All Men Are Brothers

1. The ancestor of all men
   
   
   • Genesis 1:26-27 The ancestor of all men and women living today is Adam no matter what your race, religion, or color.
     
     
   • Genesis 2:7 God made Adam from the dust of the earth.
     
     
   • Genesis 2:21-24 God made Eve from one of Adam's ribs.
     
     
   • No one can say for sure exactly what Adam looked like because his body contained the genetic make up of every race and color of all the people to be born into this world.
     
     
   • Since Adam is the father of all men, then all men are brothers and the whole world is one family.
     
     
2. Noah and his family
   
   
   • Genesis 7:12-23 Noah and his family were the only people on earth that escaped destruction by the flood. Here we have four mixed marriages that represent all the races and colors of the world and these were blessed by God and saved from the flood.
     
     
   • Genesis 9:1-7 God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
     
     
   • Genesis 9:18-19 The sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japeth.
     
     
3. Generations of the sons of Noah. (Genesis 10:1)
   
   
   • Japeth (Genesis 10:2-5)
     The descendants of Japath went north and settled around the coast lands of the Black and Caspian Seas. They became the progenitors of the Medes, Greeks, and the Caucasian races of Europe and Asia.
     
     
   • Ham (Genesis 10:6-19)
     The grandfather of Nimrod. His Kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. The descendants of Ham went to southern Arabia, southern Egypt, the east shore of the Mediteraniean, and north coast of Africa.
     
     
   • Shem (Genesis 10:20-31)
     The descendants of Shem settled in Arabia and the middle east valley. They include Jews, Assyrians, Syrians, and Elamites.
     
     
   • Genesis 10:32 This chapter gave the geneology of how the earth was populated but this scattering did not take place until after the Tower of Babel.
     
     
4. The Tower of Babel
   
   
   • One language and one speech (Genesis 11:1-4)
     The whole earth was of one language and one speech. As a matter of fact they were all of one family.
     
     
   • The land of Shinar
     The land of Shinar is the Old Testament name for the territory of ancient Sumer and later of Babylonia or Mesopotamia.
     
     
   • The sin of the people
     The sin of the people in the land of Shinar was pride and rebellion against God. They did not want to spread throughout the world as God told them. They wanted to stay in this one area and control their own destiny apart from God through man-centered organizational unity, power, and great accomplishments. (Genesis 11:2-4)
     
     
5. God causes the people to be scattered abroad
   
   
   • Their language is confounded
     God destroyed this effort by multiplying and confounding languages so that some groups could not understand other groups. This explains the diversity of race and language in the world today. (Genesis 11:5-9)
     
     
   • The people turn further away from God
     Instead of repenting of their wrong when God brought judgment on them the human race hated God, turned to idolotry, sorcery, and astrology. (Isaiah 47:10-14)
     
     
   • The people scatter
     After God confounded their language the people most likely gathered into groups that could understand each other. This divided the people by language and each group, not able to understand the others, wandered away to find a land of its own. This was the dividing of the people by nation.
     
     
   • Nations of sin are formed
     After each group established itself in a new land their self pride soon demanded that they discriminate against the other groups because of their language, color, characteristics, ideas, etc. Now brother hates brother because pride brought forth discrimination which turned to hate.
     
     
   • God hates sin
     We can see by the Scriptures that contention and pride not only leads to hatred and sin which defiles us, but is not of God, but of the world. We also read that God abhorreth, or hates, the wicked, who persecute people because of their pride. (Psalm 10:1-11, Proverbs 14:3, Proverbs 16:17-20, Mark 7:20-23, I John 2:16)
     
     
   • There is still hope
     If God can forgive us our evil ways, why can't we forgive our brothers?
     If God can love us, why can't we love our brothers?
     We must put away our foolish pride, repent of our evil ways, and accept our brothers as family once again
     We must be of one mind and one accord trying our best to please God.
     (Ezekiel 18:20-23, Ezekiel 18:27-32, Luke 13:1-3, Acts 17:30-31, Proverbs 28:13, II Peter 3:9, Luke 24:46-47, Colossians 2:8-15, John 13:35)