WHAT COLOR IS GOD

Exiled to a small island called Patmos, the apostle John hears a trumpet-like voice, saying; “Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter”. And instantly, immediately, his spirit left his body, and John was in heaven, standing before a throne. He didn’t die, yet supernaturally, his spirit was taken in the blink of an eye to the heavenly realm then later returned. There are people who will say that what happened was astral traveling, or it was the astral plane, i.e. allowing one’s spirit to travel outside the body. What happened to John was an act of God, and Christians should NOT endulge in it. (Our earthly bodies cannot exist in the kingdom of heaven, just as they cannot exist in hell. At this point in time, only our eternal spirits can live there. Later, when we recieve our glorified bodies, like Jesus has, then we’ll be able to live in the heavenly realms, with our eternal spirits once again encased in a body.) John sees someone sitting on a throne, but doesn’t give us any indication that he knows who it is—we have to figure it out for ourselves as we read on. John said the One who sat upon the throne “was to look upon, like a jasper and a sardine stone,” and incredibly, that’s it! The only guy who ever saw God with the naked eye, and recorded it for all posterity and it’s just a short sentence. He doesn’t describe God’s clothes, or the throne, just that God’s skin looked like two different gems. His face, neck, and hands were exposed, and possibly the arms, but he must’ve been so shocked at God’s skin color (ing) that the clothing was overlooked.

I say God’s skin, because the words “to look upon” in the Greek, is horasis, which means: the act of gazing that is external. It can also mean, internal, but only God can see inside of us, and we certainly don’t have the ability to see inside of God.

Jasper is an opaque variety of chalcedony, and comes in all colors, including green and blue. Every skin color on the planet can be found in jasper, and that’s what John says God’s skin looked like…the One on the throne. Jasper is also related to the bloodstone. Jasper is found all over the earth—the stones are named after the region in which they’re found.

In ancient times, the sardine stone (third picture from the top) was obtained from Sardis, in Asia Minor and was also called sardius. But now it’s called, carnelian. It looks very much like the beautiful ruddy complexion of many, and also the renowned “peaches and cream” by adding more white.

So imagine this…John is snatched up into heaven, and the first thing he sees is a throne, then he notices Someone is sitting there, and I can almost see his eyes widening with surprise as he sees the Beings’ skin colors. So God’s skin is black, brown, tan (or beige), red, yellow, green, blue, ruddy, pink, and white (yes, there is pink jasper). We don’t know if His skin is striped, splotched, spotted, or hombre, but we, the children of God, have the skin colors of our heavenly Father.

I’ve often heard Jesse Duplantis talk about the color of peoples’ skin being the colors of the earth, and he’d call out black, brown, white, red, & yellow. But Jesse left out one. You see it every time you go to the beach. Sand, which is tan, is the closest shade to Caucasian skin—hold wet sand in the palm of your hand, and it almost disappears. Ancient people’s highly prized jasper and carnelian, most especially in red—but black, brown, tan (or beige), yellow, red, white, even green and blue, are found in those two stones. The ancient Romans and todays Italians, have an undertone of green. Many dark skinned, and light skinned peoples, have an undertone of blue, green, gold, red, and ruddy.

Adam [`âdâm; aw-dawm], the first human being, the son of God, more than likely had red skin, because his name is derived from another word [’âdam; aw-dam] meaning flush, ruddy, red. (Esau, Jacob’s brother, was also named after his skin color—his nickname was Edom (which means red), and all his descendants were known as Edomites.) The dominate, common color of both those stones is red, but while we can’t claim that God is red, or that it’s His favorite color, since He is all colors, He loves variety, and it showed when He created humans.

You’ll see in Genesis 2:7 and 19, that God used dirt to form everything. God inserted His colors into the dirt and stones, then created humans from the dirt that mirrored His skin. We don’t know the color of Eve’s skin, but Adam was ruddy, and they both have God’s DNA—from these two people come all the skin colors we now have. Every one of these colors is found in the earth, because Adam was formed from the earth. Black, brown, tan, red, yellow, white—and our heavenly Father’s skin is comprised of all these because that’s what John saw.

I’ve seen all of the earth colors except white—I didn’t think it existed till I looked it up on the internet. It’s found in the state of Georgia—a brilliant white, it’s used in a variety of products including cosmetics and medicine. Six basic skin colors, of varying shades, with colorful undertones that only gifted artists attempt to copy. And we keep attempting to make our God one-dimensional by applying one color to Him. By adding black or white, you can darken and lighten all of them.

John said there’s a green rainbow around God’s throne that resembled an emerald. That means it was a deep, rich green which sparkled, because emeralds, a precious stone, are faceted to bring out its beauty. And it wasn’t an arch—do a little research and you’ll find that, from the air, the true shape of a rainbow is a circle.

So now, imagine this—John sees Jesus, falls to the ground, Jesus touches him, speaks to him, and then John looks up. Several things happen in quick succession—he sees an open door in heaven, someone tells him to come up, and he’s suddenly “beamed” up to heaven. He sees a throne, Someone sitting on the throne, and two things immediately stand out—the Being’s skin color, and the green rainbow. After that, things happen real fast. He’s trying to comprehend everything and scribble it down at the same time…and that one, significant sentence about God’s skin colors gets left behind and forgotten.

Some firmly believe that God’s ethnicity is Negro. In Daniel 7:9, Daniel saw God sitting on His throne. Here, God is wearing white clothing, and though Daniel says nothing about skin color, he says; “the hair of His head is like the pure wool.” Arguments in favor of God being black point to this scripture as proof, that God has the hair of a black man. But this isn’t about texture, it’s color. That Hebrew word pure means, clean. White is the dominate color of sheep, and clean wool is a beautiful shade of white.

When Catholic priests where sent around the globe to convert the heathen to Christianity, it was glaringly obvious to the people of color that the priests God was white—all the religious icons, statues, mosaics, drawings, and paintings depicted a Caucasian male with light brown hair and (often) blue eyes! Which is why they referred to Jesus as “the white man’s God.” This is the same problem revisited, by those who argue that He’s black. So if God is black or brown, then where is my God? Where is the Asian God? Where’s the Hispanic God? He’s black, brown, tan, red, yellow, blue, green, pink, ruddy, and white, and His children got split up into all of them–but we only wear one color. So, stop being arrogant and selfish, painting Him and His Son to look like your particular race or ethnicity…He belongs to all of us. By depicting Him to suit ourselves, or make Him to look like us, we are breaking the first and second commandments: you will have no other gods before Me, and, you will make no idols. Because depicting God as Negro or Hispanic is surely making a new god to worship, and making an idol. God created humans in His image, not Him in ours.

Postscript: Since first posting this, I’ve learned more concerning those scriptures in Revelation 4. I’ve prayerfully added and edited. So I hope this final version will make it clear that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms 139:14