12/3/2023 0 Comments Tower of babel story![]() ![]() He has given us His Word so that we can see how He has dealt with man in the past. God wants to have a relationship with us. This word means “the gate of God.” However, in Hebrew, the word that is used for this city is “balal” which means “confusion” or “mixing.” God’s Desire The name of the city that they abandoned is called Babel in our Bibles today. Noah’s descendants needed to find others with whom they could communicate. The Bible does not indicate how many language groups there were, but they were diverse enough that the people were not able to communicate with others outside their language group. ![]() God confounded their language (Genesis 11:7, 8). God knew the volume and depth of sin would continue to increase in a large combined population. ![]() This combined learning and knowledge would continue to grow. It was not that God did not want man to increase in learning, but that their sinful nature caused them to swell with pride and think that they could elevate themselves to be like God. He said to Himself (God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) that man was capable of accomplishing anything he set out to do when they were all gathered together. God came down for a visit (Genesis 11:5). Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” God’s Visitation Romans 1:21-23 “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans chapter one speaks very clearly to this fallacy: They felt like they could elevate themselves to the same level as God. This was a people who wanted the same thing that Satan tempted Adam and Eve with: they wanted to have the knowledge of God. Yet they wanted to make a name for themselves that would make them equal with God. They had heard stories of how God operated. Their grandfather had a personal relationship with God. The story of the Tower of Babel took place about 100 years after the flood. Who were they trying to impress? Besides the family of Noah, who else was there to make a name for themselves for? They knew God. The Bible also says that they wanted to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4). In Hebrew, the word that is used for this city is “balal” which means “confusion” or “mixing.” ![]()
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