THE BIBLE – FOR WHOM WAS IT WRITTEN?
I T MAY not have occurred to you, but the Bible was written about and to only one people and nation, the nation of true Israel. The only time other people were ever mentioned in the Bible was when they came into contact with God’s people, Israel.
These few pages present a brief sketch of the creations, as we read in the book of Genesis. We examine the creation of the non-Adamic races. We also witness the creation of the white Adamic race. God created them as his own special people, whose name was changed to Israel at the time of Jacob.
Unless otherwise noted, we have used the King James Version for scriptural reference. In a few places we have referred to other versions for further clarity and this has been noted. So let’s begin:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” – (John 1:1-2)
We chose to start off with these verses because they show how, with the exception of Adam and Eve, God created everything into existence by the spoken word.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” – (Genesis 1:1)
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” – (Genesis 1:9)
With these select verses we have a rough sketch of the beginning of God’s creations, as recorded by Moses in our Bible. The creation, first, of the heaven and the earth. No time frame was given and there has been much conjecture about the length of a year and the total length of the creation process. For this study we won’t concern ourselves with it – only the chronological order of events.
We must look at another interpreting hurdle that students of the Bible encounter and that is whether statements were meant to be literal or figurative. A good example is the word “earth” Today earth is perceived to be a spherical-shaped planet, revolving around the sun. We must not lose sight of the fact that until about 500 years ago our ancestors thought the earth to be flat!
It would be natural that the early inhabitants of the “earth” considered the space they occupied to be large by today’s geographic standards. A good example was shown in a verse that follows later, in which Cain remarked to God, “Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth.. .. ”
Taken literally, this would mean that Cain was launched into outer space! Of course, we know he wasn’t.
Therefore words such as earth, world, nation etc. must not necessarily be taken literally. Earlier people had no knowledge that the earth was round. Since their travels were within the bounds of a relatively small geographic area, they didn’t concern themselves with such things. Again,the word “nation” would have been conceived by them to have been within the confines of their “geographic area,” not on the far side of the planet, which would have been beyond their reasoning.
Going back to Genesis 1:9, it would appear that the earth was covered entirely by water. Was it created as such? Or did eons, of time pass before this verse? It would appear that the water, thus mentioned, was divided by one land mass. It is interesting to study a globe today and compare how the eastern coast of the Americas matches the western coast of Europe and Africa.Not a perfect match – a few pieces broken off – a few pieces missing, but, not unreasonable to conceive of it being one large land mass at one time – maybe many thousands of years ago.
Now, let’s get back to our creation story. Remember reading in John 1:1-2 about the importance of the Word. As we read on in Genesis, we will see how God creates simply by speaking things into existence. He now created all the plant and animal life by speaking them into existence. We read:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” – (Genesis 1:27-28)
In these two verses there’s one word on which we should focus: “replenish.” Some Bible scholars have interpreted this to mean there had been previous inhabitants on the earth who had, for some unknown reason, disappeared. The Hebrew word (4390 in Strong’s Concordance) better translates “filled”. This is supported by the Septuagint Bible which reads:
“…increase and multiply and fill [emphasis ours] the earth and subdue it,… ” – (Genesis 1:28)
Therefore, we would be safe in accepting this as the first creation of a human type creature on earth. If there were previous creations, they simply were not recorded in the Bible. Time wise this creation was before Adam. How long before is up for conjecture. We will examine this again later. We read further:
“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.” – (Genesis 2:7)
In the Genesis 1 creation men and women were created in the plural and were immediately sent forth to multiply and fill the earth. Again,the word “earth” no doubt meant a much smaller geographic area than what might, today, be considered the entire “globe”. It would be reasonable to consider that, at this time, God might have created the non-white people that exist today. It would, also, be believable that over thousands of years these races would have migrated into geographic locations compatible to their natural requirements and desires.
However, with Adam there was no such dispersion. Instead, God placed Adam in a special place prepared just for him, the Garden of Eden. God created the Adamic race as a special people, his heirs, designed to please him. As such they were to have everlasting life – no death.
“…but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man. He made a woman, and brought her to the man. 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.” – (Genesis 2:20-23)NKJV
Now God had a complete “family” (his heirs) all set to live foreve rin an environment where their every need was provided. He had created his own people. Their colour and complexionis described by the Hebrew words “adam” (120 & 121) in Strong’s concordance, meaning man or humankind and ruddy skin colour. In other words – a complexion so light that the blood beneath the skin shows through enough to look “ruddy.”
We have now reached a sensitive point of argument among Bible scholars. Some will claim that, since the same Hebrew word was used for “man” in Genesis 1 and ”Adam” in Genesis 2, this is the same creation, only described overall in Chapter 1 and in more detail in Chapter 2. They try to prove that all creation started with Adam (roughly 4,000 years before Christ or 6,000 years from the present time). They are without an answer when archeologists find skeletal remains with a carbon date of over 15,000 years-some even more. They even become more ridiculous when they try to prove the origin of all races began with Noah!
In the Genesis 1 creation no mention was made of skin colour The only conjecture we will make here is simply that:Caucasian people can be found in all shades of colour from almost albino to darker than lighter skinned members of other races. It would be a safe guess that Moses, when writing Genesis, never realized that thousands of years later we would be fighting over skin colour.He felt content with a simplistic description. Now back to Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden.
“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die “ – (Genesis 2: 16-17)
There has probably been more conjecture over this forbidden tree than anything in the Bible. From our childhood Bible stories on, we conceived this to be an apple. The next thing we learned was “an apple a day keeps the doctor away!” Why was the apple so good for us, but so bad for Adam? We can speculate from now on and never all agree on what this represented. The one thing we know for sure is: God told Adam not to do something – and God’s commandment was broken. Eve was aware of God’s commandment conceming this“tree,” but gave in to sin at the instance of the serpent representing an adversary. She then convinced Adam to sin, also.
“Sin is the transgression of the law. “ – (1 John 3:4)
“For the wages of sin is death. “ – (Romans 6:3)
It should now be clear what has happened: Adam was the beginning of the Adamic race. God gave his first commandment (law) to Adam.The penalty for breaking this law was death, as we read in Genesis 2:17. This verse, also, implies that if Adam hadn’t broken this law he would have possessed everlasting life. But as we just read: transgression of the law is sin and the wages of sin is death. Since Adam didn’t die immediately upon partaking of the forbidden tree, we must assume that his “life everlasting” then became a normal life span ending in death, such as continues today.
Adam and Eve were, at that time, cast out of the Garden of Eden and had to toil for their existence. Eve gave birth to Cain and then Abel. As the story continues -Abel found favour with God. When Cain did not, he became envious of his brother. He plotted and succeeded in killing him. Naturally, God was aware of this act and drove Cain away.
“Behold, thou has driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me … And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. “ – (Genesis 4:14-15)
This is a most revealing verse of scripture. Cain was afraid that some stranger would kill him. Who and why? They would most likely be unaware of his slaying his brother and probably wouldn’t have cared had they known. There had to be something different looking about Cain. All we know about his appearance was, as Adam’s son he would have borne the characteristics of the Caucasian race. The land where he was sent was, apparently, of a disimilar race.
At this time we must consider the creation of Genesis 1.There were people other than Adam’s family already living on the earth. They apparently possessed different features and characteristics to the point that Cain would have stood out as one, who did not belong. God put a “mark” (a better translation is “sign”) on him that would guarantee his acceptance among these strangers.We could, again, speculate forever as to what this “mark” was. Maybe the “sign” was a fraternal handshake or gesture. Maybe God altered his appearance or complexion so he would blend in with his new associates. And blend he did! Cain lost no time in acquiring a wife from these non-Adamic people as we witness in the following verses:
”And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.” – (Genesis 4:16-17)
If Cain, his wife and son Enoch were the only people living in this land of Nod why would there be a need to build a city? Again, more proof that there existed other people living on “earth” at this time.
The Bible records the next few generations from Cain, terminating with Tubal-Cain. Cain was, apparently a skilled builder. His offspring were, also, skilled in many areas. They displayed abilities, perhaps, exceeding their new found neighbours in Nod. They, apparently, became well established and respected there. Of course, all these accomplishments were without the presence of God.
In verse 25 of Genesis, Chapter 4, our attention is turned from Cain to the descendants of Adam; starting with Seth and continuing to Noah. The time frame involved here was approximately 1,600 years.
”And Adam knew his wife again; she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.” – (Genesis 4:25)
We can now fast forward to Noah and his lineage.
”And Noah was five hundred years old.. And Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.” – (Genesis 5:32)
We should note that throughout Genesis, Chapter 5, we are looking specifically at the pure bloodline from Adam to Noah (the Adamic race) covering a time span of roughly 1,600 years. But all was not well in the eyes of God, as we shall see as we read on.
“Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” – (Genesis 6:1-2) NKJV
Here we see something happening that continues to this day – The adulterating of the pure Adamic line! Sons of the Adamic race, because they were created by God as his own special people, were referred to as “sons of God.” The daughters of men were from the pre-Adamic races, perhaps descendants of Cain!
“Then the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in his Heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air for I am sorry that I have made them.’ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” – (Genesis 6:5-8) NKJV
We are all familiar with the flood of Noah’s time when only Noah, his three sons and their wives, eight people in total, were spared by building and inhabiting the Ark during the flood.
We now encounter another controversy on which Biblical scholars cross swords. Did the flood cover the entire “globe”, as we now call earth or are we facing another figurative vs. literal interpretational hurdle.
This complex subject is best covered by referring you to the book, entitled: Facts and Fictions Regarding Noah’s Flood. This book presents solid evidence that the flood only covered a specific area. A large area, but certainly not the entire globe!
Another bit of proof you can easily examine is the Tower of Babel. Most Bible scholars agree that this event occurred approximately 101 years after the flood. Now ask yourself this: If Noah and his 3 sons were the only people left after the flood, how in common sense could they, in only 100 years, have reproduced enough to have the number of people involved in the tower incident? It would have been impossible, giving more proof that the pre-Adamic groups of people were not destroyed.
God was only concerned with the Adamic race and the fact that, because of sin, they were destroying the pure bloodline by intermarriage. This same sin continues today!
By continuing our study of Genesis, we see how this Adamic blood line continues on through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We can see in the presentation of The Heirs of the Promise, that this bloodline continues on to this day. A closer study will reveal that the same enemies of Christ are working harder than ever to destroy this bloodline which we now refer to as the True Israelites, Christian Anglo-Saxon races. Our title question asked “Who Was the Bible Written For?” It was written for the True Israelites, God’s chosen race – The descendants of Adam through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Bible was not written for the pre-Adamic races. God’s only concern for these races was to keep his own people from intermingling with them, which always led to worshipping their gods and destroying their heritage. For further study on your Christian Israelite heritage go to the article Heirs of the Promise.
