Ugandan President Repents of Personal, National Sins

[Axehead]

The Ugandan newssite New Vision reports President Yoweri Museveni celebrated Uganda’s 50th anniversary of independence from Britain at the National Jubilee Prayers event by publicly repenting of his personal sin and the sins of the nation.

“I stand here today to close the evil past, and especially in the last 50 years of our national leadership history and at the threshold of a new dispensation in the life of this nation. I stand here on my own behalf and on behalf of my predecessors to repent. We ask for your forgiveness,” Museveni prayed.

“We confess these sins, which have greatly hampered our national cohesion and delayed our political, social and economic transformation. We confess sins of idolatry and witchcraft which are rampant in our land. We confess sins of shedding innocent blood, sins of political hypocrisy, dishonesty, intrigue and betrayal,” Museveni said.

“Forgive us of sins of pride, tribalism and sectarianism; sins of laziness, indifference and irresponsibility; sins of corruption and bribery that have eroded our national resources; sins of sexual immorality, drunkenness and debauchery; sins of unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred and revenge; sins of injustice, oppression and exploitation; sins of rebellion, insubordination, strife and conflict,” Museveni prayed.

Next, the president dedicated Uganda to God.

The comments are interesting...

 

[Rex]

c. The year of Jubilee
Lev 25:8-55

The word ‘Jubilee’ is a transliteration of the Hebrew word (yobel - Strongs Hebrew number 3104) usually taken to mean, by translation, a ‘blast’ of the trumpet. It’s either derived from another Hebrew word meaning ‘to flow’ (which speaks of the trumpets’ ‘continuing’ or ‘flowing’ sound) or from a Phoenician word meaning ‘ram’ (because the trumpet would have been made from the ram’s horn).

The Israelites were to count seven sabbatical years (7 periods of 7 years = 49 years) and during the following year (the 50th), the year of Jubilee was to take place (Lev 25:8,10). The year was proclaimed on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement (see Leviticus chapter 16 and the study ‘Yom Kippur’ for a discussion of this subject) with the blast of a trumpet throughout the land of Israel.

In Jesus’ day, the Jews had changed the date of its proclamation to the first day of the seventh month - Rosh Ha-shanah 1:1 reads that

‘There are four “New Year” days...on the first of Tishri is the New Year for [the reckoning of] the years [of foreign kings], of the Years of Release and Jubilee years...’

That day was also the annual festival of ‘Trumpets’ (Lev 23:23-25) so it may have been felt that it was necessary to tie in the proclamation of this festival along with Jubilee, and, on it, the shophar was blown (a transliteration of Strongs Hebrew number 7782 which, like ‘yobel’, is also a word used for a trumpet made from a ram’s horn).

Like the sabbatical year, the year of Jubilee began at the end of one harvest (the 49th - though the 49th year was also a sabbatical year when no crops were grown) and before the sowing of the following year’s crops. It’s not surprising that two main calendars sprang up in Israel - one being the ‘Religious’ calendar beginning on the first day of Nisan and following the span of the seven annual festivals commanded to be celebrated by YHWH (Ex 12:1-2, Leviticus chapter 23), and the other the ‘Agricultural’ or ‘Secular’ calendar beginning between the end of the year’s harvest and the beginning of the next year’s sowing celebrated today by Jews worldwide as the first day of Tishri (the seventh month) called ‘Rosh Ha-shanah’ and translated by the phrase ‘the head of the year’ - see above). There were two other ‘New Year’ days but they don’t appear to have been as significant as the two mentioned.

The Jubilee year brought both release and rest to the Israelites and to their land and cattle and it’s these twin aspects that we must now consider.

http://www.arlev.co.uk/jubilee.htm#4

 

[THE Gypsy]

I guess we shall see how genuine it is.

 

[tgwprophet]

To what God did he dedicate Uganda?

 

[Pelaides]

America is guilty of the same sins,maybe worse.