IN THE BLACK:

ENOCH: HE WALKED WITH GOD

Genesis 5:21-24

The color BLACK, which is actually an absence of color, is often associated with blight and tragedy.

    "FOR INSTANCE"

1. The black death was the Bubonic plague, which swept over Europe in the 14th century, wiping out entire cities and killing an estimated one quarter of the total population.
   

2. There was also the middle black Assize, an unusual epidemic of jail fever,
   

     caused by filthy, unsanitary conditions, which broke out in Oxford England,

     July 6, 1577.            Within 37 days, a total of 510 people had died in Oxford.

3. Another Black Assize took place at Cambridge in 1521.
   

4. Then there was the Black Vomit, another name for the yellow fever, causing
   

     repeated epidemics in the United States, Mexico, and Southern Europe during

     the 18th, and 19th centuries, Brazil was hit the hardest.

5.   Wall Street had had it's black days, including two black Friday's.

            - One on September 24, 1869, when Fish and Gould tried to corner the gold

              market.

            - The other was on September 19, 1873 in the Financial crash on the New

              York Stock Exchange, followed by the panic of 1873.

          -  Everyone knows about "Black Tuesday"  October 29, 1929, the most disastrous

              trading day in the history of the Stock Exchange Market up until that time;

              when billions of dollars in market value were annihilated, helping plunge this

              country into the great depression of the thirties. ( 1930's )

6. There was the Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Stock Market took a
   

     508 point plunge.  It put at least 15,000 people out of work, and dropped the

     value of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange from $1,150,000 to $700,000

     and small investors were virtually wiped out in a matter of hours.

7. There have been three different Black Mondays, falling on the day after Easter.
   

             - In 1209, it marked the massacre of some 500 English settlers at Dublin, Ireland.

             - In 1351, it was a severe hailstorm in England that took many lives.

             - In 1360, it related to stormy weather accompanied by extra-ordinary darkness

               that cost many lives among the men of King Edward II when encamped before

               Paris.

NOTE ALSO:

We have the black market.

Black Art, "witchcraft", blackball "reject", blacklist, Black mail, Black books, Black laws that discriminated against free Negroes, Black chaff "a wheat disease, Black arem "bacterial blight in cotton", Black fire "a tobacco disease", black pit "a disease in plants", Black rot "a variety of diseases in fruits and vegetables.

There is black rust "a disease in plants", Black tongue "a disease in dogs", Black blizzards "dust storms in the South Central section of America."

Black lung, a miners disease, Black damp "mine condition, of low oxygen, and carbon dioxide high".

Black disease in sheep which is usually fatal.

Black dog, which means despondency.

Black guard, which means "scoundrel".

Black hearted, one who does evil constantly.

Black holes, a filthy prison.

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Wayside Baptist Church - 2002

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