THE LITTLE THAT THE POOR MAN HAS SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY….II SAMUEL 12 VERSE 14

INTRODUCTIONS

Mon people, it is that time of the month again. This is my 21^st Blog and my first blog coming to you from the City of New York seated here in the beautiful New York Library - Schwarzman Building at 42^nd and 5^th Ave. A fantastic piece of architecture and another beautiful building here in Manhattan. This is how all libraries should look and feel.

The Nazis and the mafias are still after me.  Of course they use the Nigerians to do their dirty work. I have had to deal with two Nigerians in government thus far and it has not augured well for me.  The Bro. Anancy Nigerians have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage, resulting in their being used at will. The last gentleman who refused to give me his name denied me a benefit that is given to all refugees like myself in New York. My heart sinks every time I see a Nigerian. If they don’t leave me alone I will be calling out all Nigerians on social media especially those who advised the little Pastor in Canada foolishly, out of expediency instead of out of the word of God.

I will be doing a ‘Meteorite Feature’ on all the RCCG big boys and it will not be pretty. I have been avoiding this; for a long time but these guys are not only affecting me; my innocent daughter in Jamaica has suffered and is still suffering. It is going to be no holds barred. I have sent the two barrels and the people can’t clear them because of the corrupt politicians and businessmen who are denying these people, who are in need of these vital supplies. These people did not get any money to buy cars, clothes or build houses people should mess around with those who did! Persons have already gotten what they have paid for gossip and lies about me. I am sorry that they did not know much. As you can see from trying to destroy me I have no time to idle or for idle people.

I will give a little about my life to tell you why all your schemes are not going to work before I get to heaven. So Dr. Jekyll can have some more information to psycho-analyze: 

At fifteen years old (I will start there I won’t go into earlier years it would be too long).  I was in high school I had gotten a scholarship, the Hon. Michael Joshua Manley went on the podium in Jamaica and we had a lot of social changes. One of them was free education up to secondary level. Hon. Michael Joshua Manley is another politician I brook no criticism about, I am even more vehement about him than President Obama. You criticize him I remove myself from your presence immediately. That free education in high school is what launched me on my path of financial freedom and the political rhetoric of those days on my path of critical thinking. That is the reason I focus on the organ that is between my ears and not the one that is between my legs.

At this time we lived in Riverton City, no electricity and water from a communal tap. Every Saturday I had to go to my Father’s lumber yard and wait all day for one thousand dollars ($1,000) (my brothers of today are the same way). Then I would take that $1,000 and walk down Spanish Town Road and go to the Wholesale (grocery store). I would buy the essential grocery items rice, flour, sugar, coconut oil (can you believe it! in those days this used to be bad for our health, now it is sold in the specialty stores) codfish and condensed milk.  Then I would walk further down Spanish Town Road  and go to the meat shop across from Coronation Market where I would purchase two meat kind (can’t afford more than two per week). Then I would cross the road and go over to the market and get my green groceries green and ripe bananas, calaloo, cabbage, yam, coconut dry and green, orange, tangerine, mango any fruits that were in season, carrots and seasoning eskellion, thyme, tomatoes, pepper, onions.

I would then return home to my mother in the one room board house near the outhouse where I would dye the floor red with the ox dye and apply the Rexo red (I feel dated the internet don’t even have these brand names) and shine the floor with the coconut brush. All this would be done on my knees. My knees were black up to my twenties. After this we would light the Kerosene Oil Stove and cook our dinner. Our meats would be placed in Cousin Tren’s refrigerator because these luxuries we did not have. I would carry water and my mother would wash the clothes. My mother slept on two chairs because she gave up her space on the bed for my Cousin Tony who came from the country.

Our light was a ‘kitchen bitch’ (lamp made of tin metal with kerosene oil and a cloth wick). 
Every morning I had to clean out my nose because of the black soot. This I studied with up to my Advanced Level Subjects. 

Every day I had to be killing croaking lizards. They came through the gap in the ceiling and they were very fat.  When we removed our clothes from the wardrobe we had to do so carefully and shake them out vigorously most time a big black scorpion would fall out. They were poisonous.

My question to you all who wants to give me orders now is where were you in all of this? When I was making my silly mistakes at fifteen years old where were all of you?

My father died in 1980 he was shot by gunmen in the deadliest elections in the history of Jamaica at this time I had to take over the sole care of my mother.

Where were you all?

Instead of going straight into university I went to work. I decided to continue with Natural Sciences but it was ‘difficult’ to be doing laboratory experiments late at nights so I switched to business. Luckily for me because I later discovered that I cannot stand the sight of blood. Now you pea brained Canadians and Bro. Anancy Nigerians see why I am ignoring you all. Big men behaving like boys!! I keep telling you that you are all lower than an amoeba. You don’t know a thing about me but you want to give me orders. While I worked, I paid for my tertiary education.

Where were you all?

Then I got a full scholarship from the Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society as a member of the union and a Union Delegate with Freddy Evans as the Chief of the Joint Council. His second I have not met! I will never forget a placard carried by John Birch during one of the many strikes we had at mutual life. It read ‘WHITE SCAUL A TERRORIZE WEH MOUTH CORNER’. This guy was a Mathematician and he was dangerous.

I would study in the Jamaica Mutual life Audit room until the wee hours of the morning getting a hot beverage from the Computer Operators on the 7^th Floor and then rush home and get a bath to go to the University Campus by 8 a.m. to write a three hours examination.

Where were you all?

I paid JAD $30,000 for the University of the West Indies - Mona Campus to facilitate my Masters.

Through it all I made my regular weekly trips to the Coronation Market. Now you see why i don't need your health plans.

Where were you all?

In 1990 my Cousin left her three month old daughter with me. That baby is now twenty seven years old. When I had to be washing nappies, buying baby things and looking after a baby;

Where were you all?

When this baby became ill and I had to place her on my shoulders and take the bus to the Children's Hospital and spend all night by her bedside. Then take her home by bus the following morning.

Where were you all?

When my brother carried my nephew and left him with one little paper bag of clothes. His mother was off to Europe.

Where were you all?

When I was buying the house that was stolen by the crooked Jamaican politicians, did any of you help me with the down payment?

Where were you all?

When my mother died in 1997 and I had to bury her!

Where were you all?

When I was assisting people and helping them with employment and contracts.
Where were you all?

Let me show you why certain persons have rejected the crooked proposals put to them:

Chrystal Francis and I did our Masters together. In fact I met her in the program. At that time she was not mobile and I was. Every night at the end of the class I dropped her home right at her door. I drove past my house my daughter sleeping in the back of the car. That was just one of the joint ventures we had. Micah 7 verse 8 my friend will rise again. She is one of the gentlest woman I have ever met.

Minister Alrick Francis, a young man with vast potential. Every year since he has been Youth President the youth had a camp. Let the Finance person at Agape Christian Fellowship check in the records of Faith and Deliverance Ministries records to see how much the church expended on these camps for the youth ministry, little or nothing. We fund raised and we ensured that any gap in the budget was filled and no one was left out because of financial challenges.

I would like to write about others but the people we are dealing with are very unscrupulous and we don’t want any more people hurt. My question is where were you all during the challenging periods in my life, during the exciting times, during the laughter and the tears. Who gives anybody the right to make a contract over my life? Everyone seems to know what is contained in this contract except me.  I have had a number of persons abused me telling me how I am selfish and wicked and attacking my Christianity. If this contract was wholesome instead of eliciting help from everyone else the progenitors of this contract would have come to me.  When I join a Church I give the Pastor authority to speak into my life. You abuse that authority if you do anything contrary to the scriptures. From 2008 I have to be running for my life with the amount of negatives that has been spouted at me from the pulpit. I am waiting for one of you Pastoral Gentlemen with your many titles to come to me with the proposal. I am anticipating the pleasure of saying like Jesus did to Peter 'Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men' St. Matthew 16 verses 22 -24

I want nothing from any of you. If Father Abraham could have refused the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and you pea brain Canadians and your Bro. Anancy Nigerian friends are worse than them. I want nothing from you as you can see the only flies in my ointment are you all. You have not been there all this time I certainly don’t need you now!!    

REFLECTIONS

There I was on one of my Wednesday reflections lying in my bed thinking about the fact that I owned nothing and the business I had started the corrupt Canadians and their Nigerian counterparts were trying to destroy.  Then I began to itemize my loss:

• 1.      My house was stolen by some crooked Jamaican politicians and their equally crooked business partners.
• 2.      The only money I have ever borrowed was my mortgage the house was stolen and i was told that I owed JAD$1M.
• 3.      My money was stolen from Mayberry Investments with another set of crooked business people the Berrys.
• 4.      The Nigerians stole all my clothes in 2011 to prevent me leaving Canada and returning to Jamaica.
• 5.      The Bank of Nova Scotia went into my business account and stole my money under the guise of taking out service charges.  They even charged me for making deposits.
• 6.      Raymond Aaron Group stole my CAD$53 for a seminar that I had registered for and decided not to attend.
• 7.      The gentleman from NCR Inc. collections called and advised that the email address he had given me was his personal email address and I should not make any more payments to his email but I should send my payments to the company’s email address instead. Obviously, he had decided that defrauding me was not such a good idea.I agree with him. Thy word shall not come back unto you void but will accomplish that which it has been sent out to accomplish.  There are a lot of prayer points circulating.Isaiah 55 verse 11
• 8.      FIDO/ROGERS constant run in to prevent them from stealing my money.
• 9.      My piece of costume jewelry in my room is stolen.
• 10.  My three telephones are stolen two out of my living rooms and one out of my bag.

As I went down the list the line of this song dropped in my Spirit ’The Little that the Poor Man has shall be taken Away etc.’ and I recalled the story of  King David and Bathsheba.  I did my research and found the story in II Samuel 12.

We are going to briefly go over the story starting in II Samuel 11, the commission of the sin and the events leading up to that.  We want to examine what took place in II Samuel 12, how the Man of God Nathan called out King David. The line that came to my mind actually came from an old Jamaican song by Junior Byles. I will share the words and the video with you all.  I am finding out that it is those pea brained Canadians are going into my blog and deleting the videos. Messeurs Brin and Page you might want to stop suppressing my statistics ’52 for the month indeed vraiment!!’ The amount of people that reads the Blog before it is published including yourselves far exceeds that number. Let us go to Fade Away.

FADE AWAY

He who seeks of only vanity

And no love for humanity

Shall fade away, fade away

He who checks for only wealth

And not for his physical health

Shall fade away, fade away

Though some believe in diamonds and pearl

And feel like they're on top of the world

They shall fade away, yeah, hear what I say

The rich is getting richer every day

And the little that the poor man got

It shall be taken away

Do you hear what I say? Yeah, hear what I say

The man who worships silver and gold

Shall surely, surely, surely lose his own soul

Then fade away

One who's always acting smart

And don't carry no love in his heart

Shall fade away

God is here and there and everywhere

And He knows when you play the game unfair

So people beware, or else you fade away!

Hey, beware! Or dare you fade away?

You gotta fade, gotta fade, gotta fade now

The rich is getting richer every day

And the little that the poor man got

It shall be taken away

Do you hear what I say, hey? Hear what I say

One who's always acting smart

And forgetting to carry love in his heart

Shall fade away

God is here and there and everywhere

And His eyes, His eyes are watching you

You gon' fade away, yeah, yeah

You gon' fade, fade, fade, fade away

Fade away, yeah, yeah

Longer version:

Brother what you done

Can't you see you gonna fade away now, fade

Fade in the morning, fade in the evening

Surely you gonna fade

Yeah, you gonna fade every day now..

Note: This song is the original version first released in 1975.

Due to the breach of my Cloud Accounts I am waiting to find a secure system to change my passwords. To date I use public systems with very unscrupulous governments so it does not make any sense changing at this time. While I am writing I am communicating with persons who are spying with me on the computers.

However, the song is instructive in light of the new Tax proposal of the United States. If that is passed only 0.1% of the world will own 80% of the wealth. The other 99.9% of us will own only 20%. Don’t worry about it people as of January 2018 McDonald’s will have a US$1 value menu. Love it!! May God continue to bless McDonald’s? People Mr. Koch was a genius I mean everywhere I go in New York at every major intersection there is a McDonald's. Now I realize why people say McDonald's wealth is not in it's burgers but in its Real Estate Portfolio. They have some serious locations. The man was a visionary.

We will pick up our story in the book of II Samuel 11 to remind ourselves of what took place with King David and Bathsheba and what are some of the take away from this story. This Blog, however, will be focusing on II Samuel 12 verse 14 – The fact that King David’s actions gave God’s enemies an opportunity to blaspheme the Holy One, which highlights the fact that ultimately, it is not about us. It is about Jesus and He crucified.

CRITICAL DEFINITIONS

Poor Man: People remember that you are not defined by your circumstances. Poverty is a state of mind. If you think you are poor then you are poor. A temporary cash flow situation does not connote poverty. The pea brain Canadians and their Bro. Anancy Nigerian friends keep telling me that I am poor and trying to keep me that way by stealing everything I have on a constant basis. Now you see why they are not even a blip on my radar. The only ‘poor’ we are to be concerned with is that of ‘poor in Spirit’ this causes you to inherit the kingdom of heaven.  We dealt with this in an earlier Blog “The Attitude to Be”.

Things: speaks to your possessions, material and financial wealth.

KING DAVID AND BATHSHEBA - II SAMUEL 11

The Chapter opened with the fact that King David was out of his purpose.  He was supposed to be on the battle field. It was the season when Kings went to war. Joab was put in charge and everyone was fighting the Ammonites except the king. Then he saw Bathsheba taking her regular evening bath.  In the Leadership Quotient Solutions, Dr. Keith Johnson stated that King David indulged in pornography he suggested this was not the first time he was seeing this sight. There might be some truth to this because II Samuel 23 verse 39 states that Uriah was one of David’s mighty men.  There were thirty seven of them in total. Large but not too large! Pastor Lloyd Maxwell would say if anyone told him that it is the first time they have done something and got caught like fornicating and getting pregnant ‘I prefer to believe God, the Bible says that He is long suffering so I don’t think you are telling the truth.’ Irrespective of whether King David was familiar with Uriah and his wife or not, he was a Jew and knew the custom of the land.  The ladies took a bath on the roof at certain times of the evening. Reminds me of when I had to take those baths by the communal pipe with half my clothes on. It was exciting letting the rushing water beat all over your body. It takes some warped and twisted people and their Anancy friends to tell you that you are poor. You just enjoy life!!

King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and impregnated her, then forgot about her (sounds like the Jamaican men). He obviously wanted a one night stand. I tell you people the Bible is a book for all seasons and all people. The lady had to send and tell him that she was pregnant. The Jamaican man would have said ‘Ask har if shi sur’ sey a fi mi’ (ask her if she is sure that it is mine). Instead of coming clean he decided that he was going to try and cover up his sin. Proverbs 28 verse 13 He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. King David being the seasoned man of God that he is should have known that this would not work based on his own experiences with King Saul etc.

However, this story indicates what can take place when one gets apathetic and comfortable in their walk with God. Apostle Paul states that it is a daily walking out. The scripture that comes to mind is Proverbs 30 verses 8 - 9  Don’t make me too rich that I deny thee or too poor that I bring shame to Thy name. King David sent for Bathsheba’s husband Uriah from the battle front where he himself should have been in the first place. He sent Uriah to his house expecting that Uriah would have been so glad to be home that he would have enjoyed the pleasures of being in his wife arms. Uriah instead slept with the King’s guards. When he questioned Uriah, Uriah stated like the true conscientious soldier that he is, how can he be pleasuring his wife when the Ark of God, lord Joab and the whole army were out in the fields fighting’. A direct rebuke to King David. King David then tried to get Uriah inebriated and added a little sweetener a gift for Bathsheba. This did not work either. 

When King David saw that all his subterfuge would not work, he went to the ultimate that of plotting Uriah’s murder. Joab who was also a murder and King David knew it; he had killed the innocent Army General Abner to eliminate his successor. He now becomes a part of the plot because King David needed his assistance to carry through the plan. Then the messenger who had to bring the evil tidings from the front line because he must be wondering why I have to tell the King that Uriah had died specifically; men died in battle every day. What was a private sin has become very public.  Having murdered Bathsheba’s husband the coast was now clear for him to marry the lady. I really don’t think anybody in Israel was fooled by all of David’s shenanigans but he was King. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Let us highlight a few points from this story before we move to II Samuel 12:

1.      Can a Christian fall? Without a shadow of a doubt! King David was one of the most solid Man of God in the Bible. The Bible calls him a man after God’s heart but he became lax. Wealth has a way of causing this to happen. You find that in the midst challenges one does not have to be told to watchful and vigilant you are very motivated to do spiritual things. I Corinthians 10 verses 11 - 12.

2.      What depths can a Christian sink to? Anything is possible.  The Bible says we are to give no room to the devil Ephesians 4 verse 27.  King David started with adultery he ended up with murder.

3.      How quickly can we fall? King David sunk very quickly. Let us thank God for grace were it not for this unmerited favour, there goes I but for the grace of God John Bradford - Phrase Attribution.

4.      Sin Snowballs: In my part of the world (Jamaica)  they say give the devil a yard he takes a mile. Sin is ever increasing. Sin grows because to cover up one lie you have to tell another and another before you know it you are all twisted up.  This is what has happened to the pea brain Canadians and their Bro. Anancy Nigerian friends.  Illegal pictures, breaking into internet accounts, stealing mail, stealing money, stealing clothes, breaking into lockers, entering rooms, tapping into telephone lines, stolen journals and it goes on and on. All because of one lie. The Canadians from Nazi land Mississauga are extremely crooked. King David’s sin started when he ceases to act like a soldier and becomes a late sleeper. King David’s sin grows from adultery to murder.  A private sin became very public with an increasing number of participants.

THOU ART THE MAN – II SAMUEL 12 VERSE 7

⁷ Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

King David is now married to Bathsheba and all seems to be going well. But God! (never leave out that factor as I have always said, to my knowledge Uriah never prayed one prayer about the situation openly, but God)  Who knows that there is a God in heaven who is all seeing, all knowing, everywhere present, all powerful and all wise (full of wisdom)? He is indeed wise I was wondering what would have happened if the Prophet Nathan had confronted David openly with his sin. He probably would have lost his head like John the Baptist for calling people 'generation of vipers and adulterers'. All I would have said is you petits minded criminally challenged Canadians and Bro. Anancy Nigerians Zoot!! Be that as it may the all wise God used the diplomatic approach. See why I stick close to God I need to learn a little diplomacy myself. King David ended up pronouncing his own judgement II Samuel 12 verses 5 -6.

⁵ David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! ⁶ He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

Let us examine the story told by Prophet Nathan. It is a master piece.  The story was poignant and to the point no one had to tell King David how evil and wicked his actions were. The rich man had everything and the poor man had one little lamb that he had nurtured. Is there some symbolism here? Jesus the sacrificed Lamb, God’s only son who was crucified for our sins. The poor man was contented with what he had and took care of it.  The rich man had guest and took away the poor man’s only lamb and used it to feed his guest. Need I say anything else people about me and these evil and wicked Canadians and their Bro. Anancy Nigerian friends. I am contented with what i had. I came with no saucer. In fact I was introduced to Social Assistance by accident.  I really just think God is trying to deal with the systems every where I go. There is so much foolishness going on.  The systems don't need any more money they need honest people to manage them.  That is why God gave the mandate to the church. People it is no accident that Naomi sent Ruth to glean.  She knew the systems of her country. Anyway, this debate is for another Blog. Suffice it to say everything I have they have stolen. Now you see why I read every other book after I have read the Bible.

Then Nathan reminded King David of the goodness of the Lord to him. He chronicled the blessings II Samuel 12 verses 7 - 9. This reminds us of the Lord’s Prayer St. Matthew 6 verses 9 - 13 that is why it begins with worship. If you are thankful then you can’t be ungrateful.

In verses 10 -12 he had some new additions to his household which simply indicates that there are consequences to sin.  God forgave King David immediately he confessed but  there are still consequences.
They are as follows:

• 1.      The sword was added to his household which indicates strife and quarrel. His own son Absalom tried to depose him.II Samuel 15 verses 13 -16
• 2.      Evil would come to his own. Amnon his son raped his sister Tamar II Samuel 13 verses 10 - 14. Absalom killed Amnon II Samuel 13 verses 23 - 38 . King Solomon killed Adonijah for wanting  Abishag one of King David’s concubine.I Kings 2 verses 23 - 25  Joab killed Absalom II Samuel 18 verse 14
• 3.      His wives would be abused openly. Absalom slept with his wives in the open after deposing his father. II Samuel 16 verse 22

In verse 13 King David confessed immediately. I suppose the fellow was just relieved. Carrying all this sin on your conscience is a very heavy load.  That is why the suicide rates amongst Roman Catholics are the lowest because they go to confession regularly. The problem amongst evangelicals is the trust factor. Who can you trust with your stuff? Too many novices in the vocation. We have Psalm 51 from this encounter with the prophet.

However, verse 14 is the crux of the matter – God told King David that it is not about him David. That, because of his actions he has given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. Can you imagine all those people in the city who did not like King David, such as Shimei and the kings of the other nations? I mean Nomadic News Network (NNN) must have had a field day with the complicity in this situation. Did you hear what happened in Israel? The court jesters in the palaces had some serious new material.

CONCLUSION

In concluding, in this Christian walk at no time can you let down your guard especially if you have done some damage to the kingdom of darkness. With God there is no degree to sin. Sin is sin. There are consequences to sin and King David had a number of things added to his household. One can safely say this sort of arrogant behavior will continue to take place until the second coming because of greed and injustice.  Some people are never satisfied that is why it is one of the Ten Commandments ‘Thou shalt not covet’

Until next month may God’s continued protection be upon you!!

This is me Lillene’s baby girl coming to from the city that never sleeps New York, USA

à bientôt !

REFERENCES

David and Uriah