SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 04/22/2006
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Dividing of the nations after the Flood”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 10:1-5
Message of the verse: “1 Now these are the records of the
generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to
them after the flood. 2 The sons of
Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and
Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz
and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 The sons of
Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastlands of the nations
were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according
to their families, into their nations.”
Dr. Wiersbe
mentions the difficulties of trying to understand this chapter in his
commentary on Genesis. This chapter
describes where the three sons’ of Noah moved to and the descendents of them,
however it does not give all of the descendents and that is what makes it more
difficult to understand. I plan to write
most of the commentary from Dr. Wiersbe’s book, because I do not understand
this chapter very well. The first and
the last verse give the reader the purpose for this chapter.
“Japheth’s descendants (v .2-5). Seven sons are named and seven grandsons
from only two of the sons. Does this
mean that the other five sons had no children born to them, or is it another
evidence of the selective approach of the compiler? Japheth is the ancestor of the Gentile
nations who located north and west of the land of Canaan
A. W. Pink
writes of chapters ten and eleven of Genesis that they are the bridge from Noah
to Abraham.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As stated above this chapter is a very
difficult chapter to get my arms around, however there are names of people in
this chapter who were all important to God.
As I am reading and studying the OT this year I can see that right after
sin was first committed that God immediately moved in to bring about a way to
take care of the sin problem. I believe
that God (for reasons I do not, and probably will never understand this side of
heaven), had all of this planned in eternity past, otherwise He would not be
God, for there was no plan “B” when it comes to what would happen after sin was
committed. At any rate the plan that God
had from eternity past was to send His Son into the world to become the God-man
and live on planet earth for thirty-three years and then die for the sins of
mankind, and then return to heaven and sit at the right hand of God the Father
to make intercession for His children.
As I read
through and study the OT this picture become more visible all of the time.
The Word of God has brought challenge to my heart to
understand it this morning as I have read and studied it.
My Steps of Faith
Today: These have been days of much
problems because of all of the trials that my family and I are going through
and one of the things that God has brought into my life is a song from “Casting
Crowns,” that speaks of praising God in the storms of life and I am thankful
for this song and the meaning that it has and how the Lord has used this song
in my life to bring comfort to me.
I trust and
praise the Lord through this storm that I am going through and trust Him to
direct my path as I go about my life today.
I trust Him to also continue to teach me contentment and to give me the
grace I need each day to live for Him and do His will.
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