WEEK 4 Genesis 9
In Genesis chapter 9 there is a strange story
about Ham seeing his father naked in his tent. However, there seems to be more
because Noah remembers something. There have been all kinds of ideas and
misrepresentations on what may have happened. Let's just say what happened
wasn't right and go on.
What I
notice is that though Ham seems to have done the action Noah places a curse on
only one of Ham's descendants, Canaan. The curse was not on all of his
descendants many of which became Africans. Side note: this scripture is taken
out of context and was used to justify the slavery of Africans
for many. It isn't true, yet people are always looking for a way to justify evil
behavior.
The
Canaanites were the ones who ended up in the land that God gave to Israel.
Ultimately the Canaanites were wiped out as a people, but before that, they
were enslaved by the descendants of Japheth and Shem.
What I
want to consider is how the actions of parents affect children. The old saying
is the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, yet at times we see the apple
falling so far away that you wonder how it could be related to the tree in
question. We all have choices to make but the actions of our parents do affect
us. Some children are more affected in a bad way than others but all are
affected. In my own life, I found out that my father did things which cause me
to revolt against those actions. I have prayed, God kill me before I could do
such a thing. Other children in other families have seen the actions of
their parents however and have chosen to follow the pattern left
before them.
Canaan, I
guess, was a child who ended up following the bad example of his father, Ham. I
can say for myself as a father, that a curse on one of my children for what I
had done would be far worse than it falling on me.
Our
actions both good and evil leave a legacy, let us leave the best one we can.
Let's not leave our children the legacy of Ham, a curse of
destruction.
Our actions both good and evil leave a legacy, let us leave the best one we can. Let's not leave our children the legacy of Ham, a curse of destruction.
Gen 9:1-29
(1) And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
(2) And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
(3) Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
(4) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
(5) And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
(6) Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
(7) And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
(8) And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
(9) And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
(10) And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
(11) And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
(12) And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
(13) I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
(14) And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
(15) And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
(16) And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
(17) And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
(18) And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
(19) These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
(20) And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
(21) And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
(22) And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
(23) And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
(24) And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
(25) And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
(26) And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
(27) God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
(28) And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
(29) And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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