Origin of Our Conflicts
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A MAN WHO LOVED OLD BOOKS
• RAN INTO AN ACQUAINTANCE WHO
HAD JUST THROWN AWAY A BIBLE
• WHICH HAD BEEN STORED IN THE
ATTIC OF HIS ANCESTRAL HOME FOR
GENERATIONS.
• "I COULDN'T READ IT," THE FRIEND
EXPLAINED.
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• "SOMEBODY NAMED GUTENSOMETHING HAD PRINTED IT."
• "NOT GUTENBERG!" THE BOOK
LOVER EXCLAIMED IN HORROR.
• "THAT BIBLE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
BOOKS EVER PRINTED.
• WHY, A COPY JUST SOLD FOR OVER
TWO MILLION DOLLARS!"
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• HIS FRIEND WAS UNIMPRESSED. "MINE
WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT A DOLLAR.
• SOME FELLOW NAMED MARTIN
LUTHER HAD SCRIBBLED ALL OVER IT
IN GERMAN."
• SOMETIMES PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND
THE VALUE OF THE BIBLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:16
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ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BY
GOD AND PROFITABLE FOR
TEACHING, FOR REPROOF, FOR
CORRECTION, FOR TRAINING
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS;
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• YES ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED
AND PROFITABLE
• WITH SOME SCRIPTURES THE
USE FOR TRAINING,
CORRECTION, AND REPROOF
• ARE OBVIOUS, OTHER TIMES WE
HAVE LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
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• TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT
A GENEALOGY
• PRIOR TO THE FLOOD WE SEE THE
GENEALOGY FROM ADAM TO NOAH
• FOLLOWING THE FLOOD WE SEE
THE GENEALOGY OF THOSE WHO
COME AFTER NOAH
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• THIS 2ND GENEALOGY IS FAR MORE
RELEVANT TO OUR WORLD
• FAR MORE VALUABLE THAN IT
APPEARS
• AT FIRST GLANCE IT IS JUST A LIST
OF NAMES FROM THE ANCIENT
WORLD
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• SURELY NONE OF THE PROBLEMS
WE FACE IN THE MODERN WORLD
• WERE AFFECTED IN ANY WAY BY
SOME LIST OF NAMES FROM
1000s OF YEARS AGO.
• BUT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
WHAT CHANGES IN THE WORLD
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• FROM THE MOMENT THE LIST
STARTS UNTIL THE LIST IS
COMPLETED (PAUSE)
• THIS CHAPTER IS SOMETIMES
CALLED THE TABLE OF NATIONS
• THE PURPOSE OF THIS GENEALOGY
IS TO SHOW THE CONNECTIONS
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• BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WE FIND
DISCUSSED IN THE REST OF THE
BIBLE
• ALL THESE PEOPLE’S CAME FROM
NOAH THEY ARE ALL RELATED
• BUT SOME ARE MORE CLOSELY
RELATED THAN OTHERS
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• TURN TO GENESIS 10:1
• MOSES HAD JUST TOLD OF HOW
NOAH HAD GOTTEN DRUNK
• AND PASSED OUT IN HIS TENT
• HAM HAD SEEN HIM THERE
AND TOLD HIS BROTHERS SHEM
AND JAPHETH
• AND THEY HAD SHOW
KINDNESS TO THEIR FATHER
AND COVERED HIM UP
• NOAH WOKE UP AND FOUND
OUT WHAT HIS SON’S HAD
DONE
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• HE PROPHESIED THAT THE
DESCENDENTS OF HAM’S SON
CANAAN WOULD BE
• SERVANTS TO THE DECEDENTS
OF SHEM
GENESIS 10:1–5
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NOW THESE ARE THE RECORDS OF THE
GENERATIONS OF SHEM, HAM, AND
JAPHETH, THE SONS OF NOAH; AND
SONS WERE BORN TO THEM AFTER THE
FLOOD. THE SONS OF JAPHETH WERE
GOMER AND MAGOG AND MADAI AND
JAVAN AND TUBAL AND MESHECH AND
TIRAS.
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THE SONS OF GOMER WERE
ASHKENAZ AND RIPHATH AND
TOGARMAH. THE SONS OF
JAVAN WERE ELISHAH AND
TARSHISH, KITTIM AND
DODANIM.
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FROM THESE THE COASTLANDS
OF THE NATIONS WERE
SEPARATED INTO THEIR LANDS,
EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO
HIS LANGUAGE, ACCORDING
TO THEIR FAMILIES, INTO
THEIR NATIONS.
• THERE IS A PHRASE THAT WE WILL
SEE REPEATED OVER AND OVER IN
THIS CHAPTER
• EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS
LANGUAGE, ACCORDING TO THEIR
FAMILIES, INTO THEIR NATIONS.
• THIS IS REALLY THE POINT OF THIS
WHOLE CHAPTER
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• THEY HAD ALL BEEN ONE FAMILY
• THEY ALL CAME FROM THREE
BROTHERS
• BUT AS TIME PASSES THEY
SEPARATE INTO THEIR OWN
LANDS
• INTO THEIR OWN NATIONS
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• THE LINE OF JAPHETH IS PRIMARILY
ASSOCIATED
• WITH NORTHERN AND WESTERN
AREAS TURKEY, GREECE, AND
EUROPE
• SOME OF THE NAMES MENTIONED
HERE COME UP AGAIN IN THE BIBLE
IN PROPHECIES
EZEKIEL 38:2
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“SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE
TOWARD GOG OF THE LAND
OF MAGOG, THE PRINCE OF
ROSH, MESHECH AND TUBAL,
AND PROPHESY AGAINST HIM
REVELATION 20:7–8
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WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE
COMPLETED, SATAN WILL BE
RELEASED FROM HIS PRISON, AND
WILL COME OUT TO DECEIVE THE
NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR
CORNERS OF THE EARTH,
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GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER
THEM TOGETHER FOR THE
WAR; THE NUMBER OF THEM
IS LIKE THE SAND OF THE
SEASHORE.
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• IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO SEE
THE MENTION OF TARSHISH IN
THIS LIST
• THIS IS WHERE JONAH TRIES
FLEE TO WHEN HE FLEES FROM
THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
JONAH 1:3
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BUT JONAH ROSE UP TO FLEE TO
TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE
LORD. SO HE WENT DOWN TO JOPPA,
FOUND A SHIP WHICH WAS GOING TO
TARSHISH, PAID THE FARE AND WENT
DOWN INTO IT TO GO WITH THEM TO
TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE
LORD.
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• IT IS LIKELY THAT MOSES RECORDS
JAPHETH’S LINE FIRST
• BECAUSE IT IS NOT AS CLOSELY
LINKED TO ISRAEL’S CURRENT
SITUATION
• HE MENTIONS THIS LINE VERY BRIEFLY
• AND GOES INTO MUCH MORE DETAIL
WITH OTHER LINES
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• IT IS NOT THAT THIS GROUP OF
PEOPLE IS NOT IMPORTANT
• MOST OF US COME FROM THIS LINE
• THE DESCENDENTS OF THIS LINE WILL
BE THE EARLY CHURCH
• THIS LINE IS PART OF GOD’S PLAN, A
PLAN WHICH INCLUDES SALVATION
• FOR ALL THE TRIBES OF THE WORLD
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• THIS LINE IS IMPORTANT
• BUT MOSES IS GOING TO
PROVIDE MORE DETAIL ABOUT
THE NEXT LINE
• BECAUSE A HIS AUDIENCE IS WILL
BE SPENDING THE NEXT 700 OR
SO YEARS DEALING WITH THEM.
GENESIS 10:6–7
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THE SONS OF HAM WERE CUSH AND
MIZRAIM AND PUT AND CANAAN.
THE SONS OF CUSH WERE SEBA AND
HAVILAH AND SABTAH AND RAAMAH
AND SABTECA; AND THE SONS OF
RAAMAH WERE SHEBA AND DEDAN.
• THE DESCENDANTS OF HAM LIVED
IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN
PART
• OF WHAT WE NOW CALL THE
MIDDLE EAST
• CUSH SETTLED IN PRESENT DAY
EGYPT, SUDAN, AND NORTHERN
ETHIOPIA
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• HAVILAH LITERALLY MEANS SANDLAND,
• AND LIKELY REFERS TO THE
ARABIAN PENINSULA, OR PERSIAN
GULF
• OTHER NAMES IN THIS LIST REFER
TO LOCATIONS AND PEOPLE
GROUPS
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• IN THIS SAME REGION.
• MOSES IS GOING TO PICK TWO
GROUPS FROM THIS LINE TO
FOCUS ON
• FIRST HE FOCUSES ON AN ONE
MAN
GENESIS 10:8–12
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NOW CUSH BECAME THE FATHER OF
NIMROD; HE BECAME A MIGHTY
ONE ON THE EARTH. HE WAS A
MIGHTY HUNTER BEFORE THE
LORD; THEREFORE IT IS SAID, “LIKE
NIMROD A MIGHTY HUNTER
BEFORE THE LORD.”
THE BEGINNING OF HIS
KINGDOM WAS BABEL AND
ERECH AND ACCAD AND
CALNEH, IN THE LAND OF
SHINAR.
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FROM THAT LAND HE WENT
FORTH INTO ASSYRIA, AND
BUILT NINEVEH AND
REHOBOTH-IR AND CALAH,
AND RESEN BETWEEN
NINEVEH AND CALAH; THAT IS
THE GREAT CITY.
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• MOSES TELLS US A LOT ABOUT NIMROD
• NIMROD BECAME A MIGHTY ONE ON
THE EARTH
• HE WAS A MIGHTY HUNTER
• NIMROD IS THE FIRST AFTER THE FLOOD
TO BUILD A KINGDOM THE FIRST TO
RULE OVER OTHER MEN AS A KING
(PAUSE)
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• THE TEXT SAYS HIS KINGDOM BEGAN
AT BABEL
• IN THE NEXT CHAPTER WE WILL SEE
HOW THAT TURNS OUT
• I THINK IT IS POSSIBLE THAT MOSES
FEATURES NIMROD
• AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEXT
CHAPTER
• NIMROD STARTS HIS KINGDOM AT
BABEL BUT HE DOES NOT STOP
THERE
• WE CAN SEE THAT HE GOES ON
FROM BABEL TO BUILD CITIES IN
ASSYRIA
• NINEVEH WAS ONE OF THOSE
CITIES
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• IN THE BOOK OF JONAH IT IS
DESCRIBED AS
• AN EXCEEDINGLY GREAT CITY, A
THREE DAYS’ WALK.
• THAT EITHER MEANS IT TOOK
THREE DAYS TO WALK ACROSS THE
CITY OR 3 DAYS TO WALK AROUND
THE CITY
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• EITHER WAY THAT IS A REALLY BIG CITY
• NIMROD WAS VERY SUCESSFUL.
• MOSES CONTINUES IN THE LINE OF
HAM
• MOVING NEXT TO THE GROUP OF
PEOPLE THAT
• WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON THE
LIVES OF HIS AUDIENCE
GENESIS 10:13–20
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MIZRAIM BECAME THE FATHER OF
LUDIM AND ANAMIM AND
LEHABIM AND NAPHTUHIM AND
PATHRUSIM AND CASLUHIM
(FROM WHICH CAME THE
PHILISTINES) AND CAPHTORIM.
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CANAAN BECAME THE FATHER OF
SIDON, HIS FIRSTBORN, AND HETH
AND THE JEBUSITE AND THE
AMORITE AND THE GIRGASHITE
AND THE HIVITE AND THE ARKITE
AND THE SINITE AND THE
ARVADITE AND THE ZEMARITE
AND THE HAMATHITE;
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AND AFTERWARD THE FAMILIES OF THE
CANAANITE WERE SPREAD ABROAD.
THE TERRITORY OF THE CANAANITE
EXTENDED FROM SIDON AS YOU GO
TOWARD GERAR, AS FAR AS GAZA; AS
YOU GO TOWARD SODOM AND
GOMORRAH AND ADMAH AND
ZEBOIIM, AS FAR AS LASHA.
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THESE ARE THE SONS OF HAM,
ACCORDING TO THEIR
FAMILIES, ACCORDING TO
THEIR LANGUAGES, BY THEIR
LANDS, BY THEIR NATIONS.
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• FIRST MOSES LISTS THE LINE OF
MIZRIAM
• IN THIS LIST WE SEE THE PHILISTINES
MENTIONED
• THE ISRAELITES WILL HAVE ALL KINDA
PROBLEMS
• WITH THESE PHILISTINES AS THEY
INHABIT THE PROMISED LAND (PAUSE)
• THEN MOSES LISTS THE LINE
OF CANAAN
• ALL OF THESE LISTED ARE
CONSIDERED CANAANITES
• THE NAMES LISTED ARE THE
DIFFERENT TRIBES WITH IN
THE CANAANITES
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• THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO
ARE THE ISRAELITES WILL FACE
• AS THEY COME INTO THE
PROMISED LAND
• MANY OF THE NAMES IN THIS
LINE APPEAR AGAIN IN
DEUTERONOMY 7:1–2
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“WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD BRINGS
YOU INTO THE LAND WHERE YOU ARE
ENTERING TO POSSESS IT, AND CLEARS
AWAY MANY NATIONS BEFORE YOU, THE
HITTITES AND THE GIRGASHITES AND
THE AMORITES AND THE CANAANITES
AND THE PERIZZITES AND THE HIVITES
AND THE JEBUSITES,
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SEVEN NATIONS GREATER AND
STRONGER THAN YOU, AND WHEN
THE LORD YOUR GOD DELIVERS
THEM BEFORE YOU AND YOU DEFEAT
THEM, THEN YOU SHALL UTTERLY
DESTROY THEM. YOU SHALL MAKE
NO COVENANT WITH THEM AND
SHOW NO FAVOR TO THEM.
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• THE JEBUSITES LIVED IN THE CITY OF
SALEM
• WHICH WILL LATER BECOME
JERUSALEM
• THE FIVE KINGS OF THE AMORITES
WERE DEFEATED BY JOSHUA
• MOSES NOT ONLY LISTS THE NAMES
OF THE TRIBES THEY WILL FACE
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• HE EVEN DESCRIBES THE BOUNDARIES
OF THE PROMISED LAND
• “THE TERRITORY OF THE CANAANITE
EXTENDED FROM SIDON AS YOU GO
TOWARD GERAR, AS FAR AS GAZA; AS
YOU GO TOWARD SODOM AND
GOMORRAH AND ADMAH AND
ZEBOIIM, AS FAR AS LASHA.”
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• IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AT
THE TIME MOSES WRITES THIS
• THE CANAANITES ACTUALLY HAS
BETTER LAND
• THAN SHEM BUT THE CANAANITES DO
NOT HAVE THE BLESSING OF GOD
(PAUSE)
• THE ACCOUNT OF THE LINE OF CANAAN
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• OF THE FAMILIES AND NATIONS
THAT DESCENDED FROM HIM,
• AND OF THE LAND THEY
POSSESSED,
• IS MORE PARTICULAR THAN OF ANY
OTHER IN THIS CHAPTER,
• BECAUSE THESE WERE THE NATIONS
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• THAT WERE TO BE SUBDUED BEFORE
ISRAEL,
• AND THEIR LAND, WAS IN PROCESS
OF TIME TO BECOME THE HOLY LAND,
• BUT IT IS THE LINE OF SHEM THAT
WILL COME AND TAKE THE HOLY
LAND
• FROM THE CANAANITES
GENESIS 10:21–22
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ALSO TO SHEM, THE FATHER OF ALL
THE CHILDREN OF EBER, AND THE
OLDER BROTHER OF JAPHETH,
CHILDREN WERE BORN. THE SONS
OF SHEM WERE ELAM AND
ASSHUR AND ARPACHSHAD AND
LUD AND ARAM.
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• IT IS INTERESTING THAT SHEM IS
DESCRIBED AS
• “THE FATHER OF ALL THE
CHILDREN OF EBER”
• EBER WAS HIS GREAT GRANDSON;
• BUT WHY SHOULD HE BE CALLED
THE FATHER OF ALL HIS CHILDREN,
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• RATHER THAN OF ALL
ARPACHSHAD’S, OR SALAH’S,
• THIS IS PROBABLY BECAUSE
ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED,
• GOD’S COVENANT-PEOPLE, NOT
ONLY DESCENDED FROM EBER,
• BUT ARE CALLED HEBREWS BECAUSE
OF EBBER
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• THIS IS MORE CLEAR IN THE
HEBREW LANGUAGE
• BASICALLY THE WORD HEBREW
IS A WAY OF SAYING
• THE DESCENDANTS OF EBER
• MOSES GOES ON TO CONNECT
SHEM TO EBER
GENESIS 10:23–24
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THE SONS OF ARAM WERE UZ
AND HUL AND GETHER AND
MASH. ARPACHSHAD BECAME
THE FATHER OF SHELAH; AND
SHELAH BECAME THE FATHER
OF EBER.
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• WE DON’T REALLY FIND THE
MEN IN THIS LIST MENTIONED
AGAIN THE BIBLE
• BUT WE DO FIND MENTION OF
THE LAND OF UZ JOB IS SAID
TO LIVE THERE
• AND LABAN, JACOB’S
FATHER INLAW IS CALLED AN
ARAMEAN
• A DESCENDANT OF ARAM
• MOSES CONTINUES THE
GENEALOGY
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GENESIS 10:25–31
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TWO SONS WERE BORN TO
EBER; THE NAME OF THE ONE
WAS PELEG, FOR IN HIS DAYS
THE EARTH WAS DIVIDED; AND
HIS BROTHER’S NAME WAS
JOKTAN.
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JOK-TAN BECAME THE FATHER OF
AL-MO-DAD AND SHE-LEPH AND
HAZ-ARMA-VETH AND JE-RAH AND
HAD-O-RAM AND UZAL AND DIKLAH AND OBAL AND
A-BIMA-EL AND SHE-BA AND OPHIR
AND HAV-ILAH AND
JO-BAB;
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ALL THESE WERE THE SONS OF
JOKTAN. NOW THEIR
SETTLEMENT EXTENDED FROM
MESHA AS YOU GO TOWARD
SEPHAR, THE HILL COUNTRY
OF THE EAST.
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THESE ARE THE SONS OF SHEM,
ACCORDING TO THEIR
FAMILIES, ACCORDING TO
THEIR LANGUAGES, BY THEIR
LANDS, ACCORDING TO THEIR
NATIONS.
• THIS SECTION CONTAINS THE
MOST DETAILED ACCOUNT
• FOUND IN THIS GENEALOGY
• MOSES IS PROVIDING THIS
DETAIL BECAUSE
• IT IS A LINK BETWEEN NOAH
AND ABRAM (PAUSE)
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• THE NOTE ON EBER’S SON
PELEG
• THAT IN HIS TIME THE EARTH
WAS DIVIDED
• MAY PINPOINT THE BABEL
EVENT
• THE HEBREW WORD PELEG
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• IS USED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO
DESCRIBE DIVISION INTO
LANGUAGES.
• SO THE BABEL EVENT OCCURRED
FIVE GENERATIONS AFTER THE
FLOOD.
• MOSES CONCLUDES THE
GENEALOGY BY SAYING
GENESIS 10:32
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THESE ARE THE FAMILIES OF THE
SONS OF NOAH, ACCORDING TO
THEIR GENEALOGIES, BY THEIR
NATIONS; AND OUT OF THESE THE
NATIONS WERE SEPARATED ON
THE EARTH AFTER THE FLOOD.
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• IN THIS CONCLUSION MOSES
REPEATS THE MAIN POINT
• THAT ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE
WORLD COME FROM THE SONS OF
NOAH
• THAT THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT
NATIONS NOW BUT THEY COME
FROM ONE FAMILY
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• AND HE POINTS OUT THAT THEY
WERE ALL SEPARATED
• THE DETAILS OF THIS
SEPARATION WILL BE EXPLAINED
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER
• GOD THROUGH MOSES HAS
PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT
• HOW THE PEOPLES OF THE
WORLD CAME FROM ONE
FAMILY
• AND THAT THEY WERE
SEPARATED ON THE EARTH
• AND BECAME DIFFERENT
NATIONS
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• DID YOU NOTICE HOW IT WENT
FROM THREE BROTHERS
• WHO HAD WORKED TOGETHER TO
HELP THEIR FATHER BUILD A BOAT
• AND SURVIVE A GLOBAL FLOOD.
• TO A LIST OF NATIONS SCATTERED
ACROSS THE GLOBE
• DIVIDED BY THEIR LANGUAGE,
DEFINED AS SEPARATE NATIONS.
• NATIONS THAT WILL GO TO WAR
WITH EACH OTHER.
• NATIONS THAT ARE STILL AT WAR
WITH EACH OTHER.
• THE WARS WE FACE TODAY AND
HAVE FACED FOR 1000S OF YEARS
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• FIND THEIR START IN THIS
GENEALOGY.
• ISSUES OF RACE AND
NATIONALISM FIND THEIR START
IN THIS GENEALOGY.
• TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENTS FIND
THEIR START IN THIS GENEALOGY.
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• MANY OF THE TROUBLES WE
FACE IN OUR WORLD TODAY
• FIND THEIR START RIGHT HERE IN
THIS LIST OF ANCIENT NAMES.
• PAUL TELLS TIMOTHY THAT ALL
SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BY GOD
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• AND PROFITABLE FOR TEACHING,
• FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION,
• FOR TRAINING IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS;
• THAT CERTAINLY INCLUDES THIS
LIST OF ANCIENT NAMES
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• WHICH PROVIDES AN INSIGHT
INTO THE WORLD WE FACE TODAY
• A WORLD OF CONFLICT AND
ANGER AND VIOLENCE
• A WORLD OF PEOPLE ALL
DESCENDED FROM THE SAME
FAMILY
• A WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE AT
WAR WITH EACH OTHER
• A WORLD WRACKED BY
DIVISION AND DIFFERENCE
• FROM THIS ANCIENT LIST OF
NAMES
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• WE CAN SEE HOW THE WORLD
WAS SEPARATED OUT
ACCORDING TO THEIR FAMILIES,
ACCORDING TO THEIR
LANGUAGES, BY THEIR LANDS,
BY THEIR NATIONS.
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• PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN FROM
THIS LIST
• HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR US
TO RESOLVE OUR FAMILY
PROBLEMS
• TO LEARN TO GET ALONG WITH
EACH OTHER AS A FAMILY
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• SO THAT OUR FAMILIES DON’T
GET SEPARATED OUT
• INTO MORE AND MORE
DIVISION
• THE WORLD WE LIVE IN HAS
ENOUGH DIVISION AND
CONFLICT
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• THE LAST THING WE NEED IT
MORE DIVISION MORE
SEPARATION
• GOD HAS CALLED US TO LOVE
ONE ANOTHER AS HE LOVES US
• AND HE LOVES US SO MUCH
• THAT HE CAME IN THE FORM
OF A MAN
• JESUS CHRIST, WHO LIVED A
SINLESS LIFE
• AND DIED ON THE CROSS TO
PAY FOR OUR SINS
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