Nearly 4,300 years ago the masses of mankind had gathered themselves in the fertile plain of Shinar to build themselves a city and make a tower reaching unto the heavens! They wanted to make a name for themselves and to avoid being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth! In the Biblical story (Genesis 11:1-9), God, seeing what they were up to, decided to go and confuse the languages in order to divide up and disperse people groups into various cultures so that mankind would not be able to progress as quickly in their development, while living in sin.
The people laid their plans and said, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…” (Gen. 11:4). God knew that “now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do,” since the people were “one” and they all had “one language” (Gen. 11:6). The world was at a point then in which it was dangerous to allow man to progress because they were living in sinful rebellion against God, and putting their minds together in that sinful rebellion, and quickly adding many new technologies in such a state and at such a time would spell disaster for the human race! So, God slowed mankind’s progress by dividing mankind and halting their efforts.
Today, the world has reached a point in history where we’ve come to the same crucial boiling point! After so many years of being divided by languages and cultures we’ve come to a point where most all cultures of the world are now working together in harmony again. Language barriers around the world have majorly been broken down, especially among the elite thinkers and decision-makers of the various countries, cultures, and peoples. Yet, people’s hearts have not changed. Evil still lurks in the hearts of men. Can we imagine that God will not do something now, as He did back at that early time in history? The crisis of the ages is coming upon us! The Lord will soon appear to deal with the sin problem amongst mankind! We are reaching that boiling point again!
The world’s population has all been flocking and migrating to the cities! People are building towers around the world to make names for themselves, all striving to build the tallest and the best towers, while utterly forgetting about God our Creator! There is the Burj Khalifa (in Dubai), and the two Phoenix Towers planned for Wuhan, China which are slated to be completed in 2017 or 18 and will reach one kilometer in height! The CNN article reads, “No one can accuse China of stinting in its efforts to reach for the sky” (See CNN Article). Here we are, thousands of years later, running the same kind of show that brought God’s divinely appointed division into our world anciently!
The problem is not innovation, but rather sin, and rebellion against the Creator! Mankind wants to continue in sin and rebellion against God while building up and glorifying themselves. The danger is that mankind with sinful hearts are putting their minds together to develop all sorts of technologies, which left in the hands of sinful mankind will pose terrible threats to our race. God will not allow mankind to move on terribly farther without calling in the cards and putting an end to their sinful rebellion. It happened anciently, and we can be sure that it will happen in our day too! Beyond the modern innovations of today, the world is swelling and filling with a Sodom and Gomorrah level of iniquity (wickedness/sin), and a violence akin to the days of Noah (Gen. 6), all of which Jesus said would be signs of the end! (Luke 17:24-30) World wake up!! Jesus is coming very soon! Let us repent of our sins and seek God’s mercy before it’s too late!
