Matt 3: 11​

 

Excerpt:Today more must be added. The people whom we call black range across a full spectrum of skin complexion. Surprisingly, this issue relates to the Bible term, firstfruits or the 144,000 and speaks directly to God’s original blessing bestowed upon Noah, his gift to be fruitful and multiply. The subject of the 144,000 clarifies that blessing by showing them to be the first of his fruits to be harvested. Stay with me as I develop this point: Noah’s family was neither black nor white; however, regardless of skin complexion, the sons of America’s former slaves —key focus is the gender, sons— have primacy and pre-eminent prestige in that prominent harvest. Their American Slavery trauma, these past 10 generations, was the forging fire to yield to them that glorious grace. Afterall, John the Baptist promised in, “ Matt 3: 11 I indeed baptize you with water … but he that cometh after me … he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: —Matt 3: 11.