BLACK HISTORY SUNDAY

BLACK HISTORY SUNDAY AT
GILBERT MEMORIAL A.M.E.
Rev. Brenda Smith, Pastor
Sunday, February 27, 2011
REV DR Larry Delano Coleman, Homilist

1. GOD AND JESUS IN SCRIPTURE:

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.Daniel 7:9

14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. Rev. 1:14-16

2. MOTHER NILE--------------- ALSO CALLED “GIHON” IN SCRIPTURE

13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Gen.2:13

Ethiopia or Cush is the first nation in the bible. Ethiopia is in Africa. The land where man began. The land where civilization began. The land where you and I began! Where everybody began!

The Nile (Regarded as the longest river in the world.[3] It is 6,650 km (4,130 miles) long.

The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. The latter is the source of most of the water and fertile soil. The former is the longer. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in central Burundi. It flows north through Rwanda, Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan. The Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia at 12°02′09″N 037°15′53″E12.03583°N 37.26472°E and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world
and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathe in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans,* and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

3. “WRESTERS” OF SCRIPTURE FOR WICKED ENDS--

Folks have lied about black history for centuries, BOTH BLACKS AND WHITES even in school and church. Some of it is still on the internet! So watch out!

WHY WOULD A BLACK MAN LIE ABOUT BLACK HISTORY, YOU MAY ASK? HE’S SICK, BRAINWASHED, FULL OF THE DEVIL, WILLFULLY IGNORANT!!

WHY WOULD A WHITE MAN LIE ABOUT BLACK HISTORY, YOU MAY ASK? HE’S SICK, BRAINWASHED, FULL OF THE DEVIL, WILLFULLY IGNORANT!!

“All day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me.” PSALM 56:5

“But you must not mention 'the oracle of the LORD' again, because every man's own word becomes his oracle and so you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.” JEREMIAH 23:36

4. The so-called curses---

They would even subvert, pervert, wrest and suborn scripture to make it applicable to us:

20Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.c 21He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
26He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.
27May God enlarge Japheth,d
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”

5. GENESIS 9:20-25—A DRUNKARD’S CURSE: BLESSES AND CURSES IN THE SAME BREATH! “from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.” JAMES 3:10 11; NOAH’S CURSES NOT GOD’S CURSES. NOT TO HAM, BUT HIS GRANDSON, CANAAN, ANYWAY. WHOSE LAND THEY COVET TO THIS VERY DAY!

6. USED ON BLACK SLAVES IN AMERICA: TOUSSAINT L’OVERTURE, GABRIEL PROSSER, DENMARK VESEY, DAVID WALKER, NAT TURNER, HARRIET TUBMAN, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JOHN BROWN, BISHOP HENRY MCNEAL TURNER

7. “Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.” Joshua 9:23

8. Refutation of the curse--

“How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?” Numbers 23:8

9. SIMPLE SOLUTION TO OUR CRISES AS A PEOPLE---

10. “Study to show thyself approved unto God A WORK MAN THAT NEED NOT BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.” 2 TIM 2:15
11. FIGHT BACK WITH THE WORD OF GOD AND WITH YOUR RIGHTEOUS, VIRTUOUS LIVES!
LIKE BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN, DANIEL COKER AND BISHOP MORRIS BROWN

12. FOLKS WHOM GOD TURNED WHITE---

Moses hand—EXODUS 4:6-7--
6 Then the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous[a]—it had become as white as snow.
7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

13. Miriam moses’ sister
9So the anger of the LORD burned against them and He departed. 10But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous. 11Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned. 12“Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!” 13Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray!” 14But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.” 15So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again. Numbers 12:9-15

14. Gehazi

It happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. 10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.” 11But Naaman was furious and went away and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.’ 12“Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. 13Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.

Gehazi’s Greed

15When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now.” 16But he said, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”
23Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. 24When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. 25But he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
26Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?
Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever." Then Gehazi went from Elisha's presence and he was leprous, as white as snow. 2kings 5:27
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15. PURPOSE OF TODAY’S MESSAGE: to inform; to empower; to love

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 1 THESS. 4:13

11so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 2 COR. 2:11

Today, we’re gonna set the record straight in Jesus’ name! And the only book we’re gonna use is the BIBLE—the greatest black history book ever!

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Isaiah 5:20

16. Turn to Genesis 10—the table of nations—critical biblical index
Genesis 10

1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Now, Ham refers to the black man. His descendents, his “sons” are where the world’s earliest civilization are found. Civilization means writing—on papyrus paper, and in stone; hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic; reading, mathematics, astronomy, navigation, shipbuilding, agriculture, music, animal husbandry, art, medicine, the calendar, surveying, stone quarrying and building in stone, and the worship of God “Amen” -- and on and on

17. Ham’s bone--

6And the sons of Ham; Cush (ETHIOPIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA), and Mizraim (EGYPT), and Phut (NORTH AFRICA), and Canaan (ISRAEL, LEBANON, SYRIA).
Now use this table of nations as your reference point, whenever you study!

7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel (BABYLON), and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (ABRAHAM’S HOME).
11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
13And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
15And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
16And the Jebusite,[JERUSALEM] and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
17And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

18. SOJOURNING IN OR NEAR EGYPT DURING HARD TIMES

Remember Abram went to Egypt in a time of famine with Sarai his wife, who he claimed was his sister. Genesis 12. They played that sister game again in Genesis chapter 20 with King Abimelech.

Isaac, ABRAHAM’S SON, was on his way there, when the Lord stopped him on the outskirts in the Land of Gerar, home of King Abimelech and the Philistines.
1Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2The LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. 3“Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. 4 Gen. 26:1-3

Joseph was sold there, and Jacob (Israel) found succor there. (AFRICAN AMERICANS, akin to JOSEPH—SOLD BY THEIR BRETHREN; LATER RESCUE)

Moses was born there.
And baby Jesus and his parents fled there.
Abraham Isaac and Jacob all sojourned in or near the land of Egypt. Amen

19. THE EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK PEOPLE WHO CAME FROM CUSH, ETHIOPIA!
JUST LIKE THE AMERICANS CAME FROM ENGLAND!

20. Specific examples

MOSES WAS MISTAKEN FOR AN EGYPTIAN—MOSES WAS TAKEN FROM THE NILE AND was later MISTAKEN FOR AN EGYPTIAN

EXODUS 2:18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”

Job 30:30-- My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Queen of Sheba -- First Kings 10:1-13 (largely copied in 2 Chronicles 9:1–12).

1. Song of Solomon-- The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
2. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
3. Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
4. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
5. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
SONG OF SONGS 1:1-6

21. TAKEN FROM INTERNET--

The original Jews in Africa 2000 years ago were a Black African people as an ethnic group. (Massey: Egypt Light of the Word p501) Many of them still are Black, in northern Africa such as the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia. A New York Times editorial (3/2/84) described them as "a lost tribe that has kept its identity for more than 2,000 years in a remote corner of Africa." Abraham, ancestor of the Hebrews, was from Chaldea; the ancient Chaldeans were Black. In fact, Africa takes it name from Ophren, a son of Abraham by his wife, Keturah (Whiston: The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus p50) Like Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the lineage of Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie also goes back to Judah -through Solomon/Queen of Sheba and King David.

Roman historian Tacitus wrote that many of his time believed that the Jews "were a race of Ethiopian origin." The Bible classifies the Ethiopians & Jews together, "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord." (Amos 9:7) Black Paul is mistaken for an "Egyptian" and declares himself to be a "Jew." (Acts 21:37-39, 22: 2,3) That the Jews got their language, religion & culture from the Canaanites & Sumerians through Babylon, is well documented by historians. The original ancient Hebrew alphabet was identical to that of the Phoenicians. "Semitic languages" are really dialectical variants of African languages.

The word Semite is from semi which means half. Half what? Half BLACK! (mulatto!) Semite refers to the descendants of Shem, one of Noah's sons. The word originates from the Latin prefix semi which means half. "half Black and half white... therefore Black (since Black is genetically dominant)" points out Dr. Cress Welsing. Historian Cheikh Anta Diop also points out that the "Semitic" arises in the 4th millennia B.C. from crossbreeding between Black inhabitants of the holy land and white northern invaders. While many Semites (such as Jews & gypsies) have mixed so much with whites that they've forgotten or deny their African roots, racism (white supremacy) will never let them forget this no matter how light-skinned they become, as proved by Hitler, who mandated their destruction because they were classified by whites as "non-white" peple originating in Africa. The very word gypsy means "out of Egypt."

A good site to read is:
http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/DNA%20is%20a%20Mother.htm
Other points:

Moses passed as Pharaoh grandson for 40 years (Acts 7:23),
Moses was called an Egyptian (Exodus 2:16-19)
The apostle Paul was mistaken for a black skin Egyptian (Acts 21:37-38),
Joseph was not recognized by his brothers in Egypt they thought Joseph was an Egyptian (Genesis 42:1-8)

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Discuss:Were_Adam_and_Eve_dark_skinned#ixzz1F6QUGD70

22. CONCLUSION :We are all made in the likeness and image of God, so let no man take your crown! Rev.3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

Rev.3:11-13 14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
23. These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. Amen.