When Shembe came to evangelise the Zulu nation, he did not do away with its cultural traditions that did not contradict the Law of the Elohim, but he promoted them.
But he had the foundation of this faith system written down in verse 3 of the Sabbath Liturgical Prayer: that we would keep Yahuah’s Law as recorded in Moshe’s Books (the Pentateuch)!
1.Shabbat Shalom to the saints. The topic of this sermon is: “Only Yahuah is the Conqueror of all our problems.”
2.On 20 August 2022, the new Zulu monarch was coronated, and when he presented his address, he uttered the following words: “I WILL CONDUCT MYSELF IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ELOHIM’S TENETS – BIBLICAL DOCTRINES; I WILL CONDUCT MYSELF WITH HONESTY.”
3.I thoroughly felt contented with such a statement because there are very few monarchs, in the history of Yisra’el, which conducted themselves in accordance with the tenets of the Elohim.
4.In the Kingdom of Yisra’el, David was probably the only monarch that conducted himself strictly in compliance with Yahuah’s commandments from the time he ascended the throne up to his demise.
5.However, my joy would be complete if His Majesty had clarified which God he was referring to because there are many mortals who are now referred to as gods,
6.though such a reference amounts to apostasy against the Elohim who created heaven and earth, Yahuah!
7.Anybody is aware that it was the Elohim, Yahuah, who made the commandment: “THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.”
8.That was not the end of it; in Acts 12:21-23, we read: “And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
9. And the people gave a shout, saying, ‘IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD, AND NOT OF A MAN!’ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, BECAUSE HE GAVE NOT GOD THE GLORY: AND HE WAS EATEN OF WORMS, and gave up the ghost!” – King James Version
10.Through that event, the Elohim showed us what a serious sin it is to refer to a mere mortal as God!
11.As a priest of Yahuah, His Majesty’s words give me courage to directly enumerate and comment on problems that plague the nation due to its apostasy against Yahuah!
12.The Zulu nation consists of the descendants of Yisra’el, within the House of Yehudah (Judah) which maintained its royal authority before the entire kingdom of Yisra’el was vanquished by the gentiles.
13.The tendency of referring to a monarch as a lion, stems from Genesis 49:9, an instance in which Yaakov blessed his son Yehuda, saying:
14.“JUDAH, THOU ART HE WHOM THY BRETHREN SHALL PRAISE: THY HAND SHALL BE IN THE NECK OF THINE ENEMIES… JUDAH IS A LION’S WHELP…” – KJV
15.This Royal Lion that we have now is the descendant of that Lion that was ‘installed’ by Yaakov.
16.Therefore, if this Royal Lion wants to run a kingdom that is acceptable in heaven, he will have to walk in the footsteps of his forefather David!
17.When Yahuah decided to bring a prophet back to the nation of Yisra’el, he brought Prophet Isaiah Shembe (pbuh) among us.
18.The Prophet did not hide the fact that Yahuah had sent him to bring the gospel to the Royal House!
19.He even composed Hymn 116:
You are called O King Solomon,
Solomon of Dinuzulu
Here is Yahuah’s glory
It is at Ekuphakameni!
20.The Prophet had brought Yahuah’s glory to the Royal House, but the latter did not accept it; it accepted the glory of the religion of the pagans who sought to destroy our national sovereignty and Yahuah’s faith system!
21.Shembe was sent to this nation in order to revive the Law of Yahuah as it had been brought by Moshe.
22.In 1931, the prophet said: “My children, a prophet dwells in the firmament in order to watch which nation has sinned, and Yahuah sends him to it so that he may convert and persuade it to keep the Elohim’s Law.
23.I am the prophet of the firmament; I’m here on earth for the fifth time, having been sent down by Yahuah to bring the gospel to various nations!”
24.When Shembe came to evangelise the Zulu nation, he did not do away with its cultural traditions that did not contradict the Law of the Elohim, but he promoted them.
25.But he had the foundation of this faith system written down in verse 3 of the Sabbath Liturgical Prayer: that we would keep Yahuah’s Law as recorded in Moshe’s Books (the Pentateuch)!
26.Shembe found the Zulus having conquered many tribal enclaves, some having fled to other territories.
27.But the prophet condemned this practice of the nation annihilating itself with war spears and said that it should exist peacefully and by glorifying Yahuah!
28.Shembe disarmed the Nazarites and said they should only wield smaller shields which they should for dancing for Yahuah!
29.He said that the staffs should be carried in order to use them in healing the people through prayer!
30.War songs, which were used in taunting each other, such as this one: “You’ve defecated, fella; you’ve defecated even before our arrival!”
31.and war-inciting mottos such as this one: “Where is it sounding, war sticks, we smell it, where is it sounding!”
32.Shembe did away with all these elements, saying the Nazarites should sing songs that glorify Yahuah, such as this one:
1.Step aside so we may enter and worship Yahuah
We were locked out, the gates are open today.
2.Step aside so he may enter, O! This is Zulu
Dingane and Senzangakhona’s progeny.
3.Who has opened it, who has opened this gate
O Liberator of those captives
4.Come with those nations, they lack
Lacking that Word of the Supreme One!
33.He said even those revolutionary mottos should be used in glorifying the Elohim, such as this one:
“Though He’s a Spirit, though He’s a Spirit! Yahuah the Elohim, our Elohim, has completely annihilated our enemies!”
34.The presence of the Royal Lion that is committed to WALKING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE ELOHIM means a lot in heaven because we now have a Royal Lion that is capable of looking at his nation from a perspective of piety!
35.In the past, His Holiness Johannes Galilee Shembe once said: “I have received a Royal invitation to attend King Shaka’s commemoration ceremony.”
36.He then said: “Only if the Zulu people knew, they would want to know where the Elohim put King Shaka after his demise.
37.Because it is futile to celebrate a ceremony in honour of a person whom we do not know where the Elohim placed him,
38.for it may happen that he really does not need that ceremony, but he possibly needs a nation that will liberate him from the trouble that he is in!”
39.His Holiness Johannes Galilee Shembe once argued that holding a huge ceremony in somebody’s honour without knowing if they are happy wherever the Elohim has kept them is tantamount to mockery.
40.Though I am not mentioning this for the first time, but it is essential for the current monarch to get well versed with challenges that are tormenting this nation, which necessitate that he addresses them within their spiritual context just as King David did!
45.The Zulu nation is facing a myriad of challenges which do not even need to be mentioned because they are obvious.
46.Therefore, we need a leader who emulates King David, a leader who is capable of conversing with the Elohim, the one who conducts himself in accordance with Yahuah’s tenets, who can patiently watch out for the sake of his forebears’ land!
48.In Hymn 181, Shembe says:
“We have sorrow about our home nation,
Pity us O Lord for we’re orphans. We have no Deliverer besides You Who can redeem us from imprisonment. Why have you forsaken us so much Lord? Return to us and forgive us.
49. Our fathers are no more; WE ARE NOW CARRYING THEIR SINS. Punish O Lord and be restrained, for we have sinned, we confess before Your face. Whose are we if we are forsaken by You? Return to us O Lord of peace!”
50.A pious monarch who knows the Elohim can discern the wrath that we are confronted with as a nation!
51.Our huge mistake is that we think simply because King Shaka built the Zulu nation, he is therefore not guilty of shedding innocent blood.
52.There was prevalent weeping across Zululand during the reign of King Shaka.
53.Those victims who were murdered were forced to leave their families though they were innocent; monarchs that are responsible for such acts cannot remain innocent in the eyes of heaven.
54.Murdering an innocent soul cannot be applauded in heaven!
55.Therefore, if we think that anybody can conduct themselves in that fashion and still be applauded by heavenly beings, that would simply mean that we are not perfectly clued up concerning celestial affairs!
56.Each soul is judged on account of their good or bad deeds THEY COMMITED BEFORE THE ELOHIM!
57.The Zulu nation was formed through violent acts, with many innocent people being murdered while others had to sleep out in the fields until they left their ancestral land!
58.The sin of those who murdered innocent people, who were then forced to leave their families, is still upon us and our progeny!
59.In the Sabbath Liturgical Prayer, Prophet Isaiah Shembe (pbuh) says: “Do not emulate your forebears, Dingana and Senzangakhona, who hardened their hearts until Yahuah punished them in this manner; today we are bearing their iniquities.”
60.I do not believe that Shembe did not mention King Shaka’s name on the grounds that he was innocent among our forebears WHO HARDENED THEIR HEARTS!
61.Though I once revealed this point, but I must emphasize it!
62.When a person dies, they take on a form in which they die even when they reach the hereafter.
63.If one dies due to bullet wounds, even in the hereafter their earthly reality continues until it is stopped by the living!
64.If one dies in a combat battle, they spiritually remain in that reality, even in their spiritual existence, until the living liberate them by giving offering on their behalf.
65.That is why Yeshua said whatever had been bound on earth would also be bound in heaven.
66.Evangelist Mdluli once said that somebody came to him with a view to reporting their problem in great detail, but I will not relate it here.
67.The evangelist then said: “Your problem is very calamitous, but just watch and pray for seven days, (I taught them how to watch and pray), and see if the Elohim will not show you a source of your problem.”
68.This person watched and prayed, and on the seventh day he saw armed men coming to them with bleeding bodies.
60.While they were still shocked, one men then said: “Fear not; we are your ancestors, the king’s warriors, but we died in battle combats and we are still engaged in combats. We never rested.
61.You are living comfortably, being pious, but we also need somebody who can give offerings on our behalf and disarm us so that we may be as pious as you.
62.But you do not even care about us; we are responsible for all the sorrow in your life!”
63.The problem with spirits in such a condition is that they return to dwell within the living who, in turn, do all that which was done by those who have died!
64.All these rural skirmishes, as well as taxi violence incidents and this terrible carnage within our nation, resulted from the killings that started within this nation from the reigns of ancient monarchs until today.
65.No police officers can prevent this stupid carnage within our nation because it is caused by spirits which are not liberated in the celestial dimension of existence!
66.All these wars and murderous sprees in South Africa can be vanquished by a Royal Lion who conducts himself only in accordance with the precepts of Yahuah!
67.One day iNkosi (Chief) Simakade Mchunu (head of a tribal authority) preached, saying: “I had tried in vain to create peace among my tribal enclave.
68.I then summoned the community to a meeting and told them that I had identified a great healer that could stop all these wars; therefore, each household should contribute five cents toward so that this healer can be paid.
69.When the community had brought this money, I went to His Holiness Johannes Galilee Shembe where I gave the offering, reporting endless wars within my tribal jurisdiction.
70.His Holiness then took me to the holy chamber and said I should kneel down beside him as he prayed to the Elohim about my predicament.
71.Wars ceased right from that moment within my tribal territory.
72.I used to witness how neighbouring amakhosi used to be troubled by territorial skirmishes!”
73.Here I am just touching on Zulu amakhosi (chiefs) who ruled their tribal territories in full accordance with the Elohim’s precepts, just as His Majesty promised!
74.Even His Majesty can put a stop on this bloodbath and rape cases which are so prevalent in South Africa as long as he will follow the footsteps of Prophet Nehemiah as cited in Nehemiah 9.
75.If our land is to be reclaimed, we need amakhosi who emulate King David, a monarch who obeyed Yahuah’s precepts!
76.Here in the Zulu kingdom we need amakhosi of iNkosi Simakade Mchunu’s, iNkosi Mzonjani Ngcobo’s, and iNkosi Ntemba Mthethwa’s calibre!
77.These amakhosi feared the Elohim, were truly pious and always promoted the observance of the Shabbat and elimination of pigs in their tribal territories!
78.The problem about King Shaka Commemoration Ceremony is that it is not known whether the late monarch is truly benefitting from it, wherever he is?
79.There is only one favour that a departed soul can be provided by the living: that is interceding on their behalf so that they may enter heaven!
80.Should the King of Dukuza be still gaoled for his wrongdoings, how can we liberate him if we still come to him with war weapons and songs?
Heaven is entered only with holy songs!
May the Elohim bless the reading of His Word.
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