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Genesis
10 -- the Table of Nations
"No one
must lightly dismiss the question of race. It is
the key to world history and it is precisely
for this reason that written history so often lacks
clarity -- it is written by those who
do not understand the race question and what
belongs to it. Language and religion do not make a
race, only blood does that".
Benjamin Disraeli
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Genesis 10 is
a prophecy that establishes the origins, and
reveals the traits that have determined the future
history and fixed the ultimate destiny of each
branch of the human race in their journey from
their Genesis through to their reward or loss as
described in the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel and
expounded by Jesus through His angel, the late
William Branham (Revelation 1:1; 10:7).
In the Table
of Nations, seven sons of Japheth are named. The
sons are peoples or countries, only Japheth remains
a person. The same holds for Shem and Ham who do
not belong to the Table of Nations. So the record
is not merely or mainly a genealogy of individuals
but of family houses by which earth was divided
into nations according to the number of the
children of Israel. Hence:-
a) The dual
form of names such as "Mizraim" which is probably
meant to represent the two Egypts.
b) The plural
form such as Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Nephthuhim,
Pathrusim, Casluhim, Caphthorim, represent the
nations named after a patriarch such as
"Lud".
c) The tribal
or gentile forms like Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite,
Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite,
Hamathite.
d) Forms for
"groups" of tribes, such as Canaanites.
e) Forms for
nations, such as Gomer, Magog, and
Madai.
Trees
represent people and like the two trees in the
Garden of Eden, Shem and Canaan were initially side
by side in the midst. In general terms, we may say
that the north was assigned to Japheth, the south
to Ham, and the middle territory to Shem, whereas
Canaan was beaten asunder or "scattered
abroad" throughout the earth.
Five words
are translated "nation" in the Old Testament. "Goy"
means a non-Hebrew nation or multitude of creatures
(people, animals or insects). "Am" mens a
collection of people, a nation, attendants, troops,
a tribe or compatriots. "L'owm" means a gathering
or community of people. "Erets" means nations, land
or country. "Ummah" means a community of people, a
tribe or nation.
Four words
are translated "nation" in the New Testament.
"Ethnos" which refers to a race of the same culture
or habits: specifically gentile, heathen or pagan
customs foreign to Israel. "Genos" means kindred
breed, stock, race born of a common descent.
"Genea" means a group of kindred people at a point
in time, era or generation. "Allophulos" means
another (non-Israelite) nation or tribe.
Genesis 10:1
gives the "generations" (Heb. "towldah" -- pedigree
or genealogical lists of the
blood-descendants) of Noah's three sons who
are named in order of their theocratic importance,
not their age. Shem represented the believer, Ham
the make-believer, and Japheth the unbeliever.
However the descendants of Japheth, Noah's
first-born, are treated first in this prophecy.
They occupied the desirable lands of the "goy"
beyond the sea from Israel, families of a common
language settling under the headship patriarchs
following the dispersal from Babel and taking their
identity from their names.
Next, the
descendants of Noah's youngest son, Ham, are
discussed. Clearly, Ham, whose estate has been
degraded in that his firstborn was the illegitimate
Canaan, who is cursed with his Serpent's seed
forebears, is not one to passively submit to Noah's
prophecy. His practical nature rebelled against
that Word in his son Cush; and in his son Nimrod,
who became a mighty hunter, blessed of God. And
this became a proverb among the people.
When wild
animals overran the land making it unsafe, Nimrod
culled the beasts, restoring peace and safety, thus
earning the gratitude of the people who made him
their leader. He then organized them into cities
with walls for protection, and teaching his
huntsmen the art of war, established his kingdom
and built more cities.
Many
generations after the confusion of tongues, Ham's
other sons settled in Africa, establishing nations
under their names. Canaan and his descendants are
listed separately in this genealogy and in the
genealogy of I Chronicles 1:13-16 because they are
accursed, not being in Adam's race. All the sons of
Ham gave their names to families of a common
language who eventually settled their nations
following the dispersal from Babel.
It must be
remembered at this point that the descendants of
Cain, the family of Canaan on this side of the
Flood, have no inheritance in the earth, and can
never enter the Presence of the Lord (Genesis
4:11-15). Thus God commanded Moses to utterly
exterminate all the Canaanites found living in the
Promised Land (Deuteronomy 7).
Portions of
land were also divided among the descendants of
Noah's second son Shem, and so the whole earth was
divided among the sons of Noah and their
descendants. Seventy nations, countries and tongues
were named after these men.
"Philology,"
which is the science of the structure and
development of language, has discovered three
parent groups of languages and peoples: Aryan,
Semitic, and Turanian (who are Asiatic and neither
Aryan nor Semitic) -- Japheth, Shem, and Ham.
Family traits are evident in the languages of the
different groups as language determines or reflects
the way men conceive of things.
The Japhetic
or the Indo-Europeans have maintained the evident
relationships in their particular family of
languages. And the same observation applies to the
Semitic languages. Even though they have spread so
widely, they have continued to share a certain way
of viewing things. Indo-Europeans philosophically
with an emphasis on the abstract, and the Semites
with their emphasis upon behavior from a more
transendential point of view.
From all over
the world, wherever Ham and Canaan are found, the
witness is to an entirely practical view of the
world, rooted in the present, wise in a canny sort
of way, specific, particular, uninterested in the
abstract, always inventing new words or new terms
for things, interested in particulars rather than
categories, earthy, and very largely disinterested
in unlikely possibilities.
The family of
the Indo-European languages is readily identifiable
as a family, as are the Semitic tongues. The
Hamites, however, have been so inventive, they
devise terms with equal facility and their
languages are in such a state of flux that within a
few generations, even tribes living just across the
river will find themselves scarcely able to
converse.
This strange
tendency which has prevented the Egyptians,
Hittites, Sumerians, Chinese and Central American
Indians from developing an alphabetical script may
have been Providence, guaranteeing the quick
dispersal of Ham all over the world. Many cuniform
scholars have noted the similarities between
Sumarian and Chinese. "Civilization has traveled
with the sun, from the east, coming west. . . . The
oldest civilization is China, . . . And sin has
traveled with civilization" (We Have
Seen His Star and Have Come to Worship
Him, 28:188).
What divided
the Hamites in this way was not a difference in
language structure, for the philosophy of
their languages remained remarkably similar, so
that the ways of thinking of the African native,
the Chinese peasant, and the American Indian have
remained for a very long time comparable: it was
the vocabularies which changed.
According to
Genesis 10:32, the families of the sons of Noah are
divided or separated by languages into tribes and
nations. These boundaries also knit them together
in their generic group. This is a protective
measure to ensure each people would be separate yet
interdependent in order to realize the maximum
capacity of man with his tremendous creative
potential.
Any attempt
to unify the world's language, to co-mingle the
races or nations with the overt intention of making
all men share equally in this potential will only
serve to defeat its own purpose in the end. Thus
Esperanto, "multiculturalism", gender equality, the
UN, WCC and "the brotherhood of all mankind", are
artificial, in direct opposition to God's purposes,
and in a manner of speaking, a repetition of the
hubris of Babel (Genesis 11:1-6; Matthew
24:37-38).
Japheth,
literally means "opened" or "expanded".
Naturally in the sense that his
descendents settled all Europe and the greater part
of Asia, and later colonised and developed the
Western Hemisphere previously ruled by Ham and
Canaan, as Shem replaced Canaan in the Promised
Land. For obvious reasons, Japheth never expanded
to the Far East. And Spiritually through
the fulfillment of Genesis 9:27 and Matthew 21:43
wherein Jesus said to Shem, "The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a
nation, ("ethnos" or Gentile culture),
bringing forth the fruits thereof". That
is, a people with the faith of Abraham (Galatians
3:26-29).
From Japheth
derive the Indo-Europeans and the Medes. The early
Aryans knew Japheth as Djapatischta (chief of the
race); Greeks referred to Japheth as Iapetos or
Japetos; East Indians called him Iyapeti or
Pra-Japati; Romans deified him by the name Ju-Pater
or Jupiter. The Saxons perpetuated his name as
Iafeth, subsequently transliterated as Sceaf
(pronounced sheef or shaif), and recorded in their
early genealogies as the son of Noah the forebear
of their various peoples (Anglo-Saxon
Chronicles). The variant Seskef was
used by the early Scandinavians. All of these
peoples, we must remember, were pagans whose
knowledge or even awareness of the book of Genesis
was non-existent.
The Japhetic
tribes being furthest from the theocratic centre
were last in attaining to historic eminance, and
"enlarging" with much greater minuteness
to detail the Hamitic and Arabian nations which
were soonest developed and with which the Hebrews
came most into contact in the initial stages of
their journey through time.
History has
recorded Japheth's geographical enlargement. The
entire Western hemisphere of our globe is settled
by Japhetic peoples, and East Indians are of the
same stock. The record of Japheth's spread
(enlargement) over the earth has been
marred consistently by his destruction of the
cultures which were already in existence wherever
he arrived in sufficient force to achieve dominion.
It happened in the Americas, Africa, Asia,
Australia, and only numerical superiority of the
native population has hitherto preserved parts of
Africa from the same fate. Indeed, in early
historic times the pattern of events is repeated
again and again, whatever cultural advances the
pioneering Hamites had achieved tended to be
swallowed up by the succeeding Japhethites. The
"enlargement" of Japheth has continued to
this day, an enlargement greatly accelerated
geographically in the last few centuries --
frequently at the expense of the Hamites (or
Canaanites) who first possessed the
land.
Gomer,
literally means "completion" and is the progenitor
of the early Cimmerians and other branches of the
Celtic family. Settling in eastern Europe near the
Black Sea, he became the Gauls/French, Galatians,
Gaels/Scots, Celts/Irish,
Goths/Germans/Scandinavians, Saxons/Britons/Welsh,
Dutch, Armenians, Romans and related
groups.
Magog, means
"overtopping" or "covering". Settling first in
Georgia, a region between the Black and Caspian
Seas south of the Caucasus Mountains, he became the
Synthians, Russians, Belorussians and
Ukranians.
Madai, means
"middle land". He settled northwest of Persia
proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea,
east of Armenia and Assyria, and west and northwest
of the great salt desert of Iran in the ancient
kingdom of Media, now Iraq and the northern part of
Iran. He is the father of the Medes and East
Indians.
Javan, means
"effervescing" or one in a state of bubbling heat".
He fathered the Ionians and Greeks. His sons occupy
Cyprus, Rhodes, and other islands and coasts of the
Mediterranean and the coast of Spain, Italy and
Portugal.
Tubal, means,
"thou shalt be led". The city of Tobolsk was named
after him. He settled near Cappadocia in Asia Minor
and fathered the Bulgarians, Hungarians, Albanians,
Romanians, other related groups.
Meshech means
"led along". The city of Moscow (Muskovi) is named
after him. Initially settling in northern Turkey
south east of the Caspian Sea, he fathered the
Poles, Finns, Czechs, Yugoslavs and other related
groups.
Tiras, means
"expulsion", "impoverish" or "disinherit". He
settled across the Propontis and fathered the
Thracians, maritime groups, and possibly the
Etruscans of Italy.
Through his
sons Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah, Gomer peopled
much of Armenia and the Carpathian
Mountains.
Ashkenaz,
means "a man as sprinkled: fire as scattered". He
settled first in Armenia, migrating thence to
Bithynia, the northern islands of Europe and
European west coast: Germany, Scandinavia and
Denmark.
Riphath,
means "slander: fault". He settled in
Czechslovakia, Romania, and Turkey.
Togarmah,
means "thou wilt break her". His earliest
descendants settled in Armenia, Turkey and Germany.
In the late eighth century BC, Assyria probably
uprooted and transported most of those still living
in Armenia.
Elishah,
means "my God has disregarded". The Greek
translation is "Hellas". His descendants settled in
Greece.
Tarshish,
means "she will cause poverty: she will shatter".
He settled Spain.
Kittim, means
"beaters-down" or "bruisers". Kittim settled
Cyprus, other Mediterranean islands, and
Macedonia.
Dodanium,
means "leaders". He settled Rhodes and the
Dardanelles and was subsequently deified and
worshipped as Jupiter Dodonaeus.
Ham,
literally means "warm" or "passionate" as revealed
by his sin with his father's wife. Although Ham
first established himself in Sumer, the land of Ham
is Africa; more particularly Egypt (Psalms 78:51;
105:23; 106:22). His descendants, however, were
first to leave the territory assigned them,
emigrating from Asia to the islands and the
Americas.
The Shemites
were still in the area at the time of Abram. It is
the Canaanites who were "spread abroad" or
driven out and scattered (Genesis 10:18) in the
days of Peleg and later "divided" by the
Gentiles or Japhethites when God
"enlarged" them (Genesis 9:27; 10:5,
25).
Looking at
history, whichever region we consider, Africa,
Europe, Australia, or America, the major migrations
have always been from Asia (Genesis 10:18). In
every area of the world where Japhethites have
subsequently settled, they have always been
preceded by Hamites. This pattern applies in every
continent, as the earliest fossil remains of man
have been Mongoloid or Negroid in character and
head shape, whereas those that came last belong to
the family of Japheth (Caucasoid). If we study
ancient history and technological achievements,
which were in many ways the equal of, or superior
to much of what we have today, they were founded
and carried to that high technological proficiency
by Hamitic people, showing an amazing adaptability
to the world in which they lived. Their
achievements were exploited by the Japhetic people,
who became great scientific discoverers.
The evidence
appears to point consistently that not only Africa
with its black races, but the Far East, the
Americas, and other Island nations with their
colored races were all descendants of Ham. Hamitic
people were the first to reach the far and distant
lands of the world as prophesied by Genesis 10:18,
preparing the way for the future. Their inventions
and discoveries made a significant impact on the
world, and provided inspiration for the
Japhethites. Their Babylonish religion however, was
most certainly not the original religion of earth's
early peoples.
Ham's
"religion gained prominence as proven by the fact
that Scripture identifies it with Satan completely
in Isaiah Chapter 14 and in Revelation Chapters
17-18. And by history we can prove that it invaded
the whole world and is the basis for every system
of idolatry, and the theme of mythology, though the
names of the gods differ in various sections of the
land according to the language of the
people."
The
polytheistic religion of the enemy began with the
trinitarian doctrine. It was way back there in
antiquity that the "one God in three persons" idea
came into existence . . . our modern theologians
have not spotted this . . . Is it not strange that
while the descendants of Ham went on their way in
Satanic worship which involved a basic concept of
three gods that there is not one trace of the
descendants of Shem believing such a thing or
having any ceremonl worship that involved even a
type of it?"
"And Cush
begat Nimrod." "Not only is this so but we
find that Ham begat Cush. Now, in the Egyptian
culture Bel was called Hermes, and Hermes means,
"THE SON OF HAM". According to history Hermes was
the great prophet of idolatry. He was the
interpreter of the gods. Another name by which he
was called was Mercury. (Read Acts
14:11-12)"
"Cush, then,
was the father of the polytheistic system and when
men were deified by men, he of course, became the
father of the gods. Cush introduced ancestor
worship and also the trinity. Now Cush was called
Bel. And Bel in Roman mythology was Janus. He is
pictured as having two faces and he carried a club
by which he confounded and "scattered" the people.
Ovid writes that Janus said concerning himself,
"the ancients called me Chaos". Thus we find that
the Cush of the Bible, the original rebel against
monotheism was called Bel, Belus, Hermes, Janus,
etc. amongst the ancient peoples. He purported to
bring revelations and interpretations from the gods
to the people. In so doing he caused the wrath of
God to scatter the people, bringing division and
confusion. (William Branham, An
Exposition of the Seven Church Ages,
182:1; 184:1; 186:2; 187:2).
Cush, means
"black", a metaphor for "wickedness" or "terror".
Cush settled first in Shinar, thence south Arabia,
southern Egypt, the Sudan and northern
Ethiopia.
Mizraim,
means "double straitness" and is a plural word,
perhaps prophetic of the division of upper and
lower Egypt where he settled in North
Africa.
Phut, means
"a bow". Jeremiah 46:9 calls his people archers.
They settled Libya and are the Cyrenaeans and North
Africans.
Canaan
settled in the land of Canaan. The Hamitic origin
of his name means, "belonging to the land of red
purple" after the murex sea shells from which this
dye was extracted. In Akkadian it meant
"red-colored wool". The Greeks renamed them
"phoenicians" from the Greek "Phoniki" which means
dark red. The Romans transcribed the Greek
"phoenix" to "poenus", thus calling the emigres to
Carthage "punic". In Hebrew it means "merchant", or
"trafficer" -- "to bend the knee", "humiliate",
"bring down low", or "vanquish". Genesis 10:18
said, "the families of the Canaanites
(would be scattered, vanquished, or) spread
abroad".
Seba, the
firstborn son of Cush, whose name literally means
"drink up", settled the west coast of the Arabian
Peninsula, founding the nation of the Sabaeans,
nowadays called Yemen.
Havilah,
literally means "anguish", "pain", or "travail".
Settled on the eastern coast of northern Arabia
near present-day Kuwait.
Sabtah,
literally means "he compassed the mark". He Settled
on the east coast of southern Arabia.
Raamah,
literally means "thunder". He settled on the east
coast of southern Arabia, possibly in present-day
Oman.
Sabtechah,
means "striking". He settled in Yemen.
Sheba, means
"seven" or "an oath". He settled north of Yemen in
a fertile land known as the "Spice Kingdom" whence
the queen brought oil of spikenard as a gift to
king Solomon.
Dedan, means
"low country". He settled in the United Arab
Emirates in the Persian Gulf.
Nimrod,
literally means "the rebel". He pushed his own
designs in open defiance of God and is discredited
with instigating the Great Rebellion at Babel and
founding the very features of paganism by
introducing magic, astrology and human
sacrifice.
"Cush
introduced a three god worship of father, son and
spirit. Three gods who were all equal. But he knew
about the seed of the woman coming, so there would
have to be a woman and her seed come into the
picture. This was brought to pass when Nimrod died.
His wife, Semiramis deified him, and thus made
herself the mother of the son and also the mother
of the gods. (Just exactly as the Roman church has
deified Mary. They claim she was without sin and
was the Mother of God.) She (Semiramis) called
Nimrod "Zeroashta" which means, "the woman's
promised seed" (William Branham, An
Exposition of the Seven Church Ages,
187:3). Nimrod is also known as "the husband of the
mother", (reminiscent of Ham's relationship with
Noah's wife which spawned Canaan).
Semiramis is
said to have ruled for 42 years gloriously after
Nimrod's death, conquoring Persia, Libya and
Ethiopia, being unsuccessful in India alone
(Lenurmant, La Legende de
Semiramis, 1873;
Historical Review,
January 1888, "The Legend of Semiramis" A. H.
Sayce).
Ludim,
literally means "firebrand" or "travailing". They
settled Lybia on the northern coast of
Africa.
Anamim, means
"affliction of the waters". They settled in the
Nile Delta but as little is known of this tribe
they may have been devastated by the Ethiopic
War.
Lehabim,
means "flames" or "a glittering blade". They
settled in Libya but perhaps this tribe was
destroyed in the Ethiopic War.
Naphtuhim,
means "openings". This people are known to have
settled in the Nile Delta and the western parts of
Egypt. Early records refer to them as "they of the
delta" or "marshland". Josephus says they were
destroyed in the Ethiopic War.
Pathrusim,
means "a morsel moistening". They settled Pathros
in upper Egypt.
Casluhim,
means "forgiven ones". They are the Colchihans of
the Egyptian town Chemnis, Panoplis, in northern
Egypt.
Philistim,
means "immigrants". These are the Philistines who
migrated to and occupied the lower part of the
Mediterranean coast belonging to Shem.
Caphtorim,
means "knob" or "bud". They also migrated to the
lower part of the Mediterranean coast belonging to
Shem and are the Philistines.
Canaan
receives his first Biblical definition in the Table
of Nations as the father of Sidon and Heth, of the
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, Hivites, Arkites,
Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The
five names following Sidon are familiar as the
inhabitants of the "Promised Land" (Exodus 13:5).
They occupied the area enclosed by the border of
Genesis 10:19, running south from Sidon towards
Gaza, through Gerar and across to the cities of the
Dead Sea plain. No eastern limit is drawn.
At the time of the conquest, the land as a whole
was named Canaan (Numbers 35:10), a usage
understandable in light of Canaan's place at the
head of the peoples of Genesis 10:15-19.
The
Canaanites practiced the most sordid and evil
religions based on ritual murder and sexual
perversion. Their idol, Baal, was the son of El,
the head of a pantheon of decadent deities. God
commanded Israel to completely destroy these
corrupt civilizations including their
animals.
The vast
aggregate of peoples generally classified as
Mongoloid, who settled the Far East are descendants
of the Canaanites, including the people of the
South Sea Islands, Eskimos and most of the native
Indian tribes of North and South America. These
Asian people have a "Mongoloid Spot", a blue or
blue-gray spot on their tailbones at
birth.
Sidon, means
"to hunt". Sidon is in Palestine on the
Mediterranean coast north of Tyre.
Heth,
literally means "terror". He was progenitor of the
Hittite nation, whose name was known to the
Assyrians as the Khatti. The Hittites were
apparently the first nation to smelt iron. The
Armarna tablets contain letters that were sent from
the Hittite emperor Subbiluliuma to the Pharoah
Amenhotep IV. Rameses II also tells us how he
engaged the Hittites in what was the earliest
recorded battle involving massed chariots. This was
the famous battle of Kadesh, and it appears that
the Hittites got the better of the Egyptian forces.
Heth's name was perpetuated in the Hittite capital
Hattushash; modern Boghazkoy in Turkey. Rome's
ancient rival, Carthage, was colonized through
Canaan's sons Sidon and Heth.
Jebusite,
literally means "trodden down by armies" (Daniel
9:27; Luke 21:24). Jebus was the original name for
Jerusalem around which the Jebusites
settled.
Amorite,
means "a boaster". The Amorites dwelt east of
Canaan by the Dead Sea and the Jordan (Joshua
24:11). They were to conquer Babylonia,
subsequently producing one of the most famous kings
in the ancient world, Hammui, whose own name
contains the designation Amarru. God told Abraham,
"Israel will return to Canaan when the iniquity
of the Amorites is come to the full" (Exodus
15:16).
Girgasite,
means "dwelling on clayey soil". They lived east of
the river Jordan and the Sea of Galilee.
Hivite, means
"villager". They dwelt at the base of Mount Hermon
in the Valleys of Lebanon, and at Shechem (Genesis
34:2; Joshua 9:7-17; 11:19).
Arkite, means
"my annoyance". They dwelt near Mount
Lebanon.
Sinite, means
"thorn", "clay" or "mire". They dwelt on the coast,
west of Mount Lebanon.
Heth
(Hittites) and Sin (Sinites) are the progenitors of
Chinese and Mongoloid stock. "Hittite" in Cuneiform
appears as Khittae, representing a once powerful
nation from the Far East, preserved through the
centuries in the more familiar Chinese term,
Cathay. The Cathay were Mongoloids and considered a
part of early Chinese stock. Links between the
known Hittites and Cathay include, for example,
their modes of dress, their shoes with turned-up
toes, and the custom of wearing their hair in a
pigtail. Representations show them to have
possessed high cheekbones, and craniologists have
observed that they had the common characteristics
of Mongoloids.
"Sin", a
brother of Heth, has many occurrences in variant
forms in the Far East. The place most closely
associated by the Chinese themselves with the
origin of their civilization is the capital of
Shensi, namely, Siang-fu or "Father Sin", on the
Wei, a tributory of the Yellow River, near
important gold and jade mines. The Chinese have a
tradition that their first king, Fu-hi, made his
appearance on the Mountains of Chin after the world
had been covered with water. Their character for
ship signifies eight souls in a boat. Sin himself
was the third generation from Noah, a circumstance
which would provide about the right interval of
time. (J. Pye Smith and J. Inglis,
Notes on the Book of
Genesis, Gall & Inglis, London,
1977, p.89).
Moreover,
those who came from the Far East to trade with the
Scythians were called Sinae (Sin). Ptolemy, a Greek
astronomer, referred to China as the land of Sinim
or Sin. Reference to the Sinim in Isaiah 49:12
notes they came "from afar," specifically
not from the north and not from the west (see
Revelation 16:12). Arabs called China Sin, Chin,
Mahachin, or Machin. The Sin were spoken of as a
people in the remotest parts of Asia. Their most
important town was Thin, a great trading emporium
in western China. This city is now known as Thsin
or simply Tin, and it lies in the province of
Shensi. The Sin became independent in Western
China, their princes reigning there for some 650
years before they finally gained dominion over the
whole land. In the third century B.C., the dynasty
of Tsin became supreme. In 217 B.C., Prince Cheng,
founder of the Ch'in Dynasty (from which the name
"China" is taken) unified China and took the title
of Shih Hwang-ti (First Emperor). Shih Hwang-ti
built much of the Great Wall of China, and a
network of roads and canals that converged on his
capitol, near modern Sian, in Shensi
province.
The word Tsin
itself came to have the meaning of purebred. Hence
non-Chinese are regarded as barbarians. This word
was assumed as a title by the Manchu Emperors and
is believed to have been changed by the Malays into
the form Tchina and brought into Europe by the
Portuguese as China. Chinese and surrounding
languages form part of the Sino-Tibetan language
family. Years ago, newspapers regularly carried
headlines with reference to the conflict between
the Chinese and Japanese in which the ancient name
reappeared in its original form, for they commonly
spoke of the Sino-Japanese war.
With respect
to the Cathay people of historical reference, it
would make sense to suppose that the remnants of
the Hittites, after the destruction of their
empire, traveled towards the east and
settled among the Sinites who were relatives,
contributing to their civilization, and thus
becoming the ancestors of many Asian people groups
including the Khazar or Ashkenazim "Jews". Still
others migrated throughout the region and beyond,
making up the present-day Mongoloid races in Asia
and the Americas. What the Chinese call "Hsiung-nu"
are the Turko-Mogul nomad tribes we know as
"Huns".
China is
unique among the great civilizations in that at no
time in its long history has it produced a strong,
priestly group. Chinese attitudes towards religion
are a mixture of superstition and practicality.
They have never persecuted on religious grounds and
there are few Chinese martyrs.
In spite of
their Hamitic descent, the Canaanites spoke a
Semitic language . . . "so close as would
deceive the very elect if it were possible"
(Matthew 24:24). At last we can understand the
motives behind "multiculturalism" as we realize
that the tribe who proposed and forced this curse
of God upon Adam's race today are kin to the tribes
being imposed upon us, fulfilling the prophecy of
our Lord Jesus: that "as it was in the days of
Noah", miscegenation with these immoral people
would repeat (Genesis 1:11; 6:1-4; Matthew
24:37-38).
Arvadite,
means "breakaway" or "restless wanderer". Arvad
settled on the Phoenician Island of Arad off the
coast of Lebanon near Tripoli.
Zemarites,
means "double woolens". They settled the coast
adjacent to the Arvadites
Hamathites,
means "fortress" or "enclosure of wrath". They
dwelt in Hamath, the chief city of upper Syria on
the Orontes river.
Shem,
literally means "renown". His descendants settled
in Arabia. Shem is so familiar to us that we have
no need to discuss him in this study, the purpose
of which is to identify the peoples of Japheth, Ham
and Canaan.
Elam, means
"eternity". He settled a province east of Babylon
and northeast of the lower Tigris and just north of
Persia. He is the father of the Kurds and
Iranians.
Asshur is the
same name as Asher and means "happy" or
"successful". He is ancestor to the Assyrians or
Northern Iraquis.
Aprhaxad,
means "he cursed the breast bottle". He was the
ancestor of the Chaldeans of Southern Iraq,
Hebrews, Arabians, Amorites, and the
Moabites/Jordanians.
Lud, means
"firebrand" or "travailing". He is the ancestor of
the Lydians who settled in Asia Minor and spoke an
Indo-European language.
Aram, means
"highland". He became the Aramaeans or Syrians and
Lebanese.
Uz, means
"counsel". Northern Arabia, the land of Job (Job
1:1) between Babylonia and Edom, seems his most
likely area of settlement.
Eber, means
"emigrants" or "to vanish to the region beyond".
Eber is the father of the Hebrews.
Peleg, comes
from the root word "palag", which means (literally
or figuratively) "division" or to split. He was the
fifth generation after the Flood when the earth was
divided by tongues.
Joktan, means
"smallness" or "insignificance". He is the
progenitor of no less than thirteen southern
Arabian tribes. Only the purest Arabs (it is still
maintained), are those Semitic Arabs descended from
Joktan; whilst the Hamitic Arabs are referred to
somewhat disdainfully as Musta 'rabs, that is,
pretended Arabs.
Almodad,
means "not measured". His area of settlement cannot
be precisely determined, perhaps Yemen.
Sheleph,
means "a drawing out". He became a Yemeni tribe of
Arabs.
Hazarmaveth,
means "settlement of death". He settled in
south-east Arabia.
Jerah, means
"new moon". He dwelt on the south-east Arabian
coast.
Hadoram,
means "noble honor". He dwelt in southern
Arabia.
Uzal, means
"I shall be flooded". He dwelt in Yemen.
Diklah, means
"palm grove". Transposed into the Greek "Tigris",
it is supposed that they settled in the
north-eastern extremity of the Arabian
peninsula.
Obal, means
"stripped bare". He became a Yemeni
tribe.
Abimael,
means "my father is God". He became a Yemeni
tribe.
Sheba, means
"seven" or "an oath". He too became a Yemeni
tribe.
Ophir, means
"reducing to ashes". He dwelt on the coast of
south-west Arabia.
Havilah,
means "circle" or "writhe (in anguish)". He
occupied the eastern shore of the gulf of
Aquaba.
Jobab, means
"He will cause crying". He settled close by
present-day Mecca. Next
Bibliography
J. Pye Smith & J. Inglis,
Notes on the Book of Genesis, Gall & Inglis,
London, 1977, p.89; Henry M. Morris, The Genesis
Record, p.247-249; William M. Branham, An
Exposition of the Seven Church Ages; The Revelation
of the Seven Seals; and, We Have Seen His Star and
Have Come to Worship Him; The Works of Josephus;
Arthur C. Custance, Noah's Three Sons, Zondervan,
1975, p.368; Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons;
Lenurmant, "La Legende de Semiramis", 1873;
Historical Review, January 1888, "The Legend of
Semiramis" A. H. Sayce; Anglo-Saxon Chronicles;
Bill Cooper, Table of Nations www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm
bb000319.htm
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/
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