The Nzambi Apocalypse: A Necromancy Deception amongst the Diaspora

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am YAHUWAH ALAHAYKAM.

VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 19:31

This is a question that many people have, yet I’ve seen very little breakdown of the origins of this Nzambi belief system as well as how easily it is to become deceived by this doctrine if you’re not operating in the spirit of Truth.

There are many stories of the origins of Nzambi, but most of the myths point to a similar creation story. According to the Bantus, The father god of heaven, Nzambi, created the earth, and had a daughter who is also named Nzambi or Nzambici, who was given rulership of the earth. Then according to this tradition, the father god Nzambi then married the earth and became father of us all. Nzambi or Nzambici, his daughter, became the “great princess who governs the earth”.

“The mystery of the earth, Nzambi, the mother of a beautiful daughter, gives mankind all laws, ordinances, arts, games, and musical instruments. Nzambi settles quarrels between animals, and in the stories giving her decision is embedded an immense amount of Fjort law.”

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100242961

Does this sound anything remotely similar to the creation story of the set-apart scriptures or does this sound like the typical father, mother, child pantheon which entails all major pagan religions? Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that the ones who keep these traditions aren’t Israelites. I’m just saying that like most of our biblical ancestors, they were influenced by the ancient heathenistic Phoenician/Canaanite pagan religious systems.

What ensnares Israelites into this belief system is a longing for a cultural connection to the continent of Africa, without much knowledge of the origins of this tribal deity or the religious practices involved in this belief system. I pray that those who have fallen for this deception will not just take my word on it, but do their own research as well as test the spirits of those who are pushing this doctrine.

Speaking of spirits, most of the practices involved in this Nzambi worship involve summoning ancestral spirits, communicating, and enslaving the dead. According to those of this belief system, the creator “god” Nzambi, created the earth and abandoned it, thus leaving his wife & daughter to govern it all. This is where the concept of “Mother Earth” comes from. They believe that because the father “god” Nzambi is unreachable, & that they must use the dead spirits to communicate their prayers to him.

Sometimes their relationship with the dead is benevolent, or one veneration as in the case of direct ancestor worship. However, more often than not, these relationships are very much adversarial where the elder, sorcerer, or witch enslaves a wandering lost soul to do their “work” for them. During these rituals, the practitioners often ridicule, mock and badger these spirits to do their bidding.

And the ruach of Mitsrayim shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

YASHA’YAHU (ISAIAH) 19:3

A team of Bakongo youth was tasked with describing the morals and customs of their country. More than four hundred ethnographic notebooks were written in Kikongo by this team. Aware of the changes affecting their country, the young ethnographers gathered information from older informants, in particular on the subject of religion. Drawing on these notebooks came a table of the Kongo traditional religious system, which comprises three dimensions: an actantial model (human agents, spiritual intermediaries, human patients); an ethical division of actions contrasting doing good with doing evil; and a political division contrasting public and private spheres of power.

Macgaffey Wyatt. 1986. Religion and Society in Central Africa. The Bakongo of Lower Zaire.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

As you can see in this Nzambi belief system, it’s centered around divination, sorcery, and witchcraft. Whether the practitioners are conjuring these spirits to do good or evil, both are forbidden by our father Yahuwah, and there’s no justification for using the dead to manipulate to outcome of any situation in your life. It’s a tremendous sin to pray to the dead, regardless of whether or not you think you’re summoning your ancestors.

Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the Repha’iym (dead spirits) arise and praise you? Celah. Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 88:10-12

Again, their justification for using this method is that the father “god” Nzambi is in heaven, and cannot be reached by human prayer, so they think they need dead spirits to communicate their prayers to him in heaven. It’s foolishness and reflects a completely fallen state of the diaspora. What does the Word say about the dead? Can they send prayers and praise? Do they have any use in communicating with Yah? If these Nzambi Zombie worshippers are getting results, just understand that it isn’t coming from our True Creator, the Most High 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

AMEIN, Amein, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

YAHUCHANON (JOHN) 10:1

It seems like it would be a enormous red flag for a alleged teacher to began promoting a name for the Almighty that isn’t mentioned in the scriptures. Nevertheless, I’ve been shocked to see this deception unfold online. It was mostly promoted by a online teacher after he received his DNA results that confirmed his Bantu heritage. His eagerness to develop a connection with his tribal line in Africa led him to become influenced by a very charismatic Nzambi practitioner who convinced him that Nzambi is the same Elohim of the Bible. This is absolutely not true. Sadly, his entire following, due to respect of persons, fell for this deception as well. You must have the Ruach when listening to anyone in this awakening because leaders are frequently deceived due to pride from their notoriety.

O YAHUWAH ALAHAYNU, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are Repha’iym (dead spirits), they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

YASHA’YAHU (ISAIAH) 26:13-14

Again, I must reiterate that Nzambi worship is indeed necromancy because it’s practice is centered upon not only ancestor divination and veneration, but the enslavement of wandering spirits who they believe are the souls of dead sorcerers as well as those who died of unnatural deaths from war, accidents, or murder. This is not of the Most High at all, and no Israelite who wants to inherit the coming kingdom should be involved in this. Nzambi worship is the root of belief systems in Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti amongst others, but for the sake of time we will focus upon these three Carribean islands.

According to existing sources, between 17% and 24% of the captives who arrived in Cuba between 1817 and 1843 were Bakongo…

Castellanos Isabel, Castellanos Jorge. 1988. Cultura afrocubana. vol. 1: El Negro en Cuba, 1492—1844. Miami: Ediciones Universal.

These Congolese slaves organized themselves into tribes, and all of them had a guardian patroness saint who was basically the spiritual “mascot” of the tribe. This practice is due to the pagan belief that the princess Nzambi is the ruling teacher of the earth, thus they see the feminine spirit as their primary guide.

Palo, also known as Las Reglas de Congo, is a religion with various denominations which developed in Cuba among enslaved Central African people and their descendants who originated in the Congo Basin. This religion has it origins in Nzambi worship, and a large number of enslaved Kongolese people were brought to Cuba where the religion evolved into Palo. It is mainly a by-product of the BaKongo Nzambi religion, but has been influenced by other faiths such as Catholicism. Palo’s liturgical language is a mixture of the Spanish and Bantu languages, known as lengua, bozal or habla Congo.

The Palo belief system rests on two main pillars:

• The veneration of the spirits.
• The belief in natural/earth powers.

All natural objects, and particularly sticks, are thought to be infused with powers, & are often linked to the powers of spirits.

And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am YAHUWAH ALAHAYKAM. And ye shall guard my statutes, and do them: I am YAHUWAH that sanctifies you.

VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 20:6-8

A certain number of spirits called Kimpungulu (singular: Mpungu) inhabit the Nkisi (sacred objects; also spelled Enkisi, Inquice, or Inquise). Kimpungulu are well known in name and deed, and are often venerated as spirits with anthropomorphic qualities. They are powerful entities, but they are ranked below the Supreme Creator Zambi or Nzambi, making Palo a henotheistic religion.

The ritual vocabulary of the Paleros is not a mixture of various Bantu languages and Spanish, but the result of a direct transmission and clear preservation of Kikongo alone. So this is evidence of the direct connection of the Nzambi religion with that of Palo in Cuba, which involves necromancy, divination, sorcery, and witchcraft.

“Anonymous work “Conocimientos y practicas de palo monte” contains a series of notes taken directly from the notebooks of old Paleros, with the consent of their heirs… Three Palero notebooks are reproduced, with Spanish / Congo vocabulary lists, recipes for casting or breaking spells, transcribed chants and prayers, as well as drawings connected to superior beings called firmas and signatures.”

Macgaffey Wyatt. 1986. Religion and Society in Central Africa. The Bakongo of Lower Zaire.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

There’s no denying that Nzambi worship is in direct contradiction with the ways of the Most High Yah, and anyone who continues on this road is bound to be destroyed…

“The essence of the Bantu religion would have in fact been the cult of ancestors, which was ensured by a ganga as the latter was opposed by a «muroi, muloi, or murovi, which was a ‘witch’ (generally a woman), or a wizard, the muroyi wemasikati or muloi wewazekele, who could have been a man.”

Fuentes Jésus, Gómez Grisel. 1994. Cultos afrocubanos. Un estudio etnolingüistíco. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. (Translated from the French)

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walks in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick; Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; Which say, Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

YASHA’YAHU (ISAIAH) 65:2-5

Although the ruling class of Kongolese embraced Catholicism from the invading Europeans, there is little evidence that the general population embraced Christianity. Nevertheless, most of them did incorporate some elements of Catholicism into their faith, which was fairly easy for them to do so since the cross was already a significant symbol in their Nzambi religious traditions.

European missionaries along with Kongo intellectuals (including King Afonso I of Kongo) set out to render European Christian religious concepts into Kikongo and they chose this name Nzambi to represent “God”. What gives them the right give this pagan name to the Elohiym of the Hebrews? Jesuits also used this pagan name in the now lost catechism produced by Carmelites in Kikongo in 1557. Certainly it was also used for “God” in the catechism of 1624, a translation by the “best masters of the church” in Kongo under the supervision of the Jesuit priest Mateus Cardoso. Folly & wickedness is at the root of the mixture of beliefs in this deception which unsurprisingly goes back to the satanic paganistic Roman Catholic Church…

According to an Kongolese informant for the European colonizers, named Kunzi, “the cross was already used to honor the name of Nzambi & our forefathers forbade children to draw crosses on the ground… Nzambi wrote crosses on the palms of all people when he made them and they called those crosses the path of God”

Janzen John M, Macgaffey Wyatt. 1974. An Anthology of Kongo Religion. Lawrence (Kansas): Lawrence University of Kansas.

They also used crosses in their scarification rituals for this reason. As a result, instead of embracing to Almighty of the scriptures, most of them simply kept all of their pagan beliefs of necromancy while wrongfully claiming to worship the same deity written of in the scriptures. It’s easy for one to deceive themselves into believing this if they chose so since a vast majority of them never thoroughly studied the Holy Scriptures for themselves. It’s a blessing to be of a sound mind who isn’t susceptible to such deceptions.

Ye are blessed of YAHUWAH which made heaven and earth. The heavens, even the heavens, are YAHUWAH’S: but the earth has he given to the children of men. The dead praise not YAH, neither any that go down into silence.

TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 115:15-17

Interestingly, amongst some Kongolese there is believed to be significant differences between “Christian” ngangas and “Jewish” ngangas. Again, ngangas is the Kikongo word for “priests”. This is proof that this Nzambi deception was definitely prevelant amongst Kongolese Hebrews, but the so-called “Christian” Nzambi believers saw the “Jewish” Ngangas as evil and vice versa. During colonial times, “Christian” Nzambi worshippers & Ngangas ironically claimed that the “Jewish” Ngangas do not believe in “god”, likely because they did not pray to Nzambi.

Also, one must keep in mind that the Kongolese natives may also have been referring to the “Black Jews” who were kicked out of Spain and Portugal after the Inquisition who, although they did share common ancestry, did not share the same cultural practices. Therefore, it may have been perceived that the “Jewish” Priests were magicians who did not worship their “god” Nzambi. Their cultural divide spanned over 2000 yrs at that point so they definitely saw the foreign “Jews” as evil strangers.

The opposition between Kongolese “Jews” and “Christians” had already been introduced in Kongo by Catholic missionaries. Swartenbroeckx mentions the fact that the term ki-yûda means “language of Judea, Hebrew, Hebraic” but also “Judas’s way, treason, treachery”.

Swartenbroeckx Pierre. 1973. Dictionnaire Kikongo et Kituba—Français. Bandundu: CEEBA Publications.

In northern Kongo there may have existed a nkisi called ki-yuudi, while in the south this word meant “an insane, crazy discourse”

Laman Karl. 1936. Dictionnaire Kikongo — Français. Brussels: Institut Colonial Belge.

To the extent that Catholic anti-Hebrew sentiments spread in Kongo, we can surmise that the Bakongo had a “Jewish” nkisi which lies at the origin of the Cuban “Jewish” prenda, both of which are possessing spirits manipulated and controlled by Nzambi Ngangas (priests) through witchcraft. Far from being completely rejected by the Kongolese Natives, the hypocrisy or madness attributed to these newly arrived Israelites by the missionaries was considered a new magical source, a “force” which could be used by a Kongo nganga in a new type of nkisi (spiritual recipient of magical spells) , the ki-yuudi nkisi.

As stated earlier, the Nzambi tradition had a tremendous influence upon Afro-Jamaican religion as well. In the religion of Kumina there is a high creator god is known as “King Zombi” which is a derivative of Nzambi Mpungu.

Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion influenced mainly by the Bantu peoples from the Congo-Angola area. Kumina nations are led by a King and Queen. Central in Kumina’s religious beliefs and
practices is the possession by and communication with the “spirits”.

Their practices open the channels of communication. One such channel is “Spirit Possession” a term describing the temporary inhabiting of the living by a spirit, for the purpose of providing ancestral assistance and advice to solve everyday problems. They believe that all power given to the ancestors and later revealed to the living through possession, is done with the sanction and approval of “King Zaambi” or “Nzaambi Mpungu” – “God Almighty.”

The term “God Almighty” may give the impression that this is the same deity, the Most High Yahuwah, worshipped by the Hebrews when nothing could be further from the case. Never was it commanded to Israelites to summon dead spirits for the answers to their prayers. That’s just a blasphemous doctrine that was promoted by Jesuits and the initial Kongolese converts to help gain popularity and spread of the Catholic faith.

Kumina practitioners share the Christian belief in one supreme, all-powerful God. However, this general term “god” is very misleading and deceptive. They also believe in the juxtaposition of good and evil. Where “Myal” (the good) and “Obeah” (the bad) are part of the spirits belief system. Kumina practitioners will speak of “catching Myal” (become possessed) and “using Obeah” (manipulation of the shadows). No part of the Hebrew Torah condones summoning and manipulating evil spirits. Our people must be careful not to fall for this deception.

Kumina deities are separated into sky bound and earth bound deities. Oto King Zombi, a sky bound deity is the Supreme Being. Other sky bound deities of Kumina are Obei and Shango. Earth bound deities in Kumina are found in the old testament David, Ezekiel, Moses, Cain and Shadrak and are examples of this pagan belief system’s amalgamation with Christianity. No where is it encouraged in the scriptures to worship the patriarchs and prophets as ‘gods’.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by ELOHIYM, saying, I am the ELOHIYM of Avraham, and the ELOHIYM of Yitschaq, and the ELOHIYM of Ya`aqov? ELOHIYM is not the ELOHIYM of the dead, but of the living.

MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 22:31-32

Finally we will have a look at the Zombie traditions of Haiti and it’s connections to Nzambi of the Congo Kingdom… Here’s a video about Clairvius Narcisse who claimed to have been victimized by a Vodou priest after a land dispute which spellbound him as a Zombi for years and enslaved him on a plantation with other zombies.

Haitian culture believes that zombies are mindless slaves that are brought back to life by bokor, or sorcerers. The term “zombie” may have several possible origins with similar meanings. The Kongo term nzambi (meaning “spirit of a dead person”) and the West Indian word jumbie (meaning “ghost”) are two possible origins of the word zombie. Haitian culture reveals a strong association between the zombie and Haitian vodou since only the bokor knows the secrets to bringing the dead back to life.

As part of the vodou religion, the bokors (Haitian vodou sorcerers) have the power to create and control zombies. The exact methods and concoctions used vary among bokors, but the process believed by the Haitain people describes the following general pattern. Some zombification processes use blood and hair from their victims in addition to using vodou dolls, while others involve a carefully prepared mixture called “coup de poudre” (“powder strike”) made of mystical herbs, human remains, and animal parts.

Being that the Nzambi religion involves a tremendous amount of conjuring dead spirits, it’s no stretch of the imagination that Haitian Vodou is derived from this same Kongolese root religion. Nzambi sorcerers were used to control wondering and lost souls, enslaving them to torment victims for their clients. This same practice is done by Vodou priests in Haiti, so it most definitely is the foundation of Zombification rituals in Haiti.

And do you, my son Ya`aqov, remember my words, and observe the commandments of Avraham, your father: separate yourself from the nations, and eat not with them: and do not according to their works, and become not their associate; for their works are unclean, and all their ways are a pollution and an abomination and uncleanness. They offer their sacrifices to the dead and they worship evil ruachoth, and they eat over the graves, and all their works are vanity and nothingness.

YOVHELIYM (JUBILEES) 22:16-17

This intermingled amalgamation of wickedness and holy acts has caused a tremendous amount of confusion amongst Hebrews for countless of generations. Nevertheless, in this day in time, it takes just a little effort in research as well as the spirit of discernment to distinguish the truth from the demonic deceptions picked up along the way. Hοnestly, at this point, it may not be a choice for most to be deceived because the Most High said he would choose the delusions of the rebellious children, which is what I witness everyday.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

YESHA’YAHU (ISAIAH) 66:4

Nevertheless, it is my duty as a watchman for the House of Israel to help give fair warning before the final judgement comes.

When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

YECHEZQ’EL (EZEKIEL) 3:18-19

I pray this article is received by those whom hath a ear to hear the warning from the shamayim about such a deception as this. This site is not for the carnal or simple minded, but those who are diligently seeking the face of Yahuwah daily. All praises to the Most High Yah for allowing this Truth to come forth. Shalom and blessings family…

-Yahya Truth 🕎🦁🙏🏾