Y 2 4 JESUS
ZION, WHERE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE MEETS CHRISTIANITY
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In Zion, with Indigenous knowledge, we accept that the grave is of no consequence to the spirit. It is for that reason that we accept that the spirit of those who have been separated from the body, is able to communicate both in dreams and in visions, with those who still reside in the body.
It did not surprise us, that an old woman in Mpumalanga province of South Africa was visited and spoken to by his grandson in a dream that he is feeling cold and feels left out by the family. This vision led her travel to the Gauteng Province to Pretoria Central Prison where it was discovered that the grandson had passed on some few years ago.
The Bible cautions us to avoid disputations and unrighteous judgment of each other in Romans Chapter 14. For that reason, Zionists do n ot go around telling others that their way of worshipping is not correct and that only Zion holds the monopoly of wisdom of what God expects of us. We simply do what we do to the best of our ability to please God.
At verse 4 we read:
"Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his won master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand."
At verses 10 to 14 we read:
"But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
So then everyone of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean."
God is himself Spirit. Jesus is himself the Spirit. The Holy Ghost is Spirit. There are also spirits of just men, on earth and beyond the grave. We are also a spirit.
There are two important relationships which define a man. That is the relationship with himself, and the relationship with his Creator.
Recognition of ourselves, as a spirit, and communication with other spirits around us, allow us to find ourselves. It characterises our relationship with ourselves. Indigenous peoples know this. Zion believes and helps one find oneself.
The holy Spirit and Jesus Christ characterises our relationship with God.
The use of Herbs
Our unapologetic use of herbs is the second reason that some Christians seek to disassociate with us for being unChristian.
As a point of departure, we did not create herbs, they were created by God when he created earth and heaven and all forms of life:
"And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." (Genesis 1:11)
Nobody criticises us for enjoying the fruit. In fact, conventional science, nutritionists and medical journals and practitioners encourages us to eat much of it.
It would appear the herb's main problem is associated more with conventional science, perhaps in particular pharmaceutical gain at dispensary; than any Biblical foundation.
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Passing on is simply the separation of the natural body from the spirit. The natural body returns to dust and the spirit joins the spirit world. Indigenous peoples, including Batswana and their descendants, Bapedi, two ethnic groups in South Africa with which the author has blood links, believe that when the separation occurs the spirit then joins the spirit world. This is where everybody who passes on goes to. A reading of the Bible reveals in the book of Genesis that the fathers also knew this fact, and it is recorded in their passing on that they joined their kin.
The true person being the spirit, which simply resides within the natural body, is not restricted by the grave in its power to communicate once the person leaves the natural body. There is no basis why a spirit still resident within a natural body cannot communicate with a spirit which has joined the spirit world. The only Biblical condition is that there must be discerment of whether the spirit spoken to is a good spirit or a bad spirit.
About the Author
Daniel Mafeleu Thulare was a cattleherd in the deep rural village of Swartboom north west of the Capital City of South Africa, Pretoria. Born to a domestic servant, Anna Moeahabo Mokgaetsi Thulare, a single mother, he was raised by his late grandmother, Motswatema Lehong and later his elder brother, Emmanuel Biti Thulare. He has warmed his bare feet in cold winter mornings in cow dung as he walked to school, which was nothing more than blackboard under a tree in his rural village.
After matriculating, he joined the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa as a Court Interpreter. He then embarked on his legal career and in 1996 obtained his first law degree, B.Iuris from the Uviversity of South Africa whereupon he was elevated to become a Public Prosecutor. He went on to complete a senior degree in law, LLB in 1998 and then joined a legal practice for own account. He is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He was called to the bench in 1999 as a Magistrate in Johannesburg, the economic capital of South Africa. He has a Masters degree in law and is currently the Head Magistrate for Daveyton, a towinship east of OR Tambo International Airport. He is a parttime lecturer at Justice College, where Magistrates in his country are trained. He also presented papers in the training of magistrates for other countries in Africa, including Southern Sudan and Namibia.