This coming Lord’s Day, as the Lord allows, I will continue our survey of the first eleven Chapters of Genesis with a sermon that covers Chapter 10 as God reveals the immediate aftermath of the world-wide Flood and how HE repopulated the world.

The world was, of course, re-populated through the means of the three sons of Noah and their wives and their children and grand-children and so on and so on…

God takes time to list key members of these families:

In verses 2-5, God lists the descendants of Japheth.

In verses 6-20, God lists the descendants of Ham.

In verses 21-31, God lists the descendants of Shem.

The facts in this Chapter are simple and clear. The big question, with which I will spend nearly all of our time, is “Why did God preserve these lists of names and the stories of some of these people?”

Of course, we know that God has a perfect reason for everything that HE does, and Genesis 10 is not an exception to that rule.

Thankfully, God cares about people! He cares more about people than anything else HE has ever created. So he takes time to list and preserve the lists of these people as individuals and as families.

But, there is – of course – more here than just that. God has chosen a people from before the foundation of the world to be HIS chosen people. HE lists and preserves the lists and some of the stories of these Chosen People so we can see HIS faithfulness to them; and, HE brought His Only Son Jesus out of a particular line of these people so HE records these lists in order that Jesus would have HIS genealogy intact from Mary and Joseph back through David and through Judah to Abraham to prove that HE is the promised Messiah of Israel and the rightful Heir to David and qualified to sit on his Throne as the King of Israel.

We will also see two other points of lesser importance; the areas settled by the sons of Noah and their families, and how the biblical timing and math prove the reality of the fact that this great Flood and later re-population occurred about 4,500 years ago, rather than some hundreds of millions of years ago.

It is always a personal joy to me to shoot holes in the anti-biblical, anti-scientific, and nonsensical idea of the earth being “millions” or even “billions” of years old!

I hope you will read over this wonderful Chapter and pray over how it applies to your life today as you prepare your mind to hear the Word of God on Sunday.

I hope to see you Sunday with your Bible in your hand, a smile on your face, and your family and friends by your side!

Pastor Lanny