Now the whole earth had one language andf a common speech. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(Gen. 11)
It seems as if the human race is descending into an abyss of egocentric grandiose deification of self. Rushing headlong into what is the most evil aspects of the human nature. Explore, claim and conquor. And we want sinful, fallen people to populate other dead worlds on the moon and mars? (well it at least it will match our natures!) Mankind has an insatiable curiousity to know the why, what, how, and way of anything and everything around us. And to explore the unknown regions of our existence. But there is a limit to that knowledge. For the serect things belong to God.
By nature we desire the control of everything around us. I must admit I love all those things that make our lives easier to live. Electricity. Wow. Imagine not having that. We would still be washing clothes clean with a rock in a stream. No thank you! Imagine No lightbulbs. Matches and a candel. (thank you Mr. Edison) No oil lamps to light our existence.. . No Radio, (I don't know what I would have done for 54 years? Thank you Mr Marconi) or no TV, (Saturday morning was my favorite. Sky King, What a neat air plane, Fury, what a smart and beautiful horse, Lassie, the dog who was always the hero, Rin tin Tin (as well) and Rocky Jones Space Ranger, a small group of space travelers who a few I remember. And when I was really a small little boy Froggy (the strangely weird frog) on Andy's Gang... plucking his magic Twanger. Plus the Mickey Mouse Club, and Circus Boy (*starring Mickey Dolenz now an old man who became the drummer for The Monkees) No records, No tapes, that lined the desks and shelves of our past. No computers, no digital anything, and for many what stops their hearts from beating, NO SMART PHONES!!! Yikes perish the thought. No instance communication of anything and ev erything, on the world wide web. The younth today have no idea what nthat was like. Actaully in a way it was better. But for them, that would be the destruction of us all. (the instrumentalities of the Forbidden planet not necesssary anymore. Just a thought and it materializes. Yet the Krell forgot one thing. They too hard a fallen nature. And while the Krell slept they dreamt of harm to their neighbor and the monsters from the Id destroyed them all...in one night). That Science Fiction masterpiece might just be a (For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. It seems as if humanity is descending into the darker aspects of our fallen human nature.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor (grace) in the eyes of the Lord. (Gensis 6)
challenge our understanding of history and human development....could challenge existing theories about early human civilizations and their capabilities.....the builders of this city possessed advanced engineering skills and organizational capabilities....raises intriguing questions about the extent of human history and the potential for undiscovered cultures that flourished in what are now submerged areas of the world....
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. (Gen. 6)
Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
We just may be witnesses to God's destruction of the then known world...... Jesus the Christ syas, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15)
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God....
If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. (Eph. 2)
Yet to all who have believed he gave the right to become children of God....
On the Cross Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, .He breathed His last. He gave up His spirit.
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
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