Picture of tower of babel today10/21/2023 ![]() When we forget God, fail to learn and grow from our mistakes, and ignore God’s warnings and promises altogether, we open the door for recurring sin to wreak havoc in our lives. ![]() “be careful for yourself and watch over your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life but make them known to your sons and your grandsons” ( Deuteronomy 4:9). No matter how powerful or faithful God had proven Himself to be, humanity never failed to forget or disregard God’s commands. This is why, on the eve of entering the Promised Land, Moses reminded the children of Israel, This trend would continue throughout the Old Testament. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for Noah’s descendants to forget and even willfully ignore their entire history. You’d think after the catastrophe of the Flood, brought about by the depravity of mankind, that the remnant of humanity would have learned their lesson and forever anchored themselves to the goodness and mercy of God. But what is the significance and meaning of the Tower of Babel for Christians today? When We Don’t Learn from Our Mistakes, We Often Repeat Them It also reveals the rebellious nature of humanity as well as God’s plan to eventually reverse the effects of sin. It’s a story that has profound implications on the proliferation of early language and the migration of some of the earliest civilizations. ![]() Not one to have His commands disregarded, God intervened, confusing their language, which forced the citizens of Babel to stop work and finally spread throughout the earth ( Genesis 11:8-9). Instead, they had settled in one location and used their technology to build a city of their own name where they were in control, not God. Out of sheer hubris or rebellion or both, the people of Babel had disobeyed God’s command to multiply and spread throughout the earth ( Genesis 1:28 9:1,7). They, as Tony Evans writes, “sought to build a city (civilization), a tower (a religious system), and a name (independence) apart from God.” The problem was not that the architects of Babel, as it would later be called, had built a tower. In this instance, however, God knew of the less than God-honoring intentions behind the building of their city, and He was neither pleased nor impressed by their efforts. It wasn’t the first time an ancient civilization had built a city or attempted to construct a tower.
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