We Are Not an Island, in the Sudan

By Rev. Karlo Kolong

This book is a solution for every human problem, in the families, communities and nations. All mankind want anything that can improve the spiritual aspect of man and general welfare of the societies, it helps you improve your understanding of the world view and widens your relationship with people and God the maker of all human beings. It is a prophetic book to unearth Gods hidden wisdom for mankind. It tells us to wake up spiritually and prepare ourselves for the next world of the spirit, since we will all disappear and face our God somewhere in Heaven or in Hell, if you are not a Christian. With God all things are possible Amen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Nov 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499091755

Rev. Karlo Kolong

Born in Lonyamut village January 9/1957, from Tenet community of Eastern Equatoria in South Sudan. At the age of 8 become a herder caring for goats and cows, (In 1979 a teacher, taught English and Math, Grades 7 & 8 in Gambella Ethiopia,Worked in Survey Department as a clerk, 1980 - 1987 in Juba, South Sudan, 1991-2004, /Translator at SIL office., Compiled and edited an electronic dictionary in Nairobi Kenya, Founder of Evangelical Free Church of Sudan,1992-1997, Founder of Nile Evangelical Relief and Development Association (NERDA) 1995-2000, In February 2002 received a vision from God known as “We are not an island” which gave birth to Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), this big book, cabin cleaner at Denver International Airport 10/14/2004/4/2006 in USA, Currently inspector of Christian Affairs in Bureau of Religious Affairs, Office of the President Juba, .Current Vice moderator of EFCSS. Attended Primary school in Khartoum 1967, Completed Addis Ketema High School 1976 - 1978, Addis Ababa Ethiopia and Earned High School Diploma, Completed Moffat College of Bible Kijabe, Kenya 1987-1991 earned 4 years Baccalaureate Degree in Bible and Theology, Wrote 21 manuscripts.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Biblical Sudan and the Root of Africa

Prophecy on 8 March 2010

Chapter 2

First Periods of Factional Struggles

Chapter 3

Isaiah 18: the Mother of All the Battles

Sudanese War of seventeen Years Was a Litmus Test

Critical Analysis of Isaiah 18

Controversial Debate on Sudanese Names

Abrahamic Connection to Africa

Four Types of Sudanese People

Communist Religion

Was New Sudan Council of Churches a Panadol for SPLM?

Two More Giant Lifebuoys Were Inside Sudan

Chapter 4

We Are Not an Island (WANAI) Is the Mother of CPA

23 May 2004, Article

A Letter to the Christian World

Letters and Articles

WANAI as A Reuter News Agency

The Painful Mission for Darfur in USA

Hyena’s Theory of Fetching Water

Where Are the Rights of an Apostle?

Pastor Jonah Was Sent to Nation of Nineveh

Rev Karlo, Ambassador of God to Sudanese Nation

Chapter 5

Infrastructure in the Time of War

Three Purposes of WANAI

Walking Skeletons of 1993

Random Reaction to CPA within GOSS Towns

Three More Countries to Compare Sudan With

Where Is God, Our Maker, in Election and Referendum?

Origin of Cush

The Chronology of Sudanese Colonial Masters

Five Stages of Democratic Transformation for the Sudanese

Societies

Speech Given by Lokolenge Lole

Speech Given by Yasir Arman Seid in Colorado, USA, in 2007

Sudan Needs Both Spiritual and Physical Lights

Final Walk to the Promised Land

Advisory Message of Encouragement for Sudanese Leaders in the Churches, GOSS, States, and EES in Particular

Advisory Message 2

Special Thanks

The Strength of the Funny Article

Comments and Thanks for Some Notable Leaders Who Can’t Be Copied for Good Leadership

Chatting in Memory

The Foolish Nation of Lilliput Is Another Lesson for Us

Dependency Syndrome and Project Duplicate

Who Made God Angry in Isaiah 18?

God Continued to Punish Nations

The Natural Mind Failed to Understand Prophecies

28 February 2011: God’s Last Warning on the Nations

Accountability, a Warning to Dictators and Murderers

Veteran Politician Andrew Wiu Riak, the Last Speaker

Memorandum of Understanding

Who Touched the Target of Isaiah 18, Jonglei Canal or American Oil Chevron Company, or Ngundeng? (11 March 2011)

Medical Enquiry

A Lesson from a Child

Denominational/Religious Fear

James Eliaba Surur the Earliest Political Mind in the Sudan (25 March 2011)

Poor Immunization Chart (30 May 2011)

About the Author

Names of the Books

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

What can I say about the Murle people who sent their only son Idirs Nalus to come and open the eyes of Tenet people spiritually in 1986? What can I say about US man of God Dan Butler who taught me the Bible and the knowledge of Isaiah 18 during my first spiritual birth in SIL Juba 1986? What can I say about AIC who taught me and my community about the knowledge of Jesus? What kind of thanks can I give to my Moffat College of Bible in Kijabe Kenya? My lecturers like Norman Dixon, Stephen D. Morad, Phillip Bustrum, Jerry Robetschek, Samuel Gituka, and many others. They unlocked the hidden treasury of God and placed in me. My greatest thanks go to SIL Nairobi who taught me the computer leading me to the world of technology. Special thanks for Joan Bamberger who gave me the first laptop in 1998. This was the laptop that helped me framed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). What can I say about IFFEC nations that sent us help in Evangelical Free church of the Sudan? How much thanks can I give to Rev Thomas Brian Whitaker who came from the state of Pennsylvania and laid his holy hands on my ordination head in Kakuma refugee camp 1997? What can I say about the Nigerian pastor Paul Ndukwe, a member of Evangelical Free Church of Canada who helped us shaped our EFCS constitution and prophesied about the peace of Sudan in Kakuma refugee camp 1998? How about the nations from Europe, Asia, Australia, America, Caribbean, and Africa who came and helped us Sudanese get peace and build our towns? What words can I use to thank the Sudanese people and leaders who used their pens and talents to sign CPA? How about the world leaders and ambassadors, foreign NGOs who opened their offices in many parts of the two nations of Sudan to launch equal development?

My greatest thanks go to those whom I quoted their books and proverbs, though poorly because I was a wandering refugee without permanent address. God will bless you all.

I send my greatest thanks to all who contributed to me in ideas and directions. May God bless them all. I thank the nations and ambassadors who responded to come and build this forgotten region. May God give you strength and wisdom to give us some.

My great thanks go to the former US President George W. Bush, Jr. who pressurised Khartoum regime to sign all the six protocols using the removal of Iraqi dictators as a threat on Khartoum. He used the right hammer on stubborn leaders who were killing us like chickens. And US Secretary of States Collin Powel was the best channel of hope for Sudanese who were fed up of killing themselves. This man was feeding the former US President George W. Bush on every step to bring the best frame of CPA. I have to mention British Prime Minister Tony Blair who understood the right time for Sudanese to end the bloodshed and time for rest. These leaders were our shields who stopped the Russian antinov that created major fear in the Sudanese nation for more than sixty years.

INTRODUCTION

Sudan is a nation that borders ten nations: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, DR Congo (former Zaire), Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya. This nation inherited four names: Cush (Genesis 2), Nubia, Ethiopia (in Greek), and Sudan (in Arabic, it means Upper Nile Region; Egypt is known as ‘Lower Nile Region’)

Sudan is the biggest country in Africa and has undergone many years of blood and misery. This is one of the longest wars in Africa. Nobody has enough techniques to solve Sudanese problem. It is a spiritual issue. Who can tell such things in this world? No one can tell how much problem the Sudanese people carried on their shoulders.

Although several Sudanese leaders claimed to solve other people’s problems, they never knew that their own problem is heavier than their necks. How can you try to help somebody to carry his 500 kilos of sin when you already have 1,000 kilos of sin that press your head down? Take a log out of your eyes before removing a beam/splinter of wood from your brother’s eye (Matt. 7: 3–5).

NB: I am writing these books because of the Democratic transformation and freedom of press within our country now.

Dear Readers!

Please understand me when I use first person singular ‘I’ and third person singular ‘Karlo’ and lots of figurative languages or parables. I am using modern language styles to make myself understood by you the audience…

CHAPTER 1

The Biblical Sudan and the Root of Africa

In Genesis 15: 12–13, God promised multiple children for Abraham and said his descendants will be enslaved somewhere for 400 years. This unknown nation that became the first slave masters in the world later happened to be Mazraim or Egypt in Greek language. Egypt is a nation in Africa. When I was in USA, I asked a black American who has never been to Africa this question: ‘Friend! Where do you think Egypt is?’ He said, ‘Egypt is a place within Rome.’ This is the consequence of not teaching children the truth. I also found ‘Ghion’ to be a Hebrew name for Nile River because when Moses wrote the Torah 980 BC, he mentioned it before the Greeks arrived in Africa 320 BC. When Saudi Arabian traders came to Egypt and Sudan, they named the river to be Nile River; ‘Nile’ is derived from the word ‘Naule’, which means ‘forward it to me’.

Due to famine, Joseph asked his eleven brothers to come to Egypt; thus, the twelve sons of Jacob settled in Egypt in 1400 BC. The Egyptian civilisation had been there since 2500 BC. Moses, the first man to write the wisdom of God, had lived in Egypt for many years. Moses was a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Although Moses was born in Africa and was raised in a hostile environment, he managed to become what he became. There is no smooth way to popularity; there is no short cut to wisdom and victory. Moses had many Jewish elders who were well versed with the word of God. Moses was raised up in Africa. He was born in Africa and was educated in Africa. Moses was born within the River of Ghion, Hebrew name for Nile. Read Genesis 2: 10–13. Moses was born around 1000 BC. According to Numbers 12: 1, Moses had a Sudanese wife call Tharbish, and he also ruled Sudan for almost forty years according to Jewish historian Josephus.

Before he went to Saudi Arabia and lived for forty years, he had two wives: Zepora and Tharbish. Many people asked how Jewish people came to Africa and lived in Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and other North African nations; however, they also forgot to ask how far Jerusalem is from Africa? We are the fruits of Noah’s ark, the balance of the flood. Noah had three sons who were married. Noah’s three sons are Japheth, the firstborn, the grandfather of the Europeans; Shem, the second born, the grandfather of the all Semitic race in Asia and elsewhere; and Ham, the last born, the grandfather of Africans and Indian subcontinent and Australian Aborigines. My focus is going to be on Ham, our great-grandfather. These Biblical facts are well documented in Genesis 10, the table of nations. Ham had four sons, serially Cush, Mazraim, Libya, and Canaan. The first man to drink beer was Noah. It was this poisonous beer that made Noah careless and he failed to cover his main parts of the body. Ham, his last born son, discovered his father’s nakedness. I think Noah still had some sense that time. That was why he recognised the face of Ham. Hence, Noah cursed Canaan, who is the fourth son of Ham. The curse jumped a bit over the three sons Cush, Mazarim, and Libya and fell on Canaan, the fourth grandson of Noah. This was an additional curse to what was inherited from Adam. Some theologians say it was African that was cursed; this is a mistaken belief. Etymologically, the word Africa came from the Arabic verb ‘afriadho’ which means to differentiate. The adjectival word is ferik which means different, and Afrika means the different people. The Arabs have Abrahamic skin or the Israeli colours. Both Israelis and Arabs are descendants of Abraham, and they are somewhat pinkish in colour.

Canaan is the present land of Palestine. Palestinians of today are not like that of 2500 BC. Before Abraham, the Babylonian from the tribe of Chaldea came to the land of Canaan in 2500 BC; the Canaanites were purely indigenous people. The Greco-Roman masters occupied the land of Canaan from AD 320–700 when the Middle East religions invaded the Holy land during crusades era. Good Morning, Africa! Wake up, Africa!

Cush, Mazarim, and Libya came to Africa; Canaan remained in Middle East, which is in the present land of Jerusalem. These were the first four nations that came from Ham. It was these three sons who populated the whole continent of Africa today. Africa is a fertile ground of ideas and wisdom. The first Christian theologians like Tertullian; Augustine of Hippo (Algeria and Tunisia today) Clement the first principal of the first Alexandria Bible College in Egypt was a theologian. This was the first Bible College in the world and could not be denied. This was the type of wisdom added to the past African civilisation known as ‘The Egyptian civilisation.’ I tell you, Africa was incomparable, second to none.

Africans were known to Jews people. Abraham was fed in Africa, Joseph was educated in Africa, Moses was born and educated in Africa, and Jesus had his nursery school in Africa. Africa was the first breeding ground of knowledge and human multiplication. The first known department of stomach or agriculture was in Egypt. The first nation of the present-day Israel was raised in Egypt. History can tell us more about the boy Joseph who was sold to Africa and his eleven brothers followed him later. It was these twelve brothers who multiplied themselves and became thousands. Abraham married an African lady call Hagar (Gen. 16). Joseph married an African lady call Asenath (Gen. 41: 44–46). Moses married an African lady, a Sudanese, called Tharbish. Read the book of Numbers 12: 1. This could be from Western Sudan. You see, most of the Darfuris use biblical names like Joseph/Yussif, David/Daud Abraham/Ibrahim, Jacob/Yakub, Solomon/ Suliman, Isaac/Isak, Job/Ayub, and so on.

Solomon married an African lady. Read the book of Bible Song of Songs. Therefore, the beauty of African women did not start yesterday but far back to 950 BC and first century AD. It is then ridiculous to say these Jews people did not know their in-laws. Africa was the first place of knowledge and the best place for resettlement and agriculture. The Bible says, ‘First will become the last’; well, history repeats itself.

The first hunter and the first runner was an African: Nimrod, the son of Cush (Gen. 10: 8–12). So, today’s African runners like Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and several Kenyan runners are not strange to us who read the Bible. It has been there in African blood. In Sudan, particularly in Nuba Mountains, we have strong wrestlers who could compete with Western wrestlers who use drugs to energise themselves.

What about the military history and the colour? The Sudanese involvement in arm conflicts of the Old Testament wars is a clear indication that Sudanese are Biblical people. In fact, in my interaction with several people, Christians and non-Christians alike, I have been asked, ‘Why is Sudan in the Bible and not USA, not Kenya, not South Africa, not Britain, not Ghana, not Angola, not China, etc?’ I tell them that ‘God has especial deal and relationship with the Sudanese nation.’ Sudan is the second chosen nation, next to Israel. Read the following chapters in the Bible that talk about Sudan.

2 Chronicles 14: 9–12, a Cushite (Sudanese) commander Call Zerah fought in the Middle East around 800 BC.

2 Kings 19: 9, Cushite/Sudanese king named Tirhaka ruled Egypt and fought in Middle East in 700 BC.

2 Samuel 18: 32, a Cushite/Sudanese commander told King David the truth.

Jeremiah 38: 7, an official Cushite/Sudanese named Ebed Melech rescued the prophet Jeremiah from wet well (Jer. 38: 6–12).

Jeremiah 13: 23 says, ‘The Sudanese/Ethiopians will never change their black colour,’ which is true. Some people don’t know that the word ‘Ethiopia’ is the Greek word for black and the word ‘Sudan’ is Arabic word for ‘Black.’ Even today, Africa is known as ‘the black continent.’ I think this is the only colour mentioned in the Bible. In Song of Songs 1: 5, the beautiful black colour of the wife of Solomon has been described. This woman was like an olive or dark apple fruit that could not give Solomon peaceful sleep but to get up and sing with her. This is the first chapter that talks about dating and kiss. The good Christian women succeed because of reading this chapter.

What about the minerals? Job 28: 19 says, ‘the Sudanese mineral (Topaz) cannot reach the price of God’s wisdom.’ Why did job televise the Sudanese mineral and not that of Middle East? I am even afraid to expose these questions, but these are the last days that Daniel had mentioned in Daniel 12: 4. Wisdom cannot be suppressed any more because the God man (Jesus) came to the human globe in a flesh that is 2009 years ago. Jesus is the bringer of knowledge and wisdom. The coming of Jesus to this earth