Magog

And children were born to them after the flood, for they had taken wives before the flood.

These are the sons of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras, seven sons.

And the sons of Gomer were Askenaz, Rephath, and Tagarma.

And the sons of Magog were Alechenath and Lubal.

And the children of Madai were Ekhan, Zilo, Chazoni, and Lot.

And the sons of Javan were Elisha, Tarshish, Chittim.

And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward extirpated, and they called these cities after their own names, or the names of their children, or after their particular occurrences.

And the sons of Japheth, the son of Noah, went and built themselves cities in the place where they were scattered, and they called all their cities after their names, and the sons of Japheth were divided upon the face of the earth into many divisions and languages.

It's, I'll read it to you explicitly.

Gog, according to the Radak, is the king of a place called Magog and had power over a place called Meshach and Tuval.

Now, what is being described in this war, in this chapter? It's a war.

Gog

is a person.

Gog is a king, yeah.

Magog is a place alongside Meshach and Tuval and other nations as well that will come from the north of Israel and attack the Jewish people in Israel after they are settled, like we described in the previous chapters, that they would be settled and blessed.

After they are settled and blessed, the chapter describes a war that's going to be a very, very massive battle that will essentially eradicate the enemies of the Jewish people en masse.

I'm not going to read them all, but let me just highlight a couple of them.

The sons of Jephthah, Gomer, Magog, skip a couple, Tubal, Meshach, look at the last one in verse 3, to Garma.

Now wait a minute, I just told you that all of Bible prophecy has its foundation in the book of Genesis.

In a moment or two, we're going to be looking at Ezekiel chapter 38.

They established nations.

Let's think about this just a moment.

You can go to any historical geographical textbook on biblical lands and you can look up Magog, Meshach, Tubal, Gomer, and Tagarmah.

When you do that, you're going to see that Magog went to the north of the Caspian and Black Sea with his family, teaching them a language.

Rather, the Book of Invasions starts by retelling the story of creation and the fall of man from Genesis.

Then it launches into a history of the Gaels, again tracing them to Noah and Japheth, through the latter's son Magog to the Scythians.

It tells of a Scythian prince called Phineas Pharsade, said to be one of the tribal leaders behind the construction of the Tower of Babel.

Pharsade has a son named Nell who marries an Egyptian princess named Skota, daughter of a pharaoh named Kingris.

Hopefully it was the Second World War.

The judgment of Gog and Magog will be over a period of 12 months.

Okay, so this is a story of which either hasn't happened yet or was the Second World War.

Hopefully it was the Second World War because it's going to be a terrible war.

This king called Gog is going to make a war with the land of Israel, with Israel at the end of days.

And Magog is the name of his place.

So Gog is the king.

Magog is the name of his country.

And children were born to them after the flood, for they had taken wives before the flood.

These are the sons of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras, seven sons.

And the sons of Gomer were Askenaz, Rephath, and Tagarma.

And the sons of Magog were Alichinath and Lubal.

And the children of Madai were Ekhan, Zilo, Chazoni, and Lot.

And the sons of Javan were Elisha, Tarshish, Chidim, and Didonim.

And the sons of Japheth, the son of Noah, went and built themselves cities in the place where they were scattered, and they called all their cities after their names.

And the sons of Japheth were divided upon the face of the earth into many divisions and languages.

right we come now to chapter 10 and the genealogy of noah now these are the generations of the sons of noah verse 1 shem and ham and japheth and unto them were sons born after what the flood okay so we're talking about the post-flood population the development of the nations guess what each one of us in this room traces back to either shem ham or japheth okay i thought that was interesting just in case you didn't um all right so we come to this passage that is often referred to as the table of nations and even the skeptics have been forced to admit that this this ancient document here is a is is of great historical value really presents the only authoritative history that we have of those early the early development there of of the three sons of Noah so we have just as a quick overview just so you can understand the structure of the chapter we have Japheth's lineage described in verse 1 to 5 we have Ham's lineage described in verse 6 to 20 and then we have Shem's lineage in verse 20 to 21. so let's just do a quick survey of these three we have Japheth's lineage in verse one to five so here we have Noah starting at the top of the chart coming over to Japheth and down here we have the sons of Japheth then down to the grandsons of of Japheth and different peoples branching off here.

So we'll notice a few names are going to pop out of this here in relation to Japheth, names like Gomer, Magog, Tubal, Meshech, Togarmah, remember that from Ezekiel 38, 39? So this is very interesting what is recorded here.

Henry Morris in the Genesis record says, although some of the identifications are uncertain, they do seem to indicate that the descendants of Japheth spread all over Europe, with one major branch heading eastward into Persia and India.

It is especially to the descendants of Japheth that the term Gentiles was applied.

And according to Josephus, Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians.

And the area of the region of Galatia is located in the region we know today as central Turkey.

Magog was clearly the early peoples that developed into what we now know as Russia, we dealt with that in our series on Ezekiel 38-39 and Tagama was a son of Gomer and he also features in the Ezekiel 38 prophecy, again appears to be a reference to Turkey, so very interesting Ezekiel 38-39 prophetically and how the writer in Ezekiel appeals back to these early names concerning these peoples all right we come now to hams just skip through here now to a quick survey of hams lineage and this is covered in more detail than jfeth and it's found in verses 6 to 20 of the chapter And if you're looking at the chart here, again, it can be a little bit hard to digest, but we move over here to Ham and his four sons and then the various branches that came out of that.

So Mizraim is Egypt.