Sunday, May 17, 2020

Living in Oppression Does Not Bring Freedom

Was hearing this teaching this morning and it was a good one! This pastor is one out of California and we listen to him weekly. He taught to those  in attendance that they all required truth! I agree! And the truth is found in God's word and not in news articles or made up things from men's worldly thoughts and ways! 

He continued to tell them that early people in the Bible and of course, he gave the years before Christ and then during His time and how the color of those living at that time were darker. He compared his skin color and continued to tell them that even Pharaoh even had dark skin. He went on to explain Noah and the sons he had and what areas they had settled after the flood. So after he had given this teaching I kept thinking of how people are living oppressed without freedom when they are held by the very color of their skin!

Jesus was not held by oppression but came to set captives free from every stinking thing that would hold a person down.

Here I give you some detail:

Genesis 9:18-28 NKJV Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. 20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 The he said: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants He shall be to his brethren.” 26 And he said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth; and may he dwell in the tens of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.”


Genesis 10:1-10 NKJV Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer, wer Ashkenaz,, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations. 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raaman, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raaman were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:25 To Eber was born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

So it was Ham who saw his father’s nakedness. And Ham’s sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan. The Holman Illustrated Bible Commentary records that Ham’s descendants were associated with the regions of Africa and Arabia. Also Nimrod, from same family was a successful but aggressive empire builder.
It was this Nimrod that organized what would be the first secular government in what would be the city of Babel seen in Genesis 10:8-10. 

It is what is known today as socialism in that only a few leaders at the top would actually profit from the labor of the majority beneath them. It was revealed that this Nimrod organized others in a short time to connect with other men in the areas they wanted to have in their empire and among those many cities each was ruled by that “self-willed” king! You can see that today in those who have a greed + pride that marks their competition style that enslaves others by economic manipulation.



Genesis.11:1-4  Now the whole earth was of one language,& of one speech. (lip).  2 & it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; & they dwelt there.  3 Then they said one to another, “ Come,  let us make bricks for stone & bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, & they had asphalt for mortar. 4 & they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city & a tower, whose top may reach in to the heavens; let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” 



They did not want to be scattered for safety reasons. The increase of animals is increased when sin increases! The news of bears staying close to people’s neighborhoods and yes who built their new home in the backyard of bears seems common today as well as cougars running close to neighborhood’s  and schools, again due to building in the area that is country and home to the such. Have you lately checked the skies over the area of which you live? Take a walk outside or drive to the outskirt of your community and you will see turkey buzzards and the such. They are circling, waiting for the morsel to show up on their plate! We have noticed them where we live, and also by driving either west or east of here, and yes, the small communities have them as much as the bigger towns and cities do!


Genesis 11:5-9 NKJV BUT the Lord came down to see the city & the tower, which the sons of men had built.  6 And the Lord said, “Indeed, the people are one, & they have all one language; & this is what they begin to do: now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.   7 Come, let US go down & there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, & they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD confused the language of all the earth: & from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon over the face of all the earth.


In looking at the map of the nations of Genesis 10 we find the countries of Greece, Syria, Lebanon, Assyria, Persia, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. And the skin coloring was darker than say of those in what would be the European region.    

            
In 1 Chronicles 1:19 to Eber were born two son: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.


At the time Peleg was born and of his life, God caused the land mass to separate into continents. It would be five generations when Abram would appear. He and his family were told to leave Ur of the Chaldeans and go to Canaan. Ur would be located in northern Mesopotamia and is identified with the city in southern Iraq. These were people with darker skin coloring. It is important to remember that when Noah got off that ark, only his family got off. It was eight people: Noah and his wife, and their sons with their wives. And the sons were to be fruitful and multiply. So if Adam was taken from the ground and we know he was by the scripture seen in Genesis 2:7, God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. So this group seen after the flood would be the beginning of the lineage of man across the earth.


Today many people desire to know their lineage. They desire to know if they came over on the Mayflower, but still all have come from Adam and resembles the color of the earth. So there are those with conflicting opinions concerning people and their ethnicity.
After what occurred to the Tower of Babel, the Japhetic race went to the east of Europe and north of Asia to multiply the race!
Japheth is usually thought of as the “Father of the Europeans”. He is known to be the ancestor of all Indo-European nations. The majority of his descendants are situated in north western regions like Anatolia and Aegean.


He was given the word to enlarge in Genesis 9:27. His people would settle areas and enlarge to take the parts considered as Asia and the Americas. But Scriptures reminds us that a fraction would be separated until the conquest of the Shemite tribes would occur to drive them to the northern regions where they would occupy the South of Europe.

All these were descendants of color more or less, are still the same family, so what is the “problem”?
Certainly all came through what was of Noah and his sons. Men of color, including the Pharaohs, wise men, prophets, teachers, scholars, judges, and seamen, and even Jesus! 
Even my own mother told me when we saw the movie of Cleopatra, that she, Cleopatra,  was really not considered the “white” but would have been a woman of color…..like all were people there! She continued to tell me that as more people traveled and settled in colder regions, the less sun they saw and more indoor time they experienced and endured the less tan their skin would appear. The colder the climates, the more likely a coat would cover to keep the sun's rays off the skin of a person!

Wow, does that not seem like what we are doing today…that time to endure "sheltered" in rooms with no sunshine but the light from a lamp or the light from the television set? I wonder if we should check our color chart guide or do we have one to see if we are much too pale?

No seriously, we all have the same blood, and just because you may be lighter in skin than me or darker does not change the truth that living in oppression does not bring freedom. We must come to the place and realize God knows best and He knows what He is doing. We are here by His choice and for His pleasure. And we should learn to get along with each other because He said so and not because of any man or woman thing, but because God is Father who cares and desires us to be one family: HIS!

Whether a family comes from the south China seas makes no difference from the family who comes from Norway, or even the Hawaiian Islands. God created, and God is love! He has desires for us as His own and as His, those sons of God, we are to abide in His Son, live by the power of the Holy Spirit and express His love to others. May the rest of 2020 be for His glory and to His love that prevails in us all that none of us will live in oppression or by oppressive rules of man but by the love and guidance of a holy Father in heaven. Amen.

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