Uncovering The Presence Of Black People In The Bible

Hey, we got folks on YouTube. We got folks on Zoom. We got folks here in the room. Say hi, folks in the room. Okay, so. All right, so we're going to get started and it's really fascinating because like you say, I'm going to talk about black people in the Bible. And some people initially like, the first thought in their mind is why do you even have to talk about that? And in reality, I was one of those people. So I'm going to. Before I get into.

The Bible study this morning, I want to tell you a little bit about my history so you understand a little bit about where I'm coming from. I can remember.

I don't really. I don't really remember the first time I understood. I don't even remember how old I was the first time I under. But I was probably. I was probably.

6, 7th, 8th grade when I realized that. When I realized that there was this major conflict between black people and white people in the United States of America. I was, I was, I was older. So I was born here in Tampa, Florida. I was born May 14, 1961. I got a birthday coming up in a couple of months. Okay. So I was born May 14, 1961. I was born in Clarify Hospital. Clarify Hospital doesn't exist anymore. It was a post Civil War hospital that was started for black people in a post Civil War nurse's house at. And even almost 100 years after the Civil War was over, it was still. The whole segregated hospital thing was still a thing. My parents grew up in Florida. So.

I don't think people really understand the severity of the difficulty that existed for black people in the United States of America, especially in the Democratic South. And I said that that way for a reason. Okay, Okay. I said that that way, number one, because a lot of people don't even realize that the Democratic Party was the primary part. And I'm not being political at all. I'm just making a historical statement because I believe politics for the most part are a distraction. But I'm not even gonna. Don't even have time to go into my beliefs about all that right now. But the reason I said the Democratic south is because the Democratic Party was the pro slavery party since the beginning of the United States. And. And in my opinion, hasn't changed any. But the Republican Party is not better than the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party's not. Well, yeah, it's all a bunch politics. Politics. Poly. More than one tick blood sucking parasite. So that's how I feel about politics. Okay. Especially lifers. Right. They exist for the purpose of siphoning the life and money out of people. And they want to make rules for other people to live by. So I don't have a whole lot of growing respect for politics in general as a whole. But I do love living in America. I've been other places. I love America even though sometimes America doesn't love me back. Okay? And I'm keeping it real. So I remember hearing my parents have conversations when I was a kid where did the whole quote racial. There's only one race. I talked about that last week. There's only one race, the human race.

And all humans on earth came from one father and one mother. And then a little bit later on one other father and one other mother. Right? Say what does that mean? They came from Adam and Eve. Then what happened? The flood happened. So all human beings that exist on the earth today came from Noah and his wife, period. All human beings, all other human beings were wiped out during the flood. Now so if we want to go back and understand where black people in the Bible are mentioned in the Bible, we have to talk about how we have to let the text say what the text says without adding some humans misinterpretation. So a lot of people don't realize this. One of the reasons.

Man, I'm going to say this. In scripture we find two kingdoms. We find the kingdom of God and we find the counterfeit kingdom of Satan. They are not just different, they are opposites. They are not just opposites, they are opposing. The tenets of the kingdom of God are, and I state, freedom.

By the way, when I say freedom, I'm talking about individual freedom. Because you can't have collective freedom if you don't have individual freedom. Freedom.

Profits, profits, meaning that a human being should benefit from their own, from the work of their own hands. Freedom, profits, abundance. The first thing God told man was be fruitful. What is a fruit? A living organism whose seed is in itself. So when God said be fruitful, what is he saying? He's saying you make sure you make show up on the outside of you based on the seed of creativity that I put on the inside of you. So freedom, profits, abundance and life.

That's the tenets of the kingdom of God. The tenets of the kingdom of Satan are the exact opposite.

They are slavery.

So if you see a human being seeking to subjugate another human being, they are not operating under the authority of God. They are operating under the authority of Satan.

You want me to say it again, Kenny? Okay. If you see a human being subjugating or attempting to subjugate another human being. That human being is operating under the kingdom of Satan, not the kingdom of God. In fact, one of the Ten Commandments says, thou shalt not steal. But when it says thou shalt not steal, it's not just talking about property. It's talking about men stealing, which the Bible calls men stealing, which is kidnapping, which is what the predominant.

Institution of slavery in America.

Flourished under. Kidnapping, which is a breaking of the. One of the Ten Commandments. It's breaking a whole bunch of other ten Commandments. But anyway, it's breaking those first two commands. Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy mind, all thy soul. The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself. Anyway. And on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Okay, so, so, so slavery. So human beings. Who's trying to subjugate another human being is operating under the influence of Satan. Okay, wages.

Go make bricks and build the kingdom that imprisons you. But go gather your own straw to make the bricks to build the kingdom that enslaves you. So fascinating. It's so fascinating when you see the parallels.

Anyway.

Then.

Lack. In fact, the first temptation in the history of the world was a temptation to focus on lack. Because God said to Adam and Eve, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. This is Genesis, chapter 2, verses 16 and 17. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat Every and freely are both abundant words. But of the tree that's one, it's the only thing they lack. But of the tree of knowledge, of the tree that's in the midst of the garden, thou shalt not eat of it. For the day thou eest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Boom. So lack. Adam and Eve only lacked one thing. Satan got them to pay attention to the thing they lacked. Why? Because he knows where attention goes. Intention follows.

So one of the worst things you can do anytime you are focused on what's missing in your life, what's missing in your wife, what's missing in your husband, what's missing in your parents, what's missing in your opportunity, what's missing in your country, what's missing in your neighborhood. When you're focused on what's missing you, you're being influenced by Satan. Because God is a God of abundance. The thief cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. By the way, that means unless he can steal something, kill something, or destroy something, he ain't coming. It don't mean he's just coming to do that. It means he ain't coming. Unless.

Then Jesus said, what? But I am come. That you might have what? High life, Chaim life. That you might have it more abundantly. Are y' all tracking? Okay, so slavery, wages, lack and death. Satan wants to make you his slave. Work you like a three legged mule until he kills you and then he's on to the next one. Mmm. Can I get a witness now?

So.

We have to understand that this whole concept, the reason I'm talking about black people in the Bible is because black folks need to know that we didn't start as slaves.

And.

Our contributions in American history and our contributions in world history have been covered up by people who wanted to propagate and promote their own lies. That black people are less than white people. By the way, all white people don't believe that. Like, let's don't be confused about it. All white people don't believe that. Just the confused ones. And I'm not. No, I'm not. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't. That wasn't a jab. That's an observation.

You think. You think that you're more valuable than another human being because of the color of your skin or because of anything? You're confused.

You're confused. Oh, I got more money than. I'm more. No, you're confused. I live in a better confused. I have more education confused. I'm pretty confused. Cause you don't look that good anyhow. Okay. Anyway, I'm done. I'm gonna behave. I'm gonna behave.

See, that's the problem. You confused. You thought you was cute, but she was confused. Okay, I'm done. Okay, so what happened? I'm going to read a lot of verses because this is where the whole ethnicity conversation begins in Genesis, chapter nine. And you will see clearly that it's not based on skin color. And there are those who would have you believe.

That Noah and his wife gave birth to three sons that were all different colors. Which that possibility exists, but the likelihood doesn't. Okay, so hold that thought.

Two documents that have really done a lot of harm to black people in America in particular, but in the world in general. I'm not even going to say to black people. I'm going to say two documents that have done harm to non white people. Okay? One is Charles Darwin's the Origin of Species.

Because the other title, it wasn't even a subtitle. It's just like the secondary title of the book. Was a struggle in the preservation of life for favored races. Go look it up. That was the name of the book Charles Darwin heavily influenced. Adolf Hitler.

Charles Darwin. And by the way, he wasn't even a scientist. So let's start there because if he were, he wouldn't have ignored entropy. But anyway, that's another conversation for a different day.

The other one was the Scofield reference Bible in which C.I. scofield promoted in his notes like he was the person who popularized putting man's notes in the scripture so that you wouldn't have to, so you'd know what it meant. And he promoted this concept that is a lie. That is a satanic lie called the curse of Ham. I don't know how many of you ever heard of the curse of Ham? How many of you have never heard of the curse of Ham? So the legend, the so called curse of Ham, which we're going to read what it says in the Bible and there is no such thing. But the so called curse of Ham.

Is that Noah cursed Ham and therefore black people are cursed to be servants to the descendants of Japheth and the descendants of Shem for their entire lives.

It just ain't in the Bible. See, that's how, that's another reason we know. And by the way, Scofield, Charles Schofield was a southern Democratic.

Preacher who divorced one of his first wife, refused to support his children from that wife, but he wrote a reference Bible, started making money and still refused to. And he divorced his first wife because she was a Catholic. She didn't become a Catholic after you married her. Anyway, so anyway, my point is, my point is this is the person.

Who. And because it's because his notes in that Bible.

Promoted the same lie that the Democratic south who wanted to keep slavery as an institution since it fit their ideology, they promoted it as doctrine in all of their seminaries, Bible colleges and Bible universities.

So, so, so.

Like, and you get this is all stuff. You can go research. You don't have to take my word for it. It's in like, it's, it's. This is historical. This is not me. I mean, I don't have a reason to make any of this up. Okay. By the way, one of the reasons why I was so confused as a child by my parents perspective of white people was because I never felt less than. I've never felt less. But I know there have been black people who have been made to feel less than. I didn't grow up in the age. I didn't grow up in the Era when Emmett Till was just one of the many black people who was killed and mutilated because of he allegedly, like, said something, flirted with a white woman. Like, I didn't grow up in that era. So that wasn't what I grew up hearing on the radio and reading about in the papers. I didn't grow up. I did grow up. You know, in the back of the bus days. I remember the back of the bus. I remember black and white fountains. I remember traveling through South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia and not being able to go into the gas station to use the bathroom. We'd have to stop along the side of the road. I remember that myself. Okay, right. I remember that myself. But I still never felt less than. I never felt inferior in the presence of a white person. I went to a, quote, Bible college. Quote Bible college. Quote Quote Bible college because they didn't teach much Bible. I remember sitting in my New Testament survey class. No, as a 19 year old in my New Testament survey class, listening to the guy, first and second Corinthians class, listen to this guy. And all he did was crack joke the whole time. I said, this guy must. My thought as a freshman, my first day in Bible college. This guy must not ever read the Bible.

And he's a professor anyway. Yeah, he professes to be a Bible teacher anyway.

But I went to a Bible college that was a racist Bible college. And I was so cool with who I am. Like, I was. I didn't, I didn't even realize how racist it was. Like, black people could only date black people. White people could date anybody. Asian, Hispanic. Like, this is in the 80s. This way. This was in the 80s. I ain't that old. I ain't talking about the 60s. Well, y' all looking at me like, man, he went to. He, he went to college when Abraham Lincoln was president. Quit tripping. Okay, okay, so let's read some Bible. Can somebody grab my glasses? Oh, nevermind. I got them in my pocket.

So I want to give you all a frame of reference. Like one of the things that you like. I know a lot of people say, like, Myron.

How do you get to. How do you do business with like all these companies that have, like, white people as the leaders? Like, I never. I don't think about it and what. Like, I don't think about it. And I'm sure there are probably companies that would have had me come speak but didn't because I was black. But I didn't know that because I wasn't aware of the fact that they Would have if I was black anyway. So I didn't even know, right? So I don't see. People don't see you through their eyes. They see you through your eyes. And how you perceive yourself tells other people how to look at you. Are y' all tracking? So don't see yourself. Less than I know. The miseducational. Misdirectional system. I know it perpetuated that lie. I get it, by the way. Anyway. Oh, man. Thinking of so many things.

Genesis, chapter nine. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth. This is after the. After the flood. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air. And all that move upon the earth and upon the fishes and the seas, into your hand are they delivered. Isn't that interesting that there were more animals than there were people?

There were more. Like, there was lions and tigers and bears and alligators and gorillas and apes and all these animals that are bigger than people, stronger people. Rhinoceros and hippopotami. Like, there's all these animals. And if God wouldn't have done this thing, human beings wouldn't even exist. We would have been food for the animals. But God said, I'm gonna put the fear of you and the dread of you in the animals. How awesome is that? Anyway.

Like, I wonder why. Like, I'm playing. I'm playing golf. And, like, I ride up, and there's an alligator. He jumps in the water, starts swimming away real fast. You. You scared of me?

Do you know you a alligator?

Okay. Y' all hear me? Okay. Do you know you all? Okay? Just want to make sure you know who you are, okay?

And then he said, every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Even as the green herb am I giving you all things. Now, God gave man permission in Genesis, chapter nine.

To eat flesh, which we call meat, right? So, interestingly enough, humans live for hundreds of years. Humans live for almost a thousand years before the flood, and they never ate any animal flesh. And we think that you can't live without it, right? I'm not a vegetarian. I'm not promoting veganism. I'm just saying it's fascinating, right? I do believe you can get more life from life than you can from death. Which means if you eat fresh fruits and vegetables, you'll probably be healthier than if you eat a bunch of just, like, dead animals. Just saying. I mean, I'm not. I Ain't. I ain't. I ain't preaching. I'm just having a conversation. Okay.

Then he says, but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast. Well, I require it at the hand of every man of man. And at the hand of man at. And at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso shutteth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God made he man. By the way, this shows us that man is not the same as an animal. We're not a higher form of animal. We're very different. And God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, behold, I establish my covenant with you and your seed after you. Every living creature that is with you. And the fowl of the cattle, the foul, the cattle of every beast of the earth, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of the flood. Neither shall there be any more flood be. Neither shall any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, this is the token of the covenant which I make between me and every living creature that is that is with you for the perpetual generations. I do set a bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between me and the earth. By the way, a rainbow. Rainbow. The rainbow does not belong to the homosexuals. No, I'm not being mean. I'm not being mean. It belongs to God. It's. It shows his promise. See here. So, first of all, let me say this. I believe in individual personal freedom. So I believe that if a person wants to be a homosexual, they have a right to do so. Just like if a person wants to be an adulterer, I mean, they're gonna. When I say they have a right to do so, it's not right to do so, but they have a right to do so. Person wants to smoke cigarettes, they have a right to do so. Person wants to get drunk, they have a right to do so. Right. Are y' all tracking? But what they should not. What they don't have a right to do is to hijack language and change the meaning of words. It's fascinating.

I challenge anybody watching this video right now to do this experiment. I challenge you to go read the book, Slavery by Another Name.

I challenge you to go read the Book the Warmth of Other Suns.

And see how black people were treated in the United States of America after the Emancipation Proclamation.

And then tell me that homosexuals have been discriminated against 1/100th as much. And the fact that they hijacked the plight of our ancestors and were silent about it is a travesty. And the whole world gets bent out of shape because Kyrie Irvin. I'm not defending Kyrie Irvin. I don't know him from the man on the moon. But because he put a link of a video from Amazon in a tweet and got his suspended from a game because they said it was anti Semitic. I'm going somewhere with this. So to infer that Hebrews are black is anti Semitic?

He didn't even infer that. But I'm saying that because that's the. That's the logic they were using. To infer that Hebrews were black is anti Semitic. But to infer that homosexuality, believing that homosexuality is wrong is discrimination. So letting the homosexual movement and the trans movement and all the rest of the movement, letting them hijack the word discrimination, which our people were discriminated against. Clearly, that's okay. How. I'm not being mean. I don't hate homosexuals. I know people who are homosexuals. I have clients that are homosexuals. There are people in my family. Like, I don't hate them. I still believe it's wrong. Right? Right. And I don't. I believe it's wrong to. I believe it's wrong to associate that behavior with the plight of people who have been tortured and murdered and enslaved, profited off of. Anyway, that's what the rainbow reminded me of. So. And what's really interesting, like.

Here'S one of the things that we all have to acknowledge. Just because you disagree with somebody doesn't mean you hate them.

I can disagree with you and love you.

I've been married for 38 years. That's proof.

Right?

No, I'm not. I'm not even trying to be funny. Like, if you've been married. If you've been married for 38 days, you can know. You can love somebody and disagree with them. Jelly and peanut butter. What? Okay. Anyway. Okay, so I'm gonna keep reading. I'm gonna keep reading. I'm gonna keep reading. Okay.

And Noah and his sons went forth out of the ark. And I'm sorry. And the sons of Noah.

Forgot where. I forgot what. 18. And the sons of Noah. Okay. And the sons of Noah went forth of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah. And of them was the whole earth overspread. So everybody who was born after this came from Noah and his wife, their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Mrs. Shem. Mrs. Ham and Mrs. Japheth. Okay. Y' all tracking. Okay. And. And. Shem and Japheth. Shem and Japheth. No, I'm sorry. Verse.

Verse 20. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the darkness. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backwards. And they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah woke from his wine. And I want you to notice what it says. And he knew what his younger son had done unto him. Now, a couple of things we're gonna have to establish. We're gonna. We're gonna have to establish that Noah's younger son did something to him. But the other thing we gotta establish is who was the younger son. Right. So let's keep it moving.

And he said, cursed be Canaan. A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Cursed be Canaan. Mr. Scofield, I know you're dead, but I'm gonna. Right or wrong, it did not say, cursed be Ham. It said, cursed be Canaan. Why? Because the word son in scripture can be used to describe.

A son, a nephew or a grandson.

Right? So whoever the younger son was, whatever the younger son did, which.

Scholars believe that what he did was he uncovered.

Scholars believe that? Well, they. People who think they're scholars believe that Ham committed a homosexual act with his father.

Okay, but there's nothing to support that. There's nothing to support that. But there is something that supports that Canaan did that his father, his grandfather, got drunk and he committed a homosexual act with his grandfather. And his grandfather woke up and he knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he didn't say, cursed be Ham, because Ham wasn't the one who did it. Ham came in and found that his father's nakedness was uncovered. By the way, he probably caught his son in the actual. Right. He told his brothers. His brothers went in backwards with a sheet and covered their father's nakedness. Y' all tracking. Okay. Woke from his wine, knew what his younger son had done to him. He said, cursed be Canaan. Servant of servants shall he be to his brethren. And blessed be the Lord God of Shem. And Canaan shall be his servant. And God shall enlarge Japheth. And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. And Canaan shall be his servant. And Noah lived after the flood 350 years. And all the days of Noah were 950. And he d died. Genesis, chapter 10 begins the table of Nations. I thought I was going to get a lot. All right, I still got time. Okay, so what I mean, table of nations. It's going to tell you. Remember I said language. Language hasn't been established yet. Right now the entire earth speaks one language. Genesis, chapter nine, everybody speaks one language. Genesis, chapter ten, everybody speaks one language. Language doesn't. Language doesn't begin to delineate ethnicity until Genesis chapter 11. Are y' all tracking? Okay, but let's see what. What happens here. Oh, by the way, let me say this. The name Ham means hot, burnt, sunburnt, black, brown or dark. That's what the name Ham means. Japheth means fair.

And enlargement, like enlarge, enlargement. It's going to enlarge. Okay. If we. Okay. And then Shem means name, which is fascinating that Shem means name because God named Jacob Israel. Are y' all tracking okay? By the way, the seed of Abraham was not just.

The seed of Abraham was not just.

Jacob. I mean, was not just Jacob's seed. Right. It was Ishmael.

It was Isaac. It was Ishmael, it was Jacob, it was Esau, it was.

Isaac.

Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau all are descendants of me, but not only those, but also the descendants of Keturah were also the descendants of Abraham. Okay, so I don't have time to go into all that right now, but I'm going to read the Table of Nations. I'm going to start reading the Table of Nations. This is going to show you how they got. How ethnicities got separated by location. And I want to show you something that's mind blowing to me because it says it right here in the Bible in the New Testament. The Bible talks about two different ethnic groups in the New Testament. What are they? They are the Jews and the Gentiles. Okay, Just wanted. So we have established that, and we know who the Jews are. They're the descendants of who? Abraham, basically, through Isaac and Jacob. Right. Okay. Y' all are tracking. Okay, so let's Read, here's what it says. Now, these are the generations. This, by the way, this is one of the reasons I know the Bible's not a white man's book. They would took Genesis, chapter 10 right out of here.

Like, no, I'm talking about white people who wanted to promote that white people are better than black people. They would have taken this out. Okay. Or that race is determined by skin color. They would have taken this out. Okay, Y' all tracking. So now, these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And under them were born son. And under them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth. Okay, so it's going to give you the sons of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Teres, and the sons of Gomer. These are grandchildren of Japheth. Now, Ashkenaz, that's an interesting name. Okay? Ripha.

Or Rifa.

Rifath, Togamar. Got such interesting names in the Bible. Okay? The sons of Javan, Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, Dodanim. And these by these were the isles of the Gentiles, divided in their lands. Everyone after his tongue, after their families in their nations.

What? Did y' all read that? So the Bible says that the lands, the islands of the gentiles, were divided by the descendants of Japheth. So the idea that Jewish means white.

Is not a biblical concept. Now, were there white Jews? 100% are all Jews, right? Absolutely. Not. Not. Not even remotely possible. According to this. I didn't put that in there, y'. All. God, by. And by the way, Ash, these. These people, the islands, these islands, if you go study them, you're going to find out that most of those islands ended up being parts of Europe. Okay? Then it says, and the sons of Ham, Cush, Mizram, Phut, and Canaan. Oh, Ham had more than one son. Ham had four sons. Noah cursed one of them.

Did I say it too fast?

Ham had four sons. How many sons? He had four sons. Noah cursed one of them.

And the one that Noah cursed was not. Okay, first Kush.

The Kushites were the Ethiopians.

That's Ethiopia. Those are black people.

I thought I was going to get much further than. Further than this today, but it's all good. Mizraim. You know what Mizraim means? It means Upper and Lower Egypt. Also in Africa.

The Ethiopians were not cursed. The Egyptians were not cursed.

Okay, let's keep reading. And then foot. Foot was like.

Persian tribes. Libya. That Area.

Foot. And then Canaan. Where did Canaan settle? In the land that is called now quote, the Promised Land. The Middle East. In the Promised Land, Middle east is a whole new term too. But that's. It was like. It was like Greater Africa. That's what it used to be called before they changed the name to the Middle East. Because can't attribute all this Bible land to Africa. That'd be a travesty. Okay, okay. And. And then it says, and the sons of Kush, Seba, Hava, Sab Sabta, Rama Saba, the sons of Rama, Sheba, Dadan, Kush begot Nimrod. And he began to be might a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Arak and Aad and Kalneh in the land of Shinar. Out of the land went forth Asher and builded Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth and Caleb. All of these people were the descendants of Ham. A lot of them migrated to different parts of Africa, some of them to what we would call the Middle East. And these were all the descendants of Ham. And then it says, and Mizraim begat ludum, verse 13. And an anamin, anamim and Lehabim and Naphtalum and Pathim and Kuhim, out of whom came the Philistine C and Caim. And Canaan begot, begat Sidon, his firstborn, Heth, the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, the Architect, the Sinite, the Arvidite, the Zimmerite, the Hamathite. And afterwards were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. Where did they go? Verse 19. And the border of the Canaanites from Sidon as thou comest to Gerar and Gaza, and thou goest down unto Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim and Lasha. Huh. So the descendants of Canaan migrated to Sidon and Sodom and Gomorrah.

Okay.

It's in the Bible. I'm not. I'm not adding anything to it. I don't have any notes. I'm just reading. Okay. And then it says unto Shem, oh, these are the sons of Ham, after their families and their tongues and their. And their countries and their nations. And Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the Elder, even unto him were born Children born. And the children of Shem, Elam, Asher, Arfaxid, Lud, Aram.

The children of Aram. Us Hull, Gether, Arphaxad, Salah, Salah Begat Eber. And Eber was born two sons. The name of one was Peleg. For in his days were the earth divided. And his brother's name was Jockton. And Jocktan begot Almadad and.

Shelif in Hazara, Meveth and Jara and Hidaram and Uzal and Dikla and Obal and Abime El and Sheba. Oh, that's interesting. Sheba. That's interesting.

And Ophir and Havalah and Jobab and Jockton and their dwellings. From Misha, as thou goest unto Zephyr, mount of the East. These are the sons of Shem, after their families and their tongues and their lands and their nations. And these are the families of the sons of Noah, their generations in their nations. And by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. So there's the table of nations. Now we have time. So I'm going to read just part, just the first six or seven verses of. Of Genesis chapter 11, because this is where the language part comes in. And the whole Earth was of one language and one speech. And it came to pass the journey from the east. They found a plane in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said, by the way, who was the person who went to Shinar? Do you remember? Nimrod. That's right. And where was this? This was Babel, land of Shinar. They dwelt there. And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick. Let us burn them throughly. They had brick for stone, and slime they had for Mor. And they said, go to, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach heaven. And let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, behold, this people is one. They all have one language. And this they begin to do. Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they've imagined to do. It's so interesting.

Which they've imagined to do. It's really interesting how we see in this. We see it's showing the four levels of value. Like four levels of value. The lowest level is implementation. Second lowest level is unification. The next level is communication. And the next level is imagination. We saw that first in Genesis chapter one, where it says, and God said, let us make man in our image. Which means the image had to exist first. So the image is the highest. Imagination is the highest part of us, right? And then God said, so communication is second. But he didn't say, let me make man in my image. He said, let us make man in our image. There you have unification. That's why it's hard for human beings to create things if they're not congruent, right? You can't believe two opposing things at the same time, right? And then after God did all that, when he made man, it says In Genesis, chapter 2, verse 6, verse 7, it says, and the Lord God, man of the dust of the ground. That was the implementation. That was the last thing. Which is the lowest part of man is our physicality. That's the least of us. The physical part of us is the lowest part of us. It's the part that matters the least. But it's the part we make the big deal about.

It doesn't make any.

Your son's gonna marry a white girl. Oh, your daughter's gonna marry a black man. That's so stupid. It's like, it's dumb as a box of rocks. It doesn't matter. Like, when you see a human being, if the first thing you see about them is their skin color, and then every other determination you make about them is based on that, you miss the point.

Okay, Anyway.

So anyway, we see that in this chapter also, it says, it's God said the reason. Here's what God said it said. The Lord said, behold this people is one. That's unification. They all have one language. That's communication. This they begin to do. That's implementation. Now, nothing will be restrained from them, which they've imagined. There's imagination, which they've imagined to do. So God said, these four things together are the key to accomplishing anything, even if that thing's not good. God said, see, when I read, they're going to build a tower whose top can reach heaven. They don't have any cranes, they don't have any hydraulics. They don't have any helicopters. They're going to build a tower whose top can reach heaven. I don't know, but God seemed to think they could do it. Because God said, now nothing will be because of these four things, nothing will be restrained from them, which they've imagined to do.

By the way. That's why it's dangerous for everybody in the world to be thinking the same thing and for people to be afraid to have conversations with people. You Disagree with. The real reason you are afraid to have conversations with people you disagree with is because you know you might be wrong. In fact, you probably think you already are wrong. And if you're not, stand your ground. Have a conversation. Have a civil conversation with somebody you disagree with. I challenge you to do that anyway. Okay. And then it says so the Lord. This they begin to do. Now nothing will be strained from those. Imagine do verse 7 go to. Let us go down and confound their language. They may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from the hint. From thence upon the face of the all the earth. And. And they left off to build the city. Therefore the name of that place is called Babel because there did the Lord confound their language of all the people in the earth. And from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth. So now we see that ethnicity is not determined by skin color. It's determined by what? It's determined by language, location and lineage. Now here's the fascinating part. I'm going to read one verse to you.

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And by the way, this is Genesis chapter 42. Genesis chapter 42. Let me get to chapter 42 at Genesis.

Another one of those verses they would have took out. If it was a book that was written by white people to oppress black people, they would have taken this out. So we know that's not true. So here's what it says.

This is the story about Joseph. He's the prime minister, his brothers come to him. Here's what it says. Verse number six. And Joseph was the governor. Verse number six, 42, six. Why? I took my glasses off to read. And Joseph was the governor over the land.

And he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the earth. And Joseph saw his brothers and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them and spake roughly unto them. And he said unto them once, come ye. And they said from the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph knew his brothers, but they knew him not. Okay, what does that have to do with anything? Let me ask you a question. Where was Joseph when this happened? Where is Egypt? Oh, Egypt is in Africa. And who were the people?

Who were the Egyptians? The descendants of Ham. The Egyptians were the descendants of Ham, which means hot, burnt, sunburnt, black or brown. Right? These dark skinned people.

If the Jews were white and they saw this white dude and there were all these black folks, they would have recognized him.

But they didn't know. They didn't know that he was a Jew. They didn't know he was their brother because they didn't look that much different than the people they were going to see.

I'm. I'm not reading. It says he knew them. How did he know them? Well, he was younger. He is now older. By the way, Jewish people, the Hebrews did not shave their faces. The Jews did shave their faces. So Joseph's face was not. It wasn't that he had a beard that they didn't recognize him because Egyptians didn't shave their. I mean, Egyptians shaved their faces. They looked at their brother. They didn't recognize him. He didn't look that much different from them that they would have thought, oh, my goodness, he's a totally different.

He's not an Egyptian.

Because if you go down to Egypt and all of a sudden you see if ethnicity was determined by skin color, and you go down to Egypt with all these black folks, and then you got this white dude running stuff. Who is this dude?

And especially if they would have been. If they would have been the same color, if he was the same skin tone as his brothers, which we have no reason to believe that he wasn't. So why do we believe that? Abraham, that Adam and Eve and Noah, Noah's sons, Mrs. Noah and Shem, Ham and Japheth and Mrs. Shem. Mrs. Ham. And why do we believe that they were all white? And then every now and then, a black person popped up out of nowhere. Because that's how it's been marketed. That's how it's been perpetuated. That's how it's been promulgated. But it's not based on anything that the Bible says. Give you all one more thing to think about. And by the way.

I thought I was going to get a lot further than this, because I always overestimate how much I can teach in the time allotted. But we'll pick up where we left off next week, and we're going to go. We're going to go a little further. I figured I might as well give, quote, Black History Month, which is so silly. Like black. Like history has a color. History is just history. The problem is we don't know about the accomplishments of black people in history because they've been hidden. And why have they been hidden? They've been hidden to prove. They've been hidden to prove or to support the lies that have been told about black people. They're less than human. They're not fully evolved. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're only supposed to be slave, all of that. You can't teach all this stuff. You can't make it say what it says.

You have to make everybody who did anything noteworthy in scripture white, otherwise it messes up your narrative. And by the way, all white people are not evil.

All black people are not evil. Like, let's just. Why don't we give people the benefit of the doubt? Here's what the scripture says. To the pure, all things are pure. Let's be pure to whom all things are pure. All right, guys, I got a class. I got a class that starts in four minutes, so I'd love to hug everybody's neck, but I can't because we got to get started, like, stat. If you're in the challenge or you're in offer mastery coaching, you can stay, but otherwise, I'm going to ask you all to. In fact, what I'm going to do, I'm going to do. I'm going to be doing, like. Y' all can leave any time between now in 12 o'. Clock. What? Oh, YouTube. Peace out, Cub Scouts. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I forgot I was still on YouTube. I forgot. Okay. Stay blessed by the best. We'll see y' all next Wednesday.