The undoing of Babel and the end of war.
There are countless reasons that nations have gone to war but there are only two reasons why there is war. 1. God at Babel, confused the languages (making many new tongues). 2. The Genesis flood, and God physically separated the speakers of many languages. For countless reasons those divisions on occasion have led to war.
Fast forward 4000 years.
It is arguable that software translation tools and or the speed of communications have largely undone the events at Babel. Apple phones have blue tooth devises that will translate every spoken tongue to its users language in real time across continents.
Jet airlines and container ships have largely undone many of the aspects of human physical separations. I believe that these are good things and perhaps foreseen events by God.
God saw in the events at Babel, that a one nation state at that moment was the worst possible thing that could happen on earth. He brilliantly undid that one nation state at the perfect time as the waters form the flood were receding. His decision as with all His decisions would be seen by some as cruel. Some would even say that God was desirous of war, but all Fathers must make tough decisions, God created no dispensation that excluded Him from the tough decisions of being a Father.
God's work at Babel is being undone and I think He is fine with that.
While there are several thousand languages now spoken, every year that number recedes. In one hundred years there could be only a handful of languages widely used. Translation software makes that number in reality much less. The undoing of Babel is probably unstoppable.
The number of Nations will quite probably also recede but at a much much slower rate. Over time the separation caused by the receding waters of the flood is undoing and probably unstoppable and again, I think God is fine with that.
The undoing of Babel could mean an end to war, and that is a very good thing!
There are countless reasons that nations have gone to war but there are only two reasons why there is war. 1. God at Babel, confused the languages (making many new tongues). 2. The Genesis flood, and God physically separated the speakers of many languages. For countless reasons those divisions on occasion have led to war.
Fast forward 4000 years.
It is arguable that software translation tools and or the speed of communications have largely undone the events at Babel. Apple phones have blue tooth devises that will translate every spoken tongue to its users language in real time across continents.
Jet airlines and container ships have largely undone many of the aspects of human physical separations. I believe that these are good things and perhaps foreseen events by God.
God saw in the events at Babel, that a one nation state at that moment was the worst possible thing that could happen on earth. He brilliantly undid that one nation state at the perfect time as the waters form the flood were receding. His decision as with all His decisions would be seen by some as cruel. Some would even say that God was desirous of war, but all Fathers must make tough decisions, God created no dispensation that excluded Him from the tough decisions of being a Father.
God's work at Babel is being undone and I think He is fine with that.
While there are several thousand languages now spoken, every year that number recedes. In one hundred years there could be only a handful of languages widely used. Translation software makes that number in reality much less. The undoing of Babel is probably unstoppable.
The number of Nations will quite probably also recede but at a much much slower rate. Over time the separation caused by the receding waters of the flood is undoing and probably unstoppable and again, I think God is fine with that.
The undoing of Babel could mean an end to war, and that is a very good thing!
