Did You Know Jesus Was Black?

 

 

Did you know that “Jesus” was Black? That’s right. Our Messiah and Redeemer was a Black man; His father and mother were Black, and His entire family lineage. “Jesus” was a Hebrew from the tribe of Judah, of the House of Jacob. The Ancient

Hebrews were Black. There are various

accounts in the Bible where the

Ancient Hebrews were often mistaken,

or confused for the Ancient Egyptians. Why?

Because they looked alike. This means

that if a Hebrew and an Egyptian were

standing next to each other, and

someone walked by them they would

not know which one was Hebrew,

or which one  was Egyptian.

 

 

Mistaken Identity

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Many of us are familiar with the story of Joseph; his older brothers were jealous of

him and sold him to Midianite traders, who sold him in Egypt. Though he went

through a lot of cruel experiences he eventually became one of the most powerful

leaders in Egypt, second in command to Pharaoh.  In the Book of Genesis, starting at

chapter 42 we read the account of how his brothers went to Egypt to buy corn because of a famine in their own country. Many years earlier, Joseph had come up with the idea of storing away grains and foodstuffs so that the people could still eat and survive in case of a drought and/or a famine. So he was in charge of the distribution of grains; his brothers had to deal with him in order to purchase corn for their family. He recognized them, but they did not recognize him – they thought he was an Egyptian official. Why? He was dressed like the other Egyptians, and he was speaking their language. If Joseph had not revealed himself to his brothers they would never have known that he was not Egyptian.

 

         Many people are familiar with this account. Joseph is reunited with his family and they eventually move to Egypt. The Pharaoh welcomes them and settles them in the best, fertile land in his kingdom. Eventually Jacob dies, but before that he asks his sons to bury him beside his fathers in the land of Canaan. Joseph obeys and takes his remains to Atad. Joseph and his brothers and their families go with him; and the servants and elders of all of Egypt accompanied them.  The funeral lasted for seven days with much mourning and lamentation; “And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians …” (Genesis 50:11).

            Notice that they did not say that it was a grievous mourning to the Egyptians and the Hebrews. Clearly, the people in the funeral party were dressed in similar, Egyptian attire and speaking the same Egyptian language. Why else would the Canaanites assume that they were all Egyptians?

Another example of mistaken Hebrew/Egyptian identity is Moses, the Lawgiver. We find this account in the Book of Exodus, chapter 2. Many years after Joseph’s family settled in Egypt their descendants became oppressed and eventually enslaved by the Egyptians. Another Pharaoh was worried about the growing number of Hebrews and made a decree that all Hebrew, male infants were to be killed as soon as they were born. Moses’ parents hid his birth for the first few months of his life, and then they made a tiny boat of reeds and set him adrift in the Nile River. One morning the Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the river to bath and saw the boat; one of her handmaids brought it to her and she kept the baby, and raised him as her son in the Pharaoh’s house.

 

             If the Pharaoh did not like Hebrews, would he have let one of them be raised in his court – by his own daughter? Moses, like all of the other Hebrews, looked Egyptian. In fact, many years later, as a grown man he killed an Egyptian while protecting another Hebrew. He fled Egypt and went into the land of Midian. Something interesting happens:

            “Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

            And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

            And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

            And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.”  (Exodus 2:16-19)

 

            Here again, Moses, a Hebrew, is mistaken for an Egyptian! 

Another case of mistaken Hebrew/Egyptian identity is also found in the New Testament. The Apostle Paul was preaching the Good News to the people in Jerusalem but they grew upset and started attacking him. The chief captain sent his soldiers and centurions to stop the mob; they bound Paul in chains and were leading him to the castle.  However …

           
            “And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?

            Art not thou that Egyptian …?” (Acts 21:37,38).

           

            What about the Messiah? Was He ever ‘mistaken’ for an Egyptian? No, but we know that soon after He was born several wise men from the East came to Jerusalem inquiring about the King of the Jews. They wanted to honor and reverence Him. King Herod was upset by this and tried to deceive them. He asked them to let him know when they found him so that he could honor him also. The wise men found Him and gave Him gifts, and bowed before Him. The Almighty warned them in a dream to not tell Herod, and they returned to their homeland by a different route.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

           “And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

            When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt” (Matthew 2:13,14).

 

            If “Jesus” was European, and the Egyptians were Black, why would He need to hide from Herod in Egypt? Wouldn’t it be safer for Him to flee to a land with more Europeans so that He could ‘blend in’, or not stand out? Of course! At this point someone might ask, ‘Well, how do we know the Egyptians were Black?’

 

Irrefutable Evidence Of Black Egypt

 

Many people have seen the movie ‘The Ten Commandments’ with Charlton Heston playing the

role of Moses; all of the actors and actresses in the movie are white, or European.  A lot of people

think that is an accurate depiction, that the Ancient Egyptians were European. This is not true.

The land of Egypt is in Africa and the original, Ancient Egyptians were Black.   

            There is more than enough historical and archeological evidence that proves the Ancient

Egyptians were a Black people. They painted beautiful images of themselves on the walls inside

the pyramids that are still standing to this very day. They portrayed themselves as Black people.

There are also magnificent statues and idols of themselves. All of these artifacts are of Negroid

people with woolly (‘nappy’,  ‘natty’, ‘kinky’) hair and thick lips.

            A famous anthropologist, Cheikh Anta Diop, spent most of his life investigating the

Ancient Egyptians. He wanted to refute the European and Arab claims that the Ancient

Egyptians did not have its origins in Black Africa. His information, along with the following

pictures of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, support his stand.

 

            Here is a list of eleven arguments that stand the test of time, successfully destroying racist

theories that the Ancient Egyptians were European or Arab:

 

• Physical Anthropology

The skeletons and skulls of Ancient Egyptian remains are of Negroid people.

 

• Melanin Dosage Test

‘Melanin’ is the chemical that makes black skin. Diop’s tests on the remains of Ancient Egyptians showed levels of melanin in the skin that prove they were “unquestionably among the Black race”.

 

• Osteological Evidence

Testing the bones is the most accurate way of classifying a skeleton’s race. It was first done on the Ancient Egyptians by a German archeologist named Karl Richard Lepsius in the 1800s. After studying the remains of Ancient Egyptians he concluded that they were “short-armed and of Negroid or Negrito physical type”.

 

•  Blood Work

While the land of Egypt is now occupied by many European and Arab peoples, the blood type of the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians still living there is exactly like those of the Blacks in Western Africa (blood group B) and “not the A2 group characteristic of the white race prior to any cross breeding”.

 

• How The Egyptians Perceived and Portrayed Themselves

The Ancient Egyptians called themselves ‘KMT’; it means ‘the Blacks’ and “is the strongest

term existing in the Pharaonic tongue to indicate blackness … it is a collective noun which

thus described the whole people of Pharaonic Egypt as a Black people.”

Their artwork and monuments of black-skinned people with Negroid features is also

overwhelming proof of how they saw themselves.

 

• Cultural Unity With The Rest Of Africa

There are certain cultural traits found amongst other African cultures

that were also common in

Ancient Egypt: matriarchy, totemism, divine kinship, circumcision and cosmology.With respect to

circumcision, Diop observes that “Historians are in general agreement that the Ethiopians,

Egyptians, Colchians, and people of the Southern Levant were among the only people on earth

practicing circumcision, which confirms their cultural affiliation, if not their ethnic affiliation”

; and that the Ancient Egyptians style of circumcision was “different from how circumcision is

practiced in other parts of the world, but similar to how it is practiced throughout the African

continent”.

 

• Divine Epithets

‘Black’ and ‘Negro’ were divine words, and were used in reference to the “chief benevolent gods of Egypt”. Evil spirits were depicted as red.

 

• Evidence From The Bible

Diop observes that in the Bible the sons of Ham were “Cush, Mizraim (Egypt), and Phut, and Canaan” and that “generally speaking, all Semitic tradition (Jewish and Arab) class ancient Egypt with the countries of the Blacks”.

 

• Linguistic Unity With Southern and Western Africa

Diop writes that “the kinship between ancient Egyptian and the languages of Africa is not a hypothetical but a demonstrable fact which it is impossible for modern scholarship to thrust aside”.

 

For example, the Ancient Egyptian word means ‘to grasp, to take a strip (of something)’; in Wolof, a language of W. Africa means ‘to seize a prey’.In Ancient Egyptian means ‘go away’; in Wolof it means ‘to rush off’. An examination of verb forms, demonstratives and phonemes of both languages showed very little difference between them.

 

• Evidence From Classical Greek and Roman Historians

Practically all of the Classical Latin eyewitnesses described Ancient Egyptians as “black-skinned with woolly hair”.

Several Ancient Greek historians described Ancient Egyptians’ and Ethiopians’ complexions, or coloring as , a word that translates as ‘black’, or ‘dark’, or ‘dark skinned’.

Herodotus wrote that “a Greek oracle was known to be from Egypt because she was ‘black’”, and that “the natives of the Nile region ‘are black with heat’, and that Egyptians were ‘black-skinned with woolly hair’.

 

• DNA Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This list of arguments provides ample proof that the Ancient Egyptians were Black. As pointed out earlier, the Ancient Hebrews were often mistaken for Ancient Egyptians because they had similar physical and facial characteristics. In other words, if the Ancient Egyptians were black-skinned with woolly hair, then so were the Ancient Hebrews. Our Redeemer was a Hebrew, of the tribe of Judah, from the House of Jacob. His father was told to move his family down into Egypt for safety. A black-skinned family, with woolly hair fled in the night and travelled to another country with black-skinned, woolly haired people because they could ‘blend in’ with the rest of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why Is It Important To Know The Truth About Jesus?

 

There are those who might wonder why it is so important to know the real race,

or color of the Savior. The world has grown accustomed to seeing a European, or white-skinned man portrayed as “Jesus”. It has been this way for nearly two thousand years. It is a false image. How can you pray to a false image?  Seriously, when most Christians pray, they close their eyes and see the image of a white man with blue or brown eyes, and long hair. The most popular images of “Jesus” are actually based on portraits of Cesare Borgia,the son of a Catholic Pope, Alexander VI, who lived in the medieval period of Europe.  Research into the lifestyle of Cesare Borgia and his family shows that he was not someone worthy of representing our Master and Savior. The Borgia family was known for having their enemies killed;

there were rumors of incest between family members; and Cesare was strongly suspected of murdering his brother, and also his sister’s husband.  Believe it or not, Cesare was regarded as a savvy leader and his political tactics won him the admiration of many political theorists.  Parts of The Prince, a book written by Machiavelli outlines how to successfully rule a kingdom; it was partially based on the actual underhanded dealings of Cesare Borgia.

 

These well-documented facts might surprise the unsuspecting Christian, and should cause them to question why this man’s portrait was used to represent the real, Black Messiah. Are you not shocked or even outraged that one, the true identity of the Black Messiah who died for the sins of the world was corrupted and/or hidden; and two, that the European man they chose to represent Him in the mind’s eye of Christians was a vile, depraved man known for poisoning his enemies? How is that not blasphemy?!

 

Remember this when you close your eyes to pray over your meal, or before you go to bed. The image of that white man with the shoulder length hair in your mind’s eye is NOT the true image of our Master and Savior. It is actually a false image of a sinful, disgusting man; it is used to deceive you.

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It Is Important To Know The Truth

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True believers pray to the Father in the Name of His Son.

He told us that “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

He also taught that “the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him” (John 4:23).

 

This paper has provided ample and solid evidence that the Messiah – and all Ancient Hebrews – were Black people. If the Messiah was Black and looked like our Heavenly Father, then He is also black-skinned with wooly hair. How can a ‘true worshipper’ worship the Father in spirit and in truth if they have a false image of Him and/or His Son in their mind’s eye?

Anyone who reads this paper is encouraged to do their own research into the Ancient Hebrews and the Ancient Egyptians; and also to learn more about the life of the man Cesare Borgia, who’s portrait has come to represent the Only Begotten Son of our Heavenly Father. You should also pray to know the truth about this important subject.Our Savior gave all true believers a very special promise that we should take to heart when researching this topic:

 

“If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” (John 14:14-17).

 

 

References:

 

Diop,  C.A.  (1974).  The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. Lawrence Hill Books. Chicago, Illinois.

 

 

Strathern, Paul.  (2009). The Artist, The Philosopher, and The Warrior. Intersecting Lives of da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia

and the World They Shaped.  Bantam Books. New York.