Prophet Simon Kimbangu. Jailed, condemned and tortured to death by the Church
Prophet Simon Kimbangu.
Jailed, condemned and tortured to death by the Church and Belgium.
A prophet whose name means ‘The one who reveals hidden things’, was born in Nkamba, central Kongo on the 12th of September 1887.
When he was 23 years, he began to hear the call of Yahweh’s spirit that asked him to ‘cater to his flock’. He refused to take heed until 11 years later when he returns home disillusioned after having worked for no pay. He arrives on the 6th of April 1921 in Ngombe Kinsuka and the spirit of Yahweh gives him an order to resuscitate a young girl, Nkiatundo, who had just died.
His arrest:
On the 12th of September 1921, Simon Kimbangu is arrested and summarily judged and condemned to death. However, his sentence was changed by his Belgian Christian capturer King Albert I (the 1st).
He was kept in custody for thirty (30) years in a small cell in Elizabethville (Lubumbashi) and dipped in a deep well of cold salty water in order to speed up his demise.
Two (2) days before his death, on the 10th of October 1951, Simon Kimbangu announced his death to his co-detainees. He said that he would die two (2) days later on Friday the 12th of October 1951. Certainly so, at 15h00 on Friday the 12th of October 1951, the Greta Prophet hit himself three (3) times with his fists on the right and left ribs. Simon Kimbangu peacefully passed away lying down on his blanket on the floor, he passed away after prophesying terrible ordeals for Belgium and the West in the future to come.
Kintuadi
Simon Kimbangu founded a Spiritual movement known as Kintuadi.
This community was devoted to the total liberation of Black Man.
Members of this institution suffered numerous persecutions and deportations from their native Central Kongo. Over one hundred and fifty thousand (150 000) members of Kintuadi were deported between 1921 and 1959. These people died in exile, in hard labour, under whiplash and never-ending beating.
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