The LORD came down

“And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

Even though the Lord knew exactly what was happening on the earth, He came down so that the people who were rebelling against His authority would be sure that it was the Lord who was dealing with them and not some random and arbitrary act of nature. This was not an act that happened by chance but a deliberate act of God. The major issue was the fact that the people of the world decided that they didn’t need God any more and were acting as though they were God themselves. This was the first time that this particular sin occurred and the Lord dealt with in a particularly severe way so that the people of the world would realise that this was not acceptable before God. When organisations grow large the people involved become proud and think that they deserve the praise for the size of the organisation. These people also become corrupted and believe that they can tell God what to do. In this case God worked to make sure that the people didn’t become too proud and that they obeyed His original command to fill the earth. The Lord confused the languages and the people spread out and filled the whole earth. This was the beginning of the fear of people we don’t know. God’s design was founded on His grace. He wanted the people of the earth to realise His strength and their weakness so that they wouldn’t rely on themselves and become proud. It is God’s plan for each of His people to rely on Him, bow before His glory and accept that He is God.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)