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What color
are Jesus and God?
In this world where color and race seem to matter
so much to everyone, I was just wondering where in the Bible does it say what color Jesus
and God are?
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First, God is a Spirit, so He is neither
white or black. John 4:24 says, "GOD IS A SPIRIT: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth." A spirit does not have flesh and bones. Luke
24:39 says, "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see;
for A SPIRIT HATH NOT FLESH AND BONES, as ye see me have."
So God
the Father and God the Holy Spirit do not have bodies of flesh, even though God the Father
is seen appearing in human form in a vision in the Scripture. Daniel 7:9 says, "I
beheld till the thrones were cast down, and THE ANCIENT OF DAYS DID SIT, WHOSE GARMENT WAS
WHITE AS SNOW, AND THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD LIKE THE PURE WOOL: his throne was like the fiery
flame, and his wheels as burning fire." He appeared with white hair, but it does not
tell us any skin color. In the case of the Lord Jesus Christ, He took upon Himself
human flesh Jewish flesh. John 1:14 says, "And THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth." Hebrews 2:16 says, "For verily he took not on
him the nature of angels; but HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM." So we know that
upon earth, Jesus would have looked like the average Jew looks a dark-complected
skin with dark hair.
We are
given a look at Jesus in His glory in the end times, and it clearly tells us with what
color He will appear. Revelation 1:13-15 says, "And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one like unto the SON OF MAN, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and
girt about the paps with a golden girdle. HIS HEAD AND HIS HAIRS WERE WHITE LIKE WOOL, AS
WHITE AS SNOW; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as
if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters." Not only is
Jesus hair seen as being white, but also his head.
Why do
people fuss over skin color? One reason pride. Our problem is deeper than our skin.
OUR PROBLEM IS INSIDE. Matthew 12:34 says, "...for out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh." No one upon earth is truly like God. Isaiah 55:8,9 says,
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
What we
should all desire is hearts that are clean. Psalm 51:5-7 says, "Behold, I was shapen
in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in
the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with
hyssop, and I shall be clean: WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW." Isaiah 1:18
says, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be AS WHITE AS SNOW; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool."
A
person may be various shades of color on the outside, but on the inside is where it really
counts. Matthew 23:27,28 says, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
YE ARE LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES, which indeed appear beautiful outward, BUT ARE WITHIN
FULL OF DEAD MENS BONES, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, BUT WITHIN ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
The
real question is "What color is a persons heart?" That one does make a
difference.

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