God's Kinship With Dark Colors

By Dr. John L. Johnson

God's Kinship With Dark Colors will highlight God's relationship with the color black--a color after creatig it,  He frequently uses it as a visual symbol to identify His Divine presence.

Readers will be able to formulate a distinction between natural, mental and genetic darkness.

The greatest mystery in the Universe is God who is the embodiment of dark sayings, matter and energy (Psalm 78:2; Proverbs 1:6; and John 6:60)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Johnson Books, Inc
• Release date: Jun 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393740582

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"Oh Eternal, who was before all things;

Out of You cometh everything." 1

Minister Veronica Woolfolk

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God’s Kinship with

Dark Colors

And out of the darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men. 2

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© 2020 Julian R. Johnson

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publishers, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper or magazine.

This text will not normally comply with the new or modern translations of the Bible. For consistency, use The Jewish Bible; The Aramaic Targum Bible; and the King James Bible, not the New King James Bible, published during and after 1979. It is critical to acknowledge that today’s World Bible institutions and societies, have continued to rescript old bible versions, in order to erase any evidence of an early Negro-African presence. It was during the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 17th Centuries that great efforts were made to de- Africanize the Bible, in order to invent a new European book of symbolisms, ideas and concepts. During and after 1979, new altered versions were printed to finalize the Old Euro- effort to Europeanize the Bible. The modern-day Church has overlooked this transformation by neglecting to compare today’s new versions with earlier Hebrew-Egypto-Ethiopic texts, and Bible glossaries. Today’s Church doesn’t have a clue to how much the new versions contradicts the old versions.

God’s Kinship with Dark Colors was researched from old Bible versions, not new revised versions.

Revised edition 2004

First printing 1994

Second printing 1996

Third printing 2004

Fourth printing 2008

Fifth printing 2016

Sixth printing 2020

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God’s Kinship

with Dark Colors

By

Dr. John L. Johnson

Author of The Black Biblical Heritage, The Hamitic Bible Dictionary, 500 Questions and Answers on the Black Presence in the Bible, The Negro Rulers of Scotland and the British Isles, and The Original Names and Descriptions of God and Jesus.

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Oh night, most beautiful and rare Thou giv’st the heavens their holiest hue! 3

This work is dedicated to my late mother, Ida Mae Johnson Cannon, who encouraged and helped me to honor Truth.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. John L. Johnson was born in Altheimer Arkansas and reared in Tucson, Arizona. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Louis University in Missouri, and two Doctorates from the New World Theological Seminary, and the New World Bible Institute in Texarkana Arkansas. He served three years in the Marine Corps and one tour in Vietnam. One of Dr. Johnson’s specialties while serving in Vietnam was a language translator.

Dr. Johnson has devoted over thirty years in researching Biblical evidence and other important subjects relating to the significance of dark colors and the Black man’s origin in the Bible. He is the author of The Black Biblical Heritage, The Hamitic Bible Dictionary, 500 Questions and Answers on the Black presence in the Bible, The Negro Rulers of Scotland the British Isles, and The Original Names and Descriptions of God and Jesus. He also contributed to The Original African Heritage Study Bible.

These nonfictional books offer a wealth of innovative knowledge concerning God and creation, with particular relevance to people, places and things.

Let it become widely acknowledged, that the author’s Holy guidance was never directed at changing the Bible and natural history, but to explain their mystic- depths, based on the original interpretation from the classical Hebrew-Ethiopic- Egypto glossaries (Matt. 5:17-18; John 6:60-61; Ga. 4:16; Matt. 10:26; 24:14).

It is obvious that this text will never be read by the majority, since it was researched for the intellectually enlightened and those who desire to be (Jer. 33:3; Pro. 3:5-6; Isa. 28:10; 33:6; Matt. 4:4; 6:33; 7:7; 11:25; 28: 20; John 10:27; 14:12, 26; 16:13; I Cor. 2:10; II Tim. 2:7, 15; Heb. 4:12; I Peter 3:15; I John 2:27).

May the reader be reminded that Dr. Johnson’s consistent years of researching and writing this documentary, was never inspired from a sense of color consciousness, but rather a truth consciousness!

January 1, 2004

Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Alveda King

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to acknowledge Roger Harlan and Bill Murphy, Jr. for the illustrations, also the late Mrs. Ida M. Bailey, the late Mr. Milton Bailey, the late Dr. James A. Carey, Minister Doris J. Harris, Mrs. Artimese L. Johnson, Elder Julian R. Johnson, the late Elder Bailey Williams, and Bailey W. Williams IV, for their encouragement in this publication.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, thou art our great original!4

FOREWORD

God’s Kinship with Dark Colors was written to highlight God’s relationship with the color black, a color that God after creating, would frequently use as a visual symbol to identify His Divine presence. Throughout the ages, God would often approach His subjects in a darkish-black appearance, a manifestation that represented law, order, wisdom and justice (Ps. 97:2; 78:2). Omnipotent! *

This marvelous book was also written to enable its readers to formulate a distinction between natural, mental and genetic darkness. That darkness is an appellation to the color black, where in reverse, black is defined as very-very dark; a hue that existed with God for zillions of years, etc., before God said: Let there be light (Gen. 1:1-3). God highly disfavored mental darkness (Man’s ignorance of God’s will), but majestically exalted the Divine and natural darkness, as a synonym or embodiment of Himself; power, presence and infinite knowledge (Gen. 15:12-13; Ex. 19:9, 16-18; 34:5; I Kings 8:10-12; Ps. 105:39).

The Biblical association of darkness to God is not intended to convey anything sinister about Him. Rather, it represents the inscrutability of God. The human mind in itself cannot penetrate into the mysteries of the person (Jesus) and nature of God, since all is great darkness beyond what God has revealed to the human intellect. God, who is outside of time and space, makes Himself beyond man’s understanding (Ps. 90:2). The greatest mystery in the Universe is God, who is the embodiment of dark sayings, matter and energy (Ps. 78:2; Pro. 1:6; John 6:60).

Job’s friend Eliphaz said: 1 would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause, which does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number (Job 5:8-9). Later, Elihu elaborated, Behold. God is great, and we know Him not, neither can the number of His years be searched out (Job 36:26; 37:16).

Zophar, a friend of Job said: Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection? (Job 11:7). Job himself elaborates (Job 26:14).

Apostle Paul commented: "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Cor. 2:7-8; 1:25).

Much of God’s ingeniousness is wrapped or hidden in impenetrable darkness (Ex. 20:21; Isa. 45:3; 55:8-9; Matt. 6-6; and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance: # 6828).

*The Hebrews constantly begged God to make His face lighter (Dan. 10:6). The obvious sensible question is what complexion was God's facial appearance before He brightened it? (Num. 6:25-26; Ps. 31:16; 67:1; 80:3, 7, 19; 119:135; Dan. 9:17)! Jesus while living on earth during His transfiguration, would temporarily change from a dark to a bright complexion (Matt. 17:2; 28:3; Luke 9:29).

"Thou are white (day)

And I am black (night)

but day must join with night

to bring forth the dawn and the twilight

which are more beautiful than they." 5

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

THE BEGINNING AND DARKNESS

THE CREATION OF LIGHT

GOD VISITED ABRAM IN A HORROR OF GREAT DARKNESS

GOD SPOKE TO MOSES FROM A FLAMING BUSH

THE DARK CLOUD THAT GAVE LIGHT AT NIGHT

GOD APPEARED BEFORE MOSES AND ISRAEL IN THE FORM OF FIRE, SMOKE, AND THICK DARKNESS

MOSES MET GOD IN THICK DARKNESS

GOD SPOKE AND INTRODUCED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM THE MIDST OF THICK DARKNESS

GOD DWELLED IN THE TEMPLE AS THICK DARKNESS

GOD APPEARED UPON THE TABERNACLE AS DARKNESS

GOD MADE HIS FACE TO SHINE

GOD EXHALED BLACK SMOKE

GOD’S PAVILION WAS COVERED WITH DARKNESS

GOD ARRAYED HIMSELF WITH DARKNESS

GOD APPEARED AS A WHIRLWIND

THE FOUR SPIRITS OF THE HEAVENS

JESUS WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES

GOD APPEARED IN A BLACK CLOUD DURING THE TRANSFIGURATION

THE HOLY DARK CLOSET

GOD VISITED THE CRUCIFIXION IN THE FORM OF GREAT DARKNESS

THE SHADOW THAT HEALED

THE DIVINE CLOUDY PRESENCE OF GOD AND JESUS

THE DARKEST MOMENTS: THE GIFT OF HOLY BLACKNESS (DARKNESS), DEATH AND UGLY VESSELS

NIGER GODS

TERMS WHICH THE TRANSLATORS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE WORD BLACK

EXPOSITORY COMMENTS I

EXPOSITORY COMMENTS II

THE BLACK UNIVERSE

AUTHOR’S COMMENT

APPENDIX

BEYOND

DISORDER AND HARMONY

FINAL COMMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SUGGESTED READINGS

Oh, primeval night! During the evening thou swalloweth day, whereas midnight, thou yieldeth a new birth, as a new day is born at thou blackest Hue. 6

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THE BEGINNING AND DARKNESS

In the beginning God (Elohim or Eloham) created the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form and void: Darkness (Ham) was everywhere, and in the darkness the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. *

At the very beginning God could have commenced His creation with natural light, but instead chose darkness, the likeness of Himself the Supreme balancer of all things (Col. 1:16-17). The first day was jet black-dark before God said: Let there be light. Light was predestined to follow Divine-darkness (Gen. 1:1-3; II Cor. 4:6). ** The whole universe was totally lightless, because of the presence of God, who existed in a state of constant darkness, before positioning Himself in a state of light. Before the sun, God existed in pure black Divine-darkness (I Kings 8:11- 12; Phil. 3:21; I John 3:2; Gen. 1:27; 5:3; Ps. 17:15; I Cor. 15:49).

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the