{"id":1633,"date":"2011-07-24T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2011-08-19T21:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:53:31","slug":"race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/2011\/07\/race\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color or Race are Gods Chosen People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"race\"<\/a>The subject of race on this blog is likely to raise some eyebrows, but I believe the body of Christ must be transparent in order to align on such issues.<\/h1>\n
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This all started several days ago when my facebook friend, Gary Ellison<\/a>, made a bold post.\u00a0 \u00a0We don\u2019t see eye to eye on everything, but we are brother and sister in the Lord and have had some very good and edifying conversation.\u00a0 His post generated a thread of 409 comments (so far), as many passionate believers debated their views.\u00a0 So here is the post that started it all.<\/h5>\n
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\u201cEvery time I see 1 of you Negros post the LIE that Edom is the WHITE-MAN I am coming right behind you and post the TRUTH! The Khazar’s (Ashkenazi Jews) are descendants of Japhet. Edom is a descendant of Abraham Isaac & Jacob, the TWIN brother of Israel. You all need to stop lying in the face of obvious truth. You are making our beliefs & community look stupid with your racist inspired lies. I challenge any 1 who espouse this to a debate on the truth. DONT BE SCARED! Our beef with Ashkenazi is valid, but he is not EDOM\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Gary\u2019s followers and contemporaries believe that they, people of dark color, are descendants of the Israelites<\/a>.\u00a0 They also believe that the modern Ashkenazi Jews are descended from gentiles that took on the culture and religion of the Israelites.<\/h5>\n
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Well I am just a white girl, raised Jewish, who gave her heart to Jesus after many years of fast living and poor choices.\u00a0 I have no reason to be drawn into this conversation except for the fact that<\/span> in 2003 Yeshua, Jesus, spoke to me.\u00a0 He said \u201cI am coming for My church, not My churches.\u00a0 You have work to do.\u201d\u00a0 When I read Gary\u2019s post and the comments that followed, I could feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and I knew I had to respond.\u00a0 For several days I pondered and prayed for the right words.<\/h5>\n

What does the bible reveal about race?<\/h2>\n

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Jacob and Esau are described as very different, but twin brothers of different races is not mentioned.\u00a0 Issac and Ishmael had different mothers, could be different races, maybe not.\u00a0 What the bible does say about these men is that they will become the fathers of great nations.\u00a0 Chapter 1 of the Song of Songs describes a Shulamite peasant\u00a0girl whom Solomon is to marry.\u00a0 She is insecure among the daughters of Jerusalem because of the color of her skin.\u00a0 She is dark from working daily in the sun. \u00a0This would indicate that the daughters of Jerusalem were fairer skinned than she was, but still not an indicator of race<\/b>.<\/h5>\n
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If we are to believe the biblical account of the flood, then all races on the earth would trace their lineage back to the sons of Noah.\u00a0 There has been much written about the possibility that three of Noah\u2019s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, fathered the yellow, black, and white races of men respectively.\u00a0 \u00a0Others theorize that when the people of the earth all spoke one language they were of many colors and shades living in community together, just as there are many variations in the size, shape, and color of the individuals that comprise a pack of wolves.\u00a0 They concur that the tower of Babel incident caused family groups with common language to migrate away from Babel in different directions.\u00a0 The isolation of these groups eventually led to distinct commonalities in the way they looked, based on dominant genes becoming more refined with each successive generation.<\/h5>\n
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The multitude of people who followed Moses out of Egypt were slaves who had been freed.\u00a0 Egypt had slaves from many nations, not just Israelites.\u00a0 Imagine yourself on that day.\u00a0 If you were a slave in Egypt, regardless of who you were or how you ended up in Egypt, would you have stayed behind or followed Moses?\u00a0 The multitude who stood at the foot of Mount Sinai were more likely multi national and multi racial as we define it.\u00a0 God gave the law to all of them, He chose all of them, and as a group they took on the identity of the Israelites.\u00a0 Had they not treasured the law of Moses and handed it down from one generation to the next in an oral tradition, it would likely have been lost.<\/h5>\n

What is glaringly obvious is that the bible makes little to no mention of race.<\/h3>\n

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God\u2019s word in scripture defines groups of people based on families, geography and beliefs, not race<\/i>.\u00a0 People in their prideful ways make race<\/u> an issue that is irrelevant to God.\u00a0 Genesis 12:3 records God telling Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Genesis 22:18, says \u201cand through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.\u201d\u00a0 All of the nations of the earth will be blessed by Abraham\u2019s offspring – not some, but all.\u00a0 It would stand to reason then, that race is of no consequence in from God’s perspective.\u00a0 The people doing the blessing are God\u2019s chosen, and the people doing the cursing are not.<\/h5>\n
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According to Jewish law, any child born of a Jewish woman is considered Jewish.\u00a0 Again, race has no bearing.\u00a0 If the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews were gentiles desiring to embrace and worship the One God of the Israelites, they would have been welcomed into that culture regardless of race, and intermarried with them thereby grafting in.\u00a0 In a similar fashion, the gentiles who followed Christ were grafted in.\u00a0 As a Jewish believer in Christ, I accept the Christian community as equals in the inheritance as God ordained with no weight given to color, race, doctrine, or ritual, IF, and only IF it lines up with the word of God.<\/h5>\n
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I recognize that when the black race was targeted, and large numbers sold into slavery<\/a>, it was a poor witness on the part of the professing Christians who took part.\u00a0 The black race in America remained enslaved and separated from their culture for generations, and it left a discernible void.\u00a0 It is undeniable that some white men who claimed to be Christian, and some who did not, exploited the Black race and separated them from their very identity.\u00a0 I am delighted that some have chosen to search the scripture to identify their origins, reclaim their heritage, and understand their birthright as children of God.\u00a0 If that search has led them to believe they are descendants of the Israelites, I have no problem with that.<\/h5>\n
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My concern is that just as the ancient Jews, perverted their special relationship with God into a false national and ethnic pride, and thought that they were better than other nations or races, so also these children of God have made this an issue of race and of blame.\u00a0 These ideas come not from God, but from the sinful hearts of man.\u00a0 Is the blood of Jesus not strong enough to cover that sin?\u00a0 Is there not enough grace within to join as equals with the body of Christ and labor in love, side by side, for the increase of the kingdom?<\/h5>\n
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What fruit is to be gained by debating these points?\u00a0 How genuine is the love of a disciple who is brought into the fold with doctrine based on race, that separates the body of Christ into warring factions, each claiming a birthright to being God\u2019s special people?\u00a0 This is not what Yeshua taught us!\u00a0 He taught us to love God first and to love one another as we love ourselves.<\/h5>\n

Everything else hangs on these two principles.\u00a0 If we fail at this, we simply fail.<\/h3>\n

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Yeshua calls us to be victorious over all of our petty differences.\u00a0 What is important has nothing to do with race as determined by the color of our skin or the texture of our hair.\u00a0 Preoccupation\u00a0 with race is a weapon of the enemy designed to keep people from their rightful inheritance.\u00a0 The only thing that counts is who you belong to, God or the enemy.\u00a0 If we truly belong to God, then we will willingly take our place as His humble servant and call upon Jesus to remove the spirits of contention, racial prejudice, and disharmony from our lives. \u00a0\u00a0<t)))><<\/h5>\n
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Blessings & Adventure<\/h5>\n
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Lynn “lynnibug” Rios<\/h5>\n

I believe the Kingdom of Heaven on earth will be a beautiful mosaic of God’s children.\u00a0 The furthest thing from our minds will be issues of race.<\/h3>\n

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