4th Temple Guard: Reverend Daddy Paul Bogle

Guardian of A Temple Gate

The Right Honourable Deacon. Paul Bogel

Paul Bogle was born in the Caribbean Island of Jamaica in the year 1822 and ascended on 24 October 1865, after being assassinated and martyred, by the British army, for trying to seek justice in the name of Christ, for his fellow Jamaican, newly freed from chattel, plantation slavery. Paul Bogel was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist.

He is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 Morant Bay protesters, who marched for justice and fair treatment for all the people in Jamaica. After leading the Morant Bay rebellion, Bogle was captured by government troops, tried and convicted by British authorities under martial law, and hanged on 24 October 1865 in the morant bay court house.  like other African's who came before him and those who came after.

Paul had interpreted the Gospel of Yahshuah to mean something quite different from how Jesus, with Europeanised spectacles commonly perceived.  In accordance with an African-centred view of the Christ and the Gospel, Paul saw within the divine word the inspiration, authority and necessity, to use the Holy Message, to uplift his downtrodden fellow Jamaicans, out of the political, social, economical and educational turmoil and degradation that western Christian policy had determined for his people.  He like his Shepherd also Bore his Cross and like a Good Servant following his Master Yahshuah, he likewise lay down his life for the sheep and his brethrin. Paul Bogel is also a National hero of Jamaica.

The Credentials and Significance:

He bore his Cross, for Christ and suffered the same fate.  He was his Brothers Keeper and was a Mini-Star and Good Shepherd who demonstrated the greatest love, as he laid down his life for the sheep and his Brethrin.  He was a Baptist preacher, who had been influenced specifically by the Ethiopianism Christian movement that had sent out missionary's from the U.S, to all parts of the then Black world, to propagate this new message, including Jamaica, in 1782, through Rev, George Lisle, also selected as a Temple Guard.