Genesis 9-11: Aftermath

The known world may have been destroyed by the flood, but God had not completely forgotten his creation.  Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. ..... As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” - Gen. 9:1-7

Twice, God told Noah and his sons, 'Be fruitful and multiply.' and they did that very thing.  The descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth produced the nations of Gomer, Magog, Tarshish, Cush, Canaan, Raamah and Sheba as well as many others.  Some of these have a prominent place in the Bible.  Gomer and Magog and Cush will be part of the end times battle foreseen by Ezekiel.  Some of them, like Tarshish, are featured in stories like that of Jonah.  Some of them will become world renown kingdoms like Sheba.  One of them, Canaan, will become the promised land. 

All of these:  cities, nations, great kingdom's, have come since the earth was nearly completely destroyed by God's anger at his people's sinful ways.  Noah's descendants have multiplied over and over again until they have become the millions who now cover the face of the earth.  We owe our history and our lives to one man who heard and obeyed God's voice and to God's promise that he would never again destroy all of the living creatures.

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