The Tower of Babel: What the Bible REALLY Says (It's Not What You Think!) Genesis Highlights Part 15

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the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesischapter 11, verses one through nine.

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It's going to be an interesting read.
I'm going to be talking
about some interpretations that I'm surea lot of you have never heard before.
As always, I encourage all points of viewand ways of thought.
So, as always,
I pray that everything that we share heretoday would be a great blessing to you.
Increase your knowledge of the scriptures,your knowledge of the things of heaven,
your relationship with God,and your knowledge of the truth.

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As always.
I have the screen divided in two here.
The left handside is from the new King James.
And the right hand side is the Septuagint.
So let's do this is only nine verseswe're going to be talking about tonight.
Just the first nineverses of this chapter,
because the rest of the chapteris another genealogy.
Don't you love the genealogies? Right.
But tonight we were talking aboutthe Tower Bible.

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Notice that even the title here is calledThe Tower of Babel.
Well, since we're looking at the titlehere, by the way, the title is not even in
the original manuscripts.
The title was added by the translators.
did you guys know that this story speaks
more about the City of Babelthan about the Tower of Babel?
there are three times it says city.
City talking about the city of Babel.

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So that'd be in versefour talks about the city.
Verse five talks about the city, and verseeight talks about the city
literally,literally saying city, city and city.
But if you look up tower,there's only twice.
Only twice does it say the word tower.
So we have twice in the actual verses
themselves, once in versefour and once in verse five.

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But we have the word city three times,so that's 50% more.
Yet we all refer to this storyas the Tower of Babel.
Really, it should be calledjust simply the City of Babel.
Or you could say Bible
Babylon, you know, because this is kind oflike the beginnings of Babylon.
The word Babel and Babylon are synonymousGenesis chapter ten, verse ten.

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Over on the left hand side of the screen,you'll see the word Babel there.
I'm going to click on tools.
And we're going to go down to interlinear.
And we're going to look up the word Babel.Look at this.
It says from the word means confusion,but it's Babel i.e.
that is Babylon, including Babylonianand the Babylonian Empire.
Babel, comma. Babylon.

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so we have the story of theof Babel Babylon.
Okay.
And it doesn't always talk about the tower
talks more about the citythan it talks about the tower.
The tower is a symbol, you know,especially in the old you know, in ancient
days, a tower would bealmost like a status symbol of the city.
Even today, some of the cities we have inthe world are known by its towers.

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Right. So, even moreso in the ancient days,
because the tower would be the,the defense.
It would be part of the defensethat's used.
So you could seeif the enemies are coming.
It would give you,you know, a bird's eye view, literally.
And so the, that a tower is
kind of like the, the, the, the defense.

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It is both defensive and offensive
in a way, because you could alsoeven shoot from a tower as well.
And of course, in those daysit would be bow and arrow.
But I know these guys were pretty goodat their and their archery.
Very good.
And, and also a status symbol. Verse one.
Now the whole earth had one languageand one speech.
Okay.
So I mentioned this a little bitin passing last night in, in part 14, in

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Genesis chapter ten, the chapter before
it talks about more than one languageexisting.
It's like what I thought it'sit says here one language in one speech.
Hold on. Hold your horses.
Okay.
Because this word oneand this word language may not mean what
you think it means.
So let's go back to Genesis chapterten for a moment.

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back to Genesis chapter ten.
We have.
Three times that it talksabout different languages.
You know that this is thethis is before babble different languages.
So just to kind of recapwhat we were talking about last night.
Again, I'm looking at the left handside of the screen, And it goes into
explaining the sons of Japhethand all of his sons and sons of sons.

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And then in verse five, from these
from these that would be all the sonsand the descendants of Japheth,
the coastline peoples of the Gentileswere separated into their lands.
Everyone, according to his language.
Everyone according to his language,according to their families,
according to the nations.
Okay, so we have division separationbetween these tribes.

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If you want to talk about dangerous tribe,
separation between the peopleaccording to their language.
So that obviously would mean if you haveif you don't have any separation
and they all have one language,that would make sense.
But if you have a division,let's say even two groups of people
according to their language,
that tells us thatthere were two different languages there.
if these people are divided in three, then

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of course
there'd be three different languagesbecause it says according to his language,
there's separation or divisionaccording to his language,
if they're divided in 5 or 10to be ten different languages.
Because they're dividedaccording to their language.
So if they were divided,Nintendo would be ten number languages.
Now, once again.
So that's verse five, by the way.
Once again, verse 20,it talks about this kind of thing as well.

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So verse 20it says these were the sons of Ham
according to their families,according to their languages.
Languages.
We got Japheth and all of his descendantsdivided according to their languages.
So there's there are languageswithin Japheth, it just himself
and all of his descendants.So they have multiple languages.

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Just that, just that branch of the family.
Then we have Ham and his descendants.
They also have their own languages.
So we have that branch of the familyas well, the family of Noah.
That would be, so we see here again,you know, according to their languages.
Moving on to verse 31 again.
This is talking about Shem now, right?
The third son of Noah.

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These were the sons of Shem,according to their families,
according to their three languages.
According to their languages. Yeah. So.
There we have scriptural evidence
that there were more than one language per
son of, you know, so we get Noahdivided in his three sons, right?
Shem, Ham and Japheth.
And every one of those sonshad their own descendants,

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and they all had different languages.
It doesn't tell them, doesn't say how manylanguages there were just, says David,
you know,
they were divided into this manyaccording to the languages or or divided.
there we have some evidencewithin the Scripture itself
that we have more than one languageexisting before Babylon.
Now, any kind of linguist or historian
would tell you that there is plentyof extra biblical evidence

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that there were languages that existed,before the dating of the Tower of Babel.
Different languages.
Okay, so back to Genesis chapter 11,verse one.
Now the whole earth had one languagein one speech.
Okay, so so what happened here?What does this mean?
I'm sure people can try to bend overand play the twister
and bend over backwardsto try to make everything work, to say,

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well, maybe they all had one.
Maybe they all just uniform like,
maybe they all justkind of threw away everything
and they only kept one language,after all.
After all. Yeah, I don't think so.
You know, you can make upwhatever you want to make up, but let's
look into the Hebrewand what these words mean.
So Genesis chapter 11 againon the left hand side

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I am looking into the, interlinear.
And it says here,and the whole earth rest.
Now, this is,this is something right here.
We we spoke about thisin, pertaining to Noah in the flood,
but here we are again, this word Erezor Eretz Hebrew,
this word doesn't necessarily mean thethe whole.

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It doesn't necessarilymean the whole earth.
This word Eretz inthe Hebrew is very ambiguous.
It can mean everything from your backyardto the entire world.
It could mean everything.
The the word Eretz is more accurately
translatedinto the into the English word land.
Earth is not a very good translationof this, of this word.

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It's better to say the whole land.
Then you got to ask the question,what land?
You look up the word
eretz in the Hebrew dictionary, it wouldtell you that it could even mean a field.
It doesn't have to mean the entire earth,
So this word eretz can be global,but it can be local to.
And I do believe, just as in thethe story of the the flood, that,
I think with all the evidencethat we have both both, biblically,

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if you will, and extra biblically,through the, the historians
and the archeological discoveriesand all that kind of stuff.
I think that we canI think that that myself personally,
I lean more to a localization of this wordas opposed to a globalization
of the world of the word.
And I, I think that using this wordand making it sound global

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can I'm just using the word can.
Can bring reproach upon the scripturesthemselves, if not the name of the Lord.
Because, you know, I think that we again,we have a lot of history
and a lot of archeological discoveriesand a lot of things
that would tell us that before Babel,there were other languages.
So, if this was global, then,then it's there's 1 or 2 things.

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Eitherthe one language phrase in the Hebrew
doesn't mean what it sounds likeit means in English, or it does mean that.
And the word landmeans something different than we think.
It means it's either one or the other.
Or you can say all of the historiansare wrong, all the archeological evidence,
or it just turn a blind eyeto all the evidence that we ever have

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and say it's all wrong.
And, and, and our interpretationof Genesis 11 one is right.
I don't recommend going that routeI don't think there's much
evidence behind it.
And I also I think that.
Someone who would do thiswithout the evidence, I think it's it
can it can show, it can displaya lot of arrogance and denialism.

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Okay.
So the word land or at Earth here,what it says the whole Earth. It.
Literally is the whole Eretz.
Which can mean a country can be a county.
It could mean a continent.
It could mean the world. I get I'mnot I'm not.
You know, I don't want to misrepresentwhat it could mean.
It could mean the entire world.

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But again, given the evidencethat we already see, I don't think that
we have a whole lot of evidence to go onby saying this means the whole world.
Anyways, moving on.
This word Eretz was of one agency.
It had.
This is the same word it had that's used
in the Hebrew when it says the two.

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When a man marries a woman,the two will become one flesh God, flesh.
So they're unified.
So they're in in lockstep with each other.
So, you know,they're in tune with each other.
So they understand each other.
So this word, what God, just
as we, as I spoke of before in Genesischapter one, a hard day,

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it can be talking about a unifiedthe unification of many things.
And you can have,you know, a whole nation.
You can say, this is, you know,we are all God.
We are one.
It had.
Sabbat or Sapa iswhat is used for the Hebrew for language.
So this word. Means. Lip.

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Literally. Lip. Lip. Okay.
Most of the time,
the vast majority of the time inthe scriptures is translated as lip.
So it means lip.
So. On lip.
A unified lip, if you will.
Could be talking about the unificationor the, The harmonization of language
or the.
You can say languages that are that are,that are unified in a way.

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In other words,you can have a group of people
that all speak different languages, yetthey are a hard lip.
In other words,they all understand each other.
They're all the communicationis, is, is open.
And they're they're all one, yetthey're not one.
They're accord.
They're the unified.Just like the man and a woman.

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They're one when they're married,but they're not one.
They're two, in a way.You see what I'm saying?
So we can have many different languageshere and they can all still be had.
They can all still be had.
But this word, lip is like.
You know, in the in the Englishwe have the, the,
the, the phrase or the expression lippy,you know, get lippy.
Hey. So it's rather the speech,the communication is unified.

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In other words,there is a communication system.
That is very fluent.
Not that there is literally one language,but rather
there is a unification of the languagesbecause they can all translate fluently.
They can all understand
each other efficiently, and they can workefficiently and fluently.
Even though there are many languages,there are a hard lip there.

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There are of one.
Understanding, if you will, communication,lip, you know, communication.
Okay.
Now the rest of it says onelip and of one speech.
So what does this mean?
So we have the one one Sapa.
A unified communication,the unification of lips, if you will.

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The lip,the lip ness of the people were unified.
And then you have the dove bar.
It says Ahan again.
What a hard bar.
Look at this double dare bar.
They bar their bar.
Why is it translated as and of herewhen it's not really and of it's
it's it's speech.

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You see this? It's the same Hebrew word.
Exactly the same.
So we got so again this is, it's kind ofconfusing because what does the bar mean.
Does it mean and doveor does it mean speech.
Why do we have ittranslated as end of here.
It's kind of like a redundancy.
It's the bar hard to bar.
Now I understand this.The bar means words.
Take a look herein the Hebrew dictionary. Yes.

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So looking at the amount of timesin different words that, that
that is translated from the bar,
the vast majority of them is translatedas simply word word.
So it's kind of a redundant statement.
Yeah. So it's like, The bar hard to bar.
So first we have the hard set.
PA say pa the unification, thethe one lip, if you will, one.

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The unifying unified one.
The unified,the unification of the communication.
But then you have thethe the bar hard bar,
the words one words unification,the unification of the words.
So this, is not just simply talkingabout like the,
languages, if you will, but ratherwhat is actually said.

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Like the wordthey do have a word from the Lord.
Like, do you have a word for me?
Like, do you know, for example, the,the Ten Commandments, for example,
is literally,setting the words for ten commandments.
Is. The same word for for word here.
The bar, it's the same word again.
I'm going to prove this to you guysover here on the left.

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Exodus chapter 34, verse 28.
And you go downinto the interlinear Hebrew
and you see this,it says in the very bottom of.
So this is the Ten Commandments.
It says the bar commandments, the bar.
I thought, I thought the bar means words.
You know, so really, the Ten Commandmentsare ten words, not necessarily
literal word as in one word,but rather, a concept, ten concepts.

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So what was, Genesis chapter 11?
What's Genesis chapter 11talking about the unification of the
of the key of the, of the languages,the efficient understanding.
You know, people are like polyglotsright there.
They were very, they couldthey can understand all the languages
there within that regionanyway, within that city,

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I should say not not necessarily region,but the city of Babel.
So they could all understand each othervery efficiently and effectively.
And so they were of one, one languagein a way.
I had unified languagejust as a man and a woman.
When they're married,they become one flesh.
So they're not really one literally,but rather unified.
So the acquired languageis not literally one,

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but rather multiple languages unified.
And demonstrated by the ability tocommunicate effectively and efficiently.
here in the at the city of Babel,we have it a very effective communication
system, you know, almost reminds youlike of the internet today, doesn't it?
Remember, Babel and Babylon are the same.
It's the same name.

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So we have the unificationof the languages and the unification
of the sayings, the words, the concepts,the, the, the elements of communication
are all so unificationthoroughly, thoroughly unified.
that's the first verse,
you know, where it says the whole earthhad one language in one speech.

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So this does not necessarilymean what most people think it means.
It doesn't necessarily mean, you know,because we're
here we arewe're reading it in the English.
And, you know, we're we're using just,you know, a simple method of understanding
what we're reading here.
But again, you know, we don't seehow this word one and this word one.

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Is translated from a Hebrew wordthat can be used for talking
about unification of many.
And again, the word earth, even that,Eretz can, you know, can can explain why,
even if there was literally one languagehow, you know, most people understand
the story of the Tower of Babel to to gothis word Earth, which I think it's

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a bad translation, it should say land,which can mean any kind of land.
It could mean the city simplyonly the city.
It could mean a, you know, a country.
Whatever.
By the way, guys, thethe same word that's used for Earth
here is the same word that Israel usesfor their country, by the way.
Rats, you know, the the country of Israel,the nation of Israel today

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they call themselves rats, literally,the all rats.
That country is the rats.
So in this verse, the whole a rats.
Once again,what does that mean in the Hebrew?
Does it mean literally the whole earth asas some of the translators think that it
you know,
we have the translators here thinking thatthat's what it means, or doesn't mean.

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You know, a localization, a local pieceof land, the city, a country, continent.
It doesn't tell us in this onelanguage, in one speech.
I do believe this is talking about the
the effective talks about a effectual,fervent and efficient.
Here we got effectualfervent and efficient communication.
However they did it.

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I don't know how, It's it is.
It's basically what it means.
They were able to communicate with oneanother very, very efficiently,
very, very well.
Marwa says a hard in their mission.
Yeah. It's it.
So you got many peopleand they all have one mission.
So this is yeah, they're hard.
They are unified in their mission.Same thing. Yeah.
As one one language,one speech, literally one

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lip, one word, is what it literally means.
Or one sayings, one word.
I know of a, a rabbiwho is quite fluent in Hebrew.
And he always says that you lose 80%.
That's eight zero,80% of the meaning in translation.
So, you know, looking at what we justlooked out here with just the first verse,

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it seems to me that wasthat sounds pretty accurate to me.
You could lose 80% of the actualmeaning of this in translation.
Now, the Septuagintputs it a little bit differently.
We have, all the earth was one lipand there was one language.
Two all again, this word lip.
I think I like that because again,that is more, that's more accurate to the,

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to the Hebrew, but this word language,it should just say one word to all.
Debar the, Syriac.
The whole earth was of one languageand one speech to the Syrian, it tends to
go is a little bit like very similarwith the, messianic text.
Then we have the Vulgate,or over here, Vulgate.
We don't even in chapter 11 yet.
The Vulgate, the earth was of one tongue.

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And in of the same speech.
Okay.
So again, there's there's manydifferent ways you can interpret this,
I think that there is room hereto interpret
that these people in Babel,the city of Babel,
they had an amazing strengthof communication.
They had some means of communicationthat that this was their power.

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This is what they this was their greateststrength is their communication,
their ability to unify,
to be unified and to communicateeffectively with one another.
Let's go to verse twonow, Genesis chapter 11, verse two.
And it came to pass,as they journeying from the east,
that they found a plane in the landof Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Okay.
So this is where the whereBabel modern day

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Iraq, as far as I understandit, around that area,
this is where Babylon first startedand the plane of the land of Shinar.
Verse three.
Then they said to one another, come, letus make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.
They had a brick for stone,and they had asphalt for mortar.
Okay.The Syrian puts a little bit different.

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And they said, each manto his neighbor, come, we may lay bricks
and we may burn them in fire,and we will burn them in fire.
And they had brick for stone,and they had lime for mortar.
Okay. So.
There is a story from the.
From our beloved Jewish. People.
And I think
I might go to the legends of the Jews, forthis is the legends of the Jews.

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Very,very interesting stuff here. Okay, so.
I'm going to go to legends of the Jews,book one, chapter four.
The depravity of mankind
says here, with the spread of mankind,corruption increased.
While Noah was still alive,
the descendants of Shem, Hamand Japheth appointed princes over
each of the three groupsNimrod for the descendants of Ham,

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ten for the descendants of Shem,and for the descendants of Japheth.
Ten years before Noah's death,the number of those subject to the
to the three princessamounted to millions.
When this great concourse of mencame to Babylonia upon their journeying,
they said to one another, and behold,the time is coming,
when at the end of days
neighbor will be separated from neighbor,and brother

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from brother, and one will carry on waragainst the other.
Go! Let's build us a city and a towerwhose top may reach under heaven.
And let us bring.
Let us make us a great nameupon the earth.
And now let us make bricks.
And each one write his his nameupon his brick, all agreeing
to this proposal, with the exception of 12pious men, Abraham among them.

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They refused to join the others.
They were seized by the peopleand brought before three princes,
to whom they gave the following reasonfor their refusal
we will not make bricks,nor remain with you, for we know that,
but one God and him we serve,even if you burn us in the fire together
with with the bricks,we will not walk in your ways.

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Nimrod and Fannie Fenech flewinto such a passion
over the 12 men that they resolvedto throw them into the fire.
John ten.
However, besides being a Godfearing man, was of close
kin to them and to the men on trial,and essayed to save them,
he proposed to his two colleaguesto grant them a seven days respite.

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Respite.
His plan was accepted,such deference being laid
being paid him as a primateamong the three.
The 12 were incarceratedin the house of John ten.
In the night,he charged 50 of his attendants with,
to mount the prisoners upon mulesand take them to the mountains.
Thus they would escape the threatenedpunishment John ten

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provided with,provided them with food for a month.
He was sure that in the meantime, eithera change of sentiments would come about
and the people desist from their purpose,or God would help the fugitives.
11 of the prisonersassented to the plan with gratitude.
Abraham alone rejected it, saying, behold,today we flee.

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We flee to the mountainsto escape from the fire.
But if wild beasts rushout of the mountains and devour us,
or if food is lacking so that theyso that we may die
by famine, we shall be found fleeing.
We shall be found fleeing before thepeople of the land and dying in our sins.
Now as the Lord lives, and whom I trust,

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I will not depart from this placewherein they have imprisoned me.
And if I am to die through my sins,
then when I die by the end, bythe will of God, according to his desire,
in vain John ten endeavored to persuadeAbraham to flee.
He persisted in his refusal.
He remained behind alonein the prison house,

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while the other 11 made their escapeat the expiration
of the set term,and when the people returned and demanded
the death of the 12 captives,Jonathan could produce, only Abraham.
His excuse was that the rest had brokenloose during the night,
the people were about to throw themselves
upon Abraham and cast him into the limekiln.

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Suddenly, an earthquake was felt.
The fire darted from the furnace,and all who were standing round about
84,000 84,000 of the people were consumed,while Abraham remained untouched.
Thereupon he repaired.
He repaired to his 11 friendsin the mountains,
and told them of the miraclethat had befallen his for his sake

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they all returned with him,and unmolested by the people.
They gave praise and thanks to God.
By the way, guys, you know thatthe term a year of the counties Abraham,
or of the countiesfrom the area of the counties,
the story is that the reason why he wascalled Abraham from all of the counties
is because thatis that's talking about this fire.

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The Abraham was saved from the fire,basically.
Nimrod.
The first among the leaders of the corruptmen was Nimrod.
His father, Kush, had marriedhis mother at advanced age.
And Nimrod, the offspring of this, of thisbelated union,
was particularly dear to himas the son of his old age.
He gave him the the clothes made of skins,which with which God

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had furnished Adam and Eveat the time of their leaving Paradise.
So, in other words,the same skins that Adam and Eve wore in,
you know, inGarden of Eden was given to Nimrod.
According to this, says Kush himselfhad gained possession of them through Ham.
From Adam and Evethey had descended to Enoch, and from him
to Methuselah, and to Noah, and the lasthad taken them with him into the ark.

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When the inmates of the arkwere about to leave
their refuge, Ham stole the garmentsand kept them concealed,
finally passing them on to his firstbornson, Kush Kush.
In return, he hid them for many years.
When his son.
When his son Nimrod reached his 12th year,he gave them to him.
So again, those of youyou might be thinking, okay, well,

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how does this fit in withwith the story of the Tower of Babel?
Nimrod was the King of Babel.
Okay?These garments had a wonderful property.
It says here, accordingto the legends of the Jews, he who wore
them was both invincible and irresistible.
The beasts and birds of the woodsfell down before Nimrod
as soon as they caughtsight of him arrayed in them,

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and he was equally victoriousin his combats with men.
the source of his unconquerable strengthwas not known to them.
Says they attributed itto his personal prowess,
and therefore they appointed himking over themselves.
This was done after a conflictbetween the descendants, of course,
and the descendants of Japheth,from which Nimrod emerged triumphant,

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having routed the enemy utterlywith the assistance
of a handful of warriors,he chose, he chose Shinar as his capital.
Thence he extended his dominion fartherand farther,
until he rose by cunning and forceto be the sole ruler
of the whole world,the first mortal to hold universal sway
as the ninth ruler to possessthe same power will be the Messiah. Wow!

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His Imperviousness kept pacewith his growing power, says the flood.
There had been no such sinner as Nimrod.
He fashioned idols of wood and stoneand paid worship to them,
but not satisfiedto leading a godless life himself.
He did all he could to tempt his subjectsinto evil ways,
wherein he was aidedand abetted by his son Marduk.

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And me, this son of his outstrippedhis father in iniquity.
It was their timeand their life that gave rise
to the proverbout of the wicked cometh forth wickedness.
The great success that attendedall of Nimrods undertakings
produced a sinister effect.
Men no longer trusted in God,but rather in their own prowess
and ability and attitude, to which Nimrodtried to convert the whole world.

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Therefore, people said,since the creation of the world,
there has been none like Nimrod, a mighty
hunter of men and beastsand a sinner before God.
And not all this sufficed unto Nimrodsevil desire.
Not enoughthat he turned men away from God.
He did all he could to make them paydivine honors unto himself.

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He set himself up as a god,
and made a seed for himselfin imitation of the seed of God.
It was a towerbuilt out of a round rock, and on it
he placed a throne of cedarwood, uponwhich arose one above
the other fourthrones of iron, copper, silver, and gold.
Crowning all upon the golden throne

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lay a precious stone, round in shapeand gigantic in size.
This served him as a seat,and as he sat upon it, or sat
upon it, all nations came and paid himdivine homage.
Here we are, the Tower of Babel.
The iniquity and godlessness of Nimrodreached their climax in the building

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of the Tower of Babel.
See, Athena says that's narcissism.
Trusting in self rather than God.
Yes, So let's go onreading about the tower
Babel, thingsthat Genesis doesn't tell us.
It says here the iniquity and godlessnessof Nimrod reached their climax
in the building of the Tower of Babel.
His counselors had proposed the planof erecting such a tower.
Nimrod had agreed to it,and it was executed in Shinar

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by a mob of 600,000 men. Wow.
That reminds me, do you guys know thatit says in the Torah that 600,000 men
came out of Egypt into,you know, into the wilderness
during the Exodus, 600,000 men,not not counting the women and children.
So, yeah, very similar here. 600,000 men.
The enterprise was neither morenor less than rebellion against God.

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And there were three sorts of rebelsamong the builders.
The first party spoke.
Let us ascend into the heavensand wage warfare with him, with God.
The second party spoke.
Let us ascend to the heavens, set upour idols, and pay worship unto them.
There.
And the third party spoke,let us ascend into the heavens and rule,
ruin them with our bows and spears.

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In other words,according to this, the third party
was looking to literally wage warwith heaven.
War declares war on heaven.
Moving on here it says many, many yearswere passed in the building of the tower.
It reached so great a heightthat it took a year to mount to the top.
A brick was therefore more preciousin the sight of the builders
than a human being.

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if this is true and historical,
then this is a good reasonwhy God got a little bit irked about this.
A brick, therefore, was more preciousin the sight of the builders
than a human being.
Says here, if a man fell downand met his death, none took notice of it.
But if a brick dropped, they wept becauseit would take a year to replace it.

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My own thoughts here so far.
Like, I think some of thismight be figures of speech.
You know, taking aI think it might be a hyperbole.
It took a whole year to get to the top.
I think that might be hyperbole,to say the least.
But hey, again,I think that there could be some,
some really interesting truththat we can gather from this.
And this is not the only source,as far as I know,
this is not the only sourcethat says stuff like this.

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There are other ancient sourcesthat also tell us of things like this.
Like how theand we might read it a little bit
later herewhere it's like they, there were, archers.
And warriors,around in the city of Babylon
and climbing the towerand shooting arrows up into heaven,
you know, to trying to wage war, wagingwar, basically with God and with heaven.

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So anyways, let's continue here.
Says so, so intent were they,upon accomplishing their purpose,
that they would not permit a womanto interrupt herself
in her work of brick makingwhen the hour of travail come upon her?
What?
In other words,a woman is going to give birth.
They wouldn't even allow her.
So this is how much they were drivenin their work, in the in the in

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the tower must be done no matter what.
So it says here morning, bricks.
She gave birth to her child. Wow.
Like right there on the tower, basically.
Tying it round her body in a sheet.
She went on molding bricks.
it doesn't say explicitlyif Nimrod actually was behind all this,
but if he was, that's quite the tyrant.
That's quitethere's quite the tyranny there.

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no way you can you leave the tower.
You know, even for giving birth.
It says herethey never slacked in their work.
And from their dizzy height,they constantly shot arrows toward heaven.
There you go. Right there.
Which returning, were seento be covered with blood.
They were thus fortifiedin their delusion, and they cried.
We have slain all who are in heaven.

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Thereupon God turned to the seven angelswho encompass his throne.
And he spake, go, let's go down.
And they're confused in their language
that they may not understandone another's speech.
Thus it happened thenceforth.
None knew what the other spoke.
No. Again,you know, in this, in this particular.
In this particular storyand in this particular context,

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again, I do think that, That, You know,it could be many languages.
It's just that they were all just unified.
They were able to understand each othervery,
very, very effectively and efficiently.
So, you know, the confusion,the confounding of their language was just
simply that just basically, you know,basically, almost like destroying the,
you know, the automatic translator,mobile devices, they I'm just saying,

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you know,I'm not saying that they actually,
they could have had it, but, you know,God destroyed, what do you call that?
do you call it?
E m electric magnetic pulse.
MP. Would that be it?
Where?
It's like it just destroys
all the, destroysall the electronic, you know, equipment.
Boom.
All destroyed like a like a magnetic,a magnetic, explosion, if you will.

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That destroyed their technologyof interpretive
translating and interpreting, and,understanding each other so.
Well.it says here thus it happened thenceforth.
None knew what the other spoke.
One would ask for the mortar,and the other handed him a brick.
In a rage he would throw the brickat his partner and kill him.
Many perished in this manner,and the rest were punished

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according to the natureof their rebellious conduct.
Those who had spoken, quote.
Let us ascend into the heavens, setup our idols, and pay worship unto them
their God transformed into apesand phantoms.
Those who had proposedto assault the heavens with their arms.
God set against each otherso that they fell in the combat.

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And those who had resolvedto carry out a combat with God in heaven
were scattered broadcasts over the earth.
As for the unfinished tower,a part sank into the earth.
Another part was consumed by fire.
Only one third of it remained standing.
The place of the tower has never lostits particular quality.
Whoever passes it forgets all he knows.

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The punishment inflicted upon
the sinful generation of the toweris comparatively lenient.
On account of reaping,the generation of the flood
were utterly destroyed, whilethe generation of the tower were preserved
in spite of their blasphemiesand all other acts offensive to God.
The reason is that God sets a high valueupon peace and harmony.

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Therefore, the generation of the deluge,who gave themselves up to depredation
and bore hatred to oneanother, were painted a root and branch,
while the generation of the Towerof Babel, dwelling amicably together
and loving one another, were spared aliveat least a remnant of them
beside the chastisement of sin and sinnersby the confounding of speech.

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Another notable circumstance was connectedwith the descent of God upon earth,
one of only ten such descents
to occur between the creation of the worldand the Day of Judgment.
It was on this occasionthat God and the seven angels
that surround his thronecast lots concerning the various nations.
Each angel received a nation,and Israel fell to the lot of God.

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To every nationa peculiar language was assigned Hebrew,
where I hear Hebrewbeing reserved for Israel,
the language made use of by Godand the creation of the world.
And some of the things
that I remembered from years agowhen I first read that is, yeah.
The reason why God didn'tdestroy the people from the tower
as opposed to destroying the entire,you know, the everybody from the flood.

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And again, it's like, yeah, you know,the people in the tower were more
even though they were pretty brutaland ruthless.
And some of the stuff that it says there,if it's if it's historical,
at least they had a general,you know, consensus of unity and,
you know, and to, you know, to bandtogether and, you know, to take this,
take this upon themselves, as, as a teamas opposed to the people in the flood

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that were all just basically just,hating each other so much
that they were destroying each otherall the time.
Yeah.
So let'sget back to the book of Genesis here.
So it says here in verse three.
So they said to one another, let us makebricks and bake them thoroughly.
Again. This is from the, new King James.
They had a brick for they had brick forstone and ash and had asphalt for mortar.

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And they said, come,let us build ourselves a city.
See, number one, a city and a towerwhose top is in the heavens.
Let us make a name for ourselves,
lest we be scattered abroad over the faceof the earth, of the whole earth.
Okay, so.
A few notes here.
Number one is the city is mentionedfirst as as I mentioned earlier,
this whole story of the Tower of Babelactually

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talks about the city of Babelmore than the Tower of Babel.
So here we are again.
The city is firstand foremost builds build ourselves a city
first, and a towerwhose top is in the heavens.
I believe this is a figure of speech.
I don't think it isliterally talking about a tower
whose top reaches the heavens.
It's impossible.

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I mean, literally impossible.
You know how you know my grandmother?
My grandmother used to say,if something really stunk really bad,
she would always say,it stinks to high heavens.
Now, of course, that's not literally,you know, stinking high heavens.
But of course it's a figure of speech.
And she would always saythat kind of thing, you know,
what I what I understand thisto mean in my own estimation,

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is that this towerwas a symbol of the pride of the city,
and it was the pride that actually reachedinto the heavens,
figuratively speaking,like the pride of the people.
Almost like how it says inIsaiah about, you
know, about Lucifer,you know, I will ascend to the heavens.
Thy pride is it's got to do with pride.

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It's got to do with lifting themselves upfiguratively, spiritually,
like we will be just as powerful as God.
Because, you know, in the, in the,in the scriptures, the term heavens
or heaven insome places is synonymous with God.
I'll give you an example in thein the, in the book of Daniel,

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we have the story of Nebuchadnezzar,and it says that
he was to become like an animaluntil he acknowledged that God reigns.
And then it says, justthen it says a little bit later
that he used to become an animaluntil he acknowledges that heaven reigns.
So and then.
So we got this interchangeable,interchangeable ness of these two,

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these two words heaven or heavens and God.
So we already have that in the scriptureswhere it talks about,
you know, the kingdom of heaven,for example, in the book of Matthew,
whereas the kingdom of God,the very same, this very same parable,
the very same teaching.
So we have heavenand God are used interchangeably,

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like I will ascend, you know,or I will acknowledge that heaven rules
is basically the same thing as saying I,I will acknowledge,
I acknowledge that God rules.
So I think this is very importantto understand.
In the scriptures,even in the New Testament,
we have heavenand God used interchangeably.
The Gospel of Matthew likesto use the term kingdom of heaven,

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whereas the other gospelslike to use the term Kingdom of God.
The term Kingdom of God is usedmore for the very same story,
the very same parable,the very same teaching,
the very same quote fromYeshua, from Jesus.
It's just that one person likes to usethe word heaven, whereas the other person
likes to use the word God,but it means the same thing.
So in the very same way, like in this,in the same way

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as Daniel,in the same way as the, since the Gospels,
I think that this word heaven or heavensis just literally talking about. God.
In other words, let us build ourselvesa city and a tower that represents
our pride, that reaches the heavenslike we will be as God.
Our city is going to be so powerfulbecause of our

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because of our communication networkthat we have going on here.
We have this networkingin this communication system
that is the best in the world.
And because of this,we're going to be like God.
We we are going to reach to the heavens,so to speak, you know,
figuratively speaking, not literally,not not literally, not physically.
You know, because he can't even climb,you know, even he can't even climb

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Mount Everest, let alone,you know, without basically dying
because you don't have any oxygen up thereso high. Right.
It's important.
It's impossible to get anywhere nearanywhere near quote unquote heaven,
if you will, in a, in a,in a, in a literal, physical way
without dying long before you get therebecause of the lack of oxygen.

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However, since, figurativelyspeaking, spiritually, yeah,
people aren't like they doexalt themselves up to the heavens.
So to speak, you know?
And this just came to me,I think that, you know,
Even Yeshua himselfsaid, woe to you, Khorasan,
you, you are exalted into the heavens,but you will be brought down to hell.
So even in the New Testamentwhere we got Jesus talking

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about a certain city that was exaltedin the heavens, what is he talking about?
What does that mean?
Does that mean that that particular city,Khorasan or Bethsaida,
was actually actually fulfilled?
The mission of Babylon went into heaven?
No, I think it's a figure of speech.
I think it's talking about pride.
You know, you you exalted yourselfto the place of God, buddy.

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Like you. You.
This is this is massive pride. You are.
You are putting yourself.
You're lifting yourself upso high into the heavens, so to speak.
So that's what I understand this to mean.
And I think this is the most reasonable,down to earth and large logical conclusion
to come to the most plausible conclusion,to come, to come to, is this,

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you know, this kind of interpretation.
I understand that,you know, a lot of atheists.
Are fed atheism is fed with these kindof stories that are taken too literally.
Same with the story of Noahand other stories in this.
You know, the Genesis chapter one.
We already spoke about all that again.
And I think if we look at it
in a in a more practical way,because God is a practical God

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in a more logical way, and also again,expanding our field of thought,
not just looking at it with thewith the mind that is so narrow,
but rather look,you know, encompassing all of truth
and the evidencethat we have in front of us.
I think the best way to interpretthis is that these people
under the leadership of Nimrod, were thesepeople were a people of,

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great unification and communicationand networking
and and their pride, they,
their,their goal was to basically be like, God
to, to make themselves into God or God'swhose top is in the heavens.
So that's why I understand this to meanhis top is in the heavens
as not literally, but rather basically,

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the head of the city of ofBabel will be like God.
Okay, let's move on. Verse five.
But the Lord came down to see the cityand the tower again, talking
about the city first and the tower,which the sons of men had built.
The Lord came down to see.

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Can't you see from where he is?
I know that sounds like a stupid question,and I maybe sounded
like a little bit of a smart aleckby saying this, but serious question
because we spoke about this conceptseveral times over the past few months.
You know,we have this kind of thing going on here
in Genesis chapter 11 and Genesischapter 18 as well.
When God hears the prayers of the peoplewho are complaining about the sin

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of Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah, and he said,I'm going to go see if it's true.
If not, I will know.
Here again we have.
The Lord came down to see it.Why did he come down?
As he came down to see?
He came down to see the city in the towerwhence the sons of men had built.
Now I would say that it is possible
that the reason why the Lord came downto see is exactly the same way.

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This is the exact same reason whyhe came down to see in the days of Sodom
and Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 18, it'sbecause he is responding to prayer.
Now, if the legends of the Jews or anyif that story is just even half true,
there would be a lot of prayer againstNimrod and against the rulers of Babel.

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And so again, I,I think that from creation onward,
I, I think that God waits.
God doesn't move without being invited.
It's like he doesn't do anythingwithout even being invited, at least.
I mean, maybe I shouldn't say that inan absolute way, but you know what I mean?
Like, there's.
The story of Noah.
We we dealt with that where it says

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in the book of Enoch that it wasthe souls of men that have perished
and because of their basicallyit was the victims of the of these of the,
the iniquity and the violence of theof the of the giants and the Nephilim.
Their prayerswent up to the gates of heaven.
And God responded because of their prayersand sent the flood.
So here again, it's notwe don't have it in the book of Genesis.

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It doesn't tell us explicitly,but I would suspect that
this is the reason why the Lord came down
to see, for the very same reasonas he did in Genesis chapter 18.
In response to prayer,you know, so these people that suffered,
especially those, again,if it's true that perished
because they were less valuablethan the bricks.

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And their friends and their familyall praying for them and the souls
and the spirits of those who have went onand have been so unjustly treated,
their prayers could have caused Godto react in this way.
God came down to see.
You know, does he see everything?
Does he know everythingwell in this again, again we can, we can.

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There's a lot of scriptures, actually,that that present this kind of idea.
Again,it appears like he didn't see everything.
And that's the reasonwhy he had to come down to see.
Otherwise, why would he cometo see something that he already saw?
The he already sees?
It's like, why are you coming, Lord? Well,I'm coming to see.
Well, don't you see? Well, yeah,I see, but I'm coming to see. Verse six.
And the Lord said, indeed.

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So again it presentsthis in the in the same way
as it presents the story of Sodomand Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 18.
verse 20, the Lord said,because the outcry against Sodom is great,
what outcrythis would be the prayers of the people,
the outcry of God's holy, righteous

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ones, the Siddiq the city came.
Okay, the cynics,if you will, the prayers of the of God's
righteous people are they're crying outagainst Sodom and Gomorrah.
And because of the outcry this has become.
So the Lord said, because the outcryagainst Sodom and Gomorrah is great,
and because their sin is very grave.

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I will go down nowand see whether whether they have done
all to God altogether,according to the outcry against it
that has come to me,and if not, I will no, I will no.
So this verse presents a huge problem
for those who would adamantly say thatGod sees everything, God knows everything.
So if that's the case,what's he doing here?

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Is he lying or does he?
Why would he go downto see if he already sees?
And what does this mean?
God says because of the prayersof the people that I hear against
Sodom and Gomorrah, I want to go and seewhether or not it's true.
I want to, but I want to go and seewhether or not it's really that bad.
So I'm going to go and find out.

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And, you know, I'mgoing to go see whether it's that bad
or maybe it's not that bad.
Well,if if not, I will know. I'll find out.
You know, so it's the same kind of thing
as I see itin, Genesis chapter 11, verse five,
where it says, the Lord came down to see.
This city and the towerwhich the sons of men had built.

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Okay.
Verse six. And the Lord said, indeed,
the people are one,and they all have one language.
So look at this. So God notices again.
The first thing he notices isthe unification.
They are accord.
There is a wonder they have a very,very strong network.
Communication is just prime.

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It's just absolutely amazing.
Their communication is just as fluidas fluid can be,
in spite of the fact of, you know,potentially many different languages
there at the time.
But they're one they'rehad just like the man and the woman.
When they get married, they become one.
It had.
All the languages,all the the communication is at hand.
It's it's Psalm one.

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It's unified. So God is like, whoa,look at this.
This is something I tell you, I
they they really got somethey got some tight network going on here.
And this isand this is what they begin to do now.
Nothing that they propose to dowill be withheld from them.
Come, let us go again.
Let us, the plurality of God, come,let us go down.

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And their confuse their language,that they may not understand one another.
Speech.
Let's just drop that magnetic bomb,so to speak.
And so just wipe out theirAI translation systems.
Wipe out the abilityfor them to understand each other.
I do believe that God is a lot morepractical than people think that he is.
I think that he works in practical ways.
I think he uses practical meansto to, to do his will.

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I know he uses supernatural to.
Definitely.
He is a supernatural god,but I do believe he's he's very practical.
So here God is threatened.
Even he got threatened.
He he feels threatened hereby the power of these people
because of their, unification,their unity,
their communication system is so tightand it's so efficient.

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And so fast.
Even God says nothing that they want to dowould be impossible for them.
That's how powerful communicationis, right?
The communication, the networking. Wow.
Let's see what other the other manuscriptshave to say about this.
The Septuagint And the Lord said, behold,there is one race.
Race that's weird.

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And one lip of allI do think this is a figure of speech,
meaning that all of these,all of these people are united
and they they all havethey can all understand each other either
because of the technology that they hador because of the knowledge that they had.
Whatever the case is,they all understood each other.
In spite of the many languages.
And they have begun to do this.

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And now nothing shall fail from themof all that they have undertaken to do.
Other words, nothing will be impossiblefor these people.
They are too powerful.
We need to do something about this.
These people are too powerful.
We need to stop it because it is a very.
It's a very bad thing for a sinful,
sinful, society to have too much power.

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It is.
It is very it's it'sit's unacceptable for God.
So they gotGod has to pull the plug on their,
you know, instant translation systemsor whatever.
They, whatever the good God, Godhad to pull the plug on them
because they became they were to the pointwhere even they were
they were, they were a threat to God.
That's how much power they had.

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That's, you know, that'show much of a threat they were.
God had to step in himselfand say, enough is enough.
The Syriac from the Aramaic translationsays, the Lord Jehovah said, behold,
the people are one,and they all have one language,
and thus they they have,And thus they have conceived to do.
Therefore nothing would be taken from themthat they have conceived to do.

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Okay.
The Latin he said, behold is one peopleand all have one tongue,
and they and they have begun to do this.
Neither will they.
Neither will they leave off fromtheir designs till they accomplish them.
Indeed.
Okay,let's see what we have going on here in.
In the Samaritan text.
So in the in the Samaritanup to this point, it's all about the same.

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It's pretty much the sameas the messianic, the Samaritan.
I'm reading from Genesis chapter 11,verse six, and, and Shamar
and Shamar said again,sometimes it says Elohim or God.
But here is Shamar.
And Shamar said, behold,they are one people, and they have
and they all have the same language.
It says here now in the messagesays one again, it had a language,

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and this is what they began to do.
And now nothingwhich they will join, nothing
which they will join together to dowill be impossible for them.
So the difference here in the Samaritantext is that instead of it
saying nothing, which they purposed to dowill be withholding from them, it says
nothing that they will join together to dowill be impossible for them.

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So in the Samaritan text,we have more of an emphasis on.
thing which they join together to dowill be impossible for them.
So it's more of an emphasison the actual unity.
Again, in, in the Samaritan.
And I do have to say,
I don't think that is necessarily again,the language like one language,
as in everybody spoke English or everybodyspoke Hebrew, whatever the case was or

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everybody spoke Babylonian.
You know, I don't think it's that becausewe have it doesn't make sense, really.
It doesn't make sense.
Why would God be threatened by one citythat all speaks the same language?
It doesn't make sense.
But if you have one city in
which everybody is it hard?
Like everybody, there's nobody.

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Everybody is all of one,like literally hard.
These people are like,just unified. Like unified.
There's never been before.
Then you can say,
yeah, I could see, you know,especially if it's a bigger city as well.
And their communication is just fluent.
Even if they do speak different languages,they can understand each other somehow
translated or whatever.
Then yeah, I can see,you know, that, this can be,

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you know, this can be quite theyou got quite the unit going on here.
There's a lot of there's power in unity,power and unity.
Okay. So.
Again, let's just have a peek here.
That verse where it says let us go down.
It says come is this a Samaritan.
Come, let let us go down.
And they're confused.
Their lips that nobody will understand.

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Another speech.
The messianic text is very similarbut different.
Messianic.
Text says, come, let us go downand therefore confound their lip.
Singular lip.
Oh, I just noticed this.
So the Samaritan does put it in sucha way, like there are different languages
because the.
I just noticed this.
The word for languages is lips, right?
So in other words, in the Samaritan,it would literally say,

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come, let us confuse their languages.
So they aren't had many differentlanguages.
It's just that they werethey were all so unified.
And they're all we're all ableto understand or translate somehow.
And here it'sGod says, let's go confuse their languages
now so that nobody would understandanother speech.
So there was more than one language, morethan one quote unquote lip or a saper.
According to the Samaritan.

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Very, very interesting.
So the message text, again,I know this is kind of crude to do it
this way, but I mean, the message,any text is on this side,
it says this is translatedfrom it's a different translation of the
of the man's text.
But noticeit says lip as in one like one language,
whereas the Samaritan over here says, lipsright there.

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You see that lips?
Okay, as in many languages already
before before the confusionactually even happened.
Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.
So that's the Septuagint says come.
And having gone down,let us there confound their tongue
that they may not understandeach the voice of his neighbor Syriac.

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Come, let us descend,
and we will divide their the languageso that,
the man will not hear his neighbor'slanguage. Okay.
And the Latin.
Come ye therefore let us go down,and there and there may not understand
one another.
Speech,but a little bit simple, simplified.
There is, as the Vulgateusually is, two more verses, guys.

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Genesis chapter 11, verse eight.
So the Lord scattered them abroadfrom there, over the face of the earth,
of all the earth.
And they ceased building the city again.
City again.
We have the city emphasized,more than the tower in this story,
in spite of the factthat everybody knows it
as the Tower of Babelshould be called the City of Babel,
or the city of Babylon,or the city of Babylon.

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Okay.
And then verse nine,therefore its name is called Babel.
And again, this is what it says herein the footnotes.
Babylon even tells you here Babylonliterally confusion.
Babylon.
Yeah. So it's the same thing.
Babble Babylon, same difference.
Therefore its name is called Babylonbabble confusion
because there the Lord confusedthe language of all the earth,

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and from there the Lord scattered themabroad over all the face,
over the face of all the earth.
Now again,you know what my question is here.
Before I jump in the live chatwith you guys,
my question is and we're going tolet's have a look at this in the Hebrew,
the word earth is that Eretz?
The word earth down here is that Eretz.
So we get how many times that sayearth in the, in, verse nine here twice.

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If it's Eretz, as you all know, then
that doesn't necessarilymean the whole earth.
It should say whole land.
If it's Eretz, we'll see if it is,
because that land can be any part of land,could be any parcel of land,
anything from a field to a country,county, state, province,
you know, whatever, you know, continent,nation could mean anything.

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So let's go take a look at,this word again in the Hebrew
and I'm thinking it probably is Eretz.
Let's have a look here on the lefthand side.
I'm going to go down here to verse nine.
And the interlinear Hebrew, thereforeit is
because the Lord did confoundtheir language of all the earth.
Eretz. It is Eretz. That's the first one.
And they scatteredabroad upon the face of all all rights.

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Okay, so these people, the originalBabylonians, were scattered across.
It shouldn't say all the earth.It shouldn't.
It should say all the land,
because it could mean any parts,any part of the of the earth.
It probably means that particular partsof the
the local part of the land,the plane of Shinar and the surrounding
cities is probably what it meansthat the people of the ancient,

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the first original Babylonians,led by Nimrod,
they were scattered acrossall the land of Shinar,
the land, and and then settledin the surrounding cities somewhere.
That's more like it, in my opinion. So.
So there you have it, folks.
The Tower of Babel.

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I do not believe that.
I don't believe that.
There was one languagebefore the Tower of Babel.
For all the reasons that I just mentioned.
We at the Samaritan saying languages.
We got Genesis chapterten and the chapter before
mentioning languages of each one of the,the many different languages there.
And I think that this whole thing
about building a tower to the heavensis just a figure of speech,

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or figuratively speaking, that this city,
because of its unification and its pride,it was being built up to the heavens,
just like how Jesus was talkingabout Capernaum.
Matthew chapter 11, verse 23.
This is Jesus speaking.
And thou, Capernaum,which are exalted unto heaven.
Well, you know, Capernaumwasn't in heaven, okay?

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It didn't have a towergoing up into heaven.
Okay.
So this is a literal I mean,this is a figure of speech, not literal.
Again, speaking of the prideof the people of the city,
their pride was reachingheaven, basically.
In other words, they basically countedthemselves as powerful and as good as God.
And also Luke chapter ten, verse15, and thou, Capernaum,

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which art exalted to heaven,shall be thrust down to hell.
Yeah. So again, this is a figure speech.
And I do believe this is the same kind
of figure speech that we read inGenesis chapter 11, verse.
What would this be now? Verse four.
Yeah, the tower,the city build ourselves a city.
And the tower whose top is in the heavens,just like how Capernaum

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was exalted to heaven.
Okay.
Lord willing, tomorrowwe will get into Genesis chapter 11.
The last part of it is the last, 22verses, actually genealogies again.
And this is even worsethan the genealogy of Genesis chapter ten,
because here we havenot only the genealogy of this man begot
this man which begotyou know, this father begot this son,

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and that that that onebecame the father of this one.
And that would meanthat's what we had in Genesis chapter ten.
And even then we had discrepanciesand contradictions,
even more so with Genesis chapter 11,because it gives us
numbers, years,similar to Genesis chapter five.
So we're going to be tacklingthat tomorrow, Lord willing.
Get your put your thinking cap onand get your pen and paper

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or note taking app ready, for tomorrow,
because it's going to be quite thoroughas usual.
It's going to be quite thorough,and I'm going to be revealing information
that I know a lot ofyou have not heard yet.
Okay.
Let's see what waswhat's going on here in the live chat.
Athena says yes, God is gentleman.
Yes. In regards to. Yeah.You know, I've seen this.

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I do believe that God doesn'treally move per se, be it in
blessing or revival or through judgmentor whatever the case is.
Unless, prayer precedes that.
This is what we're talking about earlier.
Actually, the song that I sung earlierthere called, Dangerous
Tribe is about that,you know, just, you know, that, sometimes
the people of God need tojust kind of say enough is enough,

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and then we're going to praythat God intervenes and does whatever
he needs to do to stop the vexation,that's going on
in society today and the wickednessthat that's pervading, society.
And I do believe that he will,
you know, I do believe thathe will the seed of him praise.
And, and God answers the righteous,the saints, if you will, righteous pray

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and God answers.
Heber, it says, it sounds like they hadthe technology to fight a war in heaven.
If if nothing was impossible.
Amazing. Yeah. It's it's you know what I.
I wouldn't be all that surprised
if if Babylon and let's sayeven the generation of the flood.
And even before that, I wouldn'tbe surprised if these people had like,

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technology that was even more powerfulthan our technology.
Because you think about this.
Yeah, I think that's awesome.
Cubas think about this as well.
Their tech,if it was technology, which it could be,
it could have been technology,how else would they be so unified,
so much so that even God himself was, was,was, threatened by it, like you think.

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So if they had technology so powerful
that even God himself was threatened by itand he had to step
in, or else nothing would be impossiblefor these people if if it was technology
that that was the the factor,if it was if it was technology
that was the tool that they were using,
I would think thatit must have been technology
that was even more advancedthan our technology.

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I mean, hey, I don't know,but I'm just saying that if it was if
if Babylon did have technology,which is possible, and,
and this technology was so powerfulthat even God himself.
Was threatened to the point of saying,I got to do something and do something.
Now, destroy their technology, whatever.
However he did that, you know,when you call it EMP,

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electromagnetic pulse, whatever, whatever,you know, solar flare, whatever,
you know, somethingthat would knock out the, the technology,
I mean, if that is what happened,
if that's what happened,I would say, yeah, it would happen.
Yeah.
That technology,
the technology that they had must havebeen a lot more advanced than what we have
because, well,so far, God hasn't stepped in

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to destroy the technologythat we have yet.
Yeah, it's right. Yeah. For sure.
Thank you. Cubits.
Everybody knew the goal. Yes. In Bible.
Yeah. It seems likeeverybody was committed to it.
They even went to their deathbecause of it.
Like that.
Yeah, it was they were just just tight.
They were locked tight in one mission.
Definitely a hard Thena says if Elon Muskhasn't come across heaven yet,

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the tower must be a figure of speech.
Absolutely I agree, I agree, Athena,that's for sure.
Hey, Elon's techhasn't caught up to nimrods yet.
Says Kubernetes. There you go. Yeah.
Kubert says how many people prayagainst wickedness?
There you have it.
I think that is really where it's at.
I really think so.
I really think I think that we havetoo many complacent, believers.

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Yeah. Modernchurch says the modern church.
Kubert says the modern churchdoesn't preach that type of prayer.
Yeah, it's true.
You know it's true.
And, you know, if you read the Psalmsand I know you know this
and you know,some of some of you, others of you
that are listening to this, you know,this, I believe that the Psalms are,
by and large, the words of Yeshua himself.

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But the Psalms praise against the enemies.
You know. Psalm 94. Psalm 35, Psalm 109.
Prayer against the enemy.
Prayers against the enemies.
You know,just praying that God would have.
And it reminds me of, Revelation.
The prayers of the saints, the martyrs,
the talk about the Zodiac team,the Zodiac, the saints, if you will.

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The martyrs that are already are likethey're clothed in white.
They're they're like at the top of thethey're the cream of the crop.
And what are they doing?
They're praying for justice, O Lord.
How long?
How long, O Lord,until you avenge our blood.
It doesn't say they're up there praying.
O God,just let them go. Just forgive them all.
It doesn't say that.

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It doesn't say this. What?They're praying. They're praying.
How long will learnuntil you avenge our blood?
And I know I can just imagine,because I would do it if I heard myself
say this like 30 years ago.
I would say, yeah, but Jesus said,you know, father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do. To thatI know better.
Now I would say to myself, 30 years ago,I would say, yeah, but you look it up.

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That is only found in the Gospel of Luke,and that is only found
in the later manuscripts,not the earlier ones.
So that was added in there by somebody.
Somebody thought it was just nice. Boom.
Maybe there was.
Maybe there's a rumor going around thatthat's what Jesus actually said.
But is thatwhat really is that what he said, or did
he actually fulfill the Psalmsthe way that the Gospels say that he did?

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And if he didn't fulfill the Psalms,he wouldn't be praying like that.
He'd be praying against them.
I don't think that he would be like super
like super bitter against them, don'tget me wrong, but rather just pouring
the pouring out his soul unto Godand asking God again for justice,
you know, and asking GodTo extinguish the wickedness So, yeah.
The father forgive them.
They know not what they dois not found in the earlier manuscripts.

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So that is pretty much all but provento be another forgery
that that was written in thereby somebody later on down the road.
giving up the facts,This is Luke chapter 23, verse 34.
And I'm reading from the new KingJames Version.
And it says, Then Jesus said, father,
forgive them, are, forthey do not know what they do.
And they divided his garmentsand cast lots.
Now there's a footnote here.God bless the little footnotes.

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And the footnote saysthe new text brackets.
The first sentence,the first sentence, as a later edition.
What's the first sentence?
The first sentence is the whole thingabout Jesus saying, father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they do.
that's it. Later edition it says.
Yeah. So Okay.
So we're going to wrap up here and,I love it when you got, you know, a Bible

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that has all these footnotes aboutthe manuscripts and that kind of stuff.
I think everybody needs to really payclose attention to that stuff.
I think it's really important.
Yeah. So, Lord willing, we'll be back.Same time, same place tomorrow.
We got quite the oh,quite the, Quite the, study tomorrow
when it comes to the genealogies againand the ages, the years,
the differencesbetween the texts are very significant.

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So once again, fasten your seatbelts.
We're in for another doozy tomorrow.
Hundreds of years. Differencebetween the manuscripts.
Lots of stuff going on here.

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