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