Acts 17:26

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26 And He made from one every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, appointing the times ordained and the boundaries of their settlements, 27 to seek Yahweh. If surely then they would seek after Him then they would find Him, and indeed He being not far from each one of us.

"And He made from one every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth..."

What is the meaning of "from one?" [KJV has "from one blood"] from which many, if not most, take to mean that all men came from one blood, usually attributed to Adam: from there we are told that all men descended from Adam and essentially we are all of one race.

In context, Paul is in Athens, speaking to people who worship idols, that is, I assume, non-Israelites.

My understanding is that when Scripture refers to men, it refers to Adamic man. And when it says "nations" it refers, usually, to the nations of Abraham i.e., "father of many nations," i.e., the Israelites. It is these men that "seek Yahweh."

Clarification or direction to some missive that addresses this issue much appreciated.

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Paul's discourse to the Athenians recorded in Acts 17 is surely representative of the gospel to the non-Israelite Adamic nations. The first promise of restoration occurs long before Abraham, in Genesis 3:22. The Athenians, being Ionian Greeks, are descendants of Javan the Japhethite. All of this can be established historically (see "Javan" in my essay, (The Race of Genesis 10). Acts 17:26 is a direct reference to the Tower of Babel event, and corresponds to Deuteronomy 32:8. Yahweh only ever separated the sons of Adam into nations, described in Genesis 10 (although out of practical necessity it also lists the half-Adamic Canaanites). As Paul equates the term ἄνθρωπος with adam in Romans Chapter 5, we have no reason to imagine wherever else he uses the term that he means any other race of hominid but adam. All of the non-Adamic races are outside of the scope of the Biblical account, and if Yahweh chose to leave them out, fools we are whenever we may imagine to include them. The Bible is the Book of the Race of Adam from front to back (Genesis 5:1).

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Paul's discourse to the Athenians recorded in Acts 17 is surely representative of the gospel to the non-Israelite Adamic nations.

So, the gospel was/is to be preached to non-Israelite Adamic nations?

Can the peoples of these nations believe the gospel and be "saved." [I doubt this is the case - unless it be crumbs that fall from the table.] Or is it more of an informative discourse in the vein of "this is what is going on," i.e., for your information?

In a somewhat related topic, any ideas as to why Paul
was prevented by the Holy Spirit to go into Asia?

Acts 16
"....being prevented by the Holy Spirit to speak the Word in Asia. "

Which part of Asia was this referring to?

thanks for your replies William

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Are there many non-mongrelized, non-Israelite Adamic races around?

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It is clear that all of the Adamic race shall be in the resurrection:

38 Then some of the scribes and the Pharisees replied to Him, saying: “Teacher, we
wish to see a sign from You!” 39 But replying He said to them: “A wicked and adulterous
race seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Ionah the prophet.
40For as Ionah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, thusly shall the
Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. 41 The men of
Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this race and they shall condemn it, because they
repented at the proclamation of Ionah, and behold: a greater than Ionah is here! 42 The queen
of the south shall be raised in the judgment with this race and shall condemn it, because she
came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold: a greater than
Solomon is here! - CNT

The men of Nineveh were Assyrians, White Shemites of the tribe of Asshur. the queen of the south was a Sabaen. There were two men named Saba, or Sheba. One from Ham and another from Shem. It is impossible for us to tell with surety of which she was from.

Yet only the Children of Israel have the covenant relationship with Yahweh. The first promise of restoration to our race is found in Genesis 3:22: "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever". This may be cryptic, but only Yahshua Christ could be that Tree of Life. The word "man" in that clause is, of course, Adam.

Are there non-Israelite Adamites left among us? The scripture says that Japheth would "dwell in the tents of Shem". I have reason to believe that while the Germanic peoples are for the most part Shem (and Israel at that) That there were many of the others amongst the proto-Kelts, and also that the Slavs are for the most part Japhethite. Thus we can see that the prophecy has certainly been fulfilled. Yet Ham too was originally White. Some of his descendants might be among us. However I believe that part of his punishment was to be overrun by the alien races, and at an early time the greater number of them were.

All of Adam's true descendants must meet the requirement of "kind after kind", and therefore they would all be White by necessity. The fate of the mixed races is another story: for they are all goats.

Hope this helps!
Bill

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So then Wesley Swift may be on to something when he says we (Adamic races) were pre-existent with the Father before coming into this earth existence and that those pure adamites through the ages will again return to the Father (he also claims none will be lost). Apparently as something in the resurrection even if it their status does not fall under the covenants with Israel and Abraham?

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Well, Enoch says that he was taken up in a vessel of light, and saw other people much like us. The Bible doesn't tell us EVERYTHING! And since there were "fallen angels" I imagine they had to have been White. Even the "angels" of the Old Testament were much like us. But a lot of people take what Swift says to mean individual pre-existence, which I do not agree with. I believe that our Spirit is encoded into our DNA as well as our body. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15, born a physical seed, and raised a spiritual seed.We were each with Yahweh from the beginning only in the sense that He, being God, cannot help but to know us long before we are born: He wrote the program!