1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,280 Please, Hallelujah. Sometimes it's just good to 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,000 acknowledge Him. Amen. 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,840 Acknowledge what you're feeling, acknowledge what you're 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,640 experiencing. Hallelujah, Amen. 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:20,440 Bless the Lord my soul today. You can be seated here tonight 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,720 if you desire. Thank the Lord. 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,560 Just a few things here. Amen. 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,400 This evening, again, World's missions conferences this coming 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,640 weekend, Friday and Saturday, Have a church van going on 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,080 Friday night if a tornado doesn't take us first. 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,160 And so it's going on Friday night. 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,520 The van will be leaving at 4:15. All right, this coming Friday. 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,840 So that's in Bloomington, IN, and there's a sign up sheet in 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,720 the foyer if you have a desire to go and be a part of that. 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,560 The 16th of this month is March Madness. 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,720 It's Selection Sunday, and so we'll have brackets and stuff 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,240 ready for you to fill out and have back into us that night, 18 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,960 Sunday night as things begin. The trophy is tucked carefully 19 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,680 away behind thick glass, you know, so that whoever's name 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,080 will be on their next, we'll be able to celebrate when that time 21 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,640 comes. We'll bring it out here soon so 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,520 that we can remember what it looks like. 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,600 All right. Also, the 22nd of this month is 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,960 a Section 5 rally in Medora, and that's at 4:00 PM Eastern 25 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:39,520 Standard Time speakers supposed to be Pastor David Scott. 26 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,040 And the 28th and 29th of this month, which is a Friday and 27 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,360 Saturday, is the Princess Within conference at Rockville, IN. 28 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,560 And there's a lot of wheels and stuff turning. 29 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,240 As a matter of fact, my wife needs to have a meeting tonight 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,000 with those whom are going who's concerned that over in the youth 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,880 room and to share some information and so on and so 32 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,760 forth. And then the 5th Sunday of this 33 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,880 month will be a Pastor McDonald coming through on that Sunday 34 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,560 morning because they're actually coming to prison from Nebraska. 35 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,199 And so we're just going to allow them one more day before they 36 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:11,480 have to turn around and go right back. 37 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,560 And he'll just take care of our Sunday morning as we have one 38 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,800 service there as well. Also Brother Mason make mention 39 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,120 of it in our absence whenever we were gone that April, the 6th, 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,640 which is a Sunday in the AM will be an Ignite Sunday. 41 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,720 And what that basically means is we're going to kind of give and 42 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,480 share some information concerning the Ignite youth and 43 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,720 our our goal, our go for that time. 44 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,640 And this isn't all the money that it takes in a year for 45 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:43,080 Ignite, but our goal for that time is if we can raise $4000 on 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,640 that Sunday morning, that's really only half of what Ignite 47 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:50,240 takes to run for this coming year or this year that we're in. 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,800 And that's the, and that's the reason why I say that is because 49 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,600 that's the, the people that are involved in that presently. 50 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,120 That's their, you know, rooms and food being taken care of 51 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,280 whenever they go to like NYC and, and WYC and then the other 52 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,240 things that happened throughout the year. 53 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,400 And so we, I'm saying all that now so we can start planning 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,200 right? Get our mind. 55 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,920 And with that being said, this this is hoping so that in lieu 56 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,640 we won't have a bunch of fundraisers this year for them. 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,880 So you can just go home and you can look at maybe how much money 58 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,400 you contributed through fundraisers last year, whether 59 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,680 you bought a pizza or bought a cake pop or you did stuff for a 60 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,280 car wash or so and so forth. Start just adding that up. 61 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,640 And if you can just contribute that everybody wins you, you, 62 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,240 you don't have to worry about it anymore. 63 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,720 They don't have to worry about it anymore. 64 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,160 And so I'd really like to move to that space if we could do you 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,600 say over to McGee That's high and loft. 66 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:51,720 I think we can do it, Glory, Amen. 67 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,320 I think we can do it. But it's going to be a time on 68 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,280 that Sunday morning kind of education because people that 69 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,320 have no students involved, I think sometimes we're detached 70 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,880 about from really how much money it takes just to operate the 71 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,880 Ignite, going to those conferences and so on and so 72 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,800 forth, even in and of themselves. 73 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,560 And that's really a great privilege that's extended from 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,840 the First Apostolic Church. For those who go because, and 75 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,399 you've heard me say this before, but I'll beat the dead horse. 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,160 That is not the case everywhere of other churches that your room 77 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,480 and food and all of that's taken care of, all right? 78 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,000 And so that's a great privilege, Amen. 79 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 That's extended Genesis chapter #11 if you'll stay with me 80 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,760 tonight. Genesis, you heard me. 81 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:36,480 Now, we have not been formally in Genesis like we are right 82 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,880 now, tonight. Now, we've touched it here and 83 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,720 there. We have not been in Genesis 84 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,000 since last May, all right? We've not been in Genesis since 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,720 last May. And so the struggle best with 86 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,560 that is this. You forgot everything I already 87 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,040 told you about the 1st 10 chapters. 88 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,400 So I'm going to review the first thing that I know. 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,160 I'm not, I'm not reviewing. That's what Pat podcast and, and 90 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,560 YouTube and all those other things are for. 91 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,600 We're not going to review all those, but we are going to land 92 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,920 here in a, what might be more so of a familiar story to some. 93 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,160 It's, it's one that we even, you know, talk about to our children 94 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,680 in Sunday school classes, or at least they did whenever I was a 95 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,800 kid in Sunday school. Maybe they don't talk about it 96 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,240 anymore, but Genesis chapter #11 verse, starting with verse #1 97 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,880 the Bible says the whole earth, the whole earth. 98 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,120 And before I get started, Kevin, it's good to see you tonight. 99 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,680 Yeah, I just started reading my Bible and just thought about 100 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,880 you. I mean, it's just powerful. 101 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,320 But it's good to see you tonight. 102 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,760 It really is. Amen. 103 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,520 And the whole earth verse #1 The whole earth was of one language 104 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,680 and of one speech. It came to pass as they 105 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,120 journeyed from the east, that they found a plane in the land, 106 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,480 a shinar, and they dewelt there. And they said to one another, Go 107 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,920 to let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 108 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,240 And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 109 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,840 And they said, Go to Let us build us a city and a tower 110 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:08,040 whose taught may reach into heaven, and let us make us a 111 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,600 name, lest we be scattered abroad up on the face of the 112 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,040 hill earth. The Lord came down to see the 113 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,480 city and the tower which the children and men builded it. 114 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:20,120 The Lord said, Behold, the people was one, and they have 115 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,160 all one language, And this they begin to do now nothing will be 116 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,400 restrained from them which they have imagined to do. 117 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,440 Go to let us go down. And they're confound their 118 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,880 language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 119 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,840 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face 120 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:39,880 of all the earth, and they left off to build the city. 121 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,560 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord 122 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,320 did there confound the language of all the earth. 123 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,120 And from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the 124 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,000 face of the earth. Amen. 125 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,520 So a little while, and I'm hoping to gingerly lead you back 126 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,360 in into the book of Genesis here, but just for a little 127 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,240 while tonight, want to talk about this. 128 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,000 The tower that couldn't reach heaven, All right, The tower 129 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,920 that couldn't reach heaven. All right, God, we come to you 130 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,400 tonight. We're thankful again for this 131 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,560 opportunity, God, it is a privilege. 132 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,000 We're thankful, Lord, for the spirit of the Holy Ghost, Lord, 133 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,040 that we have felt, Lord, already in this place. 134 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,960 I pray God, just continue Lord, through your word. 135 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,520 It's already anointed. It's an anointed word, your 136 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,680 spirit, it's life. I pray God, and it's relevant, 137 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,880 God, for us today. We honor you Jesus, with praise 138 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,600 and honor in Jesus name we pray, Amen. 139 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,480 The church say, Amen, and then you may be seated. 140 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,040 Might I say it's good to see everybody that's in the House of 141 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,920 Lords here on a Wednesday night, Amen. 142 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,520 After connect groups and stuff to be back here on a Sunday 143 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,760 night Bible study of this type of format. 144 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,920 It's good to see everybody that is back, Amen. 145 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,240 So I'm just going to chalk it up that no one forgot that we were 146 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,440 going back to Wednesday about today and you're really here, 147 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,080 you're here, Amen, because of that. 148 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,840 So the last thing that we studied when we left off about a 149 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:05,520 little less than a year ago was in chapter 10. 150 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,160 Many of you will remember it. It's probably still giving you 151 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,920 nightmares. And that is the table of nations 152 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,320 and a long genealogy that was in chapter #10 the table of nations 153 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,760 that were there that followed the three lines of Noah's sons 154 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,320 of Japheth, Ham, and Shem. You'll remember those things 155 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,960 kind of took place there in chapter #10 and if you remember 156 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,440 anything which which you may I'm not going to you know hit below 157 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,080 the belt here. You may remember some things, 158 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,200 but genealogies and scripture sometimes are just good 159 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,080 connector lines for us right genealogy. 160 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,400 Sometimes their their purpose is to connect an event with another 161 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,160 event or person with another person and God many times uses 162 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,960 them purposefully. He may not list every name 163 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,280 that's in the genealogy. He constructs it just the way he 164 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,560 wants to, to serve its ultimate purpose. 165 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,800 And so genealogy, sometimes they act as, as transitional spaces, 166 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,160 if you will, transitional elements to get us to where God 167 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,960 wants us to go and what He wants us to learn and be. 168 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,840 And so when we look at the table of nations in chapter #10 it 169 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,240 really connects us from the flood that took place because 170 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,080 that's no one his son's day to now where we are here in Chapter 171 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,200 11, the tower, the tower of, of, of Babel. 172 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,760 And in actuality, there's a little bit of a overlay because 173 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,120 as we read chapter 10, we read Chapter 11, these two, these 174 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,800 events that genealogy and those that are listening, that 175 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,320 genealogy in the Tower of Babel, there's really kind of a overlay 176 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,800 of the episode. The reason why I say that 177 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,120 because it's in the tower of Babble that we read that there's 178 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,960 going to be the scattering of the people. 179 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,480 There's going to be the the diversifying of the language. 180 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:57,040 And yet when we read in chapter #10 all of these nations, there 181 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:02,080 are some things that evidence to us that evidently the Tower of 182 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,120 Babel happened during this time frame of the genealogy of 183 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,320 chapter #10. What I mean is this. 184 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,960 In chapter #10 we talked about the sons of Ham and the sons of 185 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,160 Shem. And this is what it said about 186 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,880 Ham sons and Shem sons. It said in verse 20 and verse 31 187 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,640 of chapter 10, after Speaking of their genealogy, that they were 188 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,880 mentioned after their families, after their tongues. 189 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,000 It speaks. So it's less, though there's 190 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,400 already a, a diversifying of the language in chapter #10 alright, 191 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,640 so there's this overlay. And so when we understand this, 192 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,080 because when Chapter 11 begins that I read to you tonight, it 193 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,040 says that the earth was of one language and of one speech. 194 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,080 All right. But over here then intended. 195 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,080 So there's a overlay. There's a coinciding of these 196 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,000 two things that that are happening. 197 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,560 Also, that means that Chapter 11 doesn't just seamlessly 198 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:59,640 chronologically follow chapter #10 that there is that overlap 199 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,560 again, if you'll remember, but I'll take you there. 200 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:06,040 In Genesis 10, verse 25, it talks about one of the 201 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:11,920 descendants of Shem whose name was Peleg, and it says in his 202 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:20,560 days was the earth divided? The the, the, the word earth. 203 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,720 One of the definitions of that word in this particular 204 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,000 Scripture is the people of the land, that in his days the 205 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,920 people of the land were divided. That's what we see happening in 206 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,480 chapter #11 with the Tower of Babel. 207 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,200 We have nations and people being divided. 208 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,640 And for that matter, the last verse of chapter #10 of Genesis 209 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:48,080 states that by these meaning the families of the sons of Noah 210 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,880 were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 211 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,760 So there is a correspondence them between 10:00 and 11:00 212 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,400 that there's this, the scattering of the nations that 213 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,760 happened. There's a dividing of tongues, a 214 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,840 dividing of people. And Chapter 11 is a continuance 215 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,920 stand of some of the things that's happening that we see in 216 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,720 the genealogy. It starts with that word and 217 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,960 that connector that connects us. And it's a continuation of 218 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,360 thought. And so when we get in here just 219 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,840 a little further, there are some discrepancies. 220 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,120 There are some discrepancies among the translations about 221 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,520 whether these families of the sons of Noah, whether they 222 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,080 journeyed it from the East or whether they journey to the 223 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,720 East. You see it in verse #2 it says 224 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,960 that it came to pass as they journeyed it from the East. 225 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,000 Looked at 57 different translations on this. 226 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,800 And as I looked at it, there's different ones that say they 227 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,560 came from the east. There's others that say they are 228 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:46,960 going to the East, right? As a matter of fact, the 229 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,040 majority talk about them coming from the east and, and the 230 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,320 minority says that they were going to the East. 231 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,720 Nonetheless, whether they were coming or going from the east, 232 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,440 there's some type of eastward direction that's involved. 233 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,040 And the reason why that's interesting for us or maybe 234 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,960 important for us is you'll remember back at the very 235 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,360 beginning the Garden of Eden, when when man and woman there, 236 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,920 the transgression in the garden, the Bible speaks that they were 237 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,320 set outside of the garden. They were set outside the east 238 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,440 to the east of the Garden of Eden, right? 239 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,880 It's a eastward movement. And yet whenever you read about 240 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,400 Cain, who was the one that killed his brother Abel, and the 241 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,480 Bible talks about that, he left the presence of God and he went 242 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,880 to dwell in the land called Nod. That was a place that was again, 243 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:42,280 denoted in Scripture in chapter #4 of being east of Eden. 244 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,560 And so presently here it's describing people that are 245 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:50,120 either in the eastward direction or traveling further the 246 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,120 eastward direction. So there's kind of like a little 247 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,840 thread here that's taking place in Scripture. 248 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,800 Nonetheless, their journey brings them to this place called 249 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,360 Shinar, or the land of Shinar, and the Bible says that they 250 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,000 dwelt there. And so there's two things here 251 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,720 in particular that that chapter 10 kind of informs us about 252 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,880 concerning what's happening right now in chapter, chapter 253 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,280 #11 if I could say it like this chapter #10 tells us that there 254 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,040 was a descendant of Ham. All right, Ham again, one of the 255 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,520 sons of Noah, the one who walked in and discovered his father's 256 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,280 nakedness. And the one then that that that 257 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,160 his father cursed, then Ham son. And, and this curse comes up on 258 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,600 this line. This is the one, This is the one 259 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,320 in chapter #10 Ham had a descendant by the name of 260 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,560 Nimrod. If you remember that from 261 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,200 chapter #10 And the Bible says that part of the beginning of 262 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,840 Nimrod's Kingdom was Babel. All right, It was Babel in the 263 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,080 land. Verse 10 of chapter 10 tells us 264 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:59,040 in the land of Shinar. And so we have this overlap that 265 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,080 this this Babble that that Nimrod had began, all right, is 266 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,200 also this place where these people in chapter 10 have have 267 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,240 landed and they're building a city. 268 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,600 So there's this overlap then building this city and this 269 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,360 tower unto the Lord. Let's read it from Genesis 10 270 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,520 where it speaks of this. The Bible says in Genesis 10 and 271 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:24,240 verse #8 and Kush, which was a son of him, bigot Nimrod, He 272 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,400 began to be a mighty one in the earth. 273 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,960 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. 274 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,760 Therefore it is said even as Nimrod, the mighty hunter before 275 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,160 the Lord and the beginning of his Kingdom, which a Kingdom is 276 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,920 a one person rule. All right, was Babel an Iraq and 277 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:50,680 Akkad and Kaunay in the land of Shinar, Amen. 278 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,800 So we have this Nimrod. The first Kingdom that's 279 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,880 mentioned in the scripture is that of Babel, or that which is 280 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:04,880 in the land of Shinar that that Nimrod started. 281 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,160 He is mighty. The Bible calls him a mighty 282 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,000 hunter. There's a lot of ancient 283 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,080 Assyrian tablets that explain what that mighty hunter is, 284 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,120 isn't so much a hunter of game and a hunter of animals, but it 285 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,600 is a person that is a hunter of men, a warrior of men which 286 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,760 kinds of start to bring a little foundation concerning this 287 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,160 Babble. They're one people with one 288 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,520 language and they're being convinced of building this tower 289 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,880 that can reach up into heaven. So it almost begins to depict 290 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,320 the power that this one man has over men, right? 291 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,400 His ability to convince and connive and, and so and so 292 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,320 forth. So he is, he is indeed a mighty 293 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,480 man. But also remember that Nimrod's 294 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:57,000 name means to rebel or to be rebellious or a rebel. 295 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,480 And what's really taking place in Chapter 11 with the Tower of 296 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,240 Babel that we'll look at here a little more particularly. 297 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,480 They're wanting to do well here, but that was never the purpose 298 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,480 of God. That was never the purpose of 299 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,480 God for his creation to do well in just a solitary place. 300 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:14,920 We'll look at it a little bit later. 301 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,000 We'll go back to the blessing that he spoke to Adam and Eve 302 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,040 and the blessing then that he reinitiated in for Noah and his 303 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,119 sons. And it wasn't about just 304 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,880 dwelling at a location had to do with multiplying and 305 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,160 reproduction, and it had to do with the whole earth, right? 306 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,720 The whole earth. And so we'll see that. 307 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,240 So this this idea of just the dwelling tends on and, and goes 308 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,760 to the rebellious side of the people, right, being really 309 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,560 contradictory into what the purpose of the Lord, what he had 310 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,800 in mind. And so there's another thing the 311 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,400 the other thing about this being the land of Shinar in this, of 312 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,640 course, is that blessing. Again, Noah and his sons were 313 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,080 blessed like Adam and Eve were for multiplication, 314 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,920 reproduction. And the original blessing upon 315 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,200 Adam and Eve was that they the word is that they would 316 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,640 replenish. They would replenish, finish the 317 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,360 earth, which means to feel, to feel the earth. 318 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,160 Well, reproduction alone, is it going to do that? 319 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:17,600 Reproduction and migration helps that. 320 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,560 All right. Reproduction and migration helps 321 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,520 that. And so just the willingness 322 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,400 Shanar trying to prevent from being scattered. 323 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,880 And we read that quite plainly in those nine verses I read to 324 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:30,560 you. They were doing what they were 325 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,760 doing in part was because they didn't want this, this 326 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,760 scattering to take place in their lives. 327 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,560 And you even read that in the scripture. 328 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,360 I'm trying to see what particular verse that was that 329 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,520 someone finds it before I do. You can tell me it's in 330 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,240 scripture that they basically did this for the sake that they 331 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,000 didn't want to be scattered up on the whole earth. 332 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,040 I tell you what, this glasses stuff pause here. 333 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,040 I put in a storm door on my house last night that took four 334 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:05,480 hours and this on and off stuff about drove me Batty. 335 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,720 I'm still a little bit upset over verse #4 yes, yes, yes. 336 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,360 Who's taught me recent to heaven. 337 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,400 Lest is the word, lest we be scattered. 338 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,400 You're laughing about it, but your day's coming, Your day's 339 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,240 coming. Amen nonetheless. 340 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:25,840 And so lest they be scattered, and so God intended for there to 341 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,800 be a disbursement, God intended for there to be this 342 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,040 replenishing the multiplying the feeling of the whole earth. 343 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,480 And so when we start then to read through verses 3 and four, 344 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,400 look at this, you read this and and it's almost quite 345 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,920 disgusting, isn't it? Let us build us a city. 346 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:52,360 Let us make us a name, right? Verse #3 go to. 347 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,120 Let us make brick. And so there's this big emphasis 348 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:00,280 on us, us, us. And notice even what they are 349 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,160 doing concerning building this city and building this tower. 350 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:07,640 It's not for God, it's for themselves. 351 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,920 It's for themselves. Now think back for a moment, if 352 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:16,320 you will, the founder of Babel. Nimrod. 353 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,160 He's a mighty. Man or a mighty one, The word 354 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,840 mighty there is Gabor. All right. 355 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,720 It's the same Gabor. Just I said we gingerly get in 356 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,840 here the same Gabor that we see first used in Genesis chapter #6 357 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,080 where the Bible talks about that there was the daughters of men 358 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,920 and the sons of God that came together. 359 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,880 I don't know if you remember that. 360 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,520 It's a very peculiar chapter in Genesis. 361 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,680 And from their union there were some mighty ones. 362 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:52,400 Same word, Gabor. And remember, they were men. 363 00:20:52,480 --> 00:21:00,120 They were people of renown. They were people of renown. 364 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,520 I'll read it to you. Genesis 6 and verse #4 There 365 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,920 were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that 366 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,440 when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and 367 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,720 they bear children to them, the same became mighty men. 368 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:20,680 That's Gabor men which were of old, men of renown, or men of 369 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:26,960 name, or men of reputation. All right now we have Nimrod who 370 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,040 is a mighty, a Gabor man. Only second time this is used 371 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,680 yet in Scripture. So the only tie we have for is 372 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,360 what happened in chapter #6 we know everybody was, you know, 373 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:41,840 annihilated by the flood, except Noah and his family. 374 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,240 But do you know that there's spirits that existed before the 375 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,520 flood that still existed after the flood? 376 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:55,240 Spirits, huh? You, you, you can, you can 377 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,760 destroy the man, but what about the spirit of the man? 378 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,600 I'm just saying tonight it's interesting that the same word 379 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,320 mighty that described those that came from the union of the sons 380 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,480 of men or the sons of God and the daughters of men that 381 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,400 produced what some believe maybe was a giant racer. 382 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:23,360 Nonetheless, it is they were mighty ones or Gabor ones that 383 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:26,720 were people of the name, people of name, and people of 384 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,520 reputation that I'm just saying today I see it in most as though 385 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,080 the spirit that was up on that union, that was not a sanctified 386 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,480 union mind the way the spirit that was up on that union 387 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:47,480 transverses through the flood and lands on Nimrod because here 388 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:48,760 he is. Everything that's happened at 389 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:55,720 Babel is for reputation, for renown, for a name, for 390 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,880 themselves. For that matter. 391 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,760 Ladies and gentlemen, we talk about Nimrod, we talk about that 392 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,640 spirit and the spirit of Babylon. 393 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:08,320 The spirit of Babylon is still like today, and I'm probably 394 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,880 jumping way ahead of myself and all over, but that's OK. 395 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,320 But the spirit of Babylon is still like today, you say, well, 396 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,040 in dirt, a flood. It's in dirt a whole lot more 397 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,440 than a flood. OK, pause. 398 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:22,720 New flash. Erica, let's think. 399 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:28,160 Does this sound familiar? One nation, 1 government, one 400 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,560 religion. That's what we talk about in the 401 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,760 the Book of Revelation of a new world order, like bringing 402 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,600 everybody together. This oneness. 403 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,160 Doesn't that sound a whole lot familiar to Babel? 404 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,800 The Spirit of Babylon has not went anywhere. 405 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,600 The Spirit. Can I tell you the spirit of 406 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,800 Babylon? Sometimes it's trying to creep 407 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,240 into the church. Because you serve God. 408 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,320 I serve God. We all come under this same 409 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,680 umbrella. There's no difference. 410 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,920 It's the smelting part of the world. 411 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,080 Yes. And so there's something going 412 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,480 on then the Scripture is something Babylon's going to be 413 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,120 contended with from Genesis to Revelation, OK. 414 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,440 From Genesis to Revelation, the spirit of Babylon, the spirit of 415 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,640 its founder, Amen, Nimrod, all that is going to be dealt with, 416 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,880 Amen, from Genesis all the way to Revelation. 417 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,120 So I don't think it's unlikely that that spirit that was in the 418 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,920 unscented union in Genesis of the sons of God and the 419 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,760 daughters of men would produce something then, and they would 420 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,000 be called Gabor. And then that Nimrod be called 421 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,120 Gabor. They went through that spirit, 422 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,200 Amen, exists through the flood, Amen. 423 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:47,160 And so the Bible says that after this, that is in Genesis 6, 424 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:50,800 after those Gabor, those, those mighty ones, those people 425 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,160 renowned and reputation. It was after that that God then 426 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,200 finally calls out how man is just consistently wicked and 427 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,560 there's evil continually in his heart. 428 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,120 He, he already knows this, but he brings light to that very 429 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,800 fact, Amen. And it's all because of a people 430 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,320 back then, even people renowned that was more us centered, right 431 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:17,000 name, reputation centered than they were God centered. 432 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,760 And I'm not surprised then here in Genesis 11 that God shows up 433 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,920 to the, for the demise then of the the city and the tower of 434 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,520 Babel and what's taking place there. 435 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,600 Because we have enough other scriptural precedents through 436 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:38,920 God's Word, how that pride goeth before and a haughty spirit 437 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,400 before. And we have other premise that 438 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,120 even in the New Testament Scripture, in the Gospels, like 439 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,920 in the book of Matthew that the Bible talks about, whosoever 440 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,440 shall exalt himself shall be abased. 441 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,640 In other words, he's going to be brought down. 442 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,480 He's going to be brought low. Amen. 443 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,600 And so when we look at that, this next chapter, this chapter 444 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,800 chapter #11 that we're reading tonight, it begins to contrast 445 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,280 what happens whenever man tries to do for himself. 446 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,920 All right? It contrasts that because 447 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,360 whenever we go into the next chapter, then chapter #12 we're 448 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,760 going to see the contrast in Chapter 11. 449 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,160 This is what man tries to do for us. 450 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,240 Let us make brick look. Let us build. 451 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,760 Let us, let us, let us write. That's what we can do for 452 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,400 ourselves. But what can God do for you? 453 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,640 The contrast comes in chapter 12, because in chapter 12 then 454 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,640 we have the great patriarch, the father of the Jews, Abraham, 455 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,480 that comes on the scene. And God tells Abraham this. 456 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,560 He says, I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless 457 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:56,000 thee and make thy name great, Huh. 458 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,040 So in Chapter 11, it's let us make, let us make our name 459 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,360 great. Let us do it. 460 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:06,840 Let us do this to make us a name in chapter #12 a man that is 461 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,800 surrendered himself, that will have surrendered himself to God. 462 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,840 God says you don't have to worry about making your name great. 463 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,520 He says, you stick with me, I'll make your name great. 464 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,200 You don't have to worry about doing this on your own or trying 465 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,680 to connive this. No, no, He says, if you stay in 466 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,920 in subjection and under my authority, I'll make your name 467 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,440 great, right. And so it, it kind of contrasts 468 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,720 the two things. And so it's always, I think it's 469 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,680 good to know that here at Babel, they're, they're attempting to 470 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,200 make a city and a tower that's being built here. 471 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,880 And I'm putting these up before I smash them. 472 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,720 I might need them later. Amen. 473 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,760 There's this distinction made here in the building materials. 474 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,560 You can see there in verse #3 And I even asked myself when I 475 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,080 just read the scripture, because I read the scripture through 476 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,440 several times in several different versions before I ever 477 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,840 start doing anything. And whenever I read this, I 478 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,760 thought, why is there, why is there distinction here building 479 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:00,920 materials? Because it, it makes a 480 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,080 comparison here, right? They had brick for stone and 481 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:09,200 they had slime for mortar. It says, well, historically, 482 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,840 brick and slime were a Babylonian invention. 483 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,840 It was a Babylonian invention, as a matter of fact, usually 484 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,160 Israel. You've seen them using stone and 485 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,160 water. You even see them particularly 486 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,200 in the New Testament. This is true because Jesus gives 487 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,000 a response to one of his disciples as they're coming out 488 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,960 of the temple and he's kind of gesturing to the buildings that 489 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,040 are around about them in the Jerusalem area. 490 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,760 And we can read of it in Mark 13. 491 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,920 One the Bible says, and as he went out of the temple, that is 492 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Jesus, one of his disciples saved him. 493 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,920 Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are 494 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,040 here? And Jesus answering, said unto 495 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,200 him, See us thou these great buildings, there shall not be 496 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,760 left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. 497 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,240 That was, yes, a reference to the temple, but was a reference 498 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,320 to all of that area of Jerusalem. 499 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,960 They typically use stone and mortar, which was quite 500 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,360 different than the Babylonian age when they would use brick 501 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,000 and slime all right. For that matter, the time it 502 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,840 took to go and make bricks and extricate the slime, if you 503 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,120 will, from the earth was expensive for the Babylonians, 504 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,640 and so they weren't going to put that into any structure that 505 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,400 they didn't think warranted. In other words, it had to be 506 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,760 important to them in order for them to use that, which again, 507 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,320 kind of underscores what's happening here. 508 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,000 They thought this tower and this city was vitally important 509 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,160 enough that they're using some brick and they're using some 510 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,800 slime in order to do this. Not only that, I think of 511 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,080 another place where we had brick and where there were slime pits, 512 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,320 and that's an exodus when the children of Israel were in 513 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:59,920 bondage to Egypt and they were creating cities for Pharaoh. 514 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,040 His treasured cities, as they were called, Ramses and Python. 515 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,400 Python, his treasured cities were made from those materials 516 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,000 of brick. So when I look just even at 517 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,720 these two instances, brick and slime have negative negative 518 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,440 association, Babel, Egypt negative associations that's 519 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,320 taking place here. And so this is the tower that 520 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:28,040 the Bible says this is the tower that whose top verse war may 521 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,160 reach unto heaven. So this just isn't an ordinary 522 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,280 tower, is it, as we think of the word tower whose top reaching to 523 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,200 heaven? Now I read a scholar, his name 524 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,520 is John Walton, and John Walton says that throughout Mesopotamia 525 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,880 literature, almost every occurrence of the expression 526 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:55,560 describing a building with its head in the heavens refers to a 527 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,320 temple with a ziggurt. Does anybody know what a ziggurt 528 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,280 is? Raise your hand. 529 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,200 I got one person knows what a ziggurt is. 530 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,080 A ziggurt is basically like a pyramid, all right, but the 531 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,320 sides of it kind of go up into steps. 532 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,760 On each side it kind of goes up into steps. 533 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:21,560 And not only that, but also at the very top, many of these had 534 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:28,880 a little temple or a little housing of sorts for a God or a 535 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,200 deity. The cigarettes were typically 536 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:38,200 dedicated to some deity or some little God type of God. 537 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:45,520 And so since their top was above the rest of this cigarette, the 538 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,000 understanding is I'm going to build this, this tower whose top 539 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,040 reaches the heavens or reaches the place of the gods, all 540 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,840 right, because that's where their little temple and such 541 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,440 would be on the very top. These things were very important 542 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,440 to Babylon, the Babylonian Empire for that matter, these 543 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,520 little cigarettes or these little step things. 544 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,160 And they always gave them names, these little cigarettes names. 545 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,480 And whenever I looked in history here, many if not most of their 546 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,800 names include phrases like this. The meaning of their name 547 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,760 included phrases like this, lynx, heaven and earth, the 548 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,680 stairway to pure heaven. In other words, they were 549 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,800 thought by the people that day as a means of conveyance, almost 550 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,440 like a ladder or a staircase for the gods. 551 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,000 And what they really desired was that their gods would come down, 552 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,240 right? I want my God to come down. 553 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,480 Not only that thing. Now here for a moment. 554 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,760 We live in a time we're talking about idolatry, idols, wood, 555 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,200 stone, things of that that people made and they wanted. 556 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,320 This was common. This is common concept of Pagan 557 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,480 religions. They wanted their God to come 558 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,800 down and they would either cause some type of opening in the back 559 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,280 of the idol they made, or they open its nostrils or its mouth. 560 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,600 And they wanted the spirit of their God to inhabit their idol 561 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,720 so that whenever they worship, you know, they have this 562 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,080 interaction, quote UN quote, with their God because by their 563 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,240 hands, they have made this representation, this idol of 564 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,080 what they think their God is. And they wanted their God to 565 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,720 inhabit what they've made with their hands. 566 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,240 So they could have communication with their God. 567 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,800 They could interact with their God. 568 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,160 Folks, there's a lot of this that that that really can be 569 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,440 compared or contrasted with our true God. 570 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,000 But the fact of the matter is this, we didn't have to make a 571 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:57,320 staircase for him to come down. Nobody had to make an image of 572 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,800 wood or stone for him to end the well. 573 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:08,239 But Luke says the spirit of the Lord overshadowed Mary and said 574 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,880 that thing which is conceived in you is of the Holy Ghost. 575 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,960 You're going to have a son who Philippians said was in the form 576 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,320 of a servant, and after the likeness of men. 577 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:27,080 And I just preached on Sunday morning that God indwelt God in 578 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,159 to whelp that body. This isn't an image I made. 579 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,679 This is the image God made. Hey man, I didn't make an image 580 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,360 for him to come down inside of. He made his own image for him to 581 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,320 come inside of. Woo man, I feel the Holy Ghost 582 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,040 in that and and I said on Sunday morning, that's the reason why 583 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,040 we see there is no qualms or difficulty in people falling 584 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,679 down and worship in Jesus because those people recognize 585 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:54,960 the God that end dwelt that Jesus, that creator, the God of 586 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,960 the universe, the God of Israel. But folks, all these other 587 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,040 people, Paul even said it. He said there's Lords many and 588 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,120 gods of many. He said there's in another 589 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,240 words, all of that is just Hosh posh. 590 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,600 All of that is just a bunch of hogwash. 591 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,960 There's no such thing as really another God. 592 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,800 God. There's no such thing really as 593 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,800 another Lord. There's only one Lord. 594 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,640 There's only one God, and he represented himself in Christ 595 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,800 Jesus. And Jesus wasn't man made, He 596 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,520 was God made. Amen. 597 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,840 God didn't make a tower so he could come down. 598 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,520 That's the thing. Oh, we're going to make a tower 599 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:37,200 so God can come down to us. No, God came down to us so that 600 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,280 we could go up to Him. Amen. 601 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,000 Something else touches on in Scripture that our minds might 602 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,840 start clicking off a little bit. When we read Genesis Chapter 11, 603 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:56,720 you remember another patriarch, Abraham Isaac, Jacob. 604 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,360 He's in a place and he's laid down for the night and used some 605 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:09,640 stones for a pillow, and he has a dream of a ladder or a 606 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:15,720 stairway if you will, that's connected between heaven and 607 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:20,560 earth. And there's angels ascending and 608 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,840 descending. Genesis 2812 the Bible says And 609 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,600 he Speaking of Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the 610 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,000 earth and the top of it. Notice the wording and the top 611 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,800 of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God 612 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:43,120 ascending and descending on it. That that that that's me gets me 613 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,160 start to think because if this this ziggurat or this thing that 614 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,200 they're making in babbles to be a staircase for their God to 615 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,640 come down. Jacob's having a vision, a 616 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,600 vision, mind you, a dream of his God. 617 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,200 He says there's a ladder there. It's top reaching to heaven and 618 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,440 we've oftimes said it. There is already his spirit and 619 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,280 and his spiritual beings doing things. 620 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:04,960 They don't have to come down. They're already down. 621 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,480 The scripture mentions first they ace in before they descend. 622 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:13,240 So they're already here. They're already here. 623 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,960 As a matter of fact in the Acadian language Babble meant 624 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:21,560 this the gate of the gods, the gate of the gods or the gate of 625 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,400 heaven. The reason why this is special 626 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,200 to us especially for Jacob's story as when he awakes out of 627 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,920 his dream and vision, he says something to the effect of this 628 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,160 is a dreadful place. He says but I wish not that the 629 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,880 Spirit of God was here and what he says is this. 630 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,640 Then in verse 17 he said this is none other but the House of God. 631 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:51,280 This is the gate, this is the gate, This is the gate of 632 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,440 heaven. Can I tell you then tonight 633 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,240 this, that the gate of heaven, as the Babylonians would have 634 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,840 seen it would have been the pinnacle of their ziggurat that 635 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,360 they have constructed, right? That would been their date of 636 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,560 heaven. Can I tell you that the gate of 637 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,480 heaven is not the top of what man can do? 638 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:17,920 The gate of heaven is where God shows up, the God where the God 639 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,120 shows up. And the apostle Paul was 640 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,480 basically saying the same thing to the Roman believers in the 641 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,040 book of Romans chapter 10 and verse #6 he's basically saying 642 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,880 the same thing. Look at the Scripture very 643 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,000 clearly here and it's up there he said, but the righteousness 644 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,200 which is of faith speaketh on this wise. 645 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,760 This is how the righteousness that is of faith speaks. 646 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,600 It says it's what righteousness says. 647 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:49,800 Say not, I say, say not, say not in thy heart who shall ascend 648 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,400 into the head into heaven, That is to being Christ down from 649 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,320 above. He said the righteousness of 650 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,440 faith is not thinking what can we do? 651 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,880 How can we get Christ? How can we get God down to us? 652 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:05,480 So that's not how the righteous thing, that's how the 653 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,240 unrighteous thing, how can we get our gods down to us? 654 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,440 He said, but the righteous say not how who's going to ascend to 655 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,880 the heaven to to to into heaven? That is to bring Christ down 656 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,840 from above, because we don't have to build something to bring 657 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,640 him down. He came down by his own 658 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:29,480 volition. So they're doing this just 659 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,200 taught me reach the heaven. And this is the comical side, in 660 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,600 my opinion, is when we get to verse 5, because if they were 661 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,480 doing this to reach heaven or have that pinnacle up there, and 662 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,120 I believe it's more figurative than literal, but nonetheless, 663 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,760 to try to reach heaven, to try to reach the gods, if you will, 664 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,400 of heaven. Verse 5 tells us plainly so that 665 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,240 we can relate to what's going on. 666 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,800 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, if you 667 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:07,680 were trying to reach there. He still had to come down even 668 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,400 to the furthest distance that you attempted to reach. 669 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,440 That means there's nothing that man can do where God's not going 670 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,720 to have to still come down and meet him where he's at. 671 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,680 He's still going to have to in terms come down. 672 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,480 And that for sure means, Sister Jessica, this I can't reach him 673 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:38,400 on my own. There's not enough good deeds I 674 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,240 can do to reach him. Huh. 675 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,880 No, no, no, no. I love him, John said. 676 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:53,360 Because he loved me first. If I ever Amen, get a handle on 677 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,440 him, it's because he first got a handle on me, right? 678 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,360 He paved the way with his blood. He paved the way, Amen with his 679 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200 grace. And so I, I can't reach him on 680 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,880 my home, his, his dissension through Bethlehem's Manger and 681 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,280 through everything that happened at Calvary, all of that that 682 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:17,040 made him reachable to me, that made him accessible to me. 683 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,200 And so it's interesting then though, now that the turning 684 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,320 point of what's happening at Babylon chapter #11 the turning 685 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,960 point of what's happening there is whenever the Lord came down, 686 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,520 things start to turn there. There is the scattering. 687 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,480 And, and rather than everybody just trying to do well there, 688 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,880 there the, the language that was one. 689 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,000 Now it is varied. And, and the people are going 690 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,480 off from there and they leave off building this city. 691 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,520 The Bible says they leave off building the city. 692 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,280 So the turning point for what was taking place at Babel all 693 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,680 changed whenever the Lord came down. 694 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,560 And the Lord reason I say that because the same thing happens 695 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,520 for you and I, the turning point for humanity, for that matter, 696 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:06,960 happens whenever he came down. The the trajectory that humanity 697 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,840 was on is altered by whenever he came down. 698 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,680 And so the Lord, though he, he's, he's, he notes some 699 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,120 things. He's, he's for sure not 700 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,160 ignorant, but he notes some things like in verse #6 he notes 701 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,680 all of this oneness that's going on at the Tower of Babel, right? 702 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,040 The one language, the one speech, the work is 1, the, the 703 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,240 US, us, us stuff that's being said. 704 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,440 And he no doubt underscores right here a principle 705 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,160 concerning unity, that unity is a very powerful force to be 706 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,240 reckoned with. Now it's all about what you're 707 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:46,160 unified over. Unity is a powerful force 708 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,760 nonetheless. But what are you coming in unity 709 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,680 about? Well, for sure, in Chapter 11, 710 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,400 it's not for something good. But if you could take the same 711 00:42:53,400 --> 00:43:00,760 principle of unity, huh? Like Psalms 133, how good and 712 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,360 how pleasant it is for brethren to do well together in unity. 713 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,840 It's like the oil that was up on Aaron's head, that rented out 714 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,400 his beard even to the skirts of his garment, even like the dew 715 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,440 that was up on Herman. And was this if if we can just 716 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,840 somehow hone and grab a hold and capture that unity, but use it 717 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,560 to the right thing. And he even seems to know that 718 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:27,160 the heart of their unity was their language, right? 719 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:32,720 Their ability, their language. And he seems to convey here that 720 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,080 what was happening here was the start of Babel. 721 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,120 And if something had not happened, there was no end to 722 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,480 it. There was going to be more 723 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,160 involved. He said. 724 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,680 If they if they were not restrained from this, they could 725 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,560 even whatever they imagined to do, that they would be able to 726 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,520 purpose that and do that and accomplish that because of this 727 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:55,400 unification that they had. And so he comes down, he 728 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,880 confuses their their language, he confounds their tongue. 729 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:04,920 And so now as a result, you know, I mean, just imagine, you 730 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,880 know, if you just in America, you're setting, sometimes you're 731 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:13,320 just unilingual. You're unilingual. 732 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,920 You don't know other language. And you hear people talking and 733 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,520 you're sitting there and you're wondering, I wonder what they're 734 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,200 saying, right? Some of y'all have a hard time 735 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,760 because they're laughing. You think I wonder what they're 736 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,720 saying about me and their language, right? 737 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,520 Oh, you know what, Reese, don't you tell me now. 738 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,200 But it's hard to communicate, right, without speaking the same 739 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,640 languages. So the construction project 740 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,280 course here, you know, leaves off because the communication 741 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,920 then cannot be there. The language was divided. 742 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,720 And as a matter of fact, the linguists of many linguists go 743 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:45,640 and tell us, and I think we looked at this in our last 744 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,360 chapter, that many linguists trace all the languages, the 745 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,440 world back to a dominant prominent language that they all 746 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,360 speared from, which gives support then for Genesis chapter 747 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,480 number. Genesis chapter #11. 748 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:04,280 Now the weird thing about all this, this idea of the gods in 749 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,680 one language and no disbursement just stay right here. 750 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,840 And my wife brought this up a few weeks ago and I've said this 751 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,440 before but she forgot I guess. But none the less, really what 752 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,480 we see though then when we get in the book of Acts chapter #2 753 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,640 is almost like a reversal of Babel. 754 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,080 Because on the day of Pentecost, A feast has happened here where 755 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,960 it was mandatory to Old Testament law and Leviticus that 756 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,800 men for sure are going to be at this feast. 757 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,800 And the population of Jerusalem. I, I would have to look back up 758 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,120 the number, but it many, many, many times over has flooded in. 759 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,920 In case you know, of everybody coming in for this feast of 760 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,320 Pentecost and they're all there. And the Bible then talks about 761 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,200 suddenly there came a sound from heaven. 762 00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:01,040 You start reading in or Acts chapter #2 and and let me just 763 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,600 go there because I don't want to. 764 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,880 I don't want to you to miss this. 765 00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:10,080 The Bible, if you go to Acts chapter #2 and you start reading 766 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,680 about the different people, there's Parthians verse #9 767 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,600 there's Parthians and Meads and Elamites and dwellers and 768 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,880 Mesopotamia and Judea and Cappadocia and Pontus and Asia 769 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,520 and Fieger and Pamphylia and Egypt and parts of Libya about 770 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,560 Cyrene and strangers of Rome, Jews, proselytes, Cretes and 771 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,720 Arabians. There's all these different 772 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:32,160 types of people there. But when those hundreds one in 773 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,160 the upper room and they're peered into them cloven, which 774 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:40,080 means divided cloven tongues like as a fire, and they all 775 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,760 begin to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them the 776 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,280 utterance. And there's all these different 777 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,680 nations that's hearing their tongue. 778 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,800 But what's happening is these other tongues, which is the 779 00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:00,080 language of heaven, the language of God. 780 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:05,120 Now some are are bewildered by what's happening here because 781 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,200 they hear in their own language. The Bible says people speaking 782 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:14,080 about the wonderful works of God, the wonderful works of God. 783 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:19,360 And so whenever you start talking about then US receiving 784 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:25,000 a one language again, whether you're Japanese, Chinese, 785 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:31,840 Spanish, English, German, whoever you are on this globe, 786 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,240 if you receive the Spirit of God according to Acts 2, as the 787 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,280 Spirit gives the utterance you speak a another tongue or 788 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,240 language. Corinthians tells us it's the 789 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:46,880 tongues of men and of angels, right? 790 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,120 But whenever you speak that other language and you're born 791 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,200 into the family of God and you couple that then with your 792 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,440 baptism, look at the lines starting to disappear. 793 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,600 Because whenever this happens, Paul said there's neither Jew 794 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,200 nor Greek, there's neither bond nor free, There's neither male 795 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,600 nor female. What's going on? 796 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:09,120 There's the one that's happening. 797 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,720 And not only that, on the day of Pentecost, they were all 798 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:18,200 gathered together in one mind. It's a reversal of such a 799 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,200 Babble, right? It's a reversal of such a 800 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,360 Babble. But, and in that moment, if we'd 801 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,360 say like this hard, God came down. 802 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:35,120 Until Pentecost, He had never inhabited a human individual. 803 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,480 But on the day of Pentecost, without us making a staircase, 804 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,960 unless you want to call it prayer, but without making a 805 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,240 staircase, without a cigarette, He came down. 806 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,320 And where there was a dispersing and diversing of languages, now 807 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,120 He brings it to the language of his language and brings it 808 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,000 brings a unity to the people. And what happens now they're 809 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,160 going forth and they're preaching the gospel and it's 810 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,160 having an impact on the entire world. 811 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,760 He's really satisfying. Everything there is set to be 812 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:10,440 satisfied all by himself. And so in Genesis 11, the very 813 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,920 thing that they were trying to avoid the Lord comes down and 814 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,240 causes they're trying to avoid being scattered. 815 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:19,760 He scatters them and the building of the city stops. 816 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,920 It's an incomplete place. And so there's really confusion 817 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,680 on a couple of levels here. Yes, there's the confusion of 818 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,760 the language, but there's also the confusion that's brought 819 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,960 about with Nimrod being the founder and the builder of this 820 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,080 and the rebellion against God with this. 821 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,200 Because up to this point, let's think about it in Genesis just 822 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:40,960 for a moment. I'm already read, so we need to 823 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,440 hurry. That's all right. 824 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,480 I put later in here. There's some other stuff I said 825 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,640 extra if I have time. So we're not going to have time. 826 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,400 So you'll never know because I'm not, I'm not even going to tie 827 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,000 it over to next week. You'll never know. 828 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,120 It'll be a mystery up to this time. 829 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:02,560 Adam and Eve moved away from God, the presence of God, all 830 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,640 right before the flood. People's doing wicked evil 831 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:10,200 continually, right? All of this is happening. 832 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,920 But now at Babel, there's a little scenario going on here 833 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,960 because listen folks, it's really one thing to sin against 834 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,600 God and disobey God, and then it's another thing just to 835 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:28,000 discount and disregard God. I mean, there's people that 836 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,800 leave the church sometime they sin and they disobey, but they 837 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,520 still don't, they still don't disengage from the truth that 838 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,120 he's one God and that you understand what I'm saying. 839 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,120 So there's a difference whenever you step in. 840 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,320 And so there's a stepping of that line here at Babel. 841 00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,480 It's not just sinning and disobeying. 842 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:50,560 It's disregarding him as God, right? 843 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,740 Thinking about another, which whatever that means, quote UN 844 00:50:54,740 --> 00:50:57,240 quote another. And so whenever they switch and 845 00:50:57,240 --> 00:50:59,760 they turn to these gods, you got to understand what are they 846 00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,760 pagans thought about their gods. They seen their gods as having 847 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,000 needs. They needed to pamper their 848 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,840 gods. You see in scripture, we looked 849 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,600 at it in Genesis already thus far, they need to feed their 850 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,280 gods. They, they, they needed to house 851 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,000 their gods, their idols. They carried their gods, all 852 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,840 these things. Which contrasts our God because 853 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,720 he's the creator. He feeds us. 854 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,080 He clothes us. Huh. 855 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,920 Did not even tell in the beginning, you know, talking 856 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,680 about hey, don't, don't, don't take no thought about what you 857 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,640 wear. Take no thought about why? 858 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,560 Because you're not the lilies of the field. 859 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,120 They neither told nor speak. I take care of them, right? 860 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,200 God would take care of them. God would clothe them. 861 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,640 God would house them in one place In Isaiah, God says I'll 862 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,960 carry you. And he contrasts the fact that 863 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,360 everybody's carrying their idols. 864 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,200 He said, but your God's going to carry you. 865 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,800 Now I'd much rather have a God that carried me than had to be 866 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,480 carried. And so there's this whole, 867 00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:59,040 there's this whole confusion on that level of, of what God 868 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,120 really was from the very beginning. 869 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,280 Our God doesn't have any deeds. He he tells us. 870 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,720 He said the beast in Psalms in Psalms. 871 00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:08,400 He said the beasts of the field are mine. 872 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,960 He said. He said the wild beasts of of 873 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,680 the country are mine. He said. 874 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,640 He went on to say he said the world is mine. 875 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,000 He said if I was hungry, I would not tell you. 876 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:19,480 He said I know you bring your sacrifices of.