The New Plagues
AIDS first received recognition in the early 1980’s as a disease striking white homosexuals in the United States. Widespread fallacies rooted in racial bigotry surfaced in the immediate hysteria following its appearance, which linked the virus to Africa and Africans (via the central African Green Monkey and Haitian refugees), theories which were later proven false. AIDS is now known to be a heterosexually-transmitted disease which strikes disproportionately among the African American population, primarily women and their offspring.
The face of AIDS has grown darker, younger and increasingly more feminine. The dreadful malady has dealt Africa a severe blow, where it has decimated the ranks of the urban educated, professional elite cutting deeply into many a country’s leadership pool with the effects of a protracted war. Consequently, AIDS is thought by many to be a product of the Euro-gentile biological warfare research, employed against the African world. This is indeed a distinct probability when we recall the use of smallpox-laced blankets in the United States’ war against the American Indians or the carnage wrought by the use of the cancer- causing defoliant, “Agent Orange” in Viet Nam.
Yet the fact remains that AIDS (and other venereal diseases) are the end result of the carefree lifestyles, promiscuous attitudes and permissive environment promoted during the “sexual revolution” of the 1960’s and 70’s Sexually liberated, we are now “free” to contract any number of evil afflictions. The subsequent rise in female troubles, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, Chlamydia and AIDS has made the sexual revolution a modern-day “Trojan Horse.”
How can we see diseases of this sort and not consider them a plague upon the people? In former times something so widespread would have immediately caused people to begin repentance and seek God for and understanding of what they had done wrong. Today, there is no true fear of God, because God is only seen in the abstract and not the absolute. Religion has left you void and in darkness concerning God, Truth and Worship. Everything suffers: your mind, spirit and physical body.
To what should we attribute the many complex genital diseases that plague man today? People do not just “happen” to get sick; there is a cause for every effect. There has to be a comprehensible reason, whether accepted or not as to why there is so much sickness, disease and suffering in the world today. The problem is that satan is always very careful to steer your thoughts away from any feeling of true guilt. You never once consider that possibly you are breaking or violating the laws of God. If you did you would naturally think of the Ten Commandments, or the Spiritual Law. You have completely forgotten that there are physical laws also that results in physical health and well-being, If these laws are broken it is considered a transgression of the law and a penalty is exacted, usually sickness or physical suffering of some kind.
How does man seek a cure for a plague like AIDS without seeking to understand whether he is violating the Everlasting Law of Life? It is doubtful whether many know that there are laws that govern the genitals and sexual activity. The cause of sickness, even AIDS, is the transgression of the cycles and physical laws that God has set in motion to govern our human bodies. These laws are just as real as the law of gravity, and the penalties for violating them are just as sure.
Many of the aforementioned ailments are a result of improper sex habits, i.e., sexual relationships out of cycle with God’s set times and seasons. During the initial seven-day cycle of menstruation, the vagina, cervix and womb are vulnerable and covered with blood spots. (A woman’s menstruation cycle lasts for seven days starting from the time her blood issue begins. It does not end with the ceasing of her flow, because some women only flow three or four days, (her body is in menstruation for seven days Leviticus 15). When the blood spots are mixed with secretions and man’s sperm, they form a deadly acid called “pad” which coasts the vagina, cervix and womb thus weakening the tissues. We find a verification of this danger in God’s instructions of quarantine. According to the law, if during sexual intercourse, the woman began her issue of blood, and this blood touched the man’s genitals, he was quarantined for seven days. This period of time was to allow for close observation by the physicians and priests for the development of any symptoms of venereal disease. It was considered to be a danger of such magnitude that even the thought in a man’s mind to approach a woman in her issue for sexual intercourse was considered evil. Moreover, if a man and woman purposely had intercourse during her menstruation, they were both expelled from the Israelite Nation, and no longer considered Holy unto God.
Why was so much emphasis placed upon forbidding the mixing of blood, sperm and secretions even five thousand years ago? God’s way of life is like a shield against evil: without it you are vulnerable to any and everything. In today’s world of promiscuity – “everything goes.” This mentality is exacting a high price on us in terms of deformed bodies and minds. God’s instructions would have prevented the plagues that are upon us today. How does it make you feel to know that your body is rotting with disease that could have been prevented with a little chastity and Holiness? Men and women are spreading more disease today through sex than at any time in history. Even the great God-given pleasure of sexual intercourse has been made a curse for some. As you lay there in bed now, you are not so anxious because the two of you stare suspiciously at each other wondering...does she/he have “it” or not? I have no comfort to offer you, only pity. According to statistics, most likely he/she does have “it.”
Thus, copulation during the seven-day cycle of menstruation prepares the way for the onset of venereal disease and/ or cancer of the cervix and uterus. Few women, hardly any men are aware of God’s instructions for the prevention of venereal disease:
“And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even.
And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she
shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.
This [is] the law of him that hath an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.”
Leviticus 15:16-20;24;31-33
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:19; 20:18
What is the substance of the instructions to wash and be unclean until evening after copulating? Is this just a ritual or does it have some significance to good health and strength? The words “unclean” or “defiled” was the terminology used when something was not fit for use in its proper cycle of Holiness. (“Holiness” means something sanctified or set aside for a specific use in righteousness. It cannot be used at just any time to do anything). The term “holiness” was commonly used to denote something which required regulating or setting aside for a season or period of time. Also, in order that measuring times would not be complicated, God simply said one would be unclean (not ready for use) until evening. (Evening in the proper cycle of God, begins with the setting of the sun).
The whole truth as I have previously stated, requires the acknowledgement of the triumph of God over man’s attempt to avoid keeping God’s laws and instruction of hygiene. The world today is in its sorrowful state because it has been made God’s adversary.
(This is an excerpt taken from “God, the Blackman and the Truth” by Ben Ammi)