People of the World Where Did We Come From?
by Monty Spencer Assistant Chaplain Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office
People of the World
Where Did We Come From?
Where did the different nationalities come from? To explain this to a
Christian is pretty easy, but to the rest of the world, not so much.
I am going to try. Let’s pretend that some of the Bible is true. In
the book of Genesis, it says that God created the world and everything
in it and on it. Adam was the first man created, then Eve. They
sinned and God threw them out of the Garden of Eden. God told them to
have children and multiply, which they did until Genesis 6 where the
sons of God (His angels) married the daughters of men and they had
children. Some Bible translations call these children Giants and some
call them Nephilim. However, God did not like that His angels married
the daughters of men. He said He was sorry he had made man. As a
result, God destroyed the earth with a worldwide flood and wiped out
all the people off the face of the earth except for eight – Noah and
his family. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and he was
perfect in his generations. In other words, his genealogy did not have
any angel in him or his children. Noah and his wife had three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth and they each had a wife. God spared this
family through the Ark.
Eight people were left on the whole earth. When the waters receded,
the Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat in Turkey. (People have
been looking for the remains of the Ark for years, but I know they
will never find it until the Lord wants it found. He wants you to
believe in Him by faith. If you saw Noah’s Ark that would take faith
out of it.) Now Noah’s children began to multiply and repopulate the
earth. Genesis 11:1-9, it says, “Now the whole earth had one language
and one speech. It happened, as they journeyed from the east that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they
said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them
thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for
mortar. In addition, they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city,
and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for
ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole
earth.” (I wonder who told them they would get scattered over the
earth.) The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the
sons of men had built. The Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and
they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now
nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let
Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not
understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad
from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building
the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord
confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord
scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” I think God
not only changed their language, but he changed their looks also.
Most scholars think the Babel incident took place about 2200 BC or
about 4200 years ago, give or take a few hundred years. Babel was a
ziggurat, which is a pyramid shaped, stepped configuration.
Interestingly, Mexico has similar structures. While I was traveling,
I visited the Mayan ruins in Chichen Itza. It is estimated the Mayans
used these temples between 3500 years and 4000 years ago. They are
beautiful structures. I actually climbed one. Going up was not too
bad, but coming down was a bit of a challenge. With only a chain to
hold on to, I slowly worked my way down. Once down, I read the theory
on the how the Mayan people came to be in that area. The theory is
these people traveled from France on homemade boats. I do not believe
that! God put them there when He “scattered the people abroad from
there over the face of all the earth”. Many areas on the earth have
structures such as pyramids and ziggurats. You can do a search on the
Net and find evidence of them around the world. The thought occurred
to me that if I were in Babel when the Lord scattered the people
living there at that time, would I pick up what I was doing when I
left Babel. Of course. God’s word tells us how the different
nationalities of the world came to be. He put them there and they
continued to build the pyramid shaped structures. Archaeologists and
scholars do not even consider this. I have noticed, after talking
with many inmates, that the higher the I.Q the less they believe the
Bible is God’s word. I have a sign in my office that reads, Knowing
Jesus and helping others is the rent that we pay on earth for our room
in heaven. It’s not what you know, it’s WHO you know; Jesus Christ.
Monty Spencer
Assistant Chaplain Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office
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