The Tower of Babel (2)

The Tower of Babel (2)
'The power of Unity"

Now, after reading what happened, the first thing that caught my attention was that the whole world had one language and a common speech, at the beginning. 

With the ethnic, religious, and other kinds of battles and divisions in the world we live in today one would wish that we could have the kind of "Unity" that must have existed between mankind then.

The unity that they enjoyed prompted them to come together and come up with a new technology to build structures by baking bricks instead of stone and using tar for mortar instead of the normal binding agent they were accustomed to.

For them to travel eastward, find a plain in Shinar and settle there, the place they found must have been rich to some extent with what would satisfy their basic needs as well as comfort and peace of mind.

With a simple call, “Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly!” mankind was able to unite, build together and subsequently get the attention of God Almighty.

Now one would have thought that till this stage of things everything they did was ok with God, but it was not.

The people had actually begun to dabble into what got Satan and his fallen angels kicked out of heaven in the first place and also what caused the first representatives of the human race to be banished from God's presence.

Note that Satan sold Adam and Eve the same liehe sold to the people building the tower; that God wanted to limit their potentials by not letting them eat out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and as a result God didn't sincerely love them. 

This is the same lie that Satan peddles to all of us who idly give him a listening ear.

Their inclination, their natural disposition, their propensity to decide to come together and build for themselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that they may make a name for themselves; and their fear that they'll be scattered over the face of the whole earth was borne out of their choice to act on theknowledge of evil that our ancestors Adam and Eve had passed on through their lineage to all mankind when they disobeyed God by eating the fruit they were told not to.

Together as one they proposed and embarked upon these 2 ungodly things: 
1. To build for themselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that they maymake a name for themselves; and 
2. To ensure God doesn't scatter them over the face of the whole earth.

God came down to see the city and tower the people were building because of the seriousness of what the people proposed to embark upon as a united front against His will for mankind.

God expressed the gravity of the power of "Unity" by saying, "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!" not because he was afraid of mankind but so that generations after them would get to know the power of unity.

The importance of Unity can be appreciated more in the light of the fact that it was first applied by the Godhead. 

In Genesis 1: 26, God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”