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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - A Tower To Heaven

September 18, 2025 | 28:44

John Tweedie - A Tower To Heaven
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - A Tower To Heaven | September 18, 2025
  • What motivates men
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  • To build tall towers?
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  • What's next?
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  • In this episode of the prophetic connection
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  • Soft music
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  • So what drives men to build taller and taller towers?
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  • Is it, a competition mindset
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  • As one corporation wants to outdo the other corporation.
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  • But nations and cities play this game as well.
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  • Because as we look around the world,
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  • The towers seem to be getting higher and higher.
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  • When i grew up in the british isles,
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  • We played a game
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  • Where we would find a little hill, small mound,
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  • And then one of us would stand in the hill and declare, i'm
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  • The king of the castle, and you're the dirty wee rascal.
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  • So all the other children were
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  • Taught were to try and displace me,
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  • So then they could issue that challenge as well.
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  • And perhaps corporations today are still playing the same game.
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  • But in the ancient distant past,
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  • There was a society that didn't just play this game.
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  • They built a tower that they said would reach under heaven,
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  • But they built it with
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  • Catastrophic consequences.
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  • Corporations and nations seem to be caught up in a never
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  • Ending game of one upmanship, as they compete
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  • To build the world's tallest and most extravagant structures.
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  • But this phenomenon of building bigger and better than
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  • Others is not unique to the 21st century.
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  • As far back as the book of genesis,
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  • We read of man's arrogant and prideful ways,
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  • Which led to open rebellion against god and to the building
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  • Of a tower that men thought could reach into the heavens.
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  • But god quickly showed his displeasure.
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  • He caused confusion on the earth.
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  • Men could no longer communicate with one another, and god
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  • Scattered them across the face of the earth.
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  • Pride is the root
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  • Of rebellion and disobedience to god.
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  • It's really the beginning. sin.
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  • It was the sin of the devil.
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  • He wanted to climb up.
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  • He wanted to be above.
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  • And when that sin is in man.
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  • And i think
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  • It's in the flesh of man, we always want to climb up.
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  • We want to be above others.
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  • We want to be closer to god.
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  • This is a prideful part of our nature
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  • That can only be changed through the death and resurrection
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  • Of jesus, who gave his life as a sacrifice for us.
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  • We have some very basic biblical principles
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  • That god gives us.
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  • Very famously, his pride comes before a fall.
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  • If we look at the story of the tower
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  • That was built at babel,
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  • It wasn't so much the structure that was the problem for god.
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  • We have structures much larger than that today.
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  • They had structures not even too far into the future.
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  • After the tower of babel incident that were much larger.
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  • Bigger, more impressive.
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  • So it can't be the building itself that didn't shake god.
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  • It didn't worry. god, what?
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  • What seems to be highlighted in the scripture was their motive.
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  • The pride that the people of the region, expressed
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  • When they said,
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  • We want to make a name
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  • For ourself, we want to be able to reach up into heaven.
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  • So that's a
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  • That's really a description of they wanted to seek equality
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  • With god.
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  • They wanted to learn something beyond
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  • Maybe what god had given them the boundaries to learn.
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  • Now we've gone into space now, and satellites and rockets
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  • And shuttles. so again,
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  • We're not talking about the problem being the vessel.
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  • We've gone so much higher than the ancient peoples.
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  • It's not the vessel.
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  • It was the heart attitude behind it
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  • And the heart attitude behind it was pride.
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  • We are equal with god. we can reach god.
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  • We can break down any barrier.
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  • We will make a name for ourselves.
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  • And we will not live within the boundaries
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  • That god has created for us.
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  • How dangerous is pride?
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  • So pride and ego.
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  • You know, the idea of humility is misunderstood.
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  • Humility is not self-deprecation.
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  • People think humility is like when
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  • Someone gives you a compliment and you
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  • Go, no, no, no, no, no, i'm not so good.
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  • That wasn't so good. what are you really doing?
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  • Tell me more, tell me more, tell me more. but.
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  • But humility is being honest about who you are.
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  • For better and for worse.
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  • Though people say moses couldn't.
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  • It says about in the bible, moses.
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  • He was the most humble of all men.
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  • And people say
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  • That that just shows that moses didn't write the bible,
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  • Because the most humble of all men
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  • Wouldn't say he's the most humble of all men, moses.
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  • He's writing the bible a little way,
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  • But he's god's dictating to him.
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  • God says, write about yourself with the most humble of all men.
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  • Don't argue.
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  • But the most humble of all men would say it
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  • Because he's honest about who he is.
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  • It's not arrogance.
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  • We're completely confused about that.
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  • Pride is an inflated sense of who you are,
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  • Which usually, by the way,
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  • Comes from an insecurity on a and a psychological level.
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  • But when you make yourself so big, there's no room for god
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  • In the picture.
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  • And that's really the issue.
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  • And humility is not like i'm nothing.
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  • I'm a worm. i'm valueless. no, you know,
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  • God gives you an infinite soul.
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  • You have infinite.
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  • Every human life is infinite value on a certain level.
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  • But it's also recognizing that there's
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  • Something much bigger than any of us,
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  • And that there's values and rules.
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  • And the big guy upstairs that we are all subject to.
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  • And you see, in history, the people with the biggest egos
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  • Even make themselves gods like pharaoh in egypt.
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  • And that's that's fatal flaw.
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  • What was the driving motivation or force behind the building
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  • Of the tower of babel?
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  • Was it simply a matter of men competing against other men
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  • Or something more profound and sinister?
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  • I think the motivation behind building
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  • The tower of babel, primarily, was pride.
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  • Pride is one of the greatest, sources of sin.
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  • I think we see that there are three sources of sin.
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  • I would say pride, lust and disbelief or doubt or worry.
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  • But pride is always the worst of it.
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  • So when you put
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  • People who people who sin, it could be disobedience
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  • That could lead to punishment and with repentance could be,
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  • Redeemed.
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  • But when you have pride that's collectively
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  • Upon the people, it creates rebellion.
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  • That's something that, requires judgment.
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  • But when the people of the region
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  • United together, begin to build the tower
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  • At babel, they express their own pride.
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  • They want to go beyond god's boundaries.
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  • They want to be equal with god,
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  • Which is always really been satan's undercurrent plan
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  • From the beginning.
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  • So i think satanic and demonically influenced was
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  • This motion of pride that led them to build it.
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  • Babel.
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  • But god's response to this is interesting
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  • Because instead of destroying the people
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  • Like he had done at other times in history
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  • The flood, sodom and gomorrah, etc.
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  • He doesn't destroy them.
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  • He separates them.
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  • He gets rid of their unity so that they cannot unite
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  • Against him.
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  • Now, why do i think that that's important?
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  • Because it's it's in the reverse of the coin
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  • Of what we're going to see in the book of revelation,
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  • Where the nations of the world unite again against god.
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  • Well, in the story
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  • Of the tower of babel, it was god breaking them apart
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  • Through the new introduction of variation of language.
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  • It's almost like he supernaturally came in,
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  • Confused their minds, confused their tongues.
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  • And you probably thought
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  • You were
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  • Still speaking your native tongue, but all of a sudden
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  • Your neighbor doesn't understand you.
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  • Something supernatural happened there.
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  • I don't think that they went deaf.
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  • It doesn't say they lost their hearing or anything.
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  • It says that he confused
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  • Their languages, whereas just a moment
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  • Before they were united in their effort.
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  • So he confuses them.
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  • He separates them.
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  • He slows down their technological advances
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  • Because of their pride.
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  • But i do find it interesting.
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  • At the end of the age,
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  • The enemy will unite the nations of the world once again.
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  • Now, maybe
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  • It's not the native tongue, but what is he uniting them on?
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  • He's uniting them again in pride
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  • Against god, thinking they could be equal to god.
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  • So i see a lot of parallels between babel and revelation.
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  • What was
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  • God's response to man's rebellion?
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  • God's response to that rebellion, which is
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  • In the flesh of man, the will to power,
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  • The will to be above and not beneath.
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  • God's response was to confuse it
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  • And to break down its ability to unify, to disorganized it.
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  • He confounded their languages so that they couldn't cooperate,
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  • And they would no longer be able to build together something
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  • That would be a monument to their own self-will.
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  • So in the tower of babel, and you can imagine,
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  • I mean, god's infinite, we're using.
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  • We say the bible talks the language of man.
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  • God doesn't run out of patience.
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  • He's infinite, but it's clearly.
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  • But tower of babel star,
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  • I always say god is like, are you really
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  • Like adam had one commandment don't eat from the tree.
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  • And he blew it and he blamed his wife.
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  • Biggest mistake a man ever made.
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  • Noah had noah saved himself,
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  • Had seven commandments, the seven noah laws.
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  • But humanity blew that.
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  • They get to the tower of babel and god's like.
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  • Seriously, you're getting all together
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  • And you're doing the exact opposite.
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  • Using everything i give you to do
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  • The antithesis of what i want from you.
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  • But i already promised you that i wouldn't destroy you,
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  • Because if he hadn't, he could have
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  • Said,
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  • Let's have flood round two. and that tower
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  • Is not tall enough to get you above the water.
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  • He says no, you know what?
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  • I'm just going to
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  • You lay amongst
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  • The wicked is bad. i'm just going to
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  • Make it impossible for you guys to get along.
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  • And you'll all start, like, fighting amongst each other,
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  • And the whole thing will fall apart.
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  • So if you can't do
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  • The right thing together, i'd rather you just go off
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  • And do your own things and be a lot less destructive that way.
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  • And that's the punishment is the it's god.
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  • It's, you know, the, the door of god,
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  • The generation that is like spread out
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  • And sent into sort of exile around the world.
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  • Clearly now as then,
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  • Man's prideful ways will lead to bad consequences, and
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  • Especially so if pride is rooted in rebellion
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  • Against god.
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  • Don't go away after this short break.
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  • Doctor john tweedie returns with his teaching.
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  • I'm sure you've realized
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  • By now that i've deliberately chosen this location
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  • Because of the tall tower you can see behind me.
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  • This is the university of haifa,
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  • The coastal city of haifa
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  • In northern israel, on the mediterranean coast.
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  • But it's as well a biblical location,
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  • Because i'm standing on the mountains of carmel.
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  • And it was here that the prophet elijah challenged
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  • The pagan priests of baal.
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  • Almost some 2800 years ago.
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  • And this area of the kingdom of
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  • Israel was ruled by king ahab, a wicked king,
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  • And his more evil wife, jezebel, a phoenician princess
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  • Who introduced to israel belle religion.
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  • And she had many priests
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  • Practicing their cultic religion.
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  • So this is a biblical setting as well as a modern 21st century
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  • Setting with this modern university behind
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  • Me, which has a broad student body arabs,
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  • Israel, arab-israelis and jewish israelis, and
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  • Probably international students as well.
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  • But it's on a very prominent location.
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  • In haifa itself, there are many tall
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  • Towers, hotels and corporate buildings and other things.
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  • But this tower stands like a sentinel.
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  • And it has a 360 wraparound view.
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  • Many years ago, i was privileged,
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  • Along with other people, to receive,
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  • An invitation to a luncheon sponsored by the president of
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  • The university.
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  • And i remember being up there on that floor, and,
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  • I think it was the 23rd floor
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  • Or perhaps the top or the second, level.
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  • But in any case, we had a view, a wraparound view
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  • Down in the valley to my left is the valley of jezreel
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  • That connects with the port of haifa.
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  • But it also becomes part of the valley of armageddon.
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  • And then in the distance
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  • Beyond the tower, the mediterranean sea.
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  • This is an incredible location for many different reasons,
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  • But i raised the
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  • Question in the beginning, in the introduction, why do men,
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  • What drives men to build taller and taller towers?
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  • In fact, when they're in competition one
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  • With another and behind it is often the spirit of pride?
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  • Now, when we read in psalm ten, in verse four,
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  • The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek god.
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  • God is in none of his thoughts.
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  • And that's certainly a scripture that's,
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  • Applicable to this generation.
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  • And then when we move
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  • Into the wisdom that we find
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  • In the book of proverbs, in proverbs 11 and verse two,
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  • When pride comes, then comes shame.
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  • The bible has so much to say about the pride of men,
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  • But it also illustrates the consequences that flow
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  • From having a prideful nature or spirit.
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  • But then it also says
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  • In this verse, but with the humble is wisdom.
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  • Now, i always like to remind myself that,
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  • It's good to keep your feet firmly on the ground
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  • And remember that if you accomplish
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  • Anything in life, it is god working through you.
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  • Because it's pride is a very dangerous thing
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  • When it comes to what we achieve in life.
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  • And then again in proverbs 29, we read this in verse 23.
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  • A man's pride will bring him low,
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  • But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
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  • As we saw in a previous episode, noah and his three sons
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  • And their wives gave rise to new generations,
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  • Which in time became nations.
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  • So we read in genesis ten and verse 32,
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  • These were the families of the sons of noah.
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  • According to the generations in their nations
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  • And from these nations
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  • Were divided on the earth after the flood.
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  • So far so good.
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  • But when we open chapter 11,
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  • We see where pride enters in.
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  • And it's in the language of the chapter 11, verse one.
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  • Now the whole earth had one language and one speech,
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  • And it came to pass as they journey from the east,
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  • That they found a plane in the land of shinar,
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  • And they dwelt there.
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  • Then they said to one another, come,
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  • Let us make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.
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  • They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
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  • And they said, come, let us build ourselves a city.
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  • And the tower whose top is in the heavens.
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  • Let us make a name for ourselves,
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  • Lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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  • Within the language in this chapter,
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  • In the few verses that i read, is the attitude who needs god?
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  • In fact, it's an attitude of let's challenge god
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  • By building a tower that can reach unto heaven,
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  • And it really reflects the independent spirit of man.
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  • And it's that same independent spirit
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  • That was present in the garden of eden.
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  • When adam and eve challenged
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  • God and god's sovereignty over the garden of eden.
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  • And they began to think for themselves.
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  • But their thinking was,
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  • Independent, rebellious attitude.
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  • And it wasn't so much the eating of the forbidden fruit,
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  • But it was the attitude of rebellion against god.
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  • By having an independent spirit.
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  • And we see it here again in genesis chapter 11,
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  • With the building of what we call the tower of babel.
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  • Verse four, the language come, let us build ourselves a city.
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  • It's all about self and a tower whose top is in the heavens.
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  • Let us make a name for ourselves, lest
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  • We be scattered abroad over the face of the earth.
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  • But then notice what happens.
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  • But the lord came down to see the city and the tower
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  • Which the sons of men had built.
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  • And the lord said, indeed, the people are one,
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  • And they have one language, and this is what they begin to do.
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  • Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
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  • So as we continue reading in genesis chapter 11,
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  • Here is the consequence of man's rebellious nature.
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  • His independent spirit.
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  • God said, come, let us go down.
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  • And they're confused our language that they may
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  • Not understand one another's speech.
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  • So the lord scattered them abroad from there over the face
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  • Of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
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  • Therefore its name is called babel, because there
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  • The lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there
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  • The lord scattered them abroad over the face of the earth.
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  • And babel, or
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  • Babylon, as we'll see in other scriptures,
  • 00:18:47.594 --> 00:18:50.730
  • Became synonymous with man's independent spirit.
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  • And the man who believed he could live apart from god
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  • Didn't need god, and really ignored
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  • God in his belief and practices.
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  • And babylon appears throughout the holy scriptures.
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  • In fact, the word babylon appears some 290 times
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  • In the old and new testaments.
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  • And it really begins here in genesis chapter 11.
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  • Therefore, its name,
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  • This independent spirit will say its name is called babel,
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  • Because there the lord confused the language of all the earth,
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  • And from there
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  • The lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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  • In its biblical context, this tower was built,
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  • In what became city of babylon,
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  • And then babylon became a synonym
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  • For rebellion against god down through
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  • Biblical history and in fact, far into the future as well.
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  • Because when we get to
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  • The last book of the holy bible, the book of revelation,
  • 00:19:54.227 --> 00:19:57.497
  • The revelation that the risen christ
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  • And some angels as well revealed to john the apostle,
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  • Which gave john the panorama of history in advance.
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  • There are two specific chapters, chapters 17 and 18,
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  • Which refer to mystery babylon and this.
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  • This is both a system and, it
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  • Seems, a religion mixed with commerce.
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  • At the end of days.
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  • And i won't
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  • Take the time in this episode to try to explain it all.
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  • But what it tells us is that this spirit of rebellion,
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  • Man's independent spirit,
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  • Contained on through the generations,
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  • And it will be here in the future.
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  • According to revelation chapter 17 and 18,
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  • In the form of mystery babylon.
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  • So it's a religious system.
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  • It's an economic system.
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  • It's an idolatrous system,
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  • And all of it against the sovereign.
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  • Presence of almighty god.
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  • And then we read
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  • That god will destroy this city called babylon in the future.
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  • So, in fact, this could be a port city anywhere on earth.
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  • It seems, in the context that will rise to prominence
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  • At the end of days, and it will be a seat of rebellion.
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  • And it's presumably the headquarters of the antichrist
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  • Who is yet
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  • To appear on the earth, but could be in the world today.
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  • And then we're told in revelation chapter 18
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  • That god is going
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  • To destroy this city in the space of one hour.
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  • And then we read these things in revelation 18 verse nine,
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  • The kings of the earth who committed fornication
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  • And lived luxuriously with her, with babylon,
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  • Will weep and lament for her
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  • When they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance
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  • For fear of her torment, saying, alas, alas,
  • 00:21:46.673 --> 00:21:50.110
  • That great city, babylon, that mighty city!
  • 00:21:50.110 --> 00:21:53.480
  • For in one hour your judgment has come.
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  • But there's more.
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  • In chapter 18, and it's this verse 21
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  • Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,
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  • And threw it into the sea, saying thus with violence
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  • The great city babylon shall be thrown down,
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  • And shall not be found anymore.
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  • The sound of harpists, musicians, floats,
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  • And trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore.
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  • No craftsmen or any craft shall be found
  • 00:22:20.807 --> 00:22:23.543
  • In you anymore, and the sound of a millstone
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  • Shall not be heard in you anymore.
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  • God's going to obliterate this city in the space of one hour.
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  • We're told in revelation, the light of a lamp
  • 00:22:32.352 --> 00:22:34.721
  • Shall not shining you anymore.
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  • And the voice of the bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in
  • 00:22:36.656 --> 00:22:40.226
  • You anymore.
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  • For your merchants with the great men of the earth.
  • 00:22:41.428 --> 00:22:44.364
  • For by your sorcery all the nations were deceived,
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  • And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints,
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  • And of all who were slain on the earth.
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  • God is going to deal with man's rebellious nature
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  • More about this after this very short break.
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  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:23:16.429 --> 00:23:18.865
  • The bible says,
  • 00:23:18.865 --> 00:23:19.933
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
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  • From the dead, you will be saved.
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  • C4i that simply means we are christians
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  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:23:31.811 --> 00:23:34.013
  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
  • 00:23:34.013 --> 00:23:36.816
  • Because they are suffering so much.
  • 00:23:36.816 --> 00:23:38.852
  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
  • 00:23:38.852 --> 00:23:41.855
  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
  • 00:23:41.855 --> 00:23:47.026
  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
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  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
  • 00:23:50.797 --> 00:23:53.166
  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
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  • Special children that need 24 seven care.
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  • While the evidence of man's
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  • Rebellion against god is everywhere to be seen today,
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  • According to the book of revelation,
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  • It's going to get worse before things get better.
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  • And really, at the beginning of chapter 18 of revelation,
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  • We read these words after these things.
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  • This is john the apostle speaking.
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  • I saw another angel come down from heaven
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  • Having great authority,
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  • And the earth was illuminated with his glory.
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  • So that tells us something about this
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  • Ranking angel of god that comes down to earth.
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  • But he came down on a specific mission,
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  • And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying
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  • That alone the great is fallen, is fallen,
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  • And has become a dwelling place of demons,
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  • A prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean
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  • And hated bird.
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  • In other words, everything that was ugly
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  • In the sight of god.
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  • And consider this statement for all the nations
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  • Have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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  • The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
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  • And the merchants of the earth have become rich
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  • Through the abundance of her luxury.
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  • So this is the evil system at the end of days
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  • That is going to emerge
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  • Out of the evil systems that are on the earth today.
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  • But in a sense, we haven't seen anything yet,
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  • Because i believe this
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  • All occurs under the kingdom of the antichrist.
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  • And this mystery babylon.
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  • This city of babylon,
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  • Presumably will be his headquarters on the earth.
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  • And then another voice says,
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  • And i heard another
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  • Voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, lest
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  • You share in her sins, and lest you receive
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  • Of her plagues, for her sins have reached to heaven,
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  • And god has remembered her iniquities.
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  • So all the way through the bible, we see that
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  • Rebellion against god leads to horrific consequences.
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  • Adam and eve were banished from the garden of eden,
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  • The world of doors.
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  • Noah's day was extinguished in a global flood
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  • Because of the tower of babel.
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  • Men were scattered abroad on the face of the earth,
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  • Because god came down to see what they had built and realized
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  • What they might do as well.
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  • And he scattered them abroad and confounded their language.
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  • So what of the evil systems that exist in the world today?
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  • We can believe that what god has done in the past,
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  • He will certainly do in the future.
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  • Pride precedes a fall.
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  • Man's pride only ever brings catastrophe.
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  • Now, in the next episode, we're going to look at two
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  • Ancient cities that were thoroughly wicked.
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  • God judged them and they were destroyed as well.
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  • Thanks for watching the prophetic connection.
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  • Join us next time for a tale of two cities.
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