Sep 6, 2019
In this talk, Steven goes back to the Bible, Noah, and the story in Genesis about how, after the Flood, the first people's spread across the Earth and how it relates to current times and politics. Noah had three sons whose offspring set off to different parts of the world, but few people realize who these people are.
Shem traveled down from Eden to Ur near modern Baghdad (Iraq) and for 8 generations his descendants his family grew until Abraham was famously called by God (Yahweh) to travel to Canaan. Abraham had two sons, Ishmael traveled to Arabia and became the father of the Arabic people. Isaac the Hebrew. Ham traveled South through the Levant to Africa, his descendants became the Canaanites, Philistine or Palestinian people (who Abraham met when he arrived in today's Israel). The third son, Japhet, traveled northerly and then into Europe and one branch became the Ashkenazi Jew (but their descendants did not come from Juda so are technically not Jews). These are the sect that created the state of Israel. Another diaspora created additional migrations to Europe, most of which went to Moorish Spain where they were called Sephardic.
Understanding these relationships helps us understand the politics of our day, and the changes that are coming.