The Family Tree

The Family Tree

 

The Family Tree can be very interesting.

It’s your history and it matters.

And you will matter to the generations to come.

Leave more than an inheritance.

Leave a Godly legacy!

Encourage a family member today.

Don’t put it off till tomorrow.

  

 

God gave Noah the same command as He had given Adam.

Be fruitful and fill the earth!

Genesis 10 lists Noah’s Family Tree.

Most would agree that the genealogies of the Bible are boring reading.

But God saw fit to record them,

because God cares about your children and their children.

There are many fascinating nuggets

found in these Family Trees.

You will find both good and bad

tucked away in the branches.

Good and bad fruit!

From the fruit there are seeds

carrying on the language; the character.

Because of my grandparents and parents,

I grew up knowing Jesus. 

Godly character was modeled,

and a healthy fear of the Lord was in the hearts

of my brothers, sister and myself.

Our children grow up so fast;

and as they grow, they are taking from us

things that they will use the rest of their lives.

Noah’s children became nations.

What will our children become?

What they become will be influenced by you.

You make a difference!

Your encouragement of love

and Godly expectations for them

is some of the stuff they will need

to make a positive difference.

Pray that God will give you the ability

to break off the things in your Family Tree

that hinder your life.

And pray for a deeper understanding

of what God wants

to do through your children

and their children.

Ask Him for the wisdom to make

a positive difference in their lives.

If you don’t have children,

you are still a part of a Family Tree.

Ask God to make you a blessing

as you pray for each relative.

Your Family Tree matters to God!

Scripture Reading

Genesis 10 THE MESSAGE

10:1 The Family Tree of Noah's Sons

This is the family tree of the sons of Noah:

Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.

2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.

3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.

4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim. 5 The seafaring peoples developed from these, each in its own place by family, each with its own language.

6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.

8 Cush also had Nimrod. He was the first great warrior on Earth. 9 He was a great hunter before GOD. There was a saying, "Like Nimrod, a great hunter before GOD."

10 His kingdom got its start with Babel;

then Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the country of Shinar.

11 From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

13 Egypt was ancestor to the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,

14 the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (the origin of the Philistines), and the Kaphtorim.

15 Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

Later the Canaanites spread out, 19 going from Sidon toward Gerar, as far south as Gaza,

and then east all the way over to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and on to Lasha.

20 These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.

21 Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons.

Shem was ancestor to all the children of Eber.

22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, Meshech.

24 Arphaxad had Shelah and Shelah had Eber. 25 Eber had two sons, Peleg

(so named because in his days the human race divided) and Joktan. \

26 Joktan had Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab — all sons of Joktan.

30 Their land goes from Mesha toward Sephar as far as the mountain ranges in the east.

31 These are the descendants of Shem by family, language, country, and nation.

32 This is the family tree of the sons of Noah as they developed into nations.

From them nations developed all across the Earth after the flood.