Yeshua “the Way!”
36.We know then that Yeshua took over as the Leader of the Nazarenes from John…
37.And Sha’ul the Apostle, then took over and became the leader of the Nazarenes.”
38.In 1947, goatherds discovered Hebrew scrolls hidden in a cave in the vicinity of Khibert Qumran.
39.The Judeans had hidden these scriptures from the enemies of Yahuah’s faith system, and those were the Greeks and the Romans who used to torch scriptures of Hebrew faith or, alternatively, mistranslate them so that they would be aligned with their religion!
40.In those scrolls it was discovered that the Messiah the Judeans referred to was Yeshua and that he was the leader of the Nazarite sect, which was later led by Sha’ul.
41.That is why this author says THE PEOPLE ARE NOW SURE THAT IT WAS YESHUA WHO LED THE SECT OF THE NAZARITES which, IN THIS GENERATION, HAS BEEN REVIVED BY PROPHET ISAIAH SHEMBE (pbuh)!
42.We do not know how Prophet Isaiah Shembe (pbuh) got to know about Yeshua’s Nazarites since they were hidden in the Bible and Shembe had never been to school!
43.This testified to the fact that Shembe was a divine Messenger, sent by Yahuah to revive the heavenly church that had been destroyed by the gentiles!
44.Beside anything else, SHEMBE RESTORED THE SHABBAT FOR WHICH NUMEROUS NAZARITES, WHO WERE FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA, HAD BEEN KILLED FOR BEING FOUND WORSHIPPING ON THIS DAY!
45.Even now, many among the pious still say numerous things about observing the Shabbat, some saying that THE SHABBAT BELONGS TO SHAMBE’S FAITH SYSTEM, whereas that is not the case, except that it is the fourth commandment of God.
ACCORDING TO EXODUS 31, THE SHABBAT IS THE SIGN BETWEEN THE NATION OF YISRA’EL AND GOD!
46.In Exodus 35:2-3, God says we must never kindle fires in our houses!
47.Whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day!” – King James Version
48.But because the observation of the Shabbat threatened the gentiles, they created a Creed that was just about doing away with the Shabbat, which reads thus:
49.“In the new religion the pious must refrain from Judaizing.
50.They must stop staying away from labour on the Sabbath, referring to it as the day of rest; WORK MUST BE DONE ON THIS DAY!
51.Rather than observing these Jewish feasts, BAAL’S DAY, WHICH IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, MUST BE OBSERVED!
52.Whosoever will be found Judaizing will be punished in accordance with the new religion.”
53.Indeed, anybody who would be found observing the Shabbat was killed in compliance with the pagan religion!
54.YAHUAH SAID WHOSOEVER DOES NOT KEEP THE SHABBAT MUST BE KILLED; LIKEWISE, A LAW WAS PROMULGATED, REQUIRING ALL THOSE WHO WOULD BE FOUND KEEPING THE SHABBAT TO BE KILLED!
55. Obviously, the pagan religion was designed to destroy our faith system which is Yahuah’s faith system!
56.Even if we were not Hebrews, it would be utter stupidity if, being a black nation, we could be persuaded by white nations to abandon Yahuah’s faith system and adopt their religion which they have describes as Baal’s cult!
57.Though, according to the white people we have abandoned Yahuah’s faith system, BUT SHEMBE REVIVED THE FAITH SYSTEM OF THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AFTER HIS ARRIVAL!
58. TO REVIVE YAHUAH’S FAITH SYSTEM AS TAUGHT BY MOSHE, PROPHET ISAIAH SHEMBE (PBUH) HAD HIS TEACHINGS RECORDED IN THE LITURGICAL SHABBAT PRAYER!
59.In verses 3 and 4 of the Liturgical Shabbat Prayer, Shembe says: “FEAR YAHUAH O GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONS AND KEEP HIS LAWS THAT HE WROTE FOR YOU THROUGH HIS SERVANT MOSHE, SO THAT YOUR WORSHIP MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE GOD OF HOSTS.
60.BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT WORSHIP HIM BY OBSERVING HIS LAWS HE WILL NEVER ACCEPT YOUR PRAYERS. HE WILL NEVER BRING DOWN HIS BLESSINGS UPON YOU IF YOU DO NOT OBSERVE HIS LAWS AND KEEP THEM!”
61.We have mentioned that the gentiles did not hide the fact that they hate the God of the Hebrews, Yahuah! They proved all this by doing away with all His laws as also articulated in their Creeds!
62.The question is: as the gentiles loathed the God of the Judeans, who is Yahuah, so much, as well as Yeshua, also the Judean who was Yahuah’s son, when did he suddenly abandon Yahuah in order to become a leader of a religion that was designed to rebel against Him? Are we still referring to the same Yeshua, the son of Maryam and Yosef, or it is now another ‘Yeshua?’
63.In Matthew 10:5-6, Yeshua advised his disciples not to proselytize the gentiles! Since, after the demise of Yeshua, the Nazarites were persecuted, how then is Yeshua associated with the gentile religion?
64.In the 4th Century A.D., Constantine promulgated a law, which we call Creeds, through which he did away with Hebrew faith system. These Creeds read thus:
65.“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews.
66.I renounce all the other Hebraic feasts, prayers, fasts, sanctifications, sanctifications, propitiations, AND THEIR DEVOTIONS!
67.Their fasts, their First Fruits ceremonies, their sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances, AND DEVOTIONAL SESSIONS IN SYNAGOGUES IS HEREBY REJECTED!
68….and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them,
69.Or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith,
70.then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable.”
71.The faith system that the gentiles are referring to is YAHUAH’S FAITH SYSTEM WHICH HAS BEEN REVIVED BY SHEMBE, whose history we are being advised not to reveal so that the black nation may always cling to myth that is being imposed upon us by Yahuah’s adversaries!!
72.Only a damn fool would think that the people whom the Romans said nobody should dine with were Caucasian!
73.The gentiles used to hold a sporting event in which black people were fed to lions which would simply pounce upon and kill them so that they would devour them in full view of audiences which would laugh their lungs out because killing blacks in that brutal way was a sporting event to them!
74.But in the 6th Century A.D., the gentiles compiled a book that they referred as THE HOLY BOOK!
75.Through that book they then taught that the Mosaic Law is the Old Covenant and that we now live under the New Covenant which supersedes the old one!
76. At first, those who observed the Mosaic Law would be killed, but so that we could collaborate with them towards doing away with Yahuah’s Law, they then suggested that the law was annulled by Prophet Jeremiah’s prophecy, thus implying that it was Yahuah’s prophet who did away with the divine Law of Yahuah!
77.We also nodded our heads, supporting the gentiles’ treacherous act of doing away with our God’s Law!
78.There are fellow black folks who do not want the people to know how the gentiles did away with our faith system, which we received from Mount Sinai, so that they could impose theirs upon us!
79.This historical account of the abuse of our nation at the hands of Caucasians, as well as the doing away with God’s Law, was recorded by the same whites in black and white!
80.We are now free, and are in our land. Now is the time for us to show some resilience and search for a reason why God betrayed us to our enemies.
81.We should not just stop there, but we should ask ourselves what we should do in order to regain the original beauty we once possessed while we journeyed with Yahuah our God!
82.According to historical accounts, no religious formation has ever oppressed other religions, but persecutions of religions were carried out by the rulers of this world!
83.Even in South Africa, it was the white government that did away with all other religions, allowing only one of them to survive, which is, in fact, theirs!
84.Even now, in order to stop the gentiles from using state resources in destroying Yahuah’s faith system, so that we may follow theirs, politicians should ensure that the treacherous act through which we have traversed is not clandestinely implemented despite that we are now free!
May the Lord bless what you have heard.
This sermon is available also on YouTube Channel: Rev. Mpanza NCG.