Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
(Man often wants to "make a name for himself." God often stops man in interesting ways.) And notice how the one reason they had to build the tower was so they would not be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ... and that is the exact reason the sentence came upon them by God for building the tower.
"That which I feared has come upon me."
Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
If we fear any thing right now, we'd better take that fear to God in prayer and beg God not to let that happen!
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5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 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.
(Genesis 6:5) Before God destroyed man by the flood ... And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
After the flood man was the same: Imaginations of his heart were only evil continually ... but God stops man again ...
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Genesis 11
7 God says: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 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.
7 God says: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 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.
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For us, the godly, ... Often God's way of escape from the evil is separation.
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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