WHAT WE LEARN FROM BABEL

WHAT WE LEARN FROM BABEL

I learned about the Illuminati back in the 70s, and just figured they’d always be around. But that doesn’t have to be true. There’s no place in the Bible that tells us Satan’s strongholds on the earth are everlasting. The Bible shows us that the opposite is true. What happened in Babel? And all through history, we’ve seen that kings and kingdoms rise, and then they fall. Egypt in Old Testament times was the greatest power on earth. Where is it now? Just because an entity has been around for many years, doesn’t mean it can’t fall apart. After all, powerful groups are made up of mortal men who are subject to the sicknesses, financial devastations, relationship disasters, and all the other ailments other human beings experience. God loves everyone and abundantly pardons anyone who repents, but when people purposefully get together to come against God’s born again Christians, we need to take action. God gives us a strategy in Genesis 11.

Nimrod made himself an enemy of God by organizing a plot to overtake God’s authority.

“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. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’

“So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build [stopped building] the city. 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” (Gen. 11:5-9).

First, we learn from this passage that there is power in agreement, but that ‘agreement’ can be broken. When people agree, “nothing will be restrained from them.” God confused their language both physically and otherwise. They no longer spoke the same natural language, resulting in the inability to agree on anything. Nimrod’s plan was foiled.

In James 3:16, God gives us a truth we can use as a prayer tool to break up the plans of any anti-Christ group, or individual who comes against us in our righteous adventures with God. “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” We can pray that the spirit of Babel, and the evil spirits of envy and strife be rampant in the anti-Christ group or an individual. God says these two spirits bring confusion and every evil work. In Genesis, the group not only had to stop the big plan they had, but they were scattered. We also use this word referring to an individual being “scatter-brained.”

Jesus said: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matt. 12:25).

We see another great Old Testament example of how a group of three kings and their armies came against God’s people and were taken down by strife and division within their group: It’s found in 2 Chronicles 20.

“It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

“And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord:

“And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

“For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

“And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped” (2 Chron. 20:1,4,22-24).

There are many other passages we can pray against an enemy of our God.  Psalm 7:15-16 is among them: “He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate [head].”

Another couple of passages that David used are in Psalm 69:23 and Psalm 37:14-15:

“Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.”

“The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to stay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.”

I know this stuff is a bit heavy, but sometimes we need to know about what we can do in the personal spiritual wars we face.

We never forget that when people turn away from God, He still loves them and wants them to turn back to Him. That’s why we continue to pray for them. God’s word to them (and us when we mess up) is: “Repent and live!” (Ez. 18:32). That has to be our first prayer for evildoers. But some will not repent. Instead, they continue to do evil, so I give you God’s written weapons to put into your arsenal for when you need them.

What does our God call us? “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms” (Jer. 51:20). Kingdoms are not just countries, but anyplace where one person or a group, make rules that other people have to follow. In other words, we have “kingdoms” in our schools, our cities, our social groups, our neighborhoods, our families, etc.

How powerful are we? Ephesians 2:6 says: God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,” “to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God” (Eph.3:10). The Bible is our manual of life and God has given us the authority to use it.

Love, Carolyn