Musing – What We Should Learn from the Tower of Babel?

Hebraic Musing – What We Should Learn from the Tower of Babel?

The account of the Tower of Babel starts with “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.” Gen.11:1  Almost all the whole world today is on the internet AND most speech can be translated back into one’s native tongue.  How close are we to “one language” and “speech”?

The current thrust for Globalism or “One World Government” is being promoted by filthy rich, ungodly and powerful leaders around the world.  “They” want to take the earth’s 7 billion population down to as low as 1 billion.  “They” simply don’t trust that God provided sufficient natural resources.  God’s plan commanded man to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” Gen.1:28.  So instead of working God’s plan “They” want and support birth control, euthanasia, abortions, genocides and more to reduce the population to what “They” think is sustainable.

Man’s plan at Babel was exposed in v.3 “They said to each other, ‘Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone,” to “build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”  What in that verse is contrary to God’s plan for us? 

·      So they want to build with man-made bricks, instead of God-made stone!  And build it ourselves.

·      They want to live together in a city where godlessness, greed, sin, crime is highest and far from God’s natural resources!   Why do missionaries have more success in rural and country areas rather than cities?

·      They want a tower to reach heaven on their own, without God’s help.  BTW, there are now more than 50 skyscrapers in the world higher than the “Empire State Building”.  Interesting!

·      They want to make a name for themselves, rather than giving glory and honor to their Creator God!

·      And they don’t want to be scattered where each man can self-govern his life, liberty and pursuits…and have to call on and depend on God.

The LORD came down to see the city and said “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Gen.11:5-7  Their plan is not His plan, so He had to scatter them, thus creating a variety of languages, physical characteristics and skin tones as man was separated into nations.  God wants nations.  So in vss. 8-9 the LORD stopped man’s “One World Government” tower plan and scattered them and dubbed the Tower “Babel” – Hebrew for “Confused”.

Was Babel the only time man tried to create a “One World Government”?  The Bible describes in great detail the Babylonian domination and takeover of God’s own disobedient and ungrateful people.  BTW – The Babylonian Empire was conquered and destroyed overnight by the legendary Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539BC after a drunken party by Belshazzar with handwriting on the wall; that’s less than a century after its founding!   Remember these globalist empires – Egyptian, Ottoman, Roman, Mongolian (and Google has many more!)?  Is there a parallel in Nazi Germany’s and Japan’s WWII effort?  International Trade Pacts?  And why is the world now pushing for the “United Nations”?   Why were all those authoritarian empires so short-lived?

“They” believe that Man is the problem, there are too many of us!  So we need to be controlled and eliminated if necessary.  So “They” try to get rid of man by enslavement, destroying old systems like history & education.  Thus it is “Woke” to destroy Christianity.  They threaten and/or bribe businesses and media to cooperate, especially those doing business globally.  Thus we are being lied to!  And because of “pressure” many Christians are kneeling to false gods.  Have we recently been denied life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

Our role?  We know man is sinful, thus we need to preach Jesus and his sacrifice for our sins.  There’s joy in living righteously with all 10 Commandments written on our hearts; no joy in trying to obey commandments dictated to us by an authoritarian government official. 

The Problem – The Christian church is being too nice!  We accommodate world views to build large churches with lots of “Christians”; but are those churches filled with “Christ Followers”?  Are some “Christians” more concerned about fitting into the world than about being the people God created in His image?  What is God’s priority?  He told us in the creation account – God created man in His image with freedom to choose, to self-govern; and He created family and churches for us to be accountable to. 

“They” would have us governed communistically by a city, state, federal, world government.  What are, or what would be the goal(s) of those self-appointed leaders with (absolute) authority?  Who would be “lord” over us? 

Points to ponder   or   RSVP

What other nation has had a God-ordained & governed peoples besides Israel, and then America?

How many and which false gods are we being pressured to bow to?

Was Jesus always Mr. Nice Guy? 

Has the definition of “Christian” been changed in America?

♫ He is Lord, He is Lord!  He is risen from the dead and he is Lord!
            Ev'ry knee shall bow, ev'ry tongue confess That Jesus Christ is Lord.. ♫

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                                     July 21, 2020

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