To understand how ancient Batswana can have even heard of money we must first understand that I have traced the last wave of forced Bantu migration out of Egypt to between BC 562-539, a time of Ezekiel’s exile in Babylon along with other elite Jews; a time ‘the Lord’ evidently made good his threat to make Egypt ‘desolate’ because of the disobedient ways of her proud indigenous population (Ezek. 29:6-20). Bantus do originate from the north and certain phrases like ‘go lelela Khama le Mogogoro’ (literally: ‘to cry over Khmer and Mo-roggo’) point to Egypt herself (called Khmer or Khmet). Egypt was near Lydia in Asia Minor (now Eastern Europe), the kingdom of Croesus – the fabulously wealthy king who minted money. We obviously migrated with the knowledge of what ledi and mali/money was.
Turning to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament (also called the ‘Apocalypse of John’) we find that John started off his prophecy with the Seven Spirits of the Churches that began in Paul’s time (specifically AD 34) and ended in the End-Days (explained below). As I showed at length in prior articles, each Church represented the seven stages by which the original, Gnostic message of Jesus – and indeed religiosity itself – was to be reinvented, redirected, and ruthlessly controlled.
