Tower of Babel

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Tower of Babel
Contrary to God's plan of natural and gradual
occupation of all the earth, the descendants of
Noah determined to settle down and make a name
for themselves. They decided they did not need
the God of Noah but a permanent headquarters with
a great tower that would reach the heavens.
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Genesis 111,2 And the whole earth was of one
language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to
pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar and they
dwelt there.
  The earliest known inhabitants of Mesopotamia
were the Sumerians, whom the Bible refers to as
the people of the "land of Shinar" (Gen 1010).
Sargon, from one of the Sumerian cities, united
the people of Babylonia under his rule about 2300
B.C.. Many scholars believe that Sargon might
have been the same person as Nimrod (Gen 108).
Babylonia was situated in the area known as
Mesopotamia (Greek for "between the rivers").
Mesopotamia was in the Near East in roughly the
same geographical position as modern Iraq. Two
great rivers flowed through this land the Tigris
and the Euphrates. Along these two rivers were
many great trading cities such as Ur and Babylon
on the Euphrates. Shinar was the name given, in
the earliest hebrew records, to Babylonia, or the
land of Babel, later called Chaldea by the
Greeks. This is the same land Daniel was taken
captive to later and today would be modern Iraq
around the Euphrates river. This is the same land
that will be part of Antichrists empire before
the rapture and Christs visible return to defeat
Antichrist.
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Gen 113,4 And they said one to another, Go to,
let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us
a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
"Let us, let us, let us sounded just like the
echo of Lucifer's " I will, I will, I will,"
recorded in Isaiah 1412-16
Isaiah 1412 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut
down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God I will sit also upon the
mount fifth of the congregation, in the sides of
the north  
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Genesis 108-11 8 And Cush begat Nimrod he
began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was
a mighty hunter before the LORD wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the
LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the
land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land went forth
Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city
Rehoboth, and Calah,
In Genesis 1010, Shinar is the district where
in lay Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh, cities
which made up the nucleus of Nimrods Kingdom. In
Genesis 10 (sometimes called "the table of the
nations"), we find a brief record of the above
mentioned Nimrod and the beginning of his
kingdom. We read that Nimrod was the mighty
hunter of men, that is, he was a great conqueror
expanding his kingdom wherever he went. Early
writers say he was the first one to wear a crown.
Following is a transcript of part of Ray C.
Stedman (http//ldolphin.org/) on his documentary
on Genesis 10 which is very informative. He
writes
The four sons of Ham are relatively easy to
trace in history.
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Cush is associated with the peoples of Southern
Arabia and Ethiopia. Ethiopians still trace their
ancestry back to Cush. Egypt (or Mizraim, in
Hebrew-an ancient name for Egypt) became the
father of the Egyptian Empire, settling in the
Nile Valley. Put is associated with Lydia, on the
west of Egypt in North Africa. Canaan centered
largely in and around Palestine, though the
Canaanites later became much more widespread. The
account zooms in on an individual named Nimrod,
who is called a great hunter. He is a rather
mysterious figure of great importance in ancient
history. He is the founder of both Babylon and
Nineveh, the two great cities of antiquity which
became, ultimately, enemies of Israel. The
prominent thing that is said about him here is
that he was a mighty man, a mighty hunter before
the Lord. Now, it was the work of kings in those
ancient days to be hunters. This was a time when
civilization was sparse and wild animals were a
constant threat to the people. Kings, having
nothing much else to do, organized hunting
parties and acted as the protectors of their
people by killing wild animals. Nimrod evidently
gained a great reputation as such a hunter, but
he was more than a hunter of wild animals. The
Jewish Talmud helps us here, for it says that he
was "a hunter of the souls of men." By the
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founding of Babylon and Nineveh we have a hint
given of the nature of this man. We are told here
that he was "the first mighty man on earth,"
i.e., after the flood. That phrase, "mighty man,"
takes us back to Genesis 6 where, in that strange
story of the invasion of the "sons of God" into
the human race, there resulted a race of giants
called Nephilim. We are told that "these were
the mighty men that were of old, the men of
renown." This demonic invasion of the race, with
sexual overtones, brought into being a race of
giants that were morally degraded. These also
appear later on in the Canaanite tribes. We have
found this suggestive line of thought running
through the Scriptural account up to this point.
Nimrod apparently was one of these "mighty men,"
and therefore introduced a perverted, degraded
form of religion into the world. It began at
Babylon, spread to Nineveh, and can be traced in
history as it subsequently spread throughout the
whole of the earth. Thus, in this man Nimrod, we
have the seed of idolatry and false religion
coming in again after the flood. If you drop the
first consonant of Nimrod's name and take the
others M, R, D you will have the basic root of
the god of Babylon, whose name was Marduk, and
whom most scholars identify with Nimrod. In the
Babylonian religion,
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Nimrod (or Marduk) held a unique place. His wife
was Semiramis. (In Cairo, Egypt, the Semiramis
Hotel is named after this woman.) Marduk and
Semiramis were the ancient god and goddess of
Babylon. They had a son whom Semiramis claimed
was virgin-born, and they founded the mother and
child cult. This was the central character of the
religion of ancient Babylon, the worship of a
mother and child, supposedly virgin-born. You can
see in this a clever attempt on the part of Satan
to anticipate the genuine virgin birth and thus
to cast disrepute upon the story when the Lord
Jesus would later be born into history. At
the tower of Babel God confounded their languages
and they spread out across the land taking with
them their false idolatry and religion. There was
not a nation that was not corrupted. The final
evolution of this great city of Babylon will be
under Antichrist before it is destroyed as part
of Christs return. Babylon in her long history
will have certainly lived up to its name as the
city that gave birth to all the false idolatries
and religions that have spread throughout the
whole world against the true God. Rev 175 says
of Babylon
Rev 175 And upon her forehead was a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS
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AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
With all the nations corrupted by Nimrod's
Babylonian religion, God looked throughout the
earth for someone he could raise up and be the
father of a Godly nation. That man was Abram
whose name God changed to Abraham. Between time
of flood till Abram the Bible gives us this
genealogy.

Genesis 1110 These are the generations of Shem
Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad
two years after the flood11 And Shem lived after
he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five
and thirty years, and begat Salah13 And Arphaxad
lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah
lived thirty years, and begat Eber 15 And Salah
lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters. 16 And Eber
lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg
It was in the days of Peleg that God
confounded the languages and they left of from
building the tower of Babel and separated by
language. This is confirmed in Genesis 1025.
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Genesis 1025 And unto Eber were born two sons
the name of one was Peleg for in his days was
the earth divided and his brother's name was
Joktan.
Genesis 11 continued
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four
hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and
daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and
begat Reu 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu
two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and
daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years,
and begat Serug 21 And Reu lived after he begat
Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years,
and begat Nahor 23 And Serug lived after he
begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty
years, and begat Terah 25 And Nahor lived after
he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and
begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived
seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.