Sorry for my long absence but I am back now.
Today we will talk about Gen. 11 1-9:
Now what was their that made God angry? Was it building a ancient wonder? No because God himself gave the plans for the temple to David which was an impressive wonder.
Their sin was twofold: first a sin of omission. God told Noah and his descendants to spread over the earth. Yet first thing they do is build the tower to not be dispersed across the land.
Their other sin was pride: Here we see another attempt for Man to be God just like in the garden.
Note that anytime we exalt ourselves God will humble us. Yet if we humble ourselves like Jesus, who is God and became Man and died on the cross, God will exalt us.
Lets talk what happens to Babel after the tower lays incomplete. Babel eventually becomes Babylon the great world empire who destroys the temple in 587 B.C. and is very idolatrous and very rich. Babylon is even pictured as a harlot in Revelation 17 1000 years after it fell to Cyrus the great of the Persians.
We also see a partial undoing of the confusion of languages in Acts 2 during Pentecost
Here we God decides who gets the great name and we will see him give a great next time we look in Genesis
Today we will talk about Gen. 11 1-9:
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Now what was their that made God angry? Was it building a ancient wonder? No because God himself gave the plans for the temple to David which was an impressive wonder.
Their sin was twofold: first a sin of omission. God told Noah and his descendants to spread over the earth. Yet first thing they do is build the tower to not be dispersed across the land.
Their other sin was pride: Here we see another attempt for Man to be God just like in the garden.
Note that anytime we exalt ourselves God will humble us. Yet if we humble ourselves like Jesus, who is God and became Man and died on the cross, God will exalt us.
Lets talk what happens to Babel after the tower lays incomplete. Babel eventually becomes Babylon the great world empire who destroys the temple in 587 B.C. and is very idolatrous and very rich. Babylon is even pictured as a harlot in Revelation 17 1000 years after it fell to Cyrus the great of the Persians.
We also see a partial undoing of the confusion of languages in Acts 2 during Pentecost
Here we God decides who gets the great name and we will see him give a great next time we look in Genesis
