Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 4 – Babel and the United Nations

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Our third speaker this morning
is Brother Dennis Bevins from

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the Austin Leander, TX Ecclesia.
The theme for Brother Dennis’s

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class this week is Noah Saving
Your Family in a Dark World.

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Today’s class is entitled Babel
and the United Nations.

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Well, this class is more like an
intermission.

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Perhaps it would be better
served with popcorn and soda

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pop.
But the bottom line is we’re

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going to take a little break
from the story of Noah to kind

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of have a meanwhile back at the
ranch moment.

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The the last chapter of the
story of Noah really kind of

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finds its way into chapters 10
and 11 from a timeline

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standpoint.
And because the Bible is written

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in cereal, we tend to feel like
this guy died and then this guy

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died, then this guy died.
But in reality, they’re all

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alive at the same time.
So because after the flood,

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we’ve got another 350 years of
Noah’s life, that’s what brings

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us into the story of Babel in
chapter 10, Chapter 11.

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And rather than finish on that,
felt it might be better to break

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up the action and do it in the
middle.

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You ultimately will get to
decide whether that was a good

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decision or not, but that was
the intent behind it.

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So this is going to get us a
look at what happened next.

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So we mentioned the Genesis
record closes on Noah at the end

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of Chapter 9.
We’ll see that in the next

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couple days.
And we know very little about

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the family after the flood.
So since the, the the Bible then

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is going to give us a little
insight as to what happens on

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the planet after the flood,
we’re going to kind of

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incorporate that story into this
story.

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Reality is they happen
concurrently.

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Now, the Bible is not a history
book or a science book, but a

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spiritual guide book.
And so you because of that, we

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see many pieces of the Bible are
assembled in lesson order, not

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necessarily historical order, if
you will.

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And probably the best way to
illustrate that is Genesis

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chapter 5.
And I know, Oh, you can read

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that fairly well, actually.
All right, good.

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I didn’t think you could read
any of that.

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You can read some of it.
Those lines are lifespans.

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Those are all the people
mentioned in Genesis chapter 5.

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And the reason we put them up
there together is so that if you

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look, you can see that there
could have been an Addams family

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get together and everyone
mentioned in Genesis 5 up to

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Noah could have been there.
They were all alive at the same

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time at some point, including
Enoch.

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So therefore everyone in Genesis
5 except Noah could have been

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given a first person account of
creation.

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That’s amazing because we don’t
really think about that.

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Can you imagine?
Let’s have a meal and Methuselah

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and Adam are having a chat about
the first sin that could have

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happened.
And I’m not saying they hung out

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every day and did this every
weekend because they were going

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away from the center, but they
were all alive at the same time.

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And Noah himself could have had
a second person account of

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creation.
Anybody besides Adam and our

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friend Enoch could have shared
what happened in creation from a

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second person account.
So I think it helps us to see

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that these things didn’t happen
1234, but they happened 1234 in

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concert with each other.
Now a similar thing happens in

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the next Bank of stories too.
This is Genesis chapter 10 verse

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one.
These are the generations of the

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son of Noah, Shem, him and
Japheth.

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Unto them were sons born after
the flood.

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Now if I was trying to put you
down for a mid morning nap, we

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could do a genealogy this
morning.

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So don’t let your eyes roll back
yet.

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We’re only going to do part of
it to set the stage.

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Couple simple comments.
This is the story of the

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children after the flood, so
there’s no record or whether

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they lost children in the flood
as we mentioned I think

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yesterday with Hamsheim and
Japheth or it gets more tragic.

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But this definitely starts to
account for their children post

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flood.
Now Genesis Chapter 9 tells us a

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not so flattering story about
this immediate family, but it

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doesn’t tell us when.
But we do get some hints towards

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the timing.
In fact, we’re told that he was

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a husbandman and that he got
drunk on his own wine tells us

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it had to be years later.
How many we can debate.

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But you, you don’t wake up, say
ah, we’re on dry land, let’s

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plant a vineyard, I’ll be drunk
tomorrow.

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That’s not how that works.
It takes years to cultivate and

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in the in the law they were
supposed to really wait till it

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was about 7 years before it was
useful in harvest.

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So it’s going to be years and
then you don’t get grape one,

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squeeze it and tomorrow it’s
wine.

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It takes time.
So whatever happens in Genesis 9

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was years after the flood.
Therefore, chronologically, this

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story most likely overlaps with
what we’re going to see in

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Genesis Chapter 10.
So the purpose of this break in

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the timeline from Genesis
chapter 5 and 10, we were able

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to piece together a historical
record to keep track of how many

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generations have passed and in
some cases, the years that it

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took.
But the one significant story

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that is embedded in this
genealogy that gives us detail

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should get our attention because
anytime something seemingly

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insignificant and seemingly
unnecessary is added to a story

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in Scripture, that’s the clue to
the Bible.

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Student is like, all right, why
do we need to know that?

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There’s got to be a reason.
So let’s drop down to verse 6.

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The sons of hymn Kush, Misram
foot Canaan, sons of Kush Siba

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Havilah Sapta, Rhema Saptica,
sons of Rhema Sheba D Dan Kush

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begat Nimrod.
He began to be a mighty one in

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the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before

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the Lord.
Wherefore it is said even as

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Nimrod, the mighty hunter before
the Lord.

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So this is perhaps 3 generations
from Noah, Ham, Kush, Nimrod.

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Now it’s been suggested it was
in the line of Kush and not

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necessarily his son.
The First Chronicles genealogy

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First Chronicles 1 also notes
that Kush begat Nimrod.

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So I tend to lean that way.
But it’s not absolutely

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necessary.
We know it for sure or it would

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be crystal clear.
However, it does give us some

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insight to the timing.
According to Strong’s the son of

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Kush, this is Ham.
Excuse me?

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The son of Kush, the grandson of
Ham, the great grandson of Noah,

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is a mighty hunter, established
an empire in the area of

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Babylon, Assyria.
So that gives us a timeline to

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Nimrod.
His name in Hebrew means a

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rebel.
Interesting, given the story

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from here.
So we have him as a mighty man

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in defense of the Lord.
He became the standard, excuse

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me, not defense boy, can you do
what you did for Darius or

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rewind and fix that one Defiance
of the Lord in defiance of the

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Lord and became the standard for
cute future king God rulers.

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So you might picture someone
like Nebuchadnezzar in the story

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of Daniel, and you’re staying
very well within the line of

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context.
So about this guy in the middle

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of genealogy.
Oh, he’s a mighty hunter.

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And it’s said a couple times
that tells us it’s something

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important.
But they don’t just go on to the

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next guy.
We get these three more verses

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attached to the story of Nimrod.
The beginning of his Kingdom was

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Babel, and Eric and Acat and
Kalna and the land of Shinar.

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So now we’re getting a little
map put together for us.

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Out of that land went forth
Asher and builded Nineveh, the

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city of Riyaboth and Kayla, and
Resin.

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Between Nineveh and Kayla.
The same is a great city.

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So we’re now being able to plot
out some of the cities that were

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big and growing.
And by the time Moses is giving

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us this account, he’s able to
describe some of the things this

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city these cities had become.
And some of them were cities

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they would have known.
And thanks to archaeology,

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they’re cities you and I could
know as well.

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So let’s pick this apart a
little bit.

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The word Babel, that word in
Hebrew is used 262 times, so

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it’s not an uncommon word.
But only two of them are

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translated Babel.
All the others, 260 others are

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translated Babylon.
So when you and I read it here

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and in Chapter 11, verse 9,
which we’re going to get to in a

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few minutes, so we read Babel,
we should be reading Babylon

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because that’s what the way this
word is translated everywhere

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else in Scripture.
So the beginning of his Kingdom

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was Babylon, and now we’re
taking on a significance that

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carries its way all the way
through Scripture, not as an

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independent story about a tower
they stopped building, but as a

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united story about a religious
movement moving away from God to

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the glorification of the flesh,
which may have started right

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after the flood but continues to
this day.

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By using the name Babylon, we
were able to connect that dot

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very clearly in verse 10.
All four of those cities are

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between the Tigris and the
Euphrates, modern Iraq.

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Historical Babylon, verses 11
and 12 gives us four more cities

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which eventually become greater
Nineveh.

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Kayla is the city where the
black obelisk was found along

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with winged lions and human
heads.

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So before the genealogy
continues, let’s look at a

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little bit about Kayla.
So Kayla, which of which really

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becomes incorporated into
Nineveh over time, Nimrod was

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the the Nimrod or Kayla was the
capital city of the ancient

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Assyrian Empire.
So around 12:50 BC, Shalmanesar,

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the first king of Assyria,
mentions himself as a founder of

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the city.
Great walls were built in the

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884 BC range.
Later kings ruled in the same

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area until the latter part of
the 8th 8th century when the

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capital city was moved to
Korsabad and then later to

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Nineveh.
This city was eventually

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abandoned in 612 BC after a
serious destruction.

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The city itself is about a mile
and a quarter square, so it’s

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not huge.
But in this city, they were able

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to find temples, palaces, the
great ziggurat about 140 feet

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high, and monuments and ruins in
the ancient city of Nimrod or

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Kayla, many of which were
removed and brought to the

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British Museum in the 1800s.
So you can go see them if you’d

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like to go visit your friends in
England.

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One relic records a feast in the
palace with a numbering a total

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of 63,000 people.
So it’s not just a little city,

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it’s a big city in a mighty
city.

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Nimrod and some of its kings are
mentioned in the Bible.

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The famous city is mentioned.
The book of Genesis we just

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mentioned was located about 20
miles South of ancient Mosul.

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So let’s play with the obelisk.
This is the black obelisk of

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Shalmanizer.
The third might have seen

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something like this.
If if you’ve ever been in

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Southern California around the
time of the County Fair, we have

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a presentation that’s been put
together by brothers and sisters

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over many years that that part
of this presentation has a

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replica of that obelisk.
You recognize it, don’t you,

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Darius?
Anybody else recognize it?

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All right, I got so the three of
us can talk about it like we

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know something they don’t.
All right, Now, what makes this

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obelisk interesting is not just
that we have one.

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OK, that’s cute.
But why do we have one?

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Well, there’s a reason this was
discovered in 1846 while being

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excavated.
So it’s it’s something that’s

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recent, fairly recent 180 years
from today roughly.

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And it goes back to describe
some things on it about the

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military campaigns of the
Assyrians.

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Let’s see, let’s read a couple
things.

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I don’t want to read this whole
thing.

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Military campaigns of 31 years
and the tribute they exacted

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from their neighbors, including
camels, monkeys, an elephant, a

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rhino.
Because the Assyrian kings often

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collected exotic animals and
plants as an expression of their

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power.
Well, there are five scenes of

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tribute.
And if you, I don’t know if you

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can see them segment by 5, you
can’t trust me, Trust us.

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Five scenes attribute and they
lit they, the story goes around

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all four sides.
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the face of the obelisk, we have
a line in cuneiform explaining

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what the pictures are showing.
And you can probably see the one

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in the top left corner.
You can.

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That’s the one we’re going to
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That is Jihu, son of Armory of
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And so let’s see the the second
register from the top includes

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the earliest surviving picture
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That’s Jehu, the king who’s
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and send his tribute.
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Israel, lost his life in a
battle a few years previously,

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fighting against the king of
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Gilead.
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The second son, Joram, was
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who broke the alliances with
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submitted to Assyria.
The caption above, written in

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Assyrian cuneiform, can be
translated and this is what it

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says on the obelisk.
The tribute of Jihu, Jihu son of

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Armory.
I received from him silver,

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gold, a golden bowl, a golden
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golden tumblers, golden buckets,
tin, a staff for a king, and

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Spears.
So you have the first picture of

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an Israelite outside of the
Scripture found in history,

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which gives us some significance
because knowing the foundation

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of God’s Word and His purpose to
draw to people for His name.

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Focusing first on the Jew and
then to the Gentile, we hone in

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onto the next story after the
Tower of Babel to Abraham to get

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there.
We have very strong Hebrew

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roots.
Now here we have a connection

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going back to the roots of
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What is going to stand up
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it comes time for his return?
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to us today.
Verse 9 of Chapter 11, the

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second time the word Babylon is
translated Babel.

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Therefore the name of it is
called Babel, because the Lord

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did their confound the language
of all the earth, and from

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thence did the Lord scatter them
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So who began this Kingdom in
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Nimrod 3 generations from Noah.
Now, the word Babel, we know

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that means confusion.
And by the end of this class we

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will see that the confusion is
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name, because we wanted to build
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religious and political
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So we’re going to hold that
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We’re going to see embedded not
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the flesh, but the foundation by
which political and religious

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confusion have been permeated
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right after the flood, even to
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Now the end of Genesis 11 gives
us a genealogy of Shem with

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years to connect the dots from
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So we’re able to put some
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Let’s look at verse 10.
These are the generations of

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Shem.
Shem was 100 years old and begat

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our faxed 2 years after the
flood.

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OK, so two years after the
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Then we have at verse 12 our fax
and live 5 and 30 years and

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begat Sayla, and at verse 14 say
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So if Sayla was 3 generations
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timeline, Shen’s family line, he
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He was old enough and
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children at age 30.
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giving us a total of 67 years
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So it’s not a long, it’s not way
down the road now this is next

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door.
We have a problem.

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Here we are 67 years later, 3
generations after the flood and

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this God king changer of the
world, political language,

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religious confusion is already
springing route that will extend

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now for over 4000 years from the
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That’s astounding.
I said that a word a lot.

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My wife has told me I’ve I’ve
been astounded a lot.

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Hopefully you’ve been somewhat
astounded with me.

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I’m going to try to use a new
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That’s amazing.
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Verse 14.
Sailor lived 30 years begat

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Eber.
Sailor lived after begat Eber

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403 years and begat sons and
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So Sailor lived 433 years total.
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years, which means Noah would
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this guy was alive, probably
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alive.
So Noah got to see God wipe the

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slate clean for destruction,
violence, and confusion, and he

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lived long enough to see it go
right back to the mess it was

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when God cleaned it out.
So when we look at the world

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around us today and we’re just,
we find ourselves somewhat

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dissatisfied with the things we
see in the world and maybe how

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we see them in the ecclesia.
Recognize this is not new

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territory for God and his
people.

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We are living the days of Noah
now.

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Somewhere in Genesis 9, we put
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So that’s why it meant, that’s
why we’ve bothered to take this

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time out.
We can look at building the

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towers and event going on in the
world around the family at

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approximately the same time.
And you can imagine the thinking

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of the family, all the years
they spent building a boat to

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save their family.
And what was that, 120?

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And here we are in about half
the time there’s a tower going

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up.
Wow, the flesh is amazing, isn’t

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it?
Well, the rest of this class is

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going to be dedicated to.
OK, so why do we care?

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All right, Genesis Chapter 11,
verse 1 and 2, the whole earth

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was of one language.
One speech came to pass when

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they journeyed from the east.
They found a plane in the land

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of Shinar and they dwelt there.
So we have unity, as we will

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see, and we’re seeing a united
representation of the flesh

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against God.
The RSV has it this way.

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Now, the whole earth had one
language and few words.

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I highlight that they didn’t say
much but at least they

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understood each other.
Now what we have here in Shinar

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is we have a place from Ararat
going back towards Eden which

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was the center of the worship in
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We get that back from Genesis
chapter 4 Shinar.

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It appears in the next in the
text.

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A few interesting places, one
that’s probably in your heads

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already, is Daniel chapter 1.
The Lord gave Jehoiakim, the

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king of Judah, into his hand and
some of the vessels of the House

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of his God, and brought them to
the land of Shinar, the House of

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his God, and placed them vessels
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And of course we recognize this
as the beginning of the

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captivity of Babylon, but that
captivity’s roots starts back in

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the building of the Tower of
Babel.

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This is a wave of religious and
political confusion.

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That started in Daniel and
continues through the apocalypse

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much later.
So we’re going to see the

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development of this becoming not
just a language and a people

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with a common name, but they’ve
got a system, an education

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system where they take out the
brightest and best from the

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people.
They take a cap in captivity.

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They leave the ones they’re not
interested in behind the the

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figs that are allowed to rot in
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And they take all these younger
men and try to convert them into

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their own thinking, both
educationally and, and from a

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religious standpoint.
Sounds anything like the

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education system in our land
today.

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Oh, nothing like it.
It’s all coincidental.

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Now, Daniel would be a topic for
another day.

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But these stories are connected
in a number of ways.

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I’d like to look on one of them
and then we’ll move along.

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We’ve looked at this verse a
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Three men, Noah, Daniel and Job
were in it and they would

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deliver but their own souls by
their righteousness saying saith

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the Lord God.
We know it’s repeated verse 20,

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religious Hebrew exclamation
point.

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We focused a little on Job in
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We’ve touched on Noah during our
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I want to just look at Daniel
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Now, Ezekiel would have been
taken captive seven years after

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Daniel was.
So there are over 50 miles away.

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There’s no telephone or cell,
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Can’t check out what’s on CNN
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How’s it going, buddy?
This, these things didn’t

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happen.
He’s 50 miles away and seven

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years behind before they’re
actually in the same proximity

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again.
So when Ezekiel writes this,

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what a profound impact Daniel
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Daniel would have only been
about 30 when Ezekiel wrote

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that.
So we’re not talking about the

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old man Daniel with such a great
resume.

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We’re talking about a young man,
a work in progress in a foreign

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land, serving a Pagan king,
risking his life every day for

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loving his God.
That’s amazing.

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Compare that to us, when we look
around and we see other people

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in the meeting, oftentimes the
one we are looking to for

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strength and encouragement is
not the one that’s younger than

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us.
Think about that.

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This is a. 30 year old brother
with no family to gauge him by,

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but only acts of faith and
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And he’s being looked on.
And listed in Rare Air by

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Inspiration.
As an example for the.

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Whole world at age 30.
This leads to constant prayer

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and labor.
All three of them had to do this

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in their ecclesia.
Both were.

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Both of these, Noah and Job,
including Daniel now were

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examples to their ecclesial
families of self sacrifice and

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dedication and they looked
ridiculous doing so.

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As we mentioned with Noah and
his boat in the desert, Job

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defending himself amongst his
brethren and both of them lost

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families in a catastrophic way.
By the judgement of God both

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will be in the Kingdom.
Then we look at Daniel, who was

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taken by God from his home, put
into another Kingdom, and made

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so we couldn’t have a family of
his own, so he adopted gods.

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What a wonderful tribute of a
young man in the truth.

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Well, we have another hidden
reference to Shinar, so I’m

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going to pretend to get back on
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A hidden reference to Shinar.
This one’s found in Joshua 7,

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Joshua 7, verse 21.
When I saw.

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Among the spoils, A goodly
Babylonish garment.

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That’s the word translated
shinar that we’ve seen back in

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Genesis 11 and in Daniel chapter
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In fact, the.
RSV has it here, a garment from

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Shinar in their text, 200
shekels of silver, wedge of

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gold, blah blah blah.
They have a lot of stuff.

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The stoning of the family of
Aiken was the result of this

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confusion.
So this.

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Confusion that draws away the
people of God to the world

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politically and religiously has
roots now not just in captivity

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but in the establishment and
conquest of the land.

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Genesis 11.
Verse 3, they said one to

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another go to let us make brick
and burn them thoroughly that

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they had brick for stone and
slime had they for mortar.

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So we have cooperation and
communication.

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Verse one, not a lot of words,
but they work together.

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OK, if only they could take that
level of cooperation for

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building the things of God.
This story is so much different,

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but human beings, what we are,
we are naturally inclined to

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serve our self and our own
interest.

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And the more of us we get
together that go, hey, this is a

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good idea, let’s do it for our
name.

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And you can see why that camp is
so much more appealing than the

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let’s walk away from what makes
sense in our eyes and follow

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after the path of our father.
Let’s look a little closer at

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this.
The slime or bitumen you might

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say, is used in making asphalt.
Those characteristics are

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useful.
It softens when it gets heated.

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It becomes moldable, kind of
like warm tar, sticky like glue

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or a warm tar, and it’s water
resistant.

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Does that not adequately
describe the condition of

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humanity then and now?
It can be molded in the image of

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00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:26,280
itself.
It sticks to us.

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00:25:26,280 –> 00:25:30,360
When we get contaminated by the
thoughts of the world and it’s

437
00:25:30,360 –> 00:25:33,640
kind of water resistant, it’s
it’s not able to let the word of

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00:25:33,640 –> 00:25:37,480
God penetrate in a.
Little scary when you think.

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00:25:37,480 –> 00:25:41,240
About it, isn’t it?
Softens under.

440
00:25:41,240 –> 00:25:45,680
Social pressure then molds into
a uniform worldly model,

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00:25:46,400 –> 00:25:49,640
adhering to each other in sin by
resisting the water of life.

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00:25:51,720 –> 00:25:52,840
Wow.
All right.

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00:25:52,880 –> 00:25:56,960
Isaiah 65 people that provoke me
to anger continually to my face

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00:25:56,960 –> 00:26:01,080
that sank, sacrifice it in
gardens and burns incense upon

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00:26:01,080 –> 00:26:03,640
altars of brick.
Now we know that’s not what

446
00:26:03,640 –> 00:26:05,440
you’re supposed to do.
I’m not focusing on that.

447
00:26:05,600 –> 00:26:10,480
I’m just making a reference to
the history of brick in Israel.

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00:26:10,960 –> 00:26:14,360
This might seem a little off
topic, but verse one of Isaiah

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00:26:14,360 –> 00:26:19,880
65 says a nation that was not
called by my name, and in verse

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00:26:19,880 –> 00:26:23,560
10 it says the valley of Acor.
So we are not off topic here.

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00:26:24,400 –> 00:26:27,680
This National History of brick
that moved away from the things

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00:26:27,680 –> 00:26:30,880
of the Father to the point where
they were even burning incense

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00:26:30,880 –> 00:26:36,560
on altars to God, that would
have been an abomination to the

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00:26:36,560 –> 00:26:40,040
Father by his own design.
Exodus.

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00:26:40,040 –> 00:26:41,760
Five gives us their National
History.

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00:26:41,760 –> 00:26:45,360
We know this story.
Let us go and sacrifice to the

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00:26:45,360 –> 00:26:48,040
Lord.
Therefore, no straw will be

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00:26:48,040 –> 00:26:51,000
given to you.
We need.

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00:26:51,480 –> 00:26:54,040
To take time to remember our
father.

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00:26:55,480 –> 00:27:00,240
Oh, you’re idol.
No straw for you, Tally.

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00:27:00,280 –> 00:27:01,520
Yeah, you can still make the
bricks.

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00:27:01,840 –> 00:27:06,080
So the concept of making bricks
comes very, very much so to the

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00:27:06,080 –> 00:27:13,680
roots of Israel and also, not by
coincidence, roots of Pagan

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00:27:13,680 –> 00:27:16,200
influence on their thinking.
We.

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00:27:16,200 –> 00:27:18,640
Have the repeat.
References back to a time where

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00:27:18,640 –> 00:27:20,400
the people of God went their own
way.

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00:27:20,480 –> 00:27:24,520
False religion was the result.
We can trace back every single

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00:27:24,520 –> 00:27:29,160
Christian myth found in doctrine
today to Babylonian mythology

469
00:27:29,160 –> 00:27:31,920
and Egyptian mythology, with
nice little segways through

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00:27:31,920 –> 00:27:33,280
Greece and Rome if you want
them.

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00:27:33,920 –> 00:27:39,160
But they all have their roots in
the myths of Egypt and Babylon.

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00:27:39,960 –> 00:27:42,440
We’ll get more of that soon.
Much of it has been intertwined.

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00:27:42,680 –> 00:27:48,160
The exact opposite of first
Peter two and four, to whom

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00:27:48,160 –> 00:27:52,320
coming as unto a living stone,
disallowed indeed of men, but

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00:27:52,320 –> 00:27:56,400
chosen of God and precious, you
also, as lively stones are built

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00:27:56,400 –> 00:28:00,320
up a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to OfferUp spiritual

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00:28:00,320 –> 00:28:06,840
sacrifices acceptable to God.
By Jesus Christ, cooperation

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00:28:06,840 –> 00:28:08,480
and.
Communication is not the issue.

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00:28:08,480 –> 00:28:10,000
The question is what are we
building?

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00:28:10,560 –> 00:28:14,760
Are we building it to our name?
Are we building it as the House

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00:28:14,760 –> 00:28:19,160
of God, as lively stones?
Hebrews 11 great example.

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00:28:19,160 –> 00:28:21,800
We’ve looked at a number of
times, but we’ll just use the

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00:28:21,800 –> 00:28:24,920
comment about Abraham that he
looked for a city which hath

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00:28:24,920 –> 00:28:28,200
foundations, whose builder and
maker is God.

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00:28:30,600 –> 00:28:35,160
Influence on the Babylonian
confusion of his day repelled

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00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:37,960
him and brought him closer to
the Father.

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00:28:38,680 –> 00:28:41,280
Not coincidentally, the next
story in the Genesis account.

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00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:44,400
All right, let us build a city
and a tower.

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00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:46,640
I love how they say, go to.
It’s like that’s how we talk to

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00:28:46,640 –> 00:28:47,920
each other.
Go to.

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00:28:48,240 –> 00:28:50,760
Let us go to class.
No, whatever.

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00:28:51,120 –> 00:28:54,320
Let’s build a city and a tower
whose top may reach the heaven,

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00:28:54,320 –> 00:28:57,880
and make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad from the face

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00:28:57,880 –> 00:29:00,600
of the whole earth.
Now there’s always.

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00:29:00,600 –> 00:29:02,280
A hint that’s supposed to get
your attention.

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00:29:02,280 –> 00:29:04,440
So if the Word of God has
pricked your heart at all, you

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00:29:04,440 –> 00:29:06,200
can go.
That doesn’t sound right.

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00:29:06,320 –> 00:29:10,640
And here it is.
Let us build a tower and make us

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00:29:10,640 –> 00:29:12,640
a name.
That word name?

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00:29:13,360 –> 00:29:16,400
Shem.
Should have got their attention.

501
00:29:16,400 –> 00:29:20,400
The people of the name noting a
religious purpose, they want one

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00:29:20,400 –> 00:29:22,960
that reaches the air, and
there’s all kinds of theories as

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00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:24,400
to why.
Hey, the higher up we go, the

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00:29:24,400 –> 00:29:26,280
less likely we are to be dead in
the flood.

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00:29:27,040 –> 00:29:30,200
Well, if it went up 70 or 22
feet higher than the tallest

506
00:29:30,200 –> 00:29:32,120
mountain they could see, I don’t
think this building was ever

507
00:29:32,120 –> 00:29:34,320
going to get there.
But nonetheless, that’s one of

508
00:29:34,320 –> 00:29:38,880
the theories that we could stop
going apart, which they were

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00:29:38,880 –> 00:29:43,280
told to go out and replenish.
Well, as long as we build a

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00:29:43,280 –> 00:29:45,840
family and then our kids go out
and they build and our we can

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00:29:45,840 –> 00:29:48,720
start replenishing the earth.
But if we say, hey, stop this

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00:29:48,720 –> 00:29:51,600
replenishment stuff, let’s do it
our way and build a city in a

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00:29:51,600 –> 00:29:55,680
tower, they’re defying the laws
of God to their own intent and

514
00:29:55,680 –> 00:29:58,360
purpose.
We can compare that to prior to

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00:29:58,360 –> 00:30:00,880
the flood, Genesis chapter 4,
verse 17.

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00:30:01,200 –> 00:30:03,080
In the line of Cain, we have
Cain to his wife.

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00:30:03,080 –> 00:30:05,520
She conceived bear Enoch.
So this is not the good Enoch.

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00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:09,840
This is the bad Enoch.
He builded a city and called the

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00:30:09,840 –> 00:30:14,400
name of the city after the name
of his son Enoch, a city with a

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00:30:14,400 –> 00:30:16,000
name.
There’s that word shem again.

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00:30:16,080 –> 00:30:19,760
So we’re going right back to the
root of the sons of God that saw

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00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:22,640
the daughters of men in the line
of Cain is rearing its ugly

523
00:30:22,640 –> 00:30:24,080
head.
And here’s the problem.

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00:30:24,240 –> 00:30:27,800
It wasn’t the line of Cain.
Now it’s the line of Noah.

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00:30:29,480 –> 00:30:31,560
Let’s compare that to Revelation
17.

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00:30:32,160 –> 00:30:36,440
The woman which thou sawest is
that great city which reigneth

527
00:30:36,440 –> 00:30:38,640
over the kings of the earth.
And after these things, I saw

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00:30:38,640 –> 00:30:41,600
another Angel come down from
heaven, having great power in

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00:30:41,600 –> 00:30:43,960
the earth, was lighted by his
glory.

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00:30:44,480 –> 00:30:48,040
He cried mighty with a strong
voice, saying Babylon the Great

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00:30:48,040 –> 00:30:51,120
is fallen, is fallen, has become
the habitation of devils and the

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00:30:51,120 –> 00:30:55,000
hold of every foul spirit, a
cage of every unclean and

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00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:57,160
hateful bird.
So we’re able to connect the

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00:30:57,160 –> 00:31:02,680
dots from Genesis chapter 4 now
to the last couple chapters of

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00:31:02,680 –> 00:31:08,440
Revelation.
Tying Babylon in the Babylon of

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00:31:08,440 –> 00:31:10,840
Revelation to the Catholic
Church is a very important

537
00:31:10,840 –> 00:31:13,760
connection, and it’s probably
one of the most important in

538
00:31:13,760 –> 00:31:15,400
this topic.
So we’re going to spend a little

539
00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:21,000
time on that now.
Should we focus on fish on

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00:31:21,000 –> 00:31:24,040
Fridays?
Say I want you to look.

541
00:31:24,040 –> 00:31:28,080
So to my left, well, that used
to be a Pope, but the pictures

542
00:31:28,080 –> 00:31:31,680
cool, so we keep it and focus on
the right.

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00:31:32,680 –> 00:31:35,560
That’s a rendition of a priest
of Dagon.

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00:31:36,080 –> 00:31:38,600
Now we have the fish hat on the
Dagon priest.

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00:31:38,880 –> 00:31:42,320
Notice the open mouth?
Notice the other.

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00:31:42,320 –> 00:31:46,880
Guy, the new Dagon priest.
Open fish on.

547
00:31:46,880 –> 00:31:49,480
Mouth, if you look at from the
top, there’s a skullcaps.

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00:31:49,480 –> 00:31:50,840
You actually have the eye of
Horus.

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00:31:50,840 –> 00:31:52,640
If you want to play with Egypt
while we’re playing with

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00:31:52,640 –> 00:31:57,280
Babylon, you can do that.
Egypt was not the only Pagan

551
00:31:57,280 –> 00:32:00,320
myth generator.
So the fish God, the priest of

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00:32:00,320 –> 00:32:05,320
Dagon gives us an example that
was incorporated into the things

553
00:32:05,320 –> 00:32:09,000
of Rome.
Now Nimrod and his wife

554
00:32:09,000 –> 00:32:11,960
Semiramis established a high
order of priests for the God

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00:32:11,960 –> 00:32:14,840
Janus.
And you go, well, God Janus,

556
00:32:14,840 –> 00:32:17,720
well, that’s the the the God of
doors and hinges.

557
00:32:19,480 –> 00:32:21,440
Well, that seems kind of fun.
Let’s have one of those.

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00:32:22,880 –> 00:32:24,760
Someone prayed to.
Janus, that’s a squeaky one.

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00:32:25,200 –> 00:32:28,160
Well, it’s kind of interesting
we hear that we go, this doesn’t

560
00:32:28,160 –> 00:32:30,920
make a whole lot of sense.
Oh, but when we start thinking

561
00:32:30,920 –> 00:32:34,880
in terms of the context of the
one door that they were supposed

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00:32:34,880 –> 00:32:39,080
to have on the Ark, oh, it
brings a lot more religious

563
00:32:39,080 –> 00:32:41,120
connotation.
Well, what does that have to do

564
00:32:41,120 –> 00:32:46,040
with the Catholic Church?
Well, these priests wore red,

565
00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:50,200
ultimately developed the Roman
Catholic Cardinals.

566
00:32:50,560 –> 00:32:54,880
The word cardo in Latin means
hinge.

567
00:32:58,680 –> 00:33:02,200
Well, let’s see here.
The lower order of priests that

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00:33:02,200 –> 00:33:04,680
tended the sacrificial fires
wore black roads.

569
00:33:04,680 –> 00:33:07,240
They later emerged in Judah as
the Chairmarims.

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00:33:07,240 –> 00:33:10,920
That’s Zephaniah one and four.
They are duplicated in the black

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00:33:10,920 –> 00:33:12,520
robes of the priest of the
Catholic Church.

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00:33:12,520 –> 00:33:13,880
Today.
If you want to study of

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00:33:13,880 –> 00:33:17,000
Zephaniah, there’s an awful lot
more revealing in this regard.

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00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:20,200
And it’s a great transition if
you’re connecting the things of

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00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:22,440
early Genesis to the things of
Revelation.

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00:33:22,440 –> 00:33:25,400
But that would be another study
altogether, the part we want to

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00:33:25,400 –> 00:33:29,440
focus on today.
Zephaniah warns of impending

578
00:33:29,440 –> 00:33:32,640
judgment on Judah, but his
vision sweeps on to the return

579
00:33:32,640 –> 00:33:36,240
of Christ to judge the world in
the great day of Yahweh.

580
00:33:36,600 –> 00:33:40,640
He speaks of the impending
judgment on, get it, the

581
00:33:40,640 –> 00:33:47,160
nation’s with emphasis on Kush
or Babylon and Assyria, as far

582
00:33:47,160 –> 00:33:50,560
as we’ve seen in the language of
the Apocalypse.

583
00:33:51,560 –> 00:33:53,920
And he concludes his.
Message was the turning of a

584
00:33:53,920 –> 00:33:58,640
peoples why to a pure language
and the worship of Yahweh.

585
00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:03,320
Zephaniah is God’s answer to
Genesis Chapter 11.

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00:34:04,640 –> 00:34:07,200
The head of these.
At the head of these and is

587
00:34:07,200 –> 00:34:10,239
Israel redeemed from their
dispersion, brought into harmony

588
00:34:10,239 –> 00:34:14,199
with their God, therefore
putting down ultimately nimrods

589
00:34:14,199 –> 00:34:17,679
rebellion and utterly reversing
the system of political and

590
00:34:17,679 –> 00:34:19,239
religious error that he
introduced.

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00:34:19,520 –> 00:34:21,040
You want one more before we move
on?

592
00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:23,400
It doesn’t matter if you do or
not, it’s already on my slide.

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00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:27,840
Here is an artist.
Rendition of the beast as

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00:34:27,840 –> 00:34:32,080
described in Revelation 17, the
woman representing the apostate

595
00:34:32,080 –> 00:34:35,719
church, or the people riding on
the Roman beast called Babylon.

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00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:40,000
From a religious and political
standpoint, these things are all

597
00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:41,960
started in the early parts of
Genesis.

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00:34:42,239 –> 00:34:46,239
So while we’re on the political
topic, what does this class have

599
00:34:46,239 –> 00:34:48,880
to do with the European Union
and the United Nations?

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00:34:49,840 –> 00:34:54,120
Well, looky there.
Notice the little box in the

601
00:34:55,320 –> 00:35:01,880
bottom right corner?
Many tongues, one voice.

602
00:35:01,880 –> 00:35:03,120
What do you think they got that
from?

603
00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:09,880
That’s a European.
Union poster Notice on the tower

604
00:35:09,880 –> 00:35:13,800
being built there’s a crane.
Why is that?

605
00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:16,080
Because they’re picking up where
they left off.

606
00:35:17,800 –> 00:35:19,080
The work was.
Incomplete.

607
00:35:19,440 –> 00:35:21,000
And now we’re going to keep
building.

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00:35:21,160 –> 00:35:24,080
I’m sure it wasn’t intentionally
putting us back into Babylon,

609
00:35:24,640 –> 00:35:26,400
but that’s exactly where our
mind should go.

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00:35:27,480 –> 00:35:30,800
This is from Taken.
From the EU website, the 12

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00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:35,120
stars are a circle symbolizing
the ideals of unity, solidarity

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00:35:35,120 –> 00:35:36,880
and harmony amongst the peoples
of Europe.

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00:35:37,920 –> 00:35:40,400
Fact.
The EU motto is united in

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00:35:40,400 –> 00:35:43,440
diversity.
It signifies how Europeans have

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00:35:43,440 –> 00:35:45,360
come together.
I’m just quoting this now in the

616
00:35:45,360 –> 00:35:48,720
form of the EU.
To work for peace and prosperity

617
00:35:48,720 –> 00:35:51,600
while at the same time being
enriched by the continents, many

618
00:35:51,600 –> 00:35:53,440
cultures, traditions and
languages.

619
00:35:54,840 –> 00:35:59,680
A people united to build a city
and a name.

620
00:36:02,880 –> 00:36:05,400
This is Strasbourg.
France, the official seat of the

621
00:36:05,400 –> 00:36:08,280
European Parliament.
Any ideas on where that design

622
00:36:08,280 –> 00:36:11,400
came from?
What a coincidence.

623
00:36:11,680 –> 00:36:13,960
Just in case you thought the
poster was only joking.

624
00:36:14,640 –> 00:36:17,720
Now, we could add coins and
stamps, but I think the point is

625
00:36:17,720 –> 00:36:19,800
made.
The connection to the Europe of

626
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:24,000
today and back to the foundation
of the Babylonian Empire is on

627
00:36:24,000 –> 00:36:28,520
purpose and it’s evidence.
And it may not be intentional by

628
00:36:28,520 –> 00:36:32,080
those making these posters, but
our God knows exactly what

629
00:36:32,080 –> 00:36:34,840
they’re doing.
It has left you and I clues that

630
00:36:34,840 –> 00:36:37,400
He is ultimately in charge.
And all these things are there

631
00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:41,000
so that when we see them, see
them, we can get excited that

632
00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:43,240
there is a plan and it
culminates in glory.

633
00:36:43,880 –> 00:36:47,680
Today may not be as much glory
as we wish, but tomorrow will be

634
00:36:47,680 –> 00:36:49,840
glorious if we can keep our eye
on the prize.

635
00:36:50,320 –> 00:36:53,400
Here’s one more.
Just to keep.

636
00:36:53,760 –> 00:36:56,800
Everyone else in the loop, this
is the United Nations University

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:00,960
of Tokyo in Japan.
The world.

638
00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:05,000
Is uniting against the power of
God, and we can trace that back

639
00:37:05,000 –> 00:37:07,400
to Babel.
What we see in today’s news is

640
00:37:07,400 –> 00:37:10,240
merely A precursor, precursor to
the return of our Lord.

641
00:37:10,920 –> 00:37:13,920
So let’s go back to Genesis to
finish the scriptural portion.

642
00:37:15,400 –> 00:37:18,240
Verse 5 of Genesis 11, the Lord
came down to see the city and

643
00:37:18,240 –> 00:37:19,920
the tower and the children with
the men and build.

644
00:37:19,920 –> 00:37:22,360
So this is the angels we see
from verse 7, the divine

645
00:37:22,360 –> 00:37:25,560
inspection similar to what we
saw in Genesis chapter 6.

646
00:37:25,840 –> 00:37:28,480
They are the tool used to
manifest God here.

647
00:37:29,600 –> 00:37:31,960
And the Lord said, Behold.
The people is 1, they have one

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00:37:31,960 –> 00:37:34,880
language and this they will do,
and now nothing will be

649
00:37:34,880 –> 00:37:37,080
restrained into them which they
have imagined to do.

650
00:37:37,480 –> 00:37:40,760
Unity for evil.
Standing up against God.

651
00:37:41,120 –> 00:37:45,280
Chapter 821 reference the
imagination of the evil heart

652
00:37:46,040 –> 00:37:49,720
puts us back in line the
conditions of humanity did not

653
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change after the flood it’s.
Probably a good time to.

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00:37:53,160 –> 00:37:55,840
Quote Zephaniah Zephaniah
chapter 3, verse 9.

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00:37:56,480 –> 00:38:00,200
For then will I turn the people
a pure language, that they may

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00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:04,240
call upon the name of Yahweh,
and serve Him with one consent.

657
00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:06,640
The reversal of Babylonian
confusion.

658
00:38:07,000 –> 00:38:11,120
Instead of united of as the
flesh against the Father, it

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00:38:11,120 –> 00:38:14,480
culminates in the glory of the
Father, uniting one language,

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00:38:14,480 –> 00:38:18,680
one name to serve Him in unity.
Nice tie to 1st.

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00:38:18,680 –> 00:38:22,240
Corinthians one.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by

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00:38:22,240 –> 00:38:25,800
the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that you all speak the

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00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:28,040
same thing.
There be no division, division

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00:38:28,040 –> 00:38:31,240
amongst you, that you be
perfectly joined together in the

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00:38:31,240 –> 00:38:33,480
same mind and in the same
judgment.

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00:38:34,800 –> 00:38:36,920
We can see this message.
Throughout the New Testament,

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00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:41,240
the concept of unity for the
glory of God being promoted and

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00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:44,840
exhorted upon.
It’s on us to make sure our

669
00:38:44,840 –> 00:38:48,000
hearts and minds are focused on
the things of God and looking

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00:38:48,000 –> 00:38:51,160
toward the glory of the Father,
that we might dwell with the

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00:38:51,160 –> 00:38:55,040
Father and the Son forever as we
work together walking towards

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00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:57,960
the Kingdom.
Because as we put that as our

673
00:38:57,960 –> 00:39:00,640
perspective, it makes any other
challenges that might come

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00:39:00,800 –> 00:39:02,880
secondary.
Sure, we’ve got to work through

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00:39:02,880 –> 00:39:04,680
differences, and some
differences are bigger than

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00:39:04,680 –> 00:39:07,120
others.
I’m not discounting that, but if

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00:39:07,120 –> 00:39:11,440
our perspective is not on the
now, but on the future glory we

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00:39:11,440 –> 00:39:14,680
want to be a part of, it makes
it easier to look past the

679
00:39:14,680 –> 00:39:17,800
trials of today and look forward
to the glory of tomorrow.

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00:39:18,000 –> 00:39:20,200
That’s why it’s such a common
theme in Scripture.

681
00:39:20,400 –> 00:39:23,400
That’s why it’s so important
that we don’t become fractured

682
00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:26,560
and go our separate ways, trying
to come back together as they

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00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:31,640
did in Babel for their own sake,
but rather stay focused on the

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00:39:31,640 –> 00:39:34,160
things of God.
Stay focused on the name of God

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00:39:34,360 –> 00:39:37,800
so that we might be found
without division, perfectly

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00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:40,520
joined together as the body is
designed.

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00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:45,760
Genesis. 11:00 and 7:00 the
angels let us go down, confound

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00:39:45,760 –> 00:39:47,400
the language.
They may not understand one

689
00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:50,440
another’s speech.
So this is interesting what we

690
00:39:50,440 –> 00:39:53,280
sometimes this is one of those
practical things that actually

691
00:39:53,280 –> 00:39:55,240
makes a little bit of sense if
we thought stop and think about

692
00:39:55,240 –> 00:39:57,800
it.
But how well do you think you

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00:39:57,800 –> 00:39:59,200
and I would do in a foreign
land?

694
00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:01,960
Now, if you if you speak a lot
of languages, fine, cool.

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00:40:01,960 –> 00:40:05,160
I’m proud of you.
Pick one you don’t speak, go

696
00:40:05,160 –> 00:40:08,040
there for a minute.
You and I moved to, I don’t

697
00:40:08,040 –> 00:40:10,080
know, pick a place for Dennis to
be French.

698
00:40:10,280 –> 00:40:14,360
I’ll be I’ll be in France.
Now, the odds of me getting

699
00:40:14,360 –> 00:40:17,800
along well in anything beyond
major cities are pretty low

700
00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:21,160
because anything that’s not on a
menu, I’m in trouble.

701
00:40:22,000 –> 00:40:23,960
And my best chance on the menu
is point.

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00:40:26,920 –> 00:40:28,560
And no matter how.
Long I’m there, I’ll never be

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00:40:28,560 –> 00:40:30,200
French, but that’s a different
story.

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00:40:30,720 –> 00:40:35,240
Now here’s the point.
If I really did get planted in

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00:40:35,240 –> 00:40:38,680
the middle of France, what’s
likely the first thing I’m going

706
00:40:38,680 –> 00:40:42,720
to do?
Find somebody else.

707
00:40:42,720 –> 00:40:45,080
That speaks English so I can
have a conversation.

708
00:40:45,760 –> 00:40:48,960
It might be good to learn French
too, but it’s going to be pretty

709
00:40:48,960 –> 00:40:52,120
elementary for a long time.
My best bet is to be able to

710
00:40:52,120 –> 00:40:53,640
work together somebody who can
understand me.

711
00:40:53,960 –> 00:40:56,320
Which is why it’s so interesting
that our God chose to.

712
00:40:56,320 –> 00:40:59,080
Let’s just change the language,
fix it up, because now they’re

713
00:40:59,080 –> 00:41:01,080
going to have to find I can talk
to this guy.

714
00:41:01,080 –> 00:41:04,240
Well, let’s go this way.
And now you force them to do

715
00:41:04,240 –> 00:41:05,720
what God told him to do in the
1st place.

716
00:41:05,960 –> 00:41:07,680
It’s interesting how God always
gets his way.

717
00:41:08,520 –> 00:41:10,960
See, when you design A planet,
you get to make the rules.

718
00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:12,120
They didn’t want to follow the
rules.

719
00:41:12,120 –> 00:41:13,240
OK, we’ll shake it up a little
bit.

720
00:41:13,240 –> 00:41:15,680
Now follow them anyways, and
that’s eventually what happens.

721
00:41:15,880 –> 00:41:19,400
So we put this in perspective.
The angels did something very

722
00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:20,760
simple.
They made him do what God told

723
00:41:20,760 –> 00:41:23,480
him to do in the 1st place.
Because God has a plan, and His

724
00:41:23,480 –> 00:41:26,040
plan is going to happen.
Whether or not they or you or I

725
00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:29,440
or anybody sees fit to follow
it, it’s going to work.

726
00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:33,760
Well, that’s how.
Prophecy works because our God

727
00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:36,320
cannot give us prophecy if He
doesn’t know how it’s going to

728
00:41:36,320 –> 00:41:39,320
end in the 1st place.
But since He knows, look, I know

729
00:41:39,320 –> 00:41:41,560
where this is going to end.
There’s going to be things along

730
00:41:41,560 –> 00:41:43,720
the way that happened, but
here’s how it’s going to end.

731
00:41:44,240 –> 00:41:46,600
So therefore he can have the
angels help.

732
00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:49,400
Course correct as we go.
Genesis 11 and 8.

733
00:41:49,400 –> 00:41:51,720
The Lord scattered them abroad
from then to the face of the

734
00:41:51,720 –> 00:41:53,280
earth that they left off to
build the city.

735
00:41:53,440 –> 00:41:56,920
They left it incomplete.
But the Kingdom?

736
00:41:56,920 –> 00:42:02,880
Of men has been growing since,
and Babylon is built and becomes

737
00:42:02,880 –> 00:42:05,800
a head of gold.
And we picture Daniel’s image

738
00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:09,680
standing up, held together by
feet of partly iron, partly

739
00:42:09,680 –> 00:42:16,920
clay, and destroyed not by a
brick, by a stone made without

740
00:42:16,920 –> 00:42:19,840
hands.
See, the plan that was being

741
00:42:19,840 –> 00:42:23,280
confused by the population was
never lost sight of by God.

742
00:42:23,960 –> 00:42:26,760
And He knew exactly where they
were going and exactly how He

743
00:42:26,760 –> 00:42:33,320
was going to get there.
Therefore they called the name

744
00:42:33,320 –> 00:42:35,760
Babel, because the Lord did
confound the language of the

745
00:42:35,760 –> 00:42:36,760
earth.
And from thence the Lord

746
00:42:36,760 –> 00:42:38,840
scattered them abroad, all the
face of the earth.

747
00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:43,360
The confusion that was created,
which by the way, is the

748
00:42:43,360 –> 00:42:46,880
confusion that’s always created
when we set aside the things of

749
00:42:46,880 –> 00:42:48,480
God and start doing what man
thinks.

750
00:42:48,680 –> 00:42:53,720
The confusion in the world today
is largely result of a planet

751
00:42:53,720 –> 00:42:56,040
that’s decided the things of God
are outdated.

752
00:42:57,680 –> 00:43:00,280
And so they’ve come.
Up with things that are more

753
00:43:00,280 –> 00:43:03,720
modern and sensible and it’s all
very confusing.

754
00:43:03,880 –> 00:43:06,880
We’ve got in this country there
are kids that at 12 years old,

755
00:43:06,880 –> 00:43:09,280
can I decide whether they want
to be identified as a boy or a

756
00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:11,840
girl?
Tell me that’s not.

757
00:43:11,840 –> 00:43:15,000
Confusion.
Is not 12.

758
00:43:15,000 –> 00:43:17,720
About the time when your life is
as confusing it’s ever going to

759
00:43:17,720 –> 00:43:21,440
be hormonally.
Oh great, we wouldn’t trust you

760
00:43:21,440 –> 00:43:22,960
to drive.
We certainly don’t want you to

761
00:43:22,960 –> 00:43:24,760
drink.
Won’t even let you babysit

762
00:43:24,760 –> 00:43:27,440
another child on your own.
We’re really not sure you can

763
00:43:27,440 –> 00:43:29,200
actually dress yourself before
you leave.

764
00:43:29,400 –> 00:43:31,760
But go ahead and decide if you
want to be a boy or a girl.

765
00:43:31,760 –> 00:43:33,920
That’s not immaterial decision
that we’ll go ahead and let you

766
00:43:33,920 –> 00:43:37,080
have your 12 year old mind at.
That’s the world.

767
00:43:37,080 –> 00:43:39,880
We live in.
That’s the world it’s coming to.

768
00:43:41,040 –> 00:43:45,200
When would anyone ever want so
when that doesn’t make sense.

769
00:43:45,240 –> 00:43:49,920
Why would anyone ever want to go
back to a state that God so

770
00:43:49,920 –> 00:43:52,920
clearly disapproved of?
Round one, the flood.

771
00:43:52,960 –> 00:43:56,480
Round two, change the language,
make them go and.

772
00:43:56,480 –> 00:43:59,400
Yet we live in a.
World that’s going right back to

773
00:43:59,400 –> 00:44:03,320
the roots of political and
religious confusion that messed

774
00:44:03,320 –> 00:44:06,640
up the world in the 1st place.
Now think of it for a moment in

775
00:44:06,800 –> 00:44:09,960
the for the eyes of the Father.
He looks at it.

776
00:44:10,080 –> 00:44:12,680
And you almost can picture him
going, I mean, I knew it was

777
00:44:12,680 –> 00:44:15,120
going to happen.
But you know, again, really, I

778
00:44:15,120 –> 00:44:16,960
mean, it’s not like he’s
surprised by it, but Can you

779
00:44:16,960 –> 00:44:21,000
imagine from his perspective
thinking, wow, that’s what makes

780
00:44:21,000 –> 00:44:24,120
this remnant so precious because
most of them just want to do

781
00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:25,880
whatever it is that I tell him
not to do.

782
00:44:26,840 –> 00:44:29,480
But that handful that’s
interested in learning my way

783
00:44:29,480 –> 00:44:33,040
and going my way, boy, I want to
spend the rest of eternity with

784
00:44:33,040 –> 00:44:35,360
them, calling out of people for
His name.

785
00:44:36,120 –> 00:44:38,920
We Live Today in a world where
human nature is self-serving and

786
00:44:38,920 –> 00:44:40,680
self promoted everywhere we
look.

787
00:44:41,320 –> 00:44:43,920
The world wants to build on the
empires of the past that

788
00:44:43,920 –> 00:44:47,080
rejected the governing love of
God and replaced it with their

789
00:44:47,080 –> 00:44:50,120
own brand of worship, where the
creature has become more

790
00:44:50,120 –> 00:44:53,800
important than the Creator.
We must see all events in the

791
00:44:53,800 –> 00:44:57,080
world as a precursor to our
Lord’s return and the

792
00:44:57,080 –> 00:45:01,800
establishment of His Kingdom for
His name, one that will never be

793
00:45:01,800 –> 00:45:04,960
destroyed.
The kingdoms of.

794
00:45:04,960 –> 00:45:08,160
This world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of His

795
00:45:08,160 –> 00:45:12,520
Christ, and He shall reign
forever and ever.