Two
towers in New York City, New York. Marvels of glass and steel against
a partly cloudy sky. Monuments to the ability of human beings to
dream and make that dream come alive. Amazing, truly amazing!
And
yet, as I view these shining wonders, I think of the city in which
they dwell, a place of congestion and crime. Existing in a state that
has one of the most horrible abortion laws in the country which is
nothing less than infanticide. Where fraud and welfare are simply a
way of life and the rest of the state pays and pays and pays again
for THE CITY’s indolence and corruption. As I continued to look, it
reminded me of something from the book of Genesis…
Genesis
11 ( World English
Bible )
Gen 11:1, The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Gen 11:2, It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain
in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Gen 11:3, They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks,
and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used
tar for mortar.
Gen 11:4, They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city,
and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves
a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole
earth.”
Gen 11:5, Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men built.
Gen 11:6, Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have
all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will
be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Gen 11:7, Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language,
that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Gen 11:8, So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface
of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Gen 11:9, Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh
confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered
them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
To
some, I imagine this is just a story, but to Bible believing
Christians, it is but history. In that history is the story of
arrogance and pride, rebellion and foolishness, for to try to build
to heaven is just another way of making oneself equal to (or perhaps
even greater) than the creator of all the universe.
The
truth is: I no nothing of the designers of builders of those two
buildings in N.Y.C., but the nature of the city and its decadence is
legendary throughout the whole state of New York. Babel came to
nothing, but it left an example not to follow – one of arrogance
and pride; which in the end will be dealt with, just as GOD always does.
May
the Lord God of Heaven be merciful to our country and bring about the
greatest restoration of true Christianity the world has ever seen.
Now, that will be something to be proud of (in the best possible
sense)!