Who are the Arabs today?
Abram, Terah and other family members made their way up along the Euphrates River into the area known today as Syria. Then Terah and his three sons made their way down to the Gulf of Arabia, to a place later known as Haran. After Terah died, Abraham came down into the land of Canaan.
Let’s begin with Noah: Noah had three sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth. Let’s begin with Japheth, because he became the progenitor of who the Bible refers to as the “Goyim” today we know them as Gentiles.
Later in history, the Goyim became the Caucasian people, or the Indo-Europeans. The term Gentile refers to any non-Jewish people. Again, let’s make our way back to the three sons of Noah in order to illustrate the family tree beginning with Noah.
After the flood, something terrible happened between Noah and his son Ham. Noah would pronounce a curse on Ham’s descendants, the Canaanites, but not Ham himself.
Genesis 9:24-25, “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”
Ham was the father of the Canaanites who would live along the shores of the Mediterranean in the land we now call Israel.
From Shem, the son of Noah, came the man Terah who had three sons, Haran, Abram (Abraham) and Nahor. From these three, came the families of the Arabs, Egyptians, and Israelites.
Now Haran was the father of Lot. Lot had two sons by his own daughters who became pregnant back at the time when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.
Lot’s offspring, those born of his two daughters became the Moabites and the Ammonites. The present-day capital of Trans-Jordan is Amman, it all goes back to the same root.
Nahor had a son named Bethuel, and he had a daughter named Rebekah. You can read more about her in Genesis 24. Nahor also had a son named Laban. Laban in turn had two daughters named Leah and Rachel.
Now let’s take a look at Abraham’s family. First, he had a son by the Egyptian slave girl, Hagar, named Ishmael. Then he had a son by his legal wife, Sarah, named Isaac. After Sarah died, he took a wife named Keturah, and she had a son, among others, from whom came the Midianite nation.
The Midianites were the people to the east. When Moses fled to the desert after leaving Egypt the first time, he married the daughter of the priest of Midian.
So, it’s becoming obvious that all the Arabs of the Middle East, the Israelites and Egyptians are related, and their families are intertwined with each other except for the Canaanites. God specifically Commanded the Jewish people not to marry any Canaanites.
Hagar, Ishmael’s mother was an Egyptian, so, Ishmael married an Egyptian woman. The Egyptians, of course, came from Ham, so we have a connection between this line of the offspring of Ishmael to the Canaanites and the Egyptians. The Egyptians are not true Arabs, but they interact with the Arabs as if they were next-of-kin.
We know that Isaac had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Esau, married two Canaanite women, which the Scriptures say were “a grief of mind” to Isaac and Rebekah. Jacob, on the other hand, went back to his father’s family, marrying Leah and Rachel. From those two marriages, we have the twelve sons which became the twelve tribes of Israel.
From the tribe of Judah came David and Solomon. From Solomon the genealogy splits and on one side we have the genealogy of Mary, who’s bloodline goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. On the other side, we have the line that led to Joseph, who was not the blood father of Jesus, but was his legal father.
We can see how everything fits perfectly down through the centuries of these family trees, and regardless of any circumstances, God has been Sovereign and in complete control.
Remember now, all of these families in the Middle East except for Japheth’s, are all inter-related. That’s why today, they have such a hatred for each other – they are all related by blood.
Genesis 24:3-5, Abraham is speaking to the servant in his house, “…thou shalt not take a wife unto my son (Isaac) of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country (Ur of the Chaldees), and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.”
We know the rest of the story. From this family came the 12 tribes, Moses, David, Solomon, Mary and Jesus.
Phillip Laspino www.seekfirstwisdom.com