Will the Black Man Go Back to His Country, Africa?
In order for me, in my book, to answer you that question, I will have to take up the words of God’s prophets, because they can answer that question better than I. For this reason I will call your attention to prophet Amos, 3:7. Surely the Lord God will do nothing but to reveal his secrets to his servants the prophets.
In this chapter, your question will be answered, send back the stolen goods, for justice is on your trail.
God has promised through his prophet Ezechial 36; 24:28:32.
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people and I will be your God.
Not for your sake do I do this, saith the Lord, be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Ezek. 36; 5:9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God. Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. For behold, I am for you and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.
Now my friends, if the Lord God of Israel says that we Black Jews shall go back to our own land, no one can stop it.
The nations must give up their stolen goods.
Now the God of Heaven and Earth is directing the minds of the good white people, they are coming together, and giving justice to all people, so the curses may be raised up off of them. The black man wilt soon come into his own.
Now my friends, whether I want to or not, I am compelled to present to you at this period in my book—at two o’clock, a. m., Jan. 17, 1925—the spirit of God made me get up out of bed, and write the truth, whether the world likes it or not. I have the honor to present to you one of the greatest black men that ever lived on earth, and the greatest in these last days. The honorable Marcus Garvey, president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He has the spirit of Ezechial and the vision that God gave him. Allow me to present to you the words of God, and this man, Marcus Garvey is in the same shoes.
First I want to call your attention to Numbers 12:6, and if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream.
My friends, this is not the first prophet that the Lord has sent among the so-called American Negro. In nineteen hundred, God sent us Prophet William S. Crowdy, and he got two hundred and eighty thousand who keep the seventh day Sabbath and the Passover, and set up the Church of God and the Saints of Christ, and the Black Israel fought it until they stopped his progress; then the Lord God of Israel took him down before he finished his work. The carnal part he never finished. He was an old man—he gave up the ghost and left us without material and racial leader. So the Lord God has sent us this man, known to the world as Marcus Garvey, and the stiff necks of Israel have gone after him with sticks and stones, but it is their last chance.
Now I shall put this man in Ezechial’s shoes, that you may see him and be blessed if you stop fighting his works, for it is none other than the works of God.
Now allow me to direct your thoughts to Prophet Isaiah 55; 7:8:9:11.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man, his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing wherever I send it.
So we are as foolish galatians, have been bewitched by others, trying to turn white, trying to take this government by politics, and the white man’s education, which is destruction to Black Israel.
This is God talking to Garvey. Ezekiel 12; 1:2:3. And he said unto me, son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
And the spirit entered into me, when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke unto me.
And he said unto me, son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day.
Now my friends, you know we black people as a nation have obeyed every nation in this world except God. Through his commandments which were handed down to us by the nations, and all the God that we know is the God that they have told us about, and we as a nation are obeying the Gods of this world, and fighting the God of Israel.
Ezek. 2; 4. For they are impertinent children and stiff hearted. I do send unto them and thou shall say unto them, thus saith the Lord God.
And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
Allow me to ask the question, why is this man Garvey so bold and not afraid of anyone nor death. The ignorant men judge him to be boisterous, or a bully like themselves, because they do not know God and his works, the vision was not given to them.
Ezekiel 2; 6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee and thou doest dwell amongst scorpions, be not afraid of their words, or be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house; 7. And thou shall speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.
But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee, be not thou rebellious, like that rebellious house, open thy mouth and eat what I give thee.
Now my friends, Mr. Garvey has opened his mouth and has eaten the word of God, so he has got to do what God tells him; and it is strange to the people because it is not their ways, and the leaders of the people to try to hold them from this back to Africa movement, but the Lord God said they shall go, not all of the old mothers and fathers; they shall stay here and in their homes all over the world, but the young men and women will go to build up a government for themselves, so that we may be represented all over the world as a nation of people governing themselves, and not looking up to another nation, and their God to lead us, or to exploit us and keep us in ignorance. Ezekiel 3; 55. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard tongue, language, but to the house of Israel.
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for they will not hearken unto me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.
Behold I have made thy face strong against their face and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
As an adamant harder than flint have I made their forehead. Fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Moreover, he said unto me, son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
And go get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children, of thy people, and speak unto them and tell them. Thus saith the Lord God, whether they will hear or whether they will forebear; 17. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.
Why does this great man go into politics? Why does a dog go into the swamp and the man with the gun stay on the outside?
Mr. Garvey goes into politics to run you out of the white man’s business, and to beat you at your own game. He knows if you continue to dabble in the white man’s business, when you are only parasites in their country, that you will put a man of a class of men in office who will see that we as a race will have to pack up and get out, because we are noisy. They will say, go to your own country and build yourself a government of your own, and all you want. If you know how to run our government or how it ought to be run, you can run one for yourselves, so go to it. For myself, I have not voted in twenty years. I have all I can do, to obey the laws that are made by the white man in this country, and all of them respect me because I keep out of their business.
How does this man Garvey know all things, how to unite seven million black people all over the world? The white man did not tell him, but he has done it. Let us search the holy scripture and find out. The secret comes from God, let us see Job 28; 12. But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding.
28. And unto man he said. Behold the fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding.
This man is one who loves the Lord, and when the Lord God picks a man to make a watchman out of him, he gives him wisdom. Let me get another witness, Psalm 111; 10. The fear of the Lord is in the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding have all they that do his commandments, his praise endureth forever.
Let us find another witness, St. John 7; 17. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. This man has but one desire and that is to free a people who are crying to him for help all over the world.
Not only does God give out this wisdom and understanding to Mr. Garvey, but to all men and women who do his will. Unless you do the will of God, you cannot understand this great man. He is too far ahead of you, and you can only trust his word. Have faith in him and you will be all right.
Allow me to direct your thoughts back to the greatest of all prophets, that man is Jesus Christ.
St. John 8; 31:32. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believe in him, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.
And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
It is the truth that destroyeth the carnal mind, which keeps you blind, so you cannot see the hand of God working through the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and it is only love that opens your eyes that you may see. All humanity has to get love, regardless to creed or color. Let us see what prophet Jesus says about it, as you say you are following him.
Matthew 5; 43:44. We have heard that it hath been said thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, love your enemy, do good unto them that hate you, bless them that curse you and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you.
Now my dear reader, love is the only hope for us to get back to our country. It is the only way to world peace, the only thing that will make the nations lay down the sword, it will bring peace to your home. Love is the only thing that will destroy charity institutions, insane asylums and prisons, and we would have no need for hospitals. Love for humanity is like an eating cancer, it brings respect and demands respect of the high type. It will demand that you give up everything that attempts to disgrace or destroy the temple of God. It has power over the flesh and keeps it under subjection. Do God’s commandments and you will never go wrong.