in honor of black history month…
Blacks
in the
Bible
Discovering the untold history
of blacks in God’s plan
Coming soon…
What does the
Bible say about
homosexuality?
Next Friday!
6:30pm
Stanley-Coulter 239
Fri, Feb. 26
6:30pm
Stanley-Coulter 239
Purpose of Tonight’s Message:
1. Expose prejudice
Prejudice: To prepossess
with unexamined opinions,
or opinions formed without
due knowledge of the facts
and circumstances attending
the question….an
unreasonable bent to one
side or other of a cause.
Bigot: A person who is
obstinately and
unreasonably wedded to a
particular religious creed,
opinion, practice or ritual.
Purpose of Tonight’s Message:
1. Expose prejudice
2. Expand our view of God
3. Express God’s heart for all nations
Beyond Roots
by William McKissic
Noah’s Three Sons
by Dr. Arthur Custance
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,
male nor female, for you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
Ephesians 3:14-15
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from
whom His whole family in heaven and on
earth derives its name….
Revelation 1:14-15
His head and His hairs were white like wool, as
white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of
His head and his hairs were white like wool,
fire; and His
feet
like
as white
as snow;
andunto
his eyes fine
were asbrass,
a flame as if they
fire;
burned inof aAnd
furnace;
and his voice as the
his feet like unto fine brass, as if they
in awaters.
furnace; and his voice as the sound
sound of burned
many
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of many waters.
Blacks in the ancient world
“Scripture, science, and secular history attest
to the fact that dark-skinned people were
politically, culturally, and numerically
dominant in the ancient world and were the
fathers of civilized society as we know it
today” (McKissic 16).
Genesis 10 (page 6)
Origin of all ethnicities…
Acts 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men,
that they should inhabit the whole earth; and
He determined the times set for them and the
exact places where they should live.
Biblical origin of ethnicities
Ham means “dark, black”  negro, mongoloids, Indians
Shem means “dusky, olive-colored”  Arabic & Jewish
Japheth means “bright, fair”  Caucasians
“According to Burnett Hanson, M.D., it is possible for a
man to father three children with three different
complexions—one ‘black or dark,’ another ‘dusky’ or
‘olive-colored,’ and the third ‘bright or fair’—by the
same woman….In order for this to take place, either
the man or his wife has to be dark complexioned or
both of them could have been dark. Dark-skinned
people can and often do produce fair complexioned
offspring; however it is genetically impossible for bright
or fair complexioned persons to produce dark-skinned
children. Based on this analysis, Dr. Hanson concludes
that in order for Noah to have fathered three sons by
the same woman, with all three sons having distinct
complexions ranging from dark to bright, Noah or his
wife had to be black or dark-skinned” (McKissic 16-17).
Arthur Custance, PhD in Anthropology,
Noah’s Three Sons:
“Without becoming involved in the technicalities of
genetics, it is possible that Ham may himself have
been a mulatto [mixed race]. In fact, his name
means “dark” and perhaps refers to the color of his
skin. This condition may have been derived through
his mother, Noah’s wife, and if we suppose that Ham
had himself married a mulatto woman, it is possible
to account for the preservation of the negroid stock
over the disaster of the flood.”
Genesis 2:7 (page 2)
Adam formed from dust of ground:
• Adamah (Hebrew) = ground
• Adam (Hebrew root) = reddish brown, ruddy, or
taken out of red earth!
 ADAM WAS A MAN OF COLOR!!
H.G. Wells, noted historian:
“Perhaps the more ancient races of men were
all dusky or black, and fairness is new.”
Sons of Ham
1. Cush (Ethiopia)
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Cush [Hebrew] = “black”
Ethiopia [Greek] = “a man with sun-burned face”
2. Mizraim (Egypt)
Psalm 106:21-22
21
They forgot the God who saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 miracles in the land of Ham
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
(See also Psalms 78 & 105)
Mark Hyman, a Black journalist and historian: “A melanin
test was taken from the skin of an Egyptian mummy…the
melanin proved the Egyptian was black.”
Sons of Ham
1. Cush (Ethiopia)
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Cush [Hebrew] = “black”
Ethiopia [Greek] = “a man with sun-burned face”
2. Mizraim (Egypt)
3. Phut (Libya – originally meant “black”)
4. Canaan (Palestine area)
Hamitic Inventions
• Ethiopian & Egyptian
pyramids
• Paper
• Ceramics
• Mathematics
• Engineering
• Beginnings of
architecture
• Sailboat
• Domesticated animals
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Running water
Food preservation
Pulleys
Plans/maps
Clocks/calendars (365)
Iron
Pipe organ
Glass
Gears
Advanced embalming
Dominant world rulers by race:
Ham = 4000 BC to 2000 BC
Shem = 2000 BC to 300 BC
Japheth = 300 BC to present
Revelation 7:9-10
….a great multitude that no one could count,
from every nation, tribe, people and language,
standing before the throne and in front of the
Lamb. They were wearing white robes and
were holding palm branches in their hands.
And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation
belongs to our God, Who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb."
Blacks in the Bible
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Joseph married Ethiopian (Gen. 41:50-52)  Ephraim, Manassah
Moses married Ethiopian (Num. 12:1)
Joshua came from tribe of Ephraim (Num 13:8)
Calebtribe of JudahTamar Hamitic (Gen. 38)
David described as ruddy (1 Sam 6:12)  “adom” // “adam”
Lady in Song of Solomon described as black & beautiful (SS 1:5)
Wise men were Ethiopians (Mt. 2:1-12)
Simon the Canaanite = black apostle (Mt. 10:4)
Syrophoenician woman traced to Ham (Mark 7:24-30)
Simon the Cyrene (N. Africa) was black (Mt. 15:21)
Cyrenians shared gospel w/Japhites (Acts 11:20)
Blacks in Bible
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Hamitic countries represented at Pentecost (Acts 2:10-11)
Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-39)
Simeon called Niger & Lucius of Cyrene = church leaders (Ac 13:1)
Apollos, native of Ham (Acts 18:24)
Did Jesus look like this?
Jesus’ Lineage (recorded in Matthew 1)
1A
record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of
David, the son of Abraham:
2Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother
was Tamar….
5Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
6and Jesse the father of King David. David was the
father of Solomon, whose mother (Bathsheba) had
been Uriah's wife….
Response to Black Islam
1. Cross preceded the crescent
2. Jesus born in 1st century; Mohammed in 5th
3. Blacks in Ethiopia were students of Scripture
and built churches in Africa before
Mohammed ever born!
Response to Black Islam
4. Arab Muslims enslaved Blacks:
“The most shocking and revealing discovery of the
one hundred-plus books that I have read or
consulted in preparation for this work was learning
that Arab Muslims enslaved Blacks and was the first
nation to target Blacks exclusively for slavery. The
Europeans adopted the practice of targeting Blacks
for slavery from the Arab Muslims” (McKissic 52).
Purpose of Tonight’s Message:
1. Expose prejudice
2. Expand your view of God
3. Express God’s heart for all nations