Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge…. (NIV)
This speech was given by a British slave owner, Willie Lynch, in James Town, Virginia on the river’s bank in 1712. He was invited to give his expertise in the slave trade by helping American slave owners understand what they needed to do in order to have control over their slaves and prevent possible uprisings. The letter is as follow, but will be broken down into parts for the purposes of elaboration and explanation in regards to its relevance in today’s times from a political and Biblical perspective.
[December 25, 1712
Gentlemen:
I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome's would envy us if my program is implemented.
As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed.
Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I have a foolproof method for controlling your black slaves. I guarantee every one of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least 300 years.
The slave owners had convinced themselves that their slaves were not equal to them but needed to be controlled like livestock. They were not able to think on their own and did not deserve the freedoms and liberties that whites were entitled to by birth. They thought of themselves as a superior race and slaves were born to be subservient to them. Although many of them considered themselves as Christians, they did not embody the beliefs and teachings of Christ, for if they did, they would have treated their slaves as human beings instead of inanimate objects. Colossians 4:1 Masters, provided your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. (NIV)
Willie Lynch was invited to Jamestown to solve a problem that the slave owners felt they couldn’t resolve themselves. He was deemed to be an expert on controlling slaves and within this speech assured them that they would have great success if they followed his advice. The Bible, however, lets us know that we must be wise with whom we receive counsel from. All counsel is not good counsel even if it does do what it is intended to do. Psalm 1:1-2 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. (NIV) The counsel that the slave owners wished to receive from Willie Lynch was one to further oppress an already broken people who were forced to be enslaved against their will. Through manipulative techniques, which was just as bad mentally as the master’s whip, these slaves would oppress themselves without even knowing it.
Willie Lynch’s mind manipulation was not new, but it was revitalized because slavery had always existed where the strong often suppressed the weak who were not able to fend for themselves. This is evident in the Bible when God told Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved for 400 years in a strange land. Genesis 15:13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. (NIV) Willie Lynch new that the slaves were not accustomed to their new homeland because they had been born there. This would prove to be relevant as we go further along.
He made mention of King James and his version of the Bible, which was often used to keep the slaves under control. They distorted some of the Biblical passages to condone their mistreatment and abuse, but disregarded the others as to how they were to treat their fellow man. The slave owners dealt with occasional uprisings and runaways. Their fields sometimes suffered from the lack of laborers – thus, wild fires were started and animals were killed. Willie Lynch also reminded them of the smell of rotten slave corpses that were left to hang, which they surely did as a scare tactic for other slaves, but as with Rome, that method proved to be ineffective.
Willie Lynch was confident that his method for controlling slaves would have them in bondage for 300 years. Even though the slaves were eventually freed, the slavery of the mind that he put into place centuries ago still exists in the 21st century. The shadow global elitists are using these methods today, while the masses are like sheep being led to the slaughter. They are of the devil and are being used as his minions to plot and carry out evil schemes all across the planet. Micah 2:1 Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. (NIV)
They think that there is a problem with you and I being able to think for ourselves. They want to program us to be the perfect little slave rather you are black or white: rich or poor; democrat or republican; conservative or liberal; heterosexual or homosexual; male or female; gun owner or anti-gun advocate; Christian or Muslim. They want to take over our lives by telling us what to say, what to do, what to think, and control what information we should know. In order to do this, they must have the perfect recipe in order to have the makings for a New Slave. Being a slave is not about color. To be a slave, you must have your rights, will, freedoms and liberties – rather in the physical or that of the mind to be taken away from you or manipulated into giving them up voluntarily. What I intend to do is give you their ingredients, so that you can have an understanding into their diabolical plan in order to free yourself from the plantation and take a train on the underground railroad to freedom. Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by the yoke of slavery. (NIV)
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