Many however remained and they continued to build, not the tower of Babel, but a city called Babylon. God saw where this was leading to so He came down and confused their languages and caused them to be dispersed. What is important is that they wanted to build a city with “its top in the heavens” which could mean that they wanted to overtake or usurp the authority of God or the gods. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth” (Gen 11:2-9). Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Almost immediately after the flood in Noah’s day, mankind had only one language and “And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Some scholars believe that the name Babylon is derived from the Akkadian name “babilani” and is translated “the gates of the gods.” This was not a tribute to the God of the Bible but to false, pagan gods, which of course are not gods at all but in actuality, the name “babel” sounds like the Hebrew word for “confused” so either way, whether it was associated with false gods or that it meant confusion, what is important is that when all the people of the earth came together, they intended to build a city up to heaven itself. Babylon became proud but God brought her down to the ground because God always resists (literally is “at war with”) the proud but gives grace only to the humble (James 4:6). This prophecy has proven true and even today it is a wasted, barren land and only desolation is there. But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures”(Isaiah 13:20-21a). Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.”Īs Isaiah continues, “It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations no Arab will pitch his tent there no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. They will look aghast at one another their faces will be aflame. They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. “Wail, for the day of the Lord is near as destruction from the Almighty it will come! Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt. Isaiah wrote down what God prophesied about Babylon’s fall in Isaiah 13:6-9 Does Babylon have symbolic meaning for our day today? Does it have meaning for the future in prophecy? What is significant about Babylon for Christians today? The Original Babylonīabylon has been around for thousands of years but today it is simply a tourist location and the ruins remain of what was once the greatest city or city-state on earth.
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