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At the end of chapter 4 at verse 25 it is recorded that: “Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed him.” And to Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord”. In strong contrast with the existing godless societies, descendents of Seth were the righteous. In the line from Seth there was faith. Seth himself was a provision from God, according to Eve’s statement of faith and was appointed to replace Abel, whom Cain slew (above). By all accounts Seth was a righteous man. He was also an ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:38). Seth’s personal name meaning “He set or appointed” or “replacement”.

In the days of Enosh, Seth’s son, men began to call on (better, “proclaim”) the name of the Lord (Yahweh). Another rendering says “men begin to call themselves by the name of the Lord”. “Jared, [an ancestor to Seth], lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch…. And Enoch lived three hundred sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Gen 5:1-24). This is one of the two references in the Bible where God took a man without natural death (the other being Elijah).

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. [there was this mixture of the Nephilim and other Satanic beings on the earth. “The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them” (Gen 6:5-7). It was the Nephilim, the unholy sons of Satan, who made earth so uninhabitable that God had no choice but to destroy it. “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord” (Gen 6:8) as perhaps the only righteous man on the earth.

“Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch” (Gen 6:9-14). So Noah constructed the Ark according to God’s instructions (Gen 6:15-22). According to God’s instructions he put into the Ark: “Noah and all his family…[and] every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.” And Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him” (Ge 7:2–5).

So Noah, who was 600 years old at the time, built the Ark and loaded it as God had commanded. It rained for 40 days and nights until the waters covered the earth. “And the water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased” (Ge 8:1-3). When the ark finally rested on land on a high mountain (believed to be Mt. Ararat in present day Turkey) Moses gave thanks to the Lord and the Lord promised never to destroy man by water again. God left a rainbow as a sigh of His promise. “The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan” (Gen 9:18).

Then came the deciding event that was to influence Israel from that time on. Evil was not completely destroyed by the flood. Satan had actually slipped through the flood and manifested himself in Ham and his son Cannon. Both Ham and Canaan were cursed by Noah primarily from the following events. ”Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;

servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.” He also said,

“Blessed be the Lord,

The God of Shem;

And let Canaan be his servant.

“May God enlarge Japheth,

And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;

And let Canaan be his servant” (Gen 9:9-27).

Satanic influence came forth from the genealogy of the sons of Ham. From his descendants came satanic offspring nations that harassed Israel throughout their existence. “The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan… Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord” (Ge 6; 1…8-9). And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel [which evolved into Babylon]… in the land of Shinar. Nimrod was a satanic figure, the founder of the church of mystery Babylon [Revelation 17-18] and complacent in the building of the tower of Babel. He was known as a great hunter as he was a hunter of souls to seduce to become a part of the Mystery Babylon religion, condemned in Revelation 17-18.

From that land [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city [all wicked pagan sites] And Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim” And Canaan became the father of Sidon, his first-born, and Heth and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. And the territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah” (Gen 10:15-19). As we know the Canaanites inhabited the entire area of Palestine, future home of Israel—the Promised land. These satanic, polytheistic nations were defeated by Joshua and Israel inhabited the land. The Canaanites they defeated were descended from Canaan, son of Ham.

The Tower of Babel: Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they [Nimrod etc] journeyed east, and they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth” (Gen 11:1-9).

The Plain of Shinar, (shīʹnahr) was a district of Babylonia in southern Iraq. According to Gen. 10:10, the Plain of Shinar included Babel (Babylon), Erech (Warka), and Accad or Akkade in central Mesopotamia close to Baghdad. The Tower of Babel is said to have been built in ‘a plain in the land of Shinar’ (Gen. 11:2). ‘Amraphel king of Shinar’ was one of the four kings who, according to Genesis 14, invaded the Dead Sea region, kidnapped Lot, and were subsequently pursued and defeated by Abraham at ‘Horbah, north of Damascus’ (Gen. 14:1-16). One of these kings was Amraphel, king of Shinar, who is known to us as Hammurabi. Hammurabi was the first one to codify the Babylonian law and was the most famous of the early Babylonian kings, but God anointed Abraham to come against him and his allies and to prevail over them.

From the line of Shem, came Abraham. “These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters….And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah; and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters. And Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. And Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran” (Gen 11:10-11, 24-32).

So it was after the flood. Noah’s sons populated the world but deceit was found within the heart of Ham and Cannon. Satan had slipped through the flood that was supposed to destroy all evil in the world. Through the line of Ham came the pagan nations of the world that were to inhabit Mesopotamia and other parts of the world. As we shall see more Satanic peoples were from Lot.

Lot fled from Sodom with his two daughters. His daughters tricked lot into having sexual intercourse with him and from that incestuous relationship more evil peoples were produced. The dispersal of evil offspring spread throughout the world. The Egyptians established a great civilization as did many other warlike peoples. All were polytheistic as they worshipped gods of the cursed earth-animals, people, nature gods, fertility gods and abandoned the worship of the one true God. As a result kingdoms rose and fell over the millenniums and there was no stability in the land. But God had begun to execute His great plan and it started with a man (Abram). “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans [in Sumeria] in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran” (Ge 11:31–32). Thus Abram and his family fled from idolatry and paganism to start a new life in what would be Israel’s Promised Land one day.