THE CHRISTIAN AFRIKANERS - The Works of F. N. Lee

There have always been, and always will be, several Persons within the one Triune God. Since theirdevelopment as His Own triune image, there will also always be several nations within the onehumanity. For God created mankind as a triunity: the one and the many! First Corinthians 12:12-20. Only anti-Trinitarian humanists -- with their monotonous Unitarian idol of "one man; one vote;one world; and one race" -- have insisted that nationality should disappear (and that anamalgamated mankind should then itself be deified).At the tower of Babel, God separated the nations and drove each of them into their own areas.Indeed, even before the foundation of the world, God had already preordained the variousdescendants of the three. sons of Noah -- Shem, Ham and Japheth -- to go and settle in theirdifferent places.Shem and the Semites settled in the Mid-East. From them the Semitic people -- the ancientAkkadians, the Arabs and the Hebrews -- would ultimately descend.The sons of Japheth, broadly those who are now called the "Caucasians" alias the Whites, trekkednorth into what is now Russia. There they made a left turn, and then marched into Europe -- andfrom thereon out into North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. To theextent they have adopted the true religion and dwelt in the tents of hem -- Genesis 9:27-- God hasrichly blessed them.The sons of Ham are the dark-skinned peoples. After the ruin of the tower of Babel, they generallytrekked southward. Some trekked south-west, into what is now Africa -- first of all, into north-eastAfrica or Egypt, and from thereon out they began to filter down southward and westward. Others ofthe Hamites trekked down into the southern tip of India. Yet others went further still -- into southeastAsia, down into Melanesia, and across the gulf into what is now Australia. By and large, theseHamites degenerated into Animism -- until first the Arabs converted many to Islam, and latterlyWhite missionaries have sought to win them to the Lordship of Christ.Nevertheless, even in the Old Testament, we do have quite a few references to Africa. First of all,there is the famous case of Moses -- the Mediator of the Old Testament. He was born in Egypt andbred in Africa. Indeed, he is the greatest figure in the Bible -- before John the baptizer. Exodus 1 to2 and Hebrews 11:24-27.Then there is the visit of the African Queen of Sheba -- from Ethiopia to Solomon -- about 1000BC. She had heard of his splendour. When she got there, she said: "The half of it has never beentold to me!" Then she went back to her homeland in Ethiopia in East Africa. No doubt she tookwith her some portions of God's special revelation from the Covenant people -- the Israelites, at thattime. At any rate, some form of degenerating "Judaism" seems to have been found in Ethiopia fromvery early times.Then further, in the Word of God we are told in Acts eight that the Ethiopian eunuch visitedJerusalem for some or other Jewish feast. He was a proselyte, though probably a convert from theEthiopian syncretism between Paganism and Judaism. While there, he learned more about the OldTestament. You will recall we are told that he was reading from the book of Isaiah. Philipinstructed him on the chariot, and explained to him that Isaiah (chapters 52 and 53) was writingabout the Lord Jesus Christ.Philip then baptized the Ethiopian eunuch, who went on his way rejoicing -- back to his homeland.It seems this is the manner the Christian Church first entered into East Africa. I suppose that whathappened then is that over the next centuries an amalgamation took place between the little that the