Those
who hate to believe our Israel identity doctrine like to snarl at us, "Ah,
what's so special about the White Race, anyway?" They like to close their eyes
to the fact that all civilization existing in the world today is the product of
that race: what the dark peoples have was taught to them by us. But I want to
take up this challenge, and show that there is something very special about our
Race, altogether aside from our abilities and accomplishments: that the
very origin of the true Israel of God, the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Germanic
and related peoples, was in itself a miracle from the hand of God.
You
will remember that God first made His promises of a marvelous future to Abraham,
telling him "I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." (Genesis
13:6) "My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations;"
(Genesis 17:4) "And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and
thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant"
(Genesis 1-7:7), and told how these nations would be a blessing to all the
earth.
Abraham
had 8 sons; but God told him that only his son Isaac was to be the ancestor of
the promised line, called by God to become His people, saying, "In Isaac shall
thy seed be called" Genesis 21:12), and My covenant will I establish with
Isaac." (Genesis 17:21) Not only was Isaac, our ancestor, specially selected by
God, but his very existence was a miracle. Two parties are necessary for the
birth of all other children---a father and a mother; but the birth of Isaac
required three parties: his father, Abraham, his mother, Sarah,---and GOD.
A year
before the birth of Isaac, God gave him his name, in Genesis 17:21. When God
spoke of a child being born to Sarah, both Abraham and Sarah laughed at the
obvious impossibility: for Sarah was then 90 years old, and feeble with great
age 45 years past the time when she could bear a child and, indeed, she had been
barren all her life---and Abraham was 99 years old. But God performed the
miracle He had promised, and a year later, at the age of 91, Sarah bore her
first and only child, Isaac.
This
was only the first of miracles. Like his descendant, Jesus Christ, Isaac was
named by God Himself before his birth. Jesus Christ brought the reality of
resurrection from the dead; but Isaac was used to furnish a symbolic prophecy of
our loved ones given back from the dead. Naturally, all of Abraham's hopes were
now centered upon this miracle son through whom all of God's great promises were
to be fulfilled; then came the stunning command from God, "Take now thy son,
thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt-offering." Did God now mean to take away all
that He had promised? No, Abraham knew better than that: not in the awful grief
of a father about to witness, even to cause, the death of his beloved son but in
serene faith, Abraham obeyed God. He took the boy Isaac and went to Mount
Moriah, prepared the wood fire for the burnt offering, never doubting that God
would keep His promise: either God would intervene beforehand, or God would give
him back his son from the dead. Abraham told Isaac "My son, God will provide
Himself a lamb for a burnt-offering". He knew and relied upon the assurance
that Jesus Christ was "the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world",
(Revelation 13:8) the one who paid all debts and penalties for us, and gave us
back our loved ones from the dead.
As
always, God honored His word. The 22nd chapter of Genesis tells how God did
provide the burnt-offering, a ram trapped in a thicket by his horns, so Abraham
made the sacrifice with the offering provided by God. Again, here Is
Christianity in the Old Testament. We have nothing of our own to offer in
atonement for our sins: It is God who provides the lamb as the sin-offering. The
offering of the beloved son prefigures the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the Lamb
of God; and the fact that his promised career was not interrupted by death
symbolizes the swift resurrection of Jesus Christ first from the dead, to
continue His promised work on our behalf. For us the threat of death is not
real, for God has not only promised us continued life, but has strengthened our
faith by clear demonstration of His power and will to resurrect us.
It is
very fitting that Isaac was specially chosen and called by God to be our
ancestor --- as we are specially chosen and called by God to be His people and
to do His will in the earth. We are all the children of Isaac; only by a miracle
from the hand of God did he ever come into existence at all --- and
remember, that miracle is our miracle too, for without it we also would not
exist today: only by another miracle from God did Isaac grow to maturity and
become our ancestor---and again, we are the product of that miracle. God
told Isaac, "I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of- heaven, and will
give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed. shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 26:4) With all our human imperfections, we
have fulfilled this prophecy. We have brought the other races the first
sanitation they ever knew, and stopped the pestilences which had previously
ravaged their lands; we stopped their murderous tribal wars and brought them
peace, as long as we remained in command of their lands; we brought them the
only public education they had ever known; we taught them improved methods
of agriculture, and when they still were not able to feed themselves, we
sent them on many occasions the shipments of food which saved millions from
death by famine.
By a
miracle, God created Isaac for a purpose--- to be the ancestor of our race; by
miracles, God brought us to the great numbers and power which He had promised;
God said of us, "They shall show forth My praise" ---and despite our human
faults, we have done so.