The Tower

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1

The Tower-The People-The Language

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Genesis 11:1

The Tower-The People-The Language-The Place

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:2

The Tower-The People-The Language-The Place-The Plan

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Genesis 11:3

The Tower-The People-The Language-The Place-The Plan-The Motivation

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves;

Genesis 11:4

otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:4

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

Genesis 11:5-6

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and

that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart

was only evil all the time.. Genesis 6:5

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 11:7

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:8

That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:9

Lessons from Babel

• Human pride and self-ambition will persist until Christ comes again.

A symbol of human prideCome, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves

Genesis 11:4

and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 4:30

Lessons from Babel

• Human pride and self-ambition will persist until Christ comes again.

• Technology can bring us together, but also push us away from each other and God.

Lessons from Babel

• Human pride and self-ambition will persist until Christ comes again.

• Technology can bring us together, but also push us away from each other and God.

• We are always either building up the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of Babel in our world.

What Kingdom are we building up?

Kingdom of Heaven• Christ is above all• Common purpose• Seeks God’s approval• Unity in diversity (Acts 2:4• The Cross)

Kingdom of Babylon (New Babel)

• Self is above all• Different purposes • Seeks man’s approval• Division among cultural

lines• The Tower

Which Kingdom do you find yourself building today?