Never since ancient times have people become so obsessed with their heritage. With web sites like Ancestry.com and clubs that help people track their Native American, European, Middle-Eastern, and Hispanic roots; people are becoming more sectarian. There is a pride rising in bloodlines again. Those who can trace their line back to Alexander the Great, Emperor Charlemagne, and King David feel a sense of importance. In fact, there are whole movements such as Zionism and Neo-Fascism that promote one ancestry over the other. This even trickles down to race. Today, there is proliferation of African Neo-Slave Propaganda coming out of Hollywood. Films like 12 Years A Slave, Lee Stanley's The Butler, and the upcoming Bella are to remind us that we were once bigoted and that African Americans were the true masterminds of making history.
I frankly have no problem with any race. All are God's children. But the problem is when one people tries to discriminate another people or claim that their bloodline is superior. St. Paul said, "There is no longer Jew or Gentile, Greek or Scythian, male or female. All our one in Christ." (Galatians 3:28). We are suppose to be one family and no matter what nation we spring from or what ancestry we herald from, we are all one in Christ!
Academia and Hollywood are working together to single out certain bloodlines for the spotlight. In college we are suppose to take cultural diversity courses so that we may better understand the unique aspects of different people. While this has some merit, it is usually a smoke screen for propaganda that glorifies certain bloodlines over others. In California, Hispanic, Native American, and Hawaiian History is most popular. The teachers of these courses trumpet that these people were oppressed and are superior to the Greeks, Europeans, and Colonials. What these pseudo-historians do not grasp is that they have offended the very blood that is in most of their students. Almost everyone now has mixed blood or are mutts who have European, Middle-Eastern, Hispanic, and other nationalities. Rather than celebrate that we have a mixture of cultural heritages and that everyone is united who claims Christ as Savior, we divide each other.
It says in Last Days, "People will become more sectarian, they will become lovers of self, and love will wax cold." In age that has seen greater acceptance and the end of major discrimination, we are more obsessed and focused on racial issues than during the Civil War! Why are we fighting over the color of our skin or the seed of D.N.A. in our genes? Our Father is God Almighty and he wove us in the womb! Our ancestors are important, for without them, we would not be here. It is fine to enjoy your culture, to connect with the past, but do not let is cause conflict between Christian brothers and sisters!
I argue that if your heritage has become a hindrance to your witness for Christ and your love for others, then you must shed it off and be born again culturally. Let go of your tribal pride and turn to the Holy Trinity to be your family line! There are so many pagan bloodlines that we should never have anything to do with. Tracing back to your ancestors can be to awaken an adversary to your faith! Most ancestral lines return to paganism and there is a reason that your forebears' forgot their old customs! Your ancestors were brought out of darkness, so do not return to the darkness! Celebrate that you have joined a priestly line; a heavenly family that is pure and that includes all nations who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!
"All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name." (Pslam 86:9). This prophecy by King David has been coming true! Our ancestors whoever they may be, whatever nation they did hark from, have left their pagan ways to bring glory to the Lord! Glorify and magnify Christ and celebrate that we are all one in Him!
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