Did MLK Jr. Prophesy of Obama?

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Did MLK Jr. Prophesy of Obama?

Postby pastorables » October 2nd, 2008, 7:29 pm

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?v ... b8f0248cbd

Watch the above sermon from about 8 minutes forward. This Memphis minister believes that Martin Luther King Jr. prophesied of Obama forty years ago.

What say ye?

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Re: Did MLK Jr. Prophesy of Obama?

Postby Pastor Gary » October 2nd, 2008, 7:59 pm

pastorables wrote:What say ye?

I say people find clues where they look. :lol: :lol:

Since MLK plagiarized the "Let Freedom Ring..." portion of his "I have a dream" speech from Archibald Carey, Jr.'s speech at a Republican National Convention, it hardly seems prophetic... unless you believe God works through dishonesty.

To be fair, however, King did insert the "...snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!" where it didn't appear in the Carey version.

Carey:
We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims' pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

That's exactly what we mean--from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!


King:
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
"God is excited to show you mercy. He rises to give you His compassion." (Isaiah 30:18)

"For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;
you surround them with your favor as with a shield." (Psalm 5:12)


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