Questions & Answers
Questions 22 (COD Page 135)
At one time-at one time were we all white or colored? Of the two, which one was the curse put on?
153 Now, as far as we know, I couldn’t tell you whether Adam and Eve were-were white, or brown, or yellow, or black. I cannot tell you. No one else knows but God alone, I guess; He was back there. Now, in the... As we come all of one language and one people until the tower of Babel, a confusion. And then their languages went different. And as far as we know they were all one people till that time. And they broke up and scattered in different parts of the world.
154 And some... You take an animal; you take any life that eats off of a certain soil, it’ll turn that color. If there’s a hunter here, you just follow me a few minutes. Go down into Mexico, and get the coyote; take up here in Arizona and get the coyote; you go up in the North and get the same coyote, and watch the three colors. Get a Gila monster that’s raised in Texas, and get one that’s raised in Arizona, and look at the difference in them (see?), ’cause it’s the soil they live on. See?
155 And now, the Chinese, the Chinese is a-a yellow person, Japanese, and so forth, and a Chinese. The Ethiopian is a-is a colored man, or the Negro that we have now. And he went down in those dark countries down there.
156 And they-and-and they were... And then the white man was the Anglo-Saxon people which we are. And, of the-of the people here, what we call the white people, they come from England which was formerly called “Angel land.” And because they were white, and blond, and so forth... And scattered up Ireland, and Norway, and so forth-up in there. And they all come out of the Anglo-Saxon people.
157 Now, which was first and which was cursed? There was none of them. I know what you’re trying to get to. You’re trying to get to Ham. I know where you’re going-to Ham’s people.
158 Now, there was Ham, Shem, and Japheth. Now Ham, he-he-he did not try to hide his father’s nakedness, but laughed and made fun of him. And God put a curse on Ham for looking to his father’s nakedness and not trying to cover up his shame. And Shem and Japheth backed up and threw their coats over their father when he was laying naked. And now, God told Ham that his generation would serve the others.
159 Now, if you thought that was a curse, the turning dark, well then, the Jew’s dark also. If you think that would be the-the-what we call the colored man or Negro of this country that’s here now, you ought to go over in India. The Indians are way darker than the Negro. I’ve been in both their countries. Here’s the-the Ethiopian down there from Ethiopia, and the African, the colored man that we know today. They’re down there, many of them still in their primitive, in their tribes. Just about like we was when Jesus come.
160 The white people was just as primitive as the-the native of Africa is now, worse perhaps. Remember, two thousand years ago we were naked tribeman out there with a-with a bow and arrow and a stone axe, hunting (that’s exactly right), we Anglo-Saxon people. That’s exactly right. So which was which?
161 I’ll tell you the one today that’s cursed is the one that refuses Jesus Christ. That’s all. The one that accepts Jesus Christ is blessed.
162 Now, you can’t say... I’ll go up, get the Eskimo, out of that land up yonder. And there he is up there; and that man is darker than the colored people that we have here. I’ll go over to India and get the Indians; and he is-he’s not a colored man, he’s really black. He’s blacker than-just a real black color. And he’s what is called... And he’s an Indian. Well now, in Africa we get some of the African people that are... Some of them are light colored; some of them are almost like white; and some of them are-are different ways.
163 You go to Jews; and you say all the Jews are-are dark complected. The Jew is a brown person, but I’ve seen a many one red-headed with blue eyes, fair skin. See?
164 So the whole thing is this: we all come off of one tree. That’s right. And we was all cursed through the fall of Eden. And we’re all saved through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There it is. So there’s no curse. Accursed is them that does not believe, but blessed are those that do believe. So there’s neither one, friend, the black or the colored man, or the white man or the yellow man. Then, if the black man was cursed by being black, then the yellow man is just halfway cursed. And then the-and then the yellow man-and then the brown man, he’s just two thirds of the way cursed. See? And then, the African’s about four-fifths cursed. And I guess the Indian is really accursed then. Oh, my! How nonsense! No! It’s the different climate and things the people lived in. They turned, tribed off and so forth, they was different.
165 Look at the American Indian. Many of those... The Navajo out there is a darker race of people than our colored Ethiopian people in this country, the Navajo. The Apaches are... They’re kind of a-a copper color. And the different tribes... See? So right there amongst the Indians, right here, you find the black one, and almost... And the Cherokee is almost as pale as we are, the Cherokee. And there’s right here in this nation, the different tribes. So you see, you can’t say they’re half cursed and all the way cursed. They wasn’t cursed because they’re black. They wasn’t cursed because they were yellow or because they were white. There’s only one curse that I know of, and that’s unbelief of Jesus Christ. (I know, Donny, it’s time for me to close, but I got two more questions.)