This is mostly a description of where the children of Shem's oldest son Arphaxad and others wound up, except for one thing.
Worthy of note is that Peleg is born and it is not long
after that the Earth was divided. This could have two meanings. One
could be the separation of the large continent into separate continents.
However, we showed that if that happened, it was almost surely during
the Flood. The other of course is that the events of chapter 11 with the
Tower of Babel occurred during his lifetime.
One wonders what 'in his days' might mean, but it is mostly
considered that this is when he came to maturity. When he was the
leader of those who would become God's chosen people. Of course, Shem
was still alive at this point. Even Noah was. But as people aged much
more quickly than before the Flood, it fell to on the younger generation
much earlier to take the lead.
The earth was divided time as we shall see later, because
people were uniting for a false unity. Unity and peace are not good when
those things are used to try to go against God's plan. Remember, God's
Way is easy. His burden is light. We humans just want our own way so
much.
Because they took Emperor worship to such a level that only the elite were allowed to know of God. And yet, the Chinese language that developed contained symbols of knowledge of God that exist to this day, such as the symbol for "boat" containing the symbol for "vessel" and "eight" - the number of people saved in the Ark.
The only other thing to note here is that the people
scattered rather quickly. For several hundred years after the earth was
divided they wandered. Some information in Michael Oatd's book Life in
the Great Ice Age shows how they could have easily covered all the
earth.
Essentially, he notes that during the Ice Age, right after
the Flood, there were land bridges between Spain and Morocco and between
Russia and Alaska. The former would have been used by Japheth's
descendants after they went into Europe and found it too cold and filled
with glaciers.
It should also be noted that not every area was inhabited
right away. Even secular scientists agree that Southern Africa was not
inhabited by many people before several hundred years before Christ,
which gives these people almost 2,000 years to make it down there.
Madagascar was not inhabited till a few centuries after Christ, Iceland
and New Zealand till centuries after that. It's possible that New
Zealand was not inhabited till a little after 1000 A.D..
So, you can see how these things happened so easily. I
could also mention how God's word was corrupted so quickly, but I will
save that for some notes on Emperor worship when I mention Babel.
Because, the situation in China is a telling example of how people,
doing things their own way and not God's, can make things so bad.
