Genesis - Part 23 | Pastor Paul McGee

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if you so desire. Remember that this coming

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Memorial Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend, this weekend.

So they'll just be one service on Sunday, no PM service, all

right? And then next Wednesday, Brother

Zach McGee will be right here teaching, all right?

Not Genesis unless he chooses to all right, But he's going to be

teaching man next Wednesday and then the Sunday after that is

graduate Sunday all right Sunday morning Bishop will be

ministering and that's his coming Sunday morning too.

Bishop will be ministering. But the graduate Sunday, the 1st

Sunday in June, Bishop will be ministering in the morning.

And then our dear Doctor Mason who is a graduate is also going

to be ministering in the Sunday night service with a focus for

the graduates in that evening service.

And so there will be a little bit of time then after that

service with graduates showcasing their little area of

of of accomplishments through their years of whatever a man.

And so it's going to be a time of just celebrating the there in

the month of June also. So whenever tonight and next

Wednesday night is over, we'll be switching in the month of

June to connect groups. All right, now connect groups

here through the summer is going to be different again.

Yeah, it's going to be male, female, connect groups, male,

female. And my wife has got some

material to teach and discuss that's going to hit on some of

the different women of the Bible, if I'm not mistaken in

that. And then I'm going to be also

teaching and we'll have discussion as well along the

lines of a. Foolproof man.

All right. And so that's some of the stuff

that's going to be coming and it's going to highlight some of

the different areas of man. For instance, a man in his

faith, a man in his function, a man in his future will be 4

lessons under each of those headings, all right?

And so it just be us men, all right?

And there's nothing wrong with that.

I think that's important sometimes just kind of let's

sequester ourselves to the mountains of male, female, all

right. And so we're going to do that

throughout the summer. And then those that are

typically with brother Alex? Are going to be.

With brother Alex and sister Grace, a man of those ages,

he'll have the mix back, still male and female of his ages.

A man. But out here we're going to go.

We're going to go. Otherwise, Genesis chapter #10

you'd stand for the reading of the word.

You'll allow me to read about 5 verses.

I like to be seated. And as we have done before, it

will continue. This is a genealogy of sorts,

could call it that, a genealogy of sorts.

A man that will look at tonight, this is where we're going to end

for the spring in the book of Genesis, will pick back up

sometime in the fall in Chapter 11.

We'll pick back up sometime in the fall.

And so if you'll just bear with me here through the names, all

right, I'm pronouncing to the best of my ability some of the

pronunciations. I'll probably go with the Hebrew

pronunciation, but none the less just look at it here tonight.

So glad to see Sis Sharon back there.

Sister Brenda brought a friend. That's really what it comes down

to. Sister Brenda brought a friend.

Amen. Glad to have her.

Amen. Tonight, Tonight, verse #1

Chapter 10. Now these are the generations of

the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

And the them were sons born after the flood, the sons of

Japheth Gomer and Magog and Mediah and Jay Van and Tubal and

Meshach Tyrus, the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, Rip Hath and

Toe and Toe tu Garma, and the sons of Javam and Elisha and

Tarshus Kittum and Dodedin. By these were the owls of the

Gentiles divided in their lands, everyone after his tongue, after

their families and their nations.

Tonight I'm just heading this on the title of the table of

nations. That's what chapter 10 is

greatly, greatly by scholars considered the table of nations.

This is where all the nations of the world has come from.

This is the foundation of them all.

Amen. We're going to pray this

evening. Father, I love you tonight.

I'm thankful, Lord, for your goodness and your mercy.

God, I'm grateful, Lord, to be here.

Lord, we put our faith and our trust in you.

Lord, tonight, God, help us, the Lord, to learn God and through

our learning God, let it be something, Lord, that would

cause us to draw closer to you. Maybe have a greater Lord

appreciation, Lord, for you and what you have done from creation

forward. God will not fail to thank you

and praise you in the name of Jesus Christ, that I pray Amen,

or by say Amen, you may be seated.

I'll continue in verse six. As you were seated.

The sons of Ham, Kush and Mizar, Mizraim and Foote and Canaan,

and the sons of Kush, Sheba and Havilah and Sabta and Rahima and

Sabtaka, and the sons of Rahma, Sheba and Didam and Kush, begat

Nimrod. And he began to be a mighty one

of the earth. He was a mighty hunter.

Before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as

Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord, I thought about having

the Bible app just read all this, but it reads Lord.

Than I do. And the beginning of this

Kingdom was Babel and Erech, and the Cod and Calne, and in in the

land of Shinar, out of that the land went forth Asher and

builded in Nineveh in the city of Rijo both and Kalah and Resin

between Nineveh and Kalah the same is a great city.

And Misraim begat Ludin and Ananim, and Lee habim.

This is the Hebrew in pronunciations, Naftuhim and

Parashim and Kaz Luhim, out of whom Cain the Philistine, and

Kaftorin and Canaan begats Sidon his first born, and hath, and

the Jebusites, and the Amrite and Jurgesh site, and the

Highvite, and the Archite, and the Sun Knight, and the

Arvadite, and the Zamorite, and the Hamathite.

Afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanites were was from Sidon as thou

comest to Girar, and to Gaza as thou goest unto Sodom, and

Gomorrah, and Admah and Zebulene, even unto Leisha.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their

tongue, in their countries and in their nations.

Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, the

brother of Japheth, the elderly. Even to him were children born

the children of Shem, Elam and Asher, and Arfaxad, and Lud, and

Abram, and the children of Abram, Us, and Who?

And Gethar and Mash and Arfaxad begat Salah, and Salah begat

Eber. And the Eber were born two sons.

The name of the one was Peleg. For in the days, for in his days

was the earth divided. And his brother's name is

Joctan. And Joctan begat Alamodad, and

she left, And Hazar Mavath, and Jarrah, and Hadoram, and Uzo,

and Dickla, and Obal, and Emamel, and Sheba, and Ophir,

and Havilah, and Joe Bob, all these were the sons of Johtan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest into Safar,

a mount of the East. These are the sons of Shem,

after their families, after their tongues, in their lands,

after their nations. These are the families of the

sons of Noah after their generations in their nations.

By these were the nations divided in the earth after the

flood. Put a check box by Genesis

chapter #10 that you read it tonight, All right, Amen.

And so this is the table of nations.

And we already seen in Genesis 5 when we did our last little

genealogy thing, that genealogies often time bridge

maybe two events. It's an event that's bridging

you to another event or from a person to another person and

they connect them and they connect maybe the cast of

characters that are associated with that event along the

timeline. And so genealogies usually

served in this this literary purpose they.

They're going to transfers to another event.

We have been for some time several weeks in the event.

In Scripture of the flood and all that took place there.

And so this is in part helping transfer us a little bit to the

Tower of Babel that's in Genesis chapter #11 but it also

enlights, enlightens us of family connections that we would

not otherwise have if it wasn't for this pedigree or this family

tree, right? It would be a whole lot more

difficult to see the connections of families just whenever they

said this one was a son of somebody and left it at that and

then you had to find somewhere else.

So it kind of brings it all down and so.

With with genealogies, they're they're really two major camps

or lists and that is 1A genealogy may trace just a, a, a

lineage and then another one. There may be other genealogies

that are trying to trace or chart alliances even between

people. And I was getting ready to say

people that are not related, but in essence all people are

related. To a degree, but nonetheless,

you understand what I'm saying. And so they may cover a very

linear line where they're just kind of following one line, or

they may be segmented where they were following more than one

line of one individual throughout the Scripture in

Genesis chapter #10 though. And will you put up my visual of

Genesis chapter #10 Brother Aiden, if you don't mind it just

that's really the breakdown of Genesis chapter #10.

The little family tree and how it all goes, if you just follow

the lines there it is in visual form for you.

If you were more and you're like, I knew.

I knew I hated chapter 10. That's it.

I knew it. Now it's visually.

Confirmed for me. Amen.

But just leave that up there for a while if you will.

Genesis chapter #10 really details individual people, as we

will see, and you'll find them in that list that correspond to

the Tower of Babel that whole episode.

But along just with people that that correspond with the Tower

of Babel, there are other people that are listed in this

genealogy tree for that matter. Even some of these names are

really groups of people are like tribes because that's where you

get all those aims that we went through the in, in, in, in

That's a group of people. That's that's notably a tribe of

people, but no doubt usually individual.

For instance, you have, you know, Zebulun was one of the

sons of Jacob, but then you had the tribe of Zebulun, which

represented the people. So you have some of those Inns

in there that that denote people.

You have cities that are listed in here.

And again, it kind of goes hand in hand because usually the

founder of the city would name it after himself.

And so you see, you know, then this, this, this hierarchy then

of not just individual names, but tribes, perhaps if we could

even call them nations, and even peoples that are represented

there. And all of these really is what

forms the foundation of the human world, even the human

world as we know it today. We know the branches of this

tree continue to go out and that the the divisions are many and

now cover cover the whole surface of our world.

But this is the very foundation of all of that.

And so while this genealogy or table of nations as it's also

called, maybe a bridge between the flood and and and.

The the, the the. Tower of Babel, in essence, it

really kind of overlays the Tower of Babel.

The reason why I say that because it's in here, it's

speaking about all these different groupings in about 3

different times. It talks about and these are the

divisions of the people in the nations and the languages of the

people. About 3 different verses say

that in there with the division of the people took place during,

or if you will, after the Tower of Babel.

That's where the Bible says that he came down and he confound the

languages, and there was the scattering, the disbursement of

the people. And so whenever you read in

Genesis chapter #5 that disbursement and that

scattering, really it's overlay. And it's not like there's

chapter 10 chronologically and then Chapter 11 happens.

It really overlays the host scenario with the Tower of

Babel. Amen.

That takes place in Genesis 11. That we'll get to many, many,

many months from now. And so this though, is more than

just a standard genealogy. If there is such a thing as a

standard genealogy, this is more than a standard genealogy.

In reality, this is even an Atlas now.

This is even an Atlas. This is a this is a history book

of really the movement of people and the movement of nations that

started it here in the beginning after the flood with with the

Suns and the offspring of Noah. Doctor William F Albright.

He's not a conservative. He's universally acknowledged as

the world's leading authority on archaeology of the Near East.

He's not a believer, all right. He doesn't believe necessarily

in the infallibility of Scripture.

Yet concerning chapter 10 of Genesis, the table nations, he

says this, it stands absolutely alone in ancient literature

without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find

the closest approach to a distribution of peoples and

genealogical framework. He said the table of nations

remains an astonishing accurate document.

This writer, it's not as though I needed somebody to tell me

that, but it's interesting. Some of that has no belief in

Scripture or even the infallibility of Scripture would

say this is a art, this is an accurate, this is an accurate

document. Amen.

It's recorded in your Bibles and so chapter #10 here, the table

of nations, it affirms basically this.

One of the things that it affirms is that God is indeed a

God of all nations and people. Amen.

I know that seems very basic, but that really confirms and

affirms that, that we don't have per SE and understand what I'm

saying, We don't have per SE an Israelite God or an American

God, but we have a God. He is the God of the world.

He's the world's God. And with that being said, we're

not talking about really different races of people.

There's only one race, the human race.

I was talking with my daughter just last week.

We was going, I don't know where we like re regurgitate some of

Genesis after we get home on Wednesday nights.

And we were talking and I don't know if it was that Wednesday.

We were talking about different things, the different races of

people and skin colors, you know, because usually that's

what people go toward mostly, you know, but you know, you have

the same pigmentation in your bodies as a black person does,

the exact same pigmentation. It's just one pigment is

dominant in their skin in a different one, dominant in

yours. But you have the same makeup in

you. You're no different, just what

expresses itself in you is different than what expresses in

them. So be careful before you have a

wagon lip or lip about someone of a different color, because

what's in them is in you. It's just not expressing itself

well. I'm feeling something come up my

spine. Amen.

It's the human race. The apostle Paul addressed this

to those at Athens on Mars Hill whenever he talked in one,

declaring to them the unknown God of the altar that they had

built. And he began to relate to them

something he knew he wasn't going to be able to begin in

Scripture. So he began at creation because

that is something that's common to all mankind.

We're all a part of it. And so he started there and

begin to speak of some things until he got to verse #26 in

Acts 17. And Paul spoke to them at them,

saying this. And hath Speaking of God hath

made of one blood. Everybody say one blood, one

blood, all nations of men. I understand we have 8 positive

and B and AB and O and all that, but there is not Asian blood and

Japanese blood and black blood and yellow blood and Caucasian

blood. We're all of one blood.

He says have made one blood. All nations of men for to dwell

on all the face of the earth. Look at this and have determined

the times before appointed. Look at this and the bounds of

their habitation. He said God has determined the

bounds of the habitation of all of these that are of one blood.

He has determined them, their bounds, their locality, if you

will, even in and among the earth.

And soon we see this verse, verses such as verse 19 in our

texts, verses such as verse 19 in our texts, where it speaks

about the border of the Canaanites and it begins to list

some of these cities as landmarks to trace out the

border of the then known world of the Canaanites.

It is, if you will, the bounds of the habitation of the

Canaanites that were being prescribed all the way.

Back. In Genesis chapter #10 and then

we have these from the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and

Japheth. We have their disbursement that

that predominately takes place after Babel into different

regions and area. Can you put up my map of the

table of nations, if you will? This is a map of the table of

nations of and, and, and there's some predominance in certain

regions, but there are sprinklings of some of them.

In some of those areas that you see green, there's some yellow,

and some of the places where you see red, there is yellow.

This is the branching out of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and

Jep of areas and regions that their peoples covered after

Babel. As a matter of fact, whenever we

look in Genesis chapter #10 there are 70 names of people or

cities or tribes and nations that are represented in Genesis

chapter #10 again, some of them are individual names.

Some of them are tribal names like the Katharine.

And there are also then some cities that are listed as well.

There are even Gentile because the Japheth is predominantly

Gentile nations, But there's even Gentile endings on some of

those names whenever you read the Canaanites.

And you read all about the hiveites and this height and

that height and that I, the ITE is a designation that that's a

Gentile nation. If it ends in ITE, that's a

Gentile nation where if you have the I am ending, that is

predominantly Hebrew or Jewish, Amen, location and such.

And so whenever you look at Japheth, if you were to read

back through Japheth and you were to read his descendants,

there are about 14 of his descendants that's listed in

Genesis 10, which predominantly settled in all the regions of

Europe. All right.

And then you have Ham. There's about 30 different names

that are mentioned there in chapter 10, which and I say say

predominantly, but predominantly in the areas of Africa and Egypt

and Ethiopia. And there's other splatterings

of them, as you can see there in, in in the the Arabian

Peninsula. But then Shim has about 26 names

in Genesis chapter #10 that makes the full 70 names or

nations that are represented. And most of them are covering

throughout Asia. All right, all right.

So those are just generalities to say those those individual

places of Europe and Africa and Asia, because there are again

other overlaps in their splatterings of them here, there

and young. But the 70, the 70 nations table

of nations, 70 nations, 70 peoples, 70 names, if you will,

that come from the sons of Noah that's represented here in

Scripture appears to be God's biblical purpose arriving at

this 70 representation for all the nations of the world.

I say that because of taking Scripture with Scripture in

Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse #8 this is what is spoken.

Deuteronomy 32 · chapter mention

The Bible says when the most high divided to the nation's

their inheritance. He's not just talking about the

nation of Israel, He's talking about the nations of the world

When the most high divided to the nation's their inheritance,

when he separated the sons of Adam.

All right, so whenever everything's destroyed except

knowing his family, then no doubt those 3 boars are

representation of the sons of Adam because that's all there

was left of the line. And so the sons of Noah are then

in essence the sons of Adam. The Bible says in there in

Deuteronomy, he set the bounds of the people.

Watch this phrase now according to the number of the children of

Israel. He said whenever, whenever he

divided the nations, then he set their bounds according to the

number that you'll know Israel at the time in which this

happened in Genesis 10, Israel was non existent, but God, it

works on a plane more than just the present.

He's past, present, future God. He set the bounds then according

to the number of the children of Israel.

Someone say Amen. We will read later in Scripture

that we know one of the sons of of Jacob or Jacob himself was

known as Israel. He wrestled with God when he

went over the brook Jabbok and the Angel asked him, what is

your name? He says my name is Jacob.

He says your name is no longer going to be called Jacob.

You're going to be called Israel because you have prevailed with

God and with man. Your name is Israel.

Whenever Jacob and his family all finally go to Egypt, all

right, these are the children of Israel, the children of Jacob

that are going down into Egypt. And years later, after their

bondage in Egypt, the Bible says they come forth and they come,

they go in as a family. They go in as the children of

Israel, but they come forth as the nation of Israel.

The Bible says in Exodus one and verse one.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel which came

into Egypt. Every man in his household came

with Jacob, verse five. And all the souls that came out

of the loins of Jacob, which was Israel, were 70 souls, for

Joseph was in Egypt already. Interesting.

God said in Deuteronomy, I'll divide them and I'll set their

bounds according to the number of the children of Israel.

The number of children of Israel that went into bondage was 70,

just like 70 nations that were divided at the very beginning.

And then later in the New Testament we read concerning

Jesus Christ just interesting thing that whenever he sent his

disciples out, the Bible says he sent them out two by two, but he

sent them out 70 disciples. He sent out into every city and

place. The Bible says that he would go

luten verse one after these things the Lord appointed of the

70 also, and sent them out two and two before his faith into

every city and place, whether himself.

Would. Come now that is a very literal

thing, him sending them out and going to these places that that

Jesus Christ would come. But there's also an aspect

really there laced in there of the Great Commission.

What do you mean it because whenever Jesus was going to be

leaving this world, he was going to ascend his words was in Mark

1615. He said unto them to go ye into

anybody help me here right now, all the world.

I preached the gospel to every creature.

Initially in Genesis 10, the 70 represent the nations what will

become the nations of the world. In Exodus One, the 70 was the

number of the children of Israel who developed into a nation that

God told Abraham and Genesis 12 that we'll get to.

He says Abraham, I'm going to make a great nation of you.

I'm going to bless you. I will curse them that curse you

in you and that which flows from you, your descendants, the

Jewish people, this nation of Israel.

Shall all the families in the earth be blessed. 70 nations for

the whole world. 70 children of Israel that turn into a nation

that is a blessing to all families of the world.

Jesus 70 sending 70 disciples, if you will, laced with a

Commission, if you will honestly, that even we are to go

into the whole world. And there's this preaching of

the gospel to every creature. And so thus and so, so we don't

have any, we don't have any recorded words.

I know I've said this last time I'm.

Getting tired of telling you, you telling us what we haven't.

Heard you know who said didn't say something?

We have no recorded words of Ham, Shim or Jacob.

We know that Ham said something evidently to Jacob and Shim

about his father's nakedness, but we have no recorded word.

We have no certain definite word that he spoke.

And so their rose really in this whole Genesis story unfolds with

possibly them helping their dad build the ark.

That's an assumption that that was them that did so and them

then parenting or fathering more children there there roles in

society, maybe perhaps build an ark and father children.

That's what gave them the highlight.

And so there if you look at Genesis 10, it's really broken

down in three sections. It focuses upon Shem, excuse me,

it starts with Japheth and his tree, and then it starts with a

ham in history, and then Shem in history.

And Shem even continues on in Genesis chapter #11 as well.

But if, if we were to just go line by line and just for the

ease your mind, we're not doing that tonight.

But if we were to go line by line and try to give the

possibilities of who this person became and what that name

represented to become, there's so much uncertainty and so many

different options of the could be because it's difficult to say

that this modern Nation Today was this old nation then.

It's difficult to draw direct lines.

It's probably a hodgepodge in some respects.

It's hard to draw a Direct Line because nations evolve.

Nations change locations. I know you can't believe that

you know where we are today, but in the development and the

transitionary stage to where we are today, nations have changed

locations, all right, Throughout time, their languages have been

modified. That's part and parcel why so

many these plays have so many different dialects been

modified? There has been an altering of

their racial and cultural composition because other

nations intermarry with other nations.

So it's hard to say this over here equals this right here.

For that matter, consider America.

What is American? Is it solely Great Britain?

Colonists. Far from it.

America is the melting pot of the world and still deemed, if

you're born here, American. And so it's hard to get in all

of those type of things. And sometimes even even in

genealogies, whenever it says that such and such is a son of

so and so, sometimes they state that and they're identifying

this person with this really what is a moral class or a a

type of ethical standard of person.

Case in point is this you read in the Scripture about the sons

of Belial. Well, sons of Belial wasn't even

always literally sons of the literal Belial.

Sometimes it was just denoting that Belial means reckless and

lawless and that they were people that had some

recklessness and lawlessness to them.

They were sons of Belial because they had the traits and

characteristics. Of a particular people group.

Is everybody doing OK? Hey, folks, when I get done

tonight, you won't have to worry about me for three months right

here on Wednesdays. All right.

As late as the 1960s, from my study, modern linguists still

use terminology from the sons of Noah.

What I mean is this still as late as the 1960s there were

three dominant language groups in the world that everything

else fell under under these three umbrellas.

The Semitic, which is Shem Shematic Semitic.

The hammock. Can you see the parallel?

And the Japhic languages, all languages fell under these three

headings still as early as the 1960s.

The Semitic languages were those of the Middle East, primarily

the Hebrew and the Arabic and Aramaic.

And then there's the Hematic language group that included all

the non Semitic people and the Afro Asiatic languages.

The Japhetic language group was the Indo European family

languages. And so even today you talk about

you hear on television, you're watching the news and everything

that's going on with Israel and Jerusalem and you hear all this

talk about anti symptom symptomism, anti-Semitism, which

is is hatred and prejudice toward the Jews.

Follow us now Abraham, who is the father of the Jews according

to Scripture, is and was the father of the Jews came his line

came from Shem. Again, the word Semitic comes

from Shem. They just leave the H out Shem.

We would say Shemetic, but it's Semitic.

He comes from Sam. Abraham comes from Shem.

I told you this earlier. Shem means in the Hebrew name,

it often is referring or referring to and alluding to

what the Hebrews more commonly say, Hashim, the name, the name,

that line of Shem. Again, why it's important for

the genealogies because from Genesis all the way to Christ,

we trace the genealogy of Jesus. He has his genealogies in there

so that we can trace them for all the way from from Seth the

the the son of Adam and Eve, Amen through Shem Amen, the son

of Noah. We trace it all the way to Jesus

Christ. All right comes from Shem.

So Jews were people of the name. People who are anti-Semitic are

against people of the name. They are against, so to speak,

people of Shem. All right.

Verse five says that by thee Speaking of the sons of Japheth

by these the Isles of the Gentiles, they were divided in

their land by the sons of Japheth.

So we understand that he covers a lot of, a lot of Europe and a

lot of. West of of Israel, up north and

West, and even even E as well up in the European areas.

But it also says the Isles of the Gentiles are divided in

their land by these, by the sons of Japheth.

I said all this to say this Great Britain, which is in

Europe, is an island nation. The 13 colonists that came to

the United States and the 13 colonies were from Great

Britain. What I'm saying is, if we

weren't as much as a melting pot today, the early settlers that

would have come from Great Britain were by and large of the

family of Japheth Gentiles. Again, I realize we're a melting

pot today. You're gonna have to go home and

trace your family tree and get on ancestry.org and do your due

diligence, you know, to find. But nonetheless, that's just

kind of interesting. In verse six, it speaks about

how there is born Misraim. I'm just letting you know that

Misraim is Egypt. That's the transliteration of

the Hebrew word and that is Egypt going on to verse #8 of

Genesis chapter #10 and Kush begat Nimrod.

Anybody remember ever hearing about Nimrod?

He began to he began to be a mighty one in the earth was a

mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore said even Nimrod, the

mighty hunter before the Lord, and look, verse 10 says in the

beginning of his Kingdom was Babel and a wreck, and Akkad and

Colne in the land of Shinar, and how the land went for a shirt

and he builded Nineveh. All right, this is the first

time in verse #10 this is the first time that the word Kingdom

is mentioned in Scripture as far as the Kingdom on earth is

mentioned in Scripture. And it was the Kingdom of

Nimrod. And this Kingdom, of course, is

established after the flood. Verse 10, it says the beginning

of his or Nimrod's Kingdom was Babel.

That's what we know to become in the next chapter.

Babel becomes Babylon. Babel becomes Babylon.

That becomes one of the places that Judah the two tribes are.

Exiled for 70. Years Babylon is what you even

read of in the Book of Revelation, Speaking of when we

start dabbling that this Kingdom doesn't just have a literal at

that time literal location, but it has a spirit about it as

well. Just as in the book of Daniel

that there are, you know, these, these are these Princess of

cities, the Prince of Persia being a spiritual power over

Persia. We're introduced in here to

Nimrod, who is the builder of the Kingdom of Babel that we

know to become Babylon, which has a spiritual connotation of a

Babylon that we find all the way in the Book of Revelation that's

still being dealt with today. That started here in Genesis

chapter #10 and it's he's repeatedly called a mighty one.

He was the son of Kush, which was the son of Ham, who was the

one who looked on his father's nakedness.

The name Nimrod means to rebel, to be rebellious, a rebel.

So here he is, a earthly king that is no doubt then in

opposition to the king of kings to rebel, rebellion.

He's a mighty one. He's a hunter.

I did a lot of, I did a lot of studying yesterday.

Probably about 12 hours of studying yesterday, I'd kid you.

No, I was still studying at 9:00 last night.

And there are a lot of ancient Assyrian tablets found in large

quantities that mention Nimrod, actual tablets and the Assyrians

that that mention Nimrod, and they confirm his title of being

a mighty hunter. And they explained that it's not

so much that he was a hunter as in going to go get a bear, going

to go get a deer, but he was a hunter, a warrior of men.

And perhaps this is how he established his Kingdom and

kingdoms, if you will, in these cities and areas.

Now here's what we got to go back to.

No one wants to go here, but I'm gone.

He's a mighty man. Hebrew word Gabor, exact same

word that described in the Filum or the Giants of Genesis chapter

#6 that we talked about with the sons of men and the daughters of

Shem and the intermingling, exact same word Gabor concerning

their might. And so one pause, and some even

do pause and question is Nimrod bringing back what they did

before the flood? Because if you remember the one

rendition of these what would seem like angelic beings, sons

of God, which is OFT times referring to angels, Remember we

said as a spirit, it has to have a body in order to function.

You know, below, really. I mean, it's disembodied.

We talked about how maybe these fallen angels embodied then

people that had relations then with some and gave birth to

children. All right, here is Nimrod in

Babylonian literature. He's associated with NI and

Erda, the Assyrian God, interestingly, of hunting and

warfare. And so as we spoke in Genesis

chapter number, six of these fallen angels embody in people

and then having relations. What if such a type of spirit

inhabited Nimrod because he is the rebel?

By the way. And that which he creates a

Babylon carries a spirit with it that is often associated with

Satan, your adversary. Because think for a moment, what

did Satan influence not just in the garden, but in heaven?

I will be like the Most High. I will ascend.

There was a uplifting of pride and rebellion, if you will, in

him that caused his fall and he gave influence to Adam and Eve

and their rebellion and going against what God said.

And we find in Nimrod will even more so in the next chapter a

rebellion that is flourishing as well.

What if Nimrod had some type of oppression?

Possession by some spirit of rebellion?

That was propagating and doing and helping in all these things.

Because Nimrod's association with the Babylonian God Ninerda

makes us understand this whole dynamic when we understand the

cultural Pagan nations, because the culture of Pagan nations was

after this, they deified their founder.

In other words, if a man came along and he founded a city,

those that came under the umbrella of that city would then

deify the one who found the city.

They would make him a God. Are you hearing me?

That man was so revered to them, so important to them, they would

make them their God. And so here's Nimrod setting up

Babel, Babylon in these different cities.

Who's not then to say? Then the people came and

gathered under him and deified him.

Evidently Assyria to a degree of inerta, a man of the God of

hunting and warfare, which totally parallels Nimrod,

deified their founder. Amen.

And so to to be Babylonian then would just to be adopting the

founder of that location as your God.

All right. And that switches though that

that's totally upside down though, compared to the people

of God, because whenever Abraham shows up as, as the father of

the Jews, he's the patriarch. We have Abraham, we have Isaac,

we have Jacob, right? We're always talking about

Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. But more importantly, we're

always talking about the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob,

wherever these men settle and wherever they make their

residence. And many of them didn't settle,

but if they ever had a piece of land to put their foot on, to

say that they had some type of contribution to that, no one

ever deified them in the godly line as a God.

They always kept the perspective where it needed to be.

You might be the father of our people in the patriarch, but we

serve the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, Amen.

And so it's totally different, Amen, between these different

types of settings and nations. And for that matter, later in

Genesis 14 that we'll get to, Abraham is going to go down to

Sodom and Gomorrah. His nephew Lord has been taken

there. He's been living there because

he chose so. But there were 5 kings that came

down to fight. They stole Lot and some other

people away. Abraham gets, I think, about 318

people together. He goes and does war.

One of the kings that he does war against is the king of

Shinar, which is the land where Babylon and these other cities

dwell. And so he's absolutely in

opposition, Amen, against this, this king of Shinar, Amen.

And everything that has taken place here in the Scripture,

Amen. The son of Shem is opposing all

of this development here in the Scriptures.

And when you look a little further, is everybody doing OK?

Amen. Both Kala, which is another

city, and Nineveh, both of these places, they both also carry a

name, a name of Nimrod. Kala was also known as Nimrod.

Nineveh was also known as Nenes. These are just other names for

Nimrod. Again, indicating that he's the

founder of all of these. For that matter, when you read

in verse #11 that out of the land went forth Assure, Assure

is not a different person. Assure is the Assyrian name for

Nimrod. What's that mean?

Well, we might have people today called Rick, Ricky, or Ricardo.

You go to the Mexican, they call him Ricardo.

You go to another people group, that name Richard is gonna sound

differently, but it's gonna be referring to the same one in the

Assyrians. Nimrod was Assure to the

Babylonians. Nimrod was Nimrod according to

where are you from? He left then from there and he,

he established these other places that are written of

Scripture. And we'll talk more about Nimrod

in Chapter 11 months and months from now.

Look at verse #14 we're going, all right, we're going to get

done. Glory, Amen.

Hallelujah. It's it just, this is just like

a shot. It just goes sting a little bit

at first and verse #14 it tells us that the Philistine come out

of Kashi Luhim. It's telling us where the

Philistine are the Philistines. All those years of David

fighting against the Philistines and Samson fighting against the

Philistines, and this one fighting against the

Philistines. And there's other places in

Scripture that it tells us that even there are some Philistines

from the city of Cataphor, which we have in here in verse #14 the

Catephorim. You look in Amos and Jeremiah

for that, that the Philistines were also in among them.

These are descendants of Ham. All right, descendants of Ham.

Why is this important? Because this is a descendant of

Ham, the One. But Noah prophesied and said,

you shall be the servant of Jacob, and you shall be the

servant of Shem. And among them are the

Philistines. There's that constant war

between these two because there's a rub that started all

the way back with Noah and his sons and him seeing his father.

As a matter of fact, just talking about modern day.

All right. Modern day, most modern, most

modern Palestinians claim to be descendants of Ham.

Are you listening to me? Most modern day Palestinians

claim to be descendants of Ham. They they they claim that, but

in reality they are Arabs. About 100 years or so ago they

came over into the Middle East area close seeking work and

jobs. And so Arabs really are from the

line of Shem, all right, but they identified as Philistines

or Palestinians because that is who was notably through the

scripture, Israel's enemy. So that's weird.

Well, you can come a Palestinian or a Philistine by converting to

one and identifying with them. That's people can become Jews

today by converting. You can become a lot of

different things through conversion and through

identification with a place. But in order for them to do

that, sister Sheila, you know what they had to do?

They had to give up their excellent line of being a part

of Shem and their cinematic God Yahweh, and they didn't had to

adopt Allah. So in reality, a lot, I'm not

going to say all, but a lot of the struggle that's still been

going on between some Palestinians and Jews.

A good number of those Palestinians are those that

converted from the line of Shem who flipped on their own.

Look at verses 15 through 18. Here's all of the all of the

Ites. They're descendants of Ham, all

of these Ites. And when you read these folks,

look in Canaan, that is the actual one who was cursed from

Noah begatside and his first born hath.

And the Jebusites, have you ever heard them other places besides

here? Yeah, Jebusites are those that

were in Jerusalem whenever Jerusalem were first overtaken.

Jebus is what they called it. The Jebusites were the ones that

were there. Amorite.

You ever heard that anywhere else?

Jergoshite Hibite folks, these are, these are ites that you

hear throughout wilderness journeys throughout in going

into the land of promise. All of these are, and these are

the ones that become the servants to Shem.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descendants become servants to

Shem, just as Noah prophesied and we spoke about last week.

And so then finally in verse 21, the concentration shifts.

We went from Jacob to him. It switches then to Shem.

All right. And it's, it's made known right

up front in verse #21 I mean, it just gets a few words out unto

Shem. Also the father of all the

children of Eber. It goes straight there.

I mean, we're going to get to Eber in just a little bit, verse

24. But it's like, hold on, we can't

wait. We got to talk about it right

now. The father of all the children

of Eber. You'll have two sons of verse

25, the, the Peleg and the Joktan, right?

And then it'll stop right there. But Eber is important to Shem's

lying because it is through Eber that Abraham will appear through

his son Peleg. You can throw up my Shem line

there. We'll look at this more probably

in Genesis 11. But Shem, you see Eber there.

Then it keeps going down Peleg all the way down to Abraham,

where you get Isaac and Esau and all of these different tribes.

Then that will come apart because of Eber, because of

Eber. And so that's the reason he want

to make the connection. He's the, he is absolutely this,

this, this father of all the children of Eber.

They're making the connection. Not only that, Eber is the root

of the word Hebrew, rightfully so, because he's necessary for

there to be a Abraham, for there to be a Hebrew people.

Amen. And so it's this link that word

Hebrew actually means from the other side indicated of the

river. What did they cross to get into

Canaan, that nation of people, the Jordan.

Eber is the same generation in Shim's line as far as from Shim

as Nimrod is in Ham's line. So you come down from Shem and

you saw where Eber is. That same placement is where

Nimrod is in Ham's line. What that means is is that Eber

probably then lived through the Tower of Babel episode that took

place and this gives them meaning and importance.

Why his son would be named Peleg in verse 25?

Because the Bible says, for in his day was the earth divided.

Peleg even means his name means division.

It alludes to the fact that in the days of Peleg and his birth

and the time of his life is when the outfall of Babel, of the

separation, of the scattering of the nations in the tongues of

the people happened and took place.

The dividing of the people. Everybody doing OK, staying with

me. You're all right, I'm done.

And if I just talked a little quicker I could have been right

under red. So what does this do for us,

right? One guy even said, man, don't

ever preach Genesis chapter #10 it has no application.

Well, it has to have something or he wouldn't put it in there.

All Scripture is God breathed and it's all profitable for

doctrine, repute, proof, New Testament tells us.

But all these genial this, these genealogies and the accounts, if

nothing else, what they should help us appreciate is the broad

narrative and span of God's redemptive plan for all nations.

We concentrate a lot in the Bible on the Hebrew nation, in

the nation of Israel, and then we concentrate on the Gentiles

when we get to the New Testament.

But this should really encompass a good appreciation for the

redemptive plan for all nations. Again, the 70 right Old

Testament and with Exodus and even in the New Testament, until

the whole world knows, you know, should be our our mantra, Amen,

here in the earth. And it should also, it should

also give us a, a sense of unity between whatever group you're a

part of and the other diversities of our world in a,

in a, in a time in which people are making a bunch of qualms and

we've had riots in recent years over the diversity of ethnicity

in nations and peoples and stuff.

It should bring us back together understanding.

Hey, you're my brother, you're my sister.

You created in the image of God, huh?

And largely then, God's ultimate mission, again, not just for

Jewish people, but for the world.

Do you understand the scope? We get the scope narrow

sometimes, huh? This isn't redemption for

apostolics. This is redemption for the

world. This isn't redemption for North

America. This is redemption for the

world. This isn't redemption for people

just like me. This is redemption for the

world. I know as you read stories in

scripture, you see them all as you are, because that's the way

our minds work, by and large. You hear a story, you assume

it's somebody like you. Well, there's somebody else out

there reading the story, assuming it's someone like them.

Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in the sight.

Jesus loves the children of the and he does.

And so before we raise a hand in thinking we have some type of

superior stance in this life more than another human of some

other nation or skin color, slap yourself in the face and

remember. What flows through them flows

through you. And he died for us all.

Let's bow our heads here tonight.

Father, I love you, God. I thank you, Lord, for your

word, for Scripture says it is forever settled in heaven.

God, let that settled word become settled in our hearts and

in our minds. Lord, hear this evening.

Help us to leave here, Lord, with a deep respect God for

mankind, God, and for the vast mission, Lord of the redemption

of the world God. You came to save sinners, Lord,

and we all were born into that very type of context of being

sinners. God, we need a Savior.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, whatever language we.

Speak or however we may be, however we may look, I pray, O

God, help us Lord, to do our purpose in that world.

Help us to be a church that goes into all the world.

And preaches this gospel to every creature until the whole

world knows about you. In the lovely name of Jesus

Christ that I pray, Amen. Amen.

God bless you. Sunday, one service in the AM.

Bishop will be here. All right, Brother Zach.

Next Wednesday, he'll be right here.

Amen. God bless you.

If you have any type of emergencies or things like that,

call Bishop McGee. My family will be leaving

tomorrow. We'll be gone for about 10 days.

So call Bishop McGee in the evenings.

You may also be able to delve over to Doctor Mason, but I

wouldn't bother him during the day.

Probably won't get him anyway. So if you're dying, don't call

him. Call Bishop.

Amen. God bless you in Jesus name.

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