By Lincoln G. Peters
The head of one of Liberia’s newly certificated political parties, Cllr. Luther N. Yorfee says the country is under a serious spiritual curse.
Yorfee links the alleged spiritual curse to the unnecessary murder of former Liberian presidents Samuel Kanyon Doe, and William R. Tolbert, and the elimination of thirteen ex-government officials.
Yorfee is the Vision Bearer of the Liberia Rebuilding Party (LRP). The National Elections Commission (NEC) certificated LRP along with nine other political parties Tuesday, 30 May 2023 ahead of the October elections.
In an interview with journalists at the NEC following his party’s accreditation, Cllr. Yorfee indicated that since the Liberian civil unrest, the country has made no significant progress in the areas of infrastructure development and reconciliation.
The presidential hopeful suggested that to make progress, LRP has to be built on four major pillars.
They include rebuilding relationships with God and the citizens, rebuilding lives, rebuilding the country’s economy, and rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
“You will agree with me that we have slain two of our leaders [by] violent means in this country. Even the Bible says woe to that nation that gets rid of her own king,” Cllr. Yorfee argued.
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“This means that we (Liberians) have a curse on us already because we have slain two of our presidents, namely former presidents Samuel K. Doe and William R. Tolbert,” he noted.
According to him, President Tolbert was killed along with thirteen other government officials in the name of rampant corruption.
“However, when we look at our country today, can we say we are free of rampant corruption? No. This means that the killing of those people was useless.”
For reconciliation, he said he will ensure that it remains paramount in this country.
Yorfee also believes that giving the slain presidents a befitting state burial will help the country reconcile.
“We are going to build a national park to be named the Liberian National Reconciliation Park.”
Cllr. Yorfee said unless Liberia and Liberians are brought back to God, they will never prosper.
He said his priority is to rebuild Liberia’s relationship with God.
“However, after that, we have to rebuild our relationship with our fellow citizens. That has to do with reconciliation,” Cllr. Yorfee noted.
I could not agree more with counsellor Korfee on – Why Liberia is cursred:
1. There are still unrepented transferred sins of the fathers.
Exodus 20:5 said the sins of the fathers will be passed along to 3rd and 4th generations.
Sins of succeeding generations:
“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies lands; and also in rhe iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them;
(Leviticus 26:39)
The land is farmished, the Lord sent “lions among them” that are killing many of the people!” (2 Kings 17:25)
What would stop Liberia’s curse?
An atonement for the curse!
David’s enquiry of the famine and the Gibeonites! ( 2 Samuel 21:1-10)
21 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
21 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.