Anti-Semite
By Pastor Don Elmore
There is much confusion over certain words in the Bible and words referring to people who are in the Bible. Once such word is anti-semite. It means to most people one who is anti-jewish or anti-zionist. But it can't be.
Noah had 3 sons: Shem, Japheth and Ham.
- Shem
- Abraham
- Ishmael -- father of the Arabs
- Descendants of Shem
- Isaac
- Esau -- twin of Jacob; father of the Edomites; married two or three Canaanites and one Ishmaelite
- After destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. most went to Northern Africa and Spain; a few to the Khazar Empire
- Sephardic Jews
- Descendants of Shem
- Jacob/Israel; twin of Esau -- father of the Israelites
- Judah married Canaanite; had 3 sons--only 1 son; had children--he (Shelah) married a Canaanite
- Judah then had two sons by an Israelite woman
- Some of the other Israelites also intermarried Canaanites and other strange races
- The rest married another Israelite and became eventually a multitude of nations; a great nation and other nations
- Descendants of Shem
- Esau -- twin of Jacob; father of the Edomites; married two or three Canaanites and one Ishmaelite
- Ishmael -- father of the Arabs
- Abraham
- Japheth
- Askenazi -- converted in the sixth century (A.D.) to Judaism in Khazar Empire
- According to Jewish sources these people make up over 90% of the total Jewish population
- Ashkenazi Jews
- NOT SEMITIC -- Descendants of Japheth
- Askenazi -- converted in the sixth century (A.D.) to Judaism in Khazar Empire
- Ham
- Some became Falashas Jews through intermarriage with Canaanites or Edomites; a few converted to Judaism
- NOT SEMITIC -- Descendants of Ham
SUMMARY
In today's multicultural world, there are a mixture of all three peoples in every possible combination; but basically:
- Most Arabs are Semitic
- Most Israelites are Semitic
- Most Jews are not Semitic; only about 10% or less are Semitic