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Zephaniah, was a 7th century Hebrew-Ethiopian prophet. He was a great grandson of King Hezekiah, and a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah. The prophet Zephaniah sought, inter alia, to help reform Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah, which he condemned as follows:
"Woe to the city of oppressors,
rebellious and defiled!
"She obeys no one,
she accepts no correction.
"She does not trust in the LORD,
she does not draw near to her God.
"Her officials within her
are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves,
who leave nothing for the morning.
"Her prophets are unprincipled;
they are treacherous people.
Her priests profane the sanctuary
and do violence to the law."
In the Book of Zephaniah, the prophet is described as “son of Cushi,” and, therefore, it is likely that he had Ethiopian lineage.
In his remarkable work, The Cushite, Or The Descendants of Ham, Rev. Dr. Rufus Lewis Perry associated the name “Cushi” in the Bible to denote racial ethnicity, and he concluded that “those ancient Ethiopians and Egyptians were Cushites, or Negroes descended from the race of Ham.”
Dr. Perry notes that the Benjamite tribe had become most susceptible to taking Cushite wives and that “[h]ence we find Cush the Benjamite, Cushi the courier sent by Joab to report the death of Absalom to this father David, (2 Sam. Xviii. 21), Cushi the father of Shelamiah, (Jer. Xxxvi 14) and Cushi the father of the prophet Zehaniah, (Zeph. i. 1).”
The Prophet Zephaniah writes that the “Ethiopians” or the “Cushites” will be “slain by [God’s] sword.” But this same prophet also writes that “[f]rom beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering”; and (or) “[f]rom beyond the rivers of Cush my worshippers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings.”
According to Augustine of Hippo, this passage which includes the reference to “Ethiopia” [or “Cush”] is a reference to “those predictions about Christ by the prophet Zephaniah…. [A] little after he says, 'Then will I turn to the people a tongue, and to His offspring, that they may call upon the name of the Lord, and serve Him under one yoke. From the borders of the rivers of Ethiopia shall they bring sacrifices unto me.'"
“These are the remnant,” Augustine continues, “of whom the apostle quotes that which is elsewhere prophesied: ‘Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.’ These are the remnant of that nation who have believed in Christ.”
Here, in the Book of Zephaniah, the “remnant,” which is described as the restored Israel, and which is believed to be the Christian Church, explicitly includes the Ethiopian-Cushite faithful.
Thus, the Book of Zephaniah certainly prophesies the rise of an African church emanating upon the borders of the rivers beyond Ethiopia.
Thus, in the positive development of Judaism and Christianity, the continent of Africa and Ethiopia loom large.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire and military action to expand it, both of which were popular among British voters. He is the only British prime minister to have been born Jewish.
Self-educated, and a successful novelist, Disraeli fought against anti-Semitism and climbed to the "top of the greasy poll of British politics." Disraeli's "conservativism was compassionate, moral, and humane. As a man of color, Disraeli was a great Jew!
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