The Israelite Abiding Movement has three objectives for the purpose of building up God's Holy People:
1. To lift up the Father and Jesus Christ, the Lord.
2. To Teach the Truth of God's Holy Word- the Bible
3. To gather the Flock or people of God together unto the Day of Christ-the Last Judgment.
To love yourself is to seek self preservation. It is to desire to live-to fully engage and appreciate the life opportunity gracefully given to you by God. To love self is to love the process of growth, development, struggle, community, and the joy in the journey called life that each of us must go through. Self love then is the ultimate expression of one's worship of God. Because self love starts with God who gave you life.
If a person love themselves, they will choose to follow and obey the only true God, the Creator- Yahawah.
Because to worship God is life. When we put our faith in God it leads to wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God, this world and our purpose in it. The true worship of the Creator, which is to obey his word, causes us to make a distinction between good and evil and to have the wisdom to choose what is good.
It is this understanding that saves us from evils and wickedness that results in death-the opposite of self preservation. It delivers us from following the ways of Cain- a child of the Devil, who loves murder, hate, and lies to gratify his evil desires unto death. Those who know God know that this way is always rewarded with death. Thus, they avoid it. These, instead, love life more than death.
This love of self through obedience to God, also, naturally extends itself into the love of the offshoots of self, which are one's wife, children, and one's nation unto the greater human family. If we love ourselves, we will love our closest self outside our bodies starting with our spouse. They are our complements given to us by a loving God who seeks our wholeness, and the continuation of his greatest creation-Man. And the next extension are children, which are the gifts of God to man for the continuation of our generations, and for the promotion of a godly people on his earth. They represent our hope and joy for the future in every generation till we reach the divine state God has promised to the preserved of humanity who follow him.
With this perspective then, self love as a desire for self perseveration naturally encompass the national family and the greater humanity that descends from the man and his wife, who were created by God. Therefore, we understand that all people are connected by a physical and spiritual DNA that binds us together as one people in Yahawah. Furthermore, to truly love ones family is to want only what's best for them in order for them to live and strive towards the reward of a godly life as one people.
If one follows God, he will love himself and the extensions of himself in the greater community, because God demands it of him. God's laws and commandments promotes and encompass these two concepts of self love, which starts with love of Him unto the love of the people (Mark 12:29,30,31). To obey God is to embrace all that is good and profitable for man to flourish and grow. To forsake God is to choose death over life. And God clearly instructed us to choose life for ourselves and our children( Deut. 30:19).
If one desires to preserve the life given him by God and to enjoy the blessings of life, then choose life. Choose God. Choose to obey and follow Him only( John 10:9,10).
The 2007 movie the Great Debaters staring and directed by Denzel Washington is a model of revolutionary teachers and liberators of the minds of black people. It shows teachers and educators in love with their passion to educate, inspire, motivate, and lift up a whole new generation of thinkers, leaders, and contributors to the Black community and society at large. They did this by diligent study coupled with community engagement and a fearlessness in the demonstration of their learning, convictions, and vision of a better world in the face of challenges and injustice. And by their instructions and examples they helped produce students that were world changers with ability to overturn systems of oppression and tare down barriers that held generations of their people as second class citizens. They help building a new society of confident Black people.
This change was produced by teachers, men and women, who believed in what they taught, what they studied, and from what they and their ancestors experienced. They believed and taught their students that to live your passion or calling for your people and the needs of the times is the seed of greatness. And that seed when combined with the pure water of true knowledge germinates into a mighty tree where all God's creatures have a place of shelter and nourishment.
" It makes me want to holla, the way they do my life"
-Marvin Gaye
1492 never ended! We've allowed ourselves to deny reality. Turning towards the internet,
mass-media, binging on a lot of things other than the reality of this evil world.
We've allowed ourselves to be tricked into individualism-away in our own little world.
But, if you're an Israelite, whether you know it or not, reality reminds you every now and then
where you are. You're in America. In the world created by the devil. A world build on war, slavery, deception, oppression, murder, and mass delusions.
But, when reality hits, that's when you realize that 1492 never ended. You understand then that your times are the continuation of the horrors of the past. You are the continuation of the generations of your ancestors, who cried out on the slave-ships, on the mountains of Peru, in the rainforest and cities of the Aztecs, on the plains of North America, in the vast wilderness of Canada, and on the shores and along the Niger river in Africa, saying, "God, look how they do my life!!!" And that's when you realize that you have to wake up and do something to change the times.
"Lord, in the time of wrath, remember mercy."
Hab. 3:2
We must wake up to the truth and stay awake. We must return to our God and forsake the gods of this evil world. When we return to our God is the time that 1492 will end and this daughter of Babylon shall be judged for all her crimes against us and the earth.
Ps. 102:13
“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.”