Daniel To Revelation

“Why are y’all so angry? You have the White House. You have both houses of Congress. You have a Supreme Court that is completely obedient to your president. They’re willing to give him unlimited power… You’ve banned our books. You’ve banned Black history. You’ve ended affirmative action. You chased women out of the military. You’ve gotten rid of Black scholarships. You have everything you wanted. What the [__] are you angry about?” “Historically, political violence lives mainly on the right. Lynchings were the right. These mass murders are the right. Massacring Black people in Buffalo, worshippers in Charleston, concertgoers in Las Vegas — that is not the left. That is the right.” “You said you wanted your country back. You have it. You run the FBI, the Department of Justice, the red states. You’ve gutted DEI. You’ve gutted affirmative action. You even got Florida turned into your paradise of sickness where vaccines don’t matter. This is what you asked for. And yet you’re still the mad...

“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” — Amos 3:7 In every age, God appoints prophets—not just preachers, but truth-tellers and nation-shakers—to call people to repentance. They do not come from palaces or podiums. They come from prisons, plantations, deserts, and ghettos. They come from the margins. In America, the prophets have always worn Black skin. I. Prophets Are Forged in Suffering The Bible makes it clear that prophets do not live easy lives. They suffer with the people and because of the people. Jeremiah was beaten and imprisoned for warning of national collapse. Amos came from among the poor to challenge Israel’s elite: “They sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.” (Amos 2:6) Jesus himself said: “No prophet is accepted in his own country.” (Luke 4:24) America’s own suffering class—the descendants of the enslaved—have worn this mantle of rejection, warning, and revela...