There is much more we will say on this as we go on into chapter 10, but let
me speak briefly about Ham. Ham is given the role of a servant in relation to
both of these other families of earth. But, notice carefully, not a servant in
the sense of enslavement. That role was limited to the descendants of Canaan. "A
slave of slaves," is the Hebrew way of emphasizing, of intensifying a statement.
Canaan was to be that, but not the rest of the sons of Ham. However, they were
to fulfill a servant relationship, not in the sense of enslavement, but as the
practical technicians of humanity. If you study ancient history and
technological achievements which were in many ways the equal of, or superior of,
much that we have today, were founded and carried to a high technological
proficiency by Hamitic people. This is the role in history given by God to the
descendants of Ham. The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, all
were Hamitic people. They were the great inventors of mankind. It may come as a
shock to some, who boast in Aryan superiority and think of Americans as the most
inventive people on the earth, to know that almost every basic invention can be
traced to the Hamites, rather than to the Japhethites, which we represent. All
that Japhethic people do is to develop the philosophy of science and apply
technology, but the discovery of these are largely traceable to the Hamitic
peoples of the earth.

 

Now, to bring this introduction of the subject to a conclusion, all of this
is reflected most interestingly in the New Testament. We have for instance, the
so-called Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), which are very similar to
one another and quite different from the gospel of John. Yet Matthew, Mark, and
Luke are not copies of one another but they represent differences of approach.
It has often been pointed out that they are aimed at different types of people.
The interesting thing is that when you inquire who these people are you find
that they are Shem, Ham, and Japheth, in that order. Matthew is aimed at the
Semitic people. It is the gospel for the Jews, above all others. Mark is clearly
the gospel of the servant. This is stressed by Bible teachers whenever they
teach Mark; his gospel is profoundly the presentation of the servant, the
practical mind, the Hamitic mind. Luke is clearly aimed at the Greek, or the
Japhethic mind.

 

It is also interesting that three groups are recorded in the New Testament
as specifically coming to seek the Lord Jesus. They are: the shepherds, the Wise
men, and the Greeks. Here you have again the order: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The
shepherds were Israelites, Semitic. Most Bible scholars feel that the Magi, the
Wise men from the East, were really not from the East (that was a general term)
but from Arabia, and represent the Hamitic peoples. The Greeks are clearly
Japhethites. So there again, always in the same order, we have Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.

 

Also, the gospel, was first preached in this order. In the book of Acts we
are told that on the day of Pentecost Peter stood up and said, "Ye men of
Israel," and addressed the gospel to them. Then in the next section we find
Philip called to leave a revival in Samaria and go down to preach to a single
individual in the desert, who is a Hamite, an Ethiopian, the treasurer of
Ethiopia. Then, a little bit later on, Peter is sent to the Japhethites,
preaching the gospel to Cornelius, a centurion of Rome.

 

Furthermore, all three of these groups are represented at the crucifixion.
Each branch of mankind took part in the crucifixion. The moral responsibility
for it fell upon the Jews. It is they who said, "His blood be upon us and. Upon
our children." The physical burden of bearing the cross fell upon a Hamite,
Simon of Cyrene, a stranger in Jerusalem who was impressed into the task of
bearing the cross for our Lord on the Via Dolorosa, Finally, as you know,
executive responsibility for the crucifixion rested with the Romans, who gave
the official order for the death of our Lord.