Genesis 10： God’s Definition of a Nation - Four Principles (Part 4)
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God is a God of order. God does not merely order the weather and the stars, but he also orders marriages, families, churches, governments, and nations. He has an order for all of these things, and when we neglect his order, chaos and pain will follow.
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Well, after three weeks of focusing on the narrative of the prophetic curse of Ham that
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we have been delicately working through, and the prophetic blessings that we saw for Shem
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and Japheth in chapter 9 of Genesis, we concluded that there was essentially three branches
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of humanity that we saw in Genesis chapter 9, and God has organized them into three particular
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stations or what I would call civilizational stations of humanity. We saw that the Shemite
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nations or the Semite nations would be most blessed by embracing the Messiah that came from
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their line. We saw that the Japhethite nations would be most blessed by taking up the mantle of
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geographic expansion through Christian faithful colonization, essentially spreading the gospel
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far and wide and the rule of Christ into many nations. And we saw the Hamite nations would be
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most blessed by embracing their civilizational station of a form of national dependence or
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yielding to exterior leadership. Ultimately, we concluded that embracing this order, this
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this civilizational order would lead to greater peace. That was the purpose. It would lead to
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greater world peace. Now, at the end of Romans, some of you were here for my Roman series.
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At the end of Romans, in chapter 15, verse 33, Paul says, may the God of peace be with you all.
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We know that one of the titles for Jesus is that he is the Prince of Peace.
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That is to say, you cannot find peace in chaos.
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and when it comes to a person's life when peace enters into a person's life you may be able to
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testify this of your own experience god brings order in fact if your life feels chaotic it's
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because you are lacking order and order brings peace ordered truths ordered relationships
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All of those things occur at the time of redemption.
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1 Corinthians 14.33 says that God is a God of order.
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But God does not merely order the weather and the stars,
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or he doesn't just separate the lands from the waters or the light from the darkness.
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God orders sexes and he orders marriages and families and churches and governments and he
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orders nations he has an order for all of these things and whenever we neglect his order whether
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it's in the family or whether it's in the church or whether it's in our sex lives or whether it's
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in the state, chaos and pain will follow. If you want to know why there's so much pain
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in the feminist life, it's because it's disordered. If you want to know why there's so much pain
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in America's national life, it's because there's so much disorder.
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Today, we live in a time of profound chaos. It's profound chaos. Last night, I was walking around
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And I thought, I wonder what John Adams would do if we walked him through this Independence Day gathering.
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And our group agreed he would maybe die just seeing what is this, what's happening.
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Imagine going in downtown Los Angeles or Chicago or New York City any other time of the year.
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America and much of the West are being coerced into ordering our nations not according to God's
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designs for nations, but according to man's design for nations. And as we will see in my
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next sermon in this series, according to Babel's design for nations, which is globalism, God's
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design, as we will see, is nationalism. We're going to look at the nation of Israel. We're
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going to see that God's design is nationalism. We're also going to see that man's design is
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globalism, and we're going to compare those two realities. This 10th chapter of Genesis that
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we're going to cover, the entire chapter today, it barely raised an eyebrow for nearly all of
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human history because its teachings were as natural as the air that everyone breathes.
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it's like reading that water is wet you're like okay very helpful thank you you know no the
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reality is is that for most of history you'd read genesis 10 and you're like yeah okay moving on
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but today after decades of rebellion against god's design for nations
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not centuries just decades by the way these once very plain truths about natural or national order
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have become some of the most radical and hated ideas in the modern world.
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In fact, George Washington would very likely be excommunicated for his views on politics and nation
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Just think about his positions that he would have around everything from voting,
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Voting, who could vote? Who couldn't vote? Slaves? Who could immigrate? Who could not
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immigrate? What religions could be taking over in a nation? I mean, he would very likely be
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excommunicated. Martin Luther, I don't even know if he could be ordained in the average
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reformed church today. Okay, so there is massive drift into chaos that we're experiencing today.
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and what we're experiencing in america is not normal it's common but it's not normal we know
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what's normal is what the bible says what's common is what the world does okay it is normal to be
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married and to have children and to not get a divorce that's normal it's common to be single
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to be addicted to pornography and to never have children. That's common. It's not normal.
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We want to get back to normal. We want to have society reflect the scriptures, which is normal.
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Ultimately, this chapter will give us biblical answers to many of today's questions. If you just
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live in this country or any country in the West, you have questions. And I'm going to give you some
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of those questions that I think are very common among our own thoughts. Why is there so much
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conflict and division in our nation? Like why? Why does every election feel like tribal warfare?
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Why is trust between people groups collapsing? Why does multiculturalism so often produce
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friction and not harmony? Why is identity politics tearing everybody apart?
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Why is the church more divided than ever before? These are common questions I think that are
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happening in the heads of many Americans. It's difficult to have local peace when you have
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national chaos. Does that make sense? It's difficult to go like, you know what, have you
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seen the meme of the dog and it's like he's drinking coffee and the whole building's burning
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down and he's like everything's fine okay it's that's kind of what it's like it's it's difficult
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to have local peace in the face of national chaos you feel like everything's falling apart
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it's hard to just like go on like ironing clothing with a smile i mean it's it's it affects almost
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everything you do. The scale of ethnic and cultural and religious and linguistic pluralism
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in our nation is causing rising tensions. It's social exhaustion. It's voluntary separation.
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Those are the things that are happening as a result of what's going on in the chaos of modern
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western nations. Communities, whether by race or culture or religion, they're pulling apart
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as people, what do they do? They leave. They seek out places of more cohesion. It's why you have
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Chinatown, and it's why you have Slavic neighborhoods, and it's why you have white
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flight. It's why you have black neighborhoods. It's why you have Hispanic neighborhoods.
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you're having fragmentation it's not cohesion not national cohesion it's fragmentation
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and as a result private life is growing stronger and public life is growing weaker
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and this is never ever good for a nation if you've done any study in civics or nationalism
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or government, you know that it is not good when a nation does this. Unfortunately,
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people, especially Christians, they like to make this very complex, okay? And you'll understand
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what I mean. Oh, the problems of America, they're just, they're so overwhelming. They're so complex.
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Like, there's no solution to these problems. But the more I study this topic, the more I realize
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how simple the solution really is. It's a very simple solution. In fact, the vast majority of
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the nations in our world understand it already. Mexico understands this. Colombia understands this.
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Cuba understands this. Nigeria understands this. Russia understands this. Like, it's just,
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it's fascinating to me that we're not understanding this. It's like watching the marriage of two
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non-believers. You ever watch a marriage of two non-believers, maybe their friends or family,
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and you know, the wife's working, the husband's passive, the kids are neglected, and you see the
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chaos as a Christian, and you know the solution. You're looking at their chaos, and you go,
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I know the solution I know exactly how to fix that problem
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but they say to you oh our problems are so complex like we've tried everything we don't
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think there's a solution I think divorce is the only solution it's foolish it's foolish
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and all they have to do is follow God's design for families all they have to do is follow God's
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designed for order they need the gospel and the local church the husband needs to lovingly lead
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his wife the wife needs to joyfully submit to her husband and the kids need to obey and then what
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happens all of a sudden peace falls upon the home what a miracle i can't believe that was
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was so complex we solved that problem so quickly okay the same principle applies to nations
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same principle applies to nations genesis 10 offers us the broad formula for national peace
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but unfortunately the church is not willing to preach it in fact i don't know if i can find
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anyone who has been willing to preach this outside of one or two guys that I know personally.
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And we need to be able to preach this doctrine. It is chapter 10 of Genesis.
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They're not willing to preach it because preaching it would require them to say that many people,
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even good Christian people should not be here and return to their homelands.
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It would require people, good people, to let go of their ethnic heritage
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and assimilate to American culture or go back home.
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That was the message of Theodore Roosevelt, 1917.
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it would require a degree of mass deportations even of many people who came here legally under
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these liberal administrations the most that most christians just couldn't stomach they just
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couldn't do it they don't have the ability to do the hard work of restoring national order
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It would require men not caring about the tears of women and foreigners.
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Ultimately, it would require us to admit that, generally speaking, diversity is not good for nations or for people, generally speaking.
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And for those reasons, many Christians would rather stay silent on the issues.
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And they have become conflict-averse people.
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They're basically cowards on almost every single issue.
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They're Gnostics that they'll speak proudly into the spiritual world.
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But the physical world, oh, God has nothing to say about that.
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Kings, nations, states, oh, God has nothing to say about those things.
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Let the godless political leaders speak to that.
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So Genesis chapter 10 is not just a random genealogy of the nations.
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It's God's intentional template for national order.
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doesn't mean that we can't have immigration. It doesn't mean that we can't have foreigners and
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strangers and sojourners in our land. It doesn't mean that we can't have people from different
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places coming here, but there is an order that we will see that we should embrace because it is from
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God. It is his blueprint for how humanity should spread out. It is the blueprint for how
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distinct people should remain. All these people that want diversity are actually eliminating
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diversity. Globalism, by the way, if you're not aware, eliminates diversity.
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Like you can't have diversity after two or three centuries of globalism.
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Everybody is blended together. True diversity means sustaining national identity.
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I want a Mexico that's Mexican and Christian.
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That's also what God wants according to the scriptures.
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Now, you have to know two things about this passage of scripture.
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One, it is the outworking of God's command not only to Adam but also to Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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So what you are watching here in Genesis 10 is the filling of the earth of fruitful multiplication throughout the world.
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The second thing you need to know is that Genesis 10 and 11 are not strictly chronological,
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but they are ordered in thematic structures. And what I mean by that is that in chapter 10,
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you're going to talk about nations being organized by language. And then you're going to go to
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chapter 11, verse 1, and it's going to say, now the whole earth had one language and the same
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words, end quote. You're going to go, wait a second. If it's chronological, then you're going
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chapter 10 just said that God organized everybody into languages. And then chapter 11 says everybody
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spoke one language. No, the reality is that these are two perspectives on the same kind of moment
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thematically, not necessarily a chronological order. So let's read it together. A whole bunch
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names that are going to be very difficult, but we're going to make it through. Verses one through
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five. These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to
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them after the flood. So what's saying right there, sons were born to those three boys after
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the flood. Verse 2, the sons of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshach, and Tiras,
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the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, Ripoth, and Togemon, the sons of Javan, Elisha, Tarshish,
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Kitim and Dodanim. From these, the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his
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own language, by their families in their nations. Okay, we're going to stop there.
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So as we know, the descendants of Japheth are primarily the ancestors of the Indo-European
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peoples. And so the vast majority of the people of America, vast majority of the people in our
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own church. Now Javan is the father of the Greeks and the Ionians, and Gomer, his sons, particularly
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Ashkenaz and Togarmah, are linked to the Celtic, the German, the Scythians, which now form up France,
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Armenia and the rest of Europe. So that's kind of just the the genealogical the national
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genealogical reality. Now Magog is the father of the ancient Scythians north of the Black Sea.
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Medai points to the Medes people of ancient Iran while Tubal and Meshach are generally tied to the
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peoples of Asia Minor and the Caucasus regions the Caucasus mountains which we'll talk about in a
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the uh the thracians in southeastern europe and we can see more details and i wish i could kind
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of give a i wish i had a map so i can show everybody these things but we're going to just
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kind of move on from the geographic genealogical component to something else here that i want to
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point out to you in the 1700s there was a christian scientist he was german and his name was johan
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Bloomberg. And he classified, his work was about classifying human races and their origins and
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where they came from. And he traced the Japhethites to the Caucasus Mountains. Now, the Caucasus
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Mountains are located between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. There's this kind of mountain range,
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this land bridge that's right there. And the Caucasus Mountains run horizontal across them.
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and it's about 500 miles northwest of Mount Ararat. Now, that's important because Mount
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Ararat is where the ark landed, and so Japheth and his family lines moved northwest towards the
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Caucasus Mountains 500 miles. Now, if you're not aware, that region, it kind of looks like
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Switzerland. If you've seen the, you can just google pictures, but the Caucasus Mountain Range
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looks like switzerland it's it's it's about that far north it's not as far north as switzerland
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but it's about equal to maybe greece but it's got great these great high elevations
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now he eventually traced how these japhethites moved west and if you if you looking at a map
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and you look west it's going to get into the some of the slavic nations and then it's going to move
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you into like greece and italy and the northern territories of the mediterranean era or area
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And eventually moves west even more towards Europe, northwest into Europe.
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And it's why the people today are still called Caucasian.
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If you want to know why you've been called Caucasian, if you're a white person, then that's why.
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Because the seedbed of the Japhethites came from the Caucasus Mountains.
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from these coastland peoples, they spread in their lands. I want you to pay attention to this
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idea of coastland peoples. This is important because Isaiah 42, 4 says of God, pay attention
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here. This is very good. Quote, he will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established
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justice in the earth, and the coastlands will wait for his law. And the coastlands will wait
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for his law. So we have a prophecy in Genesis chapter 9 that says that Japheth will enlarge
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and that he will receive the gospel that comes from Shem. We learned that over the last few
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weeks then we have a record here in genesis 10 that says that japheth has become the coastland
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people by coastland it means the northern mediterranean people that that's what's
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happening it's referring to these nations like solomus and patmos and perga and atelia and
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Troas and Neophilus and Philippi and Thessalonica and Berea and Ephesus and Miletus and Patra
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and Tyre and Sidon and all of the coastal sections of Greece and Rome. And what correlates
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with those coastland peoples? Well, if you're thinking correctly, it's all of Paul's missionary
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journeys. In fact, 23 of the approximate 28 stops that Paul made were coastland territories.
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And that is about 80% of his ministry was coastland territories. And so this passage,
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pay attention here, in Genesis chapter 10 is laying the foundation for the fulfillment
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It's literally amazing when you see that Genesis connects with Isaiah and that Isaiah connects with Acts.
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God has been putting this thing together at a national, civilizational level since the very beginning.
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now let's focus on the last part of verse 5 for a second which is repeated in verse 20 and 21
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so at the very end of each son's genealogical record it's going to repeat this here at the
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end of verse 5 for Japheth and then for Shem and then for Ham you're going to have the same
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pattern here and it says that they were organized by their families depends on which translation if
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you're a new king james or esp might use different words like clans or but by their families their
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languages their lands and their nations four categories four categories is how god has designed
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and ordered these dispersing nations post babel even though we haven't got to babel chronologically
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yet now this gives us god's template for the organization of people and as i have said
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god has made one kind mankind he has made three races the races of ham shem and japheth
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he has made hundreds of ethnicities right now i think we have what 195 different nations
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there's actually more ethnicities than there are nations and then there's thousands of cultures
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that's the taxonomy of god's structure for people groups act 17 26 says and he made from one man
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every nation of mankind to live all on the face of the earth having determined allotted periods
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and the boundaries, their borders, of their dwelling place, end quote.
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And this is the principle that we're seeing here in Genesis chapter 10. And as I have said over
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and over again, nations are simply large genetic families. You need to remember this. Nations are
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simply large genetic families. Again, this was never disputed like 50 years ago and back.
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You're talking 7,000 years of never being disputed.
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But we know this is true because this is the exact model given to us for the nation of Israel.
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So if we want to be consistent, we have lots of nationalistic theology around the nation, the Old Testament nation of Israel.
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in scripture israel is literally the genetic descendants of abraham isaac and jacob jacob's
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name is changed to israel and jacob has 12 sons and those 12 sons make up the population
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so according to this verse how has god organized people how has god organized people
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it's not complex okay it's not complex okay it's very easy again we have one mankind three races
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multiple genetic families which god has organized by four principles families language land and
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nations families language land and nations and right when you feel like you memorize those four
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things i'm going to give you six more real quick okay um i found it actually helpful because so my
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friend Joel Webin, he put it together in six L's. L's. And I thought it was good. I go on a lot of
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podcasts and talk about this, so it helps me remember it a little bit easier. But he goes,
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lineage, language, liturgy, loves, law, land. That's what makes up a nation. That's what makes
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up a nation. Lineage, language, liturgy, loves, law, and land. And those are the things,
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The principles that make up a cohesive, historic, biblical nation.
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But I'm going to stick to the biblical words because I'm an expositor.
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And I want to just stick to what the scripture actually says.
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So people are to be organized primarily by ancestry.
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and until we had this great reality of mass transportation this wasn't difficult to
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understand okay when you couldn't hop on a on an airplane and go across the world do you know how
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difficult it would have been for Somalis to go from Somalia to Minnesota 150 years ago
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like impossible okay basically impossible but again people are to be organized primarily by
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ancestry now this again this doesn't mean that we can't allow foreigners or strangers
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into our land through what i would call limited but righteous immigration and i say that because
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Israel allowed that as well. God's Old Testament Israel allowed for a degree of righteous
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immigration, but not a degree of immigration that would replace, it would be a demographic
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replacement of the existing population, which is what's happening in Europe. That's wicked.
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It's what I would call national theft. Think about the words stranger and foreigner.
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They are called that because you, as a stranger in our land, should feel strange.
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If you're foreign, it's because you're foreign to us.
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Those are the terms that would define a stranger and a foreigner.
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The reason you have that title is because you are different from the native population.
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There was no such thing as mass, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-cultural nations for all of church history, for all of history, by the way, up until the last 60 years.
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God has designed us to have natural affinity for our people, for what the Bible would call as our kin.
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now this has been proven in like thousands of studies maybe not thousands but let me say
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hundreds okay but i i don't doubt if there were a thousand studies that they would actually all
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come up the same because it is a fact of science and history and scripture that people associate
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with those that are like them you don't have to go to a jail for like a day and you're quickly
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going to see that people associate with people who are like them. It's also in the animal kingdom,
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right? What is the famous phrase? Birds of a feather flock together, right? It's just true.
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You don't see squirrels hanging out with foxes. Now, in the animal world, it's very different
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than humanity. And we have in Christ an ability to have greater unity in Christ. And so I think
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that that's why you can see Christian nations allowing a degree of migration and allowing and
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embracing those realities and it being a gorgeous and beautiful thing. So the primary principle for
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organizing people is shared ancestry. And that's not just at the broad racial level, okay? It's
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actually at the ethnic level. And it's why you actually see like many European nations,
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you have, they're all white nations, but they're all different nations. If you go to Africa,
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they're all black nations, but they're all different nations with different ethnicities,
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so god has organized people not just by ancestry but also by how they speak so we're going to talk
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about language is the next one okay um language not only makes like functional sense
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for like the carrying out of daily life and governance but it also preserves a distinct
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identity. It's the ability to hand down traditions. Multigenerational realities exist when you could
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speak the same language. It also preserves religious capability. Have you ever gone to a
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service in a different language? It's not real helpful, okay? In fact, it was the problem of the
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Roman Catholic structure as everybody was listening to the word being preached in a language that they
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didn't understand. And so the main thing is it's peace. You all know that it's not desirable
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to live next door to somebody who doesn't speak a lick of English. It's not desirable because
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you can't build any relationship with them. Have you ever tried to talk to somebody who doesn't
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speak your language, you quickly go, well, we are relegated to hand motions. And I get to ask for
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maybe where the bathroom is. That's about as far as our relationship goes. And there is no closeness.
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Do you think you could build national harmony without speaking the same language? How absurd?
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The third is land. Land. God organizes people by place, by geography. And as we know, geography shapes a people. It shapes their skin color. It shapes their biology by the foods that they eat. It shapes the things that they love, the hobbies they take, the culture that they create. It's all shaped by geography.
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and having a particular piece of land gives you the right to defend it you have this sovereign
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ability to have borders and to defend that but land again includes borders which means that you
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have this kind of self-governance which should have informed foreign affairs international
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interests. It should also, and this is very key, the leaders of that land should prioritize the
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natives in their borders. I cannot believe that I need to say that.
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But the leaders in your land should prioritize the natives, not the foreigners or strangers
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would have the priority in their leadership which leads us to the fourth principle which is nation
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nation nation refers to the government the actual governance which according to scripture
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is to punish evil and uphold righteousness that's what a nation does its job is to punish evil and
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uphold righteousness. A lot of us are afraid of the law right now, not because we are actually
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evildoers, but because we're worried that the actual government will not uphold righteousness
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and will actually promote evil. Like if someone comes into your house and you shoot them,
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that is your legal right. But you are actually afraid because our governance right now
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is really risky on this particular topic they're not upholding righteousness they're actually
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upholding evil in many cases and it causes us to fear when we should actually have no fear
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because we're doing righteous things and so the job of the government is to promote the heavenly
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good of all people it's to promote and uphold the Westminster Confession says that the state
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It should be supporting religious righteousness
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while still having a separation of church and state,
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the president isn't administering the sacraments
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the lineage, the language, the liturgy, the loves, the law, the land of that particular people.
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Do you remember when Trump got in and he says, the national language of America is English?
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And a whole bunch of people tripped out. And it's because they don't understand that this is God's
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design for nations. Again, this is not complex. It's just ignored. Or it's unknown. And I want
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you to think about this. The vast majority of politicians, maybe not all politicians,
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I'm going to say the vast majority of modern politicians and presidents, they could not tell
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you this basic structure for nations. Think about how insane that is. We have literally leaders
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who can't tell you God's basic principles for what a nation should be.
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It would be like, all of us, let's get in our cars.
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We're going to go to a massive marriage conference with marriage specialists
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who don't know the Bible and have never read Ephesians 5.
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that's basically what we have in all of our national leaders we have people that are leading
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our country that have no idea even what a nation is again i think that a hundred years ago our
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leaders did know this instinctually it was like of course a nation would all have the same language
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Of course, we're not going to press two for Spanish. Okay, like, of course. No, this is the
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reality is that if you live in this nation, that is a part of that process. And we know that the
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civil rights laws made it illegal to put any sort of pressure on people to conform to national
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standards. Do you know if you go to Japan, I talked about this before, if you go to Japan
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and you try to walk around in Japan and you go into a store, it'll literally say a sign,
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if you don't speak Japanese, we won't serve you. And what does that do if you moved to Japan?
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You go, well, I need to learn Japanese because I can't get things if I can't speak the language.
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But again, we have compromised on God's design for nations.
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Now, if the state doesn't know this, who is going to teach this?
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Who's going to teach the governors and the politicians about these truths?
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it's not going to be the Hindus it's not going to be the liberals
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it's going to be the Christians it's it's the only option the only option is that the church
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needs to start preaching these truths so that the state would understand these things
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and in a world that is crying out for clarity and for order and for peace
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we should go yeah you know what I'm willing to say it I'm willing to have these conversations
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we need to deport everybody that's not white.
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nimrod what a name nimrod he's the son of cush who is the son of ham attempts to create a people
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structure completely opposite to what god's talking about here in chapter 10
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that deliberately blends people together it's called the tower of babel
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and it's the first rebellion against god and it's also the first attempt at globalism
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now i have a bunch more verses that i'm going to work through but i'm going to work through
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them very fast so stay with me okay that was the that was 80 of the sermon right there okay
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so we'll make it through the sons of ham verse six cush egypt put in canaan the sons of cush
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Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Ramah, and Sebtekah, the sons of Ramah, Sheba, and Dedan. Cush fathered
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Nimrod. He was the first on the earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the
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Lord. Therefore, it is said, like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. The beginning of his
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kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, Kalnei, in the land of Shinar. From that land, he went into Assyria
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and built Nineveh. Rehoboth, Kalah, and Raisin between Nineveh and Kalah, that is the great city.
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Egypt fathered Ludum, Anamim, Lahabim, Naphetim, Pathruserim, I'm trying to get these words right,
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Kasalim, from whom the Philistines came, and Kaphtarim. Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn,
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and Heth, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Hivites, and the
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Archites, and the Sinites, and the Arvidites, and the Zamorites, and the Hamathites.
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Afterward, the clans of the Canaanites dispersed, and the territory of the Canaanites extended
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from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah,
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Adma, Zeboim, and as far as Lasha. These are the sons of Ham by their clans, their languages,
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their lands, and their nations. All right, we just got through like 15 verses, so we're making
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we're making traction here, okay? As we know, the descendants of Ham are primarily the ancestors
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of the African peoples and the Near Eastern peoples.
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the first, what it says, mighty ruler on the earth
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which is often associated with the Mesopotamia people,
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we heard about Canaan fathering all the people,
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Now, we know that Canaan filled the lands of modern-day Israel.
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So modern-day Israel and that kind of greater area was filled with all of the Canaanites.
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In fact, as you know, today the Palestinians are about 90% connected to Canaanite blood.
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Okay, so there's still very much real Canaanites living in Palestine and also is kind of an understanding of why there's such a war between the Shemites and the Canaanites that are still going on if we look at it as a civilizational level.
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now uh overall i have said that ham's line has produced generally the great ancient powers that
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stood against god's people throughout history now in verse 8 it says nimrod was the first on the
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earth to be a mighty man a mighty hunter before the lord now the reformers understood this not
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to be like this isn't like uh an accolade of oh man he must have been a good man a mighty hunter
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before the Lord? That wasn't the interpretation. Nimrod was the first to establish a kingdom by
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force. It's another way of saying that he's a tyrant. He's not just a hunter of animals. He's
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a hunter of men. That's the historic understanding of that passage. Verse 21. See, we're moving,
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guys. We're moving. To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber. Pay attention to Eber
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for a second. The elder brother of Japheth. Now, it's not talking about brother. I'll explain that
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in a second. Let's talk about brethren. Children were born. The sons of Shem, Elam, Asher,
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Aparashad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram are Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Aparashad fathered
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Shela. Shela fathered Eber. To Eber were born two sons. The name of one was Peleg, and in his
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days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan. Joktan, probably Joktan, fathered
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Amadad, Shelef, Hasmeraveth, Jera, Hadarim, Uzal, Dikalah, Abol, Abolamah, Sheba, Ophir,
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Havilah, and Jobah. All of these were the sons of Jokton. The territory in which they lived
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extended from Mishah in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. So I love that
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it's giving geography. If you were like someone who really wanted to look this out, you could
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map this out pretty clearly. These are the sons of Shem by their clans or language or by their
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families, their languages, their lands, and their nations. Verse 32, these are the clans
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of the sons of Noah according to their genealogies in their nations, and from these the nations
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spread abroad on the earth after the flood. Okay, almost done. Regarding verse 21, look back to verse
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21 it says to shem also the father of all the children of eber end quote okay eber is the root
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word for hebrew okay so when it says oh the hebrew people it's talking about the root of eber
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and it shows that shem was the father of the hebrew people abraham himself came down the line
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about five or six generations, from Eber. Now, notice also the mention of Japheth as the older
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brother. This is important because it reveals that, okay, Japheth is the oldest. Ham is the
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youngest, and Shem is the middle. And we talked about this in chapter 9. It went in a different
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order. It listed Shem first, not because he's the oldest, but because he was given the greatest
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blessing of having the Messiah come from the Semitic people, okay? And Japheth is actually
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the oldest son, and this is important because it shows that God's election doesn't follow birth
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order, and we see this with Isaac and Ishmael. Ishmael is born first, yet he is not the one that's
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blessed. Isaac is blessed. Jacob and Esau. Esau is older, but Jacob gets the blessing even though
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he is younger. We see this with David. David is the youngest of his brothers, and he is the blessed
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one and not his older brothers. It is a common reality that God breaks the reality of birthright
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and says, no, I'm going to elect that which I have chosen.
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so i'll close with this in the end genesis 10 shows us that god is not confused about countries
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he's not confused about countries he has sovereignly ordained them according to ancestry
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language land and nation that's the order you should remember that basic fundamentals that
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honestly you really do need to teach your children and your grandchildren because in the next 10 to
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20 years, these will be the forefront issues in the West. And why do we care? Because order brings
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peace. Order brings peace. And we want peace. It's good for people. It's good for nations.
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We want foreign policy that's peaceful. We want immigration policy that's peaceful.
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We want these things because they're biblical, and because they're normal, and because they're good, and because they're what God did when he said he designed nations.
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Father, we thank you, Lord, for the truth, as hard as it is to swallow in the West.
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Lord, we ask that you would help us to figure out in our own lives what this is to mean.
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Lord we ask that you would give us an understanding
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Lord we ask for all these things in the name of Christ