Councillor hopes police will maintain vigilance
COUNCILLOR DOREEN Hutchinson, who represents the Carron Hall division in St Mary in which the Following the Blueprint Ministries is located, said that she has been active in the division for 30 years.
“I heard of the community, but there is not much I can say except that they are doing great farming down there. I only knew about them following the occurrences in St James. I also heard of the police’s visit, largely, I believe, out of concerns of other residents in the division,” the three-term municipal representative told The Sunday Gleaner.
“In terms of their church and suggestions that they are a cult, I cannot say, but residents have concerns. They are way down, deep into the Bell Hill community, and it’s one way in and one way out. Residents have reported that many high-end vehicles go in and out and mostly at nights,” she said.
Hutchinson said she does not want any trouble.
“I hope the police maintain vigilance because I don’t want any antagonisms with adjoining communities and the new community,” she said.
She also could not say who owned the lands they occupy.
The group’s YouTube account, which has more than 4,000 subscribers, has several videos of the followers ministering on the streets in several Jamaican towns, including Papine, Half-Way Tree, Santa Cruz, Linstead, and Montego Bay. In one video, they encouraged passers-by to get out of Babylon.
MARK OF THE BEAST
They believe that the Government is getting ready to designate Sunday as the official day of worship. For them, such an action was the mark of the beast.
Delroy Green clearly believes so. “What we know is that the Bible tells us that the smaller beast – that is America – is going to rise up and strengthen the bigger beast, which is Rome and the Pope. We don’t believe in any ‘Popery’, so we are preparing for that day and no one can tell us when to worship. The Bible speaks about the Sabbath Day and we intend to keep it holy,” he told The Sunday Gleaner.
Green, a resident of Constitution Hill and Duhaney Park in St Andrew, said he was a carpenter working on cabins.
While he had not yet constructed his own cabin, he was busy building for those who will join the commune in the future.
“This is a way of life for those who are sufficiently convicted in God’s ideal way of life. There is no deception here. We have nothing to hide. We know we will be persecuted. They will call us mad, but we know who we are. This is a physical and spiritual test of character,” Green said.