SEGREGATION - IITB 09.04

 

Chapter 9.4

Segregation

God Ordained – Commanded Segregation – End time Segregation

The Covenant of Segregation - Interracial Marriage – Interracial Sin 

King Solomon’s 600 Foreign Wives, 300 concubines; No segregation

 

 

First Word

     For some reason when we think of segregation we think of the separation of Blacks from the Whites, but 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.  Why is that?

     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 commanded and instituted by God for the NATION OF ISRAEL; to be set apart as a Holy nation of Priests to all the other nations.

Segregation will be revealed by God in the end times; with the separation of the Sheep from the Goats, the Wheat from the Tares, the Redeemed from the Condemned, and the Good from the Evil.   

This study looks at Segregation from the viewpoint of Israel.

 

Beginning Segregation

     Segregation began in the Garden of Eden when SIN brought the CURSE that segregated the Godly line of Adam from the un-godly line of Cain; Good from Evil.[1]

     God told the descendants of Noah to fill the earth,[2] but as they multiplied, they chose to ignore God’s command and started building a tower to worship other gods.[3] God gave them different languages and separated them scattering them throughout the earth.[4]

     It was God’s plan from the beginning to divide up mankind and separate them from the Nation of Israel.[5]  It was God that set up the boundaries and determined the exact place that they should live and the language that they should speak.[6]  It’s in the Book

 

 

Israel’s Segregation

     God segregated Israel from the other nations because He chose to love them;[7] He chose them to be His Holy people; He chose to keep His oath to Abraham and his descendants.   The plan was for Segregated Israel to be adopted as sons;[8] to receive the divine glory, the covenants, the law, the temple worship and His promises. God promised Israel to be the Head, at the top of all nations forever, IF they obeyed His commands.[9]

     They were to be a kingdom of Priest and a Holy Nation set apart from the other nations.[10]  They were to bring the “Good News” to ALL the other nations.[11]  They were to be the first Missionaries, the first Evangelist.[12]

     They forbid intermarriage with other nations lest they be drawn away into idolatry.[13]  They were commanded to reject Signs, wonders, prophets, fortune tellers and dreamers who would tell them “to follow other gods”.[14]  They would demonstrate to the other nations the futility of bowing down and worshiping cast idols made with human hands.[15] 

     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 a Holy Nation blameless before the LORD.[16]

Through the Patriarchs of Israel, the human ancestry line of Jesus Christ would be traced.

 

Covenant of Segregation

     God SEGREGATED the nation of Israel from the rest of the nations so as to fulfill his Covenants and Promises that He made to Abraham.

     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 and I will curse those that curse you.[17]

     Covenant - To your descendants I will give you land from the river in Egypt to the great river Euphrates.[18]

     Covenant - The land of Canaan will be an everlasting possession and I will be their God.[19]

 

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,[20] the fallen angles to intermarry with women to PRODUCE the grotesque distorted ungodly hybrid Giants, to PERVERT God’s creations.

     The Nations that were to be totally destroyed from the face of the earth were the stronger Nations of GIANTS; these nations did not and would not embrace the ONE God JEHOVAH.

 

Make no treaty with them - Do not intermarry with them.[21]

Drive them out – Destroy them - Show them no mercy.

 

If you disobey, God’s anger will burn against you and YOU will be destroyed.

 

Israel rebuked

     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[22] and they caused him to sin further by turning his heart and agreeing to worship along with his wives their many gods of the foreign nations.

     Today you 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 Israel, called curses down on them, beat some and pulled out their hair because of the sin of intermarriage.

 

Nehemiah 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 sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel,

but even he was led into sin by foreign women.

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

 

Samaritan Segregation

     The Assyrians conquered Samaria[23] and hauled off most of the able bodied Jews leaving behind the sick, maimed and aged and then colonized it with people from Mesopotamia who then intermarried with these Israelite Jews that had been left.

     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.[24]

     A Jew would take “the long way around” just to not travel through Samaria.[25]  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 “dirty, rotten, no good, low down, scumbags sinners of the earth.

 

End Times Segregation

     Israel has been scattered throughout the world, but when “The Day of the Lord [26]  comes in the end times, Israel will be gathered back and separated from the rest of the world.[27] Ten men will take hold of one Jew and ask to go with him because they know that God is with him.[28]

 

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 my BS 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;[29] 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 does 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,[30] what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever.  Come out; be separate.[31]

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[1] Genesis 3:15 – In the beginning there was a division; Good from Evil

[2] Genesis 1:28 – God commanded them to multiply and fill the earth.

[3] Genesis 11:1-2 – Noah’s descendants spread abroad, but stopped in Shinar; Babylon  -- Genesis 11:4 – Let’s not be scattered, but stop here and make a name for ourselves and a tower to worship the gods

[4] Genesis 11:8-9 – God rejected their plans to build a tower and scattered them

[5] Daniel 7:13-14 – Prophecy: There will be various people, nations and languages

[6] Acts 17:26 – God determined the exact places people should live -- Deuteronomy 32:8 – God divided and set the nations boundaries

[7] Deuteronomy 7:6-8 – God in love chose Israel to be a Holy People

[8] Romans 9:4-5 – The promises of God are for a Segregated Israel; set apart from the other nations,

 

 

[9] Deuteronomy 28:13 – God promises to make Israel the head; at the top

[10] Exodus 19:6 – Israel is to be a Kingdom of Priest; a Holy Nation

[11] Isaiah 52:7 – Israel to bring “The Good News” to the nations

[12] Isaiah 66:19 – Israel to be the first Missionaries; Evangelist

[13] Exodus 34:15-17 – There are to make no treaty or make idols or intermarry

[14] Deuteronomy 13:1-3 – Israel must reject signs, wonders, prophets and fortune tellers who says to follow other gods

[15] Exodus 20:1-6 – No other gods, No idols, No other worship

[16] Deuteronomy 18:9-13 – Israel must be blameless before the Lord.

[17] Genesis 12:1-3 – The Covenant with Abraham; 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

[18] Genesis 15:18-21 – The Covenant of Land to Abraham’s descendants

[19] Genesis 17:8 – The Covenant of the whole land of Canaan will be an everlasting possession

[20] Numbers 13: 31-33 – There were more Giants after the flood of Noah  -- Deuteronomy 2:10-11 – Giants called Emims -- Deuteronomy 2:20-21 – Giants called Zamzummims

[21] Deuteronomy 7:1-4 – Command; do not intermarry with the other nations.

 

 

[22] 1 Kings 11:1-9 – King Solomon intermarried and sinned against God

[23] 2 Kings 17:5-6 – The Assyrians deported the Samaritan Jews.

[24] John 4:6-9 – Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

[25] Matthew 10:5-6 – Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans

[26] Isaiah 11:11-12 – God will separate Israel in “the Day of the Lord

[27] Ezekiel 37:21-22 – Israel will be segregated from the nations.

[28] Zechariah 8:23 – Ten men will go with one Jew because God is with him

 

[29] Romans 11:17-18 – We have been grafted into the olive root of Israel

[30] 2 Corenthians 6:14-16 – Do not marry an unbeliever

[31] 2 Corenthians 6:17 – Separate yourself from the unbeliever

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