Continuing our look at My People, Not My People to understand current events, we’re at the point where only Noah’s son Shem would be the remnant…and his descendent that we’ll see soon is Abram/ Abraham, the first great patriarch of all 3 Abrahamic religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity).
Just as Adam and Eve’s children were not the same, one going his own way, wandering the earth as Not My People and the other named Seth, going on to call on the Name of the Lord, we’ll see that Abraham’s children are not the same either. We’ll get there.
For now, let’s find out what happened to Noah’s other sons who’d been saved in the Ark. They aren’t the same either. Read their history in Genesis 10, a passage often called the Table of Nations. Even if genealogies are not your thing, if you’ve been a student of Scripture for a while or are simply aware of world geography or history, some names will probably pop out at you.
Perhaps you noticed Genesis 10:1 “This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.” Japheth’s line included Magog, the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan, and how they established famous political centers of Babylon … Assyria… building Nineveh, and then Canaan’s kids became the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, and Girgashites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered (verse 19) “and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom [and] Gomorrah.”
Questions for further thought:
Do they pop out as My People or often enemies of My People?
How is this possible? They shared the same Ark, were saved through the same flood, were born from the same stock and had the same upbringing! It’s hard to say why some go astray and others do not. That’s the danger of the enemy within. They’re kind of hard to see sometimes.
There was a righteous line: 21 “Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber” [the beginning of the Hebrews], many of whom are listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ from Luke 3.
Are all the Hebrews righteous? Let me answer that: No. It’s not antisemitic to point out that among any people group there are the faithful My People and the Not My People enemies within.
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. 2 Peter 3:17
Why is the enemy within so dangerous?