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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Bible Questions Answered: Babel-Disobedience.

Bible Questions Answered:
I don't see why a God of the universe would strike people who were energetic and unified in their work together, as he did at the tower of Babel. And if that's the case, what about all the building and working today, should that be struck too?
Ediberto/ San Diego, California U.S.A.

Bible Text:
Genesis 10:25 NLT
Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother’s name was Joktan.

Bible Answer:
It was in the time of one Peleg, some five generations after Noah, that as the inhabitants came from the east, they came to the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia-Babylonia-what we know today as Iraq). It was in the land of Shinar, that Nimrod the mighty hunter lived.

Archeology tells us, it was here the people learned to make bricks and to cement them together with bitumen, found in pits of tar, common in oil rich areas.

Under the guidance of Nimrod...

Genesis 11:3,4 NLT
3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)
4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

Was God against unity, and a people with one main purpose?
Yes, and would He be today?

Yes, if like Nimrod's followers, a people have in their heart, disobedience to the living God.
And these people were in absolute disobedience.

What was their purpose?
Verse :4

TO BE FAMOUS:
Pride of workmanship, does not of necessity bring God's blessings.
This the generations of Noah, knew!

Genesis 4:3-7 KJV
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door..."


TO BE SETTLED, NO MORE TO WANDER.
This was an act of disobedience to God's command...

Genesis 9:1 KJV
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

THEY MAY HAVE BUILT THE TOWER, IN FEAR OF ANOTHER FLOOD.
Which was an act of disobedience to God's covenant-promise to them.)

Genesis 9:8-17 KJV
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish My covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

Unity of purpose and industry, are blessed if, and only if a people's heart, mind and soul are given unto the Lord.

Such was “not,” the case of the inhabitants of Shinar.
And so the God of all creation, put an end to their disobedience, “not to them, as a people,” but to their disobedience!

Genesis 11:5-9 KJV
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let US go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Was the Lord, right in doing this?
Yes!

Psalm 18:30 KJV
As for God, His way is perfect..."

Psalm 145:17 KJV
The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.

And what of our day?

Malachi 3:6 KJV
For I am the LORD, I change not..."

God does not change, if we as a people, forget the words of our God, acting in open rebellion, we too will see judgment.

I Samuel 2:3 KJV
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

Psalm 12:3,4 KJV
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 8:13 KJV
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Isaiah 13:11 KJV
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

See also the blog... Babel