This line of people called themselves the Arioi or what we term “Aryans” who were closely allied in descent, language, and religion with the Persians. Every time the Medes are mentioned in the Bible the word is translated from the Hebrew word Madai. Josephus goes on to explain that the descendants of Madai were caged…
Magog is referred to by Ezekiel as the “land of Gog” (38:2; 39:6). This is the area of Russia, not the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but the older and smaller country of Russia. Ezekiel tells us that Magog lived in the North parts (Ezek. 38:15, 39:2). If you travel due north from Israel, past…
Gomer, the grand-son of Noah, is referenced by Ezekiel 38:6. We learn that, along with Togarmah, he lived in the northern quarters that is referred to in the New Testament as Galatia, now known as central Turkey. Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian who lived during the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, records that those…
Tubal is the hardest of all Noah’s grandsons to identify. Ezekiel mentions him along with Gog and Meshech (Ezek. 39:1). In Ezekiel 27:13, they are mentioned together as exporters of slaves and copper and were a warlike people (32:26) in the army of Gog (38:2-ff; 39:1). Since they lived to the North of Israel, it…
After the flood, Noah’s descendants spread and repopulated the earth with each establishing various nations of people. The people in those various areas not only called themselves by the name of the man who was their common ancestor, but the land was also called by his name. In some cases, major cities and/or rivers were…
Noah and his descendants left a very clear record of where they came to live and the nations that were produced by them. But before we examine each of those names, we need to notice one important characteristic of that age of the world. It does not apply to any other age, either before or…
Pagan religions worshipped Noah under a variety of names. The ancient Romans worshipped him under the name of Janus. Janus was the god with two faces, one facing in each direction. This Roman version of Noah described the man who lived in two worlds, the world before the flood, and the world after the flood….
After sixteen hundred years of human history, mankind had become so corrupt that God determined to destroy all of the human race except for Noah and his family. Gen. 6:5-8 reads, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was…