The Scourge Of Racism
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By the grace of my God I am pleased to be writing this 500th post since I began making them back in 2011! I am so grateful to God for saving and putting me into His service; granting that I could have a life of meaning and purpose far beyond my wildest imagination! And how fitting that the Lord would give me a word to launch out Black History Month 2024 given that I have been writing on the occasion presenting a biblical worldview of the black American experience since 1986 in some form or another. Again, all of my heartfelt praise and thanksgiving to God for His grace and mercy in using a wretch like me to serve in His Kingdom causes and work (1 Timothy 1:12-17)!
So, why a Black History as though it were somehow special and above all others? In line with all that the Lord has had me writing in this Blog since this past September 2023 stemming from my latest book release, The Scourge Of Racism,1 the existence of a purposeful celebration of blacks in American history is not about being special, but overlooked! In yet another outcome of the nation’s bigotry, discriminatory acts and oppressions arising from systemic racism, the many positive contributions of blacks to America from slavery were scarcely mentioned in the textbooks used to teach white students much less black and other hues in segregated schools through the 1950s.
As he taught in the early 20th century segregated educational environment, black educator, Carter G. Woodson, sought to address the purposeful injustice he saw in dismissing the vital role of blacks in America’s development. In 1915 he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History through which he participated in research, writing many articles and the publishing of scholarly publications that presented the abundant historical facts about blacks and their contributions to the American experiment. By 1926 Woodson was instrumental in establishing what was first Black History Week in February and later morphed into the entire month to further promote the cause.2
In 1933, perhaps Mr. Woodson’s most incisive work was published, The Mis-education Of The Negro.3 In it, he pulls no punches criticizing the American educational system and the way its deliberate actions to exclude blacks from history was hurting all students not just those that were black. Nevertheless, black students deprived of a healthy representation of the positive historical contributions of those from their culture were reinforced in their supposed inferiority systemic racism loudly sounded they possessed. Woodson did not limit his critique to whites, but blacks too, among those that were finding success and amidst the churches who he felt had a wider educational role.
Woodson’s book was among the first I was introduced to as I took newly minted Black Studies courses in the mid-seventies. It was eye-opening, direct, honest and humbling reading what this black man was saying to this young radical who wanted to make it all about what “the white man” had done to us as victims. Far from the victim mentality progressive liberal proponents of Critical Race Theory (CRT) advance in their educational reform efforts today, Mr. Woodson kept it real about black failures; calling for taking more responsibility in educating our children and building up the community while also rightly acknowledging the purposeful oversights and harm done by guilty whites.
Indeed, what the proponents of CRT fault guilty whites of is sin pure and simple. Sin cannot be fixed by intellectual theories nor through returning evil for evil God condemns as it seems some are bent on doing with CRT (Romans 3:9-31, 12:17-21).4 And there it is. By naming God and citing Scripture in the foregoing I have purposely introduced what is the overarching reality of all history as well as black history. As I was led by Him to discuss in last week’s post, God is the invisible active Sovereign behind the existence of all nations.5 In a biblical worldview then, blacks are not victims in our American historical experience, but the just recipients of a lighter than death sentence for the sins of our West African forefathers and our own as God judges all nations (Jeremiah 25:15-29).6
In the educational spirit of Carter G. Woodson behind Black History Month, the Lord has enabled me to write about the black American experience from a biblical worldview through many posts in this Blog and other writings on our dedicated From Slavery To Victory Education Project Web Site.7 Besides the stark reality and undercurrent of judgment, I have been blessed to speak of God’s good ends through all of our suffering. This was originally a matter of personal inquiry of the Lord because as Mr. Woodson wanted, I had become very acquainted with the many outstanding black historical figures and their accomplishments with some inspiration. However, I was left empty without understanding why our suffering; an answer only God could and did satisfactorily provide to me.8
1 The Scourge Of Racism print version is available in the Strong Man Store, all major internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores. The just released E-Book is available at major E-Book sellers. Watch the book trailer.
2 Learn more about Carter G. Woodson and the renamed organization he founded.
3 The Mis-Education Of The Negro, by Carter G. Woodson, Copyright 1933, 1969, The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, D.C.
4 Sin can only be fixed as God does in the Gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ! Those that profess to be Christians attempting to repay evil for evil should heed the Lord’s call to return to Him, for you have surely gone far away from Him. Hear the Lord’s merciful call to return through this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord on YouTube.
5 Read the January 28, 2024 post, Global Dominance A Stewardship, under the category, Call To Repent.
6 Reconciling God’s permitting of evil oppression in the context of judgment on the one hand and His disapproval of it on the other is marvelously seen in His Word for those that will accept it (Deuteronomy 28:15, 29-33; Psalm 103:6). Blacks walking in the delusion of innocent victimhood should carefully note in Jeremiah 25:29 that unless you consider all the African nations better than Israel and not among the world’s nations, God asserts none were to go “unpunished,” (NKJV).
7 Visit the Web Site at https://fromslaverytovictory.org.
8 See the two-part post beginning June 2, 2019, Message From A Redeemed Black Man, under the categories Biblical Worldview and Black History.
It is the arrogant pride of rank racists who like Adolf Hitler of Germany, believe it is a manifest destiny born of superiority that Western Europeans and their scattered progeny have been dominant in the world for just over the last five centuries. As He leads me to assert otherwise in my book, The Scourge Of Racism, the God of the Bible in sovereignty controls the movements, habitations and dominions of ethnic nations to this very hour.1 No ethnic group has risen or rises to prominence in any sphere apart from His purposes and permissive will. This being so, the global dominance of Western Europeans and their descendants until now, has been of God and should inspire humility!
The record of nations in the Bible objectively read, interpreted and applied begins with the sons of Noah after the global flood and God’s command, ‘“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,’” (Genesis 9:1, 7, 18-19, NKJV). In Genesis 10 his youngest, Japheth, is presented first, then middle son, Ham, and finally firstborn, Shem; the birth order and names of their respective sons follow. Ham’s son, Cush, begot Nimrod the first named empire builder “on the earth” with “the beginning of His kingdom” being “Babel” and other cities “in the land of Shinar;” beyond it as well, building Nineveh in Assyria (Genesis 10:2-12, NKJV). There is general consensus Nimrod as Cush was racially black.2
Here is the point I make in The Scourge Of Racism: God in His sovereignty has granted global or at least hemispheric prominence and dominance to various descendants of the sons of Noah beginning with black Nimrod down through the centuries as He has willed. It has had nothing to do with the superiority of race, but the sovereign election of God in accord with His purposes!3 So then, all of the rest of Ham’s sons had geographical dominions (Genesis 10:13-20) as did the sons of Shem who was part of the godly line from Adam elected by God to be the progenitors of the greatest King ever; even His Jewish Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (Genesis 10:21-32; Luke 3:23-38)!
Despite their population growth at the time as well as present and future dominions, Nimrod and company ran into a major problem with God. With their single language and culture, they sought to build a city and worship platform to reach into “the heavens” as part of a plan to allow them to remain together in one place as a single people. God was having none of that and came “down” to “confuse their language.” Not being able to understand each other, the people left off building the city and “the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth.” Rebellion against God and idolatry has characterized the Gentile nations from that time until now (Genesis 11:1-9, NKJV).
Only God in sovereignty knows exactly why He has allowed the ascendancy of Western Europeans to global dominance in these last days. Even so, given the disdain He has for the proud who walk in pride and arrogance written in His Word, it surely was not so men puffed up could exalt themselves before Him or boast in any measure for He ‘“resists’” all who do (1 Samuel 2:1-3; Proverbs 8:13, 16:18-19; James 4:6, 13-17; 1 Peter 5:5, NKJV)! Indeed, history is replete with God taking down arrogant, proud rulers and their kingdoms after first allowing them for His purposes to mistreat and oppress His people, Israel. Pharaoh of Egypt was first (Exodus 10:1-7, 15:1-19).
Pharaoh and his kingdom was followed later by God’s take down of the proud rulers of surrounding nations that had oppressed Israel in the land with His permission during the period of the Judges (1 Samuel 12:6-11). Then came Israel’s kings when God did the same thing among nearby rulers and nations along with those far off such as Nimrod’s legacies Assyria and great Babylon as foretold by the Lord’s prophets (Isaiah 10:5-19; Jeremiah 25:1-29). Truly, if God uses any nation or kingdom to punish others, you can be sure they will be punished too! His holy prophets also foretell the world will see Him take down all of the kingdoms of proud men in “the day of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:10-22, 13:6-13; Jeremiah 25:30-33; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Revelation 6:12-17, 11:15-18, NKJV).4
In light of all the foregoing, not racial supremacy birthed of arrogant pride, but humility should characterize the hearts of the descendants of the Western Europeans who founded America.5 For with proper humility global prominence and dominance is understood as a serious stewardship responsibility from God to which He holds men accountable.6 To have been globally known as the arrogant oppressors of non-whites does not commend the guilty to the Lord who judges. Realizing this, guilty especially professed Christians must repent as Samuel the prophet also challenged Israel that sinned against the Lord to do (1 Samuel 6:7-7:6).7 Otherwise, without repentance those who exult in the arrogant pride of racial supremacy following Satan are in grave peril of divine take down.8
1 The Scourge Of Racism, Copyright 2023, ODCM Publishing Division, Portland, OR, p. 45-46. The printed book is available in the Strong Man Store, all major internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores. The just released E-Book is available at major E-Book sellers. Watch the book trailer.
2 Use your preferred search engine to pull up academic articles asserting that Nimrod was black skinned.
3 Scourge, op. cit. p. 45-46.
4 See the two-part post that begins February 13, 2022, War Of The Ages End, under the category, Bible Prophecy, to see the prophetic details of how our nation potentially among all that survive in some form in the day of the Lord will come up under the sovereign reign of Jesus Christ!
5 Scourge, op. cit. p. 26-27.
6 Ibid, p. 65-66. Here is why white conservative evangelicals as aspiring strong men of God in the image of Jesus Christ are so desperately needed and can help at this hour. Such men display Christ’s character trait of humility I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and are on mission to proclaim the Gospel about and witness Him to others. Genuine salvation will help any man that needs a change of heart and mind. Pick up the book in the Hard or Soft Cover or E-Book Edi- tions in the Strong Man Store, all major internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.
7 See the end of the January 21, 2024 post, Not Heeding God’s Word On Racism Consequential, under the category, Call To Repent for background to the Scripture cited. The Lord Jesus has extended His call to return to Him in repentance to any professed Christian that has strayed in rebellion against Him, His will and way plainly taught in the Bible through this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord. Watch it now on YouTube.
8 Satan is the original rebel creature of arrogant pride whose destruction was long ago declared (Ezekiel 28:11-19)!
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