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What Does The Bible Symbolize Japheth
“GOD SHALL ENLARGE JAPHETH”
THE EUROPEAN JAPHETH AND THE CANAANITES
God shall enlarge Japheth (Genesis 9:27). Noah went on and stated that God will enlarge Japheth, this was prophetic utterance which was pronounced on Japheth’s offspring’s, which have to do with the expansion of territories. The name Japheth itself means “enlargement”. The Bible never told us that Noah ever said bless the Lord God of Japheth, but he only said bless the Lord God of Shem, which means through Shem’s offspring the Messiah “Jesus” will descent. Jesus was an offspring of a Semitic Arab, and not from the offspring of European Japheth. So, why, does the Europeans claimed that Jesus was a Caucasian white, when the Bible told us that He was a descendant of Semitic Arab, who were dark to brown olive skin. In the amplified Bible, we came to the understanding that the offspring’s of Japheth were gentiles (Genesis 10:1-5). In
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I want us to take a close look into biblical history on how Japheth’s descendant came to dwell in the tents of Shem. I talked earlier, how the other three brothers of Canaan ruled the ancient world, and the offspring of Canaan were taxed the levy of bondmen to them and when the Israelites invaded the land of Canaan the Canaanites became bondmen and tributaries to the children of Israel (Judges 1:27-36; 1 kings 9:20-22). When the children of Israel sinned against God, both the Canaanite and

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