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From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race is unavailable, but you can change that!

“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language.…” (Revelation 7:9). The visions in the book of Revelation give a glimpse of the people of God at the consummation of history—a multiethnic congregation gathered together in worship around God’s throne. Its racial diversity is expressed in a four-fold formula that...

Canaan in the conquest, and is eventually completed when Israel totally subjugates the Canaanites during the monarchy. How the descendants of Japheth fulfil this prophecy is not quite as clear. Hamilton (1990: 325–327) suggests that the Philistines, part of the Sea People migration from the Aegean (see Chapter 2), are descendants of Japheth and thus fulfil this prophecy as they also overrun parts of Canaan. In 1 and 2 Samuel, for instance, the Israelites and the Philistines both dominate the land
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