In Genesis Chapter 11, we see all of the descendants of Noah attempting to stay together in one place and build a monument to themselves that would reach into the heavens. After the flood, sin started showing itself again. This plan was in defiance of the instructions that were given to Noah, to fill the earth and subdue it. God knew that their unity would create a condition where they could do anything their hearts’ desired, a one world government, so to speak. This was not what He plan was, so he confused their speech, creating all the different languages so that they could no longer communicate with each other. The unity they attempted to create was not for good as it went against God’s directions to populate the whole earth and subdue it.
Genesis 11:5-8 “But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”
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