SERIES: 01 Genesis - 2009
MESSAGE: Genesis 10-11
SPEAKER: Skip Heitzig
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 10-11

MESSAGE SUMMARY
The listing of genealogies recorded in scripture is, at times, difficult. What is the significance of such a detailed account? How are we to apply this information to our lives? Through this meticulous record of the descendants of Noah, God demonstrates His interest in people, His faithfulness to His promise, and His isolation of the people group through whom Messiah would come.

DETAILED NOTES

  1.  Introduction
    1. Genesis is the book of beginnings (earth, mankind, marriage, family, Sabbath, sacrifice, gospel Gen 3:15, human government, nations.
    2. Chapter 10 is the Table of Nations (post-flood repopulation of the earth)
      1. Shem, Ham, and Japheth in order of redemptive importance
      2. Japheth, Ham, and Shem in order of age
      3. Entire earth populated by their descendants
      4. 70 Nations
        1. Descendents of Shem - 26
        2. Descendents of Ham - 30
        3. Descendents of Japheth 14
      5. God is interested in people
      6. One of if not the oldest ethnological tables in existence
    3. Genesis is also the book of blessings (God's selective isolation of a people group through whom the Messiah will come)
      1. Nahor
      2. Terah
      3. Abram and Sarai (Abraham and Sarah)
      4. Isaac
      5. Jacob and the 12 tribes
  2. Sons of Japheth (means to expand and enlarge) Genesis 9:27 a prediction of expansion
    Japheth and his lineage expanded into Europe, became the basis for the Indo-European languages, uncivilized, uncouth, ungodly barbarians.  Dark Ages.  When the Judeo Christian God was adopted by them, they were blessed.  Migrated and expanded even into North America. Ethnologists and linguists know the language base study Indian Ancient Sanskrit to get to the root of our language.  Settled Europe, Iran, India Central India.
    1. Gomer - Settled in Asia Minor and expanded into Central, Eastern Europe, Cumberland (encompasses Northern England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) (Cimmerians)
    2. Magog - (Ezekiel 38,39- end time group which comes down to attack Israel in the last days) Father of ancient Russians, Slavs, Bulgarians, Bohemians, Poles and Croations.
      Wall of China was referred to as the Wall of Magog and protected China from the Russians.
    3. Madia- Father of the Medes and Persians Settled in Persia (India, Iran, Afghanistan, Kurds, Iranians  (who are not Shemites, but speak Farsi, a Persian language-explaining the bad relationship between Iraq and Iran which goes back further than Islam)
    4. Javan-Greeks, Macedonians, some believe the Romans and Italians
    5. Tubal and Meshech (Ezekiel 38, 39) Moscow and Tubalsk - North and Northeast of the Black Sea, Russia,
    6. Tiras - Father of the Thracian and Atracians, on the far coast Aegean Sea of Asia Minor
    7. Ashkenaz- one of Gomer's Sons - Settled North of Israel and west to Eastern Europe, mainly Germany. With in Judaism there is tension between the German (Ashkenazi)and Portugese(Sephardi) Jews, because of looks and culture.(Sons's of Shem who migrated to the area of the sons of Japheth)  The beginning of anti-Semitism was in a Japhethite who hated the Shemites, Adolph Hitler, forced the migration back to Israel and they dwell together there now.
    8. Torgarmah- Ancient Turkey, Armenia (Ezekiel 38, 39)
    9. Tarshish - (Jonah) Ancient Spain or England, distant coastlands
  3. Sons of Ham - Settled east, west, and southwest Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Africa.
    1. Cush - Ancient Ethiopia (Jeremiah 13:23, Isaiah 45:14) dark skinned and very tall
    2. Mizraim - Egypt
    3. Put - Libya
    4. Canaan - very important, the Hivites, Hittites, Jebusites, etc. settled.  Wrongly applied verse Genesis 9:25 cursed Canaan but people used it as a Biblical mandate for slavery. God told the Israelites to leave Egypt, cross the Jordan, take the land as their own and exterminate the Canaanites, who were vile people.  Known especially for child sacrifice and sexual perversion.  God gave them 400 years to repent, very patient. God gave the land of the Canaanites to Israel (Genesis 15 )
    5. Sheba and Dedan - Saudi Arabia
    6. Havilah - Sandland, where gold was found, part of Saudi Arabia (Ezekiel 38, 39 when people of the North come down to attack Israel they will protest)
    7. Nimrod, was a might hunter against the Lord. Nimrod means rebel  Prototype of the Antichrist. 2 Thessalonians 2 mighty works, in charge of known metaphorically as Babylon, Revelation 17, 18.  Could be Sargon I
      1. Ruled Babel
        1. gateway to God , man's view, Babylonian language
        2. confusion, God's view, Jewish Language
      2. Ruler of Nineveh in Syria.  Assyria and Babylon exiled Israel from their lands.
        Nimrod's wife is Semiramis, myths about her child, Tammuz who mytholocially was born of a virgin, died and was resurrected. His birth is celebrated December 25, with trees and Yule logs, also on Ashtarte with eggs and bunnies symbols of fertility (Easter). Satanic plot.
  4. Sons of Shem - the rest of Genesis focuses on their lineage.
    1. Eber - beginning of the Hebrew people
    2. Elam - Elamites invade Canaan, 5 kings, Genesis 13, Chedorlaomer king of Elam
    3. Asshur - Assyria
    4. Lud - Lydia, Anatolia, Western Asia Minor
    5. Aram - ancient Syria, Damascus.  Developed one of the 3 Biblical languages, Aramaic. What Jesus and the disciples probably spoke. Chaldean, the language of the captivity.
    6. Uz- Job came from Uz Northern Arabia, Jordan
After the flood there is a new social order (human government), a new physical order (environmental changes), and in Luke 10 a new Spiritual Order…70 countries, just like the descendants of Noah.
  1. The Tower of Babel Chapter 11-
    1. One language. So far the people have one language, communication is essential, but the people formed a plan against God. 
    2. God sent them out to populate, but they gathered together to build a city, Shinar (Iraq) and a tower going to heaven. They build a city by man, for man and without God.
    3.  Ziggurats, used to worship the zodiac.  This is the beginning of secular humanism and false religion.
  2. Lineage of Shem Retold.  Nahor, Tera, and Abram.

Figures Referenced: Sargon I, Josephus, Herodotus
Cross References: Genesis 3:15, 9:27, 13,15, Isaiah 45:14, Jeremiah 13:23, Ezekiel 38,39, Luke 10, 2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 17, 18

Topic: Noah

Keywords: Noah, table of nations, Shem, Ham, Japheth, Tower of Babel


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