Genesis Chapter 11

We are reading chapter 11 of Genesis:  In chapter 10:8-10 we see a man named Nimrod becoming a great leader and setting up the city of Babel.  In chapter 11 we see Nimrod building a tower, a religion to keep the people together and him in power.  God’s plan was for us to spread out over the earth.  We do not know how long God allowed this to take place.  Some feel God was wanting His people to rise up against Nimrod and this false religion.  In order to stop all this wicked imagination from continuing, God changes their languages.  All of a sudden you no longer can understand your neighbor.  Their language was changed.  God caused their brains to reconfigure to know and understand a new language while forgetting the old one.  Soon everyone divided into tribes and nations.  Let us remember communication is always the key to unity.  In Acts, God reverses this situation and allows the Apostles to speak in different languages.  As they spoke, God opened the ears of the people to hear it in their own language.  Because some could not understand the Apostle they must have also spoken in their language.  The gospel is the language that unifies.  We fight over and argue over so much because we forget God’s grace and the gospel that allows us to know truth and to grow in Him.  Every nation can now come together under the cross of Jesus and the good news of redemption.  This is the only way to coexist.  One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess He is Lord.