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God Stopped Building the Tower of Babel

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Bible verse : Genesis 11:7-8 (NIV)

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Beginning with the first humans, Adam and Eve, people began to appear in this world. At that time, people lived more than 900 years and had children.
As the number of people increased, so did the number of people who did things that God hates..

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When a man named Noah lived, no one served God except Noah's family.
Finally, the whole world is full of sin, and it has reached the point where God's judgment cannot be avoided. God eventually sent judgment on them by flood. Except for the 8 members of Noah's family who obeyed God's word, everyone was judged by water and died.

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A lot of time has passed since Noah's flood judgment. Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, brought many people to this world.
However, in that era, like the days of Noah, it was again filled with sins that God hates.

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A large group of people of that era traveled eastward and found a great plain called Shinar. They wanted to settle down and live in that great plain for a long time.
So they started researching a technology that could make a sturdy house.

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The technology was to make a brick shape with clay and bake it over a fire to make it strong. In addition, a technology was introduced to use bitumen to firmly hold the bricks together. They started building their houses using bricks.
It quickly turned into a large city.
They also came to build walls around the city to protect their dwellings.

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As they begin to use the brick technique, they come up with amazing and big plans. “Everyone, let’s build a tower that can reach the top of the heaven with this technology. So make our marks behind how great we were.
And let’s live together like this and never be separated.”

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They came to have a arrogant heart that wanted to raise their own name rather than raising the name of God. They planned to do the exact opposite of God's command to scatter and spread throughout the earth.
They wanted to show the world how great they had done.

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They became one in mind to make a name for themselves and built the tower with all their zeal. Their skills were so great that as time passed, the tower was built very high. Their hearts were filled with the arrogance of being able to build a tower that could reach the sky.

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God was angry with them for building a tower with pride and evil hearts.
God came down to see the castle and tower they built.
And he decided to punish their wicked and proud hearts.

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God said. "These people are one people, and they all speak the same language.
So they started doing this, and this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. They can do anything they want. So I came down to them.
Let's go and mix up their languages, so that they won't understand what they're saying to each other."

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God decided to punish them so that they could no longer do things that resisted God. God's punishment was that they spoke different languages.
The people who built the huge tower fell into great confusion when they could not understand the language. They could not proceed with building the tower any longer because they could not communicate with each other.

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People began to gather only among people who spoke the same language.
And one by one they started to scatter.
The plan to gather in one place and create their own big world did not go ahead.

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Their plan to build a tower reaching from the plains of Shinar to heaven could not proceed any further because God prevented them from communicating.
People call this tower they failed to build the Tower of Babel.
The word Babel was coined in the sense that God confused their language.

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This Tower of Babel makes us realize how much God hates arrogant hearts.
They believed in their skills and thought that everything was possible, but when God stopped them, they couldn't do anything.
Also, they were scattered after receiving the severe punishment of not being able to speak the same language for doing what God hates with their skills.

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God never takes pleasure in those who use the powers given to them arrogantly.
The ability God has given me must be used to exalt God.
Jesus, who came to this earth wearing a human body with great miraculous power, set an example for us. Jesus used all of his powers to please God.
We must also imitate this Jesus.
We must be people of faith who properly use our good skills and abilities for God. God exalts such a person and blesses him.

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