SHEM HAM JAPHETH
CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS SHEM HAM JAPHETH STUDY. SHEM HAM JAPHETH WERE THE NAMES OF THE THREE SONS OF NOAH. MANY HAVE HEARD OF SHEM HAM JAPHETH BUT FEW KNOW THE WHOLE STORY AND HOW YOU ARE A DESCENDENT FROM ONE OF THESE THREE MEN. LET'S SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF SHEM HAM AND JAPHETH, SHALL WE?

BOOK OF GENESIS

CHAPTER 9

            Welcome to Noah’s vineyard.  Glad to see you back after the trip on the ark.  Oh, you didn’t know that Noah had a vineyard?  Yes, you know when you’re over 600 years old you don't get around as well as you used to and a garden is the perfect form of relaxation. Yep, that's right Noah was over 600 years old by now. He lived to be 950 years old. Mankind used to get to live much longer back then. God will later reduce that age limit because of man's choices. (Genesis 6:3)

            Back to Noah's vineyard ... Did ya know that Noah was the first mentioned to partake of wine in the Bible? Yep he sure was and he made wine with the grapes from his vineyard. It clearly says that he got drunk so don't let anyone fool ya when they say that the wine mentioned in the Bible was not fermented so they didn't get drunk cuz ... It was and they did.

            Now keep in mind, that the three sons of Noah are busy raising their families to begin populating the earth again, and they’re the only people that exist on the earth, so you can imagine that they must have lived near each other for many years.  Their names by the way were Shem, Ham and Japheth.        

            One day Noah drank the wine that he made from his vineyard and he was drunk and fell asleep naked and was uncovered inside his tent.  Ham saw Noah, and having no regard of his father’s dignity, he went and told his two brothers outside in mockery.  But, Shem and Japheth wanted to protect Noah, so they took a garment and held it between them on their shoulders. Then they walked backwards so they couldn’t see and they covered their father. When Noah woke up he knew what Ham had done. Well, Ham had a son named Canaan and Noah cursed Canaan and said he would be less than a servant to his brothers because of what his dad Ham had done. Then he blessed Shem and said that Canaan would serve him and Japheth as well. 

            Did you know that this is where the slavery concept came from in the United States? See Ham and his descendents ended up moving away as time passes and they ended up in Africa. So, some people over the years interpreted the Bible as saying that anyone from this family would be the slave to all the generations of Japheth and Shem forever. The K.K.K. and other groups of the past used this story to prove their terrible actions as being the will of God. There is ONE major problem with this theory. It was not God, but Noah that made the curse and Noah's curse did not say that EVERY descendent of Ham would be a slave because of what happened. Just his son Canaan. Even God's curses on a family bloodline only went to the fourth generation.

            Now, if you just can't swallow that TRUTH because of the way you were raised ... Try this one on for size. ALL are FREE from past sin if they believe in Jesus. Even the sins brought down from past generations. Truth is Truth. Ya just can't win ... In sin.

            Now what does all this mean? Beware of those who use scripture for their own gain because some devastating things happened in the United States and other places because of people reading what they wanted to read in the Bible. NOT ... what was truly said. If Abel's blood cried out for justice for the wrong that was done to him ... Can you imagine those that were wrongly enslaved and their families?

             And that’s the story of Noah’s vineyard, and what happened at the very beginning of mankind’s new beginning.  Stay tuned for more eyebrow lifting adventures in our next story.    

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