The Tower of Babel
Today, I would like to speak about the story in the Old Testament about the Tower of Babel.
Most of us would know that story goes like this: all the
world was one voice, one language and they said, “let's build a great tower that reaches into heaven, and make a name
for ourselves” and they began to build this large tower. The story continues
and says that God said, “Look at what
these people are doing, because they're in unity that nothing will be impossible
to them”. The story says that God said that let us go down confuse their
language and scatter them. So the language is confused, people broke into
divisions, and from there we get the table of nations and different tribal
groups of people began to inhabit different parts of the world.
I just want to have a look at some of the aspects of the
story today, and how we are seeing it repeated in our own generation today exactly
the same things happening. So, back then, what was happening was a dictatorship.
In the Tower of Babel, it looks benign; those people working together to build
a tower - what's wrong with that? Why would God be jealous of the progress of
mankind? But it was a slavery that was building again.
God was actually freeing the people from slavery when He
broke up this empire – the tower of Babel. In an aspect, the tower Babel was
not just a form of slavery, but was also demonic. In the sense that they offered
human sacrifice, particularly sacrificing children. We see this throughout the
Old Testament.
The Tower of Babel were honored with children's sacrifices. We're
repeating the same mistakes today. We're building the same sorts of paganism, so
today we see a globalization of government.
When there is a dominance of slavery over people of
globalism what happens is that, this unity of language gets broken down and it breaks
into factions, people start speaking different languages, and they start
communicating together. Light begins to the darkness and this this whole system
of dictatorship breaks down.
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