I-sus Christos
Many in the Rastafari movement have
been confused about Isus Christos and the Bible. They have not only
rejected the Bible and Isus Christ, I and I Saviour from such time,
but also separated Christ from Emperor Haile Selassie I because
European slave masters used the Bible in nefarious ways to colonize
and enslave the world. Specifically, Europeans changed the image of
Christ to resemble a European to perpetuate white supremacy globally
and the Bible was used to pacify us while they stole our land and
brutalized us into slave labor.
Looking in homes and churches around
the world, we can still find the blond hair blue eyes white jesus
fixed on the walls. This global deception would have not been unmasked
without the coming of Emperor Haile Selassie I and to a lesser degree,
the Honorable Marcus Garvey . It was Garvey who first told us to
worship the Almighty through the spectacles of Ethiopia and to look
for I and I Redeemer as a King from the East, thus preparing I and I
minds for transformation.
Both Marcus Garvey and Emperor Haile
Selassie I were devoted Christians, fully accepting the message of the
Bible and the Saviour of human kind it spoke of. Haile Selassie I
said, Christ lived an exemplary life which men everywhere should do
their best to emulate. Furthermore, he uttered that the Bible
contained the solutions to man's problems on earth and we cannot hope
for salvation should we reject it. For my part, said His Majesty,
"I glory in the Bible."
Even if one had not known this,
rejecting the Bible and Christ, would mean rejecting the Divinity of
His Majesty, who traces his lineage back to King Solomon and Queen of
Sheba of the Bible. One would be rejecting the very book that proves
Selassie I's Divinity as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Conquering
Lion of Judah. One also rejects the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and
nearly 2000 years of Ethiopia's Christian heritage which was not
imposed by Europe. Not only that, but rejecting the Bible and Christ
means rejecting the fact that the Ark of the Covenant is located in
unconquered Ethiopia, not under the Temple Mount, a claim that no
other nation on earth can refute.
The simple fact is that there is no
separation between the Bible, Christ and His Majesty for Rasta. The
Bible and the Christ are manifested in HIM. He is the only statesman
in creation who promulgates the message of Christ and the Bible
throughout creation. He has never failed to visit a church in any
country he has set foot in. He alone has brought the church together
for the first time since 451 A.D. when the churches split over the
nature of Christ at the Council of Chalcedon. This is why He was given
the title "Defender of the Faith," this is why so many
called HIM the return Christ and why I and I refer to HIM as Christ in
His Kingly Character.
The Bible is the constitution of the
Rasta people and Haile Selassie I is the Founding Father. Both are the
foundation laws and guide in this time to both live up with and
trample down Babylon's illusions. If I and I do not hold steadfastly
to it then what will we use to judge the heathen or how can we ever?
Lean not on your own understanding neither establish your own
righteousness. Live by the scriptures so that we may be judges in
righteousness. This is I and I power on earth if we will just use it.
