1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 I am Pastor Nathan and I do want to say that normally on the first of the month 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,560 we have a communion service but we're going to be doing that on Thanksgiving 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,160 Eve at our Thanksgiving celebration service and so we will be taking 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,120 communion later on in the month so I hope your heart's not broken but that's 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,360 what we're going to be doing all right but this morning we are going to be in 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,800 Genesis chapter 10 looking at what's referred to as the table of nations this 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,280 is the biblical ethnological look at how all the nations of the earth came 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,680 through Noah's three sons obviously we have been studying through Genesis and 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,520 we finished the flood and talked about all of that and then came to chapter 9 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,560 where Noah exited the the ark with his sons and then he had his little moment 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,400 of sin and we talked about what all that was last night but you'll remember that 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,240 there was a curse laid down on Canaan one of the sons of Ham and a blessing 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,840 laid out on Japheth and Shem we're gonna be kind of going through that today what 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,680 we have here is a list of the patriarch patriarchal founders of the 70 nations 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:08,720 26 from Shem 30 from Ham and 14 from Japheth now the traditional interpretation 16 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,080 of this list is that it's intended to be exhaustive what I mean by that is these 17 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:18,440 are literally these starting 70 nations not one more not one less that then 18 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,000 resulted in the entire population of the earth as God's mandate to be fruitful 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,120 multiply was filled out but some challenge that interpretation because 20 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,280 there are those who look at this and say well all biblical genealogies are 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:36,040 abridged and so therefore it can't possibly be an exhaustive list and what 22 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,600 I mean by abridged is you know we'll read through genealogies like this and 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,800 they'll say a fathered B B fathered C right and an abridged means where it 24 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,520 goes a fathered parentheses one who fathered two who fathered three who 25 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,120 fathered four who father five who fathered B right and they just put all 26 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,880 that smash it together and say a fathered B that would be an abridged 27 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:02,600 genealogy and the idea behind that is that there's a very very specific point 28 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,120 in God's Word specifically coming from the beginning through the flood and now 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,920 we're getting to the repopulation of the earth there is a very specific point and 30 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:16,040 so the less culturally relevant characters in the genealogies are left 31 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,000 out according to some people and so that idea would mean that as we're looking at 32 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,360 the genealogy today what we're seeing is is the people that were relevant to the 33 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,800 story of Israel the people that were ultimately relevant to what came in the 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,320 Messiah being born into this world the Savior of the entire world and so we do 35 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:40,160 understand that as these 70 nations started that eventually those nations 36 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,400 kind of commingled right as people would get married and people would migrate and 37 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,160 and countries would be invaded and people would get taken over eventually 38 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:54,200 these 70 nations just became a little mixed up but we still see representations 39 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,240 of all these cultures in today's world now nobody knows for sure specifically 40 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,000 whether this list of 70 nations was meant to be exhaustive or not but 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,960 regardless this list in its form is what God chose to include into his Word it's 42 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,400 what the Holy Spirit inspired Moses to write down and so therefore it's not 43 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,480 something to be skipped like people often do with the genealogies but it's 44 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:22,360 something to be studied and as students of God's Word we are here to dig in to 45 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:28,240 find out why it's here what it teaches us about God and what that means for our 46 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,000 lives today and that's what we're gonna be looking at today but before that 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,160 we're gonna spend some time in worship to praise Almighty God because he is 48 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:42,160 worthy amen if you guys will please help me welcome up Dennis Agajanian and while 49 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,320 they're getting in place I just want to remind you guys you know we have such a 50 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,120 privileged opportunity to praise God and Dennis if you don't know who Dennis is 51 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:56,560 he is a an award-winning artist that has been not just making music for so many 52 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,520 years but serving God he travels the world with Franklin Graham in support of 53 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,600 the work that Samaritan's Purse does and and we've been so blessed over the years 54 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:11,720 to have just a really rich friendship with him and pastor Gary way back had 55 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,280 always told me Dennis is the type of guy you want to be friends with because he 56 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,360 loves Jesus and so I pray that you guys would be encouraged as we worship today 57 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,640 and then we'll get into the service after but if you please join me in prayer 58 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:30,280 father God we thank you so much Lord for who you are we thank you God for the 59 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:34,560 work you do in our world Lord we thank you God that as you are here moving 60 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,080 amongst us that as we are gathered together knowing that you are with us 61 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,520 Lord we expect to hear from you we expect Lord that you would speak to us 62 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,200 and encourage us Lord not because we demand it but because we know you care 63 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,160 that we would know you more father God today I pray Lord you would open your 64 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,320 word and and reveal to us Lord the the deep rich meaning of why we have 65 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,040 genealogies in the Bible Lord that we would understand today that we every 66 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,240 single person in this room every single person on this planet we are all family 67 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,760 we're all related we're all descended from the same lines Lord and God that 68 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,680 means that things like racism and division and separation are just stupid 69 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Lord they're just not right and they're not proper Lord so God may we understand 70 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,680 the the the united nature of what it means when we come to you to be a part 71 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,520 of your family Lord bless us today we love you so much and we thank you it's 72 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,480 in Jesus name we pray amen all right we are in chapter 10 of Genesis this morning 73 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:39,320 looking at the table of nations that is what people refer to this genealogical 74 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,120 list as the table of nations and this is obviously after the flood right the ark 75 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:48,440 had docked there on Mount Ararat the doors had opened everybody had 76 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,560 disembarked and what we had in the end of chapter 9 was the one and only record 77 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:59,120 of Noah's life after the flood and it wasn't the best picture of Noah he had 78 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:05,600 actually made a mistake and sinned he got drunk that is a sin and he exposed 79 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:11,720 himself which was just the picture of shameful nakedness is what it was it was 80 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,760 it was the shamefulness of his experience and we read that his son Ham 81 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,600 came in and then went outside and laughed about it mocked and wanted to 82 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,480 tell everybody whereas the other brothers Shem and J path walked in 83 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,720 backwards didn't even look at their father and covered him up covered his 84 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,840 shame and so we looked at how all that talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ 85 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:36,120 and what that has to do today but in that whole process when they disembarked 86 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,920 from the ark God had reiterated to Noah and his family the same blessing that he 87 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,040 had given to Adam and Eve in the very beginning he's you remember when God 88 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,320 created the heavens and the earth created everything created Adam and Eve 89 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:52,760 and he said look guys be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth that that 90 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:58,480 was a mandate the privilege the very high calling of not only bearing 91 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,560 children having children and then raising those children to be a godly 92 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,920 generation themselves to give praise and worship to our Creator that is a huge 93 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,160 high privilege that God has given us our world today wants to disdain that and 94 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,880 cast it off and say it's it's a waste of time it interferes with our life and our 95 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,760 career plans and you know God doesn't say that at all it is a very high 96 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:26,800 privilege and calling to do that now we get into that process here whereas Noah 97 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:33,360 is off the ark he is told again be fruitful multiply fill the earth right a 98 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,160 high challenge for eight people hey I wiped out the whole earth repopulate it 99 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:42,040 right it's like wow there's only eight of us right but what we have here in 100 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:47,920 this this list is how that took place the offspring of Noah's three sons where 101 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,000 they went the the people groups that they fathered if you will and how the 102 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,520 world then came out of that but the important note here is as we're looking 103 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,200 at this genealogy today we have to understand every single one of us in 104 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:05,320 this room every single one of us we're all descendants of Noah we're all 105 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:12,160 descendants of Adam and Eve think about the implication of that we all have a 106 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:17,080 common ancestry every single one of us every ethnicity every language every 107 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,560 culture of the nation we have a common ancestry in our lineage every single one 108 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,000 of us goes all the way back through these three sons of Noah and so 109 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,680 obviously as the cultures grew from this you know people started to mingle and 110 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,320 bloodlines as people got married people migrated as they continued this 111 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,560 multiplication but the big question often asked about genealogies is why does the 112 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:45,640 Bible include these long lists of names that nobody could pronounce what does it 113 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,960 possibly have to teach us how is it important for us in our world today well 114 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,520 the big reason among other reasons that I believe God includes these things is 115 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:01,400 so that we understand how deeply interested in people God is God cares 116 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:08,000 about people he cares about you he cares about me he cares about everybody on 117 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,960 this planet God is so invested in people not only as our creator but he works 118 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:19,720 through people he speaks through people he loves all people so he made a promise 119 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:25,560 to people Adam and Eve that he would defeat Satan through their offspring now 120 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:29,920 as the world eventually got so corrupt that the only thoughts that everybody 121 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,840 thought all the time were evil he had to wipe out the world but he protected eight 122 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,800 people from judgment and then called them to repopulate all people so that 123 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,840 one day God himself could be born as one of the people to live as the people and 124 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:49,120 to be tempted in every way like the people but without ever sinning unlike 125 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,800 all people that have ever lived so that when he died for their sin atoning for 126 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,040 all people all people would have the opportunity to be saved through faith in 127 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,640 him God cares about people and that's one of the reasons why you have these 128 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:07,440 lists these family records that are recorded so we can see God's promise all 129 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,360 the way back in the garden unfolding through people unfolding through human 130 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,240 history and so what we're gonna see in this is the nations that come from 131 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:20,160 Japheth Ham and then we're gonna have a focus on Shem and the reason the the 132 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,240 whole focus ends up on Shem is because it's through the family of Shem comes a 133 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,880 man named Nahor and then from Nahor comes a man named Terah and then from 134 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Terah comes a man named Abram and then from him comes Isaac and then Jacob and 135 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,400 then the 12 tribes of Israel and then through one of those tribes all the way 136 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:43,760 down ultimately culminates in the Savior of the entire world Jesus Christ and 137 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,760 that's what the story is ultimately about now the very end of the chapter 138 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,320 tells us in verse 32 that this genealogical table of nations it's put 139 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,540 together according to their clans their family records in their nations and so 140 00:10:56,540 --> 00:11:02,880 the idea of what we're seeing in this is a is a geographical political national 141 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:08,220 tapestry of what happened through Noah's sons and the whole thing is very 142 00:11:08,220 --> 00:11:12,160 intentionally structured by the way which is always interesting because when 143 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,240 you see how structured things are in Scripture it shows us God's 144 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:20,000 intentionality that God is intentional in his promises God is intentional in 145 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,800 his reach to us God is intentional in what he says and how he fulfills it now 146 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,660 in this chapter we have 70 nations that we're gonna be going through it's not 147 00:11:30,660 --> 00:11:38,120 71 it's not 69 it's exactly 70 nations now we've talked about in Genesis the 148 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,420 importance of the number seven and the importance of multiples of the number of 149 00:11:42,420 --> 00:11:46,080 seven we see this in many places throughout scripture and that number 150 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:52,320 seven often holds significant theological meaning sometimes the word 151 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,040 is referring to completion or totality or something being finished or something 152 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:03,080 being divinely perfected in that sense for example in creation right six days 153 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,760 God rested on the seventh the seventh day of the week was declared the Sabbath 154 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,920 where you rested when the law of Moses came and they had all the laws about the 155 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,680 sacrifices the animals that were sacrificed had to be seven days old when 156 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:21,760 Joshua led Israel into the promised land they marched around Jericho six days 157 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,840 once and then on the seventh day marched around seven times and then had the 158 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,720 seven priests blow the seven trumpets you starting to maybe think seven is an 159 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:34,200 important number right you had seven pairs of clean animals on the ark in 160 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:40,240 the tabernacle the the lampstand had seven stems and then we see multiples of 161 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,840 seven which are tied to very important truths in scripture you have Daniel's 162 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,160 70 weeks as he's given the the prophetic look at history all the way through the 163 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:56,000 end of time the nation of Israel was in captivity in Babylon for 70 years the 164 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,080 year of Jubilee would always take place on the 50th year after 49 years which 165 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:06,640 was seven times seven Jesus gave seven I am statements in the gospel of John 166 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:12,320 Peter was told to forgive 70 times seven times in Revelation we saw there was 167 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,520 seven seals and seven trumpets and seven bowls seven letters to seven 168 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:22,600 churches and on and on and on and on so I don't think that the 70 nations here 169 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,280 is just oops they just what a coincidence he landed on seven I think 170 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,360 there's a very intentional purpose with this and so the significance that the 171 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,880 table of nations the significance that lists exactly seven I think is important 172 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,920 because we're meant to see here a complete total picture of phase one of 173 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:45,440 the repopulation of the world that it's from these 70 nations that all the 174 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,280 people of the planet came from and so we're gonna go through it it's a long 175 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,400 list of names okay some of the pronunciations I'm totally guessing all 176 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:59,920 right so don't hate me for that okay Genesis chapter 10 verse 1 these are 177 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:05,840 the family records of Noah's sons Shem ham and Japheth they also had sons after 178 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:11,360 the flood Japheth sons so we're getting the first son Japheth his records here 179 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:19,240 his sons were Gomer Magog Medai Javin Tubal Meshech and Tirus now Gomer 180 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:25,080 Japheth's first son gave birth to Ashkenaz gave birth to fathered Ashkenaz 181 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:32,240 Ripath and Togromah Javin's sons were Elisha Tarshish Kittim and Dodimim from 182 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,760 these descendants the peoples of the coasts and the islands spread out in 183 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,600 their lands according to their clans in their nations each with their own 184 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:45,320 language now it's interesting that the word the name Japheth means to enlarge 185 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,040 or to expand and that's exactly what God told him to do when he laid the 186 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,880 blessing on him when he when he blessed Shem and then he blessed Japheth in 187 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:59,800 chapter 9 verse 27 he said let God extend Japheth now modern ethnologists 188 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,600 and linguists know that there's all languages basically come down from what 189 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,680 they call proto languages original languages and in today's world there's 190 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,520 there's so many languages out there but they're all grouped into these major 191 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:17,240 large groupings of languages like you have the Semitic languages those are 192 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,080 all like Arabic and all the language of that kind though one of the biggest 193 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,520 groups of languages in the world today is called the Indo-European language 194 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:29,560 group now as you can imagine all the languages of Europe come from this 195 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,680 language group Greek Italian French Germanic English but what's also in this 196 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,200 group meaning they come from the same ancestor as all the Slavic languages 197 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:43,680 Russian Serbian Czech even more interesting is what's in this same 198 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:49,480 language group is all the language of the nation of India Punjabi Bengali and 199 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:55,880 what's even more interesting than that is that the languages of the Iranian area 200 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:02,200 also are in this same language group meaning Farsi Kurdish Persian it's very 201 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,280 interesting that you have all these disparate languages but as the linguist 202 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,480 study it they go you know they all came from a common source a common original 203 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,560 source and you might think well how is that possible because all these people 204 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:19,040 came from J path they all were descended from the same place meaning Europe Iran 205 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,560 India Russia Asia Minor which is like Turkey in the areas there they all came 206 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:28,120 from the same source now in the next chapter we're gonna get into the Tower 207 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,200 of Babel and the ultimate dispersion of languages but with all the different 208 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,880 languages we have in the world today the groupings tell us that certain people 209 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,960 groups came from from a very common a common language in the distant past and 210 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:46,040 so Gomer it tells us here with we know that his people were primarily north of 211 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:51,240 Israel his kids were Ashkenaz which is the Germanic peoples what's very 212 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,840 interesting about that is there are some Jews back in history that migrated to 213 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,800 Central Europe and they are called the Ashkenazi Jews if you've ever heard that 214 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,640 term what it's referring to is Jews who had migrated to the central areas of 215 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,320 Europe and settled in this area that was originally the area of Ashkenaz you 216 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,960 have ripath togram are that's the places of some of Armenian or some of the areas 217 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,000 of Armenia in ancient Turkey then you got Magog right that's the one we should 218 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,560 know a lot about he's the very important one in the prophecies in Ezekiel's 38 219 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,360 and 39 talking about the end time prophecies Magog's people went far north 220 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:32,240 in the far northeast and so from him you have the Russians and the Slavs and the 221 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:36,960 Bulgarians and Croatians and that all fits the prophecies we have that say in 222 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,080 the end times there's gonna be a mighty army from the north that attacks Israel 223 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:46,640 and this morning I read that I think it was in the last few days Russia has made 224 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:52,240 a military treaty with Iran it's just all the pieces of prophecy are falling 225 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,760 into place the third son Madai that was the Meads from the Meads in the Persians 226 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,480 if you know about that these are the people that settled in Iran and 227 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,560 Afghanistan the Kurdish people and people that then when settled into India 228 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:09,600 as well and that's very interesting to me because historically we we know that 229 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,640 Iraq and Iran have been like enemies mortal enemies for forever right and 230 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,160 most people think oh they're enemies just because you know they're two 231 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:23,680 different lines of Islam and that's why but understanding the offspring their 232 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:29,480 animosity goes back even further you see according to the scientists that study 233 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:38,200 this stuff the Iranian people aren't Arabs and people go what they're not 234 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:44,120 Arabs they're descendants of J path the Semitic people came from Shem and guess 235 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:48,760 what the people that settled Iraq are Shemites and so you had the offspring of 236 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,640 Shem and the offspring of J path going against each other for all time it's 237 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,800 just really crazy when you start to see this stuff Javin was the Greeks and the 238 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:02,960 Macedonians the Romans and the Italians his kids Elisha and and Kitim and 239 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,640 Dodonym were all the island people right the the Kitite Empire settled on the 240 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,440 island of Cyprus the island of Rhodes is actually in a in an island grouping 241 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,020 called the Dodecanese islands and it's just like oh yeah cuz Dodamine settled 242 00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:20,960 there and then Tarshish if you're a Bible student that should ring a bell 243 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:25,040 because that's where Jonah tried to flee to when God said go to Nineveh he's like 244 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,800 nah I'm gonna go to Tarshish and when you understand that Tarshish is is 245 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:34,840 ancient Spain you understand that oh Jonah was trying to get as far away as 246 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,720 possible from God's call so then you have Tubal and Meshech that's kind of 247 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:46,200 the northwestern part of Russia and then Tirras is the Thracians and these were 248 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,720 people that were considered barbarians by Greeks and Romans so that's J path's 249 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,560 people but what's very interesting is out of the 70 nations here only 14 of 250 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:01,840 them are J path and yet the blessing to J path was let God extend J path and 251 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,040 when you look at the the development of cultures J path's people seem to have 252 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,720 spread out over more of the earth than any of the other peoples and it was just 253 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,960 a picture of God's blessing holding true in his life 254 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:22,000 verse 6 ham sons Kush Mizraim put and Canaan Kush's sons were Siba have a less 255 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,960 sabta Rama and sabteca and Rama sons were Sheba and to Dan now hams 256 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:33,280 offsprings are the people that went southwest of Mesopotamia they went down 257 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:38,440 into Egypt and Africa and southern Arabia as well and that's where all the 258 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:43,800 African-American dark-skinned people came from the descendants of ham now 259 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,600 Kush that name Kush is actually the name of ancient Ethiopia if you find old 260 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:54,800 ancient maps you'll see where Ethiopia's it was called the land of Kush and then 261 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,960 Jeremiah 1323 is really interesting it references the distinctive skin of the 262 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:04,480 Kushites and so there were already these these kind of physical differences in 263 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:11,000 the people but we all came from Noah his kids became the Arabian or the African 264 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,860 countries Mizraim is actually the ancient name for Egypt put was put in 265 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:22,560 Libya and Canaan we know that one they're the cursed kids of ham but then 266 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,680 in verse 8 we get into this little detail like we're going through these 267 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,720 names right names names names names names and then in verse 8 we kind of 268 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,280 fixate on one particular individual named Nimrod it says Kush fathered 269 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,720 Nimrod who began to be powerful in the land he was a powerful hunter in the 270 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,600 sight of the Lord that is why it is said like Nimrod a powerful hunter in the 271 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:50,520 sight of the Lord that's kind of weird you may notice that Nimrod was a powerful 272 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:56,960 hunter that's why people say Nimrod was a powerful hunter but we got it there 273 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:03,880 his kingdom started with Babylon Erek a cad which is where the Akkadians came 274 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,600 from Kalnan the land of Shinar and from that land he went to Assyria and built 275 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:14,640 Nineveh and Reho both Ir, Kala and Rezin between Nineveh and the great city of 276 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:22,320 Caliph now in the middle of this genealogy why take so much space to focus 277 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:27,280 on this one guy named Nimrod it's because he was unique among the people 278 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:33,560 of his time he's understood to be one of the first rulers of a vast empire see 279 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,240 as we're talking about all these nations coming out Nimrod was ruling over a 280 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:42,840 vast vast people now Josephus the historian links Nimrod to the building 281 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:48,400 of the Tower of Babel which is the story we get into in chapter 11 and Josephus 282 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,120 points out that that Nimrod built this tower and we'll see it in the story that 283 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,800 that the people wanted to get to God they thought we can ascend to God but 284 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,620 Nimrod suggests it was kind of an in-your-face to God like oh you think 285 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:03,800 you're gonna flood us again now we're gonna build a tower that reaches all all 286 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:08,160 the way up to your house and so possibility there now when we get to 287 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,600 chapter 11 it doesn't specifically mention Nimrod so that's why it's a 288 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:16,680 speculative connection here but again this this this kingdom that came from 289 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:22,200 the Tower of Babel ended up being known as Babylon and it tells us here that 290 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,320 Nimrod was the founder of Babylon his kingdom started there and so there's a 291 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,360 lot of interesting details about this guy Nimrod he's a he's a big figure in 292 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:36,120 history there's evidence that that the the heroes in the epic of Gilgamesh 293 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:41,640 were modeled after Nimrod that Hercules was modern modeled after the story of 294 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,320 Nimrod and so he was a he was a major dude in those times now his name means 295 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,760 rebel and he really was the poster boy for all rebels because I see him as a 296 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,920 prototype for the Antichrist and I think that's one of the reasons God included 297 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:59,120 him here you see you had this guy that in these times was the ultimate rebel 298 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:02,480 against God said no we don't need to God we don't need God to rule over us we 299 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,240 don't need him we don't believe in him matter of fact we're gonna build our own 300 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,640 tower to heaven and just you know shake our fist in his face and in the end 301 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,760 times we read that there's gonna be a man named the Antichrist who is the 302 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,820 ultimate rebel in the last days who like Nimrod will do mighty works upon the 303 00:24:16,820 --> 00:24:22,600 earth and like Nimrod will rule over a kingdom known as Babylon so this all 304 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,920 took place in the land of Shinar so at least one of Ham's descendants didn't go 305 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,280 down into Israel they went over into East Mesopotamia and they actually he 306 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,640 started founding all of these big cities now again it's very important that it 307 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,600 points out specifically that he built Nineveh and he built Babylon because who 308 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:47,400 were the two people groups who took the Jews into captivity the Assyrians took 309 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,440 the northern ten tribes in 722 BC and then the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar 310 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:59,720 took the southern two tribes in 605 and 586 BC and so Nimrod is just the 311 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:05,680 predecessor of some of Israel's biggest enemies now we get to verse 13 and he 312 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,960 starts going through some of the other sons Mizraim fathered the people of Lud 313 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:18,600 Anam, Lehab, Naphtah, Pathras, Kasla the Philistines came from them and Kaftor 314 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,080 now these are all the peoples that settled along the northern coast of 315 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:28,800 Africa all the way up into the land of Canaan but then verse 15 we get into 316 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,080 Canaan now he was the cursed son right so now we're drilling down into the 317 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,800 details that are very specifically going to affect Israel Canaan fathered Sidon 318 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,800 his firstborn and Heth, Heth is where the Hittites come from that's what we read a 319 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,840 lot about in the Old Testament as well as the Jebusites the Amorites the 320 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:52,040 Girgashites the Hivites the Arkites the Sinites the Ardavites, Arvadites the 321 00:25:52,040 --> 00:26:00,920 Zemerites and the Hamathites a lot of ites okay and then it says afterward 322 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,040 the Canaanite clans were scattered we don't know exactly what that means 323 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,520 whether they you know it's scattered far they just scattered amongst the land but 324 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,800 then it tells us in verse 19 the Canaanite border went from Sidon which is 325 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,760 modern-day Lebanon going towards Gerar as far as Gaza we know where Gaza is 326 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,560 at and going towards Sodom Gomorrah Admon Zeboim as far as Lasha these are 327 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,120 Ham's sons by their clans according to the languages in their lands and their 328 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:33,080 nations so again as we're drilling down in the story here we're understanding 329 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:38,040 or at least Israel was understanding where their enemies came from as they 330 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,920 were eventually going to be entering in the promised land I believe Moses wrote 331 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:46,200 this during the wilderness as they were going to be entering the promised land 332 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,400 and they were going to be taking a conquest to destroy the Canaanite people 333 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:54,120 per God's instruction I believe these things are written so that the children 334 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:59,760 of Israel reading this go oh that's who they are oh we're gonna conquest destroy 335 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:04,080 all the Canaanite tribes because oh they were cursed okay we understand who these 336 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,320 people are and why and so these are all the people that were in the land of 337 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,200 Canaan which is the promised land the land that was promised to Israel and so 338 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,040 it's basically just a long list of Israel's enemies in the land right like 339 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,440 everybody in there is your enemy and he's gonna go the Girgashites yes they're 340 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:26,480 Canaanites the the whateverites yes they're Canaanites too basically if they 341 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,520 got an I to at the end of their name get them right because these they just 342 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:35,840 scattered out now this is where we come to the end of J path and hams lineage 343 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:42,920 okay now it's not that J path and hams lineage ceased obviously a lot of us 344 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,640 wouldn't be here today if it ceased right but they're largely absent from 345 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,960 biblical history why because the story that we're given is the fulfillment of 346 00:27:53,960 --> 00:28:00,840 Genesis 315 when God said to Adam and Eve look your offspring is gonna come 347 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,800 one day and destroy the the work of Satan that's the focus when we come from 348 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,800 creation we keep narrowing into the story of salvation that God gives us all 349 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,800 through scripture and so here's how the peoples of the earth got out there but 350 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,680 now we're gonna focus in specifically they focused in in great detail on the 351 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:23,060 Canaanites because they would be a specific thorn in Israel's side so in 352 00:28:23,060 --> 00:28:28,880 verse 21 now we get to Shem J path's older brother it says also had sons now 353 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:35,240 I do want to point out that if you read an older translation it'll say sham the 354 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:40,400 brother of J path the elder and so some people go J path was the older one and 355 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,240 then right here in the CSB translation it goes sham was the oldest one all 356 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,920 right we don't know and it doesn't matter okay so it's not a thing to argue 357 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,200 about or divide over but if you see that there's because the manuscript evidence 358 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,280 kind of goes both ways it could be translated both ways and so but it says 359 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:05,000 sham also had sons sham was the father of all the sons of Eber since shen 360 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:11,760 shems sons were Elam Asher Arphax ad Ludd and Aram Aram sons were ooze who 361 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:18,480 will gether and mash now notice here that we have an aside just like we had an in 362 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:23,360 ham story in chapter 9 if you remember in chapter 9 it says Noah and his sons 363 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:28,320 got off the ark and then it goes ham was the father of Canaan and then they 364 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,080 populated the whole earth right you go why is that aside there it's kind of a 365 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,320 weird detail and he does the same thing here I'm about to tell you about all of 366 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,800 sham sons but sham was the the father of all the sons of Eber because that's an 367 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,280 important detail that we're gonna come back to here in this genealogy now Eber 368 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,320 is the important part just like Canaan was the important part back through 369 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,240 chapter 9 but before we get to that all these sons are the Semitic peoples all 370 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:00,360 right these are the peoples that are the Jews the Arabs all the Semitic nations 371 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:05,440 that we have he gave birth to Elam that's where the Elamites came from we're 372 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,440 gonna read about them when we get to Abraham story as he's in the Promised 373 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:15,000 Land and the Elamites invade the country Asher was the the progenitor of the 374 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,380 Assyrian people that ended up going up north and having the Syrian Empire and 375 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:23,760 as we said eventually being the people that took Israel into captivity or at 376 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,660 least the northern ten tribes Arphax ad was the Chaldeans the son Lude was the 377 00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:31,960 Lydians that's kind of like through Turkey and all of that and then you have 378 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:37,320 Aram Aram's an important one he was the father of the ancient Syrian people or 379 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,760 what we know today as Syrians okay the nation of Syria that area down into 380 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:49,460 Jordan is where these people originally developed but the name Aram should make 381 00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:52,960 you think of something that we occasionally talk about in the New 382 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,720 Testament you see people often go what language did Jesus and the disciples 383 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,560 speak in his time well the Bible's in Greek did they speak Greek there's a 384 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,960 possibility but in their time it's commonly understood that the people 385 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:13,200 spoke Aramaic the people of Aram are the ones that came up with the Aramaic 386 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,600 language and you go well why did why did the Jews speak it why did they speak it 387 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,120 in Israel or remember when the Jews came back from Babylonian captivity in 388 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,200 Babylon they were speaking Aramaic and so they came back it was a part of their 389 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:31,520 culture now right and so they were just a multilingual culture like a lot of us 390 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,200 are right you know people people blend into our country we blend into their 391 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,620 country we pick up some of their language they pick up some of our 392 00:31:38,620 --> 00:31:43,020 language and that's how it goes but then it also says this final note that Aram 393 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:48,080 fathered Uz and you go big deal about that well when we get to the book of 394 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,200 Job it says Job is from the land of Uz and then you have Gether which is in 395 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,160 southwest Israel and then Hull and Mash which is where the Armenian people are 396 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:02,200 understood to come from so verse 24 our fix shod fathered Sheila and Sheila 397 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:08,600 fathered Eber so we skip a lot if you will to go right into who fathered Eber 398 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,480 now Eber is the line through which the Messiah would come through there are 399 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,320 some scholars that go yeah the word Hebrew came from this man's name they 400 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:25,880 look at it you go Eber the Hebrew ruse right I don't know if that if that's 401 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,920 accurate but the people that came from this line were known as the Hebrews in 402 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,720 Genesis chapter 14 verse 13 we got Abram the Hebrew right so verse 25 now we're 403 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,280 focused in Eber had two sons one was named Peleg for during his days the 404 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:48,120 earth was divided his brother was named Joktan now Joktan was a very busy man 405 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:54,920 Joktan fathered Almadad, Seleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadarim, Uzzal, Dikla, 406 00:32:54,920 --> 00:33:03,560 Obal, Abimeel, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab so I don't know what he did other 407 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:09,520 than have babies but he there's a lot of people that came from him okay a lot of 408 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,520 people think that Jobab the last name in that list is actually Job from the book 409 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,600 of Job and that Job is just a shortened version of his name that's speculative 410 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:25,680 but possible but it says all of these were Joktan sons now you go back to 411 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,640 Arabia and all of the tribes that that have come out of Arabia that have led to 412 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,320 the modern countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and and all of those they all 413 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,240 came from these people verse 30 their settlements extended from Misha to 414 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,040 Sefar to the eastern hill country and again that's just parts of Arabia they 415 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,680 are Shem sons by their clans according to their languages in their lands and 416 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:54,560 in their nations now that's a long list of names and where people lived and all 417 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,680 that but you have these little details kind of scattered throughout here Peleg 418 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,080 is one of them for during his days the earth was divided and you go what does 419 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,680 that mean right some people use that as a proof text for the ideas of Pangea 420 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,360 right that all the continents were once together and and they split apart which 421 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,440 you know modern tectonics is like yeah okay that's happening and they go right 422 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:21,080 here this is when it happened problem with that is right after chapter 10 we 423 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,440 have chapter 11 which is the story of the Tower of Babel which is a very clear 424 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:31,320 story of how the people of the earth were divided because God confused their 425 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,720 languages and all the people split over that and so contextually I think that 426 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:40,560 divided here more likely means the people of the earth were divided right 427 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,800 so but these are all the names of the founders of the various Semitic peoples 428 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,800 the Jews and the Arabs and then verse 32 it says these are the clans of Noah's 429 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,320 sons according to their family records in their nations the nations on the 430 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:58,920 earth spread out from these after the flood so this whole list is is Noah and 431 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:04,200 his family fulfilling the blessing the charge that God gave them be fruitful 432 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:10,320 multiply fill the earth right this is the picture of them being obedient to 433 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:16,000 that call and it's from these roots that all the people of the earth grew from 434 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,800 but what the table of nations here really teaches us and I think the big 435 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,840 lesson in this particular genealogy is to understand that from the point of the 436 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:34,440 flood and Noah all humans are interrelated we are all family all of us 437 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:40,920 it doesn't matter red yellow white black brown some of us are like translucent 438 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:47,200 pale like we're all descendants of Adam and Eve we're all descendants of Noah 439 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:53,460 and through his three sons we all have a common ancestry we all have the same 440 00:35:53,460 --> 00:36:00,720 DNA all people all humans not one people group but all humans derive their 441 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:06,480 existence from the life power life-giving power of God Almighty thus 442 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:12,600 all people are responsible to him as the creator right this is what Paul said in 443 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,440 Acts 17 for one from one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole 444 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,280 earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they 445 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,760 live he did this so that they might seek God and perhaps they might reach out and 446 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,560 find him though he is not far from each one of us for in him we live and move 447 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:35,240 and have our being as even some of you your own prophets or poets have said 448 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:40,400 for we are also his offspring you see when it says there at the very end that 449 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,800 the nations of the earth spread out from these after the flood that to me tells 450 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,960 me that that these were likely the literal seven seventy nations that 451 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,160 existed now somebody brought up a comment earlier and said do you think 452 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,720 there's the some of the other people it doesn't list all their descendants 453 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:03,840 because maybe they just had all all women female kids because in the time 454 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,920 the family name went through the patriarchs I don't know that's possible 455 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,720 but I do believe that it's these seventy nations that were kind of the set that 456 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:18,200 the whole earth came from so when we understand that that all of this is a 457 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,520 part of God's plan all of this is what God has done we see this picture here 458 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,080 that one we are all united by our ancestry we're all united by our 459 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:31,480 responsibility to God our Creator but at the same time we're a people that are so 460 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:37,240 divided and we divide over things like our geography we divide over our 461 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:44,000 language we divide over a nest ethnicity we divide over our culture most of all 462 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,520 we're divided by our fallenness and our sin because it's our fallenness and our 463 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,760 sin that makes us selfish people and that's what makes us look at people who 464 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,760 don't look like us and go I'm better than you or to look at people that have 465 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,240 what I want and say I'm gonna conquer you and take it it's a selfishness that 466 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:05,920 is a result of sin and it's that fallenness and sin that separates us 467 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,640 from one another even though we're family it's a sin that separates us from 468 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,280 God and so you study a genealogy like this and you go what are we supposed to 469 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,720 learn here well I think the question that should come up is what is the 470 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:26,320 answer for a humanity that is so united in origin yet so divided in so such 471 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:32,160 profound ways and we know the answer right the answer started in Genesis 3 472 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,040 16 when he said the offspring is gonna come and he's gonna defeat sin he's 473 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,840 gonna defeat the devil he's gonna take all that out and then so God responded 474 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,080 by to their sin by promising a descendant who will undo all that work and 475 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:49,920 it's God in the flesh it's Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is the only one who could 476 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:55,920 unite us he is the only one who can pay for our sin and guess what he paid for 477 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:02,720 everybody's sin every single human being bleeds red right hopefully otherwise you 478 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:10,960 might need to go to the hospital we all bleed red guess what Jesus bled red 479 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:16,040 because he died for you he died for me he died for all of us and what we're 480 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:20,680 gonna see as we study through the rest of Genesis is God working out his plan 481 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,640 through people through the history of mankind right in the middle of all their 482 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,080 politics in the middle of all their tragedies in the middle of all the 483 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:35,840 surprises in the middle of all of the schemes of mankind and it shows us we 484 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,120 might think that we are the authors of history but our sovereign God is the one 485 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:46,200 who's in control of all of it now yes we do things and we're called to live and 486 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:52,440 plan and build and be fruitful multiply but God is not surprised by the things 487 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,800 that mankind does God is not surprised by the twist and turns it doesn't matter 488 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,920 what mankind does what mankind did God fulfilled his promise Jesus Christ was 489 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:08,280 born into this world and it just shows us again that our magnificent God keeps 490 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:15,720 his promises if God promises something you can bank on that happening our God 491 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:20,680 is true our God is faithful he said he was going to provide a way and he did 492 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:26,440 and the fulfillment of that is still being seen in our world today now I did 493 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,360 mention earlier that 70 was kind of like an important number it was 70 nations 494 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:36,120 that came from Noah's son and that whole idea of seven and multiples of seven 495 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,440 communicating completeness communicating totality it really ties into one of the 496 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,560 reasons why I believe when he says all the nations of the earth came from 497 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:50,600 these that is literally these 70 nations but later on in Genesis chapter 46 when 498 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,280 Jacob and his sons are traveling down to Egypt we're gonna see that it's 70 499 00:40:55,280 --> 00:41:00,320 members of the family that go down to Egypt and those 70 members of that 500 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,440 family repopulated the nation of Israel there into a couple million people by 501 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:10,640 the time Moses led them out back in when they got into the the wilderness and the 502 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:15,120 travels Moses was overwhelmed he can't manage all these people and so he 503 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:22,520 appointed 70 elders in Luke chapter 10 we read a story of Jesus sending out 70 504 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:28,920 evangelists 70 preachers now it's interesting that here in Genesis as God 505 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:36,320 sent out 70 nations to repopulate the earth and in that instituted a new order 506 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:41,480 upon earth if you will post-flood that Jesus sent out 70 to evangelize 507 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:46,440 representing the establishment of a new spiritual order gathering people to 508 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:54,600 populate a new earth one day now it's a beautiful picture of God fulfilling his 509 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,560 promises he made a promise to Abraham once in Genesis 12 2 & 3 where he said I 510 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,280 will make you into a great nation I will bless you I will make your name great 511 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,480 and you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you and I will curse 512 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,240 anyone who treats you with contempt contempt and all the peoples of the 513 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:16,320 earth will be blessed through you this verse is why we say vote for those that 514 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,600 support Israel right despite all the stuff and the questions and the detail 515 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:27,000 all that stuff right here it tells us Abraham you and your offspring which are 516 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:33,200 the people of Israel I will bless you if you bless them I will curse you if you 517 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,920 hold them in contempt but that's not the point of why I'm bringing this up he 518 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,040 says and all the people on the earth will be blessed through you you see 519 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:46,560 mankind we are united in our ancestry we're united in our humanity yet we're 520 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,280 so divided from God and one another because of sin and that sin is what 521 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,240 causes us to further divide on things like culture and ethnicity and language 522 00:42:54,240 --> 00:43:02,600 and politics I'm not a big politic person right I have my opinions and if 523 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,760 you ask me in private I will tell you what I feel about things but but from 524 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,760 the pulpit I struggle with like getting political not that I'm against that but 525 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:18,600 for me I struggle with it because the answer to me is not who's in office that 526 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:25,880 matters but the answer is Jesus Christ it is Jesus Christ changing the hearts of 527 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,720 our leaders and our politicians that will lead to change in this world it's 528 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:36,080 him and only him because he's the only one now yes we need to get people in 529 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:41,120 there that that are holding to our values or at least most of our values as 530 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,400 Christians but it's Jesus that's gonna change the world and so we can't let 531 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,880 ourselves be divided over ethnicity because that just leads to racism and 532 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,800 that's terrible we can't let ourselves even be divided politically and start to 533 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,560 look at people across the aisle and say we hate you because you're so liberal 534 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:05,760 they bleed red too and God's red blood was shed for them as well and so when it 535 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,560 comes to the divisions that the devil tries to bring into our world especially 536 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:14,160 in times like the election cycle we have to remember that we're all sinners 537 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:21,800 we're all family fallen desperately in need of a Savior desperately need and 538 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:27,480 salvation and forgiveness and Jesus Christ is that answer God is deeply 539 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:35,600 interested in people he cares about people he cares about you he cares about 540 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:44,600 me he works through people and he speaks through people he loves people and so he 541 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,360 made that promise that he kept prophesied by an impossible amount of 542 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:56,680 specific details details fulfilled by his birth his life his death and his 543 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,000 resurrection and regardless of your lineage regardless of whether you come 544 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,200 from Shem, Hammer, J-Peth or mixing of all three at some point you definitely come 545 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:11,760 from Noah and you definitely come from Adam and Eve who are his predecessor and 546 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:17,360 what that means is that their original sin is the sin nature that you inherited 547 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:26,380 it is a sin nature that you you just were born with to want to rebel to want 548 00:45:26,380 --> 00:45:31,760 to go against God and that sin is the sin that Jesus Christ paid for by dying 549 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:37,280 on the cross and because of that all of humanity every human regardless of race 550 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:47,560 or culture because of that you regardless of what you've done of what 551 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:54,400 you've done can receive the forgiveness of Jesus Christ because he loves you he 552 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,760 died for you he paid the price for your sin God promised it to happen it did 553 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,480 happen and it could be fulfilled in your life today all you have to do is put 554 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,080 your faith in him that's what we've been talking about Noah was made righteous 555 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:12,640 because he believed God wasn't because he was a perfect individual he simply 556 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,040 said God you're real you told me judgments coming I'm gonna do what I 557 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:21,560 need to do to get ready for it well judgment is coming people the sin of 558 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,120 this world is escalating we're quickly and quickly turning into a to not just a 559 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:30,240 country but a world that is exactly the way Jesus is described to that as it was 560 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:35,840 in the days of Noah it's quickly heading that direction while we're here we have 561 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,680 a stewardship to do something about it but the greatest thing we could do 562 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,640 about it is tell people about the salvation that is in Jesus Christ and 563 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,980 then one day yeah Jesus is gonna come back God's gonna come back and judge the 564 00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:52,440 whole world he's gonna judge sin and sinners and all who reject him will 565 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,320 suffer forever in the in the fires of hell and that's just the truth of 566 00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:02,520 scripture but that doesn't have to be your destiny because whether you came 567 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:07,080 from Ham, Shem, or Japheth you can be a child of God covered by the blood of 568 00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:13,360 Christ if you just believe in him so I'm gonna invite up Dennis right now and 569 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,840 I'm gonna pray for you guys if you don't know Jesus Christ is your Lord and 570 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,700 Savior and you've never accepted him that means you've never just said Jesus 571 00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:25,400 I believe in you I believe you're real I believe you're God I believe you died 572 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:31,240 for me I believe that through your shed blood because it was perfect and pure it 573 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:36,420 was it was literally without sin that you accept that as the atonement for my 574 00:47:36,420 --> 00:47:43,480 sin I believe in that if you've never done that today can be your day that 575 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,360 you'd be set free from the power of sin and death that you'd be forgiven that 576 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,360 that guilt that you carry from all the bad things you've done you could start 577 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,800 to learn to understand that God forgave you so it's not about how many times you 578 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,960 fall it's about how many times you get up and say Jesus dust me off and help me 579 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:06,480 keep going let's pray father God we trust you so much we trust your word and we 580 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:12,500 know God that every letter every letter in your word God tells us about you in 581 00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:17,720 some way somehow God it helps us to understand the truth of of who you are 582 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:25,400 who we are it helps us to understand the depth of our problem God that Lord we 583 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,040 didn't just come from amoebas and we didn't come from bubbly news and some 584 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:35,920 bog somewhere Lord that we were created by you a loving creator who knows us who 585 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:41,920 knows every hair on our head and yet God because we're separated from you by sin 586 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:49,080 Lord in your justice you have to judge it but God through your love and because 587 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,240 you loved us you sent your son to die for our sin that we would be set free 588 00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:56,640 that we would be forgiven that we regardless of our lineage regardless of 589 00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,160 our background Lord would understand that we are sinful human desperately in 590 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:05,040 need of Jesus and when we trust in you we are saved not just that we are made 591 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:12,320 a child of God adopted into a family of different people who are all united in 592 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,680 their humanity and their trust in Jesus so while we're praying right now if 593 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,960 you're in this room today and God has spoken to you and you want to receive 594 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,440 Jesus Christ that means you're you're ready to say God I believe in you I 595 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:30,040 trust you I recognize that I am a sinner and that you are God and I recognize 596 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:36,800 that my sin requires a punishment but you came to pay that for me to pay that 597 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,720 price and I want to receive that while we're praying and heads bowed eyes 598 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:43,600 closed I just want you to raise your hand where you're seated and say Jesus 599 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,920 I trust you I want to I want to be saved if you're watching us online 600 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,200 obviously I can't see you specifically but if God has spoken to you and you 601 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,880 know you need to receive Jesus today I just want you to type into the chat that 602 00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:01,360 I that I'm giving my life to Jesus there is nothing more important in your 603 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:06,240 entire life no decision you will ever make that would be more important than 604 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:09,600 your decision to receive Christ to receive the forgiveness and to know for 605 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:14,120 a fact that when this life is over that you'll be a part of his people in heaven 606 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,640 forever and so if you're in this room and you want to receive Christ just 607 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:23,040 raise your hand up so I could see it let me pray with you all right all right 608 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:29,480 father we trust you we thank you we love you and we don't understand how you love 609 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:36,720 us but you do and so God we ask Lord that as we put our faith and trust in 610 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:42,160 you God that you would then work in our lives to change us to mold us into your 611 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,640 image that we would be people who reflect Christ in this world and God 612 00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:50,040 those that may be still hanging on to something for some reason they cannot 613 00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,640 give their life to you they're afraid they're concerned whatever that may be 614 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:58,320 Lord I pray you break through that now that you would shatter those fears and 615 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:04,440 help them to see the truth that you love them so much God help us to be people 616 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:09,600 that go out in this world regardless of our culture and lineage that we would be 617 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,320 people identified by the fact that we believe in Jesus Christ that we would 618 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,720 share that truth and share that hope with everybody we come across because 619 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:21,200 that is the only hope for humanity Lord we thank you so much we trust you with 620 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:48,000 everything it's in Jesus name we pray amen God bless you guys let's worship