Babbling Babylonians
Genesis 11:7 – “Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” The Babylonian intent in their attempt at their sovereign secular kingdom was to have sufficient power to do as they pleased by uniting together and defending themselves from everyone else. God rightly viewed this centralization of power in the hands of proud sinners apart from Him as a dangerous thing and saved them from themselves and saved others from the potential abuses of power by simply scattering them and confusing their languages. Ironically, this scattering of the people and confusion of the languages were two of the primary things these people were seeking to prevent from happening in the first place. The name Babel, or Babylon, is humorously akin to our English word babble, which is what their communication sounded like once God confused their language. Beautifully, on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 through the power of the Holy Spirit, the gift...