Science has much ado about making a name for themselves. Politics has much ado about making a name for themselves. Entertainment has much ado about making a name for themselves. I worry about writing; is it for God or to make a “name” for myself?
Of course, everyone wants to leave a legacy to be remembered
in days gone by. Jesus even said to take the bread and wine in remembrance
of Him. [i]
The people after the flood began to cover the world, desired
to be creative, and said, “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” (Gen 11:4).
What did God desire for Adam’s kind? “Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth” (Gen
1:22). What did God desire for Noah’s kind? “God blessed Noah and his sons, and
said unto them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.’” (Gen
9:1). What is the Great Commission commanded by Jesus? “This gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end come” (Mat 24:14).
Jesus even made it clearer, “Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost” (Mat 28:19). However, the people of Shinar wanted to stay home and gloat
about what they could accomplish.
What were the seed of Shem, Japheth, and Ham to do? Go ye
and teach all nations. They were to go unto the world and tell the world about
the grace that Noah found, [ii] the
grace that they had observed; the grace that kept them safe from the
Wicked One. God put grace on Adam in the form of a coat of skin and on Noah in
the form of a wooden Ark. God put grace
on Adam’s and Noah’s kinds (the “whosoever” in John 3:16) by a coat made
from His own Skin. The flesh and soul of Jesus was ruptured for Jesus to
rapture us. He was snatched down [iii] so
that Christians can be snatched up! [iv] (The
opposite of what Lucifer desires.) The “coat” that Jesus provide for our Comfort
IS the Holy Ghost. [v]
After the flood, only Shem and Japheth found grace. The seed
of Shem would relinquish it and the seed of Japheth would not find grace until
the “Coat of the Lamb of God” was put on them. The seed of Ham saw grace firsthand
but denied the grace of Jesus in favor of the desperation of Judas Iscariot. God,
in the Face of Jesus, is dead to Canaanites to this day, but Judas still lives
in remembrance of him betraying Jesus. Judas thought of two things: (1) to make
money, and (2) to make a name for himself ro impress the wicked chief priests.
Jesus said that the elements of the last supper was in remembrance
of Him, but the Last Supper for Him had already been eaten. Jesus did not
come to make a Name for Himself, because God gave Him that Name, to wit: “(Mary)
shall bring forth a son, and thou (Joseph) shalt call His Name ‘Jesus:” for he
shall save his people from their sins.
When the Name was called to the world by God, that Name was
to be “Jesus.” God made a Name for His Son and named Him after Himself. “Jesus”
(Yəhôšuaʿ). There is great debate on what that Name means, but it should
be clear from the last passage… “He shall save His people from their sins.”
Only God can do that, and His shorted name is “Yah” in the Hebrew from “Yahweh.”
The Name above all names is “Ya Saves” Yahweh’s people from their sins.
That is the Name to be remembered. Jesus is the true Son of God, the Man
of renown!
Now remember the people before the flood: the sons of God
and the daughters of men. They carnally coupled and their fleshes became
one flesh. “When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them, the same became mighty men (giants) which were of old,
men of renown.” (Gen 6:4). The flood was for one purpose: to destroy the
identities of those mutated beings. When they coupled in the Flesh, the seed of
righteous Seth entered the pudenda of the daughters of Cain and “giants” were created.
Those in Babel were to remember the Creator and the Re-Creator.
It had not been long since the sinful world was destroyed, and new clean world
provided. They should have done something in remembrance of Yahweh, but
instead, they desired to make a name for themselves!
It was the “original sin” of Adam all over again. Satan
rightfully accused Adam, to wit: “God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods” (Gen 3:5). The men of
renown of Noah’s time were “giants” in their own eyes. Even if they were 30
cubits tall as some claim; they were not giants in the viewpoint of God. They
were decadent flesh that God would flush down the abyss to Gehenna — the
garbage dump.
But here it goes again: Mankind was making a name for themselves.
When they saw the rainbow in the sky, they should have wanted to see Jesus,
like the Greeks long after who asked of Philip, “Sir, we would see Jesus” (John
12:21).
From the ground they could not see Jesus for three reasons:
(1) God had not taken on flesh, (2) they
were blind to Him. and (3) they saw themselves as gods. God was right there,
but where did they look? Loftily. God was with them all the time but went
unnoticed. They built a city for themselves and a tower. Was the tower truly to
see God or was it to see just who it was up there.
They worked hard to build the tower. They were as gods! Read
it in context:
They found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, “Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 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.” (Gen 11-2:3)
Just what were they doing? Building for themselves a tower
and a name. They were not building for God a house but a place for them. God
would have taken care of them if they had been meek, for “Blessed are the meek:
for they shall inherit the Earth” (Mat 5:5). God would prepare a place for them,
not on Earth but in Heaven. [vi] They
tried to build to the heavens. They were beings as God.
Remember Jacob’s ladder? It was the access to heaven. God fabricated
Jacob’s ladder. Jacob did nothing. God also provided the wood for “Jesus’s Ladder”
— the Cross. Men hewed the wood, but God was the Maker of it.
At Shinar, the people, on the foundation that God provided which
they found, made stones of brick and slime. In other words, they did not
use stones that God had made; and read that as Jesus is the Stone that the
builders rejected, [vii]
but “stone” of their own making. They rejected God just as the Jews rejected
God’s Son who IS the Flesh of God.
God IS the True Rock of Salvation. [viii]
They rejected Jesus before He was ever born. They built their own god, or at
least their “image” of Him. Perhaps this was truly the first Image of God that
was ever made, and God did what? He scattered them all over the world and their
handiwork went unfinished! (Gen 11:8).
Of what had they feared? They built the city and tower, “lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth” (Gen 11:4). What did
God do? Scatter them abroad! [ix]
They got what they feared.
They were endeavoring to make their names known worldwide by
building a tower for the world to see. Men still do that! Skyscrapers make
names for their owners, architects, and builders. That is what God did when he
fabricated the heaven and the earth. He made Himself THE NAME (Yahweh;
Existence). Why were the people trying to reach the heaven with their tower? Likely
not to find EXISTENCE as I said before, but “to be” God. I put that in
quotations because “making a name” for oneself is “to be” God.
What did God do? He made a foundation whereas they only found
it. Then the people took what God had made (earth in the form of clay) and made
an image. Their image was never animated. God animated the image that He had
made by “breathing life” unto the clay. [x]
The clay tower had no life breathed unto it, because God found the works of
their hands insufficient and disgusting. That was what Abraham came to believe.
This tower was a prelude to why God chose Abraham.
As such, God scattered them and confounded their language.
(I call that “encryption”). Their language before had been an ancient form of
Hebrew, as some believe. After their unsuccessful attempt to be God, God would
not allow them to speak His language because they had become a world-wide
conspiracy much like Lucifer’s in the beginning: “Thou hast said in thine heart
(Lucifer), ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God’” (Isa 14:13). They allied with Satan to ascend into the heaven, not to
find God there, but Lucifer on the throne of God.
Like Satan long before, what did God do? Scattered them abroad.
“O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground” (Isa
14:12). What happened to Lucifer in Judas? He climbed the “tower” that God built
(The Judas Tree), and God cut him down: Satan was in Judas, and “falling
headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out” (Acts
1:28).
“Satan” hung himself after climbing God’s tree; then who cut
Judas down from his “tower?” He fell! Not that he was careless and slipped, but
God cut Satan down from His tree.
Jacob’s ladder was for angels to ascend and descend. On the
plain of Shinar, those were no angels. They were all children of the Wicked One
by that time, just like Cain, their “father.”
The Cross was the “tree” and “tower” to heaven, and it was built
by God. He provided the wood. It is believed that the “old wooden cross” as it
is called was made from acacia wood that righteous men converted into poles for
carrying the Ark of God, and were poles that God designed. Two persons went to
Paradise the day that God died — only Jesus and the repentant thief. However,
those with bright eyes would see themselves ascending as well if only they
follow Jesus.
The work of sinful men’s hands would not suffice to enter unto
heaven, neither then, nor now! God had wrath on them because they were of one accord
to build a tower to reach unto the heaven. They were one under the auspices
of Satan, the Prince of the Power of the Air.
Now look what happened when all the people of the world were
represented in Jerusalem. “They were all with one accord in one place” (Acts
2:1) but not in Shinar, the realm of the “Satan” Nimrod, but in Jerusalem, “the
foundation of peace.”
And then what happened? “The multitude came together, and
were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language”
(Acts 2:6). God decrypted their language so that they all understood. Their tongues
remained the same, but they understood to decipher God’s Plan for building the
Church. Why did God do that? To allow the people of different nations from all
over the world to build a “tower” to God.
“Another tower?” you ask. Not an obelisk nor a ziggurat as
in Shinar, but a Church. Not one made of fake stone, but one built of Solid
Rock and Lively Stones with Jesus, not Nimrod, as the Cornerstone. The tower of
Babel was built by confused people by their own hands, and the Church was to be
built by God using the will of the people.
Perhaps the Tower of Babel had the assistance of slave labor
or that Satan deceived them. They seemed to be of on accord, but accordance
is not possible without harmonizing with God.
When the “tower to the heaven” was built by all those of
other nations in Jerusalem, the tower stands today, although it is not seen by
any but those who see the Light.
I have seen the “tower!” It is the Cross that Jesus translated
to and fro upon. The Cross is a short tower to the “third heaven.” Paul knew a
man who went there. Paul wrote that ca 55 AD. Jesus was crucified in 33
AD. Just who did Paul see climbing the tower to heaven even before Jesus went
there?
Surely not Paul as he was a sinful Pharisee — a “viper” as
Jesus called them. Maybe he saw Jesus in the Third Heaven as that “Man.” Then
Paul would deny Jesus.
His name “Saul” means “questioning.” Perhaps when Paul questioned,
“Whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell:
God knoweth” (2 Cor 12:2), he saw Jesus! When Jesus found Saul, he was no
longer “Questioning” (the meaning of the name Saul), but “humbled” (the meaning
of the name, Paul).
Paul would inherit Paradise because his humbling brought on
meekness. Why did Paul say that “to die is gain?” [xi]
Because the Cross of Jesus would transport him across the “Sea of Glass” unto
the heavens and even beyond the Third to where God IS.[xii]
Why is the Noah’s Ark so important? Eight people crossed the
sea of water and were in a new Paradise on Earth. Those who see the Cross of
Jesus as another of God’s Arks (Noah’s Ark, Moses’s basket, The Ark of the Covenant,
Jacob’s Ladder, and so on) will discover the Way to the Heaven. It is not by
things built by Noah’s hands, nor the hands of Moses’s family, or even the
Levities. It is by transportation by the Hand of God. It was Jesus all the time
that carried His Father in the world and will carry His “images” (Christians) there
as well.
By the way, the Tower of Babel was the first use of idols.
It represented their “god,” the “mighty hunter, Nimrod — the father of all the
false gods. Nimrod built the cities of Shinar and is still remembered for that.
He did make a name for himself, but no gods are called by his name to this
time. The Babylonians named him other names, as did the Canaanites who generalized
him as “Baals” and then the Greeks and Romans gave Nimrod many other names.
Never forget that all false gods are Nimrod, and that the real God abandoned him
and his cities.
Who else built the city and tower in Babel? Provide a list
of their names if you can. They are not men of renown who would make a name for
themselves but a bunch of unknowns who were scattered and their names even unpronounceable.
When they built their invisible “tower” to God— the Church —
in Jerusalem they were in one accord with God’s Plan for them. He gave them
instructions on how to build a Church with Words that they could understand.
The Church was built in Jerusalem and named in Antioch as, not Nimrod’s nor
Judas’s church, but the “Christian Church.” (Both Nimrod and Judas had Satan in
them.) And like Noah, it was not the water that saved them, but the wood that God
provided — the same organism as the Cross. But do remember that wood, nor
towers, nor even water is saving, but only the blood of Jesus that God pours His
Holy Ghost on those who follow Him. It was not the water nor the Ark that saved
Noah’s kind, but Jesus who was onboard, stowed away, that did the miracle.
The tower of Babel was not torn down, but the people were scattered.
That tower still exists to this day but cannot be seen unless one has seen unto
the heaven. The Tower of Babel lives in the doctrine of works, and believe it
or not, people still to this day try reaching the heaven by the works of their
own hands. That they do so in remembrance of Nimrod who failed to make a name
for himself!
Self-esteem is our poor way for building “towers” for ourselves; to feel as if our names are so important. Only one Name merits that, and that Name is Jesus. Only Christ-esteem can transport to Heaven, “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it” (Ephes 5:29). That is what the builders of the tower to the heavens were doing; all to build their own esteem rather than esteem God for what He had done.
(picture credit: Voice of America: "HBO Produces Documentary")
[i]
Luke 22:19
[ii]
Gen 6:8
[iii]
John 19:34
[iv] 1
Thes 4:16
[v]
John 14:16
[vi]
John 14:3
[vii]
Mat 21:42
[viii]
2 Sam 22:47
[ix]
Gen 11:9
[x]
Gen 2:7
[xi]
Phil 1:21
[xii]
Rev 4:6
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