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CHAPTER VI
"THE APPOINTED TIMES
OF THE NATIONS"
A FTE R the global flood of Noah's day the
nations of the earth were formed from the
descendants of his three sons, Shem, Ham
and Japheth . "These are the families of the sons
of Noah, after their generations, in their nations :
and by these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood ." Genesis 10 :32 The first human
king reported on earth was Nimrod, son of Cush,
son of Ham, son of Noah . The city with which
Nimrod began in the plains of Shinar was the
first center of defiance to Jehovah's rule of the
earth. It was a city destined to become a Biblical
symbol of the very organization of the Devil itself,
Babylon! "He was a mighty hunter before
Jehovah : wherefore it is said, Like -Nimrod a
mighty hunter before Jehovah . And the beginning
of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ." Genesis
10 : 8-10, ASV All the kingdoms of this world
have since then drawn their inspiration from
Babylon and its invisible ruling power, "the god
of this world," the foe of Jehovah .
2 Suddenly in the Bible record of kingdoms ap-
1 . From whom were the nations formed? Who was
their first king?
2. Who was Melchizedek? What relations had he with
Abraham?
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