Nimrod \u201cbegan to be a mighty one in the earth . . . And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel\u201d (Gen. 10:8-10).\u00a0 God had judged the earth by a universal flood because \u201cthe wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually\u201d (Gen. 6:5).\u00a0 God had also charged the post-flood generation with self-government and the necessity of spreading out, repopulating, and settling the earth.\u00a0 But the people ventured eastward from the Ararat mountains to the land of Shinar between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.\u00a0 There they said, \u201clet us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth\u201d (Gen. 11:4).\u00a0 Piously they pretended to honor God and speak of heavenly things, no doubt remembering the severity of God\u2019s judgment a few short generations ago.\u00a0 They pretended that the worshiping of the creation more than the Creator would be accepted, that creating a new religion of astrology and Sun worship would rally all people into one homogeneous group.\u00a0 This it did.\u00a0 But not to God\u2019s pleasing.\u00a0 Soon God would judge again, confounding the languages and scattering the people by necessity rather than obedience.<\/p>\n
Are we rebuilding this civilization today?\u00a0 Surely we have created our own religions and worshiped and served the creation more than the Creator.\u00a0 We have \u201cchanged the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man\u201d (Rom. 1:23).\u00a0 Will God give us \u201cover to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient?\u201d (Rom. 1:28).\u00a0 Will it really just \u201cTake a Village\u201d to bring the world together again?\u00a0 Can mankind organize a one-world community by evenly spreading out the wealth and asking everyone to play fairly?\u00a0 The utopia that man desires cannot work for two reasons:\u00a0 this is a broken world and we are sinful people.\u00a0 Mankind needs a rule of law and a moral code to even survive their own savagery.\u00a0 History has sadly shown that this has only been accomplished in the poorest way.\u00a0 It will take the return and reign of the perfect Son of God, a lifting of the curse that was imposed on the world from Adam\u2019s sin, and a binding of the god of this world for a thousand years, to bring about such a peaceful world.\u00a0 And even then He will rule with a rod of iron over the residual effects of sin that still remain.<\/p>\n
Any attempt to rebuild the one-world community will only result in antichrist, not in Christ.\u00a0 It will only organize a pooling of the selfishness and arrogance of the human nature and either result in another of a long line of human disasters, or it will bring the final judgment of God.\u00a0 No one can know which, but we can know that such will be the result.\u00a0 How much better to \u201cknow God and keep His commandments\u201d (Ecc. 12:13).\u00a0 How much better to give Him the glory that is rightfully His and to humble ourselves \u201cunder the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt us in due time\u201d (1 Pet. 5:6).<\/p>\n
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