Antiochus IV (175 B.C.E. -164 B.C.E.), despised The Holy Covenant. This was The Covenant which GOD made with Abram, The Son of Terah, who was descended from Shem, The Son of Noah, with whom GOD made a universal Covenant that HE would never again destroy the earth with A Universal Flood. This Universal Covenant was accompanied with a sign – the beautiful sign of The Rainbow.

This Universal Covenant was made with Noah and His Sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem, and their descendants. In The Book of Genesis, Chapter Ten, The Seventy Nations fathered by: Japheth, Ham, and Shem, are listed. Of course, all humanity descends from Adam and Eve, but, in another sense, all humanity also descends from Noah and His Wife, Naamah, and their three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem. All nations can be traced back to these Seventy Nations to whom Noah and Japheth, Ham and Shem apportioned the world, in the time of Peleg, The son of Eber, The Son of Salah, The son of Arphaxad, The Son of Shem, who was born two years after The Flood.

1] Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

[2] The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
[3] And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
[4] And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

[5] By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

[6] And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
[7] And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

([8] And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
[9] He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, “Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”
[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
[11] Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
[12] And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.)

[13] And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
[14] And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

[15] And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
[16] And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
[17] And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
[18] And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

[19] And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

[20] These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

[21] Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

[22] The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
[23] And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
[24] And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
[25] And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
[26] And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,
[27] And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
[28] And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
[29] And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
[30] And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

[31] These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
[32] These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations divided in The Earth after The Flood.

Co-Co, The Coconut-Throwing Chimpanzee Schoolmaster, instilled in his students that The Division of the Descendants of Noah and Naamah, and Their Sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem, into Seventy Nations was a carefully planned, long-term task which began the year Peleg was born and was completed the year in which he died – a period of two hundred and thirty nine years (Genesis 11:16 -19).

This Division into Seventy Nations is not the chaotic event which took place at Babel when the language of those who had settled at Babel was confused (Genesis 11:1 – 9). Any student who did not grasp the difference between The Long-Planned Division of The Nations and The Chaotic Confusion of The Language of The Babylonians was liable to be the target of Co-Co’s unerringly aimed coconut.

Of course, all chimpanzees know that the great Noah explored the new and hostile world in which he found himself after The Flood and settled in Egypt on The Nile River. It was from there that over the two hundred and thirty nine years of Peleg’s life, of the Fifth Generation of Children born after The Flood, settlements were made over the explored world and the leading descendants of Japheth, Ham, and Shem were made patriarchs of The Seventy Nations. The Great Pyramid at Giza was built in the last twenty years of Peleg’s life as a glorious beacon to all the descendants of Noah as they departed finally for their allocated lands. The Pyramid is located at the centre of the earth’s land-mass – the centre of The First Earth and the centre of The flood-Ravaged Earth.

It was in The Tenth generation after the Flood that a HOLY COVENANT was made with Abram, The Son of Terah, The Son of Nahor, The Son of Serug, The Son of Reu, The Son of Peleg. This Covenant between GOD and Abram with:

• its promise of The Land of Canaan forever when the iniquity of The Canaanites was fulfilled (Genesis 15:16),
• its Son of Promise, The Messiah, The SEED OF THE WOMAN,
• its attendant sign of Circumcision, and
• its later, under Moses, Covenant to keep The Law of GOD, and to maintain The Levitical Priesthood,

is The Holy Covenant which Antiochus IV took such exception to – and even to which this day The Descendants of The Seventy Nations hold in such contempt.

As The SEED OF THE WOMAN, JESUS, THE MESSIAH, stated to The Samaritan Woman at The Well of Sychar, “Salvation is of The Jews” (John 4:22). The Holy Covenant was made with The Jews, It is to be revered always as the prototype of THE NEW COVENANT, THE EVERLASTING COVENANT when ‘The True Worshippers shall worship THE FATHER in SPIRIT and TRUTH.” (John 4:23)

Next Week: Daniel 11:31