11th Temple Guard: The Rt Honourable Rev. Simeon Kimbangu

A Temple Guardian of Windows:

Envoy of Yahshuah to Africa and the Kongo

Simeon Kimbangu was born on 12 September 1887 in the Congo, Central Africa and ascended on the 12th October 1951.  Kimbangu was a Congolese religious leader and the founder of Kimbanguism, one of the largest independent Christian movements in Black Africa. His followers consider him to be the special envoy of Jesus Christ.

Kimbangu became a Baptist in 1915, and worked as a catechist for several years before beginning his own ministry in early 1921.  He began his preaching and ministry in the early part of the year 1921, around the month of April.  He immediately began to cure the sick of all types of ailments, diseases and life-long disabilities; he also even raised the dead back to life, in the name of Yahshuah, according to his followers.  Due to his success, through the power of the Holy Spirit that guided and moved within him, his ministry developed rapidly and scores of Congolese people began to flock to him and follow him. This caused suspicion and was seen as a major threat to the Belgian authorities.

Both the Protestant and the Catholic religious establishments in the Congo became alarmed and appealed to the colonial authorities who sought his arrest.  Simeon Kimbangu alongside some of his followers was soon arrested on 6 June 1921, but Kimbangu escaped. His ministry continued in hiding for a few months, but in September he turned himself in to the authorities.

He was immediately put before a military court, without legal representation, found guilty of undermining public security and disturbing the peace, was sentenced first to death, but this was commuted by the King of Belgium to life imprisonment. He spent the rest of his life in Elisabethville prison, where 30 years later he ascended, on 12 October 1951.

The Credentials and Significance:

His ministry of preaching and miraculous healing which had lasted only from April to September 1921 a total of around six months before his life imprisonment, is proof that the Holy Spirit was with him.  He achieved the standard determined by the Good Shepherd, to be called by His Name, a Christian or Karastian more precisely. He was A Great African Christian, who was totally none-violent and preached only peace and love through Yahshuah.