Who are the Iraqis? Why are they important? Those who take the Bible seriously know that the Book of Genesis makes it clear that all human beings are descended from Shem, Ham, and Japeth. Genetically, the Iraqis are, like most Caucasians, sons of Shem. Middle-eastern people have appropriated the name “Semite”, but its application extends to all Caucasians.
The Arabs, south of the Semite countries, are descended from Abraham and Hagar, a Hamite. Abraham had many other Semite children besides Isaac. They spread out from the area of the Caucasus, which is why white people are called Caucasian.
Advancing into Europe, they drove out the earlier Hamite and Japhethite settlers who’d named many of the towns and villages they settled. As many as a hundred Scottish place names, for instance, contain the syllable “bal”, or variants thereof, showing that their inhabitants were once Hamites.
Ancient legends trace many European lineages to Japheth. They commemorate Japhethite settlements that often replaced Hamite domination. Over time, the European Japhethites were replaced by Semites. Semites also moved into India, dominating all but the Southeastern part. Ur of the Chaldees was close to the Semite point of origin.
Iraqi people are closely related to those of modern Europe, Pakistan, Russia, Afghanistan, the Americas, and India. They are, in fact, near the geographic center of the Semite Empire in Eurasia.
Their present religion has forced them into unity with the Semite/Hamite Arabian people to their south. This is an unnatural condition, reflected partly in the divisions between Sunni (Semite) and Shiite (half-Hamite). Eventually, they will rejoin their Semitic brethren and the religion they embraced for the first 700 years of the Christian era.
These were the people from whom the Three Wise Men came, the first to know that the Kingdom of God had arrived in the person of their distant cousin. St. Eusebius wrote in the 300s that he had personally seen a letter to the Parthian King, Abgar, sent to him from Jesus Christ.
American and European troops there are showing our Iraqi brothers and sisters that there is a better way than tyranny, and that way reflects that which Abraham, Moses, and the Founder our Faith received from God.
