Two towers in New York City, New York. Marvels of glass and steel against a partly cloudy sky. Monuments to the ability of human beings to dream and make that dream come alive. Amazing, truly amazing!
And yet, as I view these shining wonders, I think of the city in which they dwell, a place of congestion and crime. Existing in a state that has one of the most horrible abortion laws in the country which is nothing less than infanticide. Where fraud and welfare are simply a way of life and the rest of the state pays and pays and pays again for THE CITY’s indolence and corruption. As I continued to look, it reminded me of something from the book of Genesis…
Genesis 11 ( World English Bible )
Gen 11:1, The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Gen 11:2, It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Gen 11:3, They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Gen 11:4, They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Gen 11:5, Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Gen 11:6, Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Gen 11:7, Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Gen 11:8, So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Gen 11:9, Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
To some, I imagine this is just a story, but to Bible believing Christians, it is but history. In that history is the story of arrogance and pride, rebellion and foolishness, for to try to build to heaven is just another way of making oneself equal to (or perhaps even greater) than the creator of all the universe.
The truth is: I no nothing of the designers of builders of those two buildings in N.Y.C., but the nature of the city and its decadence is legendary throughout the whole state of New York. Babel came to nothing, but it left an example not to follow – one of arrogance and pride; which in the end will be dealt with, just as GOD always does.
May the Lord God of Heaven be merciful to our country and bring about the greatest restoration of true Christianity the world has ever seen. Now, that will be something to be proud of (in the best possible sense)!
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