DRAMA OF THE AGES ! 10. BABEL AND CONFUSION For a while after the people left the ark and again lived on the land, they worshipped the True God of heaven. But knowledge of the counterfeit religion from before the flood came over from before, possibly in the wife of Ham, possibly just from the fallen angels themselves. In the strange prophecy Noah made to Ham about how Canaan, his grandson would be cursed, we get a hint about the starting up again of the bold, defiant idol worshipping religion of Cain. Gradually again came the two classes, those who worshipped the Creator God, and those who wanted to do their own thing and worship sex and nature. Genesis 11:1 “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” The ones who loved their own ideas and indulgence more than they loved God left the others and moved a distance from them, and chose a large plain to live in. they built a city, and then got the idea to make a large tower to reach unto the clouds, and all stay in the city and not be scattered in the earth.    They thought that they would be safe in case of another flood, for they would build their tower higher than the waters at the time of the flood, and all the world would honor them, and they would be as gods, and rule over the people. They wanted to become as wicked as the ones killed in the flood and to use force to get rid of God’s people. This tower was made to exalt its builders, and was to get all the people on earth to worship idols. Before the work of building was finished, people lived in the tower. Decorated Rooms with beautiful furniture were made for their idols. Those who did not believe in God imagined that if their tower could reach unto the clouds they would be able to find the reasons for the flood. They thought they could fathom the secrets of nature and harness its power for their own use. Genesis 11:9 “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 all the earth.” God chose a most interesting way to put an end to all their plans. He confounded the languages! There was no way to build any more on that tower. Angry at one another, and not knowing what had happened, they went with those they could understand and moved away into the world. This is where different nations speaking different languages came from. Lightning from heaven, as a token of God's wrath, broke off the top of their tower, and cast it to the ground. Thus rebellious man is taught that God is supreme.       Satan’s plan to have his super-race again was spoiled and he was angry. Do you know he has been trying ever since to get his One World Government ever since but he has never been able to do it?  The people who are making the New World Order today are trying to finish the work Satan started at Babel. They even use a picture of the broken tower or a pyramid with the top not yet on as their symbol. 11. THE RELIGION OF REBELLION SPREADS WORLDWIDE Those that spread out from Babel after the languages were confounded, carried with them both some of the true knowledge and also the ideas of the counterfeit pagan/nature worship. This is why we find these things world-wide in the legends and stories of the native peoples. Most used ideas from the evil knowledge from before the flood and the idol gods and Satan’s false worship was soon set up again. Two of the sons of Ham, Cush and Canaan became very wicked. Canaan became the head of a race of idol worshippers and Nimrod, the son of Cush, became a cruel and wicked King who later was worshipped as a god. He was a hunter of fierce animals but he did not love God. He killed a wild bull and wore its horns on his head and later he killed a lion and wore its skin as a cape. It is Nimrod who was the origin of the legends of Hercules and also where the idea that the parts of animals or the blood of animals would give the power of the animal to those who wore or ate them.  Meat eating, which started before the flood, originally came about not from necessity for food, but rather through pagan rites of people wanting the power and vitality of the animals and thinking they could get it by killing them, eating their flesh, or drinking their blood. Genesis 10:8,9, And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. This text actually means that he was a mighty man in rebellion against God. He built a city on the plains of Shinar.    Some ancient legends say that he was so wicked that the family of Shem executed him. We know he died quite young. His wife, Queen Semaramis told the people after his death that he was the sun god and she was the moon goddess, Queen of heaven. She had a illegitimate baby boy named Tammuz and she told the people that he was Nimrod, the sun god, born again. It was way back there that the idea of worshipping a woman and her baby son started, not from Mary and Jesus. When still a young man, Tammuz was killed by a wild boar. The women mourned for forty days for Tammuz. Every year this became a custom. This was were the idea of Lent first had its roots. This was also where the idea of serving the boar's head at the 25th of December came about. All the aspects of pagan worship were set up just around the time of Babel, and no doubt followed pretty much the false religion of Cain and his wicked race. 12. GOD CHOOSES A MAN   The whole story of the Bible from cover to cover is the account of how God worked in wonderful ways to allow life to continue on this earth and to keep alive the truth of the Plan of Salvation, so that all who would choose to do so, could return to loyalty to the Creator God and His laws. Again it seemed the world was almost swallowed up in pagan nature worship. God looked over the hearts and found a young man named Abram.  Genesis 12: 1 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred , and from thy father's house , unto a land that I will shew thee:”   After the tower of Babel was stopped and the people scattered, families settled in various parts of the land. Some of the descendents of Shem settled in a place called Ur of the Chaldees. Now I must tell you who these ‘Chaldees’ were; they were religious priests of the ‘Mystery’ religion started by Nimrod and those who rejected God. They were considered magicians or wizards. Since most of the people refused to follow God, He left them to go their own way and looked for someone who wanted to follow Him. Abram was growing up in that country but he was different from most of his family and friends. He started early in his life to try to learn about the real God and did not worship the idols like everybody else. When God saw that Abram wanted to follow Him he began to help him and guide him. But God knew that if Abram stayed there with his family, the temptation to worship idols would be too great and he could never get to really know God as much as he wanted to.   God told Abram when he was a young man and had married Sarai, to move out away from Ur and go towards the land of Canaan. When Abram first told his family he was going, his father and many relatives came with him. They traveled to Haran, where they stopped for a while as Terah, Abram’s father was to old to keep traveling. Soon Terah died, then Abram and his own family and Lot, his nephew went on towards Canaan and the others stayed at Haran. Because of the increasing wickedness of the people God chose to teach His truths to Abram and promised to bless him and his children and make of them a great nation that would bless the whole world, and that the land of Canaan would someday be theirs. He was told that it would be of his family the Messiah would come. Where ever Abraham went he built an altar to the God of Heaven and taught his family and servants to worship Him always. He knew that the offered lambs pointed to the Messiah whom God would send.   So Abram lived in tents and wandered about in the land of Canaan, but he did not own that land. He believed God that one day, his children would have that land and he also looked to the promise of the New Earth and the City of God. Abram had Isaac, a miracle son born in their old age. Isaac had Jacob and Esau. Jacob was later called Israel, a Prince of God. Jacob had 12 sons and these became the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. In a time of famine the whole family moved into Egypt. It was through the influence and guidance of Joseph, a son of Jacob, sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, that Egypt grew to be a mighty nation. But later after Joseph's death, the ruling monarchs chose to forget the service the Israelites had been to Egypt and finally enslaved them.  NEXT

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