Hi Mike,

I needed to write you about a topic that came up between my husband and me. He gets very upset whenever he sees a white woman with a black man or the other way around. He believes it is morally wrong for them to be together and that God never designed for the races to mix.. He believes that is why we have been separated in our races. And he doesn’t want to hear anything I believe about it, because he believes I am wrong. I believe that God puts together whom He wills. God works all out after the counsel of His will.

How to I answer him about this? What are my best words? I could use some help from a brother in Christ.

Ysic,

K____

Hi K____,

Thank you for your question. I can tell you that I was reared with your husband’s doctrine, and I did not believe in interracial marriage myself, until my own children showed me this verse of scripture many years ago:

Exo 12:48 And when a stranger [including an oriental or a black ‘stranger’] shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exo 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

There it is for all who are given eyes to see and ears to hear. All I had ever been able to see or hear before that verse was pointed out to me by my middle son, was this verse of scripture, and I alway had my Babylonian glasses firmly in place when I would quote it to Sandi and to my children:

Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Now with my Babylonian glasses I saw in that verse that God had placed the white race in Europe, the black race in Africa, and the Oriental in the orient, and that is where they should stay.

But the Truth of the scriptures is that Moses himself had married an Ethiopian woman, and when his sister Miriam and his brother Aaron despised him for doing so, the outcome was not good for Miriam and Aaron:

Num 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Num 12:2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
Num 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
Num 12:4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
Num 12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
Num 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Num 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Num 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Num 12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
Num 12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

Miriam bore the brunt of our Lord’s anger, for His own reason. But rest assured, Aaron was wishing he and Miriam had never used Moses’ interracial marriage as an excuse to attack Moses.

It is no excuse to this day:

Exo 12:48 And when a stranger [including an oriental or a black ‘stranger’] shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exo 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

I hope these words are of some help to you. If Christ is in the heart of a person, these verses of scripture will destroy the Goliath of racial division that is within them. If Jesus Christ is not within them, then the words “he [including all three races] shall be as one born in the land” will be like water on a duck’s back to that person, and they will remain afflicted with the leprosy of looking down on a brother or a sister who has married a person of another race.

If Christ is living within the heart of that person, these verses of scripture will reveal to him or her that all God requires of us is that we marry only those who are “circumcised of heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter”:

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew [black, white, or Oriental], which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

This verse of scripture is in the word of God, just for people like me and like your husband:

Num 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

I thank God that He has given me eyes to see that “men look on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart” applies to interracial marriage just as much as it does to coming into the body of Christ.

1Sa 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Your brother in that “one [undivided by race] body”.

Mike