Posted on 06/30/2010 9:18:48 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
If so.. is history repeating itself?
An interesting observation, at the very least!
No question. I often refer to today’s drive to yoke humanity under a central worldwide governing authority as an attempt to rebuild Babel.
No, Sanskrit.
Was Babel Humanity’s first attempt at One-World Government?
Most definitely!!!
Remember, God destroyed Babel because of what they would do if he did not stop them. I had always thought that if God hadn’t stopped them, this world would have needed to face destruction before the fullness of time. God stopping them has allowed us today to come into his kingdom, along with many though out the ages before us.
I also think often of how Jesus came to an age where there was no photography. That was also planned.
The correct answer is yes......& yes
God didn’t destroy Babel. He punished them by confounding their speech after they built the tower from which Nimrod fired an arrow from his bow at God. Those that could understand each other parted ways from the others.
That is true. Thank you.
I was only thinking of the overall effect that had on the aim of the people building it. Their cause was interfered with, to say the least.
Yes and the same Creator will stop it!
Any resemblance to PC-speak is purely coincidental.
Hence speaking Esperanto and any language besides American is doing santas bidding.
I think the author was looking at it from the perspective that Babel was a one world government which God destroyed by breaking it up into separate nations using the means you describe. In this sense he did destroy Babel and man is trying to recreate it by moving toward a one wold government today. I see the basic similarity in both instances being man's desire in his collective power to put himself equal to and/or autonomous from God. Man seeing man as a power unto himself. With Babel (and today) there is the clear message that this was done in a collective, or governmental if you will, sense.
Remember that’s where the original Bablyon is at in Iraq. Now that city thou its a Mystery. Mystery Babylon? Could it be the U.N. with the translators to undo the many languages. Th reverse of tower of babel.
bttt
Do you know the theory of NYC connection to Mystery Babylon.
No do tell
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