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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
•••
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Girgasite,
means "dwelling on clayey soil".
They lived east of the river
Jordan and the Sea of
Galilee.
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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).
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Arkite,
means "my annoyance". They dwelt
near Mount Lebanon.
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Sinite,
means "thorn", "clay" or "mire".
They dwelt on the coast, west of
Mount Lebanon.
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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.
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"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).
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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).
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Arvadite,
means "breakaway" or "restless
wanderer". Arvad settled on the
Phoenician Island of Arad off the
coast of Lebanon near
Tripoli.
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Zemarites,
means "double woolens". They
settled the coast adjacent to the
Arvadites
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Hamathites,
means "fortress" or "enclosure of
wrath". They dwelt in Hamath, the
chief city of upper Syria on the
Orontes river.
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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.
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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.
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Asshur
is the same name as Asher and
means "happy" or "successful". He
is ancestor to the Assyrians or
Northern Iraquis.
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Aprhaxad,
means "he cursed the breast
bottle". He was the ancestor of
the Chaldeans of Southern Iraq,
Hebrews, Arabians, Amorites, and
the Moabites/Jordanians.
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Lud,
means "firebrand" or
"travailing". He is the ancestor
of the Lydians who settled in
Asia Minor and spoke an
Indo-European language.
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Aram,
means "highland". He became the
Aramaeans or Syrians and
Lebanese.
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Uz,
means "counsel". Northern Arabia,
the land of Job (Job 1:1) between
Babylonia and Edom, seems his
most likely area of
settlement.
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Eber,
means "emigrants" or "to vanish
to the region beyond". Eber is
the father of the Hebrews.
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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.
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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.
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Almodad,
means "not measured". His area of
settlement cannot be precisely
determined, perhaps Yemen.
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Sheleph,
means "a drawing out". He became
a Yemeni tribe of Arabs.
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Hazarmaveth,
means "settlement of death". He
settled in south-east Arabia.
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Jerah,
means "new moon". He dwelt on the
south-east Arabian coast.
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Hadoram,
means "noble honor". He dwelt in
southern Arabia.
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Uzal,
means "I shall be flooded". He
dwelt in Yemen.
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Diklah,
means "palm grove". Transposed
into the Greek "Tigris", it is
supposed that they settled in the
north-eastern extremity of the
Arabian peninsula.
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Obal,
means "stripped bare". He became
a Yemeni tribe.
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Abimael,
means "my father is God". He
became a Yemeni tribe.
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Sheba,
means "seven" or "an oath". He
too became a Yemeni tribe.
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Ophir,
means "reducing to ashes". He
dwelt on the coast of south-west
Arabia.
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Havilah,
means "circle" or "writhe (in
anguish)". He occupied the
eastern shore of the gulf of
Aquaba.
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Jobab,
means "He will cause crying". He
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