| Christianity: White man's religion?Martin Luther King | | | | Libya, strange how there's no Canaan today. Note: |
| referred to Sunday as being "the most | | | | Contrary to the teaching of SOME, it was NOT |
| segregated day in America."Truer words were | | | | the entire black race that was cursed, only the |
| never spoken.A few years ago I was preaching | | | | Canaanites, because of Canaan's sin. They were |
| and, Lord, help me, my opening words were, | | | | the original inhabitants of Israel (1 Chr 4:40) but |
| "Look around. What do you see? I see a church | | | | exist no more. My, how they could have been |
| full of white people." The Blacks, Hispanics, Asians | | | | blessed! Yes, there ARE long-term consequences |
| and others.... they'd all been there, but we had | | | | for sin, affecting even our descendants.Noah's |
| holes in our net and hadn't been able to keep 'em. | | | | sons migrated, spreading out all over the earth: |
| Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God is like a net, | | | | Japheth's people to modern Europe, Shem's to |
| catching ALL kinds of fish..." (Matt 13:47) and that | | | | the Middle East. Ham's descendants went to |
| includes black ones, brown ones, red, yellow, | | | | southern Arabia, Africa, and India. Cush had a son |
| Protestant and Catholic, young, old, male and | | | | named Nimrod (Gen 10:10) who built the tower of |
| female.As Americans, we often project an | | | | Babel as well as Erech, Accad and Calneh near the |
| imperialistic attitude that the rest of the world | | | | Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the starting point of all |
| detests. Regarding American CHRISTIANS, I've | | | | civilization (Gen 10:10; 11:1).Cush's descendants |
| often heard and read of third world pastors telling | | | | founded powerful Assyria,builders of Ninevah.The |
| how they only wish they had the money the | | | | Bible gives no record of Phut's geneology.Ham's |
| Americans raised to take their "missionary | | | | decendants included Menelik, offspring of the |
| journeys" so that they could better care for their | | | | Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, to whom |
| own families and congregations... purchase bibles | | | | Ethiopians trace their historical roots.Joseph |
| and study tools, attend seminary. Can we even | | | | married an Egyptian woman (Gen 41:50-52) so his |
| imagine a group of half naked primitives coming | | | | sons, Manasseh and Ephraim definitely had Hamitic |
| into our churches to share the latest "revelation" | | | | (Black) blood.Jethro was Ethiopian and converted |
| God had given their tribe? Yet we spend a | | | | to Judaism because of Moses' testimony (Ex |
| fortune crossing the pond for these "life changing" | | | | 18:1-12).Moses was married to an Ethiopian |
| (whose life?) short-term missions experiences. | | | | woman, too, (Numbers 12:1). Was she black? |
| Don't get me wrong, I believe in missions, most | | | | Could have been! In Numbers 12, Miriam and |
| especially those geared toward helping the sick | | | | Aaron began opposing Moses because of his |
| and the children, but I've heard too many stories | | | | Cushite (Ethiopian) wife, showing contempt for her |
| from missionaries who admitted they felt they | | | | ancestry. This angered the Lord and Miriam was |
| made NO difference on their missions trip and | | | | stricken with leprosy (interestingly, this disease |
| from Nationals who could have used a nice | | | | would not only make MIRIAM the outcast from |
| healthy love offering instead.I once taught a | | | | the community, but her skin became REALLY |
| Sunday school class to a room full of mostly | | | | white as a result of the disease. Poetic justice? |
| Black African pastors, their small frames lost | | | | After Moses pleaded on her behalf, God healed |
| within their too-large, out-of -date suits and ties. | | | | her and returned her to the camp). NOTE: It is |
| Between them, their congregations ranged in the | | | | my contention that Miriam's REAL problem was |
| area of 40,000 people. These humble men were | | | | not so much with Moses' wife as it was with his |
| taking notes, asking questions, hanging on my | | | | prophetic gift and his special relationship with God. |
| every word. I don't know about them but, for | | | | Perhaps she went for the obvious (Miriam's |
| me, THAT was life-changing! God bless those who | | | | fleshtone) rather than humbllng herself and |
| were wise enough to fly these African pastors to | | | | admitting to Moses how she envied him.The |
| the USA so they could return home and teach | | | | Scripture does not indicate any prohibition against |
| those with whom they already had relationship | | | | Jews marrying Cushites (Ethiopians) and they |
| (key word).Regarding this so-called "white man's | | | | seemed to have had good relations with them |
| religion," it's true that some mistakenly believe | | | | (Amos 9:7; Ps 68:31; Zeph 3:10; Is 11:11).Jehudi |
| Christianity is the religion of Whites in the same | | | | was a secretary in the king's court during |
| way others consider Islam to be the religion of | | | | Jeremiah's time and was a descendeant of Cushi |
| the Blacks. Folks, Hosea 4:6 declares, "My people | | | | (Jer 36:14,21,23) as was the prophet |
| are destroyed for lack of knowledge...." Let us | | | | Zephaniah.From Ham's lineage came Joshua, and |
| strive to KNOW the truth for the Scripture says, | | | | David'sgrandmother, Rahab, a Canaanite. |
| "they shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set | | | | Bath-sheba means"daughterof Sheba." Sheba is |
| you free,"(Jn 8:32). What you're about to read, I | | | | listed in Ham's family registry, Genesis |
| believe, will be VERY liberating.THE TRUTH | | | | 7.Bath-sheba was married to Uriah the Hittite, |
| ABOUT OUR ANCESTORYBlack Christianity did | | | | whose roots can be traced to Ham's grandson, |
| not start in America with the slaves that | | | | Heth (Gen 10:15). King Solomon's complexion and |
| converted to their master's religion. Genesis 10 | | | | hair are described as black but beautiful (Song of |
| shows us where all the races originated. The Black | | | | Solomon 5:10,11).Moving to the New Testament |
| lineage is presented by family, languages, locations | | | | times, scholars believe the wise men who sought |
| and nations. The Bible tells us, in Genesis, that | | | | the baby Jesus (no biblical record of there being |
| everyone began with Adam and Eve. EVERYONE! | | | | only three) were Ethiopians because the gold, |
| Genesis 2:7 tells us Adam was made from the | | | | frankincense, and myrrh were plentiful in southern |
| earth. Science has proven that we're all made | | | | Arabia and east Africa.The Ethiopian eunuch in |
| from the same materials as are found in the | | | | Acts 8:26-39 undoubtedly brought Christianity to |
| earth. The Hebrew word for Adam is Adahm, | | | | Ethiopia. |
| meaning "red" or "from red earth."Yes, Adam was | | | | Simon the Canaanite was considered to be a |
| a person of color!After the flood, it was Noah and | | | | Black apostle (Matt 10:4).Simon of Cyrene, who |
| his kids that populated the earth (Acts 17:26; Gen | | | | helped Jesus carry His cross, was probably a |
| 9:18,19). His sons were named Ham, Shem, and | | | | descendant of Ham since Cyrene was in North |
| Japheth. These names mean Black, Dusky and | | | | Africa.Apollos (Acts 18:24) came from Ham, too. |
| Bright, or "fair," respectively. Biblical historians | | | | Certainly, nations that descended from Ham were |
| agree that Ham is the ancestral father of the | | | | there at Pentecost (Acts 2) with the |
| Black races - the Mongoloids, Egyptians, Ethiopians, | | | | establishment of the Church.Simeon, or Niger, and |
| the Canaanites, and the Indians. From Shem | | | | Lucius of Cyrene were leaders of the Antioch |
| descended the Jews, Arabs and Persians. From | | | | Church (Acts 13:1). The people of these regions |
| Japheth came the Greeks, Caucasians, Russians, | | | | were black. These were the men who ordained |
| the Indo-Europeans.One Black son out of three? | | | | and commissioned the great apostle Paul.JESUS: |
| Well, we don't know exactly HOW dark the | | | | Man of Many ColorsJesus was of mixed |
| pigment was of the other two but, is that | | | | ancestory. You heard right... Jesus was mixed! Our |
| possible? With God, ALL things are possible. Face | | | | Lord was a person of color! Though He was |
| it, if YOU were the Supreme Creative Being, | | | | primarily Semetic, of the five ladies referred to in |
| wouldn't YOU get creative when making people | | | | His geneology, Tama, Rahab, Ruth, Bath-sheba, |
| and animals?Look around. Look in the mirror... | | | | and Mary, the first four descended from Ham, |
| God's been VERY creative. Medical research tells | | | | Noah's Black son (Matt 1:1-16).Let's face it, folks, |
| us it IS possible to have children that are very | | | | man looks at the outside, but God looks at the |
| different in color, especially if one or both parents | | | | heart (1 Sam 16:7). It doesn't matter if you're |
| are dark-complexioned, but it's impossible for a | | | | green with orange spots! He's not looking for |
| fair complexioned person to produce a | | | | complexion or physical features. He's not |
| dark-skinned child. So, for Noah to have fathered | | | | impressed by what we look like, talklike, or where |
| a "black" son, he or his wife had to have been | | | | we live. He doesn't care how religious we are or |
| dark-skinned, too.Logically speaking.Noah's son, | | | | how beautiful our church is. He doesn't care how |
| Ham, father of African and Black races, had four | | | | we dress, drive or what denomination we |
| boys... Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan, Genesis | | | | claim.You see, there was no room at the Inn |
| 10:6. Cush was father of the Ethiopians (Gen 2:13; | | | | when our Saviour was born and now He's looking |
| 10:6) and the people living within Asia and Africa. | | | | at our hearts, regardless of our epidermal hue, to |
| Cush means "black" and Ethiopia means "man | | | | see if there's room there for Him to rule each |
| witha sunburned face." Jeremiah13:23 says, "Can | | | | individual's life as Lord.No matter what color our |
| the Ethiopian change his skin...?"Mizraim fathered | | | | epidermis may be, the question we must answer |
| the Egyptians and his name means "children of | | | | is: are we available?Need pastoral counseling and |
| the sun." Eventually, they even started | | | | prayer? Write or IM me at Every blessing!Michael |
| worshipping it, but that's another story. Ham is | | | | A servant of God |
| derived from the Egyptian name "Kam," the | | | | t.e.a.m. ministries |
| srongest word in the Egyptian language for | | | | A Message of Discipleship & Encouragement to |
| "black." The book of Psalms refers to Egypt as | | | | the Body of Christ |
| "the land of Ham" (Ps 78:51; 105:23, 26. 27; | | | | P.O. Box 633 |
| 106:21,22). Phut was father of the nation of Libya, | | | | Stephenville, Texas 76401Pastor Michael has |
| (Ezekiel 27:10; 38:5; Jer 46:9 and Nahum 3:9). Libya | | | | been eMailing weekly broadcasts of discipleship |
| means "black" also.Ham's youngest son was | | | | and encouragement to Christians of all |
| Canaan, cursed by Noah in Genesis 9:20-26. | | | | denominations since 1999. He also does a great |
| Though we've all heard of Ethiopia, Egypt and | | | | deal of IM and eMail pastoral counseling. |