![]() ![]() James 1:17 tells us that every good gift, perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights. The Tower of Babel is about reaching Heaven, the New Jerusalem is about Heaven reaching down What we are seeing today is the Tower of Babel becoming manifest again, and where the world’s resistance to God is evident, and the faith of God’s people become more and more pronounced as they grasp the eternal vision and the rest of God that lies before them. It is a good guide for now, our senses this year have been steered by fear and circumstances, various, many negative, in terms of health and wealth, and in these difficult crises it is difficult to discern God’s ways in this. It is this that Hebrews 5:14 exhorts for maturity for the natural senses can never discern spiritual things. In Isaiah 11 makes the contrast, in that he that is full of the Sevenfold Spirit is not moved by the hearing of his ears, nor the sight of his eyes. The same comes in the example of James and John who “saw” that Jesus was not accepted in Samaria, wanted to call down fire, not knowing the spirit for which they said this. The beauty of the plain, hid the ugliness of the heart. He was vexed sorely for choosing what was pleasing to his eyes. This “saw” also is the same as the one that Lot exercised when choosing Sodom to live. In contrast in the Tower of Babel, the corporate decision is to resist because they “saw” that Shinar was pleasant. Obedience releases God’s revelation to us, giving us the conditions and conviction to be led to where God leads. That vision is that which descends, its not dependent on our desire, or our imagination. It obeys in the present to invest in eternity. This is the same substance that gave motivation for Abraham to leave Babylon, Ur, for the Promised Land. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen KJV The more I study the Word the more I come to understand what faith is concerning what we live in, in that the definition in Hebrews 11:1 is key to our direction and destiny: The fact is when we resist God we never enter full rest as we are subject to circumstances and the currents that are governing this world, which has one destiny, to be done away with by fire. Then the New Jerusalem will descend from a New Heaven, to a New Earth. The Scripture talks about this in terms of “Day”, in which there was one day for “sabbath” rest for man, another “rest” God gave Solomon to build the Temple, and there is a final “Day” when all shall be full and complete. In the New Jerusalem what we see is faith to enter, obedience to build, and fulness to bring to descend from heaven to the new earth. There is a great contrast here, the resistance of those who built the tower resides in the will of the people to not fulfil God’s command to spread over the earth and populate. The Tower of Babel is about resisting God, the New Jerusalem is about resting in God We can see the implications of the contrast between the two. We saw that out of Babel and its Kingdom came Abraham, to which Hebrews 11:10 says that he saw the eternal programme of God for a celestial community. There are two contrasting realities between the Tower of Babel and the New Jerusalem. I would like to speak within the context of 2020 and the lessons which God is taking everyone through. This message is to speak to the modern day Church and the ministries that are part. However this message is a follow up to that message. The insights for me were a great revelation and I am sure we will see more and more evidences of these come about. "According to Henry Hampton Halley (Halley’s Bible Handbook), the judgment of the confusion at the original Tower of Babel occurred in the fourth generation after the flood, around the time of the birth of Peleg (Genesis 10:25) this was 100 years after the Flood of Noah and 325 years before Abraham first came to the Holy Land (about 2000 BC).Last week I published a message investigating some of the characteristics of the Tower of Babel which are present today in our society across the world. "They’d heard a rumour that the top of the temple contained a portal that transported you to heaven. "Everyone was excited by the intriguing reports that the work on the Tower of Babel, which had stopped and then was restarted (by Hammurabi - 1792 to 1750 BC) only to be stopped again for 1,500 years, had been completed by famed builder, Nebuchadnezzar 2, king of Babylon (605 to 562 BC). ![]() Tom Meyer, a professor of Bible studies at Shasta Bible College and Graduate School in California, US, told .uk: "When the crème de la crème of the international community was wearing fine linen, purple and scarlet and smelling like cinnamon and frankincense, the new vacation hotspot was the rebuilt Tower of Babel in Babylon. ![]()
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