Genesis - Part 24 | Pastor Paul McGee

Please, Hallelujah. Sometimes it's just good to

acknowledge Him. Amen.

Acknowledge what you're feeling, acknowledge what you're

experiencing. Hallelujah, Amen.

Bless the Lord my soul today. You can be seated here tonight

if you desire. Thank the Lord.

Just a few things here. Amen.

This evening, again, World's missions conferences this coming

weekend, Friday and Saturday, Have a church van going on

Friday night if a tornado doesn't take us first.

And so it's going on Friday night.

The van will be leaving at 4:15. All right, this coming Friday.

So that's in Bloomington, IN, and there's a sign up sheet in

the foyer if you have a desire to go and be a part of that.

The 16th of this month is March Madness.

It's Selection Sunday, and so we'll have brackets and stuff

ready for you to fill out and have back into us that night,

Sunday night as things begin. The trophy is tucked carefully

away behind thick glass, you know, so that whoever's name

will be on their next, we'll be able to celebrate when that time

comes. We'll bring it out here soon so

that we can remember what it looks like.

All right. Also, the 22nd of this month is

a Section 5 rally in Medora, and that's at 4:00 PM Eastern

Standard Time speakers supposed to be Pastor David Scott.

And the 28th and 29th of this month, which is a Friday and

Saturday, is the Princess Within conference at Rockville, IN.

And there's a lot of wheels and stuff turning.

As a matter of fact, my wife needs to have a meeting tonight

with those whom are going who's concerned that over in the youth

room and to share some information and so on and so

forth. And then the 5th Sunday of this

month will be a Pastor McDonald coming through on that Sunday

morning because they're actually coming to prison from Nebraska.

And so we're just going to allow them one more day before they

have to turn around and go right back.

And he'll just take care of our Sunday morning as we have one

service there as well. Also Brother Mason make mention

of it in our absence whenever we were gone that April, the 6th,

which is a Sunday in the AM will be an Ignite Sunday.

And what that basically means is we're going to kind of give and

share some information concerning the Ignite youth and

our our goal, our go for that time.

And this isn't all the money that it takes in a year for

Ignite, but our goal for that time is if we can raise $4000 on

that Sunday morning, that's really only half of what Ignite

takes to run for this coming year or this year that we're in.

And that's the, and that's the reason why I say that is because

that's the, the people that are involved in that presently.

That's their, you know, rooms and food being taken care of

whenever they go to like NYC and, and WYC and then the other

things that happened throughout the year.

And so we, I'm saying all that now so we can start planning

right? Get our mind.

And with that being said, this this is hoping so that in lieu

we won't have a bunch of fundraisers this year for them.

So you can just go home and you can look at maybe how much money

you contributed through fundraisers last year, whether

you bought a pizza or bought a cake pop or you did stuff for a

car wash or so and so forth. Start just adding that up.

And if you can just contribute that everybody wins you, you,

you don't have to worry about it anymore.

They don't have to worry about it anymore.

And so I'd really like to move to that space if we could do you

say over to McGee That's high and loft.

I think we can do it, Glory, Amen.

I think we can do it. But it's going to be a time on

that Sunday morning kind of education because people that

have no students involved, I think sometimes we're detached

about from really how much money it takes just to operate the

Ignite, going to those conferences and so on and so

forth, even in and of themselves.

And that's really a great privilege that's extended from

the First Apostolic Church. For those who go because, and

you've heard me say this before, but I'll beat the dead horse.

That is not the case everywhere of other churches that your room

and food and all of that's taken care of, all right?

And so that's a great privilege, Amen.

That's extended Genesis chapter #11 if you'll stay with me

tonight. Genesis, you heard me.

Now, we have not been formally in Genesis like we are right

now, tonight. Now, we've touched it here and

there. We have not been in Genesis

since last May, all right? We've not been in Genesis since

last May. And so the struggle best with

that is this. You forgot everything I already

told you about the 1st 10 chapters.

So I'm going to review the first thing that I know.

I'm not, I'm not reviewing. That's what Pat podcast and, and

YouTube and all those other things are for.

We're not going to review all those, but we are going to land

here in a, what might be more so of a familiar story to some.

It's, it's one that we even, you know, talk about to our children

in Sunday school classes, or at least they did whenever I was a

kid in Sunday school. Maybe they don't talk about it

anymore, but Genesis chapter #11 verse, starting with verse #1

the Bible says the whole earth, the whole earth.

And before I get started, Kevin, it's good to see you tonight.

Yeah, I just started reading my Bible and just thought about

you. I mean, it's just powerful.

But it's good to see you tonight.

It really is. Amen.

And the whole earth verse #1 The whole earth was of one language

and of one speech. It came to pass as they

journeyed from the east, that they found a plane in the land,

a shinar, and they dewelt there. And they said to one another, Go

to let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.

And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

And they said, Go to Let us build us a city and a tower

whose taught may reach into heaven, and let us make us a

name, lest we be scattered abroad up on the face of the

hill earth. The Lord came down to see the

city and the tower which the children and men builded it.

The Lord said, Behold, the people was one, and they have

all one language, And this they begin to do now nothing will be

restrained from them which they have imagined to do.

Go to let us go down. And they're confound their

language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face

of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord

did there confound the language of all the earth.

And from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the

face of the earth. Amen.

So a little while, and I'm hoping to gingerly lead you back

in into the book of Genesis here, but just for a little

while tonight, want to talk about this.

The tower that couldn't reach heaven, All right, The tower

that couldn't reach heaven. All right, God, we come to you

tonight. We're thankful again for this

opportunity, God, it is a privilege.

We're thankful, Lord, for the spirit of the Holy Ghost, Lord,

that we have felt, Lord, already in this place.

I pray God, just continue Lord, through your word.

It's already anointed. It's an anointed word, your

spirit, it's life. I pray God, and it's relevant,

God, for us today. We honor you Jesus, with praise

and honor in Jesus name we pray, Amen.

The church say, Amen, and then you may be seated.

Might I say it's good to see everybody that's in the House of

Lords here on a Wednesday night, Amen.

After connect groups and stuff to be back here on a Sunday

night Bible study of this type of format.

It's good to see everybody that is back, Amen.

So I'm just going to chalk it up that no one forgot that we were

going back to Wednesday about today and you're really here,

you're here, Amen, because of that.

So the last thing that we studied when we left off about a

little less than a year ago was in chapter 10.

Many of you will remember it. It's probably still giving you

nightmares. And that is the table of nations

and a long genealogy that was in chapter #10 the table of nations

that were there that followed the three lines of Noah's sons

of Japheth, Ham, and Shem. You'll remember those things

kind of took place there in chapter #10 and if you remember

anything which which you may I'm not going to you know hit below

the belt here. You may remember some things,

but genealogies and scripture sometimes are just good

connector lines for us right genealogy.

Sometimes their their purpose is to connect an event with another

event or person with another person and God many times uses

them purposefully. He may not list every name

that's in the genealogy. He constructs it just the way he

wants to, to serve its ultimate purpose.

And so genealogy, sometimes they act as, as transitional spaces,

if you will, transitional elements to get us to where God

wants us to go and what He wants us to learn and be.

And so when we look at the table of nations in chapter #10 it

really connects us from the flood that took place because

that's no one his son's day to now where we are here in Chapter

11, the tower, the tower of, of, of Babel.

And in actuality, there's a little bit of a overlay because

as we read chapter 10, we read Chapter 11, these two, these

events that genealogy and those that are listening, that

genealogy in the Tower of Babel, there's really kind of a overlay

of the episode. The reason why I say that

because it's in the tower of Babble that we read that there's

going to be the scattering of the people.

There's going to be the the diversifying of the language.

And yet when we read in chapter #10 all of these nations, there

are some things that evidence to us that evidently the Tower of

Babel happened during this time frame of the genealogy of

chapter #10. What I mean is this.

In chapter #10 we talked about the sons of Ham and the sons of

Shem. And this is what it said about

Ham sons and Shem sons. It said in verse 20 and verse 31

of chapter 10, after Speaking of their genealogy, that they were

mentioned after their families, after their tongues.

It speaks. So it's less, though there's

already a, a diversifying of the language in chapter #10 alright,

so there's this overlay. And so when we understand this,

because when Chapter 11 begins that I read to you tonight, it

says that the earth was of one language and of one speech.

All right. But over here then intended.

So there's a overlay. There's a coinciding of these

two things that that are happening.

Also, that means that Chapter 11 doesn't just seamlessly

chronologically follow chapter #10 that there is that overlap

again, if you'll remember, but I'll take you there.

In Genesis 10, verse 25, it talks about one of the

Genesis 10:25

descendants of Shem whose name was Peleg, and it says in his

days was the earth divided? The the, the, the word earth.

One of the definitions of that word in this particular

Scripture is the people of the land, that in his days the

people of the land were divided. That's what we see happening in

chapter #11 with the Tower of Babel.

We have nations and people being divided.

And for that matter, the last verse of chapter #10 of Genesis

states that by these meaning the families of the sons of Noah

were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

So there is a correspondence them between 10:00 and 11:00

that there's this, the scattering of the nations that

happened. There's a dividing of tongues, a

dividing of people. And Chapter 11 is a continuance

stand of some of the things that's happening that we see in

the genealogy. It starts with that word and

that connector that connects us. And it's a continuation of

thought. And so when we get in here just

a little further, there are some discrepancies.

There are some discrepancies among the translations about

whether these families of the sons of Noah, whether they

journeyed it from the East or whether they journey to the

East. You see it in verse #2 it says

that it came to pass as they journeyed it from the East.

Looked at 57 different translations on this.

And as I looked at it, there's different ones that say they

came from the east. There's others that say they are

going to the East, right? As a matter of fact, the

majority talk about them coming from the east and, and the

minority says that they were going to the East.

Nonetheless, whether they were coming or going from the east,

there's some type of eastward direction that's involved.

And the reason why that's interesting for us or maybe

important for us is you'll remember back at the very

beginning the Garden of Eden, when when man and woman there,

the transgression in the garden, the Bible speaks that they were

set outside of the garden. They were set outside the east

to the east of the Garden of Eden, right?

It's a eastward movement. And yet whenever you read about

Cain, who was the one that killed his brother Abel, and the

Bible talks about that, he left the presence of God and he went

to dwell in the land called Nod. That was a place that was again,

denoted in Scripture in chapter #4 of being east of Eden.

And so presently here it's describing people that are

either in the eastward direction or traveling further the

eastward direction. So there's kind of like a little

thread here that's taking place in Scripture.

Nonetheless, their journey brings them to this place called

Shinar, or the land of Shinar, and the Bible says that they

dwelt there. And so there's two things here

in particular that that chapter 10 kind of informs us about

concerning what's happening right now in chapter, chapter

#11 if I could say it like this chapter #10 tells us that there

was a descendant of Ham. All right, Ham again, one of the

sons of Noah, the one who walked in and discovered his father's

nakedness. And the one then that that that

his father cursed, then Ham son. And, and this curse comes up on

this line. This is the one, This is the one

in chapter #10 Ham had a descendant by the name of

Nimrod. If you remember that from

chapter #10 And the Bible says that part of the beginning of

Nimrod's Kingdom was Babel. All right, It was Babel in the

land. Verse 10 of chapter 10 tells us

in the land of Shinar. And so we have this overlap that

this this Babble that that Nimrod had began, all right, is

also this place where these people in chapter 10 have have

landed and they're building a city.

So there's this overlap then building this city and this

tower unto the Lord. Let's read it from Genesis 10

where it speaks of this. The Bible says in Genesis 10 and

verse #8 and Kush, which was a son of him, bigot Nimrod, He

began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Therefore it is said even as Nimrod, the mighty hunter before

the Lord and the beginning of his Kingdom, which a Kingdom is

a one person rule. All right, was Babel an Iraq and

Akkad and Kaunay in the land of Shinar, Amen.

So we have this Nimrod. The first Kingdom that's

mentioned in the scripture is that of Babel, or that which is

in the land of Shinar that that Nimrod started.

He is mighty. The Bible calls him a mighty

hunter. There's a lot of ancient

Assyrian tablets that explain what that mighty hunter is,

isn't so much a hunter of game and a hunter of animals, but it

is a person that is a hunter of men, a warrior of men which

kinds of start to bring a little foundation concerning this

Babble. They're one people with one

language and they're being convinced of building this tower

that can reach up into heaven. So it almost begins to depict

the power that this one man has over men, right?

His ability to convince and connive and, and so and so

forth. So he is, he is indeed a mighty

man. But also remember that Nimrod's

name means to rebel or to be rebellious or a rebel.

And what's really taking place in Chapter 11 with the Tower of

Babel that we'll look at here a little more particularly.

They're wanting to do well here, but that was never the purpose

of God. That was never the purpose of

God for his creation to do well in just a solitary place.

We'll look at it a little bit later.

We'll go back to the blessing that he spoke to Adam and Eve

and the blessing then that he reinitiated in for Noah and his

sons. And it wasn't about just

dwelling at a location had to do with multiplying and

reproduction, and it had to do with the whole earth, right?

The whole earth. And so we'll see that.

So this this idea of just the dwelling tends on and, and goes

to the rebellious side of the people, right, being really

contradictory into what the purpose of the Lord, what he had

in mind. And so there's another thing the

the other thing about this being the land of Shinar in this, of

course, is that blessing. Again, Noah and his sons were

blessed like Adam and Eve were for multiplication,

reproduction. And the original blessing upon

Adam and Eve was that they the word is that they would

replenish. They would replenish, finish the

earth, which means to feel, to feel the earth.

Well, reproduction alone, is it going to do that?

Reproduction and migration helps that.

All right. Reproduction and migration helps

that. And so just the willingness

Shanar trying to prevent from being scattered.

And we read that quite plainly in those nine verses I read to

you. They were doing what they were

doing in part was because they didn't want this, this

scattering to take place in their lives.

And you even read that in the scripture.

I'm trying to see what particular verse that was that

someone finds it before I do. You can tell me it's in

scripture that they basically did this for the sake that they

didn't want to be scattered up on the whole earth.

I tell you what, this glasses stuff pause here.

I put in a storm door on my house last night that took four

hours and this on and off stuff about drove me Batty.

I'm still a little bit upset over verse #4 yes, yes, yes.

Who's taught me recent to heaven.

Lest is the word, lest we be scattered.

You're laughing about it, but your day's coming, Your day's

coming. Amen nonetheless.

And so lest they be scattered, and so God intended for there to

be a disbursement, God intended for there to be this

replenishing the multiplying the feeling of the whole earth.

And so when we start then to read through verses 3 and four,

look at this, you read this and and it's almost quite

disgusting, isn't it? Let us build us a city.

Let us make us a name, right? Verse #3 go to.

Let us make brick. And so there's this big emphasis

on us, us, us. And notice even what they are

doing concerning building this city and building this tower.

It's not for God, it's for themselves.

It's for themselves. Now think back for a moment, if

you will, the founder of Babel. Nimrod.

He's a mighty. Man or a mighty one, The word

mighty there is Gabor. All right.

It's the same Gabor. Just I said we gingerly get in

here the same Gabor that we see first used in Genesis chapter #6

where the Bible talks about that there was the daughters of men

and the sons of God that came together.

I don't know if you remember that.

It's a very peculiar chapter in Genesis.

And from their union there were some mighty ones.

Same word, Gabor. And remember, they were men.

They were people of renown. They were people of renown.

I'll read it to you. Genesis 6 and verse #4 There

were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that

when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and

they bear children to them, the same became mighty men.

That's Gabor men which were of old, men of renown, or men of

name, or men of reputation. All right now we have Nimrod who

is a mighty, a Gabor man. Only second time this is used

yet in Scripture. So the only tie we have for is

what happened in chapter #6 we know everybody was, you know,

annihilated by the flood, except Noah and his family.

But do you know that there's spirits that existed before the

flood that still existed after the flood?

Spirits, huh? You, you, you can, you can

destroy the man, but what about the spirit of the man?

I'm just saying tonight it's interesting that the same word

mighty that described those that came from the union of the sons

of men or the sons of God and the daughters of men that

produced what some believe maybe was a giant racer.

Nonetheless, it is they were mighty ones or Gabor ones that

were people of the name, people of name, and people of

reputation that I'm just saying today I see it in most as though

the spirit that was up on that union, that was not a sanctified

union mind the way the spirit that was up on that union

transverses through the flood and lands on Nimrod because here

he is. Everything that's happened at

Babel is for reputation, for renown, for a name, for

themselves. For that matter.

Ladies and gentlemen, we talk about Nimrod, we talk about that

spirit and the spirit of Babylon.

The spirit of Babylon is still like today, and I'm probably

jumping way ahead of myself and all over, but that's OK.

But the spirit of Babylon is still like today, you say, well,

in dirt, a flood. It's in dirt a whole lot more

than a flood. OK, pause.

New flash. Erica, let's think.

Does this sound familiar? One nation, 1 government, one

religion. That's what we talk about in the

the Book of Revelation of a new world order, like bringing

everybody together. This oneness.

Doesn't that sound a whole lot familiar to Babel?

The Spirit of Babylon has not went anywhere.

The Spirit. Can I tell you the spirit of

Babylon? Sometimes it's trying to creep

into the church. Because you serve God.

I serve God. We all come under this same

umbrella. There's no difference.

It's the smelting part of the world.

Yes. And so there's something going

on then the Scripture is something Babylon's going to be

contended with from Genesis to Revelation, OK.

From Genesis to Revelation, the spirit of Babylon, the spirit of

its founder, Amen, Nimrod, all that is going to be dealt with,

Amen, from Genesis all the way to Revelation.

So I don't think it's unlikely that that spirit that was in the

unscented union in Genesis of the sons of God and the

daughters of men would produce something then, and they would

be called Gabor. And then that Nimrod be called

Gabor. They went through that spirit,

Amen, exists through the flood, Amen.

And so the Bible says that after this, that is in Genesis 6,

after those Gabor, those, those mighty ones, those people

renowned and reputation. It was after that that God then

finally calls out how man is just consistently wicked and

there's evil continually in his heart.

He, he already knows this, but he brings light to that very

fact, Amen. And it's all because of a people

back then, even people renowned that was more us centered, right

name, reputation centered than they were God centered.

And I'm not surprised then here in Genesis 11 that God shows up

to the, for the demise then of the the city and the tower of

Babel and what's taking place there.

Because we have enough other scriptural precedents through

God's Word, how that pride goeth before and a haughty spirit

before. And we have other premise that

even in the New Testament Scripture, in the Gospels, like

in the book of Matthew that the Bible talks about, whosoever

shall exalt himself shall be abased.

In other words, he's going to be brought down.

He's going to be brought low. Amen.

And so when we look at that, this next chapter, this chapter

chapter #11 that we're reading tonight, it begins to contrast

what happens whenever man tries to do for himself.

All right? It contrasts that because

whenever we go into the next chapter, then chapter #12 we're

going to see the contrast in Chapter 11.

This is what man tries to do for us.

Let us make brick look. Let us build.

Let us, let us, let us write. That's what we can do for

ourselves. But what can God do for you?

The contrast comes in chapter 12, because in chapter 12 then

we have the great patriarch, the father of the Jews, Abraham,

that comes on the scene. And God tells Abraham this.

He says, I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless

thee and make thy name great, Huh.

So in Chapter 11, it's let us make, let us make our name

great. Let us do it.

Let us do this to make us a name in chapter #12 a man that is

surrendered himself, that will have surrendered himself to God.

God says you don't have to worry about making your name great.

He says, you stick with me, I'll make your name great.

You don't have to worry about doing this on your own or trying

to connive this. No, no, He says, if you stay in

in subjection and under my authority, I'll make your name

great, right. And so it, it kind of contrasts

the two things. And so it's always, I think it's

good to know that here at Babel, they're, they're attempting to

make a city and a tower that's being built here.

And I'm putting these up before I smash them.

I might need them later. Amen.

There's this distinction made here in the building materials.

You can see there in verse #3 And I even asked myself when I

just read the scripture, because I read the scripture through

several times in several different versions before I ever

start doing anything. And whenever I read this, I

thought, why is there, why is there distinction here building

materials? Because it, it makes a

comparison here, right? They had brick for stone and

they had slime for mortar. It says, well, historically,

brick and slime were a Babylonian invention.

It was a Babylonian invention, as a matter of fact, usually

Israel. You've seen them using stone and

water. You even see them particularly

in the New Testament. This is true because Jesus gives

a response to one of his disciples as they're coming out

of the temple and he's kind of gesturing to the buildings that

are around about them in the Jerusalem area.

And we can read of it in Mark 13.

One the Bible says, and as he went out of the temple, that is

Jesus, one of his disciples saved him.

Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are

here? And Jesus answering, said unto

him, See us thou these great buildings, there shall not be

left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

That was, yes, a reference to the temple, but was a reference

to all of that area of Jerusalem.

They typically use stone and mortar, which was quite

different than the Babylonian age when they would use brick

and slime all right. For that matter, the time it

took to go and make bricks and extricate the slime, if you

will, from the earth was expensive for the Babylonians,

and so they weren't going to put that into any structure that

they didn't think warranted. In other words, it had to be

important to them in order for them to use that, which again,

kind of underscores what's happening here.

They thought this tower and this city was vitally important

enough that they're using some brick and they're using some

slime in order to do this. Not only that, I think of

another place where we had brick and where there were slime pits,

and that's an exodus when the children of Israel were in

bondage to Egypt and they were creating cities for Pharaoh.

His treasured cities, as they were called, Ramses and Python.

Python, his treasured cities were made from those materials

of brick. So when I look just even at

these two instances, brick and slime have negative negative

association, Babel, Egypt negative associations that's

taking place here. And so this is the tower that

the Bible says this is the tower that whose top verse war may

reach unto heaven. So this just isn't an ordinary

tower, is it, as we think of the word tower whose top reaching to

heaven? Now I read a scholar, his name

is John Walton, and John Walton says that throughout Mesopotamia

literature, almost every occurrence of the expression

describing a building with its head in the heavens refers to a

temple with a ziggurt. Does anybody know what a ziggurt

is? Raise your hand.

I got one person knows what a ziggurt is.

A ziggurt is basically like a pyramid, all right, but the

sides of it kind of go up into steps.

On each side it kind of goes up into steps.

And not only that, but also at the very top, many of these had

a little temple or a little housing of sorts for a God or a

deity. The cigarettes were typically

dedicated to some deity or some little God type of God.

And so since their top was above the rest of this cigarette, the

understanding is I'm going to build this, this tower whose top

reaches the heavens or reaches the place of the gods, all

right, because that's where their little temple and such

would be on the very top. These things were very important

to Babylon, the Babylonian Empire for that matter, these

little cigarettes or these little step things.

And they always gave them names, these little cigarettes names.

And whenever I looked in history here, many if not most of their

names include phrases like this. The meaning of their name

included phrases like this, lynx, heaven and earth, the

stairway to pure heaven. In other words, they were

thought by the people that day as a means of conveyance, almost

like a ladder or a staircase for the gods.

And what they really desired was that their gods would come down,

right? I want my God to come down.

Not only that thing. Now here for a moment.

We live in a time we're talking about idolatry, idols, wood,

stone, things of that that people made and they wanted.

This was common. This is common concept of Pagan

religions. They wanted their God to come

down and they would either cause some type of opening in the back

of the idol they made, or they open its nostrils or its mouth.

And they wanted the spirit of their God to inhabit their idol

so that whenever they worship, you know, they have this

interaction, quote UN quote, with their God because by their

hands, they have made this representation, this idol of

what they think their God is. And they wanted their God to

inhabit what they've made with their hands.

So they could have communication with their God.

They could interact with their God.

Folks, there's a lot of this that that that really can be

compared or contrasted with our true God.

But the fact of the matter is this, we didn't have to make a

staircase for him to come down. Nobody had to make an image of

wood or stone for him to end the well.

But Luke says the spirit of the Lord overshadowed Mary and said

that thing which is conceived in you is of the Holy Ghost.

You're going to have a son who Philippians said was in the form

of a servant, and after the likeness of men.

And I just preached on Sunday morning that God indwelt God in

to whelp that body. This isn't an image I made.

This is the image God made. Hey man, I didn't make an image

for him to come down inside of. He made his own image for him to

come inside of. Woo man, I feel the Holy Ghost

in that and and I said on Sunday morning, that's the reason why

we see there is no qualms or difficulty in people falling

down and worship in Jesus because those people recognize

the God that end dwelt that Jesus, that creator, the God of

the universe, the God of Israel. But folks, all these other

people, Paul even said it. He said there's Lords many and

gods of many. He said there's in another

words, all of that is just Hosh posh.

All of that is just a bunch of hogwash.

There's no such thing as really another God.

God. There's no such thing really as

another Lord. There's only one Lord.

There's only one God, and he represented himself in Christ

Jesus. And Jesus wasn't man made, He

was God made. Amen.

God didn't make a tower so he could come down.

That's the thing. Oh, we're going to make a tower

so God can come down to us. No, God came down to us so that

we could go up to Him. Amen.

Something else touches on in Scripture that our minds might

start clicking off a little bit. When we read Genesis Chapter 11,

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you remember another patriarch, Abraham Isaac, Jacob.

He's in a place and he's laid down for the night and used some

stones for a pillow, and he has a dream of a ladder or a

stairway if you will, that's connected between heaven and

earth. And there's angels ascending and

descending. Genesis 2812 the Bible says And

he Speaking of Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the

earth and the top of it. Notice the wording and the top

of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God

ascending and descending on it. That that that that's me gets me

start to think because if this this ziggurat or this thing that

they're making in babbles to be a staircase for their God to

come down. Jacob's having a vision, a

vision, mind you, a dream of his God.

He says there's a ladder there. It's top reaching to heaven and

we've oftimes said it. There is already his spirit and

and his spiritual beings doing things.

They don't have to come down. They're already down.

The scripture mentions first they ace in before they descend.

So they're already here. They're already here.

As a matter of fact in the Acadian language Babble meant

this the gate of the gods, the gate of the gods or the gate of

heaven. The reason why this is special

to us especially for Jacob's story as when he awakes out of

his dream and vision, he says something to the effect of this

is a dreadful place. He says but I wish not that the

Spirit of God was here and what he says is this.

Then in verse 17 he said this is none other but the House of God.

This is the gate, this is the gate, This is the gate of

heaven. Can I tell you then tonight

this, that the gate of heaven, as the Babylonians would have

seen it would have been the pinnacle of their ziggurat that

they have constructed, right? That would been their date of

heaven. Can I tell you that the gate of

heaven is not the top of what man can do?

The gate of heaven is where God shows up, the God where the God

shows up. And the apostle Paul was

basically saying the same thing to the Roman believers in the

book of Romans chapter 10 and verse #6 he's basically saying

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the same thing. Look at the Scripture very

clearly here and it's up there he said, but the righteousness

which is of faith speaketh on this wise.

This is how the righteousness that is of faith speaks.

It says it's what righteousness says.

Say not, I say, say not, say not in thy heart who shall ascend

into the head into heaven, That is to being Christ down from

above. He said the righteousness of

faith is not thinking what can we do?

How can we get Christ? How can we get God down to us?

So that's not how the righteous thing, that's how the

unrighteous thing, how can we get our gods down to us?

He said, but the righteous say not how who's going to ascend to

the heaven to to to into heaven? That is to bring Christ down

from above, because we don't have to build something to bring

him down. He came down by his own

volition. So they're doing this just

taught me reach the heaven. And this is the comical side, in

my opinion, is when we get to verse 5, because if they were

doing this to reach heaven or have that pinnacle up there, and

I believe it's more figurative than literal, but nonetheless,

to try to reach heaven, to try to reach the gods, if you will,

of heaven. Verse 5 tells us plainly so that

we can relate to what's going on.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, if you

were trying to reach there. He still had to come down even

to the furthest distance that you attempted to reach.

That means there's nothing that man can do where God's not going

to have to still come down and meet him where he's at.

He's still going to have to in terms come down.

And that for sure means, Sister Jessica, this I can't reach him

on my own. There's not enough good deeds I

can do to reach him. Huh.

No, no, no, no. I love him, John said.

Because he loved me first. If I ever Amen, get a handle on

him, it's because he first got a handle on me, right?

He paved the way with his blood. He paved the way, Amen with his

grace. And so I, I can't reach him on

my home, his, his dissension through Bethlehem's Manger and

through everything that happened at Calvary, all of that that

made him reachable to me, that made him accessible to me.

And so it's interesting then though, now that the turning

point of what's happening at Babylon chapter #11 the turning

point of what's happening there is whenever the Lord came down,

things start to turn there. There is the scattering.

And, and rather than everybody just trying to do well there,

there the, the language that was one.

Now it is varied. And, and the people are going

off from there and they leave off building this city.

The Bible says they leave off building the city.

So the turning point for what was taking place at Babel all

changed whenever the Lord came down.

And the Lord reason I say that because the same thing happens

for you and I, the turning point for humanity, for that matter,

happens whenever he came down. The the trajectory that humanity

was on is altered by whenever he came down.

And so the Lord, though he, he's, he's, he notes some

things. He's, he's for sure not

ignorant, but he notes some things like in verse #6 he notes

all of this oneness that's going on at the Tower of Babel, right?

The one language, the one speech, the work is 1, the, the

US, us, us stuff that's being said.

And he no doubt underscores right here a principle

concerning unity, that unity is a very powerful force to be

reckoned with. Now it's all about what you're

unified over. Unity is a powerful force

nonetheless. But what are you coming in unity

about? Well, for sure, in Chapter 11,

it's not for something good. But if you could take the same

principle of unity, huh? Like Psalms 133, how good and

how pleasant it is for brethren to do well together in unity.

It's like the oil that was up on Aaron's head, that rented out

his beard even to the skirts of his garment, even like the dew

that was up on Herman. And was this if if we can just

somehow hone and grab a hold and capture that unity, but use it

to the right thing. And he even seems to know that

the heart of their unity was their language, right?

Their ability, their language. And he seems to convey here that

what was happening here was the start of Babel.

And if something had not happened, there was no end to

it. There was going to be more

involved. He said.

If they if they were not restrained from this, they could

even whatever they imagined to do, that they would be able to

purpose that and do that and accomplish that because of this

unification that they had. And so he comes down, he

confuses their their language, he confounds their tongue.

And so now as a result, you know, I mean, just imagine, you

know, if you just in America, you're setting, sometimes you're

just unilingual. You're unilingual.

You don't know other language. And you hear people talking and

you're sitting there and you're wondering, I wonder what they're

saying, right? Some of y'all have a hard time

because they're laughing. You think I wonder what they're

saying about me and their language, right?

Oh, you know what, Reese, don't you tell me now.

But it's hard to communicate, right, without speaking the same

languages. So the construction project

course here, you know, leaves off because the communication

then cannot be there. The language was divided.

And as a matter of fact, the linguists of many linguists go

and tell us, and I think we looked at this in our last

chapter, that many linguists trace all the languages, the

world back to a dominant prominent language that they all

speared from, which gives support then for Genesis chapter

number. Genesis chapter #11.

Now the weird thing about all this, this idea of the gods in

one language and no disbursement just stay right here.

And my wife brought this up a few weeks ago and I've said this

before but she forgot I guess. But none the less, really what

we see though then when we get in the book of Acts chapter #2

is almost like a reversal of Babel.

Because on the day of Pentecost, A feast has happened here where

it was mandatory to Old Testament law and Leviticus that

men for sure are going to be at this feast.

And the population of Jerusalem. I, I would have to look back up

the number, but it many, many, many times over has flooded in.

In case you know, of everybody coming in for this feast of

Pentecost and they're all there. And the Bible then talks about

suddenly there came a sound from heaven.

You start reading in or Acts chapter #2 and and let me just

go there because I don't want to.

I don't want to you to miss this.

The Bible, if you go to Acts chapter #2 and you start reading

about the different people, there's Parthians verse #9

there's Parthians and Meads and Elamites and dwellers and

Mesopotamia and Judea and Cappadocia and Pontus and Asia

and Fieger and Pamphylia and Egypt and parts of Libya about

Cyrene and strangers of Rome, Jews, proselytes, Cretes and

Arabians. There's all these different

types of people there. But when those hundreds one in

the upper room and they're peered into them cloven, which

means divided cloven tongues like as a fire, and they all

begin to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them the

utterance. And there's all these different

nations that's hearing their tongue.

But what's happening is these other tongues, which is the

language of heaven, the language of God.

Now some are are bewildered by what's happening here because

they hear in their own language. The Bible says people speaking

about the wonderful works of God, the wonderful works of God.

And so whenever you start talking about then US receiving

a one language again, whether you're Japanese, Chinese,

Spanish, English, German, whoever you are on this globe,

if you receive the Spirit of God according to Acts 2, as the

Spirit gives the utterance you speak a another tongue or

language. Corinthians tells us it's the

tongues of men and of angels, right?

But whenever you speak that other language and you're born

into the family of God and you couple that then with your

baptism, look at the lines starting to disappear.

Because whenever this happens, Paul said there's neither Jew

nor Greek, there's neither bond nor free, There's neither male

nor female. What's going on?

There's the one that's happening.

And not only that, on the day of Pentecost, they were all

gathered together in one mind. It's a reversal of such a

Babble, right? It's a reversal of such a

Babble. But, and in that moment, if we'd

say like this hard, God came down.

Until Pentecost, He had never inhabited a human individual.

But on the day of Pentecost, without us making a staircase,

unless you want to call it prayer, but without making a

staircase, without a cigarette, He came down.

And where there was a dispersing and diversing of languages, now

He brings it to the language of his language and brings it

brings a unity to the people. And what happens now they're

going forth and they're preaching the gospel and it's

having an impact on the entire world.

He's really satisfying. Everything there is set to be

satisfied all by himself. And so in Genesis 11, the very

thing that they were trying to avoid the Lord comes down and

causes they're trying to avoid being scattered.

He scatters them and the building of the city stops.

It's an incomplete place. And so there's really confusion

on a couple of levels here. Yes, there's the confusion of

the language, but there's also the confusion that's brought

about with Nimrod being the founder and the builder of this

and the rebellion against God with this.

Because up to this point, let's think about it in Genesis just

for a moment. I'm already read, so we need to

hurry. That's all right.

I put later in here. There's some other stuff I said

extra if I have time. So we're not going to have time.

So you'll never know because I'm not, I'm not even going to tie

it over to next week. You'll never know.

It'll be a mystery up to this time.

Adam and Eve moved away from God, the presence of God, all

right before the flood. People's doing wicked evil

continually, right? All of this is happening.

But now at Babel, there's a little scenario going on here

because listen folks, it's really one thing to sin against

God and disobey God, and then it's another thing just to

discount and disregard God. I mean, there's people that

leave the church sometime they sin and they disobey, but they

still don't, they still don't disengage from the truth that

he's one God and that you understand what I'm saying.

So there's a difference whenever you step in.

And so there's a stepping of that line here at Babel.

It's not just sinning and disobeying.

It's disregarding him as God, right?

Thinking about another, which whatever that means, quote UN

quote another. And so whenever they switch and

they turn to these gods, you got to understand what are they

pagans thought about their gods. They seen their gods as having

needs. They needed to pamper their

gods. You see in scripture, we looked

at it in Genesis already thus far, they need to feed their

gods. They, they, they needed to house

their gods, their idols. They carried their gods, all

these things. Which contrasts our God because

he's the creator. He feeds us.

He clothes us. Huh.

Did not even tell in the beginning, you know, talking

about hey, don't, don't, don't take no thought about what you

wear. Take no thought about why?

Because you're not the lilies of the field.

They neither told nor speak. I take care of them, right?

God would take care of them. God would clothe them.

God would house them in one place In Isaiah, God says I'll

carry you. And he contrasts the fact that

everybody's carrying their idols.

He said, but your God's going to carry you.

Now I'd much rather have a God that carried me than had to be

carried. And so there's this whole,

there's this whole confusion on that level of, of what God

really was from the very beginning.

Our God doesn't have any deeds. He he tells us.

He said the beast in Psalms in Psalms.

He said the beasts of the field are mine.

He said. He said the wild beasts of of

the country are mine. He said.

He went on to say he said the world is mine.

He said if I was hungry, I would not tell you.

He said I know you bring your sacrifices of.