Torah Class: Day 24 - Prophecy in the Genesis 10 Table of Nations - Amorites

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

Genesis 10 and the Prophetic Table of Nations - the Amorites:

Connecting End-time Bible Prophecy with the Genesis 10 Nations to discover the prophetic application and role of each ancient kingdom…

Scripture tells us that Genesis is a prophetic template

·       Isaiah 46:10 – “The end is declared from the Beginning (Genesis)”

·       Genesis 10:16 – the Amorites are named as the children of Canaan, son of Ham

The "Genesis 10 Nations," or the Table of Nations, is a Biblical chapter listing the descendants of Noah's three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—as the founders of various peoples and nations after the Flood, symbolizing the spread of humanity across the earth, with specific lineages linked to regions around the Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa. Key descendants include Japheth's sons (Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras) settling northwest, Ham's sons (Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan) in Africa/Middle East, and Shem's sons (Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram) in the Near East, with Noah's grandson Nimrod establishing early kingdoms like Babylon and Assyria. 

The Amorites Play a Large Role in Moses' Poetic Prophecy of Heshbon, which is largely meant for the Last Days (1 Corinthians 10:11):

Numbers 21:27-30  “Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon (a Judgment Day reference), let the city of Sihon (destruction of kings) be built and prepared: For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar (denuding humiliation) of Moab (our father is determined by our character), and the lords of the high places of Arnon. Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.” 

Names, in Scripture, are largely prophetic. In the Exodus, camp names (Numbers 22) were given based upon the things Israel experienced or did while camped at this site. When the Children of Israel returned to the very same camp spot later on, they would give it a new name, to reflect the new experience/situation at that spot.

For example, if you take the prophetic meaning of the names of the first 10 Patriarchs, you end up with the story of the Bible and Salvation, as follows:

1. Adam = Man
2. Seth = Appointed
3. Enosh = Mortal
4. Caanan = Sorrow
5. Mahalalel = The Blessed God
6. Jared = Shall come down
7. Enoch = Teaching
8. Methuselah = His death shall bring
9. Lamech = The despairing
10. Noah = Comfort.

When you put the meanings of all these 10 names together, you find a powerful, prophetic Message in the combined meanings:

Man appointed for mortal sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching. His Death shall bring the despairing comfort.

Similarly, Moses' Heshbon poem is a prophetic one, with a big part of the prophecy being conveyed in the meanings of the names. The following is a list of the names and meanings from Moses prophecy in Numbers 21:27-30:

Heshbon – an Amorite city – Heshbon means “accounting” this is a Judgment reference

·       Matthew 12:36 “…Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment.” 

Sihon – the king of Amorites – Sihon means “striking down”

·       Psalm 110:5 “Yahweh… Thy right Hand shall strike through kings in the Day of His Wrath.”

Ar – a Moabite city – Ar means “awakening” and “uncovering”

·       Nahum 3:5 “Behold, I Am against thee, saith Yahweh of hosts …and I will show the nations thy nakedness...” 

Moab – a Canaanite nation – “seed of whose father” (who is your father?)

·       1 John 3:10 “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God.”

Arnon – a river bordering Moab – means “rushing”, “hasty (decision)”, “roaring”

·       Ecclesiastes 5:2 “Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God… Let thy words be few.”

Chemosh – the fish god of the Moabites, also known as Dagon – Chemosh means “destroyer” “to subdue”

·       Revelation 20:10 “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone…”

Dibon – a Moabite town – Dibon means “abundance of knowledge” “a dunghill” “wasting”

·       Daniel 3:29 “… Every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against (Yahweh)… shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill…”

Nophah – an Amorite town taken from the Moabites – Nophah means “fearful” “kindling a fire”

·       Revelation 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving… shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the Second Death.”

Medeba – a Moabite town located near Heshbon – Medeba means “water of grief”

·       Matthew 8:12   “But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Amorite – a Canaanite nation – “self-exalted” “boasters” (reprobation)

·       Romans 1:28-30 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters…” 

Every aspect of Israel coming out of Egypt and the Conquest of Canaan is a prophetic shadow picture for the End of the World:

·       1 Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 

In addition to the meanings in the names, associated in the story, the actions and events carry prophetic meaning. The Amorites were not only defeated by Israel, in direct war (in which Yahweh was fighting on the side of Israel), but they were also destroyed through divine intervention (like crushing them with a collapse and rocks) – this happened at Beth diblathaim. The prophets, knowing that Israel well knew the story of events at Beth diblathaim, would write of the place in their prophecy, expecting the reader to get the fuller meaning by remembering what had happened at that place. 

In this way, End-time Prophecy involving the Amorites in the Last Days is conveyed by place name only by both Jeremiah and Ezekiel:

Jeremiah 48:20-22 “Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Me-phaath, And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth diblathaim.”

Ezekiel 6:13-14. “Then shall ye know that I Am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.  So will I stretch out My Hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I Am Yahweh.”

The Amorites were also associated with Balaam, the most infamous sorcerer in Mesopotamia.

The Amorite king Sihon hired Balaam to curse the Moabites…  This curse caused the Amorites to win territory from them during the time when Israel was camped at Kadesh.

·       Jasher 84:22 – Sihon gave numerous presents of silver and gold to Beor and Balaam (his son).