The Tower of Babel - 6/22/08pm

Genesis 10:6-12 -Origin of Shinar/Babel/Babylon
Genesis 11:1-9 -Tower of Babel

Pride
In their pride, they wanted to build to the heavens. Yet, at the most, God still had to “go down.” Human pride is wholly without merit: at our best, we do not come close to the Lord.
Proverbs 6:16-19 -Pride is listed among “worse” sins
James 4:13-16 -Boasting and bragging
Habakkuk 1:5-11 -God will raise up the Babylonians/Chaldeans
Daniel 4:28-37 -Nebuchadnezzar’s pride
Matthew 4:1-11 -Jesus is tempted with pride
We must humble ourselves as Christ did:
John 13:12-17 -Jesus washes feet, we should do the same, servant not greater than the master
James 4:10 -Humble yourselves

Our Will and His Will
In verse 4, the people were trying to avoid the very thing that God caused to happen. In essence, they were working to thwart the Lord’s will, and see that what they wanted was done instead.
John 6:38 -Christ was sent to, and accomplished, God’s will
Luke 22:42 -Not my will but thine
I John 2:17 -The one who does God’s will abides forever
Matthew 12:50 -Be Christ’s brother/sister if doing God’s will
Numbers 22:16-20 -Barak sends to Balaam to have him curse Israel
Numbers 23:1-12 -Balaam blesses Israel (the first of 5 times) instead

Language
It may seem as though this caused unnecessary confusion, but in addition to causing people populate the entire world, and limiting man’s pride, it made some of the signs in the New Testament possible and more impressive.
Acts 2:1-12 -Apostles speak in other languages
Occasionally I cross paths with someone, even among brethren, who believes that the only way we can understand the Bible is through knowledge of Hebrew and Koine Greek. Yet Christ and the apostles used a translation to teach from.
Luke 23:26-31 -Christ quotes Hosea
Hosea 10:8 -Christ’s quote follows the Septuagint, not the Hebrew

Scattered over the Earth
It was with this that man was scattered over the world, going their separate ways.
Genesis 12:1-3 -God’s promises to Abraham
When the Messiah came, which is greater: that one group, united, speaking the same language, in one spot was saved? Or that people who had little or nothing in common were equally saved?
Matthew 28:18-20 -The great commission