Thursday, August 28, 2008
There's a Biblical Rationale for Obama's Candidacy!
Tonight I hope that I can listen to Barack Obama's Speech without tears. For 24 years I have been looking for the one to replace Martin King, Jr. and it had to be 40 years as we find in Old Testament Biblical typology.
Below I share the Biblical Prophecy again so that those who oppose Obama may know that they could be fighting against God.
SONS OF ISSACHAR
A Biblical Rationale for the Presidential Campaign of Barak Obama
by
Kenneth R. Adderley, Ph.D., M.Div., M.A.
Professor of Theology and African American Studies
Bethsaida Bible Institute
http://www.bethsaidabible.org
The devil hit us with Osama,
But God raised up Obama,
The devil hastily made a death-launching push
By stealing elections and approving Bush,
But God, whose Will is not slack,
Remembered the prophecy and raised up Barak. © November, 2007
I. Jacob’s Prophecy
A. Issachar’ Prophecy (Genesis 49: 14-15)
1. Before Jacob died, he was moved by the Spirit to prophesy about the future of his sons.
2. The twelve disciples Jesus chose mirror the twelve tribes of Israel—since He was the New Israel.
3. Thus, the names of the twelve tribes written over the twelve gates of the Holy City presupposes that even black people who make it to Heaven will have to enter through one of those gates. So the theological question remains: “Which gate fits the typology for Black People?”
4. The prophecy about Issachar demonstrates quite clearly that Blacks are numbered by God in the tribe of Issachar.
5. Jacob prophesied that Issachar will be forced into slavery by their brethren (the other 11 tribes), and will be forced to carry two heavy burdens while they engage in the agricultural work.
6. Those two burdens suggested by the Hebrew and its cognates are “high rents” and “taxes.”
7. But because he is burdened down with these encumbrances, and forced to labor in the fields, Issachar is too tired to fight and contents himself to “bow his shoulder to bear, and become a servant unto Tribute (task work)” because he saw that the rest was good.
B. Blacks in America
1. History records the “forced” enslavement of Blacks in the Americas.
2. Their white brothers forced them to do the agricultural work, but still burdened them with high rents and taxes or tributes in the sharecropping system after slavery was abolished.
3. Because the task work or gang labor was from before sun-up till after sun-down, Blacks were too tired to carry forward a successful resistance to that injustice, and contented themselves to bow down until God raised up a ‘Moses’ in Martin King.
4. But just like the prophecy on Issachar’s experience in Israel, so the historical record of Blacks mirror the Biblical typology.
II. Barak’s Victory (Judges 4: 3-5:15)
A. Winning the War
1. The next time the Bible mentions Issachar is when he moved from being a slave to becoming a soldier.
2. God’s people were fighting for their lives, and God moved upon Deborah, a prophetess and a judge (counselor) in Israel to go to Barak (same name) and encourage him to lead the fight to save the nation and the people.
3. Barak hesitated (Judges 4:8) but agreed to go if God’s prophetess would go with him to battle.
4. The bible says that Deborah arose and went with Barak (v.9) and that he called Zebulon and Naphtali, armed soldiers of war to go up with them. (I do not know if this reference is to Michele) but notice that Bible does not mention that Barak called out Issachar to fight. However, all through the wilderness wanderings Issachar is always encamped somewhere between Zebulon and Naphtali, with three tribes on each of the four-sided encampment.
5. Nevertheless, when the war is won, Judges 5:15 says that “the princes (leaders) of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak:”
6. The implication here must be that even though Issachar gets no credit or recognition as men of war, soldiers if you please, they are instrumental in the battle.
7. The proof of this is seen in the last clause of Judges 5:15, which says that “he (Issachar) was sent on foot into the valley.” The importance of this is only seen in American History and the bravery of men like the 54th Massachusetts (portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie Glory, and Company E of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at Ft. Lincoln, District of Columbia).
B. Recognition & Medals
1. Just like in the Bible, Blacks who moved from being slaves to becoming soldiers fighting for America received no recognition for anything they did. In fact, President Bill Clinton was the first of the modern Presidents to award, posthumously, medals to seven of the Tuskegee Airmen who hundreds of thousands of lives. The last living one was from the State of Iowa.
2. The importance of Judges 5:15 is seen in how the black soldiers, who were former slaves, were sent over the mountain and into the valley in the dead of night to destroy the Confederate guns, which were massacring white Union soldiers trying to open the Road to Richmond, Virginia.
3. Some 536 or more of them were slaughtered by the big guns, but every time the standard-bearer fell another black picked it up and pressed forward with a rallying cry until, in the light of day, they stood atop the hill victorious and had opened the Road to Richmond. This was the Battle of Chafin’s Farm. But just like the Bible gives credit to only Zebulon and Naphtali for risking their lives in the fight (5:18), so in U. S. History, the textbooks are silent about the sacrifice and bravery of the former Black slaves turned soldiers. They got no recognition and no medals.
III. Political Savvy (I Chron. 12:32)
A. The Nation Is Deeply Divided
1. Israel is deeply divided. David is King in Hebron ruling the two tribes that eventually become known as Judah (the Jews). The other ten tribes are resisting his rule, even though God swore that he was the chosen one.
2. We meet Issachar again, but this time he has moved from being a slave to being a soldier, and now is a politician with “understanding of the times.”
3. The bible says that “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” were all under the command of their leaders, or princes, or brethren, which numbered 200.
4. The phrase understanding of the times in the Hebrew can only mean “political understanding.”
5. Israel was deeply divided, and Issachar sensed that the best political move was to unite the entire nation behind David with David as King since he was chosen by God.
6. There were those who resisted God’s choice, but Issachar, being the only ones with the political savvy and the knowledge that the present course was too dangerous for the nation, brought the food and drinks (I Chron. 12:40), convince Zebulon and Naphtali to help them, and united the others to join their cause.
7. Their solution to the problem was to make David King over all Israel (12:38) and they came together with one heart to do just that.
8. The typology here is too great and too serious to miss or to discard in a flippant manner; and while no-one can state with absolute assurance that the prophecy speaks as set out, one thing is certain. Issachar started out as a slave. He became a soldier. And the children of Issachar emerged as the only ones in Israel with “understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. (I Chron. 12:32)
B. Who Has the Political Answers
1. If the imagery of Genesis 49 is correct and the typology is sound, then that of Judges 5:15 must follow in the continuum.
2. And if Judges 5:15 points in typology to African American slaves who fought in America’s wars trying to get whites to change their image of Black people, then I Chronicles 12: 32-40 has greater significance for this time.
IV. Conclusion
Please draw your own conclusion after the facts are in, and while it may seem that the references to Deborah pre-shadowed Oprah, I can only say that in Judges 6:11, when Israel was again beset upon by the Midianites, the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and sat under the “Oprah tree.” But the reference may very well be about Michelle Obama, who will emerge as the one who encourages Barak.
2. Thus, does this mean that we have been languishing from Martin King’s time, and that now our Barak is to be like Gideon? No matter how it plays out, the prophecy is foretelling that at some point a Black or Blacks in general will lead this deeply divided nation to the glory of God.
That was written in 2007, but today, the woman who stands with Barack Obama could be Hillary Clinton, since we do not always know to whom the typology points. However, the future will tell as the prophecy unfolds. The main point is that Barack Obama stands in a long line of African Americans of whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last main character forty (40) years ago.
K. R. Adderley, PhD
Professor of Theology & African American Studies
Below I share the Biblical Prophecy again so that those who oppose Obama may know that they could be fighting against God.
SONS OF ISSACHAR
A Biblical Rationale for the Presidential Campaign of Barak Obama
by
Kenneth R. Adderley, Ph.D., M.Div., M.A.
Professor of Theology and African American Studies
Bethsaida Bible Institute
http://www.bethsaidabible.org
The devil hit us with Osama,
But God raised up Obama,
The devil hastily made a death-launching push
By stealing elections and approving Bush,
But God, whose Will is not slack,
Remembered the prophecy and raised up Barak. © November, 2007
I. Jacob’s Prophecy
A. Issachar’ Prophecy (Genesis 49: 14-15)
1. Before Jacob died, he was moved by the Spirit to prophesy about the future of his sons.
2. The twelve disciples Jesus chose mirror the twelve tribes of Israel—since He was the New Israel.
3. Thus, the names of the twelve tribes written over the twelve gates of the Holy City presupposes that even black people who make it to Heaven will have to enter through one of those gates. So the theological question remains: “Which gate fits the typology for Black People?”
4. The prophecy about Issachar demonstrates quite clearly that Blacks are numbered by God in the tribe of Issachar.
5. Jacob prophesied that Issachar will be forced into slavery by their brethren (the other 11 tribes), and will be forced to carry two heavy burdens while they engage in the agricultural work.
6. Those two burdens suggested by the Hebrew and its cognates are “high rents” and “taxes.”
7. But because he is burdened down with these encumbrances, and forced to labor in the fields, Issachar is too tired to fight and contents himself to “bow his shoulder to bear, and become a servant unto Tribute (task work)” because he saw that the rest was good.
B. Blacks in America
1. History records the “forced” enslavement of Blacks in the Americas.
2. Their white brothers forced them to do the agricultural work, but still burdened them with high rents and taxes or tributes in the sharecropping system after slavery was abolished.
3. Because the task work or gang labor was from before sun-up till after sun-down, Blacks were too tired to carry forward a successful resistance to that injustice, and contented themselves to bow down until God raised up a ‘Moses’ in Martin King.
4. But just like the prophecy on Issachar’s experience in Israel, so the historical record of Blacks mirror the Biblical typology.
II. Barak’s Victory (Judges 4: 3-5:15)
A. Winning the War
1. The next time the Bible mentions Issachar is when he moved from being a slave to becoming a soldier.
2. God’s people were fighting for their lives, and God moved upon Deborah, a prophetess and a judge (counselor) in Israel to go to Barak (same name) and encourage him to lead the fight to save the nation and the people.
3. Barak hesitated (Judges 4:8) but agreed to go if God’s prophetess would go with him to battle.
4. The bible says that Deborah arose and went with Barak (v.9) and that he called Zebulon and Naphtali, armed soldiers of war to go up with them. (I do not know if this reference is to Michele) but notice that Bible does not mention that Barak called out Issachar to fight. However, all through the wilderness wanderings Issachar is always encamped somewhere between Zebulon and Naphtali, with three tribes on each of the four-sided encampment.
5. Nevertheless, when the war is won, Judges 5:15 says that “the princes (leaders) of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak:”
6. The implication here must be that even though Issachar gets no credit or recognition as men of war, soldiers if you please, they are instrumental in the battle.
7. The proof of this is seen in the last clause of Judges 5:15, which says that “he (Issachar) was sent on foot into the valley.” The importance of this is only seen in American History and the bravery of men like the 54th Massachusetts (portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie Glory, and Company E of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at Ft. Lincoln, District of Columbia).
B. Recognition & Medals
1. Just like in the Bible, Blacks who moved from being slaves to becoming soldiers fighting for America received no recognition for anything they did. In fact, President Bill Clinton was the first of the modern Presidents to award, posthumously, medals to seven of the Tuskegee Airmen who hundreds of thousands of lives. The last living one was from the State of Iowa.
2. The importance of Judges 5:15 is seen in how the black soldiers, who were former slaves, were sent over the mountain and into the valley in the dead of night to destroy the Confederate guns, which were massacring white Union soldiers trying to open the Road to Richmond, Virginia.
3. Some 536 or more of them were slaughtered by the big guns, but every time the standard-bearer fell another black picked it up and pressed forward with a rallying cry until, in the light of day, they stood atop the hill victorious and had opened the Road to Richmond. This was the Battle of Chafin’s Farm. But just like the Bible gives credit to only Zebulon and Naphtali for risking their lives in the fight (5:18), so in U. S. History, the textbooks are silent about the sacrifice and bravery of the former Black slaves turned soldiers. They got no recognition and no medals.
III. Political Savvy (I Chron. 12:32)
A. The Nation Is Deeply Divided
1. Israel is deeply divided. David is King in Hebron ruling the two tribes that eventually become known as Judah (the Jews). The other ten tribes are resisting his rule, even though God swore that he was the chosen one.
2. We meet Issachar again, but this time he has moved from being a slave to being a soldier, and now is a politician with “understanding of the times.”
3. The bible says that “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” were all under the command of their leaders, or princes, or brethren, which numbered 200.
4. The phrase understanding of the times in the Hebrew can only mean “political understanding.”
5. Israel was deeply divided, and Issachar sensed that the best political move was to unite the entire nation behind David with David as King since he was chosen by God.
6. There were those who resisted God’s choice, but Issachar, being the only ones with the political savvy and the knowledge that the present course was too dangerous for the nation, brought the food and drinks (I Chron. 12:40), convince Zebulon and Naphtali to help them, and united the others to join their cause.
7. Their solution to the problem was to make David King over all Israel (12:38) and they came together with one heart to do just that.
8. The typology here is too great and too serious to miss or to discard in a flippant manner; and while no-one can state with absolute assurance that the prophecy speaks as set out, one thing is certain. Issachar started out as a slave. He became a soldier. And the children of Issachar emerged as the only ones in Israel with “understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. (I Chron. 12:32)
B. Who Has the Political Answers
1. If the imagery of Genesis 49 is correct and the typology is sound, then that of Judges 5:15 must follow in the continuum.
2. And if Judges 5:15 points in typology to African American slaves who fought in America’s wars trying to get whites to change their image of Black people, then I Chronicles 12: 32-40 has greater significance for this time.
IV. Conclusion
Please draw your own conclusion after the facts are in, and while it may seem that the references to Deborah pre-shadowed Oprah, I can only say that in Judges 6:11, when Israel was again beset upon by the Midianites, the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and sat under the “Oprah tree.” But the reference may very well be about Michelle Obama, who will emerge as the one who encourages Barak.
2. Thus, does this mean that we have been languishing from Martin King’s time, and that now our Barak is to be like Gideon? No matter how it plays out, the prophecy is foretelling that at some point a Black or Blacks in general will lead this deeply divided nation to the glory of God.
That was written in 2007, but today, the woman who stands with Barack Obama could be Hillary Clinton, since we do not always know to whom the typology points. However, the future will tell as the prophecy unfolds. The main point is that Barack Obama stands in a long line of African Americans of whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last main character forty (40) years ago.
K. R. Adderley, PhD
Professor of Theology & African American Studies
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