It was a customary among the Ancients to say, "Blessed be Yahawah" by which they meant that from Him is every blessing, that is every good; and he said, Blessed be Yahawah the God of Shem; and the canaan shall be his servant. Blessed be Yahawah the God of Shem," signifies every good for those who worship Yahawah from internal. Shem is the internal church, and cannaan shall be his servant. Those who may perform vile services to the men of the church are external. Blessed be Yahawah the God of shem this signifies every good for those who worship Yahawah from internal, is evident from the significant of "blessed" this blessing involves every good celestial, spiritual, and natural, and all these are signifies by blessing; in the internal sense. He said if you seek Him you will find me. And he said- The prediction concerning the other two brother is a distinct utterance of Noah. "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem." The characteristic boon of Shem is that Yahweh, the one true living God of Shem, is his God. We are in tribe of Shem, the remnant of Shemites, his God means "Bathala" The knowledge and worship of the Creator is preserved in the family of Shem, when it lost fatally obscured among the other descendant of Noah. The prophet is so concious of the unspeakable blessing of knowing and loving the true God, that he breaks out into thankgiving in the very act of announcing the transcendent privilege of Shem. There is a dark side, however, to this prophetic thought as it implies that the two other families of mankind, at least for part of the period under the prophetic view, were estranged from the true and living God. History corroborates both aspects of this prophetic sentence for the space of two thousand four hundred years. During the most part of the long period the Holy Yahawah Omnipotent was unknown to the great mass of the Japhethites, Hamites, and even Shemites. And it was only by the special election and consecration of an individual Shemites to be head of a special people, (lahing pinili), and the father of the faithful, that he did not ceases to be the God of even a remant of Shem. Then follows the refrain, "And Kanaan shall be servant unto them" The phrase "unto them" proves that Shem here comprehends the race descendant from him, and consisting of many individual. Scripture sees the race in the Father, traces up its unity to him, discerns in him the leading traits of character that often marks his remotest posterity, and identifies with him in destiny all those of his race who continue to takes after him. Thus, Adam we notes the whole race, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, its three great branches. Attention to this law of unity continuity, and identity of a race will aid us much on understanding the dealings of Providence with the several branches of the human family. We learn also from the same phrase that this solemn sentence is no mere ebullition of the personal feeling of Noah. He is not speaking of Shem and Kanaan merely, but of the future races that are to spring from them. This appears still more plainly from the fact that Japheth, as well as Ham, is describe as long estranged from the true God. And now that we are on spiritual ground, it ought to be observed that kanaan's curse is not exclusion, either present or prospective, from the mercy of God. That is an evil he bring on himself by a voluntary departure from the living God. The curse merely affects the body- the personal liberty. It is a meredegration from some of the natural rights of our common humanity, and does not of itself. Cut him from any offer of mercy, or benefit of repentant faith.
God shall enlarge Japheth - God is here spoken of by his generic name. This intimates, or at least coincides, with the fact that Japhet did not continue that nearness of approach to him which is implied in the use of the personal name. There is in the original a play upon the word "Japheth", which itself signifies enlargement. This enlargement is the most striking point in the history of Japheth, who is the progenitor of the inhabitants of Europe, Asia, and America, except the region between the Persian gulf, the red Sea, the Mediterraneans, the Euxine, the Caspian, and the mountains beyond the Tigris rivers which was the main seat of the Shemites. This expensive power refers not only to the territory and the multitude of the Japhetites, but also to their intellectual and active faculties
The metaphysics of the Hindus, the philosophy of the Greeks, the militay prowess of the Romans, and the modern science and civilization of the World, are due to the race of Japhet, And thought the moral and the spiritual were first developed among the Shemites, yet the Japhethites haved proved themselves capable of rising to the heights of these lofty themes, and human speech, which was adopted, in the providence of God, as best suited to convey to mankind that further development of old Testament truth which is furnished in the New. (The writer stop in the New) , it should be in the New Testament. The Torah speak the truth they are the Gentile. They nearness truth they use force. Not of God providence, using adopted sound good, but in reality they steal the truth and use it they shutdown the window of heaven that our, your prayer can't be heard. Let continue.
And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. We regard Japheth as the subject of this sentence; because, if God were its subject, the meaning would be substantially as the blessing of Shem, already given, and because this would intermingle the of shem with that of Japheth, without any important addition to our information, wheteas, when Japheth is the subject of the sentence, we learn that he shall dwell in the tents of Shem- an altogether new proposition. This form of expression does not indicate a direct invasion and conquest of the land of Shem which would not be in keeping with the blessing pronounced on him in the previous sentence : it rather implies that this dwelling together would be a benefit to Japheth, and no injury to Shem. Accordingly, we find that when Persians conquered the Babylonian empire, they restored the Jews to their native land; when Alexander the Great conquered the Persians, he gave protection to the Jews, and when Romans subdued the Greek monarchy, they befriended the chosen nation, and allowed them (to be slaved) a large measure of self-government. In their time came the Messiah, and instituted the new form of the church of the old Testament which not only retained the best part of the ancient people of God, but extended
Itself over the whole of Europe, the chief seat of Japheth; went with him whenever he went; and is at thus day, through the blesding of God on his political and moral influence, penetrating into the moral darkness of Ham, as well as the remainder of Shem and Japheth himself. Thus in the highest of all senses, Japheth is dwelling in the tents of Shem.
Again come the refrain, 'And kaanan shall be servant unto them.' A portion Japheth still hold a portion of Ham in bondage. But
thus bondage has been the means of bringing some of the sons of Ham to dwell in the tents of Shem; and the day is not far distant when Japheth will relinquish altogther the compulsory hold upon his brother, and consecrate his entire moral influence over him to the revival in his race of the knowledge and love of God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thus, it appears that the destiny of these three great branches of Noachic family, during the time of their separation on the high question of their relation to God, is traced of with great fidelity in this remarkable prediction, Ham is aptly represented by kenaan, the slave, who is seized, enslaved, and sold even by his kinsmen to one other, and to the descendant of Shem and Japheth. Shem includes within his posterity the select family who know God as the Lord, the God of Promise, of mercy, of salvation. Japheth enlarge by God, and at length becomes acquainted with him whom he once ignorantly worshipped. The Historian recognize these salient point in the experience of the three races, so long as they continue apart. The time is approaching when the strange intermediate development will come to a happy issue, in the reunion of all the members of the human family, according to clearer and futher - reaching prophecies yet to be delivered. Watch the video of Ophirian heritage part 1:2:3 best understanding
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