From Noah’s Family came the nations!
January 4th Scripture Reading: Genesis 10-11
In preceding chapters of Genesis we saw that God chose Noah to rebuild the population of the earth again. God blessed Noah and told him and his family to be fruitful and fill the whole earth. (Genesis 9:1) But Noah’s grandson, Nimrod, led a rebellion around 100 years after the flood. He gathered family members together on the plain of Shinar (Ancient Babylon, current Iraq). They decided to build a tower at Babel that would reach to the heavens and to make a name for themselves and resist being scattered over the face of the earth. (Genesis 11:1-4)
But God came down! God realized that with one language and Nimrod’s rebellious leadership that nothing would be impossible for them. He confused their language and scattered them over the earth and stopped their building.
God did one more thing that insured that they would not get back together for rebellion. Genesis 10 is a genealogy of the sons of Noah. One of Shem’s grandsons, Eber, had a son, Peleg. Peleg means “division” and verse 25 states that “in his time the earth was divided. . “. Some creation scientists believe that this is when God could have separated the continents following the judgment at the tower of Babel. Those scattered people groups represented by the 70 family groups of Genesis 10 formed the nations of the world that we see in existence today. (see The Genesis Record by Dr. Henry Morris, pages 260-261) A side note is that “Eber” is probably where the name “Hebrews” was derived.
“From one man He (God) made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.” Acts 17:26-27
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