When man unifies apart from God he has always worked to destroy himself.
The word Babel originally meant gateway to god. Which signifies that man was trying to achieve God hood on his own and trying to make himself equal with God.
The archetech of Babel was Nimrod. Nimrod means rebel. From studying the Hebrew it seems clear to me that this is more of a description of Babel's founder rather than a name.
After the great flood that destroyed the Earth, except for Noah and his family. Man's numbers started to grow again then God gave man the order to scatter across the Earth.
Nimrod{rebel} rose up and said "we must not listen to this God who destroyed our ancestors in the great flood, because he will destroy us too. Let become unified they we may be able to stand against him, so that he can not scatter us over the Earth."
The cultural foundation of Babel is Human pride and rebellion toward the Lord. Through out history the Devil has attempted to spur man to rebuild Babel.
The most pronounced of his attempts would be ancient Babylon, which is in the Hebrew is the same word as Babel....
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The Israelites were between a rock and a hard place in Egypt. In their own strength that were powerless to deliver themselves. All they could was to cry out to God to deliver them. In much the same way the Christian community has entered into the same situation today in America. We are helpless to help ourselves. God appoints authorities as he sees fit, and he takes them down as he sees fit.
The Church of God has done it's own thing and is now paying the penalty of choosing her own way. What we must do in this hour is to repent and and surrender our way to God.
The wisdom we need to apply in this hour is found in this verse from Second Chronicles "If my poeple who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, [u][b]and turn from our wicked ways[/b][/u] then I will hear from heaven forgive their sins and heal their lands.
The key now is to turn from our wicked ways, which is our own ways of doing things.
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