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APRIL 2018<br />

THE<br />

KAINOS<br />

MAN<br />

If any man be<br />

in CHRIST<br />

FROM BABYLON<br />

TO AMERICA<br />

The Bible prophecy<br />

+<br />

Top 10<br />

Business<br />

Opportunities<br />

in AFRICA


C H R I S T I A N M A G A Z I N E<br />

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SPOTLIGHT<br />

20 ON THE COVER BABYLON TO AMERICA<br />

16 YOUTH CORNER Profession/Entrepreneur<br />

19 MAKING WAVES Letters to God<br />

THE GOSPEL<br />

9 INSPIRATION What is your stand?<br />

12 INSIDE WORD Stepping into the<br />

Supernatural<br />

LEADERSHIP<br />

32 LEADERSHIP NOTE Promotion<br />

36 POSSIBILITIES IN AFRICA Top 10 Businesses<br />

38 BUSINESS Mind the system<br />

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LIFESTYLE<br />

42 HAIR & FACE Your foundation shade<br />

43 HEALTH Migraine<br />

44 FASHION African fashion<br />

PROMOTION<br />

46 PRAYING WOMEN & SWAT<br />

50 FINALE Talking and Listening


E D I T O R S<br />

N O T E<br />

The Gospel<br />

Easter! One of the most popular ‘holidays’ in religion.<br />

A time for lent for the Catholics, and celebration of<br />

Good Friday for many. A time where those that fellowship<br />

as Anglicans, Catholics or Methodists take to reflect<br />

on their relationship with the Lord by sacrificing<br />

certain things they love for 40 days, in honour of the<br />

Lord. For some it is food, some technology and some<br />

even smoking. This period of sacrifice or fasting, is<br />

broken on Good Friday; a day when the death of<br />

Christ on the cross is celebrated by preaching or reflecting<br />

on the last words he spoke while on the cross.<br />

The words are called in the Catholic religion ‘the seven<br />

last words’.<br />

I asked a friend of mine the other time if he knew<br />

about these words and his answer was that, ‘the only<br />

thing I know about Good Friday is that it is a commemoration<br />

of Christ’s crucifixion’. I was amazed at<br />

how he didn’t know about how the Catholic religion<br />

celebrates this day; a religion so popular and significant<br />

where I come from; a day which even the heathens<br />

know about and find the doors of the church. It<br />

then dawned on me that he obviously is not the only<br />

one.<br />

This day used to be a very significant day for me too.<br />

As I grew up in the Anglican church, I understood the<br />

religion of Easter and Good Friday’s ‘seven words’ and<br />

respected it, until one day, now with a much better understanding<br />

of the bible, I decided to go through these<br />

seven last words everyone was so hyped up about on<br />

my own and for my own understanding.<br />

Two of these words seem to mean the same thing from<br />

my level of understanding, although differently interpreted.<br />

However, I stand to be corrected.<br />

6 th word: John 19:30 When Jesus had received the<br />

sour wine, he said, ‘it is finished,’<br />

and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.<br />

7 th word: Luke 23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a<br />

loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my<br />

spirit!’ And having said this he breathed his last.<br />

Matthew; Mark; Luke and John all talk about Jesus’ last<br />

days leading to his death but in different interpretations.<br />

Is it then safe to say that this religious commemoration<br />

on Good Friday should be called the ‘6 last<br />

words’ rather than ‘7 last words’? Is it possible that Jesus<br />

said something and gave up his spirit, only to come<br />

back, say something and give up his spirit again?<br />

In these last days, it is no longer enough to have someone<br />

else teach you the gospel. You need to read and<br />

understand the word of God yourself and allow the<br />

Holy Spirit to interpret it for you. You need to equip<br />

yourself with the truth so that you are not easily fooled<br />

by all sorts of teachings and religious practises that<br />

come your way.<br />

It is time to wise up regarding the gospel, time to know<br />

the truth!<br />

Mfesim<br />

Mfesi Mayekiso<br />

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P O W E R E D B Y


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INSPIRATION<br />

What is your stand?<br />

Envy is for the ignorant; fighting for the misinformed; jealousy for the fooled and arrogance for the afraid.<br />

You have been given a spirit of love, power and sound mind!<br />

You cannot envy another's position without envying their problems. One envies because they do not know<br />

who they are – their identity. They do not know that they are God's unique creation created for a special<br />

purpose. Therefore, God will assign to them a journey aligned with the fulfilment of that purpose. He will also<br />

bless them according to that purpose. Stay in your lane, envy is not your portion.<br />

You have been given a spirit of sound mind, self control. Fighting is not your portion. If you have to fight to<br />

be heard, God is not in control there but the spirit of the enemy. Whoever comes to you with sleeves up<br />

geared to fight, look past them to see the force behind their actions. Where there is God there is peace. You<br />

cannot fight or argue with spirits. Rather say a little prayer and hold your tongue. You will see how powerful<br />

that is, and the devil will be shamed! It takes good practice but it works.<br />

Why should you be jealous of another's success or achievement? Do you know the walk they had to walk to<br />

get there? Everyone will be answerable to Christ on the last day. Jealousy is like saying that the other is not<br />

worthy to have, but you are. The word says 'the unconverted pursue these things but our Father in heaven<br />

knows that we need them'. If the Father has not yet given you what you believe you should have and you<br />

need, it means that it is not yet time for you to have it. You are not yet ready to receive what He has<br />

apportioned for you. Check yourself. All things work together for the good of those who love the Lord…<br />

Fear is a disease that penetrates your spirit like a virus. It starts with insecurity/self judgement followed by self<br />

doubt, then ignorance which leads to arrogance. You cannot make your presence felt by instilling fear unto<br />

others or controlling them. You also cannot do it by conforming to other's lifestyle and classification. You<br />

have to know who you are and what you stand for in order to have a positive influence. Arrogance is equal to<br />

stupidity. You become arrogant because you are unaware that you have become insecure and ignorant. A<br />

misinformed action is a stupid action. Know yourself, know your fears and find a better way to address them.<br />

God gave to every woman, inner strength and to every man, physical strength. Through that strength she is<br />

able to stand even when she has been tossed around, belittled, taken for granted, rejected, physically abused<br />

or even raped. Through his, he is able to work hard for his family no matter what life throws at him. There is<br />

no situation that is special. Whatever you are going through, someone else also did and through their God<br />

given strength, they thrived instead of falling. The enemy cannot take away that strength except through fear;<br />

ignorance; self doubt; envy; jealousy and arrogance.<br />

Stand tall child of God no matter the situation, knowing that your father in heaven will lift you out in a<br />

manner that glorifies His name, in the most perfect time. You may believe that you need it now, but God says<br />

you need me more so seek me. Then in perfect time you shall have it. In perfect time you will get what our<br />

father apportions, abundance perfect for you!<br />

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INSIDE Word<br />

By<br />

PASTOR GIBSON NGULUBE<br />

(Bachelor of Theology; Dip<br />

Teaching)<br />

Lead Pastor at AFM Midrand<br />

Restoration centre; High<br />

School teacher; Investor &<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

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Colossians 3:1-3<br />

If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things<br />

which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand<br />

of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on<br />

things on the earth. 3 For you are dead, and your life<br />

is hid with Christ in God.<br />

The Kainos man seeks those things which are above and<br />

not the things on the earth because he was created<br />

according to God in righteousness and true holiness.<br />

God speaks by His Spirit to the Kainos man, that is, your<br />

regenerated spirit man. Your spirit man communicates<br />

with your mind to relay what the Holy Spirit is saying so<br />

you can apply it to your practical life. Many people do<br />

not know when their spirit man is trying to contact them<br />

with a message from God and thereby fall short of<br />

kingdom experiences. Stepping into the supernatural<br />

entails tuning into the spirit man and doing what he<br />

leads us to do.<br />

Accidents, losses, and failures will cease if you would<br />

master how your spirit man contacts you. Your spirit man<br />

can be years ahead of your mind in information gathering<br />

because the Bible says the Holy Spirit will show you<br />

things to come. You can live in such a way that you are<br />

not in the dark about what is happening in your life or<br />

around you. You can know things two years before they<br />

happen, by walking in the spirit.<br />

The spirit man, though born again, may remain a captive.<br />

Not a captive of the devil this time, but a captive of<br />

strange thought patterns, a captive of an un-renewed<br />

mind, a captive of the undisciplined body. That is why<br />

the Bible says we should put our body under the spirit.<br />

God will not do that for you. The Holy Spirit may be living<br />

inside somebody in His majesty and the greatness of<br />

God and the person may still be committing fornication.<br />

It is very possible simply because the person has not<br />

learnt how to bring his body under subjection.<br />

Romans 8:13<br />

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die:<br />

but if you through the Spirit put to death the deeds<br />

of the body, you shall live.<br />

Regular fasting and serious meditation on the Word of<br />

God will help keep the body under every day. Left to<br />

itself, the body prefers to watch TV every day. You won’t<br />

see the body ever wake up and feel like praying or<br />

reading the Bible. It does not like spiritual things, and it<br />

was not that God created the body to hate spiritual<br />

things. Originally, the body of man was made to walk<br />

and cooperate with the spirit in exercising might and<br />

authority. But immediately man sinned, the soul began<br />

to operate, and the soul is not spiritual. The soul is still<br />

a part of the world, so it trained the body to function<br />

and respond to worldly stimuli.<br />

Hebrews 5: 14<br />

But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age,<br />

even those who by reason of use have their senses<br />

exercised to discern both good and evil.<br />

You can have this body trained to respond to the spirit.<br />

A lot of us have trained our bodies to respond to<br />

sickness and fear. A lot of sickness that people have is<br />

not as a result of the sickness gaining control, but the<br />

body just responding to what you have trained it to do.<br />

This body needs a master to train it. If you do not train<br />

it in the way of righteousness, it will not behave<br />

righteously.<br />

It is your own responsibility and it is what you train the<br />

body to do that will affect your spiritual life. We can, by<br />

the help of the Holy Spirit, find out ways by which our<br />

spirit man gets across to us. Your spirit man is on the<br />

inside of you. Sometimes we refer to your spirit man as<br />

the inward man.<br />

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If you can understand him, he will help you and bail you out of troubles because he is the one that the<br />

Holy Spirit indwells and relates with. This knowledge of how your spirit contacts you is critical to the success<br />

of every Christian on the earth and for stepping into the supernatural.<br />

Let us look at some ways by which your spirit contacts you.<br />

Compulsion and Restraint.<br />

How do you know that you should or should not do something?<br />

There is either a compelling or restraining on the inside of you. It could be the spirit compelling you to do<br />

or the spirit restraining you from doing.<br />

Acts 16:7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them<br />

not.<br />

Compulsion means to make somebody do something by force or by strong persuasion—something that<br />

limits one’s freedom of action. Compulsion is a strong inner pressure to go ahead. Therefore, it is possible<br />

for your spirit man to compel you to do something.<br />

Restraint is an equally strong inner pressure not to go ahead.<br />

To compel is likened to a man under pressure to go to the bathroom; he is only relieved after answering<br />

the call of nature. In the same way the spirit compels you. You are refreshed /feel free only when you do<br />

what the spirit compels you to do.<br />

Job 32:18-20<br />

For I am full of words, the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine<br />

which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new wine skins. 20 I will speak, that I may be<br />

refreshed: I must open my lips and answer.<br />

You are only refreshed if you do what the spirit compels you to do.<br />

You are preserved when you refuse to do what He restrains you from doing.<br />

Perception<br />

The word ‘perceive’ physically speaking can apply to your sight. But we are not dealing with<br />

physical perception. To perceive something is to notice or be conscious of something, to be<br />

conscious of somebody in the shadows or of something hidden.<br />

Acts 14: 8-10<br />

8. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his<br />

mother’s womb, who never had walked: 9. The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly<br />

beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10. Said with a loud<br />

voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.<br />

That man’s faith would have gone unnoticed if Paul had not perceived in his spirit that he<br />

had faith to be healed. He would have left that meeting still crippled, but Paul perceived and<br />

spoke the word that launched him to his feet.<br />

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Mark 2: 8<br />

8. And immediately when Jesus perceived in<br />

his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves,<br />

he said unto them, why reason ye these<br />

things in your hearts?<br />

The best way to deal with the spirit of lies is<br />

through perception. In Acts chapter 5, Ananias<br />

sold a piece of land and kept part of the money.<br />

Peter became aware of it by perception and challenged<br />

him. Peter did not know of it before, but he<br />

just perceived it and spoke the word.<br />

Sometimes when you perceive some things in the<br />

spirit, you will need to stir it up until you hit a gift of<br />

the world of knowledge to give full details. Perception<br />

is not as detailed as word of knowledge. Perception<br />

is just your spirit giving you warning signals<br />

so you can prepare for things ahead. You<br />

don’t have to suffer accidents if you will just follow<br />

up on your perception and pray through on it. People<br />

suffer loss when they ignore divine signals.<br />

Some people say ‘we are wiser after the event’, but<br />

that is not God’s intention for a child of God. The<br />

spirit inside you is to make you wiser before the<br />

event so you can handle it to the glory of God and<br />

for your good. If you pick up a perception, follow it<br />

up and do something about it. It is not a matter of<br />

being suspicious, but rather having a holy perception<br />

about things.<br />

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YOUTH CORNER<br />

P o w e r e d B Y


Y O U T H C O R N E R<br />

PROFESSION OR ENTREPRENEURSHIP?<br />

You have now finished High School and your marks<br />

look good, perhaps even better than you anticipated.<br />

What is the next step?<br />

For most matriculants, this is not even a question.<br />

Everyone’s dream when they start their year in matric<br />

is to be accepted at that university or college so that<br />

they can go and further their studies. They see themselves<br />

in tertiary with all other students, and it is a<br />

mark of achievement. Those that are unable to pursue<br />

their studies because of financial limitations are discouraged<br />

or miserable because they have or are<br />

missing the success train. They find work either to sustain<br />

themselves and their families and for some, to<br />

pay for their tuition.<br />

Do not let society define or classify you!<br />

Most of the decisions made by humanity are decisions<br />

made for them by society. In everything in life, it is<br />

important to know your identity and therefore your<br />

purpose. You cannot get through life without knowledge<br />

of these two important factors of your existence.<br />

It is the lack of knowledge thereof that leads us to following<br />

paths that are not designed for us. Your purpose<br />

basically gives you a road map of your targeted<br />

success in life, and your identity helps you achieve this<br />

success.<br />

In South Africa, the unemployment rate is a major<br />

problem for qualified graduates and it can be very<br />

frustrating. We have already established that the major<br />

contributor to this rate of unemployment is the<br />

quality of education offered by the tertiary institutions;<br />

education that does not encourage creative thinking.<br />

So what then becomes the point for the qualification if<br />

you cannot use it to initiate progress in your life? We<br />

could say knowledge, but if the education itself does<br />

not promote self sustenance and creativity, what<br />

knowledge are you gaining and what is its benefit for<br />

your life?<br />

The education gained in the years of your study<br />

should be able to uplift you to the next level of your<br />

life. If it doesn’t, like the South African one, be ready<br />

and willing to study up to the level of at least a<br />

Masters degree or a certain level of professional<br />

qualification for you to have significance in the job<br />

market. An undergraduate qualification is as good as<br />

nothing, unless you are fine with extended administrative<br />

assignments.<br />

Entrepreneurship on the other hand is a God given<br />

ability. It comes or can be realised in different forms.<br />

One can be an entrepreneur in entertainment or<br />

sports, using their God given talents. One can be an<br />

entrepreneur amongst many in fashion; cooking;<br />

events management; hair; agriculture or even vending,<br />

which are also a God given talent. The list is endless.<br />

Entrepreneurship gives you access to a creative<br />

and self sustaining mindset. You are able to identify<br />

opportunities and convert them into a profitable business.<br />

This is the mindset that is needed for every<br />

country’s economy. Hence many countries provide<br />

support to entrepreneurship.<br />

The idea is not to give up on further studies, but to<br />

engage your mind in a productive and creative manner.<br />

When you study while working, you become<br />

more engaged and subsequently more creative than a<br />

person that just acquires information and not immediately<br />

put it into practise. There are high chances of<br />

that person forgetting the information or lacking<br />

knowledge of how to incorporate it with reality. Meaning<br />

that you will have basic understanding of your<br />

field and will require further training; something companies<br />

have no time or interest in doing. In business,<br />

time is money and any time spent on training someone<br />

is money lost.<br />

Be broadminded! Do not limit yourself by conforming<br />

to classifications of society or the world. Empower<br />

yourself with knowledge necessary for your field of<br />

interest in every way possible that is available to you.<br />

Those that take a gap year, stand a better chance of<br />

finishing their exact desired qualifications than those<br />

that rush to tertiary without properly identifying their<br />

appropriate needs and necessary education required<br />

thereof. College drop-outs are a reality and a total<br />

waste of time and money.<br />

Make an effort to know and satisfy yourself!<br />

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MAKINGWaves<br />

A story about a troubled mail man that befriends a family of<br />

a young boy coping with cancer by writing daily letters<br />

to God<br />

Initial release: 9 April 2010 (USA)<br />

Acts: Jeffrey SS Johnson & Tanner Maguire<br />

Written by: Patrick Doughtie<br />

Director: David Nixon<br />

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‘From Babylon to America’ is a film written and produced by the School for Prophets. The<br />

film’s narration is done by Jan Capa, also known on social media by his nickname Attila<br />

Kakarott. The school is a film production with its main focus on interpreting the bible, word<br />

and prophecy and broadcast the teachings through their YouTube channel.<br />

The film focuses on the prophecy told by Daniel in Daniel 2, regarding a dream King<br />

Nebuchadnezzar had about a statue. It continues to narrate further through the vision<br />

Daniel had about the beasts in Daniel 7, in conjunction with John the Baptist’s vision in the<br />

book of Revelation 13.<br />

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On the cover …<br />

It is important to note the following prophetic representation of the symbolic elements in<br />

these visions to have a better understanding. Attila interprets them as follows:<br />

Dragon: Satan<br />

Beast: Political or Super Power; Kingdom; Nation<br />

Sea/Water: People; Densely populated area<br />

Earth: Sparsely populated area<br />

Horn: King; Power or Principle<br />

Blasphemy: Claiming to be God on earth or having power to forgive sin<br />

Time/Day: Year<br />

42 Months : 3.5 years; 1260 days (30 days p/m as per Hebrew calendar)<br />

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On the cover …<br />

Daniel 2 NLT (The Statue)<br />

32 The head of the statue was made of fine<br />

gold. Its chest and arms were silver, its belly and<br />

thighs were bronze, 33 its legs were iron, and<br />

its feet were a combination of iron and baked<br />

clay.<br />

Daniel's interpretation in the bible indicates that<br />

the statue represented four different kingdoms<br />

that were to follow after king Nebuchadnezzar's<br />

kingdom, Babylon. These are the kingdoms that<br />

ruled with pagan principles. The film details these<br />

kingdoms as follows:<br />

- Head of gold: Kingdom of Babylon<br />

- Silver chest & arms: Kingdom of Medo-Persia<br />

- Belly & thighs of bronze : Kingdom of Greece<br />

- Legs of Iron : Kingdom of Rome/Roman Empire<br />

- Feet mixed with iron & clay : Roman Empire<br />

divided into two areas of ruling (East & West),<br />

now called Europe.<br />

The Empire was further divided into ten tribes<br />

represented by ten countries in Europe. (Note:<br />

Two feet with ten toes). The ten countries/Tribes<br />

are German; Swiss; French; Italians; English;<br />

Portuguese; Spanish; and three others that<br />

became extinct (Heruli; Ostrogoths & Vandals)<br />

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Daniel 2:43<br />

As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so<br />

they will mix with one another in marriage, but<br />

they will not hold together, just as iron does not<br />

mix with clay.<br />

The Roman Empire tried to fix the division,<br />

however, did not succeed. Then, the alliance,<br />

government (iron) and church (clay) was formed<br />

as prophesied and became the ruling power at<br />

the feet of the pagan ruling power (the statue).<br />

These feet represented the Roman church, a<br />

mixture of paganism and Christianity. This<br />

authority was now led by Constantine, who was<br />

also the 1 st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.<br />

The iron in the feet represents Rome (political<br />

power with pagan principles). The clay represents<br />

the church. This resulting in The Papacy<br />

kingdom, the Roman church with a political, civil<br />

and ecclesiastic power, with the Bishop of<br />

Rome (the Pope) as the head of all churches.<br />

- The rock (which destroyed the statue):<br />

The Kingdom of God<br />

And in the days of those kings the God of<br />

heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never<br />

be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to<br />

another people. It shall break in pieces all these<br />

kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it<br />

shall stand forever … Daniel 2:44<br />

You will notice that the bible talks about these<br />

kingdoms coming into power all the way from<br />

the ruling of king Nebuchadnezzar to the crucifixion<br />

of Christ by the divided Roman Empire.<br />

From the time of the Apostles of Christ being<br />

baptised in the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God<br />

started to grow enormously till today. It is also<br />

important to note that the book of Daniel was<br />

written by Daniel (except Daniel 4 by king Nebuchadnezzar),<br />

600 years before the time of Christ.<br />

Therefore, these kingdoms continued in power<br />

for 600 years before Christ.<br />

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Where did Paganism come from?<br />

After the floods that wiped out all humans except<br />

for Noah and his select, from his sons<br />

came a son to Cush named Nimrod (Gen 10:8).<br />

Genesis 10:9-10 He was a mighty hunter before<br />

the LORD. Wherefore it is said: Even as Nimrod<br />

the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning<br />

of his kingdom was Babel (meaning<br />

confusion). The name Nimrod means rebellion.<br />

Nimrod was the rebel against God, and as the<br />

leader of Babel he was also connected with the<br />

building of the tower of Babel. Genesis 11:4<br />

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a<br />

tower, whose top may reach unto heaven … According<br />

to Josephus, a Jewish historian, Nimrod<br />

said he would be revenged on God should He<br />

decide to drown people with floods again. For<br />

that he would build a tower so high that even<br />

the waters cannot reach. That way, he would<br />

avenge on God for destroying their forefathers.<br />

However, God upon seeing what the people<br />

were doing said in Genesis 11:7-8 Go to, let us<br />

go down and there confound their language,<br />

that they may not understand one another’s<br />

speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad<br />

from thence upon the face of all the earth …<br />

Tradition says that Semiramis, Nimrod’s wife<br />

was also his mother. According to legends, she<br />

became pregnant after engaging in an adulterous<br />

affair while married to Nimrod. Around this<br />

time, Nimrod dies an untimely and violent<br />

death. In an effort to remain in power and hide<br />

her misdeed, she made the most audacious<br />

claim. She claimed that upon Nimrod’s death,<br />

he had been resurrected as the god of the sun.<br />

As the sun god, Nimrod used his sunrays to miraculously<br />

inseminate her with a son. This son<br />

was then considered to be divinely conceived.<br />

The child was named Tammuz, which she<br />

claimed was the re-incarnation of Nimrod. Thus<br />

Semiramis was both Nimrod’s wife and mother.<br />

After all this, the story of this child spread all<br />

over the world and resulted to the birth of sun<br />

worship along with the birth; death and rebirths<br />

of cults that have lived on through history. These<br />

mysterious religions adopted different names for<br />

Nimrod, Semiramis and their child Tammuz.<br />

This was the birth of paganism.<br />

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Daniel 7 (the beasts)<br />

3 Then four huge beasts came up out of the<br />

water, each different from the others.<br />

4 The first beast was like a lion with eagles’<br />

wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off,<br />

and it was left standing with its two hind feet<br />

on the ground, like a human being. And it was<br />

given a human mind. 5 Then I saw a second<br />

beast, and it looked like a bear. It was rearing<br />

up on one side, and it had three ribs in its<br />

mouth between its teeth. And I heard a voice<br />

saying to it, “Get up! Devour the flesh of many<br />

people!” 6 Then the third of these strange<br />

beasts appeared, and it looked like a leopard.<br />

It had four bird’s wings on its back, and it had<br />

four heads. Great authority was given to this<br />

beast. 7 Then in my vision that night, I saw a<br />

fourth beast—terrifying, dreadful, and very<br />

strong. It devoured and crushed its victims with<br />

huge iron teeth and trampled their remains beneath<br />

its feet. It was different from any of the<br />

other beasts, and it had ten horns. 8 As I was<br />

looking at the horns, suddenly another small<br />

horn appeared among them. Three of the first<br />

horns were torn out by the roots to make room<br />

for it. This little horn had eyes like human eyes<br />

and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly.<br />

1ST BEAST (BABYLON)<br />

Jeremiah 4:6-7 and Nabakkuk 1:6 & 8. In these<br />

prophecies God was talking about Babylon that<br />

was to come and conquer Israel, taking the people<br />

out of Israel into Babylon. He describes the<br />

Babylon king Nebuchadnezzar as the lion in<br />

Jeremiah, and the Chaldeans (Babylonians) as<br />

the eagle in Nabakkuk. Daniel 7:4 describes the<br />

1 st beast as a lion with eagle’s wings. That as he<br />

was watching he saw the wings being pulled out<br />

and the beast left to stand with two feet, and<br />

given a man’s heart. Something that also comes<br />

up in Daniel 4:14-16 as the dream king Nebuchadnezzar<br />

had, with the instruction that he be<br />

given a heart of a beast instead of that of a<br />

man, and made to live with the beasts.<br />

The prophecy through king Nebuchadnezzar’s<br />

statue dream and Daniel’s vision of the beasts is<br />

the same prophecy about the kingdoms that<br />

were to come after king Nebuchadnezzar.<br />

Therefore:<br />

2ND BEAST in Daniel 7:5, a bear with three ribs<br />

in his mouth refers to Medo-Persia<br />

3rd BEAST in Daniel 7:6, a beast looking like a<br />

leopard with four bird wings and four heads<br />

refers to Greece.<br />

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4TH BEAST (ROMAN EMPIRE)<br />

The 4th Beast in Daniel 7:7 with iron teeth and<br />

ten horns refers to the Roman Empire. Daniel<br />

continues to say that three of the ten horns were<br />

uprooted and in their place a little horn rose.<br />

We have already noted in the interpretation of<br />

the statue that the Roman Empire was divided<br />

into ten tribes, of which three became extinct.<br />

What is then represented by the little horn with<br />

human eyes and mouth, and spoke arrogantly<br />

or blaspheming God?<br />

THE LITTLE HORN<br />

Interpretation as per Daniel 7:24-25. The horn<br />

was said that it would reign for time, times and<br />

half a time (42 months equalling to 1260 days<br />

equivalent to 1260 years). That it would come<br />

amongst the ten horns, meaning it would be a<br />

king or kingdom coming from the Roman Empire<br />

or Europe after its division (AD476), but it<br />

would be different from the other kingdoms. The<br />

human eyes and mouth mean that it would have<br />

a man as its figure head. This head would blaspheme<br />

God (claim to be God on earth or claim<br />

to forgive sin), wage war against His people and<br />

will try to change the times and the laws of the<br />

kingdom of God.<br />

The Papacy, the government of the Roman<br />

Catholic Church and the period its Pope shall<br />

reign.<br />

You will remember that in the previous interpretation<br />

of the feet with clay and iron, it was noted<br />

that the Roman Catholic Church was given<br />

political, civil and religious power after the Roman<br />

Empire’s division, and its Roman Bishop<br />

(the Pope) was made the head of the church.<br />

The Vatican ascended to power and authority in<br />

538AD, with Pope Vigilius as its 1 st official Pope.<br />

The Papacy blocked up three of the ten tribes<br />

that divided Rome, the tribes that went extinct.<br />

The tribes denied the teachings of the Church of<br />

Rome. The Bishop then called for the three tribes<br />

to be gotten rid of. It is a diverse kingdom as it<br />

is a union of Church and State.<br />

The head of this entity (the Pope) claims to be<br />

Jesus Christ, and the Papacy claims to have the<br />

authority of God<br />

“The Bishop of Rome is not only the representative<br />

of Christ, but Jesus Christ himself hidden under a<br />

veil of flesh” – Archbishop of Venice (Pope Pius X)<br />

“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”<br />

- Letters to Leo XIII Page 304<br />

The duty of the Priest is also that of forgiving sin<br />

“We’re the redeemer to descend into a church,<br />

and sit in a confessional to administer the<br />

sacrament of penance, and a Priest to sit in a<br />

confessional. Jesus would say over each<br />

Penitent: ‘Ego Te Absolvo’ (Latin for I forgive<br />

you). The Priest would likewise say over each<br />

of his Penitents . ‘Ego Te Absolvo’ and the<br />

penitents of each would be equally absolved. -<br />

Dignity and duties of the Priest, Pg 34 Ligonier).<br />

These two are equivalent to blaspheming God.<br />

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Over 100 million Christians were killed by the<br />

Papacy during the ‘dark ages’. A period when<br />

the bible was illegal, and being caught with one<br />

resulted in you being tortured and killed. Unfortunately,<br />

no one can change the law and prophecy<br />

of God. However, around 1500-1600, the<br />

papacy hired two priests (Francisco Ribera &<br />

Luis de Alcaza) to counter the historicist view of<br />

bible prophecy. The aim was to point people<br />

away from identifying the Papacy as an Antichrist<br />

power of scripture.<br />

“The Bishop of Rome is of so great authority<br />

and power that it can modify, explain, or interpret<br />

even divine laws … The Bishop of Rome<br />

can modify divine laws, since his power is not<br />

of a man, but of God, and he acts as Vicegerent<br />

(representative) of God upon earth.” –<br />

Lucius Ferraris Prompta Bibliotheca Article:<br />

‘Papa’ II, Vol VI, Pg 29.<br />

The Roman Catholic did however manage to<br />

change God’s Holy Sabbath from Saturday to<br />

Sunday (Catholic record of London, Ontario –<br />

Sept 1, 1923). This as their act of authority.<br />

“Sunday is our mark of authority … the church<br />

is above the bible, and this transference of<br />

SABBATH observance is proof of that authority”<br />

- Catholic record of London, Ontario<br />

– Sept 1, 1923<br />

FROM OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD<br />

In 1798AD, Napoleon Bonaparte rebelled<br />

against the Papacy and sent his general to arrest<br />

the Pope and subsequently claimed Rome, taking<br />

the power away from the Papacy. 1798AD –<br />

538AD = 1260 years. This was the birth of Protestantism.<br />

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John's vision of the 4th and the last beast -<br />

Revelation 13 NLT<br />

DESCRIPTION of the Beast from the Sea<br />

1 Then I saw a beast (Political/Super power;<br />

Kingdom or Nation) rising up out of the sea<br />

(People or Densely populated area). It had<br />

seven heads and ten horns (King/Kingdoms;<br />

Power), with ten crowns on its horns. And written<br />

on each head were names that blasphemed<br />

God. (Blasphemy: Claiming to be God on<br />

earth or to forgive sin)<br />

2 This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the<br />

feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the<br />

dragon (Satan) gave the beast his own power<br />

and throne and great authority.<br />

3 I saw that one of the heads of the beast<br />

seemed wounded beyond recovery—but the fatal<br />

wound was healed! The whole world marvelled<br />

at this miracle and gave allegiance to the<br />

beast. 4 They worshiped (bow down) the<br />

dragon (Satan) for giving the beast such power,<br />

and they also worshiped the beast (Political/<br />

super power; Kingdom or Nation). “Who is as<br />

great as the beast?” they exclaimed. “Who is<br />

able to fight against him?”<br />

5 Then the beast was allowed to speak great<br />

blasphemies against God. And He was given<br />

authority to do whatever He wanted for forty-two<br />

months (time, times, half a time equalling to<br />

1260 years). 6 And He spoke terrible words of<br />

blasphemy against God, slandering his name<br />

and his dwelling—that is, those who dwell in<br />

heaven. 7 And the beast was allowed to wage<br />

war against God’s holy people and to conquer<br />

them. And He was given authority to rule over<br />

every tribe and people and language and nation.<br />

8 And all the people who belong to this<br />

world worshiped the beast. They are the ones<br />

whose names were not written in the Book of<br />

Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered<br />

before the world was made.<br />

- The Papacy, this beast carries the same detail<br />

as the 4 th beast in Daniel’s vision<br />

9 Anyone with ears to hear should listen and<br />

understand. 10 Anyone who is destined for<br />

prison will be taken to prison. Anyone destined<br />

to die by the sword will die by the sword (Bible<br />

or Civil Power). This means that God’s holy<br />

people must endure persecution patiently and<br />

remain faithful.<br />

Note: During Napoleon’s Protestantism, the<br />

Pope was held imprisoned and later died in exile.<br />

The power was then taken away from the<br />

Papacy. It was wounded but not killed. While the<br />

Papacy (beast) was on its way down, John talks<br />

of another beast that comes out of the earth.<br />

Therefore, this new beast rises up in the late<br />

1700 as the Papacy lost its power in 1798AD.<br />

The Prophecy of the rising of all the other kingdoms<br />

showed that all the other kingdoms taking<br />

over rose from the west. Therefore, this beast<br />

will also rise up from the western hemisphere of<br />

the New World<br />

DESCRIPTION of the Beast from the Land<br />

11 Then I saw another beast (Political/Super<br />

Power; kingdom or nation) come up out of the<br />

earth (Sparsely populated Area). He had two<br />

horns (King/Kingdoms; power or principle) like<br />

those of a lamb (Christ), but He spoke with the<br />

voice of a dragon (Satan).<br />

Note: Two principles of Christ are summarised<br />

by the two first and most important commandments<br />

– Matthew 22:37-40. Love the Lord your<br />

God … & Love thy neighbour ...<br />

They are a duty of man to God (Church) and a<br />

duty of man to man (State/Civil duty). This new<br />

beast (Power) understands these two and the<br />

separation thereof.<br />

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The United States of America. A Christian<br />

based Superpower that rises up in the late<br />

1700, from the sparsely populated area (earth)<br />

of the western hemisphere in the new world, acknowledges<br />

Church and state and the separation<br />

thereof.<br />

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1776 – Declaration of its independence<br />

1783 – End of the revolutionary war<br />

against Great Britain<br />

1787 – US constitution was framed<br />

1789 – US constitution was ratified<br />

1789 – George Washington served as<br />

the 1 st president of America<br />

The New World order of America states<br />

that America is established from the<br />

New World<br />

When America was discovered, the<br />

continent was barely (sparsely) populated<br />

America’s constitution protects the<br />

separation of Church and State<br />

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America was established as a protest<br />

against Britain, detaching itself from a<br />

king that ran church and state, the<br />

Pope. Hence it became a republic<br />

(kingdom without a king) and protestant<br />

(church without a Pope) nation.<br />

We are now at the era of the 2 nd beast of Revelation<br />

13, which we have identified as the<br />

United States of America.<br />

Revelation 13:11, but He spoke with the voice<br />

of a dragon (Satan). 12 He exercised all the<br />

authority of the first beast (the Papacy). And he<br />

required all the earth and its people to worship<br />

the first beast (the Papacy), whose fatal wound<br />

had been healed. 13 He did astounding miracles,<br />

even making the fire flash down to earth<br />

from the sky while everyone was watching. 14<br />

And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform<br />

on behalf of the first beast (the Papacy), he<br />

deceived all the people who belong to this<br />

world. He ordered the people to make a great<br />

statue of the first beast (the Papacy), who was<br />

fatally wounded and then came back to life.<br />

The Papacy (1 st beast) was a persecuting<br />

superpower that united church and state, and<br />

persecuted Christians who did not obey their<br />

commands. This then means that America will<br />

also unite church and state, and will persecute<br />

those who do not obey the commands of this<br />

soon to be mirror image of the Papacy. This is<br />

something that has been slowly happening in<br />

recent times.<br />

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15 He (America) was then permitted to give life<br />

to this statue (Papacy – union of church and<br />

state) so that it could speak (laws and legislation).<br />

Then the statue (Papacy) of the beast commanded<br />

that anyone refusing to worship it must<br />

die. 16 He required everyone—small and great,<br />

rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a<br />

mark (imprint/stamp that represent ownership)<br />

on the right hand or on the forehead. 17<br />

And no one could buy or sell anything without<br />

that mark, which was either the name of the<br />

beast or the number representing his name.<br />

This means that the first beast (the Papacy),<br />

through the beast from the earth (America) will<br />

force people to obey its commands e.g., in almost<br />

50 states of America, there is a legislation<br />

Check out the movie on YouTube channel<br />

- School for Prophets<br />

Follow Attila Kakarott on<br />

called ‘the blue laws’ also known as Sunday<br />

laws. The legislation is set although not yet<br />

enforced. We have already established that<br />

Sunday is the Papacy’s Sabbath. The Papacy,<br />

through America will eventually force people to<br />

have its mark of ownership, the mark of the<br />

beast. This mark will identify as belonging to the<br />

beast those that accept it as well as obey the<br />

rules of the Pope, which is equivalent to worshipping<br />

the Pope, and therefore shall bear the<br />

same price when it comes to the wrath of God.<br />

Revelation 14:10-11 Then a third angel<br />

followed shouting, ‘Anyone who worships the<br />

beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on<br />

the forehead or on the hand must drink the wine<br />

of God’s anger …<br />

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P o w e r e d B Y<br />

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Promotion<br />

Then the king gave Daniel high<br />

honors and many great gifts, and<br />

made him ruler over the whole<br />

province of Babylon and chief prefect<br />

over all the wise men of Babylon.<br />

Daniel 2:48<br />

King Nebuchadnezzar made an<br />

impossible request in order to test<br />

the skills and accuracy of the well<br />

known wise men of Babylon. He<br />

asked them to tell him as well as<br />

interpret the dream he had the<br />

night before, failing which, they’d<br />

all be killed. Normally one would<br />

tell you the dream they had, and<br />

then expect you to interpret it for<br />

them. However, with the king it<br />

was a different case. He wanted to<br />

know what the dream was and its<br />

interpretation. Something that was<br />

impossible for any person to do,<br />

no matter their powers. So Daniel<br />

consulted the Most High God, his<br />

God and asked Him to help with<br />

the king’s request in order to save<br />

himself and others. The Lord revealed<br />

everything to Daniel, both<br />

the dream and its interpretation.<br />

That way he was able to save himself<br />

and the wise men of Babylon.<br />

There is a God in heaven who reveals<br />

secrets – Daniel 2:28<br />

With God what is impossible with<br />

man is possible with Him. Daniel<br />

could not have known the dream<br />

and its interpretation without the<br />

assistance of the Most High. His<br />

reliance on Him granted him not<br />

only relief from being killed, but<br />

also promotion, an act of raising<br />

one in rank or position. Someone<br />

who was captured under the<br />

norms of a slave was now made to<br />

rule over a province of Babylon,<br />

was made to be a leader of those<br />

belonging to the same province he<br />

was meant to be enslaved in.<br />

What does this then mean about<br />

God and promotion?<br />

You need to be<br />

in a good standing<br />

with Him as well<br />

as seek the<br />

promotion from<br />

Him in order to<br />

get the right<br />

one.<br />

All authority is instituted by God<br />

and He gives it to whomever He<br />

likes, whether that of a business or<br />

of a person. The promotion<br />

thereof is also dependent on God.<br />

When your business grows in turnover,<br />

at that point in time it has<br />

been given promotion. When your<br />

boss assigns you new responsibilities<br />

that are more senior than what<br />

you originally assumed, that is<br />

promotion. A businesses’ growth<br />

in revenue also means growth in<br />

responsibility. An individual’s<br />

growth in responsibilities means<br />

growth in salary. That is why you<br />

find that people in certain industries<br />

work hard for a long time,<br />

remaining loyal and diligent to<br />

their superior, all so that they can<br />

be regarded for a promotion when<br />

an opportunity comes. In the corporate<br />

sector, most people attain<br />

promotion by switching companies<br />

in an attempt to move to a better<br />

position, while others in bigger<br />

corporations make their move internally<br />

by changing departments.<br />

The desire to grow in an employment<br />

sector or in business is something<br />

that comes naturally. Everyone<br />

wants to see their efforts being<br />

recognised and appreciated<br />

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L E A D E R S H I P N O T E - P r o m o t i o n<br />

God gave Solomon<br />

very great wisdom and<br />

understanding, and<br />

knowledge as vast as the<br />

sands of the seashore.<br />

In fact, his wisdom<br />

exceeded that of all<br />

wise men of the East<br />

and the wise of Egypt.<br />

He was wiser than<br />

anyone else ...<br />

1 Kings 4:29-31<br />

and promotion is usually the best way to do that.<br />

However, what we do not recognise is the giver of<br />

promotion. Who initiates promotion? It is the lack<br />

of understanding of this that results into people<br />

going to all kinds of lengths to get what they want.<br />

Some would resort to lying about their experience<br />

in their CV. Some would even go to the extent of<br />

giving fraudulent professional qualifications. In<br />

business however, the intensity is worse. One<br />

would resort to any form or method possible to<br />

ensure growth in revenue. God is the inititiator of<br />

every promotion …<br />

You need to be in a good standing with Him, as<br />

well as seek the promotion from Him in order to<br />

get the right one. The efforts you make with your<br />

superior or your business are the efforts you need<br />

to make seeking God and His guidance for your<br />

growth and placement. When you use your own<br />

efforts, or resort to fraudulent or false information<br />

to get it, you are putting yourself at all sorts of risk.<br />

You don’t even know if the promotion you are<br />

chasing is the right one, or if it is the right time for<br />

you to get it. God assesses you and equips you for<br />

anything He is to bring into your life. Therefore,<br />

whatever promotion He will deem you suitable for,<br />

He will first assess and then prepare you for it so<br />

that you do not struggle maintaining the position.<br />

We see that Daniel’s promotion, even resulted to<br />

his fellow Israelites also being promoted. We also<br />

see them again in Daniel 3:30 being promoted for<br />

refusing to worship the god of Nebuchadnezzar.<br />

This happened with even kings in the bible e.g.<br />

King Solomon or David, them being placed as<br />

kings because of their loyalty to God. Therefore,<br />

when you need promotion, be it for self or for your<br />

business, put more of your efforts in seeking<br />

God’s guidance and direction for it. He will give<br />

you just the perfect one<br />

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DOING BUSINESS IN AFRICA


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DOING BUSINESS IN<br />

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Top<br />

BUSINESS<br />

Opportunities<br />

in AFRICA<br />

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AFRICAN FASHION<br />

The explosive combination of<br />

creative genius and entrepreneurial talent is increasing<br />

the visibility of African fashion on the world<br />

stage and a new breed of designers are leveraging<br />

the continent's rich cultures, history and fabrics to<br />

make bold fashion statements. The African Development<br />

Bank estimates that the African fashion industry<br />

could be worth US$15.5 billion over the next<br />

five years. While this is huge, it's only a small share<br />

of the global fashion industry's value of US$1,3 trillion.<br />

Despite its current challenges, Africa's fashion<br />

industry has the potential to create millions of jobs<br />

and significantly boost economic growth on the<br />

continent. This is already happening in countries<br />

like Mauritius, Ethiopia and Lesotho where apparel<br />

exports are a major foreign exchange earner.<br />

9<br />

REAL<br />

ESTATE<br />

It's the severity of the real estate deficit<br />

across Africa that makes it such an amazing multibillion<br />

dollar business opportunity. Across the major<br />

segments of the real estate market, residential,<br />

office spaces, retail outlets, industrial and hospitality<br />

facilities are all in short supply, thus creating an<br />

avenue for investors and developers to tap in and<br />

benefit from these underserved needs.<br />

8<br />

FOOD<br />

PROCESSING<br />

Currently Africa's biggest food problem<br />

isn't production, it's processing and then marketing.<br />

If Africa could process more of the food it<br />

produces, food waste will reduce, food supplies<br />

would be more stable and less seasonal and food<br />

prices would be less prone to wild swings. Nigeria<br />

for example, is a leading producer of tomato in Africa.<br />

However, the country spends millions of dollars<br />

every year on importing processed tomato<br />

paste from China. The same situation applies to<br />

several other imported processed food products<br />

whose raw materials are abundantly produced in<br />

Africa.<br />

7<br />

PAY<br />

TV<br />

With annual revenues estimated at<br />

over US$4 billion dollars. Africa's large population<br />

and its youthful demographic makes the continent a<br />

very attractive market for the pay-TV industry. Africa's<br />

growing Internet penetration, rising<br />

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D O I N G B U S I N E S S I N A F R I C A<br />

smart phone adoption and digital migration will be<br />

the key growth drivers of the pay-TV market in Africa<br />

as niche offerings such as video on demand<br />

and internet protocol TV evolve in 2018 and beyond.<br />

More households on the continent will become<br />

pay TV subscribers generating more revenue<br />

for new and existing players in Africa's fast emerging<br />

pay-TV market.<br />

6<br />

URBAN TRANSPORTATION<br />

Uber, a highly successful multinational<br />

retailing business has recently opened the<br />

eyes of Africans to the big opportunities in Africa's<br />

urban transport market. Now present in 12 cities<br />

across the continent including Johannesburg, Lagos,<br />

Kampala, Nairobi and Cairo, Uber has created<br />

a powerful platform for entrepreneurs and investors<br />

to reap the lucrative rewards of serving urban<br />

transport needs in Africa.<br />

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RENEWABLE ENERGY<br />

According to a recent World Bank<br />

study, only one in three people in sub-Saharan Africa<br />

has access to electricity and up to 80 percent of<br />

households on the continent use firewood and charcoal<br />

as a primary energy source for cooking, endangering<br />

the continent's fast depleting forest resources.<br />

Across the continent, Companies such as<br />

Xemco Solar, Off Grid Electric, Iappro energy in<br />

Ghana and several others are lighting up Africa by<br />

using the power of the sun and water to provide low<br />

cost electricity to unconnected households.<br />

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DIGITAL<br />

HEALTH CARE<br />

With less than one doctor per 20000<br />

persons in countries like Ethiopia and Tanzania. The<br />

healthcare industry in Africa is in a perilous state.<br />

But entrepreneurs across Africa are taking on these<br />

challenges by creating innovative digital healthcare<br />

solutions. These innovations which include telmedicine,<br />

e-prescriptions and in-health applications<br />

are helping to free up congested health facilities<br />

from dealing with non-life threatening conditions,<br />

so they can provide better care to patients who require<br />

more critical care.<br />

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SPORTS<br />

BETTING<br />

Sports betting is definitely making a<br />

windfall in Africa as lax laws on betting, a widespread<br />

use of mobile phones and increasing access<br />

to the Internet have reduced the barriers to enter<br />

this 350 million strong African market with a growing<br />

appetite for sports betting. In July 2016 Sport-<br />

Pesa, the biggest sports betting business in east Africa<br />

became the first organization in Kenya to sponsor<br />

an English Premier League football club after it<br />

signed a three-year deal with Hull City FC.<br />

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MOVIES & MUSIC<br />

With a population of over 1 billion<br />

people, of which about 60 percent are young people<br />

below the age of 25. Africa presents a very fertile<br />

ground for its local film and music industry. The<br />

four biggest business opportunities in this industry<br />

are in film and music financing, production, distribution<br />

and exhibition. With less than one cinema<br />

per million people, Africa is the most underserved<br />

cinema market in the world and in music the growing<br />

entrance of African music into the western world<br />

is generating millions of dollars for stakeholders in<br />

this industry.<br />

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FINTECH<br />

Tech fin is one of the newest and<br />

fastest emerging industries in Africa. As the name<br />

implies FinTech involves the use of technology to<br />

support and enable banking and financial services.<br />

Making it easier, faster and cheaper to meet Africa's<br />

underserved demand for financial services. In many<br />

countries on the continent, access to financial services<br />

is very poor, in most cases just about one in<br />

five adults has a bank account and most transactions<br />

are still done in cash. But since the wild success<br />

of Mpesa, the revolutionary mobile money solution<br />

that has transformed financial services in East<br />

Africa, several innovative FinTech products services<br />

have erupted across the continent.<br />

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BUSINESS<br />

MIND THE SYSTEM<br />

The basic understanding of economy, closed economy<br />

is that there are three (3) major contributors to<br />

its sustenance. These are households, firms and<br />

government. Without these contributors the economy<br />

is basically non-existence. Each country’s economy<br />

is measured by its gross domestic product<br />

(GDP), simple terms, its spending. So we can safely<br />

say that without a flow of cash (medium of exchange),<br />

every country is almost doomed. The three<br />

(3) contributors have to spend their money for the<br />

economy to grow or become sustainable. Two elements<br />

of spending are accessible, through income<br />

from or to the supplier (firm) and the financial institutions<br />

e.g. banks.<br />

While the firms receive or make their money<br />

through selling their produce to those who desire it,<br />

they also spend it through buying labour from the<br />

households as well as necessary equipment for this<br />

production. So the firms flow their money understandably<br />

for the production and sustenance of the<br />

business. The households receive or make their<br />

money by selling their time (labour) and they spend<br />

it through buying necessities to sustain their households<br />

e.g. food. Government on the other hand is<br />

all about sustaining the country and its ability to<br />

trade, and they are the biggest contributor of any<br />

economy. They make their money through taxes,<br />

levies and fees and they spend it through firms,<br />

grants and subsidies.<br />

So if you look at the three (3) main contributors of<br />

any economy, you immediately realise that their<br />

purpose of generating and spending money is<br />

sustenance thereof. It is to circulate resources and<br />

ensure that all are living and operating under acceptable<br />

conditions. Households provide a needed<br />

service (labour); firms provide income to the households<br />

as well as whatever necessary produce; government<br />

ensures a proper running and maintenance<br />

of the country as well as proper distribution<br />

of resources. Therefore, these will always remain<br />

the engine of a country’s economy because what<br />

they provide is a necessity.<br />

What is then the purpose of a financial system?<br />

Granted, all this flow of money has to be under certain<br />

management in order to combat fraudulent<br />

activities like money laundering. Every country has<br />

its own trading currency which I presume it necessary<br />

for the management of cash flow. What would<br />

it mean then if the whole world was to use one<br />

global currency? Who would manage the cash<br />

flow? Who would take claim to it? As it is, every<br />

country is able to account for its currency because<br />

they manage and generate its print and subsequently<br />

its flow. So, in a case of a global currency<br />

who is to account for it as well as manage it, and<br />

what would be their benefit? Who would be<br />

deemed suitable for that position and who would<br />

deem them suitable?<br />

Whether you are an<br />

individual or a business,<br />

God is the Creator<br />

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B U S I N E S S - M i n d t h e s y s t e m<br />

We have distinguished that the purpose of a financial<br />

system, provided by financial institutions is to<br />

ensure proper flow and management of currency<br />

e.g. bank. However, including banks, we also have<br />

financial institutions that have their purpose mainly<br />

to provide currency in the form of loans and insurance.<br />

We also have financial institutions whose aim<br />

is to grow one’s currency through investments.<br />

Would these institutions do all these out of the<br />

goodness of their heart, to help society? It appears<br />

so from the marketing point of view. It appears as<br />

though the financial life of households; firms and<br />

government would tumble if these institutions didn’t<br />

exist. They are providing a solution to the nightmare<br />

of financial sustainability. It all seems good on the<br />

surface, but what are they benefiting out of it?<br />

Dependence!<br />

Whether you are an individual or a business, God is<br />

the Creator. He created humanity and He creates<br />

every business opportunity. On all this creation He<br />

spoke or speaks a purpose upon its life. He then<br />

provides resources, including a financial blessing<br />

account perfectly suitable for the realisation and<br />

sustainability of that purpose. In other words, the<br />

financial blessing account of every individual as well<br />

as business is measured and apportioned according<br />

to the purpose each need to serve.<br />

So what then happens, what raises and increases<br />

the need for individuals and businesses to seek the<br />

financial assistance of these other financial institutions?<br />

I could say living or spending beyond available<br />

means, but that is only an element of a bigger<br />

problem.<br />

The enemy comes only to kill, steal and destroy. The<br />

purpose attached to the human or business gives a<br />

certain degree of identity. The enemy’s purpose is to<br />

kill or steal that identity, as well as to destroy the life<br />

of. The enemy does not have its own original resources<br />

or ability to create. Therefore, it takes from<br />

whatever God has created and uses it for its own<br />

gain.<br />

When you have an income, whether business or<br />

individual you are a potential target for the financial<br />

institutions. The justification would be that they need<br />

money to sustain the service they offer. Fair enough.<br />

This is why everyone pays fees for their bank, investments<br />

or insurance accounts. However, this is not<br />

where they make their biggest chunk of money. It is<br />

through loans; credit cards etc. the things that you<br />

do not necessarily need, but are offered. The aim of<br />

it all being to suck you into the system that you are<br />

unable to survive on your own.<br />

These institutions target people or businesses with a<br />

flow of income and they offer their products to<br />

them. Secondly, these would have an outstanding<br />

credit rating. Meaning they have mastered a way to<br />

manage their finances. This then means that these<br />

institutions offer them a way to extend their spending<br />

abilities, while slowly and unnoticeable taking<br />

their money bit by bit and eventually driving them to<br />

a corner of dependence on their solutions.<br />

If I am managing my finances well, why do you see<br />

the need to extend my spending if it is not for your<br />

own benefit? I cannot blame it on my inability to<br />

control my spending appetite, but the structure and<br />

design of the world’s system. It is designed to tempt<br />

you to believe that when you spend more your<br />

status rises, but only in material possessions. However,<br />

those possessions are not your own if they are<br />

funded by someone else on interest.<br />

The point I am trying to make is that, God provides<br />

accordingly but the enemy is always waiting to steal<br />

that which God has provided. The only money field<br />

that exists is in utilising the financial provision God<br />

has availed to you in a manner that serves the purpose<br />

of your creation. That way you are ploughing<br />

it back. In everything that God has created there is<br />

a regeneration seed. Therefore when He gives you<br />

a financial provision, use it in the manner in which<br />

it has been purposed, for it to regenerate and grow.<br />

The financial system is not a solution but a devil’s<br />

way of stealing from God’s provision so it can sustain<br />

its own purpose.<br />

Do not be lewd into a debt trap by what the world<br />

presents as acceptable and glorious. Stand firm on<br />

yours and your businesses’ purpose. God will always<br />

provide accordingly as well as sustain you or<br />

your business.<br />

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Hair & Face<br />

Your<br />

FOUNDATION<br />

SHADE<br />

It is always a mission to get a perfect shade for your skin complexion. Some parts of your<br />

face may require a darker shade while others require a lighter shade. So what then is the<br />

solution to this besides going to the makeup artist to help you with a close match?<br />

Try two shades of foundation!<br />

1<br />

Apply one shade darker than your skin tone along your hairline; temples and<br />

down your neck; under your cheekbones; your jaws and side chin and nose<br />

2<br />

Apply one shade lighter on the centre of your face; cheekbones; under your eyes<br />

and nose.<br />

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Migraine<br />

A migraine is a primary headache disorder<br />

characterised by recurrent headaches<br />

that are moderate to severe.<br />

Typically, the headaches affect one<br />

half of the head, are pulsating in nature,<br />

and last from 2 to 72 hours. Associated<br />

symptoms may include<br />

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Nausea<br />

Vomiting<br />

Sensitivity to light<br />

Sound<br />

Smell<br />

The pain is generally made worse by<br />

physical activity. Up to one third of<br />

people have an aura: typically a short<br />

period of visual disturbance that signals<br />

that the headache will soon occur.<br />

Occasionally, an aura can occur<br />

with little or no headache following it.<br />

Migraines are believed to be due to a<br />

mixture of environmental and genetic<br />

factors. About two thirds of cases run<br />

in families. Changing hormone levels<br />

may also play a role, as migraines affect slightly<br />

more boys than girls before puberty and two to three<br />

times more women than men. The risk of migraines<br />

usually decreases during pregnancy. The underlying<br />

mechanisms are not fully known. It is, however, believed<br />

to involve the nerves and blood vessels of the<br />

brain.<br />

Initial recommended treatment is with simple pain<br />

medication such as ibuprofen for the nausea, and<br />

avoidance of triggers. Specific medications such as<br />

triptans or ergotamines may be used in those for<br />

whom simple pain medications are not effective.<br />

Caffeine may be added to the above. A number of<br />

medications are useful to prevent attacks including<br />

metoprolol, valproate and topiramate.<br />

Globally, approximately 15% of people are affected<br />

by migraines. It most often starts at puberty and is<br />

worst during middle age. In some women they<br />

become less common following menopause.<br />

As of 2016 it is one of the most common<br />

causes of disability.<br />

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Our Pinterest Board<br />

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A d v e r t o r i a l<br />

A platform for women to<br />

gather together all over<br />

the world to bring about<br />

the gift of intimacy with<br />

God, that manifests the<br />

blessings of God into the<br />

physical realm. Its mission<br />

is to bring women into<br />

their rightful position of<br />

giving life into everything<br />

God has placed in their<br />

hands.<br />

Praying Women


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SPIRITUAL WEAPONS


A d v e r t o r i a l<br />

SPIRITUAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS<br />

(SWAT) is a prayer platform where we engage<br />

the enemy head-on through intense<br />

prayer and fasting. The bible in 2 Corinthians<br />

10:3-5 encourages us to engage<br />

spiritual weapons for spiritual enemies,<br />

for we do not fight against flesh and<br />

blood but against principalities; against<br />

powers; against the rulers of the darkness<br />

of this age and against spiritual hosts of<br />

wickedness in heavenly places (Ephesians<br />

6:12). As such no other weapon can suffice<br />

except spiritual ones. As sons and<br />

daughters of God being manifested, we<br />

have to destroy the works of the devil (1<br />

John 3:8) through Christ who is in us. So<br />

if you are under any kind of affliction or<br />

disease, these prayers are for you<br />

& TACTICS


Finale<br />

Poem by<br />

It should only be when you quarrel with your thoughts<br />

that you shall talk<br />

It is only when I talk that you listen.<br />

It is only when you listen that I talk.<br />

For you have only one mouth but two ears<br />

So talk less and listen more<br />

Think clearly before you talk<br />

Don’t be too quick to utter a word<br />

Your mind must be faster that your mouth<br />

Pay attention before you listen<br />

For hearing and listening are not the same<br />

Hearing is the duty of the ear<br />

But listening is the duty of the soul<br />

It is only when it is audible that you hear<br />

But your soul can listen even to the soundless<br />

It is only when you know that you talk<br />

But does it matter whether you know or not to listen?<br />

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