Babel Will Destroy You

Babel will destroy you

Genesis 11:1-9

Introduction- Good morning online church.

I am glad that you have joined us this morning. If you would turn in your bible or bible app to the very first book in the bible Genesis and then go to chapter 11.

Genesis which means beginning is God’s account of creation and answers some hard questions of who we are and where we came from.

It certainly is not a book that evolutionist want to read or have you read because it tells us very quickly that we did not begin as an ape and turn into man. No, it talks about creation, and then our fall from grace because of rebellion against the very God that created us.

In chapter 11, our text this morning gives us a glimpse of why we now have so many different languages in the world today when only Noah and his family were smart enough to get on the ark of safety that the Lord had provided.

I want to talk a minute about the tower of Babel - What it stood for and what the problem was that God had with the people to tear down the tower.

Prayer-

Genesis 11:1-9

There is great debate of the tower and great debate of what it means and who was the architect if it did exist.

I read through tons of comments of who was right and who was wrong.

I did see that the Smithsonian has joined the side of believing it was an actual building that existed because of bricks found in Iran, the modern day place where they have remnants of the building with King Nebuchadnezzar name inscribed on them.

On these bricks was found inscription of maker and a black tar substance in the bible called bitumen.

I believe it was an actual place with man’s attempted purpose of getting to heaven and God seeing their rebellion and separating the people to scatter and spread out instead of finding the plain of Shinar and building a city that was in total defiance of what God had instructed them to do.

For you doubters, I would ask you to see the lesson, the very important lesson that needed to be learned and why today we have some of the problems we have because we feel we know better than God. We think we can build ivory towers that will escape God judgment and we think we are smarter than God.

What person do you know that was created by God that thought he was smarter than God and who thought God would give up that seat to him? Satan… Satan thought that he would take over and come up with a plan to dethrone God. This is an illustration and model of how God has brought down the delusional thought of making a name for yourself that would be above God.

Isaiah 14:13-14 - But you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

Daniel 4:28-30 – “All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king. 29 Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon. 30 The king reflected and said, 'Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? ”

History

They believe that the tower was built in the fourth generation after the flood which a generation is 40 years so they believe 160 years after the flood.

They had already stopped being reminded what the rainbow meant every time they saw it in the sky.

Noah had three boys Shem, Ham, and Japheth- Nations descended from them- Some good but mostly ones that rebelled against God.

The debate is where the language barrier begun by the three descendants and then nations.

Chapter 10 Table of nations already saw a language barrier and chapter 11 is where the Lord breaks the unity of one language- to me simple, chapter 10 happened after chapter 11- The Lord can word it anyway He wants too!

I think we need to look at the text for what it is and what it is trying to tell us.

Let’s assume we don’t know it all and take God word at being God’s word- What lesson can we learn today?

Mesopotamia is in modern day Iraq- Parts in Turkey and Syria. The tower was erected in Shinar. Noah’s ark landed on Mt Ararat which is in turkey.

Let figure out what we know so we can see what we can learn.