THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE RELIGION OF NIMROD (Part 2)
Kenute P. Curry
We now turn our attention to the narrative in Genesis 11:1-9 which reads:
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 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. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
It was at Nimrod’s city of Babel that a towering structure was first built in defiance of God as part of their satanic religion. Archaeological evidence indicates that this was a spectacular pyramid-shaped structure or ziggurat. The Bible tells us that at this time the whole earth was of one language and one set of words. Most of the world’s population centered in this area and participated in this abominable false religion. After discovering the valley plain of Shinar and settling there the people set about to build a tower with its top reaching into the heavens; to make a name for themselves. They were afraid that they would be scattered over all the surface of the earth. Nimrod really believed that he was god and in devotion to his Babylonian mystery religion he built the Tower of Babel in open and prideful defiance against the LORD God.
Genesis 11:5 states that the LORD proceeded to go down and see the city and the tower that the people had built. It was evident to God that all mankind would soon degenerate into a level of evil that would parallel that of the pre-Flood world and something had to be done to slow and frustrate this organization of an evil one world religion and tyrannical government. In verse seven, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; (Us) confused the language of the people so that they could not listen to one another’s language. Verse 9 states that is why it is called Babel, meaning “confusion”, because there the LORD confused the language of all the people and scattered them over the surface of all the earth.
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
©2006 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.
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