Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:07:37 AM
‘God made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being…’ [Acts 17:26-28].
The command to Noah and his sons after the flood was to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” [Genesis 9:1]. The divine method used to accomplish this among the unbelieving was the confusion of tongues given in Genesis 11…
‘Its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth’ [Genesis 11:9].
We learn from the divine history that the tendency of men is to centralize and for the good of man he should be decentralized into nations. To accomplish His purpose the LORD used the means of confusion of tongues. Different language brought division and separation of peoples into nations.
In Daniel’s prophecy there would be 4 world empires before the coming of the kingdom of Messiah. ‘And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom... His dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation’ [Daniel 2:44 & 4:34].
In Messiah the nations will hope for He has promised to redeem a multitude that no man can number from every tongue and nation [Revelation 5:9]. In Messiah’s kingdom, visible in His churches where His authority is recognized there is peace among the nations because His kingdom knows no boundaries and in Him all the walls of separation are torn down. There is no peace apart from Messiah because He alone has power to put to death our enmity towards God and one another.
But the multi-culturalists want to rebuild Babel. What is it about fallen man that makes it so?