History from a Different Angle
Wars and Rumors of Wars from Noah to now
Watching the Trump vs. Zelensky MMA fight in the oval office, I was irritated but mildly amused. In my opinion, President Trump body slammed the tin pot dictator from Ukraine. Then I soberly recalled a 2008 book by Pat Buchanan:
Mr. Buchanan had several fascinating books – I read them and somewhere in the flurry of military moves, deploying to Iraq, working at Microsoft, and tossing old unopened boxes in a rented Dempsey dumpster, I lost them. But not the ideas. The book cited above was one of his most important.
Bottom Line – I believe the current intramural European conflict, with Ukraine in the middle, is an attempt to remove the hand of peace from Europe that has maintained 80 years of peace over that continent. That hand is the English-Speaking people. Another way of saying this is that the Europeans – Russia on the East side of Ukraine and the rest of the Euros west of Ukraine want to duke it out over European security… no matter how many dead cover the ground. I think their first round of keeping the US financially and physically tied to Ukraine is about breaking US Will and financial strength, destroying the English-Speaking Peoples’ hand on European security.
Let’s go to a little history.
The book of Jasher is like Josephus’ tomes on the histories of the Jewish people. Josephus tells us so much about the Wars of the Jews that pivot on scripture but is not scripture. Jasher is very similar with the caveat that Jasher is referenced in the Bible but is not in the Bible. In other words, the book of Jasher is fascinating history that pivots around Bible heros and villains but is not scripture.
In Jasher 8, after the Great Flood, Noah divides the Earth between his three sons. This in turn shapes our day.
Jubilees 8: 10 And it came to pass in the beginning of the thirty-third jubilee [1569 A.M.] that they divided the earth into three parts, for Shem and Ham and Japheth, according to the inheritance of each, in the first year in the first week, when one of us who had been sent, was with them.
Jubilees 8: 12 And there came forth on the writing as Shem's lot the middle of the earth… And all that is towards the north is Japheth's, and all that is towards the south belongs to Shem.
This is where I think Tolkien derived his term, Middle Earth, for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In Jasher, Shem’s inheritance in Middle Earth is from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pashtun mountains and includes the Tigris-Euphrates River plains, Israel, and Iran. Both nations descend from Shem. Israel is the Jewish people from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, descendants of Shem, forming a Scarlet Thread to Jesus. Iran is the Shi’ite or Persian people from Elam, also descendent of Shem.
Jubilees 8: 22 And for Ham came forth the second portion… extends towards the west till it reaches the sea of Ma'uk -that (sea) into which everything which is not destroyed descends.
Ham got Africa. The Problem is that a large chunk of Ham remained in Middle Earth and built Babylon, striving to usurp the inheritance of Shem. The Arab Sunni people essentially descend from Ham, Ishmael, Esau, and Lot.
Jubilees 8: 29 This is the land which came forth for Japheth and his sons as the portion of his inheritance which he should possess for himself and his sons, for their generations forever; five great islands, and a great land in the north.
Japheth got Europe…
Jubilees 8: 30 But it is cold, and the land of Ham is hot, and the land of Shem is neither hot nor cold, but it is of blended cold and heat.
Perfect geographic description of their various land grants from Noah.
Scroll forward to the 20th Century.
In his tomes of awesome books, Pat Buchanan called World War I and World War II the modern Civil Wars of Japheth. Had the nations that descended from Japheth made and kept peace with each other, their navies and militaries could have taken peace and wealth to the nations. Instead, they just had to kill and destroy each other, devolving into corrupt weakness.
Only the English-Speaking people of Japheth had the will, strength, endurance, and wealth – formed on the foundation of God’s word – to WIN. After 1945, the English-Speaking people held the reigns of commerce, power, and peace. All the other nations were exhausted and destroyed. Exercising incredible grace at Bretton Woods in 1944, the deal was that the English-Speaking people would hold and protect the sea lanes while opening up all their markets to the other nations… As opposed to a Pax-Americanum. Even their enemies in World War II had access to American markets. Instead of starting wars as they recovered, the European nations leaped into the opportunity to join the one massive market not damaged by World War II – The United States.
Interesting aside – I believe Space, orbital industries, and markets across our solar system can have the same peaceful and wealth generating impact on humanity as US markets after World War II… But only if we can avoid World War III. After cleaning up our government, Get to Mars Elon!
Here we are with an English-Speaking President maintaining and declaring peace while sending a little tin pot dictator back home to Ukraine with nothing. In turn, President Trump is patiently waiting to see if the rest of Japheth’s children on the other side of the Atlantic are going to tear up 80 years of peace to restart Intramural squabbles on their side of the Atlantic that WILL kill millions. Perhaps billions. The last time these folks started shooting at each other in earnest, 95 million died and faith essentially perished in Europe.
Something to consider in the foolish squabbles of our own while a great man in the White House courageously reaches for Peace.
Jay
Smoking a cigar on a glorious, beautiful, but bitterly cold Colorado Day.