THE APOCALYPSE

                                              

"IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU"

 

The term apocalypse derives directly from the Greek word meaning "divine revelation," presumably the end of history as we know it, when an entirely new order is ushered in. Considering the present state of affairs in the world -conscience or thoughtful people - might consider these present times as the end of history as we know it.

 

However, if this is truly the end...... then those that profess to know the Christ and have been praying and urgently and actively waiting for His return see this current time as a time to rejoice.

Why?

Because this time He is coming with a sword dripping with blood... to usher in the time of judgment, the current time of mercy will be over. The judgment must begin in the The House of Prayer. It must begin in the Church and in the Mosque, and in the Temple.

Not just in the religious building's but in....The Spiritual Church of God. The Inner, Righteous Church. The Church where those that truly love God are prepared to "take a stand for righteousness' even as they pray for the New City and the return of The Christ.

Scholar, freedom fighter, former political prisoner and icon Angela Davis is currently under attack --- by some--- because of her admission that she will  vote for presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the up-coming election.  
                                                       

Masses of young militants are up-set with her decision, even though, they realize that she shouldn't vote for white supremacists, fascist and completely disreputable Donald Trump, either.

 Many people in this country, young and old, are totally, and completely, fed up with the system as a whole and believe that a "no show" or a "protest vote" at the polls is the start of a change in the status que, good ole boy, politics in Amerikkka.

In their estimation, this election is way beyond voting for the 'lesser of two evils'. Too many young people believe that both candidates are evil to the core.....there is no "lesser evil."
                                                       

Why?

 Well, because many believe that Mr. Trump is going to strike us directly in our face.....meaning that all of his intentions and plans for the demise of black, poor and oppressed people will be apparent, visible, detectable, and expected.

While Ms. Clinton, on the other hand, is going to stab us directly in our back....meaning that all of the plans for the demise of black, poor, and oppressed people - ordered by the small group of oligarchy, white supremacist, families that rule this country and the world, will be subtle, concealed, clouded,  and covert.

The young people, in the street, already have deducted that the end results will be the same.                                                

                                        HELL ON EARTH!!!!

We can either have immediate all out hell...... or we can have all out hell spread out and distributed in increments. The bottom line is... all out hell on earth is guaranteed for black, poor, and oppressed people.

So what is the solution that millions of dis-satisfied people of all ages, nationalities,  and colors and from all walks of life are in need of? Many are asking where is the revolution that people like Angela Davis and countless others sacrificed so much....... to bring a change to a country that was determined not to change --- a country that was determined to stay out-of-touch with the masses of people in it?

 What happened to the revolution?

Well, we did start it. We just never finished it.
                                                      

Some of us can remember the Montgomery bus-boycotts that revived the spirit of revolution in God's people. Some can remember the violent protest of the Viet Nam War.

Many have first hand knowledge of the assassinations of Malcolm, Martin, John and Robert Kennedy. Others within our ranks can remember the police riot's against the Peace Movement in Chicago.

Members of the old guard can remember Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Jackson State, Kent State and the mass implementation by President Nixon of counterintelpro.
                                                             

The old revolutionaries of the past have not forgotten, but those of us that know the truth should not tell the revolutionaries of today, to be patient, to calm down, to try another way and lastly, to believe in a political and judicial system that has never provided righteousness to it's oppressed people.

The young soldiers of today are not having it and they are saying ?uck that.....and I don't blame them.

Why?

Because all we are doing by practicing, not-now-ism, and do-nothing-ism is pushing the destruction that is sure to come..... off on our children and grand-children.

Many of the same freedom fighters of yesterday that are saying...wait-a-while... many and most of them, will be dead soon.

Leaving their families alone to fight-the so-called-good-fight against tyranny in this country, without our guidance, without our wisdom, without our experience, and without our faith. 

We are so embedded into the system of this country that we have become "white people" with a black face.

Many of us should have a "Made in Amerikkka" tattoo on our fore-heads.

 We are so institutionalized  that we are now programmed to reach for and act like we want freedom, justice and equality....yet knowing and accepting the fact that we will never get it.

We are just passing down an illusion of a better day, an illusion of hope....because we don't actually have faith in every achieving equity in this country.

We are telling a generation of God's anointed, -ain't-afraid-to-die-children-....to wait for "one day." When is "one day?" When does "one day" actually be a day?

 One of the charges, the revolutionary, Yeshua(Jesus) The Christ was convicted of, and ultimately murdered ----by crucifixion on the cross--- was for the crime of sedition.

 Sedition is the stirring up of discontent, resistance, or rebellion against the government in power.To know God intimately you have to take on the character of the God you profess. Obviously, there are millions of people that profess to know God ....... who--without a doubt-- are lying. They know God with their mouth...but not with their heart, or in deeds, or in actions.

In his essay, "Spiritual Laws," Ralph Waldo Emerson summarized: "A little consideration of what takes place around us EVERYDAY would show us that a higher law than our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment."

God's children --- you don't have to be violent to speak truth to power......we kaint win that battle. But, the people of God already have the power. As Emerson said, all we need is simple spontaneous action to be strong.

As technology advanced as this country is, for Amerikkka to function, to provide goods and services, it boils down to one simple thing, it boils down to where the "the rubber meets the road." For this country to have the means to force oppression on the masses it has to have the functioning capabilities of its inter-state highway systems.
                                                          

For those who have an ear to hear....let them hear. Not long ago, there was a slogan being heralded across this country...WWJD....(what would Jesus do?) 

 In times like these....WWJD.

We can only imagine that if that same revolutionary Christ that walked the earth over 2000 years ago was walking the mean and hostile streets of Amerikkka today He would be totally distraught to see the condition of God's people.

I can see Him appealing to His Heavenly Father.....to shut the whole thing down due primarily to the spiritual wickedness that is manifesting in the minds and hearts of too many of the people.

Clearly, this is Satan's domain.

 In order to shut down all unrighteous here on earth The Most High God would only have to compel His people to do one thing. He would just have to give the people the spirit of Christ, the spirit of revolution, to shut down it's transportation system....shut down its highways.

 I can hear Yeshua(Jesus) saying,"And not just for a day,  but all day, everyday." Shut them down for weeks, months, years, if need be." 

If all the disenfranchised people collectively, simultaneous, by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, marched to all the highways and simply blocked them all up --- and waited for righteousness to come.......what would happen?

It would be the dawn of a brand new day where Amerikkka would be transformed into America; land of the free and home of the brave.

They kaint lock us all up, and although it appears that they can --- they kaint kill us all either.

In order to get something we've never had(Peace on Earth), we've got to do something we've never done.(Love ye One Another)

Marvel not; Ye must be born again.

                                               TH4RG

                            

KAINT BOW

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come.........

From a prison cell, the bible records that the Apostle Paul, under the direction of The Holy Spirit, composed a letter to his followers indicating that there was absolutely nothing- - nothing present nor nothing on the horizon-- that could or would separate them from the love of God.

 In other words, because we know that our God is able to deliver us;--- they said...... "We Kaint Bow."          Paul was delivered from prison.

 African history also documents that three Hebrew boys were taken from prison and thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when they refused to bow down to the king's image. But because of the assurance we have in the ability of the God we serve to deliver us;--- they said....."We Kaint Bow." And God did.....deliver them.

Taking a stand for what you know is right is dangerous.

 However, if you know that you have the God of Righteousness on your side, you kaint lose, therefore, you Kaint Bow.

Even considering the current elevated state of hatred that is upon us...those of us that profess to know God must call on Him, to empower us with His Spirit, so we can take a stand for righteousness--- assured that we are called by God to do so.

We Kaint Bow.

 It's more than obvious that America, already has some horrible and cruel things prepared for those of us that don't fit in or those that don't comply with what a few evil, powerful, and wicked men have defined America to be.

 Already, many evil devices of confinement have been invented for the outcast in society.... extreme confinement that is far more worse than being dead.

So, knowing that we are already under attack from Satan and his imps, the righteous and charitable thing to do would be to act...now....while mercy is still available, then to be forced to re-act after God mandates that divine judgment will increase...and He has shut the door to atonement and restoration.

Spiritual wickedness is a cancer.... and racism is the disease that is engulfing this country like a plague.

 Distorted attitudes and twisted emotions can make being a defender of justice and righteousness a costly choice indeed.

But we have no choice...we are out of options. Our very lives, and the lives of our children, and grand-children, and great-grand-children are at stake. Satan, the great liar and divider of God's people, has arrived and is manifesting in the flesh of countless human-beings.

 Lines are being drawn....and those with eye's to see and ear's to hear realize and understand that this is not a racial thing.....its a spiritual thing. This is "a haves verses have not's thing",  a righteousness verses un-righteousness thing,  a truth above lies thing, this is a spiritual revolution ordained by God.

This madness in the world and, especially, America, is going to get worse before it gets better. It has becoming increasingly evident that all lives don't matter and that there is an overwhelming display of two societies in this country....separate and un-equal.

Still........ we Kaint Bow.

 A black high-ranking police officer, in Minnesota, recently took a stand after witnessing two white officers beat a black man in a garage. He was suspended, and transferred - and eventually run off the police force for doing what was right. As it turned out, the man that got beat was just charged with small drug possession. The beating was just for GP.

Built on prejudice, fear and ignorance, the foundation of the Drug War was laid over 100 years ago. Since then, it has turned into a full scale assault on primarily black and poor people, robbing them of their freedom, future, and civil rights, while wasting tax dollars and ruining lives.

President Obama will go down in history(silent history) as the president that pardoned more non-violent federal convicts(the majority for drug convictions) than the last nine presidents combined. Our racist drug laws were, and are still,  one of the many tools used to keep black and poor people in a constant flow into the Prison Industrial Complex of America.      

Thank God,  that after centuries of lies, He is finally pulling the sheet off of America and its treatment of people of color here and abroad. Blatant lies, that are rooted in the frame work and foundation of this country are being un-covered.

 Even the truth concerning Yeshua(Jesus) The Christ are only now being accepted by masses of people because of the current hatred being revealed and displayed against the African Hebrew descendants of Yeshua(Jesus).

 The historical proven fact that there wasn't a letter "J" in the Hebrew language and alphabet 2000 years ago when Christ walked the earth is now opening the eyes of many of God's people, and the gospel of Christ is starting to making sense to those that didn't and don't understand.

Just knowing that the name that we refer to as the Christ is not His God given name makes a difference. Just knowing that it's not the name His mother and brother, and His disciples and followers called Him...makes a difference. Why? Because now many of us can relate to the story because we realize that the only way to really know God is by His Spirit. Not by what we are told or by what was instilled in us on the plantation.

The Spirit of God reveals to the people that just like Yeshua(Jesus) we are, on a daily basis, being crucified and slaughtered in the streets.......just because we are different.

Finally, after what seems to have been a life-time of hypocrisy, black and white clergy in America can and should stand in unison, and finally say, with conviction in spirit and in truth that when The Renaissance Man, Michelangelo was issued the orders to give Yeshua(Jesus) an Italian, facial structure, tone, complexion and look.....the authors of deception....had to --- and did--- give Him a new name to match His new face.

Thank God for His truth because we are currently living in a time when all things provided and introduced to us on the plantations of America during slavery, including, but not limited to, politics, religion, and education must be re-evaluated with a spiritual micro-scope.

White supremacy and hatred in America is forcing Truth to come forth, just like He said He would and just like we knew that He could we are witnessing the return of truth, we are witnessing ......The Return of Christ.

God is truly amazing because He allowed Satan, to fill the minds of the European writers with thoughts of supremacy. He allowed them to conspire and white-wash the gospel of Christ. God allowed the Hebrew Bible to be, intentionally mistranslated into Greek, Latin, and English.            

Because, if God hadn't allowed them to steal it, the wickedness in men, would have banned it, burned it, or buried the gospel of Christ altogether...... forever.

God is getting our attention. And he said that the things that we see now are just the beginning of sorrow. So, for the simple knowledge of that alone, makes me extremely  happy and glad to know that I have the love and protection of The Most High God on my side.......how about you?

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                      TG4RG

Sinead O'Connor...........Born Again Live.....at Lincoln Center......2013

TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME...(revised 7/7/16..7:pm)

"My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

According to Hebrew scripture, in the hours just before Jesus The Christ was about to be turned over to the Roman authorities he became very distraught. He and a few of His disciples departed for a moment of prayer. Christ separated Himself and began to petition to His Father. His prayer was to have His heavenly orders revoked. He had become exceedingly sorrowful and weary of the assignment that he had received from God.

 In light of all the miracles He had performed by the power of The Holy Spirit it still was not enough to convince the masses that He was sent straight from God. He had had enough....and if it were possible He wanted The Master of Heaven and Earth to dismiss His predetermined painful death on the cross.

 "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:

Sometimes, it appears that Satan has won. Sometimes, it appears that all hope is lost. But it is in times like this that we are demanded to remember that its not about us.....its about glorifying God and His Creation.

Beloved, if we had never endured the pain and suffering of living in a satanic world how would we know what it feels like to live in a righteous world? If we had never experienced hatred how would we know when love arrives? If we had never been under the rule of the anti-Christ...how would we know when The Son Of Man has returned.....manifested in flesh...just like the anti-Christ is now?

If we had never lived in a society run by an oligarchy ... a noun. which means-(power in the hands of a small number of elites within a society).....how would we know what it feels like to be free?

It is estimated that there are only about seven, ruling and commanding, American based oligarchy families in the world. 

Two of the families are the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

They are leading members because of their enormous wealth made in the banking industry.....as a direct result of slavery. During the 20th century these two families alone possessed the largest private fortunes in the world, as well as the largest private fortunes in modern history. 

Their enormous wealth gives them the power to define the daily functions of the world.

 They define what puppet will play the President of the United States, they define who will sit on the Supreme Court, they decide what countries to make war with and what rulers must die. They decide who your so-called leaders will be, they decide what religion and God you will follow, they decide what news feeds you receive, they decide what movies come out of Hollywood,  they decide how many prisons to build based on fourth grade test scores, they decide what drugs to release into the communities,  they know how many weapons to produce and distribute to the masses, they know how to keep us divide across class, color, and religious lines,  they know what group or nation of people will be ruined and destroyed, they have even agreed to the feminization of Black males so they know who will be by-sexual or gay.

They know us........because they made us. We are, no longer, the children of the Most High God...we have become beasts and slaves to this world of spiritual wickedness.

 But there is hope.

Our hope for life is in our death.  Just like Christ had to lay down His life......even though He really didn't want to...He had to....and we have to.....Too!!!!!

We have to give up our wicked ways if we really want to be free. If we really want to stop getting gunned down in the streets like dogs we have got to stop.

Because the only way God is going to help us is if we show a desire to help ourselves.

Well, how do we help ourselves?

Well, the first thing we have to do is stop thinking, acting, and behaving like the kniggas they made us into and start thinking, acting and behaving like the chosen people of God we were created to be.

That means casting away all unrighteous thoughts, deeds and actions and replacing them with righteous thoughts, deeds, and actions. We have to elevate ourselves to a higher level of consciousness. We cant fight our way out of hell.....we have to rise above it. That means showing the same kind of love to our brothers and sisters in the struggle that we show to the person in our mirror. Listen beloved, we cant wipe Satan at his own game. We don't own one gun factory. We don't own one tank. When Satan decides to move in and wipe out our communities he is going to gas us first and the majority of us don't own one gas mask.

 Love, unity, and preparedness is our strength....but God is our Deliverer. In order to receive His protection while we watch, fight, and pray........

We must repent.....

We must beg God for His Mercy...We must become Godly sorrow for all the wickedness we have committed in this natural body.....then after repentance comes restoration to a new spiritual life, led, taught and directed by the indwelling of The Holy Spirit on a daily basis.

We have to die away from our sinful ways for the Righteous Comforter to live and freedom from oppression to rule.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Christ bore His cross...we have to bare ours......like it or not.

Marvel not; Ye Must Be Born Again

                                                                     TG4RG

                                                                   

                                                             

                                                                             

                                   FREE..........................Goodie Mob....................1995

"I WILL NOT BELIEVE "

                                                                                 

                                                                          

"Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I WILL NOT BELIEVE..................

Hebrew scripture records that one of the twelve disciples, the  one referred to as doubting Thomas, refused to believe that Christ had been resurrected from the grave by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In fact, he claimed that until he could thrust his hand into His side.....he would not believe. No matter who claimed that He was alive. For eight days Thomas adamantly refused to accept the truth until Christ appeared, thru a closed door, and opened up his dark and dull understanding.

                                                        

How unfortunate it is that, millions of Americans can not, or will not believe that the inordinate wealth distribution, combined with the systematic racism that plagues this country and the white privilege that most European Americans enjoy today is the direct result of "The Peculiar Institution" called slavery.

Apparently, just like doubting Thomas, it will take the appearance of Christ manifested in flesh - and not the word of His resurrection - to prompt the masses to  understand the truth concerning the damage caused by slavery in America.

 The return of Christ will usher in a new day and a new way of thinking.

His appearance will profess the truth that racism and white supremacy are cultural traits - learned behavior that started being practiced and instilled in the fabric of America over four centuries ago. The advent of Christ will confirm that God is a spirit, and the only way to know Him and worship Him is in spirit and truth.

                                                                          

On 20 June 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention(SBC) voted to adapt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery.

More than 20,000 Southern Baptist registered for the meeting in Atlanta. The resolution declared that the SBC delegates "unwaveringly denounce racism, in all its forms, as deplorable sin" and lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we (white Americans) continue to reap a bitter harvest."

The SBC offered an apology to all African-Americans for "condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime" and repentance for "racism of which we have been guilty, whether consciously or unconsciously."

The SBC has condemned racism in the past, however this was the first time the predominantly white convention had dealt specifically with the issue of slavery.

To date, several Fortune 500 Companies, have come forth and acknowledged and apologized for their involvement in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. All of them have recorded enormous profits and growth based primarily on the "free labor" provided by the Africans they imported.

                                                                              

Lehman Brothers, a leader in financial services, is one of the culprits, along with Aetna Insurance, Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase, New York Life, Wachovia Corporation(now owned by Wells Fargo) and Norfolk & Southern Railroad Company which reported that they rented slaves to work for the railroad industry at the cost of $180.00($3,379.00 at today's market rate) apiece for a year at a time.

Economic historians estimate that during the four hundred plus years of slavery in America, between 6.7 and a whooping 19.7 million dollars a year funneled into the American economy via the companies listed above and others.

Recently, the Treasury Department announced that it would start printing the likeness of Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar bill. The out-cry from the masses has been epic. One commentator relied like this:...............................

                                      

How ironic. That no matter how you deface American currency - we all - are still going to spend it.

Satan just flat-out refuses to give peace a chance.

Many Americans, at least the ones that promote hatred and bigotry, probably are not even aware that no matter whose face is on American currency - its just not worth much anymore. The value of the American dollar is rapidly declining. 

The U. S. Treasury Department recently admitted that it cost tax-payers 1 and 1/2 cent to manufacture and circulate 1 cent.

Honestly?

People cant we see where this is heading or are we comfortable sticking our head in the sand like we don't see what is happening to America from corruption within the system not terrorist from abroad.

                                                                         

Steve Jobs, February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011, was an American information technology entrepreneur, inventory, college drop-out, and he practiced the religion of Zen Buddhism. He was the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc., and a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors.

Job's declassified FBI report says an acquaintance knew that Jobs used illegal drugs in college including marijuana and LSD. Jobs told a reporter once that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things he did in his life."

It has been said by many that LSD is a mind expanding drug.

Perhaps,  LSD helped Steve Jobs expand his mind enough to understand that you cannot love a God that you have never seen and hate your brother that you see everyday. Just like you cannot ride a bike with a square wheel, you cannot love and hate with the same heart - no matter how hard you try.

A total and complete change has got to take place.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                         TG4RG

                                                                           

                             Controversy.........Prince Camp &The Revolution......1982

GLOVERKNIGHTS

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things

There are two words in the English language that are often misunderstood and used inappropriately - sometime because of ignorance - and sometime by design -  the words are ........oc cult (a'kult') adj. meaning:  something hidden, concealed secret, involving mysterious powers, beyond human understanding.

And the other word ....cult (kult) n. meaning: a religious group, with a charismatic leader, who indoctrinates members with unorthodox  views, practices, or beliefs.

JIM JONES - (5/13/31 - 11/18/78) -  the self proclaimed ' God" of the Peoples Temple, who plunged into his mission in the 1950's, would be considered an occult leader while the spiritual, liberating, revolution initiated by the man we refer to as Jesus the Christ, would be considered, by today's standards, a cult leader.
                                                                                

The events surrounding Jim Jones and his founding of The Peoples Temple of The Disciples of Christ in Jonestown Guyana,  constituted the greatest single losses of American life in a deliberate act until the incident of September 11, 2001.

During his hay-day in 1978, Jim Jones, had accumulated an estimated 26 million dollars. He reportedly collected $65,000 in monthly welfare payments from U.S. government agencies.

The checks were signed over to him from his predominately black membership.

 Jones moved his congregation to the Caribbean Island in Guyana from the U.S. because of his views of a dominance of racism and multinational corporations in America committing genocide against mainly black, poor, and oppressed people. In his mind it was his calling to "save them" but he had to leave the U.S. to do it.

 However, he still remained in close contact with the Vice-President of the United States, Walter Mondale and First Lady Rosalyn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter.

Mondale and Carter both visited Jim Jones on several occasions in Guyana and applauded Jim Jones on the progress he was making.

 While in Guyana Jones gradually subjected his followers to sophisticated mind control and behavior modification techniques, and on November 11, 1978, he either persuaded or forced 918 of his flowers, including 304 children to drink a concoction of cyanide poisoning and Kool-Aid - - -    killing them all.

American history is full of radical displays of powerful men leading Gods people - right or wrong - in hope of saving them from the evil all around them. Some self proclaimed and some "God ordained".  Sent by God with great intentions to free fallen humanity from the clutches of spiritual, mental, and physical oppression, racism and death in America

For example:

 In July 31, 1966 an ad hoc group of 51 concerned clergy called, The National Committee of Negro Churchmen (NCNC), bought a full page ad in the New York Times to publish their "Black Power Statement," which proposed a more aggressive approach to combating racism using the Bible for inspiration.

In the 1950's, Sweet Daddy Grace...aka...Charles Manuel the founder of the United House of Prayer For All People, was said to be God incarnate and pastured his congregation..... estimated to be in the thousands for many, many years.

In the 1930's there appeared Father Divine another religious leader who brought a unique worship style to birth on the American scene. He is responsible for converting thousands to his organization, The  International Peace Mission Movement, and was also deemed, by his followers, to be "God on earth".

Also in the 1930's, there appeared Elijah Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam, and Noble Drew Ali, founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, both believed by thousands, up until this present time, to be yet, other examples of God manifested in the flesh of  mortal men.

Men....real men.....are always concerned and prepared to give their life for the liberation of Gods people. Men of God really don't have any other reason for living. God has one plan...and that is His plan for salvation for His people.

 Gods man has only one plan for his family and all those connected to him by flesh or by Gods spirit.....and that plan is liberation.

Liberation and salvation are inseparable.

A person who is still a slave to religion, a slave to money, a slave to power and titles. a slave to occupations, a slave to education, a slave to possessions, a slave to your flesh or a slave to the flesh of others, will never completely and totally surrender to God.

What a joy to know that always, in our darkest hour, God has raised 'somebody' to do His will and guide Gods people out of darkness, into His marvelous light.

Maybe, the most un-sung hero, of God's power to manifest His presence in a human body, was the late, great, Reverend Sherman Glover. Thousands of families migrating from the Jim Crow South in search of a "better day' in the Jim Crow North paused in St. Louis, and many stayed, because of the divine presence of Reverend Sherman Glover.

 God gave Reverend Glover a vision and the wherewithal to see the vision through by allowing him to pastor his multi-racial flock of 'born-again' converts for thirty years - until his death in 1961. Many of his followers claimed miraculous acts of faith healing while attending services. Including  testimonies of people being resurrected from physical death by the power of the Holy Spirit working through Reverend Glover.

Because of this and other 'miracles' Reverend Glover was considered - by more than a few - to be sent straight from God, while others would declare HE WAS GOD manifested in flesh.

                                                                       

 Students of Reverend Glover had to adhere to stringent principles and practices of discipleship in order to "get born-again of the spirit of God and further to STAY born-again of the spirit of God."

The Christ mandated that " ye must be born again" but thousands, until this very day, will testify and declare, that if it had not been for Reverend Glover "showing them HOW" they would have never known.

They would have had the word but  "NO PROOF".  No way of determining the in-dwelling spirit now...as opposed to before regeneration. No way of determine if God was "real" or if he was only in a book.

Reverend Glover was proving to the masses of people coming from all parts of the country, and from all walks of life, backgrounds, and cultures that atonement and confession of "belief in God" was not enough. There had to be repentance by way of the holy spirit followed by a public baptizing in "free flowing water" to symbolizing the death and resurrection into new life. And then, after you were emptied of self - the process of teaching would begin for individual and collective growth and development of the inner-man/woman.

This "born-again" principle alone provoked controversy and an out-pouring of criticism from other faith establishments and congregations - especially other Baptist in the region - who believed that salvation required only a professed belief in Jesus the Christ. Many attempts were made to attack Reverened Glover because he was being accused of "stealing the members" from other congregations. But

The Gloverknights, as they were frequently called, had to obey un-orthodox rules of praising God.

Worship and praise of God was taught as a continuous way-of-life not a one day religious practice.

In order to stay in fellow-ship with God required adherence to the ordinances set down by Gods man.
Reverend Glover taught that there were blessings for obedience and consequences for disobedience.
                                                          

The Gloverknights were instructed in all manner of life - including the proper fashion and proper time of assemble into Gods house. They were taught how to  live in the sin-sick American society. Learning how to live in this world - while at the same time - remaining separate from this world - was a major theme of The Gloverknights. All songs of praise were not allowed in God's house because Rev. Glover knew the value and importance of words. He knew that you could "sing a lie just as easy as you could tell one".

Reverend Glover taught his followers how to follow the guidance of the inner man/women to stay in a repented and merciful state of consciousness.  Striving toward a godly righteous consciousness would produce righteous thoughts, deeds, and actions in the everyday affairs of born-again individuals.

"It was just right to do right," was an often-used quote of Reverend Glover.

 Religion was not the theme, righteousness was the theme and mandate.

While all around them the letter of religion was killing professed followers of Christ. Gloverknights were being taught that it was 'the spirit of God" that produce knowledge of the living God.

Gloverknights were taught what was the proper attire to be presented in the world, so as not be considered part of the world -  they were taught proper hygiene based on righteousness , proper grooming requirements,   there were mandates for marriage, parenting, education, and business ownership.

The flock continued to multiple and prosper because the mandates that Reverend Glover received directly from God for his people proved to be beneficial and successful - up until this very day.

Reverend Glover didn't preach about a powerless story book Jesus to his congregation. What he did was provided a demonstration of the spiritual, living Jesus, manifested in flesh. One of his quotes was, "Don't come in here with your feelings, because I will take this gospel and walk all over them."
                                                                     

The Reverend Sherman Glover July 4, 1887 - December 18, 1961

Their uniqueness as members of the body of Christ - combined with agape (tough) love, humbleness, mercy, praise, pray, fasting, forgiveness and respect for themselves and others turned their belief in God into a reality of God.

Obedience to the pastor proved to the congregation that just as Reverend Glover had predicted, "There is nothing that God will withhold from them(members)if they stayed in the fold(church)."

Marvel not; you must be born again.

                                                     TG4RG

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I thank you God in heaven for the rich, rich mercy you are sharing with me and my spiritual and physical family and for the blessing in my life of my biological mother, Sister Vivian and my biological father, The Reverend Sherman Glover.

                                                                   

HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER; which is the first commandment with promise; THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH THEE, AND THOU MAYEST LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.

                                                             
                           Say A Little Prayer For Me....Zella Price