Title: “Red and Yellow Black and White…”
Theme: God’s Love and Grace for the World
Genesis 8-10; two key events take place in these chapters. One – God gives us the rainbow to symbolize his covenant with Noah to never again destroy the world with Water. The second is the repopulating of the world and the future Global outreach of the Gospel available to all man regardless of race or nationality. Both major events are two key examples of God’s love and Grace. You are listening to Preach the Word with Dean Carmichael, Jr.
Up to this point we saw two major lines populate the earth;
Cain’s Line (Seed of the Serpent) Started out with false religion of rejecting God’s way of Salvation by believing we can work our way to God (Cain)After living a life of wandering he (Cain) knew his wife and built a cityThrough Cain’s line we see an advancement in agriculture, science, technology and entertainment but stayed separate from God due to sin not being dealt with. Seth’s Line through Adam (Seed of Christ) Genesis 4:25,26 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.Man’s rebellion and destruction: Genesis 6:2 2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.Genesis 6:5 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.What? The Noahic Covenant:
Why? To re-populate the Earth
Cush- Africans (Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lybian’s,etc.)
Nimrod- a great hunter, a hunter of men's souls. He was the founder of the great cities in the land of Shimar. Founder of Babel, tower of babylon. Tried to become a great ruler.Ham’s Son Canaan was cursed (Not Ham and his generations)Genesis 9:20-25 20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Majority of America descended from these lines.
“Most, if not all, of the notable world powers have sprung from Japheth, including the Assyrian, Medo-Persian, Greek, Roman, British, and American.” – Cloud
The nations that take control after the fall of Babylon come from the line of Japheth and have been in control ever since.
Noah’s three sons would re-populate the earth. This is a very brief summary. There are a lot of ways we can go about this but we are going to focus on the Gospel. To summarize populations, Ham (Africa) Japheth (Europe) Ham (Asia).
Three Divisions of Mankind: Jew; Gentile; Church
The Scriptures speak of three classes of people on the earth, the Jews, the Gentile, and the Church. The Church is made up of both Jew and Gentile. Outside of the Church all who are not Jews are Gentiles. Up to the call of Abraham all the people of the earth were Gentiles. Abraham was the first Hebrew. His grandson Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel (Gen 32:24-29), had twelve sons. They became the heads of twelve tribes, known as the "Twelve Tribes of Israel." After the death of King Solomon these "Tribes" were divided. Ten of them became known as Israel, and two (Judah and Benjamin) as Judah. In B.C. 721 Israel was carried captive to Assyria, and in B. C, 606 Judah was carried captive to Babylon.”
Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Boils down to two types of people – Saved and Lost (so many different ethnic groups, races, nations, religions)
Theme of this study – Salvation is not man going to God. Salvation is not man walking with God. Salvation is God coming to man.
It is God’s desire, that fallen man, regardless of where they were populated (nation, race) if they are Jew or Gentile, come to Repentance (change of Mind) and put Faith in Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:9 9The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Acts 8:29-31 King James Version (KJV) 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me?
Peter and Cornielus (line of Japheth)
We must come to the Scriptural truth that Salvation is God searching for man (the world) and is available to all and upon all that believe.
Galatians 4:4-5 King James Version (KJV) 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
There were many things going on in the world that prepared the way for Jesus to come; (3 groups)
Rome was known for it’s law and order. Romans prepared the world (unknowingly) but in God’s providence.
Mark – Presents Jesus as a worker, as the servant of God to the Heathen Romans and their decline of morals. “The Gospel of Action”
One language and One World! – Ambition of Alexander the Great
Greek was the language of the World at that time. The N.T. was written in Greek.
The Hebrew Old Testament was translated to Greek in 250-150 B.C.
Luke – Presents Jesus Christ as the Son of Man to the intellectual Greeks. Jesus is presented as the ideal human being because the Greek’s were looking for the perfect man.
They had the scriptures. When Christ was born the message was already known. The Messiah wo would one day come was not a new concept.
The Gospel of Matthew – Presents Jesus as the Messiah to the Hebrews and their Religion.
A special thank you to my Friend Michael Barnette for the song "All things new" and to my friend Dave Compton for the opening remarks.
