Tower of Babel

A little thought about the tower of babel.

Adam and Eve were directed to rule over the earth and to fill it.

Genesis 1:28 (ESV)

And God blessed them. And God said to them,(A) "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

When Adam and Eve were in the garden there was peace and contentment. When the fall came there was banishment. Banishment from the place of peace, contentment, unity, relationship, unity:

Genesis 3:23 (NIV)

So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

When Cain sinned he was banished from his relationships and became a "restless wanderer"

Genesis 4:12 (NIV)

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."

Noah's descendants were to rule the earth.

Genesis 9:7 (NIV)

As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."

God's directive - increase upon the earth and fill it (increase upon it as the NIV says).

Genesis 11:1-9 (NIV)


1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

God said spread out. They stayed put. God spread them out.

Dependence on God is the only way.

1 Samuel 8:7

And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

Interesting to me that the more rural communities tend to be more independent. The larger more urban areas tend to have a larger we can solve it together attitude.

Red States and Blue States. I am for social justice. I hate oppression. I hate injustice. I hate prejudice, racism, poverty, sickness, intolerance, slavery and all of the rest. This world / Christ's Church is to move wholeheartedly against all of these.

The question: Where is the source of the answer. The answer is not in small government, large government, personal responsibility or socialism. The answer is not in Washington, the Major, the City Council or the Justice of the Peace.

Do we look to ourselves for the answer or do we write His word deeply on our hearts and let His spirit lead us. Are you hoping in the next election or are you renewing your heart (Romans 12:1), loving your neighbor and pointing Him to the great healer?

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

2 Chronicles 7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Revelation 21:16

The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia (8.7 stadia to the mile) in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

The new Jerusalem will be the new Tower of Babel - 1379 miles wide, deep and high.

A Tower we can live in without trying to fix it on our own. We will live under purity, truth, righteousness and above all His Kingship.

Until that time comes spread it out and try not to decide too much on your own.

Come quickly lord Jesus.