Genesis 11
should not be overlooked - especially at a time when the world is going back. Genesis 11 is about the Tower of Babel - a structure that was built by a unified people who thought they were God. “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.” Genesis 11:1-2 Today, the land of Shinar is called Babylon which is located in Iraq. It’s interesting to me that it says the people journeyed east. This means the people had to come from East of Babylon. I wonder, did they come from present-day Iran? And how does that even make sense if Noah’s ark landed on Mount Ararat in the land of Javan - which now borders Turkey and Armania? The people must have come from the north, and then traveled east building their kingdoms. I really don’t know? Do you? The people in Babylon, under the direction of Nimrod, (the greatest Hunter to ever live) 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.” Genesis 11:1-4 You would think the Lord would appreciate the collaborative unity, a united nation working as one. But the scripture says, “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.” It appears from scripture that the Lord (and others) descended from the heavenly realms to stop mankind from working as one. It appears the United Nations are a conglomerate of people wanting to control their own destiny - their own outcome. The Lord purposely chose to confuse their speech so that humanity would not be able to act like God. Can you imagine if a United Nations was rebirthed? What would God think of a group of leaders, acting together to perfect humanity? Would they not build towers to dedicate to themselves, or shrines and make people bow down? Would they not seek world peace and try to create unity through a false god and a false religion? They would probably encourage a one World religion - where a universal God is the centrality. They would probably want to work together to build a one world economy. A United Nations would bring forth the beast - a beast that would be created from a United people on earth. And the number of the beast would be 666 - representing the completion of man. During the days of Nimrod, in Babylon, “the Lord scattered them abroad 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.” Genesis 11:5-9 Why do you think the Most Holy God did not want people working together? Was it because he did not love them? Or was it because God knows the heart of man - and He knows the unified heart of humanity wants to be like Him? What have we become? We are not only a humanity that does not know how to steward what God created, but we are a humanity that thinks we can control everything. God help us. God Forgive us for taking you out of everything. I pray that we would return to our first love.
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