Saturday, March 19, 2011

Color of Jesus

Uncle Chuckie, If Jesus was a black man why is it in all of his pictures he is white? Was Jesus white or black?

Well, number one. There is no such thing as a black man. Man comes in all different shades. When the Spaniards saw a dark skinned man, they saw a negative figure and called them El Negros meaning the blacks. And the word black has always been used in negative terms; black mark, black list,  black mail, black balled, the unlucky black cat, etc.
The description of Jesus(Yahshua in Hebrew) in the Book of Revelations as a man with hair like white wool and feet like fine brass or bronze could describe the image of any type of deity. When I was growing up they had movies of Greek gods like Apollo, Zeus, Helios and Poseidon who had white woolly hair and feet of bronze. To figure out the shade of The Christ you would have to go down his genealogy, his family. Yahshua was a descendant of David and often referred to as a Son of David. David is the only person in the bible where they described his complexion. He is described as having ruddy skin and bright eyed. Back then ruddy meant the color of coral or rubies. Which meant David was lighter than his brothers. And like the majority of light skinned men, they love dark skinned women. When David saw Bathsheba across the way bathing, he could not help himself and needed to have her. If you read the story of David in 1 Samuel, you will read how he ended up marrying Bathsheba. They had a son named Solomon who was just like his father and loved dark skinned women. Mostly all of the people in the bible were people of dark skinned people. If you read 1 Cor. 11:14, Paul's states; "Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a shame/disgrace to him". So if it is a disgrace or shame to man to have long hair, why would the only perfect man to walk the face of this earth have hair down to his shoulders.
We are not to have any pictures of Jesus or The Father or angels anyway. The second commandment states; You should not make yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, the earth beneath or the waters under the earth. I feel He put that in the commandments because if you notice today, that when so many people have problems they first grasp the cross they have or look at a picture of an earthly man or turn to figurines of what they feel are angels first before they go directly to The Father in the name of Jesus(Yahshua) the Christ. They feel they need images and pictures in their homes to feel that they are blessed and protected not realizing that already have the blessing and the protection with them where ever they are. We don't need images or figurines.
So, don't consider yourself a black man. You are a Man. A son of The Father!

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