HAITI

Boy is Robertson is taking a lot flack this week over his comments about Haiti. As you may remember he said that Haiti made a curse with the devil and is cursed that is why they earthquake.

I’m not here to defend or throw Pat under a bus as some people have in last couple of days. But some at people at Fox News, Gov. Huckabee and the Catholic Priest news contributor, his name escapes at this time, continue to throw him under a bus. I like Fox news and watch all the time, it is the only news network I allow in my home all the others are blocked. But please guys stop being so sarcastic and stop mocking. What Pat Robertson said was not even news worthy, most people would have never knew what he said it if it had not been reported.

The first thing we need understand is the fact that Haiti does sit on fault and is susceptible to earthquakes. So I don’t think the earthquake is a direct act of God because they made a pact with the devil. That is as irresponsible as what Jerry Fallwell said about 9/11. In case you forgot he said that the attack on 9/11 was God’s judgment on homosexuality.

But is Haiti under a curse, let’s look at some facts, poorest nation western hemisphere, voodoo capital of the world, disease is rampant, hunger is rampant and the list could go on and on. How do I know this? It is simple I’ve been there many times over the years as a minister of the Word of God. I’ve lived with and talked to the people who live there, I’ve spent time in the remote areas of the island up n the mountains an 8 hour trip out of Port Au Prince.

You should study the history of Haiti and you’d realize that the island has been an place of turmoil since the French ruled and left after the revolution.
Please read the following: According to the official "History of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution", in 1791 the following events occurred:
A man named Boukman, another houngan, organized on August 14, 1791, a meeting with the slaves in the mountains of the North. This meeting took the form of a Voodoo ceremony in the Bois Caiman in the northern mountains of the island. It was raining and the sky was raging with clouds; the slaves then started confessing their resentment of their condition. A woman started dancing languorously in the crowd, taken by the spirits of the loas. With a knife in her hand, she cut the throat of a pig and distributed the blood to all the participants of the meeting who swore to kill all the whites on the island. On August 22, 1791, the blacks of the North entered into a rebellion, killing all the whites they met and setting the plantations of the colony on fire. However, the French quickly captured the leader of the slaves, Boukman, and beheaded him, bringing the rebellion under control.
This is widely accepted as the starting point for the Haitian Revolution and ever since that revolution that little island nation has been under such oppression and it is still under oppression as we speak.
As said above Haiti is the Voodoo of the world and still it is still the major religion in that country even thought there are many missions and different relief organizations working there.
A personal note here is this; I believe that much as there is needed help in that country, we have given them so much without giving the any responsibility and in doing that we have done more harm than good. And my dear friend it starts with the government, we in US have poured billions of dollars into that country and it all disappeared, going into the hands of a very corrupt government and the poor people live in poverty.
The Bible says in. Prov 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people. NKJV, Deut 8:20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God NKJV, Prov 26: 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. KJV
From its inception this country has been under some kind of darkness ever since the revolution, their government has been corrupt, lest we forget Papa Doc and Baby Doc, more than likely the most corrupt of them all. And then we had President Aristead, and catholic priest who turned to voodoo and it has been said that he as one of his first acts as president was that he sacrificed a pig at the capitol building. I don’t how true that is but I find it interesting.
Again back to Pat Robertson, I’m not saying I agree with Pat Robertson all I’ll saying let’s cut him some slack, when you give as much as give and touch as many lives as he has then maybe you can say something. But in the meantime he believes what he believes. Also people, who don’t understand that there are two realms that we deal with, even some Christian ministers, because they are so in touch with the natural realm. A lot of them talk about faith and so forth. But they just don’t understand the spiritual and natural realm.
Our church in New Jersey is receiving offerings for the people of Haiti, and were working with another ministry in Florida and we’re working on the ground in Haiti with another ministry that is doing a great work locally there on that island.
Maybe this earthquake is the beginning for Haiti to make a turnaround? I can’t answer that question but one thing I do know on personal level and that is Haiti is strange place, much darkness prevails.