Blessed Ham!

From a message by a Curious Questioner--
>CQ> Subject: Noachic Children in Prophecy

>CQ> NOAH: (AKA NOE) The son of Lamech.
>CQ> . Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth;

Not quite; there's been lotsa floods visiting since then, but not a GLOBAL flood to "destroy" the whole earth. The bow covenant of Gen.9 was also to Noah's "sons" (Gen.9:9p) and "every living creature" (Gen.9:12p) that [were] with Noah and his sons after the deluge.

>CQ> HAM: Son of Noah. Provokes his father's wrath and he (and his descendents are cursed) is cursed by him.

No. Ham was not cursed in the Bible, but "blessed" by God himself back in Gen.9:1p; and Noah only cursed one of Ham's immediate sons, Canaan (and descendents of Canaan) in Gen.9:25p. Ham's other sons, Cush(Ethiopia), Mizraim(Egypt), and Phut(Australia?) were not cursed by Noah to be servants of Japhethites and Shemites.

>CQ> [ Ham's Abomination? VIEW NO RELATIVE IN THEIR NAKEDNESS.
>CQ> Lev 18:6-8: None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness:

Technically, the text in Genesis 9 doesn't say Ham uncovered him, only that he "saw" his nakedness and instead of covering him up, went and told his two brethren, who backed in and covered him.

>CQ> ...and the sons of Ham (the cursed) populated the middle east!

Again, Ham the blessed had other sons, besides Canaan the cursed who populated the middle east before the land was given to Israel. Africa, (and in particular,) Egypt, is called "the land of Ham", where most of Ham's blessed descendents seem to have settled.

>CQ> It will be indicated that sons of Ham are essentially still under curse and will serve the others.

Only the children of Canaan were in Canaan's loins when he was cursed. The Bible doesn't support the enslavement of Ham's other descendents by Cush, Mizraim and Phut, as racists perversely claim.

>CQ> The children of Israel are NOT the sons of Ham.

All Israelites are descendents of Shem, but there's been a lot of intermingling since Israel was scattered throughout the nations, so many people descended from Israel are also descended from children of Japheth and Ham, and even from Canaan. Israel's son Simeon had one son by a "Canaanitish woman" (Gen.46:10) and even one of the twelve apostles was called a "Canaanite." (Mt.10:4)

Remember that Jesus is the Lord and receive the love of the truth. Grace be to your heart, in love for Jesus' sake. Amen. --Richard