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}}<p>Japheth ([[Hebrew_language|Hebrew]] <span style="unicode-bidi: embed;">&#1497;&#1508;&#1514;</span>) was the second son of [[Noah]] born in 1557 FC (2411 BC) when [[Noah]] was 501 years old.<ref>Genesis 5:32</ref><ref>Burson, Nathaniel. The Original Bible Correspondence Course, Lesson 45: The Sons of Noah.</ref><ref>Burson, Nathaniel. The Original Bible Correspondence Course, Lesson 54: Chronology, Part 1.</ref> At that time the world was troubled by violence and crime,<ref>Genesis 6:5</ref> and [[God]] had warned his father [[Noah]] of the coming judgment and instructed him to build an [[Ark]].<ref>Hebrews 11:7</ref> Japheth and his brothers presumably helped [[Noah]] with the construction. He took a wife before the [[Flood]] came <ref>Genesis 7:7</ref> and fathered [[Gomer]], [[Magog]], [[Madai]], [[Javan]], [[Tubal]], [[Meschech]], and [[Tiras]] after the [[Flood]].<ref>Genesis 10:2-5</ref> </p>
  
<p>Japheth means <em>"enlarged"</em>. He is the son of Noah and he was born on 1557 FC (2411 BC). Noah is 501 yrs old when Japheth was born.</p>
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<p>He and [[Shem]] were the ones to cover [[Noah]] after he had become drunk, and [[Ham]] had seen his nakedness. [[Noah]] blessed Japheth for this saying that [[God]] would enlarge him and he would dwell peaceably with [[Shem]].<ref>Genesis 9:21-27</ref></p>
  
==Why we chose that time?==
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<p>Japheth is the father of the Asian peoples.</p>
  
<p>When <strong>Genesis 5:32</strong> says that Noah was 500 years old and sired &ldquo;Shem, Ham, and Japheth&rdquo;, we are led to believe they were triplets; or, at the least, that Shem was the eldest. Yet the Bible makes it clear that isn&rsquo;t possible by using some simple math.</p>
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<p>The flood began when Noah was 600 <strong>(Genesis 7:6)</strong>. At that time, Shem would have been 100 years old, if born when Noah was 500. But if you read <strong>Genesis 11:10</strong>, you&rsquo;ll see that Shem&rsquo;s firstborn, Arphaxad, was born 2 years after the flood, <strong><em>when Shem was 100 years old</em></strong>.</p>
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==Etymology==
  
<p>See the problem? Shem was born when Noah was 500, the flood happened when Noah was 600, and Shem&rsquo;s son was born two years LATER when Noah was 602 <strong>&hellip; and at <em>THAT</em> point Shem was only 100!</strong> There are two extra years there. Figuring backwards, we cannot escape the conclusion that Shem was born when Noah was 502. Yet <strong>Genesis 5:32</strong> clearly said Noah was 500 when he had &ldquo;Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</p>
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Japheth means &ldquo;expansion&rdquo; or &ldquo;opened&rdquo;.<ref>[https://biblehub.com/str/hebrew/3315.htm Strong’s H3315]</ref> His name could mean &ldquo;open&rdquo; as in &ldquo;spacious or extended&rdquo;, or it could mean &ldquo;open&rdquo; as in &ldquo;open-minded, simple, deceived, easily persuaded&rdquo;<ref>[https://biblehub.com/str/hebrew/6601.htm Strong’s H6601] from which [https://biblehub.com/str/hebrew/3315.htm H3315] is derived.</ref> It’s possible that [[Noah]] used his name with a double-meaning: judging people for their simple-mindedness and prophesying his son’s blessing and inheritance of expanding across the [[Earth]].<ref>Genesis 9:27</ref>
  
<p>How can we reconcile this without breaking the unbreakable scripture? Simple! ALL the scriptures must be used. Read Genesis 10:21. Shem was the brother of Japheth&nbsp;&ndash; we knew that&nbsp;&ndash; but the brother of Japheth <em>WHO WAS THE ELDER!</em></p>
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==The Land Of Japheth==
  
<p>This means that the order given in <strong>Genesis 5:32</strong> is wrong. Not wrong exactly, because the order is given that way for a reason; but wrong, chronologically. See, the Bible has an interesting quirk in that the &ldquo;eldest&rdquo; child is often not the eldest in chronological age, but is the eldest reckoned by birthright. In other words, if the &ldquo;real&rdquo; firstborn child is an evil monster, the birthright will go to the next eldest; and from that point on, HE will always be given the honors that belong to the eldest.</p>
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<p>Most Biblical scholars agree that [[Ham]] is mostly in Africa. But they really go astray when they try to locate [[Shem]] and Japheth. The world believes that Europeans are Japheth and [[Shem]] is father of the Asians. This is Biblically impossible.</p>
  
<p>Shem was mentioned first because Shem received the birthright, not Ham or Japheth, the elder. We know that Shem received the birthright because the line of Christ and the blessings of Abraham were given to HIS children, not to the others!</p>
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<p>[[Ham]] means &ldquo;hot&rdquo;; he inherited Africa. But Japheth denotes &ldquo;expansion&rdquo;, and the translation can easily be stretched to say &ldquo;huge population and very large land area&rdquo;. An observation between the Europeans and the Asians, you can see that the latter has the greater population by nearly a factor of ten times. And they control the greater land area. Based on that evidence alone, it strongly implies that Asia is Japheth.</p>
  
<p>We don&rsquo;t know exactly why Shem inherited the birthright in front of his brothers. Very little is said about any of the three. Regardless, they were listed as &ldquo;Shem, Ham, and Japheth&rdquo;, even though Shem was certainly younger than Japheth; the way it is listed implies that Ham was the firstborn; Japheth the second; Shem the last.</p>
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<p>[[Shem]], was to have a great &ldquo;name&rdquo;&nbsp;&ndash; that is, to be very important, and to have the Lord be his [[God]].<ref>Genesis 9:26</ref> Asia has never been a Christian continent. It is [[Shem]] who has scattered the Bibles across the globe and upheld democracy and righteousness throughout the last 3,000 years.</p>
  
<p>If that is so, then we can safely conclude that Ham was born when Noah was 500; Japheth when he was 501; and Shem when he was 502. And that <strong>Genesis 5:32</strong> <em>meant</em> that Noah was 500 years old when he <em>began</em> to have children, and had Shem, Ham, and Japeth&nbsp;&ndash; in order of birthright, or Ham, Japheth, and Shem, in order of birth.</p>
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<p>However imperfectly and often downright badly they have done it, the white races have always paid at least lip service to the [[God]] of [[Shem]]. Asians have worshiped ancestors and dragons, Buddha and Brahmin, and a variety of animals. Not because they are inherently evil; simply because they have had scarcely any contact with [[God]] since the [[Tower_of_Babel|tower of Babel]].</p>
  
==Verses that mention <em>"Japheth"</em>==
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<p>Asians have never partaken of the rich blessings pronounced on [[Shem]]; their place in world affairs, except briefly under Genghis Khan and more recently as &ldquo;Red&rdquo; China, has never been prominent. Their people have seldom been wealthy or particularly influential compared to Europeans.</p>
  
<p><strong>Genesis 5:32</strong> <em>And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>.</em></p>
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<p>This is not simply a biased viewpoint; in every important statistic of blessing, European nations as a group have always exceeded Asian nations&nbsp;&ndash; excepting only in terms of population and land area, which was precisely what Japheth was promised.</p>
<p><strong>Genesis 6:10</strong> <em>And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Genesis 7:13</strong> <em>In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;</em></p>
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==References==
<p><strong>Genesis 9:18</strong> <em>And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>: and Ham is the father of Canaan.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Genesis 9:23</strong> <em>And Shem and <strong>Japheth</strong> took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Genesis 9:27</strong> <em>God shall enlarge <strong>Japheth</strong>, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.</em></p>
 
<p><strong>Genesis 10:1</strong> <em>Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>: and unto them were sons born after the flood.</em></p>
 
<p><strong>Genesis 10:2</strong> <em>The sons of <strong>Japheth</strong>; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.</em></p>
 
<p><strong>Genesis 10:21</strong> <em>Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of <strong>Japheth</strong> the elder, even to him were children born.</em></p>
 
<p><strong>1&nbsp;Chronicles 1:4</strong> <em>Noah, Shem, Ham, and <strong>Japheth</strong>.</em></p>
 
<p><strong>1&nbsp;Chronicles 1:5</strong> <em>The sons of <strong>Japheth</strong>; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.</em></p>
 

Latest revision as of 00:39, 12 May 2021

Japheth
One of the sons of Noah.
BC 2411
FC 1557
Father Noah
Children Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschech, and Tiras

Japheth (Hebrew יפת) was the second son of Noah born in 1557 FC (2411 BC) when Noah was 501 years old.[1][2][3] At that time the world was troubled by violence and crime,[4] and God had warned his father Noah of the coming judgment and instructed him to build an Ark.[5] Japheth and his brothers presumably helped Noah with the construction. He took a wife before the Flood came [6] and fathered Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschech, and Tiras after the Flood.[7]

He and Shem were the ones to cover Noah after he had become drunk, and Ham had seen his nakedness. Noah blessed Japheth for this saying that God would enlarge him and he would dwell peaceably with Shem.[8]

Japheth is the father of the Asian peoples.

Etymology

Japheth means “expansion” or “opened”.[9] His name could mean “open” as in “spacious or extended”, or it could mean “open” as in “open-minded, simple, deceived, easily persuaded”[10] It’s possible that Noah used his name with a double-meaning: judging people for their simple-mindedness and prophesying his son’s blessing and inheritance of expanding across the Earth.[11]

The Land Of Japheth

Most Biblical scholars agree that Ham is mostly in Africa. But they really go astray when they try to locate Shem and Japheth. The world believes that Europeans are Japheth and Shem is father of the Asians. This is Biblically impossible.

Ham means “hot”; he inherited Africa. But Japheth denotes “expansion”, and the translation can easily be stretched to say “huge population and very large land area”. An observation between the Europeans and the Asians, you can see that the latter has the greater population by nearly a factor of ten times. And they control the greater land area. Based on that evidence alone, it strongly implies that Asia is Japheth.

Shem, was to have a great “name” – that is, to be very important, and to have the Lord be his God.[12] Asia has never been a Christian continent. It is Shem who has scattered the Bibles across the globe and upheld democracy and righteousness throughout the last 3,000 years.

However imperfectly and often downright badly they have done it, the white races have always paid at least lip service to the God of Shem. Asians have worshiped ancestors and dragons, Buddha and Brahmin, and a variety of animals. Not because they are inherently evil; simply because they have had scarcely any contact with God since the tower of Babel.

Asians have never partaken of the rich blessings pronounced on Shem; their place in world affairs, except briefly under Genghis Khan and more recently as “Red” China, has never been prominent. Their people have seldom been wealthy or particularly influential compared to Europeans.

This is not simply a biased viewpoint; in every important statistic of blessing, European nations as a group have always exceeded Asian nations – excepting only in terms of population and land area, which was precisely what Japheth was promised.

References

  1. Genesis 5:32
  2. Burson, Nathaniel. The Original Bible Correspondence Course, Lesson 45: The Sons of Noah.
  3. Burson, Nathaniel. The Original Bible Correspondence Course, Lesson 54: Chronology, Part 1.
  4. Genesis 6:5
  5. Hebrews 11:7
  6. Genesis 7:7
  7. Genesis 10:2-5
  8. Genesis 9:21-27
  9. Strong’s H3315
  10. Strong’s H6601 from which H3315 is derived.
  11. Genesis 9:27
  12. Genesis 9:26