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Introduction
Please open your Bibles to .
We have a rather large passage for this morning’s sermon.
I debated whether I should read all of it or not.
Then I thought about Ezra.
When the Jews moved back into Jerusalem following their captivity, one of the first things that happened was that Ezra read the law to the people.
They all stood and had it read to them.
Women and children were present.
They didn’t just read one verse, or one chapter, like we often do.
They read the law, all 5 of the opening books of the Bible.
Then following that huge bit of time, the people wanted to have it explained to them and taught.
So as I debated whether I should read this whole passage, I thought of Ezra.
Ezra read all of Genesis to the people, and they stood the whole time.
True, you are different from them.
If you are a believer, you have the Holy Spirit in your heart, who has given you an appetite for His Word.
So, I’m sure you can handle having a large text read to you.
Please follow along as I read, beginning from to into 11:9.
Read .
This is our last week looking at the beginning of Genesis.
We’ve been answering the questions of how it all got here.
Then there is a point.
How did the earth get here?
How did creation get here?
Why does it look the way that it does?
Why are the continents where they are?
But this week we have two final questions to answer in regards to creation.
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How did people spread across the earth?
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Where did languages come from?
To answer these questions, we are in our text for this morning, .
You’ve already heard these passages read.
What I want you to know about these two chapters, is that they describe the same period of time.
Chapter 10 contains the genealogies for Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham and Japeth.
They aren’t complete genealogies, they contain just those essential for getting the point across, which is actually leading to Abraham, which we will talk about next week.
And when you talk about a genealogy, you are talking about large periods of time.
let me try and tell a brief story in a similar way as
Suppose I told you about 3 families that were started in the 1920’s, the Smiths, the Jones, and the Robinsons.
The Smiths had 3 sons.
In the 1940’s one of their sons died.
The Jones had 3 sons.
And in the 1940’s one of their sons died.
And the Robinsons also had 3 sons.
And in the 1940’s one of their sons died.
Then after telling you about these 3 families and their sons, suppose I then described the event that brought each of those families death, World War II.
So, my method of story telling I told you that each of these families had something in common.
So for example, suppose you described your family tree.
How would you do it?
You’d describe your family tree, starting with your great-great grandparents.
Then you listed your great-grandparents.
And then I told you how that common event happened, which was World War 2.
Then your grandparents.
That’s what these chapters are doing.
And your parents.
And after you said who your family was, suppose you spoke about your great-grandfather and how he fought in World War II.
Why didn’t you mention his role in World War II earlier when you described your family?
Because your first goal was to tell your family tree, all the people in it.
And after you did that, you then told specifics.
That’s what these chapters are doing.
They tell us about the families.
Then they tell us of the event that affected them all and caused them to spread out.
They cover large spans of time by telling the genealogy in chapter 10.
Then in Chapter 11, it explains how these families were spread all over.
So for example, Chapter 10:2-5 explains Japheth’s descendants.
Then in verse 5 it says, “From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.”
When it says they spread with their own language, that’s the big event that’s described in chapter 11.
Or even clearer is 10:25 when it says, “To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
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Verse 25 happened in chapter 11.
The dividing of the earth is what each family had in common.
They all experienced it.
What event happened to cause people to spread cross the earth?
To answer that question, we must first look at a man in chapter 10 named Nimrod.
That’s a name we don’t find every day.
There are some people who are so infamous, their name is a curse.
You don’t meet many Adolfs, for obvious reasons.
You don’t meet many Judas’.
And I’ve certainly, never met a person named Nimrod before, though, it serves as a great insult.
Verses 8-9 describe him as a mighty man and a mighty hunter.
When you think of Nimrod, don’t think of him as a hunter who hunts animals.
Genesis’ use of the word hunter is not a compliment.
The people who are described as hunters in Genesis are men like Nimrod, are men who are actually rejected by God.
Nimrod, Ismael and Esau these are the guys who are described in Genesis as hunters.
The root word for a hunter was someone who sought to destroy life, not just animals, but life.
What’s even worse is that Nimrod was a hunter before the Lord, in the presence of God, or in the face of God.
He was a bold opponent of God.
He was on the attack, and he wanted to attack God.
That’s who he was hunting, he was hunting God.
Verse 10 tells us that Nimrod was the founder of Babel, later to be called Babylon.
Then there is another point
And under his leadership, he gathered people together to attack God’s rule.
In chapter 11, it says that this was before the nations were divided.
Everyone had one language.
They had one tongue.
There was no confusion.
And they gathered together to build a city and a tower.
Under the guise of human accomplishments, they built a city and a tower.
In 11:4 they say, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
It sounds like man is just trying to do something big, something noteworthy.
Unfortunately, this attempt at human accomplishment, comes at the expense of obedience and praise to God.
A command was given a few times in Genesis.
In , God blessed humanity and said, “And God blessed them.
And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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