SEGREGATON
First Word
- For some reason when
we think of segregation we think of the separation of Blacks from the
Whites; for some reason little thought is given to an Asian from China
marring a Caucasian from the USA or a Latino marring a Caucasian, but
eyebrows raise at the thought of a Black marring or for that matter even dating
a White.
- There have been White
Supremacy groups that masqueraded as Christians which terrified,
tortured and murdered Blacks in the name of segregation and pseudo
Christianity.
- This study ignores White
Supremacy and concentrates on WHY
and HOW segregation began under
GOD’s leadership.
- Segregation was
instituted by God between the ungodly offspring’s of Cain and the Godly
line of Seth, Enoch and Moses.
- Segregation was
instituted by God for the nation of
- Segregation will be
revealed by God
in the end times. – The separation of the Sheep from the Goats – The Wheat
from the Tares – The Redeemed from the Condemned – Good from Evil. – This study looks at Segregation from
the viewpoint of
Beginning Segregation
- It
began in the Garden of Eden with SIN that brought the CURSE that
segregated the Godly line of Adam from the un-godly line of Cain - Good
from Evil
- God
told the descendents of Noah to fill the earth, but they chose to
ignore God’s command and started building a tower to worship other gods. –
God gave them different languages and separated them
scattering them through out the earth.
(NYOBS 18)
- It
was God’s plan from the beginning to divide up mankind and separate
them from the Nation of Israel. It
was God that set up the boundaries and determined the exact place that they
should live and the language that they should speak.
Gen 3:15 – In the beginning a division – Good from Evil
15 And I will put enmity between you and
the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your
head, and you will strike his heel." NIV
Gen 1:28 – Commanded to fill the earth.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be
fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. NIV
Gen 11:1-2 – Spread
abroad, but stopped in Shinar
1 Now the whole world had one language and a
common speech.
2 Men moved eastward, and found a plain in Shinar
Gen 11:4 – Let’s not be
scattered but make a name for ourselves
4 Then they said, "Come, let us build
ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we
may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the
whole earth."
Gen 11:8-9 – God rejected
their plans and scattered them
8 So the LORD scattered them from there
over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel
Deut 32:8 – God divided
mankind and set the nations boundaries
8 When the Most High gave the nations their
inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries
for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel
Acts 17:26 – God determined the exact places they should live
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 .NIV
Dan 7:13 -14 – There will be various people, nations and language
13 "In my vision at night I looked, and there
before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He
approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.
14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign
power; all peoples, nations and men of every language
worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,
and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. NIV
Israel’s Segregation
- God segregated
- The
plan was for Segregated Israel to be adopted as sons; to
receive the divine glory, the covenants, the law, the
temple worship and the promises.
- God promised
- They were to be a
- They were to bring
the “Good News” to
- They forbid
intermarriage with other nations lest they be drawn away into
idolatry.
- They were commanded
to reject Signs, wonders, prophets, fortune tellers and dreamers who would
tell them “to follow other gods”.
- They would
demonstrate the futility of bowing down and worshiping cast idols made
with human hands.
- They were to drive
out of their nation anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire,
who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens,
engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium
or spiritist or who consults the dead.
- The
nation of Israel must be blameless before the LORD.
- Through the
Patriarchs of Israel, the human ancestry line of Christ would be traced.
Deut 7:6-8 – God chose in
love Israel
6 For you are a people holy to the LORD
your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the
face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and
choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the
fewest of all peoples.
8 But it was because the LORD loved you and
kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with
a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of
Pharaoh King of Egypt
Rom 9:4-5 – The promises
are for Segregated Israel
4 The people of Israel
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is
traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised!
Amen. NIV
Deut 28:13 – God promises
to make Israel
13 The LORD will make you the head, not the
tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you
this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never
at the bottom. NIV
Ex 19:6 – They are to be a
Kingdom of Priest – a Holy Nation
6 You will be for me a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the
Israelites." NIV
Isa 52:7 – Israel
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of
those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who
proclaim salvation, who say to Zion
Isa 66:19 – The first
Missionaries - Evangelist
19 "I will set a sign among them, and I
will send some of those who survive to the nations--to Tarshish, to
the Libyans and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece
Ex 20:1-6 – No other gods
– No idols – No other worship
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you
out of Egypt
3 "You shall have no other gods before
me”.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol
in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the
waters below.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship
them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children
for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate
me,
6 but showing love to a thousand [ generations] of
those who love me and keep my commandments. NIV
Ex 34:15-17 – Make no
treaty or idols or intermarry
15 "Be careful not to make a treaty
with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their
gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their
sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their daughters as
wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,
they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 "Do not make cast idols. NIV
Deut 13:1-3
– Reject signs, wonders, prophets, fortune tellers
1 If a prophet, or one who foretells by
dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or
wonder,
2 and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken
takes place, and he says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you
have not known) "and let us worship them,"
3 you must not listen to the words of that
prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you
love him with all your heart and with all your soul. NIV
Deut 18:9-13 – Israel
9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is
giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices
his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery,
interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or casts spells, or who is a medium
or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12 Anyone who does these things is detestable
to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will
drive out those nations before you.
13 You must be blameless before the LORD your
God. NIV
Covenant of Segregation
- God segregated the
nation of
- Covenant
- I
will make you a great nation – I will bless you – I will make your name
great – You will be a blessing – I will bless those that bless you – I
will curse those that curse you.
- Covenant
– To
your descendents I will give you land from the river in
- Covenant
–
The
Gen 12:1-3 – The Covenant
with Abraham
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your
country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show
you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you
will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and
whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed
through you." NIV
Gen 15:18-21 – The
Covenant of Land to Abraham’s descendents
18 On that day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from
the river of Egypt Euphrates —
19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and
Jebusites." NIV
Gen 17:8 – The Covenant – Canaan an
everlasting possession
8 The whole land of Canaan
Commanded Segregation
- The Canaanite nations were to be
destroyed because of their wickedness.
- From the time Cain killed the Godly
line of Abel, Satan has fought to prevent the Godly line of Seth, Enoch
and Noah from bringing forth the man child Jesus Christ. Satan brought forth the Nephilim, the fallen angles to intermarry with
women to produce the grotesque distorted ungodly hybrid Giants, to PERVERT
God’s creations. (NYOBS 27)
- The Nations that were to be totally
destroyed from the face of the earth were the stronger Nations of
GIANTS. – These nations did not embrace JEHOVAH God.
- Make no
treaty with them - Do not intermarry with them.
- Drive
them out – Destroy them - Show them no mercy.
- If you disobey, God’s anger will burn
against you and YOU will be
destroyed.
Deut 7:1-4 – Command – Do not
intermarry with them.
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land
you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations--the
Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites,
seven nations larger and stronger than you—
2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them
over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.
Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give
your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
4 for they will turn your sons away from following
me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will
quickly destroy you.
NIV
Num 13: 31-33 - Giants – After the flood of Noah
31 "We can't attack those people; they
are stronger than we are."
32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad
report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored
devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
33 We saw the Nephilim there (the
descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers
in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
NIV
Deut 2:10-11 – Giants
called Emims
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the
Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
KJV
Deut 2:20-21 – Giants called
Zamzummims
20 That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead: KJV
- You might point out
that King Solomon intermarried with 700 foreign wives and had 300
concubines, so it must be OK to intermarry.
- Nehemiah pointed out
that King Solomon had sinned
when he took foreign wives and they caused him to sin further by turning
his heart and agreeing to worship along with his wives the many gods of the
foreign nations.
- Today you would hear
the phrase; “All the spokes in a wheel lead to the same hub”. Just different ways to the same God.
- That sounds good, but
God says all the other spokes lead to HELL.
- Nehemiah rebuked the
people of
Neh 13:25-27 – Unfaithful
to God through intermarriage.
25 I rebuked them and called curses down
on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made
them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your
daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in
marriage for your sons or for yourselves.
26 Was it not because of marriages like these that
Solomon king of Israel Israel
27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all
this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying
foreign women?" NIV
1 Kings 11:1-9 – King Solomon
intermarried - sinned against God
1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign
women besides Pharaoh's daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians
and Hittites.
2 They were from nations about which the LORD had
told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they
will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon
held fast to them in love.
3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and
three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart
after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God,
as the heart of David his father had been.
5 He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD;
he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
7 On a hill east of Jerusalem Moab
8 He did the same for all his foreign wives,
who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
9 The LORD became angry with Solomon because his
heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel. NIV
Samaritan Segregation
- The Assyrians
conquered
- Josephus; the Jewish historian
referred to them as Jewish
Apostates. – An apostate was someone who had abandoned their
faith and principals which they had first believed in; i.e.;
INTERMARRIAGE.
- Although the
Samaritans shared much in common theologically with the Jews, they were rejected
and isolated and the Jews had nothing to do with them.
- A Jew would take “the
long way around” just to not travel through
- We have all heard the
story of “The Good Samaritan”
and the emphasis was on GOOD, that’s because of the shocking thought of a “Good
Samaritan” was just the opposite of what they were considered – they were
the “No Good”, low down, scumbags of the earth.
2 Kings 17:5-6 – The
Assyrians deported the Samaritan Jews.
5 The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched
against Samaria
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria Assyria . He settled them in
Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River
Matt 10:5-6 – Do not go to
any town of the Samaritans.
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following
instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of
the Samaritans.
6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel NIV
John 4:6-9 – Jews do not
associate with Samaritans.
6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he
was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw
water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples
had gone to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You
are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?"
(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) NIV
End Times Segregation
- Ten men will take
hold of one Jew and ask to go with him because they know that God is with
him.
Isa 11:11-12 – God will
separate Israel
11 In that day the Lord will reach out his
hand to reclaim the remnant of his people from Assyria , from Lower Egypt , Upper Egypt , Cush Elam Babylonia , Hamath and from the
islands of the sea.
12 and gather the exiles of Israel Judah
Ezek 37:21-22 – Israel
21 `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I
will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather
them from all around and bring them back into their own land.
22 I will make them one nation in the land,
on the mountains of Israel
Zech 8:23 – Ten men will go with one Jew – God is with him
23 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "In
those days’ ten men from all languages and nations will take firm
hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, `Let us go with you,
because we have heard that God is with you.” NIV
Making the Case
- Making
the case for segregation. - Can I make the leap here to say that God
wants all the races to stay segregated?
This is hard for me to embrace as what seems to be the underlying
theme in scripture is; God wants a special people for Himself that loves
Him and worships Him alone.
- I want to worship Him
and Him alone, but I am a Gentile, not a Jew.
- Scripture says that
when I accepted His Son Jesus the Christ as my Savior, I was grafted into
the vine and now have Jewish roots. – So
spiritually, I am a Jew.
- If I am Black and
Spiritually a Jew and my wife is White and Spiritually a Jew, would we not
both be part of the Jewish Nation of Israel.
- Should not the
criteria for marriage be; Do you accept Jesus Christ as your personal
Savior and covenant with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be the
third party in your marriage covenant embracing that a covenant with God
is not to be broken through divorce.
- INTERRACIAL
SIN
- For those in scripture that are referred to as the Greek or Gentile,
interracial marriage is NOT a sin because we are not Jewish, however
scripture indicates that it will be a “thorn in the flesh” for the two of them and even more for
their children plus it affects the whole extended family. They will be the subject of crude
remarks, rejection and sometimes isolation. You may be strong for yourselves, but your
strength must extend, if it can, to your children too.
- The better thought is
“DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED” –
Do not marry an unbeliever - What does a believer have in common with an
unbeliever. - Come out – Be
separate.
Rom 11:17 -18 – We have been grafted into the root.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off,
and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the
others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, NIV
2 Cor 6:14 -16 – Do not marry an unbeliever
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can
light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and
Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement is there between the temple of God
2 Cor 6:17 – Separate yourself from the unbeliever
17 "Therefore come out from them and be
separate, says the Lord.
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses. Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I otherwise ever could have.
Annotated
Reference Bible – Dake
Antiquity of the Jews – Josephus
Bible Dictionary – Harper’s
Gambling and the Lottery – Tony Evans
King James Version Bible - KJV
Koinonia House
– Chuck Missler
New International Version Bible – NIV
New King James Version Bible – NKJV
Who’s Who in the Bible – Gardner
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