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The Kardashians are one of America’s most prominent celebrity families. Today, they are household names, but if it wasn’t for a 175 year old prophetic word, the family wouldn’t even exist.
Kim Kardashian, 46, is perhaps the most famous of the Kardashian family. She gained her fame starring in the reality TV show Keeping up with the Kardashians, along with her sisters Kloe and Kourtney and other family members. The show ran from 2007 to 2021.
It was rumored Kim was the highest paid reality star at the time. She along with her sisters branched out to other TV programs, movies and the retail and fashion industry.
Kloe is reportedly a Christian and provides a daily devotionals for members of her Glam squad.
Their father, Robert Kardashian, was famous for his role in helping defend former NFL star OJ Simpson in his notorious 1995 murder trial.
According to Wikipedia, several members of the family have assets in excess of one billion dollars.
In 2015, the Daily Mail published the unusual story of how a prophetic word given by a 11-year-old boy saved the Kardashian family on the father’s side from the Armenian genocide.
The article was titled, Keeping up with the Kardashians circa 1900! How Kim’s ancestors heeded prophet’s warning of looming slaughter to escape rural Armenia for a new life in the US.
The Kardashian family originated in Russia and at that time went by the last name Kardaschoffs. In the mid 1800s, they moved to the village of Karakale, located in present-day Turkey in the shadow of the Ararat Mountains, the resting place of Noah’s ark.
The family was considered religious rebels as they did not belong to the Russian Orthodox church but instead favored a protestant group called the Molokans which translated means milk-lovers.
They were tagged with the name because on Russian Orthodox fast days they drank milk which was forbidden.
The Russian Orthodox church branded them as heretics and heavily persecuted the group.
The particular Molokan group the Kardashian family belonged to was impacted by an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in 1833.
As a result, their services took on a very pentecostal flavor. This included raising hands in worship, dancing (jumping), prophecy and other Holy Spirit manifestations such as being slain in the spirit, and laughing. There was also a release of miracles said to rival what happened in the early church.
This outpouring may have been connected to the Cane Ridge Revival that broke out in the US state of Kentucky three decades earlier. It had very similar manifestations.
According to the Revival Library, one of the unusual characteristics of the Cane Ridge Revival was how young children were giving prophetic words.
It writes, that children delivered quote ‘powerful exhortations that deeply moved the attendees” and were “often filled with surprising spiritual insights”. unquote
The same thing took place in the revival that hit the Molokan group.
During the 1850s a 11-year-old boy, Efim Klubnikin, gave a prophetic word that many Armenians would die unless they fled to a land across the great ocean.
He prophesied:
“Those who believe in this will go on a journey to a far land, while the unbelievers will remain in place. Our people will go on a long journey over the great and deep waters. People from all countries will go there. There will be a great war. All kings will shed blood like great rivers. Two steamships will leave to cross the impassable ocean.”
Though the Molokans believed in prophecy, unlike the Cane Ridge Revival, they ignored the prophetic word because it came from a young child.
However, in 1901, Efim, now grown up, called a meeting of the elders of Molokan churches and villages in the area surrounding Karakale. He reminded them of the prophetic word he received 40 years earlier. He told them the decades-old prophecy would soon come to pass and people needed to leave.
But then Efim added two further revelations. One was a warning that there was only a small window of opportunity. The Armenians needed to move quickly because the government would soon close the door to people leaving the country.
The second was that they were not only to go to the US but to America’s west coast and used a crudely drawn map to point to California and Los Angeles in particular.
Over the next decade or so, about 2,000 Armenians obeyed the prophecy, abandoned their homes and fled to America. Those who stayed behind often mocked the families as they departed.
In 1913, the Kardashian family’s great grandfather Tatos Kardashian, then 17, headed on a steamer to America following his parents, who had left a few weeks earlier to Los Angeles. Tatos would eventually marry fellow Armenian and Molokan refugee, Hamas Shakarian.
Demos Shakarian, father of Tatos’ wife Hamas, became a famous pentecostal preacher in Los Angeles. His grandson, who was given the same name, Demos Shakarian, founded the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship in 1952.
Both sides of the Kardashian family tree heeded the prophetic warning.
What I found unusual was why the prophecy told them to specifically go to the US West Coast. The answer to that question may lie in the Azusa Street Pentecostal Revival that took place in Los Angeles between 1906 and 1915.
Because of their previous experience with the Holy Spirit, the Molokans in both doctrine and spirit played an important role in this Holy Spirit outpouring which sparked the world-wide Pentecostal movement.
Those who left not only avoided World War I, but they escaped the terrifying Armenian genocide that took place between 1915 and 23, where it’s estimated that the Ottoman Empire slaughtered upwards of 1.5 million Armenians.
Between 1915 and 1916, the Ottoman government sent 800,000 Armaneans to Syria. These were essentially death marches. Not only were they sent without food and water but at different stages of the journey, thousands were separated from the groups and massacred either by shooting, driving them off of cliffs or tying them together and throwing them into rivers.
The Euphrates and Tigris rivers were so full of bodies that at times explosives were needed to break up blockades.
Upwards of 200,000 Armenians, mostly young women and children, were forced to convert to Islam. Many were sold into slavery.
Every Armanean in the village of Karakale, where the Kardashians family came from, was reportedly killed during the genocide.
And if wasn’t for a prophetic word, the Kardashian family’s ancestors would have been among the dead.
It reveals that the spiritual gifts did not end with the apostolic age. The Holy Spirit is still active today and desires to use spiritual gifts, like the gift of prophecy, to build the Lord’s church.
Thanks for joining on this podcast, and I will catch you again.
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