Blacks in the Bible, part 2
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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Why?
Why?
it’s black history month
Bible is the only place we can go to get God’s truth about race (can’t trust people because of racism clouds their understanding)
we can learn where we came from
find out if one group superior to another
find out if one group cursed
how different/alike are we as races
refute lies that Christianity is the white man’s religion and the Bible is the white man’s book.
Christianity is a religion for all people and races
Bible is a book for all peoples and races
get a better appreciation for how God works through history
How do we know who was black in the Bible?
How do we know who was black in the Bible?
reading the scripture!
then use
common sense
names and geography of nations
family tree
etymology - meanings of names
let’s start out with some biblical truth about race
From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.
nations - people group, races . . . more than recognized political countries like Brazil, Mexico, USA
so every nation/race/people group came from one man - Adam, everyone in the world is basically kind of like your distant cousin (KJV - says God made us from one blood)
we see in this verse that God is in control and has an eternal plan - time for this people group/culture/race to rise, time for this group/culture/race to fall
boundaries - God even decided where different races would live, God is even in control of geography
what was God’s reasoning? . . . .
“His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us.
God wants all nations to seek him and find him
back to the first part of verse 26
Acts 17:26a (NLT)
From one man he created all the nations . . .
We actually have this twice: First, Adam and then because of the flood, we have . . .
Noah
Noah
and this is where our study starts
world has started over
and the world starts over with one family . . . Noah’s family
Noah and his wife had three sons, and each of his sons had a wife, for a total of eight people who were saved on the ark during the flood
after the flood . . . .
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
God blessed the father and each of his three sons
remember this . . . God blessed Noah and each of his sons
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
ever person on the earth can trace their ancestry to Noah through either Shem, Ham, or Japheth
all the various races came through these three men and their wives
according to Biblical scholars
Shem
Shem
most scholars agree that he is the ancestral father of the Semites (Arabic and Jews)
according to some his name means dusky or olive colored
Japheth
Japheth
most scholars agree that he is ancestral father of Caucasians
according to some, name meaning bright or fair
Ham
Ham
most scholars agree that he is the ancestral father of Negroes, Mongoloids, and Indians - dark skinned people
most scholars agree that his name means black, burnt, or hot
but now we must go back to Noah and his wife
common sense: since Ham is the father of black races then Noah or his wife, or maybe Noah and his wife have black in them
So if we saw them walking around, one of they very likely be considered black or at least a person of color
Now let’s look at why some people teach that black people are cursed . . . they call this the curse of Ham
After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.
Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.
When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.
Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: “May Canaan be cursed! May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”
Noah gets drunk, and lies in his tent naked
Ham saw him naked and told his two brothers
the other two covered their dad up, without looking at his naked body
what’s so evil about accidently seeing your father naked that made Noah so angry? We simply don’t know. Many have theories that “saw his brother naked” means more than just looked at him. But we really don’t know why Noah was so angry
When Noah found out what had happened, Noah cursed . . . . who? . . . Canaan!
Who is Canaan? One of Ham’s sons
How come Noah didn’t curse Ham?
because you can’t curse what God has blessed
Canaan may have had a part in this situation
it’s also a prophecy, because the descendants of Canaan turned out to be very evil, and later God allowed them to be conquered because of their evil
So Ham was not cursed, only one of Ham’s four sons were cursed, therefore all black people are not cursed . . . lie to promote racism and defend American slavery
why does the name Canaan sound so familiar?
why is Canaan the only grandson mentioned in chapter 9?
this is the origin story for Abraham, and then Abraham’s descendants, David, eventually to Jesus . . . and the land of Canaan is a big part of that story
the promised land
today Israel is in what used to be called the land of Canaan
this curse is mostly fulfilled when the children of Israel take over the promised land when Joshua was leading them
and others say the rest when Carthage was defeated by Rome
but until then, Canaan started out real strong! Feared and mighty people! Remember the 12 spies report? (good land, powerful people)
Chapter 10 - Table of Nations
Chapter 10 - Table of Nations
names each of Noah’s sons and their descendants
so let’s look at Ham’s sons
The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
Cush - Ethiopia
hear the term Cushites, Mesopotamia
people lived from Sudan all the way to India
Mizraim - Egypt
earliest inhabitants called the land Kam, or Khem . . . comes from Ham
and called themselves Hamites,
Kamites, Khemites which means black people
Put - Libya (in africa)
Canaan - only Canaan is not around as a country any more
they started in these areas and apparently migrated south, east and west
then we get grandsons of Ham through Cush
The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
so we use the sons of Ham and the grandsons of Ham, to trace people of color in the Bible . . . you will see these names or variations of these names
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.
what pops out, now that we know the family tree? . . . . Sheba
The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
it’s all there staring us in the face that she is connected to Ham . . . how dark, how black, we don’t know but she is from the Ham family branch
Nimrod
Nimrod
anyone know him?
Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
first big time leader/conqueror, safe to say king after the flood was a black man . . . grandson of Ham
Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.”
He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.
From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).
he built a kingdom, a large one
the description of the places is called the land of Shinar or Sumer
Historians agree that Sumer was the starting point of civilization
when people tell you black people were the first civilized people . . . yeah . . . (people started out all together though, but Nimrod was their leader)
unfortunately, we believe he is the one who tried to build the tower of babel . . . not a man who please God
Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth
and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.
more ways to to find out who was from the dark skinned son of Noah
Glory Years
Glory Years
use these names, locations, archeological finds
after the flood of Noah, the Descendants of Ham dominated civilization for 2,000 years, starting with Nimrod
when people say we came from kings and queens . . . true . . . but not every black person was a king . . . some were merchants, fishermen, crafts people, cooks, servants, ect.
but black heritage and history starts way before american slavery
it appears that God let “black people” dominate the earth over the descendants of Shem and Japeth for about 2,000
with the rise of Israel, we see descendants of Shem dominating for about 2,000 years (think of Solomon and his kingdoms and Babylonians)
seems that now we are in a period of the descendants of Japheth dominating about 2,000 years
Lessons - all have tried and all have failed to please God . . . each period ends with sin . . . corruption . . . . greed . . . . violence . . .. no morals . . . we all need a savior
we can be proud of black heritage but only with the understanding that we failed, others failed, and white people are failing now
Black History Month Bible Test
no Bible study next week - Valentines