GENESIS 11: The Tower of Babel
There is a life long argument about THE TOWER OF BABEL.
WAS IT REAL?
DID IT REALLY EXIST?
WHY WAS IT BUILT?
DOES THE BIBLE TELL US?
TURN WITH ME NOW TO GENESIS 11...
MANKIND AFTER THE FLOOD…AND THEY BUILT A TOWER OF BABEL.
Verses 1-4... A tower in the land of Shinar.
“Now the whole earth had ONE language and ONE speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The LAND OF SHINAR was a term used also of Babylon, confirmed in Genesis 10:10, which tells us that NIMROD established the kingdom in SHINAR. The Bible says, “And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
That this kingdom was established by NIMROD who was ANTI GOD…should have WARNED US WHAT WAS TO COME.
This also TELLS US that multiplied descendants from THE ARK came together to build a great city and tower, in REBELLION against God’s command to spread out over the earth in Genesis 9:1.
“Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly” . . . they had asphalt for mortar:
RIGHT HERE YOU SEE ASPHALT IS NOT A NEW MODERN INVENTION/DISCOVERY. THEY HAD ASPHALT (PITCH) IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.
WHY USE ASPHALT THEN? ALMIGHTY GOD TOLD NOAH during the building of the ark, SO MANKIND KNEW IT WAS STRONG, DURABLE, AND BETTER YET WATERPROOF.
And they used baked bricks and asphalt for mortar, men built a tower that was both strong and waterproof, even as Noah used the same material in waterproofing the ark as told us in Genesis 6:14, which says, “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Interestingly enough….LATER Moses’ mother used the same material (PITCH/ASPHALT) in waterproofing Moses’ basket in Exodus 2:3, which says, “And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.”
Archaeology has revealed that this type of kiln-fired brick and asphalt construction was COMMON in ancient Babylon.
“Come, let us build ourselves a city”… The heart and the materials relevant to the tower of Babel show that it was NOT only disobedient to God’s command to fill the earth in Genesis 9:1, which says, “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
BUT THIS ALSO SADLY SHOWS US that man did NOT believe God’s promise to NEVER again flood the earth. A waterproof tower was made to “protect” man against a future deluge.
SATAN DOES/HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUICK TO WHISPER FEAR AND DOUBT IN GOD‘S WORD & JESUS PROMISES TO YS…has he not?
Even now, AFTER NOAH’S FAMILY has seen FIRST HAND NOT only what ALMIGHTY GOD CAN DO, BUT THAT HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES, AND HE PROTECTED THEM, EVEN WHEN THE WORLD WAS DESTROYED…yet EVEN AFTER THAT…they STILL WERE QUICK TO FORGET….AND TO BEGIN TO DOUBT WHAT THEY HAD BEEN PROMISED IN COVENANT FACE TO FACE WITH JESUS CHRIST…THEY BEGAN TO FORGET AND TO DOUBT WHAT THEY HAD SEEN…WHAT AMAZINGLY IMPOSSIBLE THINGS THAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THEY HAD TANGIBLE PROOF, FIRST HAND EYE WITNESS AND SIGNS GALORE FROM JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF…AND FROM THE HEAVENS….yet they DOUBTED ALMIGHTY GOD WITHOUT CAUSE…and CHOSE TO DEPEND ON AND TRUST THEMSELVES INSTEAD.
How many of us have said or thought…IF JESUS WOULD JUST SEND A LIGHTNING BOLT, STOP THIS, START THIS, GIVE ME A SIGN. SEND AN ANGEL FACE TO FACE…THEN I WOULD KNOW THAT JESUS WORDS AND PROMISES IN THE BIBLE ARE TRUE AND THAT JESUS DOES HEAR AND JESUS DOES ANSWER…
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THE BIBLE TEACHES US IS THIS…WE, MANKIND, FOR THE MOST PART, WILL STILL CHOOSE TO DOUBT…EVEN AFTER SEEING, HEARING, AND EXPERIENCING HIS PROMISES, HIS FAITHFULNESS, HIS HONOR.
I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE, REGARDLESS HOW THE WORLD HAS CHANGED, KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY AND TRAVEL HAS EXPLODED…HUMAN NATURE AND SATAN AND HIS LIES DO NOT AND HAVE NOT CHANGED.
OKAY…SO THEY WANTED TO BUILD WHAT IS TODAY A SKY-SCRAPER BUILDING…AND SET ABOUT TO DO IT…
SOOOOO….Why did the BUILDING OF THIS TOWER ANGER & INSULT GOD?
This VERSE IS a strong statement of self AGAINST God. When they said let US build OURSELVES a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens, they meant RELY ON THEMSELVES TO BE WATCHTOWERS.
THE TOWER WAS NOT BUILT AS AN HONOR TO ALMIGHTY GOD, PLACE OF PRAYER TO ALMIGHTY GOD, NOR A SACRED PLACE TO MEET WITH ALMIGHTY GOD.
The top of the tower was INTENDED to be IN the heavens. It is doubtful they thought they could build a tower to heaven. It is more likely they built the tower as an observation point of the heavens; it was built “unto the heavens.”
THEY WERE BASICALLY SAYING…YEAH YEAH YEAH…YOU SAVED NOAH AND US. WE DID NOT PERISH AS EVERYONE ELSE. YOU GAVE US PERMISSION TO EAT ALL LIVING THINGS NOW. YOU BROUGHT BACK TREES, FRUIT, AND VEGETATION AND YES, AMAZINGLY ENOUGH THE WATER WE DRANK WAS PURE NOT POLLUTED AFTER THE FLOOD…..BUT STILL….BUT YET….BUT NEVERTHELESS…WE DO NOT TRUST GOD TO CONTINUE TO KEEP HIS WORD, HIS BLESSINGS, HIS PROTECTIONS, AND PROMISES TO US…SO WE BETTER START DEPENDING ON OURSELVES TO PROTECT AND WARN AND ALERT OURSELVES.
WE WILL BUILD A WATCHTOWER…SO BASICALLY WE WILL HAVE ALMIGHTY GOD’S VISION AND PERSPECTIVE OVER THE EARTH…AND WE WILL KNOW THROUGH OUR OWN WATCHING AND WISDOM AND VISION WHEN FUTURE CALAMITY IS COMING AND WE WILL BE PROTECTED FROM ANYTHING THAT COMES IN OUR FUTURE.
TALK ABOUT ARROGANCE?
THESE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE FINGER-SNAP APPEARANCE OF RAIN, OF A FLOOD THAT COVERED THE EARTH, THEN OF A CLOUD (THE FIRST ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN, & THE INSTANTANEOUS APPEARANCE OF A RAINBOW IN THE SKY……STILL ACTUALLY BELIEVED THEY COULD PREPARE, THEY COULD KNOW, THEY COULD OUT THINK ALMIGHTY GOD, MUCH LESS NATURE, AND PROTECT AND DEFEND THEMSELVES BETTER THAN JESUS CHRIST…
AND MANKIND HAS STILL NOT LEARNED…HOW MANY OF US TURN ON THE WEATHER CHANNEL EACH DAY TO DETERMINE WHAT THE DAY, THE REST OF THE WEEK HAS IN STORE FOR US? IN STEAD OF GOING OUTSIDE AND CHECKING THE SKY? USING OUR SENSES TO SMELL RAIN COMING, FEEL THE WIND RISING AGAINST OUR FACES, OR TO SEE THE GATHERING OF STORM CLOUDS? HOW MANY TRUST INSTEAD THE METEOROLOGISTS PREDICTIONS AND WARNINGS?
Ha! HOW MANY OF US HAVE CARRIED UMBRELLAS BECAUSE OF PREDICTIONS…ONLY TO FACE A SUNNY CLEAR DAY? AND HA! GOTTEN DRENCHED BECAUSE THE WEATHERMAN SAID IT WOULD BE CLEAR AND SUNNY THAT DAY?
ALMIGHTY GOD WANTS US TO BE SMART…TO BE PREPARED, BUT TO LOOK, SEE, AND CONSIDER THE NATURE’S SIGNS HE GIVES US EACH DAY AS WELL TO LIVE YOUR LIFE TRUSTING IN HIM, NOT MAN’S PREDICTIONS, WARNINGS, INSTEAD TO SEEK OUT, KNOW AND TRUST JESUS CHRIST PROMISES IN HIS WORD…BECAUSE BIBLICAL HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN….ANYTHING LESS THAN TRUSTING IN JESUS AND HIS WORDS IS THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE & OPENS THE DOOR TO POTENTIAL FAILURE, IF NOT UTTER DESTRUCTION.
PEOPLE WRONGLY SAY....THE BIBLE SAYS....GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES....NO WHERE IS THAT FOUND IN THE BIBLE. ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST ARE QUICK TO HEAR AND ANSWER THOSE WHO ARE HUMBLE...WHO KNOW THEY CAN DO NOTHING LASTING APART FROM HIM AND HIS GUIDANCE, GRACE, MERCY, AND SHIELDING, AMEN?
AND THE BIBLE CLEARLY TELLS US AND TEACHES US THAT SELF PRIDE, SELF RELIANCE,AND SELF ARROGANCE COMES STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART OF SATAN HIMSELF.
AND ALSO DID YOU KNOW THAT MOST OF OUR MODERN DAY astrological, pagan, the occult, & religious cults practices can and DO TRACE their origins BACK TO BABEL.
I THINK THAT IS VERY TELLING!
AND A WARNING TO ALL MANKIND...
AS WELL ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT IS THAT SEVERAL CHRISTIAN GEOLOGISTS having studied Genesis 11, SHINAR=ANCIENT BABYLON…have said if they really wanted to build a tower to reach heaven, it is NOT INTELLIGENT TO BUILD on the plain of Shinar, which is about Sea Level.
Common sense says they would start to build from a natural high point, on one of the a nearby mountains. But common sense had nothing to do with this determination SELF AND EGO RULED THESE PEOPLE.
There are EVEN THOSE TODAY who DENY that the TOWER OF BABEL WAS REAL. And that the tower NEVER EXISTED as the Bible states.
But we KNOW THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS REAL AND DID EXIST…we EVEN HAVE MANKIND’S WRITTEN HISTORY TO CONFIRM IT.
WHERE?
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said the tower of Babel still stood in his day and he had seen it. Mankind will doubt ALMIGHTY GOD’S WORD but they ALL REVERE AND HONOR AND TRUST HERODOTUS…..UNBELIEVABLE, AMEN?
Verses 5-9 tells us God scatters them over the whole earth.
“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.”
DID YOU CATCH THAT?
“The Lord came down to see the city and the tower…” The LORD CAME DOWN…HERE IS ANOTHER CAMEO APPEARANCE OF OUR JESUS CHRIST, THE TRIUNE GOD IN HUMAN FORM APPEARING ON THE EARTH LONGGGGGGGG BEFORE A MANGER IN BETHLEHEM.
FURTHERMORE…WE SEE SOMETHING ELSE HERE…THAT IS ONLY ONE OF THE FEW TIMES IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION…WHERE THE TRIUNE GOD, ALL THREE PERSONS APPEAR AT THE SAME TIME ON THE EARTH.
“Let US go down”…. This is ALSO ANOTHER PROOF AND REMINDER AND REFERENCE TO THE TRIUNE GOD. THE TRIUNE GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
THERE ARE THOSE WHO WRONGLY TEACH THAT GOD WAS ALONE WHEN HE CREATED THE EARTH, THEN HE CREATED JESUS IN TIME TO APPEAR IN THE MANGER, AND THEN AFTER JESUS DEATH AND RESURRECTION, ALMIGHTY GOD THEN CREATED THE HOLY SPIRIT…TO COMPLETE THE TRINITY…THE TRIUNENESS OF ALMIGHTY GOD.
SO ONCE AGAIN…HERE IS ANOTHER NUGGET OF GOLD, OF TRUTH, AND OF CONFIRMATION FOR US. ALMIGHTY GOD ALWAYS HAS BEEN TRIUNE.
AND THE NEXT PART OF THIS VERSE, TELLS US AND GIVES PREDICTIONS FOR MANKIND’S FUTURE.
“Nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them”… The potential EVIL, ARROGANCE, AND DESTRUCTIVENESS of fallen man is terrible and powerful. When we think of the horrific accomplishments for evil of men in the 20th century, the great ability of men and nations is a painful consideration.
THINK HOW VERY MUCH WORSE….OVER THE HISTORY OF MAN SINCE NOAH…THIS WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN IF WE HAD ALL BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE?
AND OUR TRIUNE GOD WHO LOVES KNEW THIS…SO HE SLOWED THE ADVANCEMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE DOWN…TO SPARE MANKIND AND THE EARTH FROM UTTER DESTRUCTION.
HOW DID HE DO THIS?
SEVERAL WAYS…THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE FASTEST ACTING WAS TO CHANGE THEIR LANGUAGES.
UNTIL THIS POINT ALL MANKIND SPOKE ONE LANGUAGE.
SO HE CHANGED THEIR LANGUAGES…SO THAT THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.
THAT STOPPED PRODUCTION AND BUILDING IN ITS TRACKS.
WE WHO HAVE TRAVELED OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS FIRST HAND…AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE FRUSTRATING FOR US OR THE PEOPLE WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO SPEAK TO, GET ANSWERS FROM, WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW AND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERS FOREIGN LANGUAGE, RIGHT?
SO ALMIGHTY GOD KNOWS HIS CREATION…
AND THEN ALMIGHTY GOD SEPARATED THEM BY GREAT DISTANCES… MANKIND DID NOT HAVE TELEPHONES, EMAILS, FED-EX, JETS, MAIL CARRIERS…THEY HAD ONLY THEIR FEET…AND THEY HAD “HERALDS OR FOOT MESSENGERS” BACK THEN WHO WALKED OR EITHER RODE DONKEYS OR HORSES BETWEEN THEIR TOWNS AND ACROSS THEIR COUNTRIES TO COMMUNICATE. THAT TOOK WEEKS, IN SOME INCIDENCES IT TOOK MONTHS FOR JUST ONE WAY COMMUNICATION.
SO ALMIGHTY GOD SLOWED THEM DOWN…FOR THEIR OWN GOOD….AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS AS WELL.
“So the Lord scattered them abroad”… The forced separation of men from Babel was more God’s MERCY than His judgment. God, in dividing man both linguistically and geographically, put a CHECK…A SLOW DOWN…A DELAY…on the power of his fallen nature.
YOU CAN NOT PLOT AND PLAN…IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT EACH OTHER IS SAYING, AMEN?
YOU CAN NOT FORM ALLIANCES…WHEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIALOG, THE PLAN, THE REQUESTS…CAN YOU?
“The Lord confused the language of all the earth”… The division of the languages is a fascinating subject when you really think about it as relates to ALL MANKIND…THEN AND NOW.
EVEN NON-CHRISTIAN modern linguists KNOW man did NOT invent language, any more than man invented his own circulatory or nervous system.
Most modern linguists believe language is SO UNIQUE that the only way they can explain it apart from ALMIGHTY GOD, is to say that it was part of a unique evolutionary process.
BUT APART FROM ALMIGHTY GOD EVEN THEIR THEORIES ARE FLAWED…AND THEY DO NOT LINE UP…BUT SADLY THAT HAS NOT STOPPED MANKIND FROM TRYING TO BELIEVE AND FIND ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR LANGUAGE….THAT IS PURE ARROGANCE AT WORK…AND WE ALL KNOW WHO THE AUTHOR/LEADER/CREATOR OF ARROGANCE IS….SATAN HIMSELF.
YET…while LINGUISTS DO concede that language can NOT be the product of man putting together sounds all by HIMSELF & THEY CONCEDE THEN THAT ALL languages come from ONE original language, BUT MOST still refuse to ACCEPT THAT THAT ONE LANGUAGE COMES FROM A CREATOR GOD.
What amazes me is that they would FAR prefer to teach and theorize that all we are….came from an explosive rock, a slimy soup, or a lizard, then found land and eventually became a knuckle-dragging ape…is beyond me.
But what I say when told such imaginative creative fantasy…is that they may have come from a big bang explosion, a rock, slime, a lizard, or an ape…. I know I came from the very hand of Creator God, AMEN?
“From there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth”…
Think what it was like for a family to leave the area of Babel and go out on their own. They must look for a suitable place to live, and once they found it, they must exist by hunting and gathering, living in crude dwellings or caves until they could support themselves by agriculture and taking advantage of the natural resources. Families would multiply rapidly, develop their own culture, and their own distinctive biological and physical characteristics influenced by their environment. In the small population, genetic characteristics change very quickly, and as the population of the group grew bigger, the changes stabilized and became more or less permanent.
SO HERE ALMIGHTY GOD ANSWERS ANOTHER QUESTION OF THE AGES…NOT ONLY CAN MANKIND TRACE HIS BEGINNINGS TO NOAH’S THREE SONS AS TOLD TO US IN DETAIL IN GENESIS 10 IN THE TABLE OF NATIONS, WE KNOW HOW AND WHY THE ENTIRE EARTH BECAME POPULATED AND WHERE THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES BEGAN…AND WHY?
SIN AND ARROGANCE AND DISOBEDIENCE…CAUSED IT ALL.
YOU CAN NOW OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO GENESIS 11...AND SHOW PEOPLE WHO, HOW, AND WHY…THE WORLD BECAME SO DIVERSE.
THE PEOPLE OF BABEL…AND THE TOWER OF BABEL TEACHES US SO MANY THINGS, AND IT TELLS US THAT ANTI-GOD, ARROGANCE, SATAN, AND DESTRUCTIVENESS WERE NOT DESTROYED IN THE FLOOD.
THIS CHAPTER OF GENESIS ALSO IS OMINOUS…AND TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS TO A PEOPLE, A NATION, SUCH AS BABEL….WITH its anti-God dictator, its organized rebellion against God, its CULTS disguised and labeled RELIGION, and its direct distrust of God…
ALL THIS SADLY SHOWS US THAT SPARED & BLESSED MANKIND listens QUICKER THEN AND NOW TO THE WHISPERS OF SATAN AND THEIR OWN PUFFED UP SELF ARROGANCE, than in JESUS’ WORD AND HIS AND ALMIGHTY GOD’S PROMISES….PROMISES THAT ALMIGHTY GOD HAS NEVER BROKEN…regardless that MANKIND HAS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN broken covenant with HIM…has CHOSEN THE WORLD AND SATAN over Him all through out time.
SADLY IT ALSO SHOWS US THAT man hasn’t gotten ANY better, NOT WISER, NOT HUMBLE, NOR THANKFUL since the flood.
THE WORLD SAYS….STRUTS AND PREENS OVER ITS OWN ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER TIME, IN THE PROGRESS OF TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, EDUCATIONAL WISDOM, COMMUNICATION, AND TRAVEL AND IN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION…BUT WHILE WE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE, MORE PUSH BUTTON NOW….WE ARE NOT A BETTER PEOPLE.
IDOLS, ICONS, THINGS, OWNING, POSSESSING, AND SEEMINGLY CONTROLLING OUR OWN LITTLE WORLDS HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S GOD…IN OURSELVES WE DO TRUST…INSTEAD OF HUMBLY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE DO NOT BREATHE BUT FOR THE GRACE, LOVE, MERCY AND PATIENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD & THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST FOR US ON THE CROSS.
BUT AS WITH EACH CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE…THERE IS HOPE.
BECAUSE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS A PLAN…IT WILL BE FULFILLED, IT WILL BE CARRIED OUT…IN SPITE OF MANKIND, SATAN AND THE WORLD.
WHAT IS GOD’S PLAN AFTER SUCH SADNESS OF MANKIND IN SHINAR, AT THE TOWER OF BABEL?
God will begin to make man better, and He will start as He always starts….with ONE man who IS HUMBLE, WHO WILL DO His will, even if he does not do His will perfectly.
HERE WE SEE SOMETHING WONDROUS…AND A TRUE REVELATION…ALMIGHTY GOD ONLY NEEDS ONE…ONE PERSON TO ACCOMPLISH MUCH…ONE ADAM…ONE NOAH…ONE ABRAM…ONE MOSES…ONE JOSEPH…AND ONE MAN, UNTIL THE ONE PERFECT MAN JESUS CHRIST CAME WHO DID COMPLETELY AND PERFECTLY ACCOMPLISH HIS PLAN…TO FULFILLMENT…COMPLETION.
THIS CHAPTER TELLS US…THAT ALMIGHTY GOD NEEDS ONLY ONE PERSON…AND WITH HIM LEADING, GUIDING, PROTECTING, AND PROVIDING…YOU AND I CAN AND WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE…BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR PRECIOUS JESUS CHRIST LIVING WITHIN US.
WHO IS THE NEXT ONE PERSON….ABRAM…IS PREPARING TO BE BORN…IS PREPARING TO WALK INTO THE PAGES OF BIBLICAL AND MANKIND’S HISTORY…AND WHAT A LIGHT ABRAM WILL BE.
SO UNTIL NEXT WEEK…BE BLESSED…STAY BLESSED!
GENESIS 11: The Tower of BabelThere is a life long argument about THE TOWER OF BABEL.WAS IT REAL?DID IT REALLY EXIST?WHY WAS IT BUILT?DOES THE BIBLE TELL US?TURN WITH ME NOW TO GENESIS 11...MANKIND AFTER THE FLOOD…AND THEY BUILT A TOWER OF BABEL.Verses 1-4... A tower in the land of Shinar.“Now the whole earth had ONE language and ONE speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”The LAND OF SHINAR was a term used also of Babylon, confirmed in Genesis 10:10, which tells us that NIMROD established the kingdom in SHINAR. The Bible says, “And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”That this kingdom was established by NIMROD who was ANTI GOD…should have WARNED US WHAT WAS TO COME.This also TELLS US that multiplied descendants from THE ARK came together to build a great city and tower, in REBELLION against God’s command to spread out over the earth in Genesis 9:1.“Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly” . . . they had asphalt for mortar:RIGHT HERE YOU SEE ASPHALT IS NOT A NEW MODERN INVENTION/DISCOVERY. THEY HAD ASPHALT (PITCH) IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.WHY USE ASPHALT THEN? ALMIGHTY GOD TOLD NOAH during the building of the ark, SO MANKIND KNEW IT WAS STRONG, DURABLE, AND BETTER YET WATERPROOF.And they used baked bricks and asphalt for mortar, men built a tower that was both strong and waterproof, even as Noah used the same material in waterproofing the ark as told us in Genesis 6:14, which says, “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”Interestingly enough….LATER Moses’ mother used the same material (PITCH/ASPHALT) in waterproofing Moses’ basket in Exodus 2:3, which says, “And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.”Archaeology has revealed that this type of kiln-fired brick and asphalt construction was COMMON in ancient Babylon.“Come, let us build ourselves a city”… The heart and the materials relevant to the tower of Babel show that it was NOT only disobedient to God’s command to fill the earth in Genesis 9:1, which says, “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”BUT THIS ALSO SADLY SHOWS US that man did NOT believe God’s promise to NEVER again flood the earth. A waterproof tower was made to “protect” man against a future deluge.SATAN DOES/HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUICK TO WHISPER FEAR AND DOUBT IN GOD‘S WORD & JESUS PROMISES TO YS…has he not?Even now, AFTER NOAH’S FAMILY has seen FIRST HAND NOT only what ALMIGHTY GOD CAN DO, BUT THAT HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES, AND HE PROTECTED THEM, EVEN WHEN THE WORLD WAS DESTROYED…yet EVEN AFTER THAT…they STILL WERE QUICK TO FORGET….AND TO BEGIN TO DOUBT WHAT THEY HAD BEEN PROMISED IN COVENANT FACE TO FACE WITH JESUS CHRIST…THEY BEGAN TO FORGET AND TO DOUBT WHAT THEY HAD SEEN…WHAT AMAZINGLY IMPOSSIBLE THINGS THAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THEY HAD TANGIBLE PROOF, FIRST HAND EYE WITNESS AND SIGNS GALORE FROM JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF…AND FROM THE HEAVENS….yet they DOUBTED ALMIGHTY GOD WITHOUT CAUSE…and CHOSE TO DEPEND ON AND TRUST THEMSELVES INSTEAD.How many of us have said or thought…IF JESUS WOULD JUST SEND A LIGHTNING BOLT, STOP THIS, START THIS, GIVE ME A SIGN. SEND AN ANGEL FACE TO FACE…THEN I WOULD KNOW THAT JESUS WORDS AND PROMISES IN THE BIBLE ARE TRUE AND THAT JESUS DOES HEAR AND JESUS DOES ANSWER…ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THE BIBLE TEACHES US IS THIS…WE, MANKIND, FOR THE MOST PART, WILL STILL CHOOSE TO DOUBT…EVEN AFTER SEEING, HEARING, AND EXPERIENCING HIS PROMISES, HIS FAITHFULNESS, HIS HONOR.I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE, REGARDLESS HOW THE WORLD HAS CHANGED, KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY AND TRAVEL HAS EXPLODED…HUMAN NATURE AND SATAN AND HIS LIES DO NOT AND HAVE NOT CHANGED.OKAY…SO THEY WANTED TO BUILD WHAT IS TODAY A SKY-SCRAPER BUILDING…AND SET ABOUT TO DO IT…SOOOOO….Why did the BUILDING OF THIS TOWER ANGER & INSULT GOD?This VERSE IS a strong statement of self AGAINST God. When they said let US build OURSELVES a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens, they meant RELY ON THEMSELVES TO BE WATCHTOWERS.THE TOWER WAS NOT BUILT AS AN HONOR TO ALMIGHTY GOD, PLACE OF PRAYER TO ALMIGHTY GOD, NOR A SACRED PLACE TO MEET WITH ALMIGHTY GOD.The top of the tower was INTENDED to be IN the heavens. It is doubtful they thought they could build a tower to heaven. It is more likely they built the tower as an observation point of the heavens; it was built “unto the heavens.”THEY WERE BASICALLY SAYING…YEAH YEAH YEAH…YOU SAVED NOAH AND US. WE DID NOT PERISH AS EVERYONE ELSE. YOU GAVE US PERMISSION TO EAT ALL LIVING THINGS NOW. YOU BROUGHT BACK TREES, FRUIT, AND VEGETATION AND YES, AMAZINGLY ENOUGH THE WATER WE DRANK WAS PURE NOT POLLUTED AFTER THE FLOOD…..BUT STILL….BUT YET….BUT NEVERTHELESS…WE DO NOT TRUST GOD TO CONTINUE TO KEEP HIS WORD, HIS BLESSINGS, HIS PROTECTIONS, AND PROMISES TO US…SO WE BETTER START DEPENDING ON OURSELVES TO PROTECT AND WARN AND ALERT OURSELVES.WE WILL BUILD A WATCHTOWER…SO BASICALLY WE WILL HAVE ALMIGHTY GOD’S VISION AND PERSPECTIVE OVER THE EARTH…AND WE WILL KNOW THROUGH OUR OWN WATCHING AND WISDOM AND VISION WHEN FUTURE CALAMITY IS COMING AND WE WILL BE PROTECTED FROM ANYTHING THAT COMES IN OUR FUTURE.TALK ABOUT ARROGANCE?THESE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE FINGER-SNAP APPEARANCE OF RAIN, OF A FLOOD THAT COVERED THE EARTH, THEN OF A CLOUD (THE FIRST ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN, & THE INSTANTANEOUS APPEARANCE OF A RAINBOW IN THE SKY……STILL ACTUALLY BELIEVED THEY COULD PREPARE, THEY COULD KNOW, THEY COULD OUT THINK ALMIGHTY GOD, MUCH LESS NATURE, AND PROTECT AND DEFEND THEMSELVES BETTER THAN JESUS CHRIST…AND MANKIND HAS STILL NOT LEARNED…HOW MANY OF US TURN ON THE WEATHER CHANNEL EACH DAY TO DETERMINE WHAT THE DAY, THE REST OF THE WEEK HAS IN STORE FOR US? IN STEAD OF GOING OUTSIDE AND CHECKING THE SKY? USING OUR SENSES TO SMELL RAIN COMING, FEEL THE WIND RISING AGAINST OUR FACES, OR TO SEE THE GATHERING OF STORM CLOUDS? HOW MANY TRUST INSTEAD THE METEOROLOGISTS PREDICTIONS AND WARNINGS?Ha! HOW MANY OF US HAVE CARRIED UMBRELLAS BECAUSE OF PREDICTIONS…ONLY TO FACE A SUNNY CLEAR DAY? AND HA! GOTTEN DRENCHED BECAUSE THE WEATHERMAN SAID IT WOULD BE CLEAR AND SUNNY THAT DAY?ALMIGHTY GOD WANTS US TO BE SMART…TO BE PREPARED, BUT TO LOOK, SEE, AND CONSIDER THE NATURE’S SIGNS HE GIVES US EACH DAY AS WELL TO LIVE YOUR LIFE TRUSTING IN HIM, NOT MAN’S PREDICTIONS, WARNINGS, INSTEAD TO SEEK OUT, KNOW AND TRUST JESUS CHRIST PROMISES IN HIS WORD…BECAUSE BIBLICAL HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN….ANYTHING LESS THAN TRUSTING IN JESUS AND HIS WORDS IS THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE & OPENS THE DOOR TO POTENTIAL FAILURE, IF NOT UTTER DESTRUCTION.PEOPLE WRONGLY SAY....THE BIBLE SAYS....GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES....NO WHERE IS THAT FOUND IN THE BIBLE. ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST ARE QUICK TO HEAR AND ANSWER THOSE WHO ARE HUMBLE...WHO KNOW THEY CAN DO NOTHING LASTING APART FROM HIM AND HIS GUIDANCE, GRACE, MERCY, AND SHIELDING, AMEN?AND THE BIBLE CLEARLY TELLS US AND TEACHES US THAT SELF PRIDE, SELF RELIANCE,AND SELF ARROGANCE COMES STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART OF SATAN HIMSELF.AND ALSO DID YOU KNOW THAT MOST OF OUR MODERN DAY astrological, pagan, the occult, & religious cults practices can and DO TRACE their origins BACK TO BABEL.I THINK THAT IS VERY TELLING!AND A WARNING TO ALL MANKIND...AS WELL ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT IS THAT SEVERAL CHRISTIAN GEOLOGISTS having studied Genesis 11, SHINAR=ANCIENT BABYLON…have said if they really wanted to build a tower to reach heaven, it is NOT INTELLIGENT TO BUILD on the plain of Shinar, which is about Sea Level.Common sense says they would start to build from a natural high point, on one of the a nearby mountains. But common sense had nothing to do with this determination SELF AND EGO RULED THESE PEOPLE.There are EVEN THOSE TODAY who DENY that the TOWER OF BABEL WAS REAL. And that the tower NEVER EXISTED as the Bible states.But we KNOW THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS REAL AND DID EXIST…we EVEN HAVE MANKIND’S WRITTEN HISTORY TO CONFIRM IT.WHERE?The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said the tower of Babel still stood in his day and he had seen it. Mankind will doubt ALMIGHTY GOD’S WORD but they ALL REVERE AND HONOR AND TRUST HERODOTUS…..UNBELIEVABLE, AMEN?Verses 5-9 tells us God scatters them over the whole earth.“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.”DID YOU CATCH THAT?“The Lord came down to see the city and the tower…” The LORD CAME DOWN…HERE IS ANOTHER CAMEO APPEARANCE OF OUR JESUS CHRIST, THE TRIUNE GOD IN HUMAN FORM APPEARING ON THE EARTH LONGGGGGGGG BEFORE A MANGER IN BETHLEHEM.FURTHERMORE…WE SEE SOMETHING ELSE HERE…THAT IS ONLY ONE OF THE FEW TIMES IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION…WHERE THE TRIUNE GOD, ALL THREE PERSONS APPEAR AT THE SAME TIME ON THE EARTH.“Let US go down”…. This is ALSO ANOTHER PROOF AND REMINDER AND REFERENCE TO THE TRIUNE GOD. THE TRIUNE GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN.THERE ARE THOSE WHO WRONGLY TEACH THAT GOD WAS ALONE WHEN HE CREATED THE EARTH, THEN HE CREATED JESUS IN TIME TO APPEAR IN THE MANGER, AND THEN AFTER JESUS DEATH AND RESURRECTION, ALMIGHTY GOD THEN CREATED THE HOLY SPIRIT…TO COMPLETE THE TRINITY…THE TRIUNENESS OF ALMIGHTY GOD.SO ONCE AGAIN…HERE IS ANOTHER NUGGET OF GOLD, OF TRUTH, AND OF CONFIRMATION FOR US. ALMIGHTY GOD ALWAYS HAS BEEN TRIUNE.AND THE NEXT PART OF THIS VERSE, TELLS US AND GIVES PREDICTIONS FOR MANKIND’S FUTURE.“Nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them”… The potential EVIL, ARROGANCE, AND DESTRUCTIVENESS of fallen man is terrible and powerful. When we think of the horrific accomplishments for evil of men in the 20th century, the great ability of men and nations is a painful consideration.THINK HOW VERY MUCH WORSE….OVER THE HISTORY OF MAN SINCE NOAH…THIS WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN IF WE HAD ALL BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE?AND OUR TRIUNE GOD WHO LOVES KNEW THIS…SO HE SLOWED THE ADVANCEMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE DOWN…TO SPARE MANKIND AND THE EARTH FROM UTTER DESTRUCTION.HOW DID HE DO THIS?SEVERAL WAYS…THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE FASTEST ACTING WAS TO CHANGE THEIR LANGUAGES.UNTIL THIS POINT ALL MANKIND SPOKE ONE LANGUAGE.SO HE CHANGED THEIR LANGUAGES…SO THAT THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.THAT STOPPED PRODUCTION AND BUILDING IN ITS TRACKS.WE WHO HAVE TRAVELED OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS FIRST HAND…AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE FRUSTRATING FOR US OR THE PEOPLE WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO SPEAK TO, GET ANSWERS FROM, WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW AND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERS FOREIGN LANGUAGE, RIGHT?SO ALMIGHTY GOD KNOWS HIS CREATION…AND THEN ALMIGHTY GOD SEPARATED THEM BY GREAT DISTANCES… MANKIND DID NOT HAVE TELEPHONES, EMAILS, FED-EX, JETS, MAIL CARRIERS…THEY HAD ONLY THEIR FEET…AND THEY HAD “HERALDS OR FOOT MESSENGERS” BACK THEN WHO WALKED OR EITHER RODE DONKEYS OR HORSES BETWEEN THEIR TOWNS AND ACROSS THEIR COUNTRIES TO COMMUNICATE. THAT TOOK WEEKS, IN SOME INCIDENCES IT TOOK MONTHS FOR JUST ONE WAY COMMUNICATION.SO ALMIGHTY GOD SLOWED THEM DOWN…FOR THEIR OWN GOOD….AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS AS WELL.“So the Lord scattered them abroad”… The forced separation of men from Babel was more God’s MERCY than His judgment. God, in dividing man both linguistically and geographically, put a CHECK…A SLOW DOWN…A DELAY…on the power of his fallen nature.YOU CAN NOT PLOT AND PLAN…IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT EACH OTHER IS SAYING, AMEN?YOU CAN NOT FORM ALLIANCES…WHEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIALOG, THE PLAN, THE REQUESTS…CAN YOU?“The Lord confused the language of all the earth”… The division of the languages is a fascinating subject when you really think about it as relates to ALL MANKIND…THEN AND NOW.EVEN NON-CHRISTIAN modern linguists KNOW man did NOT invent language, any more than man invented his own circulatory or nervous system.Most modern linguists believe language is SO UNIQUE that the only way they can explain it apart from ALMIGHTY GOD, is to say that it was part of a unique evolutionary process.BUT APART FROM ALMIGHTY GOD EVEN THEIR THEORIES ARE FLAWED…AND THEY DO NOT LINE UP…BUT SADLY THAT HAS NOT STOPPED MANKIND FROM TRYING TO BELIEVE AND FIND ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR LANGUAGE….THAT IS PURE ARROGANCE AT WORK…AND WE ALL KNOW WHO THE AUTHOR/LEADER/CREATOR OF ARROGANCE IS….SATAN HIMSELF.YET…while LINGUISTS DO concede that language can NOT be the product of man putting together sounds all by HIMSELF & THEY CONCEDE THEN THAT ALL languages come from ONE original language, BUT MOST still refuse to ACCEPT THAT THAT ONE LANGUAGE COMES FROM A CREATOR GOD.What amazes me is that they would FAR prefer to teach and theorize that all we are….came from an explosive rock, a slimy soup, or a lizard, then found land and eventually became a knuckle-dragging ape…is beyond me.But what I say when told such imaginative creative fantasy…is that they may have come from a big bang explosion, a rock, slime, a lizard, or an ape…. I know I came from the very hand of Creator God, AMEN?“From there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth”…Think what it was like for a family to leave the area of Babel and go out on their own. They must look for a suitable place to live, and once they found it, they must exist by hunting and gathering, living in crude dwellings or caves until they could support themselves by agriculture and taking advantage of the natural resources. Families would multiply rapidly, develop their own culture, and their own distinctive biological and physical characteristics influenced by their environment. In the small population, genetic characteristics change very quickly, and as the population of the group grew bigger, the changes stabilized and became more or less permanent.SO HERE ALMIGHTY GOD ANSWERS ANOTHER QUESTION OF THE AGES…NOT ONLY CAN MANKIND TRACE HIS BEGINNINGS TO NOAH’S THREE SONS AS TOLD TO US IN DETAIL IN GENESIS 10 IN THE TABLE OF NATIONS, WE KNOW HOW AND WHY THE ENTIRE EARTH BECAME POPULATED AND WHERE THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES BEGAN…AND WHY?SIN AND ARROGANCE AND DISOBEDIENCE…CAUSED IT ALL.YOU CAN NOW OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO GENESIS 11...AND SHOW PEOPLE WHO, HOW, AND WHY…THE WORLD BECAME SO DIVERSE.THE PEOPLE OF BABEL…AND THE TOWER OF BABEL TEACHES US SO MANY THINGS, AND IT TELLS US THAT ANTI-GOD, ARROGANCE, SATAN, AND DESTRUCTIVENESS WERE NOT DESTROYED IN THE FLOOD.THIS CHAPTER OF GENESIS ALSO IS OMINOUS…AND TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS TO A PEOPLE, A NATION, SUCH AS BABEL….WITH its anti-God dictator, its organized rebellion against God, its CULTS disguised and labeled RELIGION, and its direct distrust of God…ALL THIS SADLY SHOWS US THAT SPARED & BLESSED MANKIND listens QUICKER THEN AND NOW TO THE WHISPERS OF SATAN AND THEIR OWN PUFFED UP SELF ARROGANCE, than in JESUS’ WORD AND HIS AND ALMIGHTY GOD’S PROMISES….PROMISES THAT ALMIGHTY GOD HAS NEVER BROKEN…regardless that MANKIND HAS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN broken covenant with HIM…has CHOSEN THE WORLD AND SATAN over Him all through out time.SADLY IT ALSO SHOWS US THAT man hasn’t gotten ANY better, NOT WISER, NOT HUMBLE, NOR THANKFUL since the flood.THE WORLD SAYS….STRUTS AND PREENS OVER ITS OWN ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER TIME, IN THE PROGRESS OF TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, EDUCATIONAL WISDOM, COMMUNICATION, AND TRAVEL AND IN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION…BUT WHILE WE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE, MORE PUSH BUTTON NOW….WE ARE NOT A BETTER PEOPLE.IDOLS, ICONS, THINGS, OWNING, POSSESSING, AND SEEMINGLY CONTROLLING OUR OWN LITTLE WORLDS HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S GOD…IN OURSELVES WE DO TRUST…INSTEAD OF HUMBLY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE DO NOT BREATHE BUT FOR THE GRACE, LOVE, MERCY AND PATIENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD & THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST FOR US ON THE CROSS.BUT AS WITH EACH CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE…THERE IS HOPE.BECAUSE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS A PLAN…IT WILL BE FULFILLED, IT WILL BE CARRIED OUT…IN SPITE OF MANKIND, SATAN AND THE WORLD.WHAT IS GOD’S PLAN AFTER SUCH SADNESS OF MANKIND IN SHINAR, AT THE TOWER OF BABEL?God will begin to make man better, and He will start as He always starts….with ONE man who IS HUMBLE, WHO WILL DO His will, even if he does not do His will perfectly.HERE WE SEE SOMETHING WONDROUS…AND A TRUE REVELATION…ALMIGHTY GOD ONLY NEEDS ONE…ONE PERSON TO ACCOMPLISH MUCH…ONE ADAM…ONE NOAH…ONE ABRAM…ONE MOSES…ONE JOSEPH…AND ONE MAN, UNTIL THE ONE PERFECT MAN JESUS CHRIST CAME WHO DID COMPLETELY AND PERFECTLY ACCOMPLISH HIS PLAN…TO FULFILLMENT…COMPLETION.THIS CHAPTER TELLS US…THAT ALMIGHTY GOD NEEDS ONLY ONE PERSON…AND WITH HIM LEADING, GUIDING, PROTECTING, AND PROVIDING…YOU AND I CAN AND WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE…BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR PRECIOUS JESUS CHRIST LIVING WITHIN US.WHO IS THE NEXT ONE PERSON….ABRAM…IS PREPARING TO BE BORN…IS PREPARING TO WALK INTO THE PAGES OF BIBLICAL AND MANKIND’S HISTORY…AND WHAT A LIGHT ABRAM WILL BE.SO UNTIL NEXT WEEK…BE BLESSED…STAY BLESSED!