A Racial Issue
When Christ Jesus lived in Israel 2000 years ago, Israelis were subject to Romans.
Therefore, Judaists at the time were all a kind of blacks and Romans were all whites by analogy. If a Roman soldier, namely a white, had killed an Israelite, that is black, there must have been no blame on him.
So, circumstantially, American blacks are closer to Judaists and followers of Christ Jesus 2000 years ago than American whites are.
Indeed, we have to admit that Israelites were suffering from the Roman rule like African Americans are suffering from the rule of European Americans. If a saint should appear in the US, he should come from an African American community.
In this context, African Americans are more blessed than whites are.
Nonetheless, the race has no meaning before God.
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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Act 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Act 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.