Riphath, another of Gomer's sons, is unmentioned elsewhere
in the Bible (except for a copy of Genesis 10 found in 1
Chronicles, chapter 1) Ashkenaz, however, is easily
identified. Mentioned in Jeremiah 51:27 along with the Arat
and Minni (both part of modern Armenia), Ashkenaz is there
shown to be not far from the ancient land of the Khazars,
once a great empire and of which modern Kazakhstan is a
remnant.
In the first millennium many of the Edomites and Canaanites
who had adopted Judaism migrated to Khazaria, and had
converted a great many Khazars. The "Jews" being absorbed
into the general population, these people later adopted the
name Aslenaz, or "Ashkenazi Jews," for Ashkenaz was
recognized as an ancestor of the original Caucasian
population of the area.
Over 1500 years before the Germanic Rus conquered the land
which bears their name today, Ezekiel wrote of Rhos (LXX) or
Rush (A.V.) Being the leader ("prince") of Gog, Meshech and
Tubal. (Ezekiel 38) This is by no means coincidental.
Whoever Magog may have been in prehistoric times, we can be
certain that his descendants are found among those gigantic
("Gog") mixed masses of Caucasian-Mongol-Chinese-whatever
blood who are found inhabiting much of Russia today.
We find the following in Psalm:
Psalm 120:5-7
5: Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the
tents of Kedar!
6: My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7: I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In light of the relationship which the Rus were to have
with Magog, Meshech and Tubal, which Ezekiel 38 illustrates,
Herodotus mentions two tribes among those under Persian
domination, the "Moschi" and "Tibareni" (Herodotus 3:94;
7:78), in a convenient geographic region that without
stretching the imagination, we may associate these ancient
Japhethites with the dwellers around the Russian cities of
Moscow and Tobolsk today. However, it is certain that at
some point in time all of these peoples have mingled with
the pre-Adamic races related to those of the Orient.
That Madai is identifiable with the Medes should be evident
simply by checking both terms in Strong's Concordance. The
Greeks wrote "Mede" as , the " " in English being
either an ‘a' or an ‘ " or ‘e.' Herodotus (7:62) wrote that
"These Medes were anciently called by all people Arians"
although it is more likely that the term "Aryan" was rather
used by Israelites who once sojourned in Media (with which
Dr. G. Moore agrees in his The Lost Tribes And The Saxon Of
The East And The Saxons Of The West), since the term "Arya"
seems to be "mountain of Yahweh" in Hebrew (i.e., Daniel
2:45), and that the Greeks had Israelite tribes in Media
confused with actual Medes. Regardless, with the Medes
fulfilling a destiny in history which the prophets had
already assigned to Medai (Isaiah 23; Jeremiah 25:25; 51:11,
28 and Daniel 8), there should be no doubt as to this
identification.
It may well be that the Medes are found in the Slavs of
today. The Slavs may be, at least in part, traced to a
people that Romans and Greeks called Sarmatians
(Sauromatae). Diodorus Siculus, discussing certain Sakae
(Scythian) kings, (2:43:5-7) states that
"It was by these kings that army of the conquered (by the
Scotians) peoples were removed to other homes, and two of
these became very great colonies: the one was composed of
Assyrians and was removed to the land between Paphlagonia
and Pontus, and the other was drawn from Media and planted
along the Tanais, its people receiving the name of
Sauromatae. Many years later this people became powerful and
ravaged a large part of Scythia."
If this is so, and we have so many Slavs among us today,
that such must be the fulfillment of Genesis 9:27, for we
Germanic, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon and Keltic peoples are
descendants of the Scythian-Israelites, and the true
Semites. (For to "dwell in the tents of Shem" implies that
Japheth was absorbed and became part of Shem's family)
The next of Japheth's sons to be discussed is Javan Strong,
in his Concordance, identifies Javan with the Ionian Greeks,
and the Septuagint translators seem to also, rendering the
Hebrew word #3120 as (Iouan). This is not without reason,
for on the Behistun Rock (and other Eastern inscriptions)
the Greeks are called "Yavana," and Sir Henry Rawlinson
wrote "Ionians" there in his famous translation of that
inscription.
Other Persian inscriptions assure this same connection (see
G. Moore's The Lost Tribes...and E. R. Cap'ts Missing
links...). These Ionians once inhabited the coasts of
Anatolia (Turkey today) and many of its islands, that land
called Ionia generally, and also were the founders and
principal inhabitants of Athens.
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