2. DRAMA OF THE AGES FLY THROUGH HISTORY WITH THE ANCIENT BOOK 10. BABEL AND CONFUSION

3. For a while after the people left the ark and again lived on the land, they worshipped the True God of heaven.

4. But knowledge of the counterfeit religion from before the flood came over, possibly in the wife of Ham, possibly just from the fallen angels themselves.

5. In the strange prophecy Noah made to Ham about how Canaan, his grandson would be cursed, we get a hint about the starting up again of the bold, defiant idol worshipping religion of Cain.

6. Gradually again came the two classes; those who worshipped the Creator God, and those who wanted to do their own thing and worshipped sex and nature.

7. Genesis 11:1 “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.”

8. The ones who loved their own ideas and indulgence more than they loved God, left the others and moved a distance from them, and chose a large plain to live in.

9. They built a city, and then got the idea to make a large tower to reach unto the clouds, and all stay in the city and not be scattered in the earth.

10. They thought that they would be safe in case of another flood, for they would build their tower higher than the waters at the time of the flood, and all the world would honor them, and they would be as gods, and rule over the people.

11. They wanted to become as wicked as the ones killed in the flood and to use force to get rid of God’s people. This ‘city’ and ‘Tower’ is the first prophetic symbol of combining ‘Church’ and ‘State’ to persecute God’s people.

12. This tower was made to exalt its builders, and was to get all the people on earth to worship idols. Before the work of building was finished, people lived in the tower. Decorated Rooms with beautiful furniture were made for their idols.

13. Those who did not believe in God imagined that if their tower could reach unto the clouds they would be able to find the reasons for the flood. They thought they could fathom the secrets of nature and harness its power for their own use.

14. God chose a most interesting way to put an end to all their plans. He confounded the languages! There was no way to build any more on that tower.

15. Angry at one another, and not knowing what had happened, they went with those they could understand and moved away into the world.

16. Genesis 11:9 “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.”

17. This is where different nations speaking different languages came from.

18. Lightning from heaven, as a token of God's wrath, broke off the top of their tower, and cast it to the ground. Thus rebellious man is taught that God is supreme.

19. Satan’s plan to have his super-race again was spoiled, and he was angry. Do you know he has been trying ever since to get his One World Government ever since but he has never been able to do it?

20. The people who are making the New World Order today are trying to finish the work Satan started at Babel.

21. They even use a picture of the broken tower or a pyramid with the top not yet on as their symbol.

22. DRAMA OF THE AGES Continues: 11. THE RELIGION OF REBELLION SPREADS WORLDWIDE