Day off at the plantation
I have been going to various churches since I was a child, with them mostly being of the kind where it seems as if their main aim is to provide entertainment for their congregation members. When looking at the original church in the New Testament, it looked as if those people were not in need of any entertainment, but were genuinely trying to seek their Lord and Creator. It is almost as if a big event has happened between then and now to cause things to change so drastically, with the only large enough event to fit the bill, being the slave trade where a certain race of people were made to serve hard bondage while not getting paid. The slaves would certainly have needed some sort of entertainment to keep them sane and it looks as if the slavemasters had decided that teaching them a special form of Christianity, would help to give them something to do on their day off, while also making them think that they were being given a chance to get closer to their God. The slaves did not know how to read, so they had no way of knowing how the original church held their services, but they remembered how the Africans used to have a good time, which then meant that their services became based on the African's tribal antics, rather that how the Holy Spirit convinced the first church members to do things.
Plantation church of old
We can read below of some of the things that happened on the plantation, which then influenced how some current church people hold their services:
"Sometimes we would, unbeknown to our master, assemble in a cabin and sings songs and spirituals. Our favorite spirituals were—Bringin' in de sheaves, De stars am shinin' for us all, Hear de Angels callin', and The Debil has no place here. The singing was usually to the accompaniment of a Jew's harp and fiddle, or banjo."
Dennis Simms, born a slave in Maryland in 1841, as transcribed by his interviewer, 1937
"De black folks gits off down in de bottom and shouts and sings and prays. Dey gits in de ring dance. It am jes' a kind of shuffle, den it git faster and faster and dey gits warmed up and moans and shouts and claps and dances. Some gits 'xhausted and drops out and de ring gits closer. Sometimes dey sings and shouts all night, but come break of day, de nigger got to git to he cabin. Old Marse got to tell dem de tasks of de day."
Silvia King, born in Morocco and enslaved in Texas, as transcribed by her interviewer, ca. 1936
As enslaved people adopted Christianity in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry, the foregoing rituals became a profound aspect of the Africanised Christianity they practised. No longer accompanied by drums (which were prohibited), the singing, hand clapping, and counterclockwise movements remained part of ecstatic worship services, where the “Holy Spirit” frequently entered the celebrants. The ring shout, as the practice was known, evoked controversy because black and white religious leaders sometimes denounced it as the vestige of “paganism.” Aside from its strictly religious function, during the slave era as Africans from various ethnic groups joined together in the ring shout, it became an important mechanism through which a new common African American identity was formed. The ring shout was still practised in the early twenty-first century, but comparatively rarely.
Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
If you want to find a load more articles and books that talk about this subject, then you can do a search on the internet for "clapping singing slave service" and you should find a lot more evidence that shows where these modern plantation based churches originate from.
Church of the current plantation
So we can see from the above that they did not get the instructions for how they were to keep their services from the Bible, but rather based them on what they had been doing before in Africa. You could almost say that it is appropriate for the current "Pentecostal" churches to still be carrying on this way, because according to God, the real children of Israel are still in captivity. The physical chains might have been removed, but the psychological chains are still bound tightly around their necks, because of how desperate they are to now be accepted by the heathen, rather than turning back to their God and telling the heathen that they can keep their idols. We can read of why some of the current children of Israel seem to be content with their current situation in Deuteronomy 28:45-48 which says "Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee." and we see here that it is because the chains were on their necks until they were destroyed, at which time it was safe to remove the chains because they would now be willing to be completely like the heathen, while even being against people who try to get them back to the ways of their true God. You can see that the current church system is based on how the Europeans have interpreted the Bible, which will obviously mean that they get to stay on top, while saying that the real children of Israel have been cast away, with the European church system now being the way that they say that God has agreed with. Imagine the surprise that the European church bosses will have when God makes His return and then exposes them as just being a bunch of fakers.
A real church service
If you want to carry on going to a plantation church, because you have gotten used to the entertainments that they provide, then good luck to you because they are on their way out and you might end up joining them, if you have not repented before it is too late. If you are not sure how a true church service should be conducted, then we can get a clue from the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 14:26-33 where he says "How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." and we see here an example of a typical church service, which shows that they were about receiving edification from God, rather than about people having a good time in their flesh. If the slaves had been having these real edification based services, then you could imagine what a strong position the real Israelite church would be in now, but because the Devil had managed have his entertainment based pastors leading things instead, we are still in a position where the plantation based churches are still the dominant ones for the real Israelites.
Does God want us to stay on the plantation?
Another big problem with the plantation based church is that it was only established to help the slaves in a psychological way, rather than a physical way, so it only needed to happen once a week, because the slaves had to work for the other six days. The current church system is also set up to entertain people and take their money, on only one day of the week, so that the current slavemasters can still get as much work out of the slaves as they can, in order to maximise their profits. It was not like this with the real church as we can see in Acts 2:41-47 which says "Then they that gladly received his word were baptised: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." and we see here that they continued daily in the temple, rather than on just one day in the week, so it was obvious that this was not a plantation church. Notice at the end also that God added to the church daily, which shows that they must have met every day, rather than like now where God would only be able to add people one day in the week. You might also think that God is ok with people trying to serve Him while being in captivity, but we can know that is not the case because of Exodus 5:1-5 which says "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens." and we see here that God prefers his people to be freed from their burdens so that they can serve Him properly, rather than making do with them just doing it in whatever spare time they might have. This means that God cannot be happy with the current situation where the heathen can control how much time people have to serve Him, so you should expect Him to be doing something about this current situation hopefully in the not too distant future.
It's time to leave the plantation
If it looks to you that you are a real Israelite, then now is the time to wake up and either get out of that plantation church, or join up with some people who have also forsaken the plantation church. If you seem to be just one of the heathen, then you are in a bad position, because you have to rely on the real Israelites to give you the truth about salvation through their God, because the Europeans are just selling you about a fake joke god who cannot save you from the flames that will be coming to where the earth used to be, once it is destroyed.
If you now recognise that you are in a plantation church, what will you do now?
Stay in it because I feel good when I am in their services, so why should I stop?
God hasn't told me to go anywhere else, so I must be in the right church.
The rest of my family seems to like going to this church, so how can they all be wrong?
I like the pastors and preachers at this church, so I don't feel like leaving it.
I am leaving, because I didn't know that God might not be happy with what is going on in there.
I have been going to various churches since I was a child, with them mostly being of the kind where it seems as if their main aim is to provide entertainment for their congregation members. When looking at the original church in the New Testament, it looked as if those people were not in need of any entertainment, but were genuinely trying to seek their Lord and Creator. It is almost as if a big event has happened between then and now to cause things to change so drastically, with the only large enough event to fit the bill, being the slave trade where a certain race of people were made to serve hard bondage while not getting paid. The slaves would certainly have needed some sort of entertainment to keep them sane and it looks as if the slavemasters had decided that teaching them a special form of Christianity, would help to give them something to do on their day off, while also making them think that they were being given a chance to get closer to their God. The slaves did not know how to read, so they had no way of knowing how the original church held their services, but they remembered how the Africans used to have a good time, which then meant that their services became based on the African's tribal antics, rather that how the Holy Spirit convinced the first church members to do things.
Plantation church of old
We can read below of some of the things that happened on the plantation, which then influenced how some current church people hold their services:
"Sometimes we would, unbeknown to our master, assemble in a cabin and sings songs and spirituals. Our favorite spirituals were—Bringin' in de sheaves, De stars am shinin' for us all, Hear de Angels callin', and The Debil has no place here. The singing was usually to the accompaniment of a Jew's harp and fiddle, or banjo."
Dennis Simms, born a slave in Maryland in 1841, as transcribed by his interviewer, 1937
"De black folks gits off down in de bottom and shouts and sings and prays. Dey gits in de ring dance. It am jes' a kind of shuffle, den it git faster and faster and dey gits warmed up and moans and shouts and claps and dances. Some gits 'xhausted and drops out and de ring gits closer. Sometimes dey sings and shouts all night, but come break of day, de nigger got to git to he cabin. Old Marse got to tell dem de tasks of de day."
Silvia King, born in Morocco and enslaved in Texas, as transcribed by her interviewer, ca. 1936
As enslaved people adopted Christianity in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry, the foregoing rituals became a profound aspect of the Africanised Christianity they practised. No longer accompanied by drums (which were prohibited), the singing, hand clapping, and counterclockwise movements remained part of ecstatic worship services, where the “Holy Spirit” frequently entered the celebrants. The ring shout, as the practice was known, evoked controversy because black and white religious leaders sometimes denounced it as the vestige of “paganism.” Aside from its strictly religious function, during the slave era as Africans from various ethnic groups joined together in the ring shout, it became an important mechanism through which a new common African American identity was formed. The ring shout was still practised in the early twenty-first century, but comparatively rarely.
Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
If you want to find a load more articles and books that talk about this subject, then you can do a search on the internet for "clapping singing slave service" and you should find a lot more evidence that shows where these modern plantation based churches originate from.
Church of the current plantation
So we can see from the above that they did not get the instructions for how they were to keep their services from the Bible, but rather based them on what they had been doing before in Africa. You could almost say that it is appropriate for the current "Pentecostal" churches to still be carrying on this way, because according to God, the real children of Israel are still in captivity. The physical chains might have been removed, but the psychological chains are still bound tightly around their necks, because of how desperate they are to now be accepted by the heathen, rather than turning back to their God and telling the heathen that they can keep their idols. We can read of why some of the current children of Israel seem to be content with their current situation in Deuteronomy 28:45-48 which says "Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee." and we see here that it is because the chains were on their necks until they were destroyed, at which time it was safe to remove the chains because they would now be willing to be completely like the heathen, while even being against people who try to get them back to the ways of their true God. You can see that the current church system is based on how the Europeans have interpreted the Bible, which will obviously mean that they get to stay on top, while saying that the real children of Israel have been cast away, with the European church system now being the way that they say that God has agreed with. Imagine the surprise that the European church bosses will have when God makes His return and then exposes them as just being a bunch of fakers.
A real church service
If you want to carry on going to a plantation church, because you have gotten used to the entertainments that they provide, then good luck to you because they are on their way out and you might end up joining them, if you have not repented before it is too late. If you are not sure how a true church service should be conducted, then we can get a clue from the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 14:26-33 where he says "How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." and we see here an example of a typical church service, which shows that they were about receiving edification from God, rather than about people having a good time in their flesh. If the slaves had been having these real edification based services, then you could imagine what a strong position the real Israelite church would be in now, but because the Devil had managed have his entertainment based pastors leading things instead, we are still in a position where the plantation based churches are still the dominant ones for the real Israelites.
Does God want us to stay on the plantation?
Another big problem with the plantation based church is that it was only established to help the slaves in a psychological way, rather than a physical way, so it only needed to happen once a week, because the slaves had to work for the other six days. The current church system is also set up to entertain people and take their money, on only one day of the week, so that the current slavemasters can still get as much work out of the slaves as they can, in order to maximise their profits. It was not like this with the real church as we can see in Acts 2:41-47 which says "Then they that gladly received his word were baptised: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." and we see here that they continued daily in the temple, rather than on just one day in the week, so it was obvious that this was not a plantation church. Notice at the end also that God added to the church daily, which shows that they must have met every day, rather than like now where God would only be able to add people one day in the week. You might also think that God is ok with people trying to serve Him while being in captivity, but we can know that is not the case because of Exodus 5:1-5 which says "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens." and we see here that God prefers his people to be freed from their burdens so that they can serve Him properly, rather than making do with them just doing it in whatever spare time they might have. This means that God cannot be happy with the current situation where the heathen can control how much time people have to serve Him, so you should expect Him to be doing something about this current situation hopefully in the not too distant future.
It's time to leave the plantation
If it looks to you that you are a real Israelite, then now is the time to wake up and either get out of that plantation church, or join up with some people who have also forsaken the plantation church. If you seem to be just one of the heathen, then you are in a bad position, because you have to rely on the real Israelites to give you the truth about salvation through their God, because the Europeans are just selling you about a fake joke god who cannot save you from the flames that will be coming to where the earth used to be, once it is destroyed.
If you now recognise that you are in a plantation church, what will you do now?
Stay in it because I feel good when I am in their services, so why should I stop?
God hasn't told me to go anywhere else, so I must be in the right church.
The rest of my family seems to like going to this church, so how can they all be wrong?
I like the pastors and preachers at this church, so I don't feel like leaving it.
I am leaving, because I didn't know that God might not be happy with what is going on in there.