All the various races over the whole planet Earth said, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name… (Gen 11:4)…. “These are the generations of Shem…” (Gen 11:10).
Among all the races were Shem, Japheth, and Ham. In my book, The Arks of
Tubal-Cain, I contend that the race of Cain through Tubal-Cain and his
brothers and sister made it through the flood and populated the whole earth;
whereas the sons of Noah populated only the land of Shinar where the tower was
built.
It appears that many from all the population of the Earth had gathered at
Shinar to make a name (שֵׁם shem) for
themselves. The name that was chosen by God was “Shem” (verse 10).
There was the another “election” of which Paul spoke. Before, Adam had been
elected over the other kinds by God (Gen 1:28), but by their own works, Semites
would acquire the status of chosen and peculiar people, as if they were only
the heirs that God covenanted and none of the other brothers.
The evidence of that is after the flood, “God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said unto them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth’” (Gen
9:1). God intended for the name to be “Noah,” but Shem as the eldest
seemed to have been heir apparent. The Noahic Covenant was to be with “Noah and
his sons” (Gen 9:11), and from them, “Shem” became the name that God chose. All
the sons were chosen, but the seed of Shem would prove Shem as most worthy of the Covenant. Jesus was the “Name”
(HaShem) from the commandments.
In a sense, a son of Shem would prove himself mightiest of men; men that
could build a tower whose top would reach the heavens. [1] That “son” was Shem’s 4th
great-grandson, Abram.
According to the Book of Jasher, Nimrod was king; he was the son of
Cush, the son of Ham, the son of Noah. The king should have been by primogeniture…
the eldest son, Shem. As such, by then a Cushite had become king of all the Earth.
The Noahic Covenant had been usurped and the will of God all but ignored. How
was it to be?
Cursed
be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And He said, “Blessed
be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant” (Gen 9:25-27)
Canaan was the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah. If any of the Hamites
would be the legitimate heir, it would have been Cush by the law of
primogeniture.
God’s will to be done was that the youngest son alone would be cursed, not
all the Hamites. The first of the flock always belonged to God, according to
the Law, so Canaan was last among the sons of Ham. Not the first, but the last,
would be cursed for the first son would make a good sacrifice to God.
With that said, the Covenant of Noah was for power to be shared by him and
all three sons; however, first Noah became the “husbandman” (Gen 9:29), or the
source of divine genetics, and he established supremacy over any of his sons as
the genetic head.
It appears that the newly formed government would be very similar to the
Roman Caesars: first the father, (Vespasian) then the oldest son (Titus) and
the next son (Domitian). There would be
no further sons; just as Vespasian was the “husbandman,” only two of his sons
would be Caesars. That seems to be the case, or the will of God, for Noah’s
kingship as well. There would be no room for the kingship of Canaan, just as if
he never existed.
The name would have been “Shem” with the right of primogeniture, but in
Shinar, it was Nimrod, the son of Cush, who would vow for headship; for him to
be the “husbandman” rather than Shem.
The Book of Jasher reveals that Nimrod failed with his attempt to
defy the will of God. His method seems to have been to break the Noahic Covenant
by proving that God was not up there. In other words, God’s choice prevailed
with Shem the name that should reign.
Abram came out alive from the fire of Ur. It was the seed of Shem that survived
among all the others. All others failed to have faith in God, even Abram’s
brother, Haran who died in the fire of Nimrod.
Abram was the son of Terah, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of
Salah, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem. Hence, the “head” of planet Earth
prevailed through Abram.
A Semite prevailed of all the tribes of the Earth. Abram came out of the
fire of Ur unscathed. God had given him incorruptibility. He was what is called
a “new creation” and Abram became the “husbandman” in the manner of Noah,
rather than Nimrod.
As Because of his faith in the true God, Abram was renamed “Abraham”
because he was a new creature, going from Abram (אַבְרָם)
to Abraham (אַבְרָהָם; Gen 17:5).
Note the addition of the letter hey הָ
(English “h”), representing a longer living genetics in biology. It was the
seed of Abraham that would be passed down to Isaac, Jacob, and onto the Jews
and even the Gentiles. Abram became the husbandman from the seed of Shem. It
was Abram that made a Name for Shem.
From Abraham came Jesus — the Name above all names; “The book of the
generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham…” (Mat 1:1).
Abraham was the placeholder, or proxy, for his seed, “Jesus:” About the rich
man in Hell, “…being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his
bosom” (Luke 16:23).
That “bosom” would be the Abrahamic Covenant for all the seed of Abraham
that would have the faith of Abraham. Abram had become the “husbandman” and the
“father” of all who of those with his faith to inherit the hey (eternal
life) from his name.
[1]
The Book of Jasher provides evidence that the tower and its top may have
been an ancient attempt to build a rocket. Of course, it failed and eleven of
the twelve were incinerated.
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