30 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 3 - Babel, "False Gods"

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 3 BABEL: FALSE GODS Genesis 9:1 – 12:1-3 Noah and his sons have now come out of the Ark and God has given them new instructions. Remember God never leaves the human race without a knowledge of His will. One generation. Genesis 9:7-8 8. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him saying, And I behold, I shall establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;" Now remember that this word covenant pops up all the way through Scripture but especially here in the Old Testament. And a covenant is always from God to man, and consequently it cannot be broken. God’s Word cannot be broken. Now when man makes a covenant with man, usually they don’t last very long. We call them treaties today. Well, you want to remember before the flood, it never rained. Genesis 9:19 "These are the three sons of Noah: and of them (those three men) was (what are the next two words?) the whole earth overspread." Our present day river basins were all formed as Noah’s floodwaters receded and God established the seas. It must have crossed your mind, when God took the water off the earth, which previously evidently was up there in the atmosphere in some sort of a vapor belt, and yet there’s nothing in Scripture to indicate that He lifted water back off the earth after the flood. Go back to Job chapter 38, and let’s just reflect a moment on the floodwaters of Noah. Now if you’ll come back with me then to Genesis chapter 9, the three sons of Noah from whom the whole earth was populated. In other words, we can segment the whole mass of population tonight, into three areas: the sons of Ham, the sons of Shem and the sons of Japheth. And the more archaeologists dig the more they come to proving Genesis chapter 9 and particularly chapter 10. All right, now look what happens to Noah, verse 20: Genesis 9:20 Wine. Man of Faith, a man who found grace in God’s eyes, a man who survived the judgment of the flood and yet alcohol got to him, and what happened? Genesis 9:21a Genesis 9:21b-22a 22. And Ham, the father of Canaan,…" The Canaanites living in the land of Canaan, which now we know as the land of Israel. All right, Ham then, one of the three sons of Noah, usually listed in the middle; it’s usually Shem, Ham and Japheth: Genesis 9:22b-23 Then verse 24, if you’ve got any insight at all into language, verse 24 should tell us something. Genesis 9:24 "And Noah awoke from his wine, and (what’s the next word?) Now it’s interesting to note that the offspring of that grandson Canaan then were the people that we’ll be touching on somewhere down the road in Sodom and Gomorrah. Verse 25. Genesis 9:25 "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." And so when Noah realized what had taken place, "he cursed Canaan" not Ham, but the son of Ham. And I’ve often wondered and I’ve had people ask me more than once, why did he curse Canaan, and not Ham himself? "Who is his father?" Had Noah placed the curse upon his son, Ham, it would have been a reflection upon whom? "Ham." Today we refer to it as the land of Israel, but for our sake of study, we’re still going to refer to it as Canaan because the Canaanites, the offspring of this grandson of Noah, are now occupying the land of Canaan. Canaan. Abraham said "my son shall not marry a Canaanite." All right, so Canaan is the one who is cursed. Genesis 9:26b-27 "…Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27. And God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." Now I’ve always been real careful that we do not imply that through these three sons of Noah and because of the curse place on the son of Ham, that God has given an inferior race or that he has made others superior. Now then, what are the roles that God has stipulated? All the Arab people. So our Middle Eastern people are predominately from Shem. Now up until this time, the Caucasian people or the Japhethites, were for the most part barbarian. From the Gaul’s who sacked Rome and burned it, well they were the people of Europe and Northern Europe. Now verse 6: Acts 16:6 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible