Tower Of Babel
IN THE AFTERMATH of Noah’s Ark, some 100 years after the Flood, men moved eastward, and settled in a broad plane of Babylon.
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Tower Of Babel
IN THE AFTERMATH of Noah’s Ark, some 100 years after the Flood, men moved eastward, and settled in a broad plane of Babylon.
They resolved to build a tower, of which, their city would surround.
“Go to,” they said, “let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly, and build us a Tower whose top may reach to heaven.”
A monument it was to their united power who were of “one speech” with the intent to “make a name” so as “not to be scattered over the earth.”
That “name,” as expressed by the tower, would convey power, authority, and strike fear in the observer to constrain any dissent.
A power was in that tower declaring to all that any disapproval would be crushed.
According to the divine purpose men were to spread over the whole earth, not to separate, but to maintain their inward unity regardless of dispersion.
These men by their fear of that dispersion is proof that the bond of unity was already broken.
Men hitherto had “called upon the Name of The Lord” but no more.
That abandonment of the worship of God—Who promised to Noah by the rainbow He would sustain the human race through the perpetuity of the four seasons—that abandonment of God shattered their inward unity.
They sought to make a “name” that all would call upon rather than God’s Name.
To consolidate by outward means the unity which they inwardly lost could not succeed.
“The Lord comes down to see the city and the tower.”
“Behold one people,” says the Lord, “with one speech, and this they begin to do. Now nothing will be restrained from them which they purpose to do.”
By the establishment of an ungodly unity, the wickedness and audacity of men would lead to fearful enterprises.
Mankind, created in unceasing mobility, plunges into wickedness moving into increasingly vile iniquity.
Wickedness persists in its descent until reversed by a will for virtue, or by God’s mercy, an intervention from heaven.
“Go to,” God says in ironic imitation, “let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
The Tower of Babel falls.
What reached to heaven to wreak on earth overmastering dominance and intimidation falls brick by brick, splintering into dust.
The very thing they feared, seeking to prevent:
“The Lord scatters them upon the face of all the earth and confounds their speech.”
God inflicts difference of speech so they might not fall into greater wickedness.
God inflicts difference of speech to halt communal sin optimized by ungodly association united in emotion, thought, and will.
“Babel,” the forsaken city is called.
“Confusion,” as a standing memorial of God’s judgment which follows the ungodly enterprises of the powers of the world.
Babel fell, Sodom & Gomorrah fell, Israel fell, Assyria fell, Babylon fell, Persia fell, Macedonia fell, Rome fell, all suffering the judgment of God.
History doesn’t repeat itself, it’s a tree that gets cut down, then grows again.
Good beginnings can start from dire disasters.
Is a new Tower of Babel towering over us?
This too shall fall.
The Tower of Babel was the first globalist attempt!
God destroyed it and He will do it again!
“The Lord scatters them upon the face of all the earth and confounds their speech.”
I suppose diversity was not their greatest strength then…
With the censorship of today’s internet, it’s hard not to notice a wicked unification of all speech, one that causes people to lose their inward unity.
It’s remarkable how relevant the Bible is in today’s world. Thank you, Brother Nathanael, for sharing your insights.