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.
Genesis 11:4
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3 Goals:
-1- A City
-2- A Tower
-3- A Name
The post-flood rebellion began with the city of Babel. The post-flood rebellion ends with the fall of Babylon. Also, the city was in direct rebellion against the word of God - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Genesis 9:1
The tower they tried to build up to heaven by their own might. So too does the sins of Babylon in the end reach unto heaven - For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:5 We don't need a man-made tower...we already have a strong tower - The name of the LORD is a strong tower: Proverbs 18:10
The name they tried to make for themselves was rooted in pride...pride is how this war all began - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,..For thou hast said in thine heart, ...I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Isaiah 14:12-14
In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
Psalm 10:4 NIV
* Nimrod, founder of Babel, is a type for Lucifer, founder of spiritual Babylon. As Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord, so too was Lucifer a mighty angel before the Lord....
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
Genesis 9:10,11
...the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 28:13,14
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,
and the pride of thine heart,
...though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle,
I will bring thee down from thence,
saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:16