From Shem to Abram (That is, Abraham.)

       This is the account of Shem.

       Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

       When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

       After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

The Book of Genesis: chapter 11, verses 10 - 26

The Sons of Noah - The Patriarchs of Mankind

       The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
       Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
       When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said,

       "Cursed be Canaan!
          The lowest of slaves
          will he be to his brothers."

       He also said,

       "Blessed be The Lord, The GOD of Shem!
          May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
       May GOD extend the territory of Japheth;
          may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
          and may Canaan be his slave."

       After the flood Noah lived 350 years. Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.


The Book of Genesis: chapter 9, verses 18 - 29

The Table of Nations

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

                                                 THE JAPHETHITES

The sons of Japheth:
       Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer:
       Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
The sons of Javan:
       Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

                     THE HAMITES

The sons of Ham:
       Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
The sons of Cush:
       Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca.
The sons of Raamah:
       Sheba and Dedan.

       Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before The Lord; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before The Lord." The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

       Mizraim was the father of
          the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
       Canaan was the father of
          Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.

          Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
          These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

                                                 THE SEMITES

          Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

       The sons of Shem:
          Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
       The sons of Aram:
          Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.
       Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,
          and Shelah the father of Eber.
       Two sons were born to Eber:
          One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
       Joktan was the father of
          Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
          These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

          These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.


The Book of Genesis: chapter 10

The Origins of Freemasonry [The Development of Idolatry, Paganism, Mysticism, Science, Sorcery, Occult Practices, Esoteric Rites, Masonic Rituals, Soft-Stone Masonry and Alternative Communication.]

       Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
       They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
       But The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
       So The Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel--because there The Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there The Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.


The Book of Genesis: chapter 11, verses 1 - 9

King Solomon Turns to Freemasonry

       King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which The Lord had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to The Lord his GOD, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of The Lord; he did not follow The Lord completely, as David his father had done.
       On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
       The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from The Lord, The GOD of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Although He had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep The Lord's command. So The Lord said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept My covenant and My decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."


The Book of 1st Kings: chapter 11, verses 1 - 13

The Beast out of the Sea (...Once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss...)

       And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. Men worshipped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshipped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"
       The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme GOD, and to slander His name and His dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to The Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
       He who has an ear, let him hear.

       If anyone is to go into captivity,
          into captivity he will go.
       If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
          with the sword he will be killed.

       This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.


The Book of Revelation: chapter 13, verses 1 - 10

The Beast out of the Earth - the False Prophet

       Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
       This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.


The Book of Revelation: chapter 13, verses 11 - 18

The Beast - the Eighth King (Who once was, now is not, and yet will come.)

       The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents, not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.

       King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred bekas of hammered gold went into each shield. He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred bekas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

       Then the king made a great throne inlaid with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's day. The king had a fleet of trading ships manned by Hiram's men. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

       King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom GOD had put in his heart. Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift--articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.

       Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. He ruled over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.

The Book of 2nd Chronicles: chapter 9, verses 13 - 28

Freemasonry Returned to Original Home

       Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, "Look up and see what this is that is appearing."
       I asked, "What is it?"
       He replied, "It is a measuring basket." And he added, "This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land."
       Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, "This is wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed the lead cover down over its mouth.
       Then I looked up--and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
       "Where are they taking the basket?" I asked the angel who was speaking to me.
       He replied, "To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When it is ready, the basket will be set there in its place."


The Book of Zechariah: chapter 5, verses 5 - 11

Freemasonry Revealed

       One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
       Then the angel carried me away in The Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. This title was written on her forehead:

                            MYSTERY
              BABYLON THE GREAT
       THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
       When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
       This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
       The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. They will make war against The Lamb, but The Lamb will overcome them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings--and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers."
       Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For GOD has put it into their hearts to accomplish His purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until GOD's words are fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."


The Book of Revelation: chapter 17