OWNING WHO WE TRULY ARE

Whatever did happen to the Queen of Sheba?

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SOMETIME in Febuary/March  of 2002A.D. a woman calling herself the Queen of Sheba was found to be in Nairobi, and according to the facts published in the Daily Nation of the time, she was not finally found to be what she seemed to be. The real surprise is that anyone should have thought that she was who she claimed to be.     She booked into The Grand Regency Hotel, the most prestigious hotel in Nairobi, and they seem to have been completely taken in - to the extent of letting her have Three point four million Kenyan Shillings credit facilities before finally asking her to leave!       Various photos are available of this woman, whose REAL name is Debra Amelia Kasambura nee George!     Some show her wearing a crown, and others in ordinary clothes.   She will now, a guess, be in her sixties.   One such photo is to the left.
She arrived at the doors of the Grand Regency with her encouraged and announcing herself to be Queen Shebah 111 of the Nubian Kingdom.       The Managers of the Hotel seemed to be unaware that there is no such Kingdom, therefore no such 'queen'.    But she looked rich enough for the part, and reported that she was in Kenya to negotiate a deal with the Kenyan Government involving something like Fifteen Billion Kenyan Shillings.     She was shown to the Presidential Suite, the finest in the Hotel, and she even managed to fix an appointment to see President Moi!!!
There seems no evidence that she ever shelled out a cent of the 'promise' of 15 Billions of Aid, but she managed to run up the bill (as mentioned before) of more than Three point four Million Kenya Shillings whilst staying at Grand Regency!   No doubt extended credit given on miss-placed faith!  I
found the whole incidence more than AMAZING, not that someone might actually try such a con, but that all those concerned were TAKEN IN by her.
I wonder if I could get away with it?     Probably not,      Debra Kasambura DID.   She must have been quite persuasive.     Perhaps if she had said she was Queen Jezebel they may have been a bit more suspicious.   Very curious the whole things.    After all there are not so many Queens about that one might be mistaken for one of them.    A princess..? Perhaps.     Anyway there she was bejewelled, over-painted, and enveloped in furs, announcing her royal status and financial allurements.     And so everyone just came running to role out the 'red carpet', and to offer the best they had of everything; and the Press and the Media all rushed to publicise, and in a way give credence to this Queen of Sheba, as they called her.     WOW!   And no one even asked her for an I.D., OR to actually SEE the colour of her money.     How easy for Immigration and Authority to  just accept her without seeking any proof or confirmation - just because she looked, dressed and 'seemed' inordinately RICH!

TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO the elite of Jewish society said that Jesus was an impostor.and a 'phony'     HE said that He was GOD!    The King of Jews!    How could anyone believe such a thing?
This travel stained, untidy carpenter from Nazareth, fruit of a premarital relationship - how could HE be God?    The idea was preposterous to THESE rich, well educated men.     But the POOR believed in Him.
But no. those that mattered in society rejected Him,     To them it could not be accepted.   Oh yes, He was supposed to be able to heal the sick, and raise the dead; make the blind to see and the deaf to hear - but just LOOK at Him.    What was he really - just an unemployed illegitimate carpenter.  He was surely just a Trickster, a Quack, an Illusionist....... AWAY WITH HIM.     They said of Him 'Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, and Juda and Simon?  And are not his sisters here with us?   And they were offended at him'  Mark 6v3    But the POOR did believe in Him; those who had no reason to look to Him for wealth or material aid.     Yet it was the poor that proclaimed Him to be God, The Messiah, the Son of God.      And Jesus was not 'pretending' to be anyone or anything; He merely told the TRUTH - He had no reason to pretend about himself.   The Truth will always out (be revealed) we are told, and the Truth about Jesus, and Who He was, just came out wherever He went.      The sorry thing about it all was that those who were so quick to believe, finally followed those who did not, perhaps our of fear of their Leaders, or the Roman Government, or simply because Jesus did not become the LEADER they were looking for.   They rejected the Truth, and trampled it under foot.
In Matthew 16v15 we find Jesus ASKING the Disciples who they thought he really was.    Earlier He had asked them what people were saying about Him, and who they thought He was.  Some of the people thought he was John the Baptist back from the dear; others that he was Elijah the Prophet, and still others said he was Jeremiah.    The Disciples now are being asked who THEY thought He was, and Peter, answering on their behalf said - 'You are the Christ the Son of the Living God'    HOW did Peter get this into his head?   He knew intuitively by the Holy Spirit.      They did not need to see his credential or even to witness the miracles.    The Disciples all  'felt' the truth within themselves.   JESUS himself acknowledge this when He said - ' Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven'  - Ad it is on this spiritual conviction from the Father that I will build My Church.'

Poor old Sheba, rolling expensively into The Grand Regency,  was certainly not recognised for who SHE truly was, behind the cosmetic, and under the heair-do.   NO. there was no ritual discernment there, and she was just accepted at face value, as someone she was not!  We should also learn to look further than the outward appearance if we are not taken in or made to miss the truth about a person.
Even Samuel the Prophet was led astray in his own judgement when seeking who might be God's Choice as Israel's new King.    1.Samuel 16v1-13.    God sent him the Jesse's family of good looking, physically attractive, and well put together sons, who were all paraded in front of him.   Any one them seemed right to Samuel - but not to God   None of those paraded by Jesse was God's Chosen One.
The one forgotten and left out, the youngest, a keeper of sheep, the most UNLIKELY was the One.  It was young David, looked down upon by his elder brother who was to be the GIANT KILLER and the future King of Israel.  And the LORD said - 'The Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart'       We need to think about that. brothers and sisters.    ' Not everything that glitters is of gold.'    Perhaps that is why so few see the GOLD that there is in Jesus.   Indeed He is more precious than pure Gold in unlimited quantity    But for the most part He is passed by, noticed only for a moment like a street musician or a quack doctor offering a miracle cure.    People take a quick look and see nothing to impress, just another guru, just another freak from the busy, or madman raving about nothing at all, and turn away to what seems to give hope of more immediate gain and profit.     THEY miss the KING.   They have missed God Himself as surely as the Innkeeper slammed the Inn door in the face of Joseph and Mary seeing their poverty and inability to materially enrich him.     JESUS came to give us immortality, everlasting health, and joy.   Yet the majority finally turned away, mocking Him and His offer, depriving themselves of the GREATEST WEALTH imaginable, materially, physically and spiritually.  INSTEAD, even today, they flock to the con men and women; the Queen of Shebahs of this world, only to be ripped off and left with nothing.
Why is mankind so dumb, so easily led astray, so easily duped?   After gawping, bowing, and scraping after the good will of this 'Caribean" Queen (she was born in the West Indies), the owners of the Regency Hotel become 3.4 million shillings poorer, and made the laughing stock of all.   Another person lost another half million shillings in paying her Bail promised against her Safe Custody.  ALL LOSERS because they went after glitter and glamour, instead of listening to the Good Sense God has planted in every man and woman.        Why do people not BELIEVE IN JESUS that Man of Calvary, a common Carpenter within whom GOD lived and died for all Mankind.    HE is the King of the UNIVERSE    If you embrace HIM, if you kneel before Him, and worship Him, you will never b e ashamed, you will never find yourself the LOSER.     Beneath carpenters garment are the Robes of Celestial Majesty,   Le the King of Glory in to your lives, and shut that LIAR and con-man of the universe - SATAN, out.     ONLY those who do this will Rule with Christ with Him over all the Universe.      Do not be DECEIVED.     Take great heed to yourselves.     Let your own Conscience that God has given to us all, confirm the TRUTH to us always.

JESUS when made in the likeness of men

humbled Himself to the death f the cross;

No reputation belonged to Him then; 

emptying Himself, He esteemed it no loss.

The Name that through ages to come shall our-ring;

 Jesus the Lamb, Who for sinners was slain.

SOON to this Earth He is coming as King,

Coming in power and in glory to reign,

Far above all; far above all.

God has exalted Him, far above all.

Crown Him as LORD, at His feet humbly fall,

JESUS, Christ Jesus, is far above all.

Debra Kasambura, Queen of Shebah was finally shoved on a plane and allowed to leave the Country with out any penalty being demanded of her.      She continued to live by her questionable wits all over the world.      Is he continuing to do so? I do not know.    But by the time she left Kenya in 2002 she had denied knowing her true self, and denied knowing the only one who could deliver her from her own sin and deceipt; the ONLY ONE who could forgive her, cleanse her from all her unrighteous livining, and MAKE HER NEW.          I have prayed that she finds and BELIEVES in Jesus.

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