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Babel Revisited
At the United Nations, tongues are still confused By Ken Raggio
Did
world peace come of it? Certainly not. Will world peace eventually come
from
continued efforts of this kind? Certainly not. There
is a reason why world peace and safety is elusive, and most Christians
know it. Peace on earth can only come from the Lord God who created it. We should crave His blessing.
In ancient times, Moses
instructed Aaron the High Priest to teach all the priests of “The LORD bless thee,
and keep thee:
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The
LORD
lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace,”
(Numbers 6:23). God gives peace to those who honor and obey Him. The history of the nation of World
peace will only come when society acknowledges the true and living God - and NEVER before. Mankind
has longed for peace and safety since the beginning of time. Cities and
walls
and armies have been formed since ancient times to defend communities
and
cultures. THE
EARTH IS THE LORD’S… AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN God claims absolute supremacy and sovereignty over all the multitudes of men. “The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1). When He first created Adam and Eve, “God blessed
them” (Genesis 1:28). As
our creator and father, God promised to take care of us
as long as we
acknowledge and obey Him. Throughout history, God has acted
in defense of His sovereignty.
He has
not taken kindly to those who would attempt to rule the earth outside
His
sovereign dominion. The
earliest example of God’s displeasure with human government
was at the “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” (Genesis 11:4). The
will of the people was contrary to God’s will.
God’s will was to replenish
the earth. Their will was to concentrate in a city, and not scatter. God’s will was to make a name for Himself among the people. “And
what one nation in
the earth is like thy people, even like At BE
FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY Here is a basic premise of God’s intention for the human race. He created male and female humans and said to them, “be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). After the great flood, God repeated the same command to Noah and his family. “Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish
the earth” (Genesis 9:1).
When God called Abraham, he promised, “I will make thee
exceeding
fruitful, and I
will make nations of thee” (Genesis 17:6). Curiously,
God made similar promises to both Ishmael (Abraham’s
illegitimate son) and
Isaac, his proper son of Sarah. Ishmael would “multiply” and “become a great nation” (Genesis 17:20). But God's blessing to Abraham would pass to Israel, not Ishmael. "And
God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of
the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto
thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called," (Genesis 21:12).
Isaac was the
chosen seed that God would make nations of. Two nations would come from
Isaac’s
seed: the secular nation of Isaac
pronounced the divine blessing on Jacob ( “And God Almighty bless
thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a
multitude of people; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee,
and to thy
seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a
stranger,
which God gave unto Abraham” (Genesis 28:3-4). Jacob pronounced the same blessing on Joseph in Genesis 48:4. Accordingly, “the
children of God
had a reason: fill the earth. God planned for the earth to be filled
with
humankind under His sovereign rule. As long as world government denies the existence of the God of the Bible, and furthermore denies the existence of His chosen, blessed people, Israel and Christianity, there will NEVER be peace in the world. The
ruins of the ancient
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I sat in the UN General Assembly
session during the 2005 World Summit and as I listened to speech after speech on my headphone, I could not help but
think that sitting in a plenary session
is
somewhat like revisiting