Genesis 10: Our Family Tree

0:00Hey everyone and welcome to the Bible Breakdown Podcast. In this podcast we will be breaking down the Bible one chapter a day. Whether you are a new believer or have been following Christ for a while, we believe that you will learn something new and fresh every single day. So thank you for joining us and let's get into breaking down the Bible together. Well over buddy welcome back to the Bible Breakdown Podcast with your host Pastor Brandon today, Genesis chapter 10 and today's title is our family tree, our family tree. If you really think about it, you can say you know we're all descendants from Adam and Eve, but then also if you want to think about it, we're all descendants from Noah and his family and we're going to see all about that today and we're going to have a whole lot of fun because I'm going to get most of these names wrong, but it's going to be a lot of fun. And so if you have your Bibles, open up with me to Genesis chapter 10 while you're doing that. As always, make sure you take just a moment, like share it, subscribe to YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure you leave us a five-star review on the podcast, it really does help and make

1:02sure you're going to the Bible Breakdown discussion on Facebook. It's an amazing group of people doing a wonderful job and as always you can get all the information at thebiblebreakdown.com. Well if you've been with us over the past you know week or so now we've been walking through the book of Genesis and the book of Genesis, the first 12 chapters is some of the most beautiful, amazing, controversial chapters in all the Bible. And we've talked about this before that there is roughly, you know, 3,500 years between the time of this was written until the time of Jesus and there's been 2,000 years between the time of Jesus and now. So there's so much this lost in culture and perspective, worldview, all these different things. So we have to really focus on going back to the time of realizing that the goal of this was not to tell us everything we were ever going to need to know about the past. The goal was to correct the worldview of these recently liberated Israelites who have been in Egyptian bondage for 400, 430 years and it was reminding them that God made all

2:06this and God is the author of what got us into all of these different places, how he's been walking with his fallen humanity all along the way. Well when we were in the last chapters we talked about how there was a flood and then after the flood there were these moments where they kind of had to deal with it and then they started over again when they got out of the flood and then it wasn't but just one season. As soon as they could make some grapes, they turned into wine and then it just went south from there, right? And Noah ended up cursing him and his family because he made fun of his nakedness at the very least and then he said for Shaman J. Pat, the other two sons, you guys are awesome, you guys are going to be great. So this chapter is going to be all about showing what the family tree looks like and it's our family tree from one way or the other. Here we go. Genesis chapter 10 verse 1 says this. This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham and J. Pat. The three sons of Noah, many children were born to them after the great flood. The descendants of J. Pat were Gomer, Meghag, Medai, Jiphon, Tubal, Meshik and Tirus.

3:14The descendants of Gomer was Ashkenaz, Ripath and Togarma. The descendants of J. Van was Alisha, Terishish, Kittim and Gurdium. The descendants of these descendants became seafaring peoples that spread throughout the various lands which identified by its own language, clan and national identity. The descendants of Ham were Kush, Misareem, Puth and Canaan. The descendants of Kush were Siba, Havala, Habath, Ramah and Sabatika. The descendants of Rama were Siba and Dedan. Kush was also the ancestor of Nimrod who was the first heroic warrior of the earth. Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say this man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world. He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, which are with the cities of Babylon, Erach, Hakeed and Kalinah.

4:16From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rebotha, Ayur and Kalah, and resin, the great city located between Nineveh and Kalah. Misareem was the ancestor of the Luddites, the Anamites, the Rihabites and the Nephah Tuyyats, Parasiyats, Kalushites and the Kepherites from whom the Philistines came. Canaan's oldest son was Saitan, the ancestor of the Sadonians, and Canaan also was the ancestor of the Hittites. The Jebiusites, the Ammarites, the Gurghasites, the Hivites, Archites, Sinites, Avatites, Simeratites and Hamathatites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out. Every time it says ittes, ittes means people group. So like for instance, when it said Jebiusites, it would be the people of Jebus. Okay, so that's where all the ittes are coming from. Also, if you've noticed that most of the families that belonged to Ham turned out to be

5:18enemies of the Israelites later on. Verse 19. The territories of Canaan extended from Saitan to the north of Gharar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Adhima, Zeboim, near Lesha. And these are descendants of Ham identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity. 21. Sons were also born to Shem. The older brother of Japheth, Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber. The descendants of Shem were Elam, Esher, Afixad, Lud, and Aram. The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hu, Gether, and Masha. Arfixad was the father of Shilah, and Shilah was the father of Eber. Eber had two sons. The first was named Pelag, which means division, for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother's name was Jokhan. Jokhan was the ancestor of El Meded, Shilah, Hazmariath, Zihar, Hardoram, Yuzo, and Dikla.

6:26Oba, Abedamel, and Shiba, Orfer, Havala, and Jobab. These names, they're not from around here. All these were descendants of Jokhan. The territory occupied extended from Misha all the way to Zephar in the Eastern Mountains. And these were the descendants of Shem identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity. These are the clans that descended from Noah's sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the Great Flood. Okay. So what we have here is we have that once again time passes. What I love when I read these is it just shows me that God gets back about the business of giving us space to live, to grow, develop communities, and then working with, instead of just with one person, he's trying to work with people and try to develop through

7:27people. Well, as we're going to see in the next chapter, it doesn't work again. Because it doesn't work again, God has to spread them out even further, and eventually we're going to get to the story of Abram, which eventually we're going to call Abraham. And we're going to talk about how then God says, okay, well, since I am unable to work with all the people of all the earth, I'm going to work with one person in a certain place on the earth. And through him, everybody will see me. That's where all of this is going. But today, the idea of our family tree, one of the things that we always need to remember is that we're all more closely related than we realize. Now, I don't mean that in like a creepy kind of way, because you know what I mean? Not that it is. We're not always different as we think we are. We look at people, and it's not it's cultures that make us different, not where we're from. Because eventually we're all from the same place, but we grow up in different locations, we end up growing differences that way. And so I want to encourage you, when you look around and you see this world, try not to think of the world as just everybody's different than you, as everybody's from a different

8:29place than you. And to realize that every single one of these people, God loves. God loves all of them, every bit as much as He loves you, and every bit as much as He loves me, and that everybody has been made in His image, no matter where we come from, no matter what our environment is, no matter what, you know, what all is going on. All of us are from one of three people, Shem, Ham, or Jepeth. But we all eventually come from being made in the image of God. What would it look like in your life if you walked through the world today and gave everyone the respect they deserve because they were made in the image of God? Well, they don't respect me. That comes later. I don't respect them because they respect me. I respect them because I know who their daddy is, and they're ultimately their daddy is God. And I'm out like them, but I love their daddy. Therefore I want to treat them with respect. Give it a try and see how it works. Let's pray together right now. God, thank you so much for today. Thank you, God, that we are all made in your image, therefore we're all loved by you. That yeah, many of us, Lord, there's people in our lives that are so broken that we can't

9:33be close to them. We have to set healthy boundaries, but although that's not everybody, there are some people who we can celebrate them because of the image they've been made in, that you are their daddy, and we can see that in them, even if they don't act like it, because we don't always act like it, but we see what's in them and we choose to love them anyway. I'm thankful for that, Lord, and I pray you will soften our hearts to be that way. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Well, God's Word says in Genesis 1, verse 1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Genesis, chapter 11.