Positives From The Black Corner: The Bible Is A Black History Book

By Stephen C. Nash Sr.

I have been arrested by a revelation that is not new, just obscure, and hidden. Its obscurity is mainly because noted scholars have done no work on it. It is hidden because it seems to be a subject that the scholars avoid, like a plague.
The revelation is that the Holy Bible is essentially a Black History Book and the bible characters, which Christians and Jews have studied across the years, are Black folk. It troubles me that there is not much in print concerning this truth. I have a personal library of some 8,000 books and 95% of them were written by white scholars. My anguish is in the fact that white scholars have covered every biblical subject under the sun, but none, to my knowledge, have done a scholarly work on Blacks in the bible. Why is that subject taboo? With all the corroborating evidence within the Holy Bible, why is there no scholarly work from the white community on Blacks in the bible. I issue a challenge to my white Christian brothers to do a fair 10

and scholarly work on Blacks in the bible. Produce that work for all ethnic communities and you may be surprised as to how potent it will be in the solving of the race problem confronting our times.
In the mean time, I prepare this work as a proclamation of a revelation that refuses to let me go. I write not as the scholar on the subject of Blacks in the bible, just a preaching pastor given a revelation from God, with a mandate to publish it. I hope that this work will provoke thought, issue challenge and serve as a 'primer of the scholarly pump' that moves Black and White scholars in particular and the Christian community in general to view the Holy Bible as a Black history book. I also write to help lift the self-esteem of my people who have been and are treated as if they are second-class citizens even in this twentieth century. It is lifting to know that the bible is all about Black folk.

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POSITIVES FROM THE BLACK CORNER. Copyright © 1999 *SCN Ministries Publication. All rights reserved. SCN Ministries Publication, PO Box 1146 DeSoto, Texas 75123

ISBN # 9-781648-583858

Except for brief excerpts, for review purposes, no part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form, by any means, without written permission from the publisher.

DEDICATION

This book is lovingly dedicated to my father, Thomas Nash, Sr., a real man!  A real Christian Black man who celebrates his heritage at the age of eighty with as much enthusiasm and sincerity as he did at the age of thirty.  He is a newspaperman of forty-five plus years with a passion for truth and a journalistic commitment to publish it.

Thanks, Dad for being you!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter I

The Black Man Who Walked With God

Chapter II

Lessons From A Black Superhero

Chapter III

The One Thing We Must Not Forget

Chapter IV

A Black Biblical Brother

Epitomized Service

Chapter V

Just Any Ole’ Joe Won’t Do

Chapter VI

In Search of the white man’s Beginning

Chapter VII

The Major Issue Of Minor Men

Chapter VIII

Simple Truths For An Easter People

Chapter IX

Positives From The Black Corner

Chapter X

Untangling The Web Of Racism

Chapter XI

A Relevant Message For The Real Church

Chapter XII

Strangers To The Dream

Chapter XIII

Terah and Abraham

Chapter XIV

Rediscovering Faith

Chapter XV

A Message From The Harlot’s House

Chapter XVI

A Center of Refreshment

Chapter XVII

Children From Stone

Chapter XVIII

There’s Help On The Hillside

Chapter XIX

What God Requires

Chapter XX

A New Year’s Exhortation: Rejoice

Chapter XXI

A New Year’s Exhortation: Peace That Keeps

Chapter XXII

A New Year’s Exhortation:

Think And Do Good Things

Chapter XXIII

A New Year’s Exhortation:

The Things Learned, Do

Chapter XXIV

A New Year’s Exhortation:

Meet Life With Confidence

Chapter XXV

A New Year’s Exhortation:

The I Can Posture

Chapter XXVI

A New Year’s Exhortation:

The God Shall Posture

Chapter XXVII

A New Year’s Exhortation:

Encouragement From The Dark Corner

Bibliography

About the Author

Endnotes

PREFACE

I have been arrested by a revelation that is not new, just obscure, and hidden.  Its obscurity is mainly because noted scholars have done no work on it.  It is hidden because it seems to be a subject that the scholars avoid, like a plague.

The revelation is that the Holy Bible is essentially a Black History Book and the bible characters, which Christians and Jews have studied across the years, are Black folk.  It troubles me that there is not much in print concerning this truth.  I have a personal library of some 8,000 books and 95% of them were written by white scholars.  My anguish is in the fact that white scholars have covered every biblical subject under the sun, but none, to my knowledge, have done a scholarly work on Blacks in the bible.  Why is that subject taboo?  With all the corroborating evidence within the Holy Bible, why is there no scholarly work from the white community on Blacks in the bible?  I issue a challenge to my white Christian brothers to do a fair and scholarly work on Blacks in the bible.  Produce that work for all ethnic communities and you may be surprised as to how potent it will be in the solving of the race problem confronting our times.

In the meantime, I prepare this work as a proclamation of a revelation that refuses to let me go.  I write not as the scholar on the subject of Blacks in the bible, just a preaching pastor given a revelation from God, with a mandate to publish it.  I hope that this work will provoke thought, issue challenges, and serve as a ‘primer of the scholarly pump’ that moves Black and White scholars in particular and the Christian community in general to view the Holy Bible as a Black history book.  I also write to help lift the self-esteem of my people who have been and are treated as if they are second-class citizens even in this twentieth century.  It is lifting to know that the bible is all about Black folk.

It behooves me to express my thanks to those persons who helped to type this script:  Faye Maxie, Angela Nash, Bobbie Hatcher, Patricia Branch, Charlie Hurd, Anne-Tonnette Musgrow and Tonya Richards and to the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, where I served as pastor for thirty-two years, who were prayerful for me in this endeavor and patient with me in that this work has been time demanding.  The Mt. Tabor Baptist Church Neighborhood Bible Study Cells selected this work as their study book for the last quarter of the year 1998; and I say thank you for the courage and encouragement to do so.

I offer special thanks to Dr. Tim Beckett for the research done on Chapter XV, A Center of Refreshment, reflecting the Seventh Day Adventist references.

FOREWORD

We live in strange times where truth, mishandled, confuses many.  So the Black church, entrusted with the Truth, must be carefully deliberate in handling it with the spirit of integrity demonstrated by our Christ as He shared it with His disciples and mankind.

Doctor S. C. Nash is without a doubt an extraordinary presenter of the truths of the Gospel.  As a writer, he demonstrates the strength, the beauty, and the captivating power of the written and spoken word.  Dr. Nash reminds us that the tomb is empty but our heads and hearts need not be so.  He challenges us to struggle with Christ and culture.

Dr. Nash has gravy but he is careful to see to it that the gravy comes from a great cut of meat.

I am sure that the readers of this book, Positives from the Black Corner, will appreciate the scholarship put into it; as well as the insightful display of revealed wisdom coming forth through the heart of Dr. Nash.

This book challenges us to be motivated by the Holy Spirit.  We are to work with the Spirit.  A caring heart and a keen mind can accomplish much.

Pastor Nash enjoys his preaching!  He gets a kick out of his preaching; and his preaching is quite evident in his writing.  Through both preaching and writing, he hits the fallen and captivated intelligentsia.

This book deals with the demanding challenge of both the ‘churched’ and those who never go to church.  It challenges the Christian community to look beyond the surface of scripture, doctrine, and culture to wrestle with the truth of the gospel as applied to everyday living.  It looks at the scripture through the lenses of culture and heritage.  Thank God for the challenge to know the truth that sets men free.  He who reads this book must do so with an open mind, a convicted heart, and under the influence of the Holy Spirit who illumines understanding and enables the application of divine truth in everyday matters.  This is how we must respond to the hurt and the wounded.  This is how others know that our God is real. 

We salute you, Pastor Nash!  Proclaim with power – the Word of God.  Proclaim with power – God’s ever presence!  Deal with materialism – humanism, and industrialization.  We are certainly challenged to deal with humanism.  Thank you for doing so without neglecting the spiritual.  We know that the best way to deal with materialism is through the spiritual.  For ours is to invade the secular with the spiritual.  The Holy Spirit will guide as we proclaim Christ Jesus.  Keep up the good work.

Dr. C.A.W. Clark

May 1999

INTRODUCTION

Our ever-amazing God through His divine providence provides us with all the help we need to discern the revelation He sends to us.  Especially, do we have help in the Holy Scriptures?

Jesus told the Jews of old you search the scriptures, for you believe they give you eternal life.  And the scriptures point to me!  Yet you won’t come to me so that I can give you this life eternal1  (John 5:39 The Living Bible Paraphrased).  Here, Jesus invites the Jews to read and reread their own scriptures (the books of Moses, Isaiah, Zechariah, and all others of the Old Testament).  Oliver B. Green, in The Gospel According to John (Vol. 1, p. 309) says to Jews, Become acquainted with the prophecies in your scriptures, and you will discover that they clearly testify of me and point me out as your Messiah.2  Ironically the Jews of yesteryears read and reread the prophecies of old but still missed seeing Jesus as the Messiah.

By Jesus’ own words we can see how easily we miss the message even after reading the scripture.  This truth bears out in the church as well as in the world.  I have been a pastor for more than twenty-eight years now and for the bulk of those years, I did not see the truth which revealed that the Jews of yesterday were Black men.  I have seven degrees, all in Bible, but failed up until a few years ago to see that the scriptures are all about people of color.  How easy it is to search the scripture and still miss this revelation.  Yet God couched the truth between Genesis and Revelation inclusively and provided it for Christendom to read, study, and comprehend.

This work is geared to challenge the reader to search the scriptures, for in them you will find answers to your questions, solutions to your problems, direction for your life, and a God who is nearer than breath and surer than life itself.  In a very real sense you will find, that though Blacks have been left out of American History, the Holy One included them in Biblical History.  I offer that if you search the scripture you will find that people of ‘Ebony hue’ seem to be on every page.

As you will note, I began my presentation with Noah, the progenitor of the human race, in the line of Adam.  My argument, which will be repeated throughout this book is simple: Everyone agrees that Ham is Noah’s Black son and the progenitor of the Black race.  Well, the scientific community shows that blood test and DNA studies will prove who the father of a child is up to 99.9% proof  positive.  It also tells us that the fathers blood runs through the child’s veins.  If Ham is Noah’s Black child, then Noah’s blood runs through Ham’s veins.  So since Ham is Black, Noah cannot be anything but Black.

Also consider, that if Noah is Black, then Shem and Japheth are also Black, for Noah’s blood runs through their veins.  If  Shem is Black, then Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel), and the twelve tribes of Israel are also Black.  That means that the Old Testament and New Testament are all about Black folk, inclusive of Jesus, the Christ.

This revelation cuts across the grain of Eurocentric  teaching and presentations, all across the years.  Most Blacks have been brainwashed through a deliberate Eurocentric indoctrination to believe that the bible is either colorless or the Jews were white folk.  Most white folk have been  inundated with the same teaching and have accepted it without challenge or question.  I offer that if you, the reader, search (study) the scriptures reasonably, you will discover that they point to Jesus as the Messiah, a Black man, as well as all other bible people.

I proceed, even though I know that this line of reasoning troubles the multitude.  I do know that no  matter how troubling, this revelation is here and is here to stay.  As Black America embraces it, they will be empowered with self-esteem and racial pride in the highest sense.  As White America embraces it, it will do much to eradicate racism and the many problems resulting from it.

CHAPTER I

THE BLACK MAN WHO WALKED WITH GOD

Genesis 6:5-13, Genesis 7:1, II Peter 2:4-5

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.  6Andit repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.  7And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.  8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.  9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.  10And Noah begat three son, Shem, Ham and Japheth.  11The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.  12And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for the flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.  13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

1And the Lord said unto Noah, Com thou and al they house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

4For If God spared not he angles that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eight person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

While visiting Cain Hope Felder’s book, Troubling Biblical Waters, I pulled a quote that I felt would be my introduction into this message.  He said, "Today popular Christianity too easily assumes that modern