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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Appointed by God: Deborah, the Prophetess

When God appoints you, He will equip you the woman, to do what He has asked you to do!
Deborah was appointed judge as seen below in verse 5.

Under this appointment given to her by God, she held court to judge and make decisions. Of those who came with their disputes, they also came to voice their opinions and were seeking to obtain wisdom in seeing those disputes settled in some manner or form!
For Deborah to be appointed, God gave to her what she needed to fulfill all of His plan for her life. She was willing and obedient to use her mouth for His glory.

Judges 4:4-23......4 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: 'Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. 7 I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.'" 

Judg 4:8-10
8 Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go." 

9 "Very well," Deborah said, "I will go with you. But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh, 10 where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him. 

11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh. 

12 When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, 13 Sisera gathered together his nine hundred iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River. 

14 Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down Mount Tabor, followed by ten thousand men. 15 At Barak's advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot. 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim. All the troops of Sisera fell by the sword; not a man was left. 

17 Sisera, however, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there were friendly relations between Jabin king of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite. 

18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she put a covering over him. 

19 "I'm thirsty," he said. "Please give me some water." She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up. 

20 "Stand in the doorway of the tent," he told her. "If someone comes by and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say 'No.'" 

21 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. 

22 Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. "Come," she said, "I will show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple-dead. 

23 On that day God subdued Jabin, the Canaanite king, before the Israelites.   24 And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin, the Canaanite king, until they destroyed him. 

NIV

I recommend highly the reading of the women in the Old Testament. In looking through the pages of those who lived, they have the testimonies that shine of those who led a life to know the Lord.

In reading in the book of Judges, we find a most interesting woman. Her name was Deborah. Her life ordinary, never! She was a wife to her husband Lappidoth found in Judges 4:4.

Deborah marked a place in history in Israel by being appointed by God  a judge in the land of Israel. She was the remarkable witness in the period of which she lives. At the time of her appointment, Israel was deep into idolatry and was characterized by their continual defeat and disobedience in refusing to follow truth.

It was at that time that Jabin was king of Canaan whose oppression marked an overwhelming harshness, cruelty and violence on the Israelite people. Every day they faced the crushing fear, harshness and cruelty one man could make on a group of people. Jabin was the oppressor!

But we find Deborah, who was the faithful wife, a lover of God and His ways, that brought her to a place of honor in leading a land of God’s people. She was a discerner and mindful to declaring God’s heart on all matters pertaining to her office of judge. Deborah was the prophetess who spoke the mind of God to those she led! When we allow God to dominate our minds and thoughts, He will certainly dominate our actions!

She had declared to Barak what instruction God had given to her in her time with Him. She told Barak step-by-step that God was with him. He was told to take his 10 thousand men and that God Himself would lure Sisera away from the other chariots and troops, but Barak said he would not go unless Deborah went up with him.
Deborah warned him that the way he was going about to defeat Sisera and the troops would not bring honor to him, but would bring honor to another and that was to a woman.

And we find in verse 18 of chapter 4 of Judges, that it was a woman who came out to meet the bad guy, Sisera.  She entreated the leader of the troops of the Canaanite king. She told Sisera to not be afraid, and she invited him into her tent, covered him and proceeded to give him something to drink. Interestingly enough Jael gave him milk to drink, to comfort him and make him sleepy. As he lay exhausted, she took a tent peg,(have you seen the size of some of those pegs) and yes, she hammered that big object into his temple. She nailed that guy to the ground and he died!
Wow!
Barak still looking for Sisera, he meets Jael who comes out to meet him and she declares that Sisera lay dead with the tent peg through his temple! (verse 22)

On that day in history, as Deborah stood as Judge.......she led with Barak and saw the Canaanites defeated. It was on that day, that we are told, that the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin, the Canaanite king and the Israelites eventually saw the king destroyed.

A woman of God, called of God and appointed to declare through her leadership that it was God Who led the way! In her devotion to hear Him voice His declarations of what was to come, she was allowed to speak for HIM, and encourage others to lead. In scripture, we find she even assisted as we see from the verses above.

Deborah was a lady who was clothed in humility (1 Peter 5:5) She had humbled herself to hear God, she humbled herself to serve her husband, and when she did, she ministered to the land of Israel in God’s wisdom, knowledge  and instruction.

In my opinion Deborah was remarkable! She was a prophetess, a wife and a judge.
It does not mention that she or her husband had children. But in scripture we find she was" a mother in Israel."


I believe she was sent to protect the children of Israel from the violence of the Canaanite king, Jabin. He was a man of violence who was cruel to all he came in contact with during those harsh and formidable years in Israel.
In scripture we find located in the book of Proverbs 3:31...." to envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."
The "oppressor" being the man of violence. In the world today, our children should be nurtured in a lifestyle of the pure, the peaceable, the gentle, easy to get along with, and yes full of mercy. From James 3:14-18 the description of wisdom spoken about is to be without hypocrisy, without any partiality and full of good fruits.
If we are introducing our children and yes, grand-children into an oppressed lifestyle, we NEED TO STOP IT NOW! I, too, have found I need to change the channel and get if off the show with guns ringing out, guns used to harm another person, guns that depict violence in this world. I for one must change the channel to something along the lines of peace for our grand-daughter to see and enjoy and not to be scared out of her wits.
Deborah, stood as wisdom to declare God will deliver the land from the oppressor.
He will deliver us from cruelty, oppressive people, and those who inflict brutality on another person.
But who of us will take the stand to do that? Or who will fight for our children and grand-children and see violence come to an end?
Psalm 73:6-8 says, "therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.....7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity;
the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
8 They scoff, and speak with malice;
in their arrogance they threaten oppression. NIV

So from scripture it appears, that violence has many faces!

If a man, woman or child have the hardened heart, and are consumed with lying like verse 7 declares, then the man, woman or even the child will speak with the malice, and exhibit a brutality towards another person.
When a person speaks with malice, they speak to do evil, to take revenge on another, and they have this deep-seated meanness and hate. Those who have put on the garment of violence speak with arrogance, and they usually have the prideful self-importance in their behavior around others. They bully others to announce their unhappiness and to declare themselves to be number "1". It is in this arrogance of bullying they threaten to bring cruelty, brutality and destruction by physical force.


Sound familiar? Seen that lately on the evening news?

Deborah the Judge, became the "mother in Israel" the mother who watched over God's children in Israel at a time of injustice, of violence, and maltreatment. In the verses describing the sad condition of those in the country at the time, the oppression of the people and distress was due to their sin in idolatry.
We allow our children to watch violent movies, and play games that initiate violent force on another and then we wonder what is going on in our streets!
We are certainly not to make provision for the sinful, the oppressive things in our homes or even our schools and sport activities. We saw the oppressive king described in Judges. God sent Deborah to stand strong for her nation. Can we do as much? Are our children worth the price to see violence come to an end in our cities, and in our homes?
Should it not be our ambition to look to find the sin of idolatry that is plaguing our country, find it and confess it to prevent foreign invasions as the people of Israel had during the time of book of Judges. In discovering Deborah, the prophetess, we discovered a woman who was a mother who looked over the nation with a love to see God prevail!

I hope I not only introduced you to " a mother in Israel, I hope that I introduced you into moving to take a stand where you lead, to be the woman of faith, and hold onto the God who delivers. Make no provision for the flesh. Keep an eye on friendships, especially pertaining to children. Let us pray for our children and our nation to see the violence end. Above all. be alert to any negative media that might come into the home either by T. V,, movies, or Internet! Keep the scriptures alive in your home and visit them often with family members.
Has God ordered your steps"as the mother in Washington" to stand for truth and to end violence? You may not be the prophetess, but you certainly can prophesy over your home, children and community. You can be the instrument of peace for your home and neighborhood. Stand against discouragement, cynicism and pessimism. Stand strong against unrighteousness, and anything that is unholy.

Protect your children today! God expects it!

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