In my local dialect, "maasai" is a word used to mean "blood". Not so strange considering the tribe was founded by a Maasai man who settled amongst a Bantu people and had an agreement and became part of the new culture. We are referring to our progenitor.
The Maasai may look like a small tribe today. But don't be fooled. Many surrounding nations were either established by Maasai or heavily mixed with Maasai. They were a power to be reckoned with in East Africa, a super power in their hay days ... The Maasai are part of the Nilotes who were the great worriers of Egypt. In fact, it is thanks to the Maasai that most East African Bantus escaped slavery.
Maasai History
According to the tribe's own oral history, the Maasai originated north of Lake Turkana (north-west Kenya) in the lower Nile Valley. They began migrating south in the 15th century and arrived in the long trunk of land stretching across central Tanzania and Northern Kenya during the 17th and 18 century. The Maasai territory reached its most dominant size in the 19 century when they covered most of the Great Rift Valley and adjacent lands from Dodoma and Mount Marsabit.It therefore touches a cord today, that I am talking about my "Maasai".
This is the word of the LORD concerning the Maasai ...
22/10/2020
I want you to know the reed of the Maasai will be broken
Now, this is how I understood this word as it was dropped on me...
The reed refers to the scepter of power of a rulership. The rulership is coming to an end ....
I would like to compare this word with past prophecy in the bible:
"36:5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?36:6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. Isaiah"
