Building Into Heaven In Disobedience – The Tower Of Babel - Genesis 11 Series

BUILDING INTO HEAVEN IN DISOBEDIENCE – THE TOWER OF BABEL - GENESIS 11

VERSES 1 - 2: DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S COMMAND TO EXPAND

Devastation had come on the earth because of sin but the old fallen and corrupt human nature will never learn the things of God. Noah’s descendants spread out after the flood, but how far did they spread? How far were they supposed to spread? {{Genesis 9:7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply. Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”}} The limits of civilization were still confined and the spread was slow.

I don’t think expansion had gone too far. Here they are progressing eastward for some time after the flood. Turkey to Iraq may have been the limits of civilisation it seems, but it was probably very much smaller. All was fairly localised. The ethnic divisions of Genesis 10 seem to be a wider but latter range of settlement. The one language was obviously the way God had meant things to progress – but progression had taken a sad turn. The plain of Shinar was the place to be! “the same language and the same words”. (Literally, “of one lip, and of words one”: that is, both the pronunciation and the vocabulary were identical. As their speech was as one, so too their disobedience and rebellion. God told them to spread and populate the earth but they wanted to remain in a confined area.

{{Genesis 11:1:2 “Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words, and it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.”}}

The cynics come along saying this was a childish way to try to explain why there are languages on the earth. Adam was a childish way to explain the origins of man. No matter what aspect of God’s creation is considered, Satan always has his decoys and his opposites. There is not one institution of God that is left untouched by the corrupting hand of Satan. The universe becomes the big bang; Creation of man becomes evolution; Pure marriage becomes homosexual corrupt “marriage”; Obedience to God’s rule becomes disobedience; what God declared as good in creation has become what Satan can make bad.

VERSES 3 - 4: WHEN GOD IS ABANDONED HUMANISM REPLACES IT

{{Genesis 11:3:4 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly,” and they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar, and they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”}}

Absolute disobedience! God said to spread out but they refused, and wanted to centralise their development so they would NOT spread out. To do that they would have to construct some great monument, some rallying point, some object that would mark them out forever.

These two verses represent the pinnacle of human ambition. Note what they said:

Let us – city

Let us – bricks

Let us – tower

“Let us”. Three times they said that. It was human determination and nowhere was God considered in any of it. God is very patient you know. Mankind was so corrupted He had to destroy them utterly in the flood but two or three hundred years after the flood they were nor much better. He took Israel up and had to use the Assyrians and Babylonians to destroy even that; later on, the Romans. God is not willing for any to perish but for all to come to a knowledge of the truth. Man is so reprobate he can not seek God but spirals downwards constantly. God reaches out to people and the Holy Spirit will bring awareness and conviction but the human being shuts out the working of God.

The plain of Shinar was the expression of humanism where God is displaced by man who is total master of his own destiny. They were cosy in this world that was all man centred. Man, independent of God, is man adrift without absolutes or rule or intelligence. The highest peak (so far) of evolution he thinks, but he is so wrong. Look at the nations of the world today. Are they improving? Take away some of the brilliant inventions and look just at human nature. Are human beings improving?

Any honest person will look at the world today that follows a path to its own misery with the most stupid decisions being taken by governments chasing after myths and fabrications and a coming world socialism. The WEF and the UN and the WHO want to bring all men into one, just like the aim of these people long ago that they might coerce into one and stay there. That was based on humanism and humanism controls it all today.