CHAPTER 14. MENE, MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.  Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.  

Daniel 5:1-6

And thou, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;  But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:  Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.  And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.  This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.  TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.  PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 

Daniel 5:22-28

After spending about eight years trying to reason with the Christafarian about his many Babylonian doctrines, there was a moment in which it became clear that I had to publish an essay. Now, about eight months later, I am writing these first lines for what is supposed to be the final Chapter in this book.

Will it be the final Chapter on Christafarianism? I truly hope so. I truly hope that this book will provide enough documentation for the Children of JAH to make their own conclusion. I truly hope that even Mark Mohr will step out of the Babylonian complex that he himself created.

Maybe this book is written by a voice in the wilderness, though. Maybe the Christafarian Apostasy has gone too far allready. In that case, I have simply done what JAH has commanded: to reproof (expose) false doctrines and teachers. And Christafari will get some more sales as a result of the “controversy”. It’s all they will ever have...

Whether Mark Mohr truly believe in Yesus Kristos or not, is no relevant issue anymore. The fact is, that the Christafarian is a public figurehead. His fruits are more important than he himself. In fact, he might even be thinking that he is truly obeying the Creator when he is filling the gap in the christian Industry.

Because it is a fact, that the working realm of the Christafarian is the Christian Industry and nothing but the Christian Industry. This is where his priorities are, this is where he considers himself to be on his place in what he thinks is the “Body of Kristos”.

And it is surely sad to see, how thus far the Christafarian only expressed interest in spiritual matters for as long as he could integrate it in one or another product on his store. We have seen how he created an empire called “Lion of Zion Entertainment”, the only organization which the Christafarian did not silently seperate from.

Why does it seems to be, that whenever the Christafarian sets up an organization or project that is aimed at worshipping JAH or unifying Christian Reggae Artists, he can’t really maintain himself in that situation? Does Mark Mohr have an allergy towards these things? Or does he have an “agenda”?

Most likely is, that Mark Mohr is simply a product of his culture. Culture, by the way, comes from a latin word that seems to be translated as “worship” as well. So in this case, we have to look to the object of worship in the culture where Mark Mohr grew up.

For this, we must look to the culture in which the Christafarian was born. In which Mark Mohr was born, 17 years before that. And our research has brought us to the point where we are now able to localize Christafari.

Fortunately, there is an identifiable movement in western Christianity of which we can easily see Christafari to be a willing participant in. When we research this movement, we will see a lot of Mark Mohr’s action explained. He is simply working along with the philosophy in this movement.

Christafari is well rooted in the “Neo-Evangelical Movement”. This movement isn’t that well known in Christianity, but the name of it’s biggest celebraty truly has built a name in this world. His name: Billy Graham.

What’s wrong with Billy Graham, one might ask. Isn’t he known to be “the greatest Evangelist of all times”? Exactly that is the point, though.

For he should have been know as “the greatest Neo Evangelical of all times”.

A superficial issue in the public’s eye, perhaps. Definitely not a superficial issue in the eyes of the founders of the Neo Evangelical movement, among which we can count Billy Graham.

The discovery of the existance of a Neo Evangelical Movement may come as a surprise for especially those among us who consider themselves to be Evangelicals. Especially those who are not living in the United States of America may not have heard from the term.

What is the difference between an Evangelical and a Neo-Evangelical?

Maybe this becomes clear when we realize how the Neo Evangelicals call themselves Evangelical, and the Neo Evangelicals call the Evangelicals “Fundamentalists”.

For the term neo-evangelicals is rarely ever used. It was first coined around 1947, a few years after WW2. That’s when the Evangelicals became the Fundamentalists, and the Neo Evangelicals became the Evangelicals. Still, the Neo Evangelicals claim to have connections with the 19^th Century preachers that formed what we now know as the Fundamentalist Christians.

Is it important to realize all this name calling, so to speak? Yes, it is. For there is much confusion. The so-called fundamentalists also call themselves evangelical. But they are quite different from the neo-evangelicals.

The fundamentalists or evangelicals came into existance as a movement, out of the result of the 19^th century preachers such as CH Spurgeon and John Wesley. They preached the Gospel of Yesus Kristos and accepted the Bible as Holy Scriptures, “the Word of God” as they call it.

There was another thing which marked the Evangelicals: they were called “seperatists”. The Neo-evangelicals, however, are “inclusivists”. This has a major influence in the practical work out of the faith, especially in what is called “preaching the Gospel”.

A “seperatist” is someone who seeks to seperate himself from the Roman Church as well as other institutionalized churches that came from Rome. However, the seperatists also created their own organization and so there is now a fundamentalist denomination.

The Neo-Evangelicals are the extreme opposite of the Fundamentalists. They are “inclusivists”. And this is where Billy Graham’s life ministry can illustrate this difference.

Whenever the Evangelicals preached the Gospel, people would accept Yesus Kristos as their Lord and Saviour. These new born Christians would then be encouraged to visit a Fundamentalist or Evangelical Church to have his or her faith built.

Whenever a Neo Evangelical like Billy Graham preaches the Gospel, and people would accept Yesus Kristos as their Lord and Saviour, Billy Graham would send them to any church: even to the obviously Babylonian Roman “Catholic” Church.

The actions from both the Fundamentalists or Evangelicals and the Neo Evangelicals have to do with their view on what is the “Body of Kristos”, too. An Evangelical would see the Body of Kristos as the total sum of all individual believers in Yesus Kristos of all times and places. But the Neo’s would look at the Body of Kristos as the total sum of all denominations within what is called the Judeo Christian Faith.

The difference is obvious: when a Neo Evangelical “preaches the Gospel”, he only wants to enlarge the membership rolls of any denomination. The system that the Neo Evangelicals call “The body Of Kristos”. However, it is not the Body of Kristos!

So whenever someone truly “accepts Yesus Kristos as his or her personal Lord and Saviour” this person would be “encouraged” to enter into the membership roll of any, just any church. To the Neo Evangelical, it’s all about figures, and so we come to read stories about “many souls how are saved”, as a result of the fruits of the labor of, for example, Billy Graham.

In the late 1960’s, Billy Graham organized a “World Congress of Evangelists” in the German city of Berlin. The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was asked to give a sermon to the gathered preachers, and he warned specifically against the many dangers that were lieing ahead in these times.

It was in that very same time, the late 1960’s, that the first “Gospel Rock” concert was given. Entertainment as an instrument to “preach the Gospel” would later become the Contemporary Christian Music Industry.

But Haile Selassie warned them in advance.

In these modern days, there are a multitude of things published in print and broadcast by radio which captivate the human mind and spirit; many new ideas are disseminated by the learned. Many wonderful appliances are produced to make life more and more comfortable. The rich powers have passed on from exploring and exploiting this earth and are vying with each other to explore and conquer the moon and the planets. Knowledge is increasing in a bewildering manner. All this is good, wonderful and praiseworthy. But what will be the end of it all? It is Our firm belief that only what the Lord wills will be done. We should be careful that the results thus achieved by mankind should not meet with the fate of the Tower of Babel, the handwork of those people of old which came to pieces in their hands. The Apostle Paul says: "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God" and "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise and they are vain." The reason for this is because generally speaking man makes himself and his wisdom the beginning and the end of his aim in life, and we are convinced that the end of this is destruction and death.

Our Lord Jesus Christ says: "What has a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Why did the effort of those who tried to build the Tower of Babel come to nothing? Was it not because they tried to live apart from their Creator, and because, vaunting themselves in their wisdom, they tried to build a tower whose top was to reach unto heaven and thus make a name for themselves? It is Our conviction that all the activities of the children of men which are not guided by the Spirit and counsel of God will bear no lasting fruit, they will not be acceptable in the sight of the Lord and will therefore come to nought as the Tower of Babel came to nought.

It is for this reason that the Church of Christ, and especially Christian leaders, have such an enormous responsibility. However wise or however mighty a person may be, he is like a ship without a rudder if he is without God. A rudderless ship is at the mercy of the waves and the wind, drifts wherever they take it and if there arises a whirlwind it is smashed against the rocks and becomes as if it has never existed. It is our firm belief that a soul without Christ is bound to meet with no better fate.[1]

A study of H.I.M.’s speach where the time and place of the adress is taken into context, shows how Haile Selassie warned in advance for what the Christafarian calls “The Christian Industry”. The Ethiopian Emperor refers to ancient Babylon, where the foundations were layed for the organized forms of religion that keeps the people of the world under a form of mental slavery.

The Rastas had allready seen how the Afrikans were stolen from their homeland to, in the words of well know Reggae Singer Bunny Wailer “Build The Great Cities Of Babylon”[2]. The so-called “Judeo Christian Civilization”, in which they were forced to work in as slaves and treated worse than animals by the “Christian” Slave Masters.

While the political powers created “The New Atlantis”[3] in “The New World”, the so-called Christian Church worked along with these very same powers. The Church-And-State system that came directly out of the “cradle of civilization”, Babylon, had a “Christian Look” ever since Emperor Constantine “legalized” the Christian Religion in 396 AD.

And so, it is logical that the Babylonian “Church” talked about “God” and especially “Jesus Christ”. Not only did Emperor Constantine speak about some Jesus christ, so did the later “popes”.

When the Babylonians stole away the “New World” from their original inhabitants, in Africa they had “Christian Churches” right above the terrible cellars in which the Afrikans were kept for “transport” to the “New World”.

This nutshell description of the so-called “Judeo Christian Civilization” is easily linked to the Christafarian’s theology and spiritual position as well. The marks can be found in the actions and theology or doctrinal teachings of Mark Mohr, for example.

It is this very same so-called “Judeo Christian Civilization” that is currently establishing a New World Order. In what many perceive as a modern day version of the medieval Papal Crusades, American President George W. Bush is “defending” this “Judeo Christian Civilization” and calls it a “War on Terror”.

George W. Bush claims to be a “born again Christian” as well. He has been “born again” under the guidance of one evangelist named Billy Graham. There’s even a “presidential prayer team” that “supports the President”, who claims to base his decisions on his “Christian Faith” and “Believe in Jesus Christ”.

Mark Mohr often refers to BIOLA University whenever he writes about his background. To him, BIOLA is a true credential which will surely give him some credibility in the public’s eye. As we allready established, BIOLA is in strong support of the “Christianity” of president George W. Bush. The university is even dubbed “Bush Country”.

However, there is a problem. George W. Bush is a member of the infamous fraternity “the Order of the Skull and Bones” as well as the “Bohemian Grove”. Both organizations are documentated and proven to be Satanist and Babylonian in the most literal sense of the word.

At the Bohemian Grove, for example, there is a big idol in the form of an owl. The Grove itself is “propperty” of a private club of which the membership roll simply read like a who’s who of especially socalled Conservative Christian Politicians. Texas based reporter Alex Jones infiltrated into the Bohemian Grove and video-taped a bizarre Babylonian ritual in which even a child in effigy was sacrificed to the idol. Referances to Babylon and Tyre are made in the ritual itself, which is so Satanic that it takes a Mystery to hide the Satanist Religion to the public’s eye.

Whatever part of the Christafarian Fruits, Roots and Theology is scrutinized, we continually end in Babylon. How true were the words of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia when he adressed the World Congress of “Evangelists” where he warned for the Christian Industry and pointed out to the Tower of Babel to identify her roots. 

It was during the late 1960’s, that the Neo Evangelicals started to incorporate entertainment as a “tool” of spreading the Gospel. Again and again, the Neo Evangelicals “reinvented” the “church” until it became the Christian Industrial Complex that it now is.

CCM[4], Mega-Churches, universities like BIOLA, celebrities such as James “Focus on the Family” Dobson and Billy “All Things To All Men”[5] Graham. All these can be seen as part of this Christian Industrial Complex. And when you research the ties and history of the Christian Industrial Complex, it will lead you right back to the very same Babylon that JAH and the Rastas speak about.

Let’s summarize our research, which we were introduced to in this book.

We’ve looked at all of this from the Rastaman’s perspective. We have seen how this movement uses certain expressions like the African Colours and wearing Dreadlocks, music and words, all of which are very Biblical in the meaning that the Rastaman puts into these things. We have seen that the Christafarian illegaly[6] changes each and every one of these expressions and by that creates a charicature that has not roots whatsoever in Rastafari.

We looked at it from a Christian perspective. We opened the bible, and we did what Yesus and the Apostles taught us: check the roots and the fruits to see if these things are really as Biblically as they sound. And our conclusion can only be: “Sound Doctrine”, in the interpretation of the Christafarian, doesn’t refer to “sound” as in “good”, but “sound” as in “tickling the itchy ears”.

We looked at it from a Cultural perspective. We checked the Culture that comes with Reggae Music as we documentated how the Christafarian was continually exporting (“injecting”) a form of Christian Correct American Post Modernism to those places where the Christafarian expected the roots of Reggae Culture to be geographically located. In other words, we have seen how the Christafarian intentionally tried to Transform Cultures in the name of some Jesus Christ.

We looked at it from a Journalistic perspective. We researched the Christafari Organization’s public statements and digged behind the scenes to find out that there is conflict everywhere. There was no press release by the Christafari Organization at april 1, 2005, when Mark Mohr “divorced” from The Gathering, for example. We have established how money which is donated to Christafari’s “Mission” is used for the establishment of a Studio. A studio where products are created intended to be sold in an industry. The very public’s eye which the Christafarian knows himself to be, is deliberatly disinformed.

We looked at it from an Intelectual perspective. We noticed how the philosophy and theology of the Christafarian has a weakness that can only be explained by establishing how the theology as well as the philosophy have been constructed around Mark Mohr’s life ministry rather then the other way around. This means, that the Christafarian has himself as foundation, rather then the philosophy and theology which he claims to have as motivation.

We looked at it from a Psychological and Sociologial perspective. We noticed, how the whole story that led up to the birth of the christafarian came down to a classic generation gap problem. There was a troubled teen who thought that he found the perfect way to basically be a rude puber, which ended at his 17^th life year. He is now basically being a version of the personality he developed in his teen years, in a version that will not offend his parents or his social environmnent.

We’ve looked at the Christafari phenomena from every possible perspective that might be relevant. So we will reach to a conclusion here.

But the conclusion will not be about the person of Mark Mohr. This is not about the person of Mark Mohr. This is about the principals. So, even though Mark Mohr the Christafarian is described in this book, and even though we draw a conclusion based on Yesus Kristos’ commandment to reject persons as false teachers, our conclusion on The Christafarian isn’t final, as people change and sometimes even repent.

But the principals behind the facade of the “Christafarians Life Ministry” that we manage to uncover are older then the Christafarian. And some of the “fruits of my labor”, as Mark Mohr calls the “people who I am trying to save”, have become worse than himself.

Christafarianism as a philosophy has grown beyond the reach of Mark Mohr himself. Even if he would renounce every word of it, which we wholeheartedly reccommend to him at this place, it would still live on. The point is, that the Christafarian is used by forces beyond his knowledge in order to create something like Christafarianism and it will have the results which the true originators of Christafarianism intended it to have, Mark Mohr or not.

It wasn’t “God” who “elected Mark Mohr to create a plug in the gap of the christian industry”.

It wasn’t “God”, who told him: “Now you’re no longer a Rastafarian, now you’re a Christafarian”.

It wasn’t “God” who told him to “start the first Christian, eer first Christian American Reggae Band”.

It wasn’t “God” who told him to “redefine the Christian Church”.

It wasn’t “God” who told him to redefine the definition of both “Christian” and “Rasta”.

It wasn’t “God” who told him to “Be All Things To all Men To Tranform Cultures”.

It wasn’t “God” who told him to reject his brothers in Christ because of a position in the industry.

It wasn’t “God”, who gave the Christafarian his life ministry.

Or was it?

Because if God would be the author behind Christafarianism, and he identifies himself to Mark Mohr as distinctively from JAH, and there truly is a God Of Christafarianism who is distinctive from JAH as we have established, what other conclusion can we draw then the obvious one?

When the con-fusion caused by Christafarianism is established and documented, as we did throughout this book, who authored that con-fusion?

It is obvious, that where Mark Mohr himself is a mere instrument in the hands of the Christian Industrial Complex, it’s irrelevant whether he is aware of this or not. He just happenned to be the right man in the the right time at the right place.

When the Christafarian was born, “Gospel Reggae” as defined by the Lion of Zion marketplace was born too. It’s the Christafarian who decides what is “Gospel Reggae” and what is not “Gospel Reggae”.

We can see the result in his market place, where it can be bought.  This is the “Gospel” or Evangelium of the Christafarian. It’s a product, a genre, certified by the Christian Industrial Complex.

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