WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:05.360 Recently I've started taking a break from Twitter on Sundays. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:10.240 Really starting sometime on Saturday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:16.640 At any rate, this past week, Saturday, I posted a tweet before 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.240 taking my sabbatical, as it were. 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:22.320 And that tweet blew up. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.160 It got a lot of views. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.080 And I want to explain specifically what it is I mean by 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:35.600 that tweet and why it is correct, why it is in line 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:37.040 with right Christian doctrine 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:46.800 and for reference the tweet verbatim interracial marriage is tantamount to murder. 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:50.880 Now it is important to note several things, and so I'm going 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:51.440 to go through 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.640 really four major points in this particular episode. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:05.120 To start off, we need to distinguish per se and per quote. 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:11.360 Now I've distinguished this before elsewhere in, for example, the there's a 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:16.000 stone choir episode in which I distinguished per se from per quote, 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.240 but just to go over it again briefly, something that is per 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:24.160 se x is x intrinsically. 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:30.640 Something that is per quote x is x due to Other circumstances 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.640 due to other facts. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:33.280 And so 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.040 it is important, it is vitally important to note at the outset 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:44.560 that interracial marriage is not per se sinful. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.600 And so of course that means that it is not per se 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:50.800 tantamount to murder. 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:53.760 The issue is per quote. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:02:00.080 The issue is that given external circumstances, given the surrounding facts, it 00:02:00.080 --> 00:02:01.520 is in fact sinful. 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:08.560 It is, as I said in my tweet, tantamount to murder. 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:14.160 The children that are produced from an interracial union are in fact 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:17.040 not related to their own parents. 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:21.600 Now it is important to distinguish two senses in which we mean 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:25.760 related here, because obviously I am using one, and if I were 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:28.160 using the other, it would not be true. 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:33.360 Yes, if two people of a dip of different races have a 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:34.240 child, that child 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:39.200 is descended from them, and therefore is related to them in the 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:44.640 sense of being descended from them, but biologically, genetically, according to the 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:50.240 DNA of that child, that child is so so far distant from 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:56.320 his parents, that in fact the parents are more closely related to 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:00.640 any random member of their own race, of their own nation, than 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:02.160 to their own child 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:08.000 And I'll get into near the end of this episode why that 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.440 is important, some of the consequences of that, and what to do 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:13.600 about those consequences. 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:14.880 But in addition 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:20.000 to the fact that the child is effectively not related to his 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.080 own parents, which carries a lot of problems with it. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.040 There are also health consequences. 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:33.920 Many times those who are born of particularly distant genetic stock, so 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:37.120 parents who are less closely related, this is not going to be 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.720 something that applies to say say a German and a Dutchman or 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:46.160 a Dutch woman and a German or a German and a Russian 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.080 even, which is to say people descended from J Fith, Europeans, whites, 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:57.920 that's within one of the overarching ethnic groups, being, of course, the 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:00.960 Japhethites, the Hamites, and the Shemites. 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.400 No, this is something more distant, if you have a European and 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.800 an African, there are going to be health consequences of that union. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.000 The child is going to be less healthy. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.240 The child is going to have more problems than if he did 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.880 not have such disparate lineage. 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:26.240 And of course this creates problems for medical care, because the child 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.280 is going to require more medical care for one, and it is 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:32.800 going to be more difficult to render that medical care. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:33.920 Because we have 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:41.440 routines, we have various things set up for those of particular lineage. 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:45.200 Because yes, you do actually have to tailor medicine to the genetics, 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:48.080 to the lineage, to the DNA, really is what you're doing, the 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:50.960 biology, of the patient in some cases. 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:53.840 It depends on the type of treatment. 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:59.040 But to some degree, we have those regimens in place tailored to 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.720 particular groups. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:06.800 If someone is effectively sui generis because that person is a mishmash, 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.800 a mixture of multiple different groups, we don't have those in place. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.320 It's going to be more difficult to treat that person. 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:17.680 Additionally, there are going to be things where you cannot treat that 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.120 person. So, organ donation, tissue donation, if you try to get a 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.680 bone marrow donation and you are half black and half white, good 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:29.440 luck. You probably will not be able to find a compatible donor, 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:31.120 and that is a serious consequence. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.720 That is something parents should take into account because they are putting 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.320 that on the child. 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:40.640 Parents are supposed to care for their children, not burden them unnecessarily, 00:05:40.640 --> 00:05:45.120 and this is most certainly an unnecessary burden. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:50.400 Additionally, for the child, outside of the biological issues, you have the 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:53.360 cultural issues Issues. 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.680 This child is not going to belong to any one particular culture, 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.760 because the child is going to be torn between at least two. 00:06:01.760 --> 00:06:05.280 It's going to be the father's culture versus the mother's culture, and 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:07.840 this is something those parents have put on that child. 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:10.400 This is a problem for the child. 00:06:10.400 --> 00:06:12.480 That is a consideration. 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.560 Because again, parents are supposed to care for their children, and in 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.440 the same vein, the divorce statistics for interracial marriage are significantly worse 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:27.920 than those for intracial marriage, which is to say if you marry 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.960 someone outside your own race, you are much more likely to get 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:35.840 divorced. Again, this is going to severely impact the child. 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:40.240 We know the consequences for children, if they are the product of 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.520 a failed marriage, if their parents divorce. 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:48.960 Now add on top the other problems that biracial, multiracial children have, 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:53.440 and you have given this child a significantly harder time in life. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:54.800 For what reason? 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.120 Why did you do this to the child? 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:02.720 But of course that is simply the beginning of this problem. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.480 Let's look at it in the modern context, and then we'll look 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.440 at it in the biblical context second, because of course that is 00:07:09.440 --> 00:07:13.120 one of the things I am accused of doing is twisting scripture 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:17.520 or ignoring scripture, and so we'll address those questions. 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:21.600 But in the modern context, we'll deal with that first. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.560 The goal of interracial marriages in the modern context is the destruction 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:27.520 of nations. 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:29.280 This is very explicit. 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:35.440 Those who are advocating for interracial relationships, multiracial, biracial, whatever it happens 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:41.840 to be children, the explicit goal is the destruction of the distinct 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:46.960 nations. In particular the goal, of course, is the destruction of whites, 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:48.800 of the white race. 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:55.040 And the reason for this is because historically Christendom has been synonymous 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.520 with Europe. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:02.640 Whites have been the bulwark of Christendom in the world for millennia. 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:05.200 And Satan knows this, and he hates us, and so he wants 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:07.520 to erase us, and this is one way that he can do 00:08:07.520 --> 00:08:09.840 it, a very effective way. 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:10.480 Because 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:18.880 an interracial marriage destroys the lineage of both parents. 00:08:18.880 --> 00:08:21.520 Insofar as that child is concerned. 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:25.680 Now, of course, if for instance you have a father from group 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:30.240 A and a mother from Group B, and the child marries into 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.240 group B, and then the child's children marry into group B, eventually 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.360 you wind up genetically basically back in group B 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.400 just because of the way that genetic recombination and such works. 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:46.800 However, that only works so long as you have a large enough 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:50.720 pool of group B where something like that can be absorbed and 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.840 effectively bred out over time. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:59.280 If you have enough people who are crossing that racial boundary with 00:08:59.280 --> 00:09:03.840 their marriages in a short span of time, you destroy one or 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:05.680 both groups involved. 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:10.480 Just depends on the relative size of the groups, basically. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:15.840 In addition to this overtly evil goal, which many admit this is 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.360 in fact their goal, this is what they want to accomplish with 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:21.360 interracial marriage. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:25.680 Many of those who are engaged in interracial marriages admit they are 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:27.600 doing it for wicked reasons. 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.120 It may be a fetish. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.760 It may be they hate their own people. 00:09:31.760 --> 00:09:37.600 Of course, that is sin, that is particularly egregious sin, just according 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.520 to the plain words of scripture. 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:42.000 It's also something that is, of course, pushed by our culture and 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.480 our media, and as I have often said, as we've often said 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.560 on Stone Choir as well, look at the origin of an idea 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:53.520 or a thing. 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:55.200 Who is pushing it? 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.040 Why is it being pushed? 00:09:57.040 --> 00:10:02.560 If the person or group pushing it is evil, you can rest 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.840 fairly assured that the thing itself is also evil. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.840 It is aimed at evil ends. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.480 Because ultimately, of course, it comes from Satan. 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:15.280 And in this case, those pushing it are evil. 00:10:15.280 --> 00:10:21.520 Those who are pushing interracial marriage are by and large atheists, Marxists, 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:26.320 communists. This was a big push from the USSR, in order to 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.680 drive tension and destroy the nation. 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:32.720 It is carried over into the modern context, of course, and it's 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.960 still Marxists who are pushing it. 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:39.040 Just a different flavor of Marxist, less the Soviet variety more the 00:10:39.040 --> 00:10:46.080 Frankfurt. And as I mentioned, interracial marriage destroys one's race. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.200 It is, in fact, a repudiation of one's ancestors 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:51.600 of one's parents. 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.440 And so of course it is a violation of the fourth commandment. 00:10:55.440 --> 00:11:00.000 Because the fourth commandment does not extend just to the immediate generation 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.320 before you, it's not just your parents. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:06.800 Because of course this can be explained a number of ways. 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:09.760 The simplest one for most people to grasp is going to be 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:14.480 this. You have a duty to your parents, under the fourth commandment. 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.600 That is explicit, that is obvious thou shalt honour thy father and 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.560 thy mother and of course there's the blessing with it, which plays 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:23.200 into this as well that it may go well with you, and 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.800 you may live long in the land Or thou mayest live long 00:11:26.800 --> 00:11:31.600 in the land if we want to use the the older English. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.200 But of course, you have to look at it generationally. 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.080 Your parents have a duty to their parents. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.520 Their parents have a duty to their parents, and so part of 00:11:41.520 --> 00:11:46.960 honoring your parents is recognizing their duty to honor their parents and 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:54.240 therefore honoring your grandparents, partly through your parents, but also directly. 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.560 Particularly if they're still alive, but also all of those ancestors all 00:11:58.560 --> 00:11:59.120 the way back. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.560 And part of how you do that is continuing the line they 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:08.400 have preserved over a course of millennia, not terminating it for some 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:14.080 selfish reason, which it virtually always is in these cases. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:19.360 We could also mention crime statistics, but I've mentioned that elsewhere, gone 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.320 over it fairly extensively, I'll link to it in the show notes 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.880 instead of going over it here. 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:28.160 And so of course mentioning the fourth commandment leads us right into 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:31.120 the biblical context. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:32.160 And this is the one that many 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.360 have attempted to say that I'm somehow violating with my arguments, that 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:42.720 I am ignoring the biblical context or twisting it, what have you. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.120 And so let's look at some cases. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.560 We will look at five cases. 00:12:48.560 --> 00:12:50.640 We'll start with Moses. 00:12:50.640 --> 00:12:56.000 There are those who argue that Moses was in an interracial marriage, 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:02.320 because he married Zippara, the daughter of the priest of Midian. 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:06.160 What these people fail to mention, and in some cases it may 00:13:06.160 --> 00:13:10.160 be simply because they're cherry picking or they're looking for something on 00:13:10.160 --> 00:13:10.640 the internet. 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:13.600 They probably Googled it and don't know anything about scripture. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:19.520 Well the Midianites are descended from Abraham via Ketera. 00:13:19.520 --> 00:13:27.120 And so the Midianites are cousins of the Israelites, of the Hebrews. 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:28.800 This was a cousin marriage. 00:13:28.800 --> 00:13:31.440 This is this is not an interracial marriage. 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:36.000 Now there is one other attempt to marry argument in the case 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:37.120 of Moses. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.560 And they will say that when there was the rebellion with Miriam 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:45.280 and Aaron, that they said that Moses had married a Cushite, and 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:48.480 therefore that was the reason, this is what the opponents attempt to 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.320 argue. Therefore that was the reason they were condemning Moses. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.400 Now, if you actually read that text, that's not the reason they're 00:13:58.400 --> 00:13:59.600 condemning Moses. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.600 Now, they may have brought that up, but the real problem 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.560 there is that they were rejecting Moses, who was the chosen of 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:10.560 God, to lead the people of Israel, and therefore in rejecting Moses, 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:12.080 they were in fact rejecting God. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.440 They were rebelling against God. 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:15.920 Because the rebellion is always against God. 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:18.560 Against you you only have I sinned. 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:19.520 That's the issue. 00:14:19.520 --> 00:14:24.240 The issue was not Moses, and also Kushite in this context probably 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.160 just means foreign woman from the region of Cush. 00:14:28.400 --> 00:14:32.320 Cush is to the south, so is Midian. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:36.240 Probably the same woman, even if it was not the same woman. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:42.400 The issue was still the rebellion against God, the usurpation, which is 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:46.800 incidentally why you see Miriam is cursed more heavily than Aaron, because 00:14:46.800 --> 00:14:50.640 for a woman to attempt to usurp that sort of headship, that 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:53.520 sort of leadership, is of course worse than for a man to 00:14:53.520 --> 00:14:54.080 do so. 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.280 And Aaron was in fact a leader of the people as well, 00:14:57.280 --> 00:15:00.800 just not in the same position as Moses. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:06.400 And so scripture doesn't actually say anything about this marriage. 00:15:06.640 --> 00:15:11.280 We don't have an explicit approval or condemnation, and so it goes 00:15:11.280 --> 00:15:14.960 beyond the text, if either side really wants to draw anything out 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.440 of this. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:21.200 The next person we'll address is Rahab. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.480 Now there's a fundamental problem here, a foundational issue when we are 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.800 addressing Rahab, and that is that we don't know if we're dealing 00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:34.560 with one person or two. 00:15:34.560 --> 00:15:40.080 When you translate or transliterate, as the case may be, a name 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:44.160 from one language to another, it is often the case that there 00:15:44.160 --> 00:15:50.160 will be multiple spellings, particularly across different authors, and here we have 00:15:50.160 --> 00:15:53.760 two different names we have Rab 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:00.640 and Rahab and and that is R A B or R A 00:16:01.280 --> 00:16:06.240 X A B, just to transliterate the Greek characters as it were. 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:11.120 Now we have with the chi, with the X in Matthew, Rachab 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:17.360 but in the Septuagint Old Testament and in Hebrew and James we 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.680 have Rab. 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:21.920 Is this the same woman? 00:16:21.920 --> 00:16:23.200 Well we don't know. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.760 Scripture does not tell us there's nowhere else we are told if 00:16:27.760 --> 00:16:34.240 this Rahab, as the name is transliterated into English, is two different 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.240 women or one woman. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:41.120 and so Matthew, of course, is giving us the lineage of Christ. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:47.760 If Raab is Rahab, then we have a Canaanite in the lineage 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:48.720 of Christ. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.880 But we have no reason to conclude this. 00:16:52.880 --> 00:16:55.680 If Scripture told us that, fine. 00:16:55.680 --> 00:16:59.520 We can use this argument for whatever purpose as long as it's 00:16:59.520 --> 00:17:01.120 in line with the text says. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:05.600 The text does not say that that this is the same woman, 00:17:05.600 --> 00:17:10.560 and so neither side can draw any argument from this, because it 00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:12.960 goes beyond the text. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.880 Now, those who are on the other side are actually relying on 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:22.800 Midrashim. They're relying on Jewish sources that supposedly exegete this text or 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:25.280 carry forward some oral tradition. 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:31.280 That's not scripture, that's not binding, Christians should not resort to it. 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:38.320 And so Rahab does not give an argument for either side. 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:42.880 The next individual in scripture we will address is Ruth. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:49.600 This is a similar issue to earlier with Moses and Cippra. 00:17:49.600 --> 00:17:52.240 Ruth was a Moabite. 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.600 Well the Moabites were descended from Lot. 00:17:55.600 --> 00:17:58.720 Lot was the nephew of Abraham. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.440 Again, cousins. 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:05.280 This is not an interracial marriage, this is a cousin marriage. 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:08.560 And again, it just pays to actually know Scripture, to know the 00:18:08.560 --> 00:18:10.240 lineage of these people. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.920 You cannot make a s a sound argument, you cannot make a 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:18.800 proper argument, if you don't actually know what Scripture says about these 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:24.320 individuals. And so again, Ruth is a cousin. 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:27.680 Moving on, Joseph. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:32.080 This is one where perhaps we have an interracial marriage. 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:40.480 Joseph married Asinath, the daughter of the priest of On. 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.040 She may have been a Hamite. 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:46.320 If she was a if she was an Egyptian, then she was 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:48.160 a Hamite, because 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:51.760 Egypt is a son of Ham. 00:18:51.760 --> 00:18:54.960 The Egyptians are sons of Ham. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:59.840 Egypt is called in Scripture the land of Ham. 00:18:59.840 --> 00:19:05.360 However, we are not given a lineage of Asinath. 00:19:05.360 --> 00:19:09.600 The Egyptians were conquered, at least a couple times in history, perhaps 00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:14.240 more than that, by Shemitic peoples. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.480 One in fact was the Hyksos, and that may have played into 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.560 why the Pharaoh, who was leader of Egypt at the time of 00:19:22.560 --> 00:19:28.800 the Exodus, hated the Israelites, feared the Israelites, because he may have 00:19:28.800 --> 00:19:33.760 thought that if the Hyksos or some other group of Shemitic origin 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.120 came in, that the Hebrews, also being Shemitic, would have aligned with 00:19:39.120 --> 00:19:44.160 them, would have allied with them, and fought against the Egyptians. 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.400 But of course, some of the leadership, some of the upper echelons 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:55.040 of Egyptian society, would have been Shemite descended because of these invasions. 00:19:55.040 --> 00:19:59.360 The sim similar things happened in various parts of the world over 00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:03.520 time. For instance, we know the Normans came in and conquered parts 00:20:03.520 --> 00:20:08.320 of Britain, and then you have the Anglo Saxons, and you have 00:20:08.320 --> 00:20:11.280 these various groups that conquer other groups and take over the upper 00:20:11.280 --> 00:20:15.120 echelons of society and intermix over time. 00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:18.640 Now in the case, of course, the European case I gave these 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.520 are very closely related cousins. 00:20:21.520 --> 00:20:24.240 In this case they're a little more distance because you're dealing with 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.720 Shemites versus Hemites. 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:33.520 However, again, we don't know the lineage of Asinath. 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:37.440 And so if either side makes an argument from this, it is 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:42.640 an argument based on assumption, not based on what is explicitly in 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:44.800 the text of Scripture. 00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:48.960 Even if, let's say, let's say that 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.960 Asanath was indeed a Hamite. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.360 So this is Joseph a Shemite marrying Asinath a Hemite. 00:20:57.360 --> 00:21:02.400 So this is a proper interracial marriage, an actual one in Scripture, 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.280 if we make this assumption. 00:21:05.280 --> 00:21:07.760 Does Scripture say that this was a wise union 00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:12.400 No. Does Scripture say this was an unwise union? 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:13.600 Again, no. 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:16.640 Scripture does not pass any judgment on it. 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:21.920 Scripture simply relays what happened in this case. 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:22.240 And so 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.440 if we want to draw out and say that this was approved 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.960 of by God, this was blessed in some way, we can say 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:35.520 that he did indeed go on to found part of part of 00:21:35.520 --> 00:21:38.640 a nation, as it were, not a nation unto itself, but a 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:42.400 tribe, two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:46.160 And so we can say that God did bless him. 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:51.360 However, that God blessed him for this does not mean that this 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:55.840 particular union was in and of itself wise. 00:21:55.840 --> 00:21:58.240 We could look of course to David. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:02.640 Was what he did with Bathsheba wise? 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.720 No, I think we can all agree that stealing another man's wife 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.520 and murdering him is not something we should call wise. 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:12.720 Did God still give him 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:15.520 children from Bathsheba? 00:22:15.520 --> 00:22:19.600 Yes, Solomon in particular, who would sit on his throne, who would 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:21.840 be in the line of the Messiah. 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:25.920 Not everything that is recorded in Scripture is necessarily 00:22:26.800 --> 00:22:30.160 something that is wise, something that is praiseworthy. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.080 Some things are left to human wisdom, and we have to be 00:22:34.080 --> 00:22:41.600 able to make those calls based on the information available to us. 00:22:41.600 --> 00:22:44.080 This is of course obvious because 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:45.600 the most 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.840 clear cut case, let's call it. 00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:54.800 If a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape. 00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:57.920 We have to contend with the fact that children are a blessing 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:02.240 from God, but this child is very clearly the product of an 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:04.640 evil act. 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:10.240 Can we conclude that because God's blessing of children, God's blessing of 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.320 a child in this case resulted, that the act itself is approved 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:15.760 of or blessed by God? 00:23:15.760 --> 00:23:18.080 The answer of course is no. 00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:19.280 And so we have to be careful 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:26.240 what sort of conclusions we are drawing from the information, from the 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:29.840 facts relayed by Scripture. 00:23:29.840 --> 00:23:32.560 And so even if this is a case of an actual 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:38.560 interracial marriage, we are not told by scripture if this is something 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:39.200 that is 00:23:40.080 --> 00:23:46.800 blessed or cursed, if this is something that is praiseworthy or blameworthy. 00:23:46.800 --> 00:23:51.440 And even if we go ahead and assume that it is praiseworthy 00:23:51.600 --> 00:23:54.720 this was a good thing, it does not mean that it's a 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.080 general rule. 00:23:56.080 --> 00:24:00.960 Again, there are matters that are left to human wisdom. 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:07.200 And so let's look at really basically the only very clear case 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:13.520 of mixed lineage that we have explicitly mixed lineage clearly taught by 00:24:13.520 --> 00:24:17.520 scripture, and that of course is Timothy. 00:24:17.520 --> 00:24:24.400 And per Acts sixteen, Timothy was born of a Jewish or Judean 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:26.960 woman and a Greek father. 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:31.120 Now of course we could make the argument that technically it does 00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:34.960 just say Judean and Greek, and Greek can just mean foreign and 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.800 Judean can mean living in Judea, but I think it is a 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:43.360 fair assumption in this case to go with the interpretation in this 00:24:43.360 --> 00:24:48.640 case that Timothy's mother was indeed an Israelite woman, and his father 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:54.960 was indeed a Greek in the sense of ethnically racially Greek man. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:59.840 And so again, does Scripture praise this union? 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:02.640 No. Does Scripture curse this union? 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.200 No. We're back to my initial comments. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:09.680 Per se not sinful. 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:11.680 The issue is per quote. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:16.320 The issue is the surrounding circumstances Circumstances. 00:25:16.320 --> 00:25:18.800 and in our modern context 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:24.160 interracial marriages are basically always sin. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:29.120 They are a problem for the reasons mentioned, and I'll get into 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:31.360 the consequences now for my last point. 00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:35.600 We've finished the section on the biblical context as it were. 00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:40.480 And so let's discuss the actual consequences of interracial marriages. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:45.520 I already discussed the issue, some of the issues regarding children, the 00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:51.760 medical consequences, the lack of a real culture, the lack of belonging. 00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:55.680 But it really is worse than that, because one of the things 00:25:55.680 --> 00:26:00.080 that we have to do, according to Scripture, according to the fourth 00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:03.440 commandment, is honor our father and mother. 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:09.840 And again, that ex that extends beyond just one's immediate biological mother 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:11.600 and father. 00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:16.400 You are part of a larger culture, you are part of a 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:22.000 nation, and part of honoring your father and mother is honoring that 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.800 nation of which you are part. 00:26:24.800 --> 00:26:28.800 How do you do that if you are not really part of 00:26:28.800 --> 00:26:30.320 any one nation? 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:35.840 If your parents are from two separate nations, or worse, if your 00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:39.920 grandparents are from three or four separate nations, how do you honor 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.400 your nation properly? 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.520 You don't have a nation in a very real sense. 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:47.040 And this is the problem 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:53.040 that individuals who enter into an interracial marriage create for their own 00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:58.240 children. Because that child will have to choose to win To which 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.640 nation he truly belongs. 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.320 Now, of course, the ordinary course of things is that a woman 00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:07.920 leaves her family and becomes part of the family of her husband, 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.520 and so the child would choose his father's nation, but that is 00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:16.880 not how it always plays out in the modern context. 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:22.160 And so this is a burden placed by selfish parents onto their 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:24.800 children. And the child has to choose. 00:27:24.800 --> 00:27:26.720 This is the reality of it. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.640 This is the recommendation. 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:30.880 Because this is the best thing the child can do. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:36.240 The child has to choose the nation to which he will belong. 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.360 And that is a terrible burden to put on a child. 00:27:39.360 --> 00:27:45.040 Because for anyone who is born to parents of the same nation, 00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:48.720 you don't have to choose your nation because it's your nation. 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:52.160 If both of your parents are German, you're German. 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.120 If both of your parents are French, you're French. 00:27:55.120 --> 00:28:00.320 You aren't having to contend with this additional confusion and burden that 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:07.120 your parents in their selfishness and their short-sightedness have placed on you. 00:28:07.120 --> 00:28:09.920 But that of course is what society wants to do to these 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:16.160 children, because society wants to create individuals who are rootless, individuals who 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:17.120 do not have any connection 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.680 to their ancestors, to a greater nation, to anything beyond themselves, because 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:29.200 society wants these little atomized individuals who can be shuffled around aboard 00:28:29.280 --> 00:28:34.480 and used as interchangeable cogs in the great machine that we call 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:36.960 capitalism, in the market. 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:39.520 That is what modern society wants. 00:28:39.520 --> 00:28:42.000 It also wants it because individuals 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:46.880 who have no greater connection to a larger group 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.280 will forever be atomized. 00:28:51.280 --> 00:28:55.920 They will never be able to organize in pursuit of their own 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:00.400 good, of the good of their own group, because they don't have 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:01.680 that group. 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:07.120 And so those who are in power cannot be challenged by atomized 00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:11.360 individuals. They can be challenged by groups who have a shared identity 00:29:11.520 --> 00:29:16.560 and are willing and able to work toward shared goals. 00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:19.360 The best sort of individual 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:26.080 that that our modern overlords, let us call them, can have, is 00:29:26.080 --> 00:29:33.200 someone of mixed lineage who is also of alternative sexuality, because that 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.640 person is totally atomized. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.480 That person does not have the natural connections of family, the natural 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:46.320 connections of race, the natural connections of nationality, none of it. 00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:51.360 That is not part of a greater whole, that is an individual, 00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:55.840 in the most terrible sense of the term. 00:29:55.840 --> 00:30:01.680 And so those who produce children in an interracial marriage are putting 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:05.200 this sort of burden onto their children. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:06.720 And that's sinful. 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.000 That is not something that Christians should be doing. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.600 That transgresses the wisdom that God has given us to act properly 00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:17.280 in this life. 00:30:17.280 --> 00:30:21.040 Just because we can do something does not mean that we should 00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:22.160 do that thing. 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.840 Just because something is not per se sinful does not mean that 00:30:25.840 --> 00:30:26.400 it is not sinful 00:30:27.360 --> 00:30:30.160 in context. 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.480 And so parents who are doing this, individuals who are engaging in 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:38.000 this, should not be praised for what they're doing. 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:44.480 Because out of their own selfish sinful desires, they are placing zero 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:50.560 emphasis, zero care, zero weight on what will happen to their children 00:30:50.560 --> 00:30:53.440 in the future, what this will do to their children, what this 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:55.120 will do to their society. 00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:59.520 Because of course, this is one of the things that erodes the 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:03.360 bonds in society between and among people. 00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:08.000 Groups are bound together in part by their common genetics and by 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.880 their common history, the common culture, language, all these various things. 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.280 That breaks down when an individual no longer has a connection to 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:18.400 these things. 00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:26.800 And so again, just to emphasize, one of the biggest problems with 00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:32.560 this is not actually the sin of the parents. 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:35.520 Yes, it is the sin of the parents that leads to the 00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:38.640 curse on the children, but it is that curse on the children 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.600 that should be our greater interest. 00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:46.080 Why would we as a society permit children to be burdened with 00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:49.280 this absolutely, totally unnecessary 00:31:51.120 --> 00:31:58.960 additional confusion, this lack of belonging, this isolation, this alienation, this atomization, 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:04.080 the disconnect from everyone and everything around them. 00:32:04.080 --> 00:32:07.120 There's no reason to pursue this. 00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:10.560 There is every reason to avoid it. 00:32:11.120 --> 00:32:14.880 And so that is the reason that I made the tweet. 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:18.400 Because it is indeed tantamount to murder. 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:23.600 Because what you are doing is killing your own nation, and you 00:32:23.600 --> 00:32:26.160 are attempting to destroy your children. 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:28.320 They are going to struggle with this. 00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:32.400 They may overcome it, but it will be a great deal of 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.040 effort on their part, and they will never fully overcome it. 00:32:35.360 --> 00:32:38.640 They cannot fully overcome it because you have burdened them with something 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.400 that is permanent in this life. 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:45.520 And so that is the thing that those of us who point 00:32:45.520 --> 00:32:47.680 out these issues want to avoid. 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:48.240 We do not want 00:32:49.520 --> 00:32:54.880 these children who are burdened in this way. 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.920 Life is hard enough for many people and much of the time, 00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:07.520 adding additional complication, additional burdens, additional weight is 00:33:07.520 --> 00:33:10.720 not what Christians should be seeking to do. 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:15.440 It is not what any good person should be seeking to do. 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:20.720 And so, yes, it is right teaching to tell people to avoid 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:26.240 these unwise unions, which do indeed rise to the level of sinful 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.800 and Because of context. 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:39.280 And so in summary, interracial marriages are not sinful per se. 00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:47.360 However, in the modern context, they are virtually always sinful per quote, 00:33:47.360 --> 00:33:51.440 and so it is right teaching for Christians to say that these 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:55.280 unwise unions should be avoided.