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by Dale Krebbs
Nations: Yesterday And Today
After God sent the worldwide flood on the earth, there were only a few humans on the whole earth…only Noah and his family. After the waters subsided, He and his family began from that time to produce children. From that time until now, the earth has been covered with many peoples and therefore many nations have covered the earth again.
“13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up [g]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the [h]surface of the ground was dried up. 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may [i]breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out [j]by their families from the ark.” - Genesis 8:13-19
From this moment on, mankind began to fill the earth with the decedents of Noah and his family.
Some years ago, an attempt was made to track the many decedents of Noah over the whole earth, and to determine how the decedents of Noah had spread, and the names of the nations they had spread over the entire earth.
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Printed below is the result of the ominous attempt to trace the biblical locations where Noah’s offspring had spread of about the year 1950. No one of course can be absolutely about the nations location, but perhaps it would be interesting to see where the different peoples were living on the earth at that time.
The result of the ominous research is listed below. Keep in mind the results determined at that time are approximations, and have certain changed some since then:
Bibical Nations and their counter parts today: (middle of the 19th century)
Bible: Today:
Edom - Turkey, Esau, Temon, Omar
Ishmael - Saudi Arabia, the Arabs
Moab, Hagarenes, Geba - Lebanon + part of Jordan
Amon, Amalek - Jordan, Iraq, Turkey
Assur (Assur) Assyiria - Germany
Tarshish - Spain, Portugal, Italy
Mashech + Tubal - Great White Russians
Magon (Gog) - Mongolian hordes of East Asia
"children of Lot" - Jordan + part of Iraq
Javan - Greece, Cyprus
Chaldeans - Southwst Europe (Arphaxad)
Joktan, Ophir - Afganistan, Kashmir (parts of India today...)
Medan +Median - Persia
Pul - Persia, Elam, Yugoslavia
Media - "little Russias", Romaia, Poland, Ukraine
Sinim - Australia
Israel - U. S., British Empire, Democracies of NW Europe
Ephraim - England, Canada
Manassah - United States,
Judah - Benjamin, Jews
Gomer - nations of Southeast Asia
Togamar - Russian Siberia
Cush, Put - India
Aram (son of Shem) - Syria, "land of Uz")
Cannan - Malta, parts of Sicily, Spain, Sardinia, N. Africa, Portugal, Moors of Africa, Brazil, Turkey
Pathros - part of Egypt along the Nile
Philistines - Gaza Strip, Libya, Southern Egypt, African Sudan, the Sahara
Phut (Put) - west & central Africans
Dedan - East Africa, Southern India
Sheba - Iran, Arabia
Elam - Poland, Yugoslavia
Sidon - Portugal
Medes - little Russia
Of course some - or perhaps many - of these nations have moved, expanded, or chnged in many way since the 1950's.
But it is amazing how the whole world has changed since Moah abandoned the ark!
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