Ezra 10:2 “And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.”
Nehemiah 13:3 “Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.”
Have you ever wondered about these two scriptures? Ezra says that what the people had done was a trespass against God. Nehemiah says that the people had violated God’s Law. What trespass, what Law?
It comes under the law, Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery. If you believe adultery is still a sin then here is one aspect your preacher was never taught as it is not politically correct.
The phrase mingled people or mixed (mixt) people is found many times in scripture. It means exactly what it sounds like. It is a person who has parents of different races. How does the scripture make this distinction?
The word blood when in the plural denotes blood from different races. “Bloods toucheth bloods” means intercourse with one of another race. The word toucheth includes the meaning of sexual intercourse. Here scripture calls bloods touching bloods adultery.
Hosea 4:2 “By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, bloods toucheth bloods.”
Just in case you think this is some sort of “old testament only sin” as if there were such a thing.
In the Greek:
Philippians 2:15 “That you may be blameless and unmixed, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the middle of a crooked and perverse race, among whom you shine as lights in the world.”
Jude 1:7 “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
Not one mention of trying to convert anyone.
John 1:13 “Which were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”