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The Gentile priests of Javan and Tubol

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gwynedd1

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Isaiah 66
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. cb(66,19); 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
These Gentiles were specific sons of Japheth and one of Shem in Anatolia who would receive the Gospel and then declare God's glory to the world. Notice Paul's ministry to Greek peoples in Anatolia and Greece.

Javan
The name of the next grandson, Javan, is the Hebrew word for Greece. Greece, Grecia, or Grecians appears five times in the Old Testament, and is always the Hebrew word Javan. Daniel refers to ‘the king of Grecia’ (Daniel 8:21), literally ‘the king of Javan’. Javan’s sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim (Genesis 10:4), all of whom have connections with the Greek people. The Elysians (an ancient Greek people) obviously received their name from Elishah. Tarshish or Tarsus was located in the region of Cilicia (modern Turkey).
Tubal
Next is Tubal. Ezekiel mentions him along with Gog and Meshech (Ezekiel 39:1). Tiglath-pileser I, king of Assyria in about 1100 BC, refers to the descendants of Tubal as the Tabali. Josephus recorded their name as the Thobelites, who were later known as Iberes.1
‘Their land, in Josephus’ day, was called by the Romans Iberia, and covered what is now (the former Soviet State of) Georgia whose capital to this day bears the name Tubal as Tbilisi. From here, having crossed the Caucasus mountains, this people migrated due north-east, giving their tribal name to the river Tobol, and hence to the famous city of Tobolsk.’7
Lud
Lud was the ancestor of the Lydians. Lydia was in what is now Western Turkey. Their capital was Sardis — one of the seven churches of Asia was at Sardis (Revelation 3:1).

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i4/noah.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarshish


cb(66,21); 66:21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. cb(66,22); 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Greek chuches had become the new priesthood for the world as God had choosen them to be. The Edict of Milan had begun the peace of the church and shortly after became a greek centered state of "New Rome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome
 
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