Yonaguni-Jima, Japan is the ruins of a city that is now under water. We know the city was not built under water and that people did not inhabit it while it was under water. Rather something cataclysmic caused a flood that covered Yonaguni. In previous blogs we discussed Genesis 1:2, the earth becoming without form and void, and as Jeremiah saw the cities desolate and no men living there. We’ve also discussed an ice age around 13,000 years ago that caused ice melt around 11,000 years ago that Utnapishtim was probably involved with. We’ve looked at other things that have caused cataclysmic events on earth, such as Mars’ old orbit, plate shifts, earthquakes and comets hitting earth. When we look at these ancient structures around the world we recognize that these are only a small portion of things that have survived earth shakings. When I look at the city I live in, including the suburban areas I recognize that not much would survive a world cataclysm because there aren’t many things made solidly of stone. So when we look at a city that is now underwater we realize that not much of that city survives; only the things made with heavy stone.
Dwarka (or Dvaraka) in India has a very rich history behind it. Because the people of India kept records of peoples and civilizations we can understand this now underwater city better than most. It is believed that Dvaraka has been submerged six times and that Dwarka is the seventh city to have been built in that location. There are records of how this city was submerged written in the Mahabharata. With this last written record, we find that the timing is close to that of Noah’s flood. Since Noah’s flood we have other cities that have ended up underwater. One thing is sure; our earth is constantly changing, even if we only see little pieces of it in our life time. The recent Japan earthquake shows us that the shoreline sank two feet with one powerful earthquake. We hear politicians cry about global warming causing our sea levels to rise but this has always been a natural earth event as our earth has changed positions and had other issues throughout its history.
When we think about Noah, how his family was tossed around inside a boat, then they came out and saw the earth covered in water, they must have felt isolated and alone. They rebuilt their lives, had families, planted and lived out their days. Noah lived 350 years after the flood; Shem lived 500 years after the flood. One of the stories The Book of Jasher relates is that Noah had taken the garments made for Adam and Eve from animal skins, onto the ark. When life started to return to normal Ham stole the garments and gave them to Cush. Cush later in turn gave them to Nimrod. Also according to Jubilees Noah wrote down into a book, information about healing herbs, medicines, and diseases. He gave the book to Shem. An incident that took place that we have little understanding is when Noah got drunk and was exposed. Ham mentions to his brothers that their father is exposed and they cover him. Then when Noah awakens, he knows something is wrong and curses Canaan.
Gen 9:18-25 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.KJV
Uncovered OT:1540 galah (gaw-law'); a primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal:KJV - advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, plainly, publish, remove, reveal, shamelessly, shew, surely, tell, uncover.(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
Nakedness OT:6172 `ervah (er-vaw'); from OT:6168; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish):KJV - nakedness, shame, unclean (-ness).(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
The Book of Jubilees states:
VII.. 6. And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy. 7. And it was evening, and he went into his tent, and being drunken he lay down and slept, and was uncovered in his tent as he slept. 8. And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and went forth and told his two brethren without. 9. And Shem took his garment and arose, he and Japheth, and they placed the garment on their shoulders and went backward and covered the shame of their father, and their faces were backward. 10. And Noah awoke from his sleep and knew all that his younger son had done unto him, and he cursed his son and said: "Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren."
We do not know exactly what happened, but we do know why Canaan was cursed. Some have suggested that Ham or Canaan committed a homosexual act on Noah, but we cannot tell that from the text. Some suggest that Ham castrated Noah, but I would think Noah would have woke up much quicker, and that Shem and Japheth wouldn’t have just put a cover over him. Also seeing Noah naked was probably not the worst sin in the world, as they didn’t have indoor plumbing and did bathe and eliminate outside the tents. One answer may have been that Ham and or Canaan brought back some of the Cain debauchery from before the flood, however Noah was the one who made the wine. Some have suggested that the answer is in Leviticus 20:11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.KJV. However if Noah’s wife was victimized Shem and Japheth would not have covered Noah. This is something I’ve studied for years without any concrete answer as to what happened. Then there is the speculation that Ham’s skin color turned dark. Well we can’t tell that that happened from the text either. However we do know that Ham was dark skinned, whether before or after this incident we don’t know. Whatever Ham did, his sin was to be upon his son. The sins of the fathers are visited on the children, to the third and fourth generation.
Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; KJV
Ham — warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites. One of the most important facts recorded in Gen 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6,8,10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See ACCAD.)The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world.(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
One thing we do know is that the decedents of Canaan were giants that God commanded the Israelites to kill because of their genetic impurity. Also later when Noah split the land Noah pronounced a curse on anyone who would move into a land that was not theirs. Canaan moved into the land Shem was given. There is something that caused Canaan to be cursed and later we see the linage of Canaan corrupted in the way the Nephilim were corrupted. And because the Israelites did not kill them all, they multiplied and became a constant problem for Israel.
Another son of Ham’s from the line of Cush was Nimrod.
7:23And Cush the son of Ham, the son of Noah, took a wife in those days in his old age, and she bare a son, and they called his name Nimrod, saying, At that time the sons of men again began to rebel and transgress against God, and the child grew up, and his father loved him exceedingly, for he was the son of his old age. 24And the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given to Cush.25For after the death of Adam and his wife, the garments were given to Enoch, the son of Jared, and when Enoch was taken up to God, he gave them to Methuselah, his son.26And at the death of Methuselah, Noah took them and brought them to the ark, and they were with him until he went out of the ark.27And in their going out, Ham stole those garments from Noah his father, and he took them and hid them from his brothers.28And when Ham begat his first born Cush, he gave him the garments in secret, and they were with Cush many days.29And Cush also concealed them from his sons and brothers, and when Cush had begotten Nimrod, he gave him those garments through his love for him, and Nimrod grew up, and when he was twenty years old he put on those garments.30And Nimrod became strong when he put on the garments, and God gave him might and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the earth, yea, he was a mighty hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and he offered upon them the animals before the Lord.31And Nimrod strengthened himself, and he rose up from amongst his brethren, and he fought the battles of his brethren against all their enemies round about.32And the Lord delivered all the enemies of his brethren in his hands, and God prospered him from time to time in his battles, and he reigned upon earth.
This is the beginning of Nimrod’s life. He started out with stolen clothes, but he did offer sacrifices to God and God did prosper him. He became a mighty warrior.
Here are the sons of Shem, notice whose father is listed in verse 22.
7:15 And these are the sons of Shem; Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram, five sons; and the sons of Elam were Shushan, Machul and Harmon. 16 And the sons of Ashar were Mirus and Mokil, and the sons of Arpachshad were Shelach, Anar and Ashcol. 17 And the sons of Lud were Pethor and Bizayon, and the sons of Aram were Uz, Chul, Gather and Mash.18 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families; and their numbers in those days were about three hundred men. 19These are the generations of Shem; Shem begat Arpachshad and Arpachshad begat Shelach, and Shelach begat Eber and to Eber were born two children, the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the sons of men were divided, and in the latter days, the earth was divided. 20And the name of the second was Yoktan, meaning that in his day the lives of the sons of men were diminished and lessened. 21These are the sons of Yoktan; Almodad, Shelaf, Chazarmoveth, Yerach, Hadurom, Ozel, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah and Jobab; all these are the sons of Yoktan. 22And Peleg his brother begat Yen, and Yen begat Serug, and Serug begat Nahor and Nahor begat Terah, and Terah was thirty-eight years old, and he begat Haran and Nahor.
Looking back once again to our unstable planet we notice that during the days of Peleg the earth was divided. Many believe that the continents shifted and large rivers opened in the land while some of the continental plates pushed together. Many wonder if something like this could happen today. Maybe. This past December NASA shortly announced finding a new planet, and then retracted their findings. But according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory there are a few bodies coming into close orbit in our solar system. One is the comet Honda, the other the comet Levy, and the other seems to be a brown dwarf called Elenin (or C/2010X1). At first the talk was that Elenin would not hit earth but alignments between the earth, sun and Elenin would cause earthquakes and volcanoes. Researching backwards, every time there has been a large earthquake there has been an astronomical alignment between Earth, Jupiter and the Sun. Add Elenin into the mix and we have a potential danger to our planet.
Why haven’t we heard about this, because there aren’t any definitive answers as to where an earthquake or volcano might happen. An approaching alignment for the 15th of March, 2011 was announced by regular people who have been observing Elenin. Elenin would be at 2.101 AU (AU is astronomical units, one AU is 93 million miles) from the earth on the 15th. On March 11, 2011 we did have a major earthquake in Japan, also a tsunami, and a volcano eruption, all in Japan. The loss of life, or extinction level, was very great. On that date Elenin was close to an alignment and there were people, back yard astronomers, warning if you live in a fault zone to leave for the weekend. However if people leave their homes and nothing happens, they will return home to find looters will have made themselves at home in their houses. The Japanese have a high regard for honor, which is why that did not happen there, however I remember a black out in NYC around the late 60”s where, because there was no power, hence no alarms, stores were looted. It was an event I’ll always remember, as I watched news reports from Brooklyn on our black and white TV.
What can be done? Nothing. Everyone will not die, but many may. Unless you have a space ship to take you somewhere else for a while, you will have to deal with the coming earth shakeups. But isn’t that what Jesus told us?
Luke 21:8-11 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven KJV
Mark 13:22-27 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.KJV
The reason I have brought up things like the Mars orbits, and floods, and cataclysms is because we, in our lifetime, are not used to these things happening, but they have happened in our history and we should understand that just because we haven’t had to deal with these things doesn’t mean they won’t happen again. Simply if we could ask the people who lived in the now underwater cities of Dwarka or Yonaguni if they ever thought that could happen, they would answer no. But today we see cities underwater all over the globe.
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Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.KJV
Jesus says look up, not look out.
Next up, Nimrod, Nibriu and a New World Order
End Notes
Underwater cities
JPL Site; play with this and go forward or backward in dates. Look for the dates 9/26-27/2011, this is the date before Rosh Hashanah
Ignore the pitch at the end for buying silver, you won’t need it, he does a great job showing the JPL site and planet movements. The volume is low so turn it up all the way.
This is a video put together by a Catholic group about Nibiru and its effects on earth, almost 2 hrs long, so get comfortable. This video talks about electromagnetic fields, the coming of Nibiru, underwater cities, plate shifts, geologic pole shifts, magnetic pole shifts.
The Video is also on their website
