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I have had enough. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is dangerous. In June, national polls demonstrated that two-thirds of Americans “favored” the movement. Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has stated her belief that BLM has brought “the most significant change within the criminal justice system” and that their protests are “essential for the evolution of our country.” The list of corporations that have contributed to the BLM Foundation is exhaustive: DoorDash, Amazon, Gatorade, Microsoft, Unilever, and Nabisco, among others. Even the evangelical community has fallen prey to the temptation of conforming to the world’s patterns as Hillsong pastors, Brian Houston and Carl Lentz have both expressed open support for the movement, while preachers Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, and Charles Stanley, and singers Kari Jobe and TobyMac all participated in Blackout Tuesday, a summer Facebook promotion that encouraged users to “blackout” their accounts in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’s agenda on racism and police brutality.
The root of my concern, however, supersedes the politics. If we can, let us set aside BLM’s hatred for the most fruitful political and economic system in the world, their uncompromising promotion of the LGBTQ social agenda, and their overwhelming presence at violent riots throughout the nation resulting in billions of dollars of personal and commercial property damage as radical “Left” governors refuse intervention (until the protests reach those coward’s homes).
These issues create an unsurprising distinction between the Republican and Democratic parties regarding support for this movement. Donald Trump calls BLM a symbol of hate, while Mike Pence refuses to utter the trademark namesake during interviews. Joe Biden remains ambiguous in his condemnation of the group’s violence and Kamala Harris believes they are a crucial part of future U.S. progress.
As America continues its systematic apostacy, BLM has further accelerated the successful manipulation of this generation’s philosophical foundations. Make no mistake, however, that this group’s leaders do not hope to engage others in a political debate that will simply challenge conservative perspectives. They have no interest in civil discourse over lunch or a cup of coffee. Instead, they conduct seances from specific locations at which fierce confrontations have occurred to invoke spirits that will aid them in achieving their objectives. They are calling on the spiritual realm to transform the ideological landscape.
This, friends, is a different kind of ballgame.
One of the founders of BLM is a radical feminist (Spirit of Jezebel) named Patrisse Cullors. She is credited with fashioning the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. Among her many policy positions are the abolition of prisons and police departments, the staunch advocacy of LGBTQ rights, and the realization of a national economy framed by the ideologies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, even describing herself and BLM co-founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, as “trained Marxists.” Marxism, in its simplest terms, is the pursuit of a classless, socialist society in which the collective human need for material is the fundamental element of nature, which leads to the eventual abandonment of individual rights and the realization that man has no need for God. Cullors was the protege of Eric Mann, formerly of the “Weather Underground,” a 1970s domestic terror organization whose self-described purpose was to “disrupt the empire…to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks.”
More importantly, however, is that Cullors is ordained in Ifa’, a West-African system of divination that she integrates into the BLM movement to establish its foremost intention as a spiritual crusade. Ifa’ has numerous branches, including Voodoo in the southern part of the United States and Santeria (known for having factions that practice Black Magic) in Latin America, which are gaining momentum in numerous geographic areas across the United States and claims close to 50 million followers around the world. These are pagan faiths that center on divination, ancestor worship, and witchcraft, and their priests are given the power to heal the sick, punish the unjust and “divine the future.”
If one needs biblical reference for God’s prohibition of divination, start with 2 Kings 17:17, Deuteronomy 18:10, Genesis 44:5, Jeremiah 27:9, 1 Samuel 15:23 and read Paul’s account of the girl with a spirit of divination in Acts 16.
The spiritual leaders of BLM combine a blend of mystical practices that include chanting and ritualistic dancing that summons spirits at the organization’s seances, which occur at physical sites where African Americans have been “murdered” at the hands of “racial injustice.” Here, they perform this occultic spiritual ceremony during which the names of the deceased are recited while adherents pour libations as an offering to deities to invoke either the individual or ancestors of the faith. The spirits will, in turn, prepare the local community to accomplish BLM goals by, according to Cullors, “work[ing] through us so that we can get the work that we need to get done.” She believes that “the fight to save your life is a spiritual fight” and employs an additional combination of Native American, Buddhist and “mindfulness” traditions to integrate spirituality into the BLM movement. As one expert on demonic forces notes, “this helps fuel the fires of the BLM movement: worship of the dead; calling on the dead; asking the spirits of the dead to empower the living today.”
Dr. Melina Abdullah, a California State Professor and leader of BLM Los Angeles, was even invited to perform her seance at a Methodist church in which she called upon spirits of deceased black victims, former Black Panther leaders, and African American icons including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X. Are all the souls of the dead demonic? No. But the entities that respond to an invocation…
How can it be that so many have fallen under the spell of this movement? How can such a cause be considered noble and compassionate when their leaders want police officers dead? How can BLM ignore black-on-black homicides, black police officer deaths, and the fact that 28% of all black pregnancies result in abortions and gain any credibility as a group that cares about black lives? How can evangelical leaders give a “Christian” blessing to a movement that calls upon the dead for spiritual guidance?
Because demons specialize in disorder through deception. The principal social justice movement in this country is asking the Devil to mold us into a new nation.
“But evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” (2 Timothy 3:13).
We are up against it, now.
