MYSTERY BABYLON (6)

Dubroom Online - Edition January 10, 2008


"MYSTERY BABYLON (6)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, January 10 2008 - Where the word "Babylon" means con-fusion or mix-up, we can see this mix-up wherever we find the mystery at work.

For example, in the hearts and minds of those who are initiated in the mystery with a state of total confusion in their paradigm as a result of it. And many of them think about themselves as "Judeo-Christians".

The Movement of Rastafari has identified the so-called "Christian Church" of the so-called "Judeo-Christian Culture" for what she really is: just another aspect of the Church-And-State system we know as Babylon.

Is that why there is so much unfounded critique on those who simply say a positive word about the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie?

In an article written for today's edition of Dubroom Online, we can find a possible answer to that question.

Give Thanks, One Love,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

STEPPIN' YOUTH MIXES DANCEHALL ROOTS VOLUME 1
"Haile Selassie Is Not God"? - A Spiritual Meditation by Messian Dread

STEPPIN' YOUTH MIXES DANCEHALL ROOTS VOLUME 1

STEPPIN' YOUTH MIXES DANCEHALL ROOTS VOLUME 1
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



WWW, December 2007 - Can a one hour mix contain over 50 titles and not be boring or disturbing? The answer can be discovered in just about an hour from now, which in itself give the answer away...

The nice thing about a good Riddim is that many vocalists will want to ride it. And when you mix it right you can make your own seamless "medley" out of each rendering: "Steppin' Youth Mixes Dancehall Roots Volume One" in a nutshell.

Before you can say the full title of the mix, you are already into the next track in it. And the nice thing is, that you are absolutely not disturbed or annoyed in anyway. In fact, it becomes a challenge to find out just when one title flows into the next, because the Steppin' Youth know exactly what they're doing.

The thing is, that this Podcast also contains older pre-digital material, for example by Bob Marl and Big Youth. Still, these tracks are incorporated in the seamless mix as well which reveals the high level of skill in the French based Sound System.


PLAYLIST

01. intro
02. Holy mount zion - Screwdriver
03. Dubplate special Braveheart
04. The Truth -Turbulence
05. No more - Chezideck
06. Black people unite - Manna panna
07. Righteous faith - ?
08. Mr. Speaker - Sebastian
09. Ghetto people song - Everton Blender
10. Dubplate special Nereous Josef
11. Why be afraid - Tony Rebel
12. Dubplate special Prince Malachi
13. Dubplate special Braveheart
14. My only joy - Chukki Star/Junior Kelly
15. See no joy - Thriller Black/Determine
16. Anchor - Governor B
17. Tenement yard - Edi Fitzroy
18. Pirates - Tony Roots
19. Dubplate special Rasta Indian
20. Infatuation - Demo Delgado
21. Courtney - Zumjay
22. Extortionners - Bushman
23. Love will show the way - D'ville
24. Reunion - Wayne Wonder/Buju Banton
25. One more time - Mr easy
26. Glory to God - Lukie D
27. Dubplate special Prince Malachi
28. Dubplate special Jah Stem
29. Dubplate special Daniel Ray
30. My love - Mickey Melody
31. Justice - Jennifer Lara
32. Living in hell - Natural Black
33. I love Selassie - Turbulence
34. Dubplate special Braveheart
35. Hail the king of universe - Anthony B
36. Won't fly in Jah's face - Buju banton
37. Forever loving Jah - Marcia Griffiths/Tony Rebel
38. Forever loving Jah - Bob Marley and the Wailers
39. One drop - Bob Marley and the Wailers
40. True god - Sizzla'
41. Dubplate special Jahstem
42. Hit the road Jack - Big Youth
43. Dubplate special Prince Malachi
44. Rapid dem love -
45. Dubplate special Rod Taylor
46. Black roses - Barrington Levy
47. Rub a Dub style - Dennis Brown
48. Revolution - Dennis Brown
49. Dubplate special Lone Ranger
50. Lot of signs - Tenor Saw


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"Haile Selassie Is Not God"? - A Spiritual Meditation by Messian Dread

"HAILE SELASSIE IS NOT GOD"?
A MEDITATION BY MESSIAN DREAD



WWW, January 2008 - This morning, when I checked out the feedback on the Dubroom, it happened again: "Haile Selassie Is Not God", some comment read.

Haile Selassie means "Power of the Trinity". Obviously, for Christians it is not so difficult to identify the Lord God and Saviour Yesus Kristos, because is it not so that He told us: "Unto Me is given all power in Heaven and on Earth"?

But this self-proclaimed Christian who wrote the comment on the Dubroom, was not denying that.

He, or she, was referring to the Ethiopian Emperor Tafari Makonnen, who was crowned Haile Selassie in the 1930's. And to the fact that many, but not all, within the Movement named after Ras (Head) Tafari, believe that this Ethiopian Emperor is in fact what his name and title mean.

The Ethiopian Emperor himself, however, never claimed to be what his names and titles mean. In fact, he strongly denied being Jah and boldly proclaimed to be a Christian himself. The Emperor did make claims of being a descendant of King David, though, a claim that many believe to be true.

In spite of popular belief, not all Rasta's believe the Ethiopian Emperor to be God, either.

Take Gadman, the leader of the biggest Rasta Organization in the world. In an interview with Jamaican Radio Station IRE FM, he made statements concerning the fact that he made a differentiation between the Emperor and Jesus Christ and how one could only be saved by the Blood of Jesus Christ.

Yours truly is also of the belief that the Ethiopian Emperor is not what his names mean, which is widely known. Being the transcriber of the authorized transcription of Gadman's interview, being the Webmaster of a website where the Emperor can be heard denying he is Jah, I can hardly be "accused" of believing His Imperial Majesty to be JAH.

So, what made this person write that comment which provoked this article? An answer may be found in a comment on yet another website, where someone posted the following description of me:

Messian Dread, a Zeph Daniel close, Rastafarian, etc. Yeah right, he's someone I want to listen to. (LINK)

The comment was made by a self-proclaimed Christian who apparantly did not agree with statements I made concerning Michael Tsarion, a New Age propagandist and apologist for such evil men as Aleister Crowley.

Apart from the fact that for the sake of this article it is not so important who Michael Tsarion is and so on, it is interesting to read the ad hominem argument as it came. If you can't win the argument, you start attacking the person and this time I was being accused for being a "Rastafarian".

It's very interesting, to read how apparantly "being a Rastafarian" is a reason for a self-proclaimed "Christian" to not listen to what I have to say.

What is so wrong about "being a Rastafarian"?

Sure, it could very well be that this person's admitted refusal to check out just what I am saying led her or him to the idea that I somehow believe the Ethiopian Emperor to be Jah. "Don't confuse me with the facts", I read between the lines there...

However, since Zeph Daniel was mentioned, I do not necessarily jump to that conclusion easily.

Zeph Daniel is a talk show host, among many other things, and I have appeared on his radio show a couple of times. I explained how not all Rasta's believe the Emperor to be what his names mean and therefore you cannot define the Movement of Rastafari as a religion based on worship of the Ethiopian Emperor.

Just like many Arab people believe in the god of Islam, Allah, not all Arabs do. Therefore, to say that all Arabs are Muslims is an untrue statement and yet a variation on that theme can be found time and time again in statement and comments from self-proclaimed Christians on what they claim are "Rastafarians".

So, it could be that the self-proclaimed Christian did not want to be confused with the facts about the Movement and person of Rastafari and simply chose to attack me for who I am rather than what I have to say.

That would definitely explain the comment I read this morning.

However, I have also noticed that within certain self-proclaimed "Christian" circles, it is not enough to deny the Emperor to be Jah anyway.

Simply speaking positively about the Emperor, can provoke an "anathema". Trying to place his personality and function in a biblical perspective because of the Davidic bloodline, is being seen as "worshipping" too.

"Haile Selassie Is Not God", is the message. The one-and-only message, so it seems!

Don't even bother moving forward by trying to find out just who he is, since he is not Jah. Don't try pointing out to the special place Ethiopia has in the Bible, either.

What is it, that makes self-proclaimed Christians curse the Emperor and Rastafarians regardless as to whether they believe the Emperor to be Jah or not?

It is my strong conviction, that this has everything to do with something that "all" Rastafarians would agree to.

For it is not so, that all Rastafarians believe the Ethiopian Emperor to be JAH, as just a little bit of research will reveal to every genuine seeker of Truth. The Dubroom website is actually ministering to these very seekers of Truth by providing nuff evidence to proof the undeniable fact.

But there are definitively things that "all" Rastafarians would agree to, things not in agreement with "Christian Correctness" as defined by the western forms of organized "Christianity" and it's offshoots.

One of these things is the identification of what is usually called "Western Judeo-Christian Civilization" as "Babylon System". In addition to that, "all Rastafarians" would identify Haile Selassie's Ethiopia as a true Judeo-Christian culture or civilization!

By doing so, Rastafarians express a total rejection of a paradigm that is so prominent within the structures of western Christianity. A paradigm that dictates people to defend a Church-and-State system responsible for keeping people in mental slavery ever since the Roman emperor Constantine "legalized" "Christianity" in 325 AD or thereabout.

The European colonialism that followed in itself can be traced back to the destroyed foundations of the ancient Tower-of-Babel, a fact that is often used by New Age "researchers" such as Michael Tsarion and Jordan Maxwell in order to discredit what they will call "Christianity".

These propagandists will point out to the alleged Christianity of warmongering presidents and popes as some kind of definitive proof that Yesus Kristos and His Message of Salvation is to be rejected as fiction. Self-proclaimed Christians will confirm this idea by basically agreeing with the identification of "Christianity" and apply bizarre reasoning to defend these self-proclaimed Christian downpressors.

The Movement of Rastafari definitely takes a separate position in all of this.

Founded in Jamaica by descendants of Africans whose fore parents were taken as slaves on ships that had names like "Jesus", the early Rastafarians knew too well how the Jesus that was worshipped by their slave masters could never be the real Most High God and Creator.

They knew, that -unlike Europe- Ethiopia or Africa is mentioned in the Bible straight from the start, where it is listed as being part of the Garden of Eden. They knew, that -unlike Europe- the first church outside of Israel was located in this very same Ethiopia, as this very same Bible tells us through the Book of Acts.

This particular knowledge is spelled out in the very same Bible that the Babylonians who defend their Church-and-State system as "Judeo-Christian" claim to uphold. The Bible makes it very clear, how the Good Lord God Jah looks on that system as a "Beast" and in especially the last book, called Revelation or the Apocalypse, even announces it's ultimate destruction at the very return of Jesus Christ.

Still, we see people who claim to be Christian, who claim to know all about the Divine Saviour and believe themselves to be Born Again through His Holy Spirit, strongly defending a system that is so clearly condemned by the Most High God Himself!

Their only comment about a true Judeo-Christian king who himself pointed out to Yesus Kristos continually, and about a Movement inspired by this Emperor to be prophetic voices in the identification of the western "Judeo-Christian" civilization as Babylon and her upcoming downstruction, is one of utter and total rejection.

Instead of moving forward after realizing how -indeed- the Ethiopian Emperor is not Jesus Christ by trying to discover just who he was if not Jah, these self-proclaimed Christians team up with New Age researchers such as Michael Tsarion and write totally irrelevant and unnecessary comments about the Dubroom and the writings of yours truly.

They are obviously offended when their beloved "Judeo-Christian" system is identified for what she really is!

It's really not about worshipping the Emperor as God. It has been sufficiently proven how not all Rastafarians worship the Emperor as God and therefore that particular belief cannot be used to describe a whole Movement, so there is another reason why Rasta is attacked by self-proclaimed Christians.

I believe, it has to do with identification.

We can hear time and time again, how the West is supposedly built on "Judeo-Christian values and morals", how for example the founding father of the United States of America were supposed to be Christian and how very Christian the constitution of these United States is supposed to be.

Or we can hear it in the absurd claims of the European royal bloodlines that claim descendance from Jesus Christ and wear supposed Christian symbology in order to "proof" their case.

Self-proclaimed Christians who have an allegiance with this system we have identified as Babylon, will usually get very mad and angry whenever their beloved system is exposed for the antichrist shitstem that she really is.

Just like their fore parents who went to Africa as "teachers" of what they called "Christianity" to the "undeveloped savages", they will continue exposing their superiority complex to those "pot smoking, emperor-worshipping Jamaican hippies" and not only refuse to check out things for themselves, but perpetuate the myth of a "Judeo-Christian" Babylon.

I think, that it is time for everyone who truly know themselves to be born again through the Holy Spirit to actually start finding the truth out for themselves rather than relying on so-called "researchers" with their pack of lies to attack a Christianity that has nothing to do with the true Message of Yesus Kristos.

I think, that it is time for every self-proclaimed "Christian" to check out just what I am writing about the Emperor, about Yesus, rather than perpetuating lies about Rastafari and insults to a Christian brother who happened to be Emperor of Ethiopia and chose the name "Power of the Trinity" to express who he was really worshipping!

Give Thanks, One Love
Messian Dread

EDIT: Here is something to consider:

MYSTERY BABYLON (5)

Dubroom Online - Edition January 9, 2008


"MYSTERY BABYLON (5)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, January 9 2008 - Babylon presents herself as a gateway to (the) God(s) in her own language, but we learn about her true identity in a book called Revelation where the name means a very different thing.

Babylon means "confusion". And a confusion can best be described as a mix-up: something is fused or mixed that should not be mixed. Something joined together, that should not be joined.

The fact that Mystery Babylon is presented as "The Mother of all harlots", fits right in there too. For is a harlot not -in a way- an expert in mixing that which should not be mixed: namely two people who are not married but still become one flesh?

Give Thanks, One Love,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)

ITEM FOR THIS EDITION:
THE ARCH 2005 PART THREE

THE ARCH 2005 PART THREE

THE ARCH 2005 PART THREE
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WWW, December 2007 - Two Conscious European based Sound Systems meet in Brixton for a friendly clash. Three hours of Roots and Culture and we already had two.

Will the last part of The Arch triplet contain a climax?

Both the French based Steppin' Youth as well Cool Runnings, which hail from Suomi Finland, know their Reggae. When they met at the Arch in 2005, it wasn't so much a clash of Sound Systems but more a joining of forces in Love and Inity.

We've had two hours, in which the two Sound Systems presented their material. Obviously, the atmosphere is getting more and more Ire and in the third part we are treated to a number of DUB Plates by Max Romeo, Prince Alla and Yami Bolo as well as a number of killer selections.

The Two Sound Systems are obviously each other's equal in weight, and together they just mean double trouble for Babylon. They're not out there to fight each other, but to provide Roots and Culture to the massive.

Does the third part have a climax? You bet it does. "One Love", in the ancient 1960's Wailers version recorded at Studio One. And "Can't Live In A Tenement Yard", sung by Edi Fitzroy in Digital Steppers Style.

Reggae Music cyaan dead!


PLAYLIST

33 Dubplate special Prince Alla SY
34 Free Mandela - Yami Bolo SY
35 Dub
36 Dubplate special - Max Romeo DL
37 Let's go to zion alternative mix - Winston Francis DL
38 Nuh badda wid it - Tony TuffSY
39 Let's all unite - Hugh Mundell SY
40 Forward homebound - Tubby's special mix DL
41 Righteous kingdom - African brothers SY
42 Prophecy - ?
43 Jah love - Lacksey Castell DL
44 Dub
45 Jah is always here - Warrior King SY
46 Love Jah more - Warrior King SY
47 ???? DL
48 Can't conquer rasta - Yami Bolo DL
49 Dub
50 Sunday is comind - Alton Ellis SY
51 One love - Wailing Wailers SY
52 Can't live inna tenement yard - Edi fitzroy DL

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MYSTERY BABYLON (4)

Dubroom Online - Edition January 8, 2008


"MYSTERY BABYLON (4)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, January 8 2008 - The word "Babylon" itself is quite interesting. Depending on the original language of choice, the meanings itself can be quite revealing!

When you translate it from the ancient Babylonian language, you will find that the meaning of Babylon is "Gateway to (the) God(s)". However, when taken from the original Hebrew scriptures, the word means "Confusion".

Obviously, there is a deeper meaning behind this all.

Are you a Babylonian, or initiated into the Mystery, you will see Babylon as a way to reach to the godly realms. Just look at all those that worship Babylon System as the so-called "Judeo Christian Civilization".

But are you more focused on the original Bible, you will see that Babylon System is not at all a Gate to the Creator but rather a form of spiritual fornication or con-fusion.

Give Thanks, One Love,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)


ITEM FOR THIS EDITION:
HOUSE OF REGGAE (18)

HOUSE OF REGGAE (18)

HOUSE OF REGGAE #18
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



WWW, December 2007 - The House of Reggae #18 opens with a massive track and short biography of Garnett Silk, and then continues to give us another hour of Reggae Music history presented in a fine style.

As the number of episodes in the House of Reggae grow, it becomes clear just what a priceless series of Podcast we are really reviewing here: it's the History of Reggae all over and over again, in Word Sound and Power.

This history is important for too many reasons to mention. Just look at the enormous achievements of the Jamaicans we know to be the originators of Reggae, it's enough to realize how much we need historians like Bredda Ian who doesn't just play music, but actually does a lot of work for his shows, which... shows.

The 18th episode has, next to a short but impressive biography of Garnett Silk right at the start, also some rare material that will make you want to check out the Podcast just to listen to it. Sugar Minott coming in a DJ Style under the name "Papa Honey", for example.

Another crucial!

PLAYLIST

01. Garnett Silk - Splashing Dashing
02. Lloyd & Devon - Love Is The Foundation Of The World
03. Bunny Lie Lie - Who Cork The Dance
04. Lee Van Cleef - Do The Thing
05. Sister Ester & Papa Honey - Waiting For Your Love 12"
06. Max Romeo - Macabee Version
07. The Prospectors - Glory For I
08. The Brentford Rockers - Glory Dub
09. Vernon Allen - Babylon
10. Admiral Bailey - Big Belly Man
11. Tonto Irie - Slim Belly Man
12. Junior Kelly - Receive
13. Garnett Silk - Hello Africa
14. Bascom X - Danger
15. Jah Mason - The People
16. Fantan Mojah - What Is This?
17. Lukie D - Make A Change

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MYSTERY BABYLON (3)

Dubroom Online - Edition January 7, 2008


"MYSTERY BABYLON (3)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, January 7 2008 - The movement of Rastafari speaks about Babylon stealing the children of Africa in order to work as slaves in what was then called "The New World".
A metaphor?

Far from that!

Just like ancient Babylon can be identified as the root of all "world religions", we see the same thing going on in the political arena.

It's all about control and world domination, colonialism and slavery being "just" two ways in which Mystery Babylon is working to achieve her goal.

Give Thanks, One Love,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)


HOUSE OF REGGAE #17