NOAH THE JUST MAN
Noah the Just Man
This morning we will read together from Genesis 6:1-13.
Genesis 6:1-13:
- AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
- There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- And 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.
- And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
- But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
- These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- And 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.
This will be our reading today and may the LORD bless His word to our hearts.
My brother and sister, if you really want to understand something you have to determine how it originated. You will know a tree by the fruit it produces, but it all starts in the roots of the tree. Therefore, if we want to understand the world we live in, we have to investigate the beginning.
Today, I want to talk to you about “Noah the man without blemish!”
Noah The Man Without Blemish
All of us talk in this world today, and I am sure that we can all see and you don’t even have to be a Christian to realise that everything on this earth is not in place. This earth is unsafe. Things on this earth are dangerous, unreliable and there is no security. But if we have a look around us in this world many horribly cruel things are happening.
Because you are but a spot, amongst a huge crowd of people that can trample upon you, the only way that you will be able to determine what moved the masses, is to create a distance in order to view events so that they may be understood.
How can we know and understand what is going on today? Can we understand? Did God want us to understand and what was His intention? Was it for us to tell one another, “Ah my brother and sister you just have to believe”. Now if only it were like this, I would say “Thank you LORD”. However, to believe like a child is also important.
There are surely people amongst us, and I am sure you are here today because you are one of them, who want to understand the essence of things. I am such a person, I want to know. If God had meant for us to only believe, He would not have given us the Bible! He wouldn’t have had everything written down! Then He would not have shown Himself to us and given us a Genesis, Leviticus, Exodus and later the Chronicles. Now we can understand why the Prophet Hosea said:
Hosea 4:6:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
God’s word also. says “believe”, yes, brother and sister, you only have to believe, but what is belief? Believe in the word of God. Which part of God’s word, only a few verses in the Gospels? Verses concerning the birth and life and death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus? I am saying this in all piety.
For some people this is enough, but for me it is not. Why then was He killed and by whom? Why then was He resurrected? When I have a look at the world and the circumstances we are living in today, I will summarise it as follows: The seed of Satan and his fallen angels again want to destroy all Adamites just as in the time of Noah. That’s how I explain the times we are living in just as in the days of Noah when the world was filled with violence. Today-the world is full of violence and filled with people whose thoughts are evil, just as in the days of Noah.
Where does it come from? How can one explain it?
Our Lord Jesus gave us His prophetical statement in: Matthew 24:36-39:
- But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
- But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
- And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
As In the Days of Noah
If the Lord Jesus then tells me just “as in the days of Noah”, I will investigate the days of Noah this morning and then I will have a better understanding. All of us agree and other churches also predict that the return of the LORD is imminent.
As we have said, there was violence, everything people thought of was evil. It was indicative of the time in the days of Noah also of the circumstances today. Another aspect of that time, which is just as prominent today, is that people didn’t understand. People truly didn’t know what was happening, then, just as today, they think that they know.
Let us read: Daniel 12:10:
(Daniel also writes about the end times and here he writes concerning the times we are living in)
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Speaking of Daniel, he says “many shall be purified, and made white, and tried”.
I don’t want to scare you. Many preachers and movements say, “don’t be negative”, thus speak only of prosperity, healing, salvation and victory. It is true my brother and sister, it is all in the Bible, but it is also in the Bible that we will be purified and freed from sins and therefore 1 have to say that to you as well. As I have said in the beginning of this message, use opportunities to strengthen yourself in the LORD as the end times are near. In other words Daniel also says, “they didn’t understand”.
I read from Luke 21, for this congregation, a well- known text.
Luke 21:34-36:
- And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time ‘your heads be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
- For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
- Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Here we have two classes of people, the one class being the people with surfeiting and drunkenness. The meaning of surfeiting is to be rich, to have more than enough, living the rich and good life. Those of us sitting here most probably don’t know this life style as we are used to a simple, normal life style, but you ought to go to the outside world and take note of it. I also just hear about the things that rich people are living this type of life of surfeiting and drunkenness.
Unfortunately I don’t have time to elaborate on this aspect today. Look at history and the origin and fall of civilisations. The moment before it happens, because actually it destroys itself, you will find two classes of people, they sift and sort themselves out. A small group will be very rich, make money easily and throw it around as we will throw sand and stone. To them it means nothing. They live with surfeiting and drunkenness because they can normally control this. However, the majority of people will be busy with the daily tasks of what life expects from them.
My brother and sister, this congregation of ours and most of the children of the LORD will fall into this category. Therefore I want to tell you just as the rich people are warned, you and I are also warned. Don’t allow worries and troubles to get you down and prevent you from being prepared for the return of the LORD. This is a very serious warning!
“They will not understand” – when I had a better look at this “understand” I found it very interesting. In Matthew 13 the Lord Jesus gives us His parables and in verses 10 and 11, I found these very interesting words: Matthew 13: 10-11:
- And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
- He answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
I have been wondering about this for a long time, not only when I prepared for this message. Let’s carefully observe the days of Noah. All the people were corrupted because of these sons of God who had mixed with the daughters of men and then created a new race on earth. This race was in conflict with God and rebelled against Him. On closer look they have infiltrated man on earth to such an extent that there was hardly any seed of God left, only Noah.
Therefore the world as it was at that time could not continue.
God had to do something drastic. In the next generation after Noah, the smallest little part, which came from Noah, would physically be lost and then God would have no entry to this world what so ever. God can do anything. He can even rip open your heart (pardon the harsh words) and say, “I want to come and stay here. But where are your rights?
Where is your approval? If a father threatens to spank his son if he doesn’t put his arms around his father’s neck and tell him he loves him and that he is the best father in the world, will he gain anything if his son then does as he is told? I don’t think so!
Our Heavenly Father also does not want to force us to love Him. He doesn’t appreciate forced love like this; thus He wouldn’t have had other options if He hadn’t intervened drastically with the flood of water. Noah was the only one who remained loyal to God because he loved God.
In the Time of Jesus
In the time of our Lord Jesus, this seed just carried on and had a severe grip on a part of God’s nation to which He was called. It was only but a small section of God’s nation as the largest section was on the outside and that is why He sent His disciples “to the lost sheep of Israel”. They were on the outside, they were widely spread and lost. That is what the apostles according to history did, but according to the Word, Jesus had to go to Jerusalem because He had to die there. This is where He had to pay the price and determine the way.
Most of those people “could not understand” as the seed in them were adulterated and they were not meant to understand. That Is also the reason why the Lord Jesus spoke to them in parables and why only the disciples could understand.
Today I have to make a drastic statement, a severe statement; for which I will be crucified and alienated even more. I want to tell you, just as in the days of Noah. Jesus also said: “it will be as in the days of Noah”. Not only the violence, not only their evil thoughts; they also didn’t understand. Why couldn’t they understand? Why were they full of violence? Because they were full of Satan’s seed. There was only a small group left. Only a small group, and just as it was with the conflict of Noah, so will today’s conflict be for that small group.
Today
Just as God had to do something drastic in the time of Noah, otherwise there would not have been any one with the seed of God left, He will do something drastic today. This is the explanation and this is the reason for the conflict. How do you and I persevere by the grace of God? I want to put it to you brother and sister, we have the same seed as that of Noah,.. and therefore you and I are facing the same challenge as Noah was facing then. I will explain this to you later on. Thus you cannot (excuse the word I use, but through lack of a better word) continue to serve God in such a lazy, careless way!
Let’s have a look at:
Hebrews 11:7 – we are talking of Noah – – – –
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house”;
Genesis 6.13-22 – “by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith”.
Let’s have a look at what Noah did, we have to do the same.
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet”.
Didn’t we receive a godly warning?
Was the LORD not good to us by revealing His word to us?
Is the LORD not good that He gave us an identity?
Is the LORD not good to give us the Bible in a language we can understand? Is the LORD not good that He gave us the insight so that we could understand His word and that we are capable of recognising the end times? Is there not a godly warning in the end times we’re living in?
Noah received a godly warning concerning something not seen before. There had been no flood of waters yet so they mocked him, carrying on like maniacs. Just remember, it was the seed of Satan and fallen angels. They must have gone on like crazy just as they are doing with you and me. If we stand out, they will scorn even more. Then there are those who will react just like a tortoise who retreats into its shell, because they are being scorned.
But that is exactly what we must do – “stand out”, let them accuse and make fun of us, we are busy with what is as yet not seen. God has told us so just as He has told Noah. We understand it, the others don’t.
Listen:
“Warned of things not seen as yet, moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house”.
My brothers and sisters are you still moved by holy fear? Some of us don’t even move at all, we just sit. Noah moved. It must have been a huge task to collect and gather all the material for the Ark in time. On top of it I think Noah was a man with an exceptional personality. I think he has used many of those scorners and carriers of Satan’s seed to chop the wood and everything else he required. He had the personality and the energy to do so. When everything was done he called the animals and even they obeyed him. Noah had a “nation” of God in him, just as a descendant of God who has the genes of God.
That is why the LORD promised us the Holy Spirit to also experience that energy and spark. A true child of God has an inheritance of authority which you and I must get hold of, so that we also can move – move with authority.
He completed the ark for the salvation of his family. He started working in reverent obedience. You and I must also start working in reverent obedience. Ask the LORD this morning, I don’t want to chastise you, but there is such little movement amongst us, we, the people who know the exact truth.
Sons of God
Let us look into this matter at greater length. We have discussed it before so you are familiar with it. You will also find it on several of my cassettes, it is also written in our books, but let’s have a fresh look at it today.
Genesis 6:1-2:
1 AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The word “men” in the original Hebrew is Adam!
Remember at that stage the races were not mixed. A true, pure race of God existed. They must have been beautiful people, both the sons and the daughters were so pretty because there was no impurity in them. All of them were the same kind, no wonder they were so beautiful.
They had a good time. It was wonderful to observe the beautiful girls as beautiful creations of God. A good-looking person is nice to look at. Today Satan is still doing it. Today it is still the same.
What I will tell you might shock you, you might not agree but you can at least think about it.
“The Sons of God saw.”
Let me give you a few translations of “sons of God.” The “Septuagint” says – “Angels of God”;
The “New English Bible” says – “the sons of the gods”;
The “Good News Bible” says – “super natural beings”.
In other words, it was super natural beings who saw the daughters of men, whom they chose to have their children with. This was the start of a brand new race.
Where are these descendants today?
They are with us and they are busy to swamp us.
God will have to step in, intervene, otherwise the same will happen as what happened in the time of Noah: God then intervened with the Deluge that prevented total eradication of the Adamic race. God will intervene once more, only this time with fire.
I believe this is what Psalm 91 tells us.
In the time of Noah it was the Ark, this time it will be the shelter of the Almighty (Ps 91:1). Read the whole of Psalm 91 with care. The thousand, which will fall at your side and the ten thousand to your right hand can only happen with the last judgement.
Let’s have a closer look at these “sons of God”.
Jude verse 6:
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
“Angels which kept not their first estate”, this means that they had left their domain, indicating the area where they were allowed to move. These angels had homes and angel bodies but they left them to adopt human bodies and homes.
The word used for homes in Greek is “oiketenon” and only appears twice in the Bible.
2 Corinthians 5:2:
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.
The word “house” in 2 Corinthians 5:2 is exactly the same as the word used in Jude verse 6.
At this moment our house is our body, the Bible describes this as a tent. A tent is a temporary house. Our bodies also are temporary homes. The moment we die and we blow out our last breath, we leave this temporary house and we go to the house the LORD has prepared for us, just as the angels left their homes to accept a human house. Now this is the very important and interesting thing I spoke about earlier and what I meant when I said that you would most probably not agree with me.
Let’s read Hebrews 13:2:
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares
“Entertained angels unawares”. How can you entertain a guest?
You can only entertain a guest if you can see him, if that person looks like a human being! in other words, there are angels who appear on earth as human beings even today. They have appeared to Abraham while he was sitting under the oak trees at Mamre.
They appeared to humans at various other occasions in the time of the Bible. We are therefore warned to show our hospitality, because we might be entertaining an angel. This will be a great privilege although we might not be aware of it. It will obviously be an angel, who has adopted an earthly human body for a special reason, as it also states in:
Hebrews 1:13-14:
- But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
“Sent forth to minister for them”.
Why would those angels even today then not adopt a human body, by order of God to perform a task? They performed a task when they spoke to Abraham. They performed a task when they led Lot and his family by the hand out of Sodom when they didn’t want to. The angels appeared in human form to perform their duties.
Is there not urgency today? I believe so. I believe if we had eyes to see we would see how many times we have been saved from great danger by angels we couldn’t see, but who could see us.
I don’t want to dwell on this any longer. The point is those angels had their domain, the area where they could move and perform tasks, just as Satan, created a new race on earth with bad intentions. It is that race which created this sinful godless earth so that God was compelled to stop the world.
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be with the arrival of the Son of man. Just as there was an overwhelming majority of this seed of Satan in the time of Noah, there will be, if we carefully observe the words of Jesus, as we should, an overwhelming race in our time. So the LORD had only one option and that was to destroy them with the Deluge. In our time the LORD will have to destroy again, only this time with fire.
Let’s have another look at Genesis 6:11-12:
- The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Another word for corrupted is adulterated. I believe the word adultery has a deeper meaning too. Today when we speak about adultery, it refers to the planting of foreign seed.
In Hebrew the word for corrupt as stated in Gen. 6:11 is “shawkhath” which means “to decay or to ruin or to destroy”.
Let’s read in Jeremiah 13:7:
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
It was worthless, exactly the same Hebrew word “shawkhath” meaning, “all flesh had corrupted”.
You will also find this word in Jeremiah 18. You can recall the parable of the two clay vessels in which the potter had to take one of the clay vessels and put it on the wheel and then he had a look at it.
Let us read how Jeremiah describes it in Jeremiah 18:4:
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it
The word “marred” is the same Hebrew word to describe “all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth”.
Further on we read how he had to make another vessel – (Jeremiah 19). After he had baked the vessel, he had to throw it on the ground so that it could be shattered. These two vessels are symbolic of the two houses, which came from Israel. The house of Israel, which was remade after it, was not to the satisfaction of the potter. It resembles the house of Israel! The vessel, which had already been made and baked, had to be shattered. This vessel resembles the house of Judah so that it can never again function as the house of Judah!
According to the prophets it will only fulfil its function again when it reunites with the house of Israel and the two become one in the hand of God. But the word “marred” or “corrupted” is the same. Thus, all flesh had corrupted his war upon the earth!
Why?
Because the seed of Satan and of the fallen angels had been added.
Now let’s continue with this matter. I am sure you will agree, as I understand it: Jesus said, “as in the days of Noah it will be with the arrival of the Son of man”. Then all flesh on this earth must be corrupted, adulterated.
In other words, most people on earth are not from the seed of God! Isn’t this terrible?
Even within Israel, the seed of Satan can be found. Now let us go back to Genesis 6:9:
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The Hebrew word used here for “just” is “tamiym” and the meaning is: Entire, without blemish, physically perfect, pure stock. Noah was from a pure race. This word is used 46 times in the Bible for animals, which had to be offered. These animals had to be pure and without physical blemish.
important to note – physically without blemish.
One of these 46 references are given to us in Exodus 12:5:
(Here the exodus from Egypt had begun and Israel had to offer a lamb without blemish).
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.
“Without blemish” – “tamiym”, the same word used for Noah as he was pure. Ezekiel 46:4,6,13:
4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
“a lamb without blemish” – “tamiym’.
6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. Again “tamiym”.
13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt-offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. “Without blemish”.
Thus, this word “just” used to describe Noah, now listen carefully, the meaning of this word is not intended to describe Noah as good hearted or honorable. The Holy Spirit, who is the author of these words, wrote these words so that we could seek the truth. Daniel says; “only those who look and search will find this wisdom and the others will not understand it”. Noah was physically pure, he was the only one left with the Adam seed in him.
Therefore – Genesis 6:9:
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Let us stay with the word “just”.
Obviously he was just”, therefore it will not be necessary to discuss his honorability and use the word “pure” again. That won’t be necessary. The Holy Spirit has put it to us so that we could see he was physically pure. Also we have to add “pure among his contemporary generations”.
“Generations”: According to the Strong’s Concordance, 8435 – “tôledâh” which comes from the word “Yâlad” (Strong’s 3205) which means, to bear, to beget, lineage. Thus generations will mean descent, family, history, birth and so forth.
Noah was “tamiym”. He was without blemish. That is what is meant by this word. Unfortunately ministers and pastors preach that Noah was honorable amongst his generations and that he was the only one left amongst them with a noble heart. This is not necessary if we understand that the people around Noah already had the wrong seed in them. This is a double confirmation that the “pedigree” of Noah was pure.
Gesenius states it as follows: “generations, family, races, genesis, genealogy, pedigree” in other words your family tree! Because of Noah it is now obvious why such a huge emphasis was placed on the integration and mixing of the races. The seed of Satan wants to adulterate and corrupt the seed of God. This is what happened in the time of Noah and it is also happening today!
Therefore, Noah was the last pure Adamite. His life was according to his genes. Because of the right genes, the correct seed in him, he was a just (pure) man, and he was also a fair person. Obviously Adam was a fair man. What I am saying, is that before Adam sinned, he had been pure, he had been made to the hand of God, to the image of God and yet he sinned.
This does not mean that if you have the pure seed in you, you are without sin, or incapable of sinning. The fact that you carry the pure seed makes you even more the target of Satan, just as he had targeted Adam. You can be disobedient although you have the correct seed in you and you will also pay the price just as Adam did.
Please do not look at a brother or a sister this morning and smugly think they have sinned and are therefore not from the pure seed. Beware, you are the target of the devil. He who thinks he stands let him take heed lest he fall.
The Time Is At Hand
We live in the time as described in: Revelation 22:10-14:
- And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
- He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
- And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
- I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
- Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may, have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Just as in the time of Noah, there were only a few people left, so will it be in the last days, only a remnant will be left.
Matthew 24:21-22:
- For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
I want to declare today that this will be the last effort of Satan to wipe from the face of earth the seed of God. Just as God had to intervene in the time of Noah, God will have to intervene once more to protect His seed. Therefore I believe that the immediate future will be tremendously challenging for all of us. We have to remain close to the LORD and to one another, His cherished children.
If a jackal wants to catch a sheep he first makes a lot of noise to send the herd flying and the one who leaves the herd will be caught. Let us stick together, encourage and pray for one another, let us as a remnant, stay intact until Jesus comes.
He will not take longer than required. Hallelujah!
Let me read to you Isaiah 10:20-22:
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant——
- – – – – of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
- The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
- For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
“The consumption decreed”.
Just as the LORD decreed the seed of Satan and the fallen angels with the flood, so the LORD will do in this time.
Where will you and I stand then? Also in Jeremiah 23:3 we read:
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
Here we find “the remnant of my flock”!
Praise the LORD! Also in Luke 12:32:
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Praise the LORD!
We are being deceived and the devil is the impostor in our pulpits, to beguile God’s nation by telling them there is no difference between races, we are all one before God and we have to love our neighbour etcetera. Our nation is frightfully being deceived. This is Satan’s last onslaught.
In Jesus’ Prophecy we are warned four times with the words: “Beware, Beware, Beware, and Beware”. He warned us to beware of deception. There will be ministers and so called prophets who will perform great miracles to such an extent that even the very elect will be deceived.
For this reason you are called a racist at the slightest demand for a pure race.
In the book “The Road to Damascus” we read the unctuous rectitude that God is the God of the poor, God is the God of the suppressed. God is everyone’s God, one shouldn’t discriminate again Blacks or Coloured races.
AMEN
(Translated from Afrikaans into English)