Episode 281- The People Want A King: The Fractured Awakening

In our previous post, The Identity Crisis, we explored how centuries of deception erased the truth about who we are as a people.But identity is only the beginning.Once you know who you are, the next question becomes: who are you following?

This episode, The People Want a King: The Fractured Awakening, exposes how the same spirit that caused ancient Israel to demand a human ruler is alive today. Many of us have found our identity but lost our direction, following doctrines, influencers, and movements instead of the Most High. From biblical kings to modern Black leaders and cultural teachers, this episode reveals how history, identity, and rebellion are repeating before our eyes.

The People Wanted a King

In 1 Samuel 8, Israel begged for a king to lead them “like the nations.”

'Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD . And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. ‘ - 1 Samuel 8:4-7

Yah warned them that such kings would enslave, tax, and oppress them. But the people refused to listen. This was the beginning of our downfall.

That same spirit is alive today.

We trade divine leadership for personalities, doctrines, and movements that look powerful but lead us away from the Most High. YAHWEH IS OUR KING. The Alpha & The Omega!

The Failed Kings from the Days of Old

There was a total of 42 Kings who ruled over Israel/Judah. Out of the 42, only 5 were truly righteous in their acts and leadership. The rest were mostly evil and led Israel and Judah astray.

When the Kingdom was united, out of the 3 first kings (Saul, David, Solomon) only 1 was truly righteous. Saul did evil, David did good, and Solomon was a mixture of the two.

31 out of the 42 Kings did evil. This number is telling. Man can't save you! Only full obedience to The Most High can!

The New Kings aka The Modern Day Black Leaders

In the new age, our people are still seeking a person to lead and rule over them over the most high. Below are examples of modern leaders that shaped our people from Emancipation until now:

• Emancipation to Reconstruction (1865–1899)

  • Key Leaders: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington (early years)

    
    

• Early 20th Century – The Age of Vision and Division (1900–1945)

  • Key Leaders: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph

    
    

• Civil Rights Era (1945–1968)

  • Key Leaders: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker

    
    

• Post–Civil Rights to 1980s (1969–1989)

  • Key Leaders: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (early years), Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou

    
    

• 1990s to Early 2000s – The Era of Influence and Image

  • Key Leaders: Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Louis Farrakhan, T.D. Jakes, Cornel West, Al Sharpton (later years), Black mayors and media figures

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• Modern Era (2010–Present)

  • Key Leaders: INFLUENCERS & CELEBRITIES -  discipleship without discernment.“Echo Effect”- repeating the same ideologies without research nor discernment

    often driven by emotional resonance, group identity, or charismatic influence rather than verified truth

  • Examples- Dr. Umar, Roland Martin, Tariq Nasheed, Kevin Samuels, Boyce Watkins, Brother Polight, Young Pharaoh, Jason Black (The Black Authority), and many more.

Scriptural Parallels

• “Having itching ears... they shall turn away their ears from the truth.” — 2 Timothy 4:3–4

• “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” — Hosea 4:6

• “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.” — Hebrews 13:9

The Fractured Awakening

Across the world, people of so called "African" descent are searching for truth, our history, our identity, our purpose. But instead of unity, there’s division. Each group claims revelation, yet few point back to obedience to the Creator.

Below is a breakdown of the main modern doctrines influencing this awakening and what they represent.

1. Israelite Doctrine

Core Belief: Black Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: While Scripture supports that the Israelites were scattered and that many descendants live among the African diaspora, this truth often becomes distorted when identity overshadows obedience. Some focus on bloodline more than repentance. The point of awakening isn’t to prove who we are, it’s to return to covenant faithfulness. When heritage becomes an idol, the same disobedience that led Israel into captivity repeats itself.

2. Aboriginal / Indigenous American Doctrine

Core Belief: Black Americans are the original people of the Americas.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: This belief often rejects biblical and historical evidence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, creating a false narrative of isolation. While some Israelites could have migrated to the Americas before colonization, denying the reality of slavery removes a major fulfillment of prophecy. You cannot hold Scripture and baseless claims together. Yah's Word teaches that His people would be scattered to the four corners of the earth, not confined to one land.

3. Kemet / Egyptian Spirituality & Conscious / New-Age Beliefs

Core Belief: Ancient Egypt is the root of true Black spirituality; humans are divine.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: Kemet spirituality and modern “conscious” movements merge ancient African culture with self-deification. They honor knowledge, balance, and energy but erase the Creator as the source. The Israelites and Egyptians were both Black nations, yet one served Yah and the other idols. Seeing oneself as a god is the same deception that caused Satan’s fall; it replaces humility with pride and worship with rebellion.

4. Pan-African / Afrocentric Humanism

Core Belief: Black unity and self-reliance are the highest truths.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: Pan-Africanism seeks strength through unity, but unity without righteousness cannot stand. It answers a social need such as empowerment and pride, yet it rarely acknowledges that sin, not race, is the root of our suffering. Scripture teaches that only a remnant will return to the Most High. Without the foundation of truth, any movement for liberation becomes another tower of Babel, ambitious but spiritually hollow.

5. Moorish / Nation of Islam / Sovereign Identity Movements

Core Belief: Salvation comes through knowledge of self and nationality.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: These groups promote order, morality, and discipline, which can look righteous from the outside. However, their theology replaces the Creator with man. By elevating human messengers or claiming divinity within, they repeat the first lie in Genesis: “ye shall be as gods.” Salvation doesn’t come from paperwork, law, or allegiance to a man, it comes through submission to the Most High and faith in His Word.

6. African Traditional Religions (ATR Revival)

Core Belief: A return to ancestral deities and nature spirits.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: The ATR revival disguises idolatry as heritage. Many believe returning to ancestral worship is reclaiming lost identity, but these are the same practices that led Israel — and Africa — into bondage. Calling on orishas or ancestral spirits opens the same spiritual doors Yah commanded us to close. The Bible was written by our ancestors and preserved for the remnant; it is not a “white man’s book.” Returning to our true roots means returning to obedience to the Most High.

7. Modern (Mainstream) Christianity

Core Belief: Faith in Christ through grace; however, modern practice mixes truth with paganism.

Spiritual Misalignments Within This Doctrine: Modern Christianity has become a religion of comfort, emotion, and tradition rather than obedience. It hides truth behind pagan customs — holidays, images, and names — inherited from Rome, not Scripture. The faith itself is not false, but the system that controls it often is. When churches teach identity lies, promote prosperity over repentance, or portray the Messiah through false imagery, they lead people away from truth instead of toward it.

The Common Thread

Every doctrine answers a real need — identity, justice, healing, community — but few point back to the The Most High and His Word. Just as Israel’s kings led them astray, many modern leaders do the same today.

“My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray.” — Jeremiah 50:6 (KJV)

The world is filled with kings, influencers, and doctrines — but there’s only one true King who reigns forever.Our call isn’t to follow personalities, but to return to covenant, to obedience, and to truth.

“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” — Revelation 18:4 (KJV)

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