I am actually going to give this a serious response. Hold please.
The problem is that people want to deal with spiritual issues in worldly ways. It doesn't matter how much proof that is presented that everything is not working (building, separating, voting, marching, "education"), it's like we just want to keep spinning in circles. I suppose I could find a verse for that as well.
Keep trying to build. Separate as much as you can. Awaken whoever will listen. Yes, do these things!! But know that true PEACE and deliverance will NEVER happen apart from getting things together spiritually. The spiritual house must be in order before our physical houses can.
So without turning this into another racial tirade, I'm back in Philly and I was noticing the obvious:
-There almost basically no amenities in the hood. Very few supermarkets, no department stores or gyms.
Ezekiel 6:6-8
Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the
high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste
and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars
broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
Your people will fall slain among you, and you
will know that I am the Lord.
“‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape
the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.
- Most of the businesses are now by ran Dominicans and Chinese. You got Dominican hair dressers with pics of white women on there awning and front doors get rich off of Black folks. Chinese are still in on the act too selling loose cigarettes to kids and slop disguised as food. Both of these group can rather disrespectful.
I guess the learn from the Koreans of the 80/90s that you can get rich in Black ghettos.
Deuteronomy 28: 43-44
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
and thou shalt come down very low.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him:
he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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Much of the construction is done by White people. Need someone to fix something on your house? Call a white man. After all why would want to hire another negro
Deuteronomy 28:48
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.
-Many of the people are very sickenly. That almost speaks for itself. like 70% of the people are grossly obese.
Deuteronomy 28:60-61
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
What can done BY US do to improve these on these issues?
Deuteronomy 30:2-5
and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.