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In part one of this blog, we’ll focus on the “King” aspect of the design. In part II I"ll explain my “Weight of the crown” and “Weight of the world” metaphors, and then we’ll examine who Adam was.
All right, so God didn’t literally call Adam King in Genesis. God knew that mankind didn’t need a king, we needed a savior, but people like Kings. What can you do?
You give the people what they want. In I Samuel chapter eight Israel demanded a king so they could be like other nations. They got Saul as their first king and that didn’t go so well for them.
We hope people like our King Adam hoodies, sweatshirts, and t-shirts. We’re giving you King Adam to encourage you and make you feel powerful.
We’re not plotting an American monarchy. That would be more like what the Trump administration is up to, not us.
The Hebrews in I Samuel wanted to be like the heathen nations that didn’t know God. The Hebrews didn’t know that they were following a concept formed against God by the world’s first king.
That sounds bad, and it was, but Christ makes us Kings and Priest by his blood and sacrifice so I call my brother King. Revelation 1:6 and 5:10 say that we shall reign on the earth.
So today, "King" is a term of endearment. When Nas said “Peace King” we understood that it was out of love and respect for the Black man. Don’t be offended by the reference. Hip Hop is my roots.
Now, for the man of God, let’s learn a few things from scripture about Black kings.
Since the term, Black is not a nationality, but more so an ethnicity, or race perhaps, we must accept that over the course of thousands of years, which are covered from Genesis to Revelation in the Bible, the appearances of people in particular regions changed due to ethnic mixing and adaptations to climate.
People that we may consider Black today in America, throughout the Bible, may be referred to as Cushite, Assyrian, Arab, Midianite, Egyptian, Ethiopian, and so on.
Part of the point I’m making is that the skin color of people we may associate today with particular parts of the world or countries has changed from the time of the Old Testament scriptures.
It’s difficult to say with certainty which kings were Black. Black by modern American standards could include dark-skinned Arabs, Assyrians, and many other dark-skinned groups.
We consider Barack Obama to be the first Black President of the United States, but his mother was white.
So, there may have been many dark-skinned kings in the Bible that we would call Black men today. It’s reasonable for me to assume that the majority of Egyptian Pharaohs were what we would call Black. We’ll just look at a few Black kings and enjoy the history.
- Nimrod, son of Cush, "the first on earth to become a mighty warrior." Nimrod is also credited with founding and ruling the principal cities of Mesopotamia (Genesis 10:8-12).
- The Ethiopian, Taharqa, spelled Tirhakah in the Bible. When Hezekiah revolted against Assyria in 705 B.C., he did so with the support of Shaboka and Shebitku (702-690), rulers of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Tirhakah led an army in support of Judah during Hezekiah's revolt against Assyria (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9). Tirhakah later ruled Egypt from 690-664.
- The Queen of Sheba. She ruled a kingdom that included territory in both Arabia and Africa. When she visited Solomon, she was accorded the dignity and status of a head of state (1 Kings 10:1-13).
- Solomon's Egyptian wife. She was an Egyptian princess and by his marriage to her, Solomon sealed an alliance with Egypt. (1 Kings 3:1; 11:1).
The first King
The first king in the Bible appears in Genesis chapter ten, verse eight his name was Nimrod, and he was Black.
Although the word “King” appears in the Bible for the first time in Numbers 23:21, we know that Nimrod was a king. Here’s how.
The word “Kingdom” doesn’t appear anywhere in scripture before Genesis 10:10. Verse ten says that the beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel, and where there is a kingdom there must be a king.
Nimrod was Babel’s king in the land of Shinar, which later would be associated with Babylon and Mesopotamia.
We know that Nimrod was Black because he was the son of Cush (Kush, also Nubia). Cush was the Grandson of Noah and the name Cush means Black. So Cush was Black and his son Nimrod was Black.
Nimrod had issues with God. In Genesis chapter eleven the first king ordered the people of his kingdom to build a tower to heaven in defiance of God’s order to Noah to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Nimrod wanted everyone to remain in his kingdom, with one language and speech, under his rule, and so began the tradition of Kings.
The King, Fred Price Jr. gives an excellent lesson on Nimrod if you would like to know more about Nimrod click here.
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt was also known as the Nubian Dynasty or the Kushite Empire. Tirhakah was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt in Memphis and ruled Upper and Lower Egypt from 690 BC to 664.
Tirhakah’s reign was prosperous. He constructed and restored many great works in the Nile Valley, and the colonnades at the entrance of the temple in Thebes is one of many works that can be attributed to him.
2Kings 19:9 and Isa. 37:9 reference the account of Tirhakah leading his army against Assyria and their ruler Sennacherib. This attack aided Hezekiah, king of Judah, as they were under siege by Assyria at the time.
Tirhakah wasn’t the first of the Nubian Dynasty, nor the last. The 25th Dynasty began with Piye invading from Northern Sudan and taking Egypt. Piye revived the old and middle kingdom practice of pyramid construction.
Piye is the primary reason that there are more pyramids in modern Sudan than in modern Egypt.
Shebitku came second. He was a son of Piye. He ruled from 714 BC to 705 BC.
Shabaka came next. His reign was from 705 BC to 690 BC and then there was Tirhakah.
Tantamani followed Tirhakah. His royal name was Bakare, which means glorious is the soul of Re. Re was the most prominent of the many idols Egyptians worshipped.
Tantamani was the last of the 25th Dynasty or so-called, Black Dynasty. He fled Egypt as Assyrian and Carian mercenaries invaded. He was never captured.
The Nubians ruled Egypt for about a hundred years straight before Tirhakah’s son, Atlanersa settled back in Sudan as King.
That was one hundred years of Black kings in a Bible study. Don’t ever think that you aren’t represented in scripture, because you are. God only made one race and that is the human race.
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