Babble from BABEL

 

Genesis 11:1

King James Version

11 And the whole earth was of one language, 

and of one speech.

Can you imagine there was once a time.

Wherein the WHOLE earth had ONE language.

And ONE speech?

But what changed all that?

Why is the world today of 195 nations?

And of 7000 languages?

That is too far a cry from how it once were.

A born again attributes it to GOD.

Wherein the people of the earth incurred His wrath.

Let Scripture recount the story:

Genesis 11:2-9

King James Version

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.

3 And they said one to another, 

Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 

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.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 

which the children of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, 

Behold, the people is one, 

and they have all one language; 

and this they begin to do: 

and now nothing will be restrained from them, 

which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, 

let us go down, 

and there confound their language, 

that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad 

from thence upon the face of all the earth: 

and they left off to build the city.

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.

It was confirmed, too, from the previous post, this "division":

Genesis 10:21-25

King James Version

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, 

the brother of Japheth the elder, 

even to him were children born.

22 The children of Shem; 

Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 And the children of Aram; 

Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; 

and Salah begat Eber.

25 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.

That makes Shem and Peleg's time life-changing.

For much went on.

Not to mention the appearance of an Abram along the way.

Which further increased the nations in number.

But that's for another story.

First, we look into another instance.

Wherein man incurred GOD's wrath.

The earliest instance, in fact.

With GOD voicing a similar thought, and anger.

Changing man's life forever.

Please head to the next post.

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