Part 13
Genesis 11:1-19 “ Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 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. 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."
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 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. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.”
What were they trying to do? Were they being obedient or disobedient? God instructed them to fill the earth not build monuments that only served their ungodly desires.
Genesis 9:1 “ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. “
They desired to ascend to God or at the least bring God down to them. This was the beginning of Nimrod’s evil reign which spawned a world of false, idolatrous worship. The site of this deliberate act of defiance can still be found today.
This is the type of united confrontation with God that is revealed in Revelation. The whole world will be deceived by Satan and united to fight God. But, let us take this account in order of the chronology of Scripture.
Part 14 will come next.