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Hello everybody, it's me, MrTalt23, back with another video. In this video I'm going to be talking about Ham, and Ham is a character in the Bible, an interesting character who has been preserved throughout history in the records of other civilizations which most people don't know about. And I believe that he was the source and origin for idolatry and hatred of God following the Great Flood. I'm going to be discussing this subject in the video. So the Bible talks about a group of people known as reprobates. This word means one who is rejected by God. And the term appears many times in scriptures, and I've done several videos about this topic on the past, so I'm not going to go into full detail about what exactly it means. But just to give some scriptures as an introduction, let's see exactly what the Bible says about reprobates. It says in Romans chapter 1, verse 18 to 32, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unguidliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them. For God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him for the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. For having themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, into birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned their lusts one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense of the error which is meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do that. So here in this passage we see a development beginning in the first few verses until the end. Again, if you want a more detailed explanation of this doctrine, I suggest watching some other videos about it. But here, just to summarize, here it teaches that there are men who hold the truth, but they do so in unrighteousness. That which may be known of God is manifest in them, as it says in verse 19, and so they are without excuse, as it says in verse 20. But in verse 21 it says that they knew God, but they glorified him not as God, so their foolish heart was darkened. They thus hardened their hearts and gave glory not to God, but to corruptible, mortal, and often non-living beings upon the earth. Therefore, because they rejected God, God gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts. And in verse 26 it says, for this cause, meaning because of this, because of this which was already mentioned in the previous verses, God gave them up on defile affections. In verse 28 it says, and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. And it says that they are filled with all unrighteousness in verse 29. So the development of a reprobate starts with the revelation of the truth to them. They know and they are sure that God exists, they have heard the gospel, they have an opportunity to be saved, they have been given knowledge of the truth, they understand it, all they need to do is accept the gift, all they need to do is put their trust in Jesus. But rather than doing so, they harden their hearts, and they turn from God and worship the creature rather than the creator. As a result of this, God gives them up to uncleanness, and he gives them over to the reprobate mind. This is exactly what's taught in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 20 to 22 as well, where it says in verse 21 concerning those who turn from the truth. Or had it been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after how they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. So this is talking about people who have been given the holy commandment, but they turn from it. They're not people who are already saved, who are losing their salvation. People who are not saved, who have been presented with the gospel, but who refuse it, who reject it completely. Now the Bible also says in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 to 8, This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith. Again, we can see concerning these reprobates that they have a form of godliness, but they're denying the power thereof. They know the truth, but they deny it because they hate God. The Bible commands us to turn away from them. In verse 7 it explains why, saying that they are ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. It means they can't understand, they can never receive the truth. They have become reprobates, they have turned away from God completely, and they've been rejected by God. Now it says in Titus chapter 1 verse 15 to 16, Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. But even their mind and conscious is defiled. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate. Again, both their mind and their conscience is defiled. These people are wicked, they're not just ordinary unbelievers. They're not just people who are ignorant. They're people who know the truth, but they hate the truth, and they don't want to believe the truth. So this group, which the Bible calls reprobates, oppose God. And as it teaches in Romans 1, the origin of a burning lust between men is from reprobation. That is ordinary sodomy and homosexuality. People who are lusting after other men, they do that because they've already rejected God. It says, likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burning her lust one toward another. Men with men, working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense for their error which was meet. When God gives them up on account of their rejection, that's where sodomites, that's where children of Belial come from. Now let's actually talk about Ham now and how he relates to the reprobate doctrine, and why I've decided to call this video Ham the First Reprobate. So Ham is one of the three sons of Noah. The Bible says in Genesis 6, verse 9 to 11, These were the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Now notice here that it doesn't tell us about his sons, it just says that Noah is a just and righteous man, and perfect in his generations. The scripture also tells us that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. But considering that the whole earth was corrupt according to this passage, it's possible that his three sons, or at least their wives, could also be wicked, and therefore carry the same idolatry or wickedness from the old world into the new world after the flood. Now we see exactly that Ham indeed was a wicked person in the following chapters after the flood, when there's a story about something which Ham does in Genesis chapter 9, verse 20 to 27, where it says, And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 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. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. Wait, I skipped a line. And he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants, shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. Now at first glance, it would seem like what Ham did was just a simple mistake. However, considering the fact that his father cursed him over this, shows that it's probably a really big deal. It's more likely that there's more to it, more to this story than we just see on the surface. In fact, when the Bible talks about seeing the nakedness of his father, this does not just imply that he just accidentally saw him and turned away. It's a euphemism, because God isn't going to tell us exactly what happened. He's not going to go into detail about what happens exactly, but other scriptures reveal exactly what this means. It reveals that it has more of a sexual context. For example, Leviticus 20, verse 17. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a wicked thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He hath uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity. Now, it says here, that if a man shall take his sister and see her nakedness. Now, the fact that it just says see her nakedness, shows that this isn't just an accident. It's the same wording that's used in Genesis chapter 9. When it uses that term, it's talking about actually doing these things on purpose, actually having a lust towards that person. Now, in Deuteronomy chapter 27, verse 20, it says, Cursed be he that lieth with his wife, because he uncovereth his father's skirt, and all the people shall say Amen. Now, when it says he uncovereth his father's skirt, it's not talking about something which the father wears. It's talking about the fact that the person who commits the sin is taking what belongs to his father by lying with the father's wife. So, the connotation of uncovering nakedness in the Bible refers to some sort of sexual action, because it talks about lying with his father's wife. So, the fact that Noah curses the entire lineage of Canaan over this shows that it was probably some kind of sodomite act. The Bible says in Leviticus 2013, If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. Homosexuality is not a minor thing in the Bible. It calls for the death penalty according to the law. It's entirely wicked. It's an abomination, meaning it causes disgust and hatred in the eyes of God. And we see indeed that the Canaanites also were a lineage of sodomites. That his descendants were extremely wicked and continued to practice practices with their father. In fact, the nations of Sodom and Gomorrah, those cities, were Canaanites themselves. They're in the land of Canaan, and the destruction of those cities are an example of God being against those who go after strange flesh. Now, the scripture gives us a list of the descendants of Ham in the table of nations in Genesis chapter 10. It says in verse 6 to 7, The sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, and Foot, and Canaan, and the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtan, Rahama, and Sabtecha, and the sons of Rahama, Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, wherefore it is said, Even is Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Eric, and Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. So hold on to the thought that Nimrod is a grandson of Hamforamol. We're going to go into that later, because this is an important thing that we need to talk about. Now, it's also important because it tells us what cities he built in the land of Shinar, and one of those cities is the city of Babel. And this thus implies that the story in the next chapter, chapter 11 of Genesis, about the Tower of Battle, relates to Nimrod. But specifically concerning the Canaanites, we see that God further carries out the curse of Noah on the Canaanites, who continued after the loss of Ham and Canaan. The Bible says in Deuteronomy, chapter 7, verse 1 to 6, When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Gergeshites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou, and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them, neither shalt thou make marriages with them, thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, for they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods, so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall you deal with them, you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire, for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth. So the scripture implies what the Canaanites are doing by telling us that these are the things that they will make the Israelites do if they make a covenant with the Canaanites, but the Bible also goes into further detail in a later passage saying in Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 9 to 12, When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass with fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all these things are an abomination unto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out before thee. So the Canaanites were apparently a nation with a legacy of abominations. They were full of abominations. They sacrificed children to idols. They did drugs. They messed around with evil spirits and magic. And as we can see in other passages of scripture, they were adulterers, they were homosexuals, they were murderers, rapists as well. It's ridiculous actually how many skeptics of the Bible, how many atheists will criticize the Bible and say they attack this story and call it unjust, they call God genocidal. But the Israelites were judgment upon Canaan. This isn't an unrighteous, unfair thing. These people were wicked as hell. One of the most wicked ancient peoples who deserved to be destroyed, and that's why they were destroyed, God using the Israelites to wipe them out. Many of them were reprobates themselves who hated God. Now, after the story in the Bible, with Genesis chapter 9, the descendants of Ham deified him as God, after also the Tower of Babel incident as well. Particularly through Nimrod, who was the builder of the Tower of Babel. His name, Nimrod in Hebrew, is probably not his actual name. Nimrod in Hebrew just means, we will rebel. So that's probably just a title that's given to him. His name, I think, was probably in Mirkar, which was mentioned in ancient Sumerian texts as being the builder and first king of Uruk. Like Nimrod and Mirkar, he was also a great hunter, and in the texts called in Mirkar and the Lord of Aratta, there is mention of a confusion of languages like that in the Bible. Interestingly, the Sumerian king, Lys and Mirkar, is the son of Meschian Gashur, who is the son of the sun god, Utu, also known as Shamash. According to Sumerian religion, Utu was the son of Anu, the supreme god of the sky. Also interestingly, in the Hurrian religion, the chief of the gods called Kumarbi was also the son of Anu. And in the Kumarbi cycle of myths, of Hurrian mythology, it is said that Anu's genitals were bitten off by his rebel son and cupbearer, Kumarbi, who was cursed then by Anu. A very similar story also occurs in Greek and Roman mythology. In these, Earnest, also known as Caelas by the Romans, becomes drunk and is castrated by his son, Kronos in Greek and Saturn by the Romans. In ancient mythology, Kumarbi's son was Teshub, a storm god who wielded a thunderbolt, similar to how Kronos' son Zeus wielded a thunderbolt. Teshub was also known by the name Tarhuna by the Hittites, Taru by the Hadi, Tarhuns by the Luwians, and who, according to mythology, were slayers of the dragon known as Illyanka by the Hittites, Hadamu by the Hurrians. In Mesopotamia, the storm god Marduk is the slayer of the dragon Tiamat. In Greek mythology, the storm god Zeus is the slayer of the dragon Typhon. In Canaanite mythology, the storm god Hadad-Bael is the slayer of the serpent Lotan. In Germanic mythology, the thunder god Thor fights against the serpent Jormungandr. And by the way, the name Thor might be related to Taru and Tarhuna and the Celtic god Taranis as well. So this son of Kumarbi is probably Canaan, although it's possible that this is also another form of the worship of Ham, because in the Hurrian myth, Teshub is actually the offspring of Anu from his genitals which were taken by Kumarbi and did not actually come from Kumarbi himself. So this fits better, I think. So they were worshiping their ancestors as gods and they made up their own mythologies, which were still based on actual stories, as Ham defiled his father when his father got drunk. So these same stories were passed down to the generations in different cultures as they spread out from Babylon. For example, also about this mythology, the ancient Phoenician historian Sankuneathon said that Hadad, which again is the storm god in Canaanite mythology which slayed Lotan, said that Hadad of the Canaanites was the son of Anu. So it makes more sense to identify the son of Kumarbi, Teshub, Zeus, Marduk, all these other storm gods as a deification of Ham as well. Now the purpose of this video is not to go in-depth into comparative mythology. I've done other videos about that, but there's a lot to talk about. The plain fact and truth of the matter is that starting at the Tower of Babel, Ham was exalted as a god, perhaps either by himself or with his descendants under Nimrod. Now, I could make a video that's three hours long going through all the evidences that pagans throughout history have worshipped their ancestors and that those ancestors were real people, that they just thought were gods but were just ordinary men. And there's a lot of evidence of that and also shows that all mankind originated in one place in Babel because you have people over in Hawaii, people over in ancient America, people in Germany, people in Gaul, people in Egypt, all over the map who all have pretty much the same general mythology, the same general stories and some of them have never even contacted each other or some of them had never even contacted each other back in antiquity when all of these myths were developing. So Nimrod, the original rebel, was one not only planned on reaching up into heaven through the Tower of Babel and exalting himself and he was also worshipped as a hunting god later, but he also introduced the practice of ancestor worship and that's why nearly every single ancient mythological tradition, no matter where you go, in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, in Anatolia, in Armenia, in India, in China, in Greece, in Gaul, in Germania, in Arabia, all of these have similar stories and similar gods who were equated with each other because they're deifications of previous human beings, the rebellious Sodomites, Ham and Canaan. Ham, the son of Noah, was not only a Sodomite but perhaps the one on the ark who brought some of the wickedness of the old world into the new one. If not, it might have been his wife who deceived him. But it's through him that false pagan idolatry and sorcery arose. In fact, the word for sorcery itself after Ham, or became, is from the name of Ham after the word alchemy. Now the word alchemy comes from the Arabic term alkhimiyya, which comes from the ancient name of Egypt, hemeh, which means blackness. Now the Egyptians called the land hemet after the name of their ancestor Ham, the son of Noah. Thus, words like chemistry and alchemy originate from the practice of magic in ancient Egypt among the descendants of Ham through Mitsrayim. So I could go on for a long time about these kinds of things, but I think I've made my point in this video that Ham was a pagan, that his ancestors were, or his descendants rather, were pagans, etc. So there's nothing else to really talk about in this video, so thank you everybody for watching and goodbye.