Breaking Up is Hard to Do

   In Genesis 11, years after the flood, the people of the world (who then spoke one language) gathered into one vast plain (Babylonia) and decided to build “a city, with a tower that reaches the heavens,” so as “not to be scattered over the face of the earth” (v. 3-4).   Some Bible readers say the objective of the tower was for men to be able to ascend toward heaven, and others say it was meant as a way for a deity to descend to a temple at the base in order to be visible for worship.   Either way, these people were arrogantly challenging God’s command to “fill the earth.”

   The result, of course, was that God said: “’Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’   So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city” (v. 7-8).   Thus, they became “the nations” referred to so often in the Old Testament.

   The same globalist arrogance has taken center stage today.   The post-modern process by which man seeks his own glory is to reject Biblical nation status and (again) move aggressively toward a one-world government.   Of course, the aspirations of today’s “tower builders” have little to do with literal towers or any deity – especially not our Christian God.   And those in this country and elsewhere ...