IS OBAMA FULFILLING BIBLE PROPHECY?
By Rev. Ted Pike
29 Jan 09
Is President Obama helping fulfill Bible prophecy? Yes, and here’s
how.
In the Book of Daniel, the prophet explains the meaning of a great statue which
King Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream (Daniel 2:31). Each part represented
a major world kingdom which would precede the second coming of Christ. Most Christians
through history agree that the statue’s gold head represents the Babylonian
empire under Nebuchadnezzar. Its torso of silver symbolizes the Persians. The
belly and thighs, the Greeks. The legs are Rome. The fifth empire, proceeding
from Rome and leading directly to the millennial kingdom of Christ, is represented
by feet composed of iron mixed with clay.
This fifth, last-days empire (one we now inhabit) is racially mixed between “iron” and “clay”—or “pottery”—peoples.
Daniel says those who live in this stage in history mix their seed genetically
but do not fully cohere socially. “They will combine with one another in
the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not
combine with pottery.” (Daniel 2:43)
In the 6th century B.C., Daniel uncannily described the increasingly multicultural,
racially integrated world in which we live. Though blacks and whites may be induced
and even forced into close proximity in education, work, etc., yet as soon as
daily pressure is over, almost invariably they revert to their own racial groups
for identity and camaraderie. Even when blacks and whites intermarry, the dominant
black gene and perhaps black instinct compel biracial offspring to identify as
black. It happened with Obama.
Who is the Clay and Iron?
Of these two racial groups, who is the “clay” and who
the “iron?”
To answer that, we must go back to the time of Noah, just after the Flood.
Noah became drunk and lay naked in his tent. Considering God’s harsh
reaction, Ham must have done more than just look at his father—possibly
even sodomizing him. Sobering and realizing “what his youngest son had
done to him” (Gen. 9:24), Noah pronounced a perpetual curse on Ham’s
descendants, focusing on Ham’s innocent son Canaan.
Was this “collective punishment” unjust? It might seem so. But,
just as all mankind and nature itself is under the “curse” because
of Adam and Eve’s sin, so Ham’s descendants bear the consequences
of their ancestor's transgression. God never condemns innocent souls eternally
for their parents’ sins. But we live in a cause-and-effect world, and
we are often affected by our forefathers’ moral decisions, for good or
for evil. The descendants of Ham today primarily consist of blacks.
Noah told Ham his descendants would never rise to lead the nations. They would
remain beneath the descendants of Ham’s brothers, Japheth and Shem, in
fact, be “servants of servants” to them (Gen. 9:25). In contrast,
Noah blessed Ham’s brothers who heard of their father’s drunken
exposure and respectfully covered him while facing away. Noah said Japheth
would "spread abroad," fathering populous descendants. Of Shem, the
father of the Jews, he said his posterity would own the tents rented
to his Japhetic brethren! No blessing was given to Ham or his four sons.
Laid down about 2500 BC, this generally describes the destiny of the three
major racial groups through history. With few exceptions, Hamitic inhabitants
of Africa have revealed little inclination to create technology or advanced
societies. An athletically superior, socially oriented, semi-nomadic people,
they have shown themselves largely and perennially content with things as they
are. These traits incline against creating complex, urban civilizations—or
even, in modern times, maintaining a high level of order once introduced into
such societies.
For example, during World War 2, my parents attended college in NE Portland,
Oregon, a well-built, immaculately groomed, white, middle class neighborhood.
During the war, thousands of blacks migrated from the South to the shipyards
of Portland and settled in this area. It quickly turned into, and remains,
a rundown, high-crime ghetto. The same pattern has been repeated in virtually
all northern cities. It is argued that such urban blight is largely the
result of white prejudice. Yet, impoverished Irish, Germans, Asians, Jews,
etc., also victims of discrimination, have had no such effect.
Although there are many striking examples of blacks revealing great talent
and intellect, extensive scientific intelligence testing over the past century
has repeatedly shown that most blacks average about 17 points lower in IQ than
whites. Lest whites should boast, they in turn test slightly lower than East
Asians and Ashkenazi Jews. [1]
Is there a candidate for a race representing “clay” in our society?
It must be the descendants of Ham, those of African descent.
History shows that the “iron” girders upholding advanced civilizations
of both Europe and Asia have been provided by the Caucasian/Asian descendants
of Japheth. Such nations as Greece, Italy, England, France, Germany, Russia,
China, and Japan, and now America, have proven they can not only sustain their
own populations but also indulge in colonialism—even the luxury of foreign
war-making!
The descendants of Shem, the Jews, have also fulfilled Noah’s ancient
prediction. God promised that because of the initial obedience of their
earliest ancestors, including Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, obedient Jews
will ultimately inhabit a millennial kingdom under Christ’s rule in Jerusalem.
Even in their present apostasy, Jews are a financial and managerial class—“landlords” of
the Japhetic nations. Except for modern Israel, Jews do not build nations.
They have largely enjoyed a proprietary role, perfectly fulfilling Noah’s
ancient prophecy.
What Most Evangelicals Believe
This article speaks broad truths about human populations and their
prophesied role in history—truths that are painful to many
Christians, both black and white. Probably no mainstream pastor in
America would teach on Genesis 9 as I do here. Yet I am not ashamed
of any part of inspired Scripture. God gave us this record for a
reason. If we lived in Old Testament times, it would doubtless have
been painful to know our Gentile race was not “chosen,” that
we were not the seed of Abraham and that we would have to convert.
Yet God had a right to bless Abraham’s descendants with a special
role in history. God also had a right to burden the descendants
of Ham and create a lasting testimony of His hatred of sin.
Today, most pastors sidestep the straightforward recognition that Ham was not blessed
by God and that the consequences on his descendants remain to this hour. Ashamed
of this politically incorrect and painful truth, they interpret Noah’s
curse very differently. Most say a curse of subjection was laid on Canaan alone,
not Ham’s other sons. For the next thousand years, this theory says,
the descendants of Canaan bore this curse and served their cousins, the offspring
of Shem and Japheth. This was to encourage the Hebrews, finally arriving
in Canaan about 1500 B.C., to subjugate the wicked Canaanites.
Yes, God did prepare the Hebrews to judge the child-sacrificing, homosexual,
and bestial Canaanites. Ham’s son, Canaan, was singled out for this reason. Yet
for this curse to be just, Canaan's fate must have been shared by all Ham’s
descendants (who also failed to receive Noah's blessing). In Scripture, every
divine curse on evil men or nations is visited evenhandedly on all posterity.
God never selectively punishes one innocent descendant, sparing the rest. How
would you feel if your father molested children and your community stigmatized you for
a lifetime but not your three siblings? Yet such partiality and injustice is
taught by the accepted interpretation of Noah's curse. This does violence to
God's reputation for evenhandedness and justice. [2]
The generally accepted scenario is contrived, unjust, and preposterous. As
economist Thomas Sowell writes, “Evasions of the obvious are often far
more complicated than the facts.”
This story is in the Bible for a very important reason; it provides sage counsel
for Christians, especially in our age of delusion. The accepted interpretation
wipes out God's long-term, vital message to us, making “the word of God
of none effect through tradition.” (Mark 7:13) It is derided as "what
slave owners in the Old South believed" and irrelevant to our age. [3]
Mixing Iron with Clay
Especially for the past century, liberal Jewish-dominated media
and “civil liberties” groups have spearheaded promotion
of miscegenation between blacks and whites. They have been
spectacularly successful. America is fast moving toward a biracial,
not predominantly white, nation. After the election of Obama,
Jewish media supremacists more than ever push blacks and whites together
to mix the genetic seed of iron peoples with clay. Ambitious
for world dominion, the same ruthless Jewish supremacists who spawned
communism, killing more than 100 million, have a horrifying objective:
to weaken the characteristics of independence, innovation, leadership,
and originality of the white race. [4] When such amalgamation is
complete, white civilization will be destroyed, never again posing
a potent threat to Semitic rule.
The Bible says this will happen, at least in the western nations descended
from Rome. "Babylon the Great," the Biblical harlot Israel, will
rule a mixed-race, religious-political-commercial world empire centering in
Jerusalem. (See, Israel:
On the Way to Empire in the Mideast at truthtellers.org, 8/1/06) Barack
Obama already plays a major role in its realization -- at least on the racial
level. His prestige accelerates a race-mixing trend powerfully begun by massive
civil rights legislation of the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 created
new racial inequalities which gave preferential treatment to blacks over whites.
In violation of the 14th Amendment, it created the legal highway on which homosexuals
now speed forward to obtain the same favoritism.
What can be done?
Although Scripture predicts coming racial homogeneity, it does
not approve of it but implies it's part of the overturning of “times
and laws” during the era of Antichrist (Dan. 7:25). Such
race mixing defies the Biblical edict that "God has set the
boundaries of their habitation." (Acts 17:26) This verse can
mean that God ordains that the major races remain, in general, genetically
intact.
Although racial intermarriage is not sin (Moses married a black and was defended
by God, Num. 12:1), blacks as well as whites can determine not to hasten such
global assimilation. Blacks can also be content with the exorbitant benefits
(such as affirmative action) and freedom they already enjoy. They can be inspired
upward, not by apostles of complaint such as W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther
King Jr., or Jesse Jackson. Instead, they should look to illustrious, truly
Christian examples of leaders and innovators such as George Washington Carver,
Booker T. Washington, and Samuel Morris. In our day, comedian Bill Cosby
who upbraids American blacks for their self-pity and persecution complex. [5]
Whites also have equal right to celebrate their white heritage without accepting
the inevitable smear of “racist” hurled by liberal and Jewish race-manipulators.
Everyone should resist the emerging melting pot of races, particularly the
legislative "civil rights" initiatives which further strip us of
our property rights and free speech.
Avoid Racism
True racism is de-valuing other races as less than human, denying
their worth and dignity as human beings created in God’s image.
It is not racist—despite Webster’s PC definition—to
evaluate broad racial differences, just as it is not sexism to identify
gender differences. We must not view life emotionally, but factually.
Despite acknowledging broad racial differences, we should never forget
there is only one thing of true worth in this world: a human being
filled with love and kindness by being redeemed by Christ.
Blacks and whites must strongly resist descent into racism, which is a powerful
temptation on both sides. The timeless message of Christ, and even America’s
Constitution, is that all men are endowed with an eternal soul—a free
will created in the image of God. Equal before our Creator, we should also
be equal in sight of the law.
It is no accident that the Book of Acts begins with divine transport of Philip
to a black man seeking to understand the path to God (Acts 8:26). God is preoccupied
not with issues of race or racial purity but achieving moral purity
in the hearts of men; He sent Philip to a person delighting in God. The
fact that his skin was black is inconsequential; his motives were pure gold!
Like Philip, God sends every Christian to the help of their fellow men regardless
of race. When any person is freed by Christ, he becomes a new creature,
empowered and motivated by heavenly love and wisdom. All other differences
subside, if not vanish. "There is neither [black nor white,] Jew nor Greek,
slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal.
3:28) There is only God working in and through all who serve Him.
There is a limit on what we can do to hold back momentous events prophesied
by Scripture. There is no limit on how we may manifest the love
and gentleness of Christ to all. That love and grace, which comes from a God
who is love, is portrayed in Scripture as a pure and holy oil. This
balm miraculously smoothes and harmonizes what otherwise would destroy itself
through heat and friction. It immerses the abrasive, clanking gears of human
interaction in kindness, giving us what nothing else can: an ability to love
God and others, as did Jesus, even more than ourselves.
Endnotes:
1. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,
Richard J. Herrstein and Charles Murray, 1994. Many other recent works also
confirm this reality.
2. We may also ask: What does the accepted evangelical interpretation
do with the prophecy that Japheth, the most 'spread abroad' of the races, will
be living in the tents of Shem? Is there record of vast numbers of Japhethites
living in Palestine before, during, or after arrival of the Hebrews around
1500 B.C.? Were Japhethites also in lordship over the Canaanite descendants
of Ham occupying Palestine? Of course not. The curse of Noah speaks
much more appropriately to Semitic control over the wealth and property of
the Japhethitic nations worldwide in the last days. Such control is very
largely realized among Western nations but will be fully accomplished with
dominion of the Jewish one-world government of Babylon the Great.
3. Accepted interpretation also claims the curse on Hamitic Canaan did not
affect all of Ham's descendants; Hamitic nations such as Egypt and Babylon
rose to greatness and flourished. Actually, their rise was by divine sufferance,
partly so that God's power through heroes like Joseph and Daniel might be demonstrated. Scripture
is emphatic that such Hamitic kingdoms will never rise again but must live
as third-class nations beneath Japhetic or Semitic superiority. God
says of Egypt, "It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never
again lift up itself above the nations" (Ezek.29:15). This has been
fulfilled for the past 2500 years. He says of Babylon, "Behold,
she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a parched land, and a desert" (Jer.50:12)
-- fulfilled over at least the last 1000 years. In the end, the veracity
of Noah's curse on these Hamitic descendants has been vindicated.
The people of modern Egypt and Iraq, overlaid by primarily Arab (Semitic-Hamitic)
genes, can no longer be considered definitively Hamitic. This is not true of
the African descendants of Ham, who were very largely isolated from racial
admixture until relatively recent centuries.
The descendants of Ham, perhaps affected by their forefathers' probable homosexual
tendencies, became "the men of Sodom" (Gen. 13:13). These homosexuals
were not just cursed but destroyed by fire and brimstone from heaven. Harsh
as Noah's curse on Ham seems to us today, like judgment on Sodom it is a potent
reminder of God's implacable, enduring hatred of sexual perversion.
4. See my book, Israel: Our Duty, our Dilemma, available at www.truthtellers.org.
See also my article, “ Jewish
Activists Created Communism.” (6/11/07 at truthtellers.org). Complete
documentation of Jewish religious and political ambitions in my articles archived
at www.truthtellers.org.
5. In 2004, famous black comedian and actor Bill Cosby controversially charged
black Americans with responsibility for their own blighted communities and
challenged them to stop blaming “white discrimination” for their
failure to rise, as other minorities have, in America’s free markets
and society. His speech (http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/transcript_bc.htm)
included these remarks: “Ladies and gentlemen…in our cities and
public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our own neighborhood, we
have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re
pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment
if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child. Ladies
and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are [not*]
holding their end in this deal… Now look, I’m telling you. It’s
not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing.
50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants.
These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being
spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry…”
White liberals, many operating from ill-conceived “compassion,” contribute
to blacks’ violent and poverty-ridden lives by denying racial differences
and insisting on welfare-centered, infantilizing responses to black realities.
The hard truth, painful as it may be, is a far more loving response. The truth
prepares us to face reality and do the difficult work of rising above the cards
which history, or our chromosomes, have dealt us.
Listen to Rev. Ted Pike debunk hate bill lies. Watch our 10-minute
video, "Hate
Laws Lies: Exposed!" at www.truthtellers.org. Also at
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Laws: Making Criminals of Christians."
Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have saddled 45 states with
hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and spearhead attempts to pass the
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