About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in much clamor and opposition.
Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747
It is this prophecy that The Holy Trinity took guard and dedicated it to subduing the messianic people's rise. To them, the end of the world could be delayed for as long as no true salvation of mankind occurred. And this salvation was supposed to be brought forth by this kind of people. The Holy Trinity assumed the custodianship of worship in the world. One-third of the group's leadership was a representative of the Vatican. This meant that they had control of mainstream Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and most popular similar religions. Only one problem haunted them: the off shooting of black independent spiritual groups that emerged throughout the world. They did not want a group to exist without their supervision.
In 1896 rose a movement from Gunthrie, Oklahoma was established by William S Crawdy. The Black Hebrews movement shook The Holy Trinity's ground to tremble. Crawdy claimed he received several visions. The visions were telling him that black people were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. With this, Crawdy proceeded to create the Church of God and the Saints of Christ. And started preaching in Gunthrie and set up terbanecles in other cities. In 1903, he bought 40 acres of land in Suffolk, Virginia, and called it Canaan. During this time, he was arrested 22 times by US law enforcement, which is part of The Holy Trinity. As time went by, he purchased more land in 1905 he sent Missionaries to South Africa. The Church of God and Saints of Christ grew in South Africa and in the now Eastern Cape region. A man named Enoch Mgijima rose to prophesy about Judgment Day through the pandemic. He gathered his people in thousands to wait for it in unity. In their wait, it happened that they squatted in the state's land. And the white imperial colonial government sent them removal notices. Now, it must be noted that the British colonizers of South Africa were also part of The Holy Trinity. Prophet Mgijima and his congregants did not heed the governor's calls saying that the land was God's land. He further argued that the Africans were the custodians of their native land and not the British. Mgijima was alone in fighting against this injustice, eviction by foreigners from the land of his ancestors. The South African Native National Congress which now is the ANC only persuaded them to go back to their homes and avoid bloodshed.
The police and the soldiers of the segregation regime armed with machine guns, a canon, and artillery, shot and killed more than 500 men, injuring the rest of the thousands who were later arrested along with their leader. Prophet Enoch Mgijima was also accused of disillusion because of his prophetic claims of the mass destruction of mankind. But a few months later the world was engulfed by the pandemic which killed millions of people globally…
The movement however continued to grow as slowly. It was followed by a wave of the rise of other great activists like Marcus Garvey, W E Du Bois, and Ben Ammi. In South Africa, it was Mama Nontetha Nkwenkwe who raised Trinity's eyebrows. They couldn't stand her, so they devised a plan to kill the prophetess. Nontetha was born in what is now known as Makhanda in 1875. She was an herbalist who later became a prophet of African spirituality. And she was never baptized. She was influenced by the Ethiopian Church of Dwane which was connected to the AME Church. After the Influenza pandemic which she had also prophesied about all was well with Nkwenkwe. She prophesied people by looking at their hands and healed them through miracles. During all this, the authorities welcomed her although they were harsher towards her counterparts such as the likes of Mgijima. However, after the Bulhoek massacre, authorities' attitudes to any larger-scale black gatherings became paranoid. Farmers reported that members of her group were reluctant to work. It was also reported that she called for the unity of traditionalist natives and the learned ones, amaqaba [1], and amagqobhoka [2]. This conflicted with the colonial powers' wishes but it was when she called for the boycotting of the Western churches that they went for her. They arrested her and committed her to a mental hospital. This enraged her supporters. The authorities decided to take her away from them transferring her to Pretoria. Her supporters walked for 1000 km for 55 days to see their leader in a walk from the now Eastern Cape to Pretoria. When the supporters tried to do that again they were arrested for traveling without passes. And so, the pilgrimage was cut short. Five years later she was announced dead, and her family who were notified by telegram never saw either her body or her place of rest. The Trinity-led colonial government had fed her with slow poison as they did with everyone.
If they failed to buy them, they would kill them. Ntsikana they bought, Makhanda they killed. Ntsikana was the first Xhosa prophet to be converted to Christianity. When the ancestors gave him the gift of seeing he started to prophesy. Missionaries recruited him and he was forced to abandon polygamy. All false prophecies were bestowed on him posthumously. The Trinity promoted the Christian bible by claiming that Ntsikana prophesied about it. They used this so-called prophecy to have people reject all money. They claimed that Ntsikana said:
A vicious tribe comes from the sea, pale with hair as maize silk. They are carrying a scroll and a coin. Take the scroll and leave the coin.
This was not even a prophecy because when Ntsikana was born, Europeans were already in the land. It is propaganda like the story of Nongqawuse.
These stories are still being used to discredit the African culture of the AbaNtu and their belief system in favor of Western religions and economic systems. The Holy Trinity did not end here but showed how they were not prepared to tolerate independent African thinkers when they chopped them off the face of the earth in the cases of Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, Chris Hani, Thomas Sankara, Amilcar Cabral, Dedan Kimati, and Patrice Lumumba. Nelson Mandela was killed by the 27 years of prison, like Nxele and Maqoma. These like Maqoma were but the embodiment of Shiloh along with Frantz Fanon and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The spirit of salvation was sent to keep the light burning among the people, like the spirit of Shiloh that is burning in Julius Malema, Joshua Maponga, Loyiso Nqevu, and many others. It is evident that God has not forgotten us. Following is another story of its reincarnation.