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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