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