History of the Sons of God: Noah Post-Flood

Understanding Sonship Today’s Focus: History of the Sons of God: The Family of Noah Post-Flood Scripture: Genesis 9; Genesis 10:6-10,19; Genesis 11:1-9 Greetings Kingdom Citizens Staring at Genesis 9, we see God making a promise to Noah not to destroy the Earth or mankind with a flood. As a symbol of this covenant, a bow, or rainbow is God’s physical symbol of this promise. Now we know when God promises something, He is true to His Word. Now after the flood you have the family of Noah with includes his 3 sons, Shem, Ham and Japeth. Now here is a statement that we as believer’s must understand. “Everything that God does, satan tries to mimic and twist in order to be glorified. Even in the birth of Jesus from a virgin, Satan has developed his own version and has fooled an entire religion and sect of Christianity as we know it.” Just as God has given directions to Noah and his family about the blessings they would encounter as starting the human race again, satan was developing his plan also and sad to say, he attacks the family of Noah to pull it off. Now not to confuse some of you, we know because we read the scriptures in Luke of the genealogy of Jesus that the descendents of Noah eventually lead to Christ but before I get too far let’s see what happens and how Satan gets his plot and plan put in action. Now I know the question is who did satan attack to corrupt one the bloodlines of Noah? Let’s see! Now the first clue is found in Genesis 9:18. Here God is telling us about the sons of Noah but noticed in the same scripture God calls “Ham the father of Canaan”. Now God is so great He goes on to tell you how in verse 21 and 22. Because Ham saw the nakedness of His father in verse 25 when Noah realize what had happen he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. Now remember that God already declared Ham to be the father of Canaan. Now here is the uniqueness of the situation, this was the re-emergence of evil on the Earth through Ham and the Canaanites. But just as satan corrupts one part of the bloodline, God keeps His covenant and preserves the bloodline of the sons of God through Sem or Shem (Luke 3:35). So now it will be the bloodline through Shem which will overthrow the bloodline through Ham. But let’s not leave Ham yet because through him, one of the most evil nations comes to the Earth and it is the nation of Babylon. Now this leads us to Genesis 11. Now here in this chapter we see the people say to one another “let us make brick and burn them thoroughly”. Let’s not pass this so fast because it shows the desperateness of the people and the pace they wanted to move. In those times when you wanted to make brick instead of using fire the sun naturally hardened the brick, but they used fire! They wanted to build this city fast and in a hurry. Do not forget this. Next they say they want to build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. Now to show the evil of the people’s hearts let’s look at another statement of the people. Remember it was the thought of independence from God that lead Adam and Eve to sin against God. Genesis 11:4. They said “let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad the face of the Earth.” They wanted to make a name for themselves. The spirit of the fallen angels are looking for glorification and they know the power of words because they wanted their name to be proclaimed throughout the earth. But because the nation of Babylon was under one language and because it was under one language there was no restraining them from whatever they wanted to do, God passed judgment against this un-holy nation and confound their language so that they could not understand one another. This did not stop them from building the tower because the scripture said after scrambling their language they left to build the city (Genesis 11:8). So to this point we have two bloodlines going in two different directions. The bloodline of Shem, or Sem which will result in righteousness and holiness and the coming of the Messiah and the bloodline of Ham which produced ungodliness, evil and false religions upon the Earth. We know the bloodline we want to continue looking at but we will return to see the result of Ham’s bloodline in a subsequent message. In our next message we will shift to Abraham and His significance to the history of the sons of God. At Our Father’s Service, Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.