I think we can all accept the title King after reading part one of this blog, but now we’re going over the edge. I’m telling you that you are not only a king, but a god as well.

Psalm 82:6 says we are all gods. It makes sense in that we are children of God. The children of God are gods, but the KJV shows that we are small “g” gods. There is only one God all mighty. That’s why scripture uses the big “G” in the spelling.

Gods, spelled with the small "g" are only idols, icons, and influencers, but we're powerful. Let's be inspirations to one another, because we are all gods in the spirit, and our spirits are connected to the Spirit of God, but in the flesh we are the descendants of Adam. So who was Adam.

God of idols 

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God of idols’ message is love. The clothing and ministry is for all people to enjoy. Our hope is to encourage believers to show their faith. Too often Christians let sin keep them from shining their lights.

No one lives without sin. If you feel like you can’t express your faith and love for God because you aren’t making it to church regularly, or you're struggling with some issue that you know God doesn’t honor, don’t let that keep you from spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.

Don't let people condemn you with their negative glares and comments. You know your relationship with God. Focus on strengthening that.

Be bold, be confident! Walk your faith, speak your faith, and wear your faith. That’s how you live it, not by being afraid or ashamed because of sin. Love is greater than sin.

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Adam was the original man formed from the dust of the earth. Adam sinned in the garden of Eden and left all mankind subject to the law of sin and death, but God’s Love is greater than sin and death.

God wrapped himself in the flesh of a man and came to the world as the Messiah Jesus to sacrifice himself on the cross according to Philippians 2:5-10. He did that to pay the debt that Adam incurred for all of mankind, because we couldn't pay it ourselves. That’s a study for another time.

In the next few verses that I share the Hebrew word “Adam” is translated to the English word “Man,” because Adam actually means, "Man" in Hebrew. 

The word “Adam” doesn’t appear in the KJV Bible until Genesis 2:19.

The Bible uses man in every sense of the word in referring to Adam in Genesis.

In Genesis 1:27 Adam is used as the collective as in all mankind.

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

In Genesis 2:7 Adam is being used to refer to the man individually. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

In Genesis 5:1-2 Adam is used gender nonspecific as male and female. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and Female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”

Genesis 2:7 is the verse where Adam is identified as the first man. The context of gender is absent in this verse even though Adam is an individual here. It’s all somewhat complex, but it becomes evident that the first man was male when the first female comes into the picture.

In Genesis 2:23-24 Adam is used in reference to the male exclusively. “And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

In Genesis 2:22-25 and forward in time the two cleave together to form one twain in marriage and begin to have children as example in Genesis chapter four, verses one and two.

“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

The word “Knew” in this verse refers to sex. Adam and his wife Eve had sex. Eve gave birth to two boys, Cain and Abel. Only a man and a woman could produce children in this manner.

So, scripture clearly tells us that Adam was the original man and Eve was the first woman. If my memory serves me correctly, Science says that the oldest human bones were found in Africa.

Science is constantly discovering more of what scripture tells us. If we are familiar with the concept of life beginning on a single land mass called Pangaea, then we would agree that the condition of the world at the time of Adam would not have had multiple continents.

But, after the divide in Genesis 10:25, as a result of an earthquake (Peleg) the one land mass became many. The continent we call Africa, at its northeastern region was possibly attached to middle east Asia and is likely where the Garden of Eden was located. The original man was African and God called him Adam.

I had a conversation recently with my big brother and he expressed to me that he isn’t a religious person, but if he were he would choose Islam because it’s for Black people and Christianity is for White people.

Undoing that notion is the underlying purpose and hope of God of idols, because I felt the same way for most of my life. I know better now and I want everyone to know that faith should be color-blind.

The second commandment forbids worship of man-made things that represent false gods. “Graven images” were idols that rivaled God in the hearts of people back then and now.

Graven images are like the picture of the blue eyed Jesus on the wall growing up in my mother's that turned me and my brother against Christ before we ever met him.

God of idols does and will have images of a brown-skinned Messiah. That may seem hypocritical, but seeing Christ in skin like mine may have changed my life in the early years.

It would have been better to have no image at all as scripture decreed, but the images are out there. I believe it will benefit many to see themselves in Christ through “Counter images.” 

So God of idols ministry is a sort of spiritual damage control with hoodies, t-shirts, and Christian apparel. This one is for you big bro, a Black man descendant of King Adam. Let's take a look at you in scripture.

Here’s an interesting list that I found of Black people in the Old Testament on bibleresources.americanbible.org 

• Nimrod, son of Cush, "the first on earth to become a mighty warrior." Nimrod is also credited with founding and ruling the principal cities of Mesopotamia (Genesis 10:8-12).
• Hagar, the Egyptian maid of Sarah (Genesis 16; 21:8-21). If Abraham had had his way, Hagar would have become the forebear of the covenant people (Genesis 17:18).
• Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On (Heliopolis), wife of Joseph and mother of Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 41:45, 51, 52; 46:20), whom Jacob claimed and adopted. (Genesis 48).
• Moses' Cushite wife (Numbers 12:1). She was prpbably Zipporah of the Kenite clan of the Midianites (Exodus 2:21-23). If Moses' Cushite wife is indeed Zipporah, then her father, Jethro, (also called Reuel), would also have been an African. Since Jethro was the priest of Midian (Exodus 2:16; 3:1; 18:1) and the mountain of God where Moses was called was located in Midian (Exodus 3:1; 18:5), and Jethro presided at a meal where Aaron and the elders of Israel were guests (Exodus 18:12), the Kenites may have been the original worshipers of God by the name of the LORD, that is Yahweh (YHWH). Jethro also instructed Moses in the governance of the newly liberated Israelites (Exodus 8:13-27).
• Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron and a high priest (Exodus 6:25). The name, Phinehas, is Egyptian and means literally, "The Nubian," or "The Dark-skinned One."
• The "mixed multitude that accompanied the Israelites when they left Egypt undoubtedly included various Africans and Asian peoples (Exodus 12:38).
• The unnamed Cushite soldier in David's army. He bore the news of Absalom's death to David, and, in contrast to Ahimaaz, had the courage to tell David the truth about Absalom (2 Samuel 18:21, 31, 32).
• Solomon's Egyptian wife. She was an Egyptian princess and by his marriage to her, Solomon sealed an alliance with Egypt. (1 Kings 3:1; 11:1).
• The Queen of Sheba. She ruled a kingdom that included territory in both Arabia and Africa. When she visited Solomon, she was accorded the dignity and status of a head of state (1 Kings 10:1-13).
• Zerah, the Ethiopian. He commanded a military garrison at Gerar in SW Palestine and fought against King Asa of Judah and almost defeated him (2 Chronicles 14:9-15). After Egyptian influence ceased in Palestine, the Cushite soldiers stationed at Gerar settled down and became farmers. Some two centuries after the time of Zerah, the Simeonites took over Gerar "where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful; for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham" (2 Chronicles 4:40).
• Cush, a Benjaminite (heading to Psalm 7). He is identified as Saul in the Talmud.
• The Ethiopian ambassadors who came to Jerusalem to establish diplomatic relations with Judah (Isaiah 18:1,2). They represented the Ethiopian Pharaoh, Shabaka (716-702) of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
• The Ethiopian, Taharqa, spelled Tirhakah in the Bible. When Hezekiah revolted against Assyria in 705 B.C., he did so with the support of Shaboka and Shebitku (702-690), rulers of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Tirhakah led an army in support of Judah during Hezekiah's revolt against Assyria (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9). Tirhakah later ruled Egypt from 690-664.
• The Prophet Zephaniah. Zephaniah's father was Cushi, his grandfather Gedaliah, his great-grandfather Amariah, and his great-great-grandfather (King) Hezekiah (Zephaniah 1:1). Zephaniah was active about 630 B.C. and sparked a religious revival in Judah.
• Jehudi ben Nathaniah ben Shlemiah ben Cushi. The context in Jeremiah 36 indicates that Jehudi was a trusted member of the cabinet of King Jehoiakim of Judah (Jeremiah 36:14, 21, 23).
• Ebed-melech ("Royal Servant"), the Ethiopian. He was an officer of King Zedekiah who, at great risk to himself, saved Jeremiah's life (Jeremiah 38:7-13)., and was blessed by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 39:15-18).

Black people in the New Testament:

• Matthew 1:1-14 - The genealogy of Jesus, in which four Afro-Asiatic women are included: Rahab, Tamar, Ruth, and Bathsheba.
• Matthew 2:13-18 - Out of Egypt (Africa) have I called my son (see Hosea 11:1).
• Matthew 12:42 - The Queen of the South, meaning "the Queen of Sheba" (parallel reference in Luke 11:31; compare 1 Kings 10:1-10 and 2 Chronicles 9:1-9).
• Matthew 27:32 - Simon of Cyrene compelled to carry the cross (parallel accounts in Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26).
• Mark 1:3 - Note the mentioning of "the wilderness" or desert as a reminder of the geographical context for the gospel and most of the biblical narratives.
• Luke 13:29 - Luke instructs us through his more inclusive editing of Jesus' sayings found in Matthew 8:11. Here, Luke adds "north and south," thereby underscoring the Lukan universalism of both the gospel and the plan of salvation.
• Luke 19:41-44 - Jesus weeps over the city and initiates change.
• Acts 2:9-10 - The Jewish pilgrims gathered at Pentecost included persons of African descent, notably the Elamites of Mesopotamia and those from Egypt, Libya, and Cyrene.
• Acts 8:26-40 - The Ethiopian Finance Minister on a mission for the Queen of the Ethiopians, the Kandake or Candace; he is baptized as perhaps the first non-Jew (an early tradition that rivals the baptism of Cornelius).
• Acts 13:1 - Two of the four prophets and teachers at Antioch (where persons of the Way were first called Christians--11:26) were Africans, namely Lucius of Cyrene and Simeon who was called Niger, a Latinism for "the Black Man."
• Acts 18:24,25 - Apollos, the Jew of Alexandria in North Africa, becomes converted (1 Corinthians 3).
• John 4:7-39 - The Samaritan as ancient outcast and here a metaphor for victims of racial, and ethnic, and gender bias today.
• John 8:32 - "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
• Galatians 5:1 - "For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."
• 1 Corinthians 3:11 - Apollos, the African Preacher (he was from Alexandria on the Nile Delta.)
• 1 Corinthians 7:21c - Further evidence of Paul's dislike of slavery: "If you are able to gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity" (2 Corinthians 11:20 and the Epistle to Philemon).
• James 2:1-8 - Outward appearances can lead to fraudulent judgments about people. (Although James principally has in mind class distinctions, the principle supports a wider application).
• 1 Peter 2:4-10 - Those who believe and do the will of God through humble service and self-sacrifice are the "Chosen People" and the true "royal priesthood" and the recipients of God's mercy. There is no racial or ethnic basis for divine election.

I’ll leave you with a link to an interesting article written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It’s about the first Black man to see Jesus.link https://www.theroot.com/the-1st-black-man-to-see-the-baby-jesus-1790878103

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