Genesis 10:5
King James Version
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles
divided in their lands; every one after his tongue,
after their families, in their nations.
If you're born again, the HOLY SPIRIT will teach you.
And boy, will He teach you "stuff".
Stuff the world is not aware of.
Stuff the world may not want to accept.
Stuff the world will try struggling against.
And yet the Bible says it all.
So we ask, is unity possible?
Is peace possible?
Are man's efforts sufficient in obtaining peace?
Will president Trump succeed in his peace plan?
Will terrorists lay down their arms?
If peace is obtained, can it hold?
Will people ever speak the "same" language?
Will the accords be of one "accord"?
First, we need to know man's ways.
Second, we need to know the world's ways.
Third, we need to know Satan's ways.
Are those in consonance with GOD's ways?
Fourth, we look to what the ancients have done.
And how GOD responded.
Let's have a look at how it was.
Before the next batch of trouble began:
Genesis 11:1
King James Version
11 And the whole earth was of one language,
and of one speech.
Did that last?
Or did something come up?
Genesis 11:2-4
King James Version
2 And it came to pass,
as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
4 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.
How did GOD look upon this?
Genesis 11:5-6
King James Version
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.
Reminds us of what GOD thought, and did, after man's fall in the garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:22-24
King James Version
22 And the Lord God said,
Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat,
and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man;
and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims, and a flaming sword
which turned every way,
to keep the way of the tree of life.
What did the LORD do with the ambitious, deluded people of Shinar?
Genesis 11:7-8
King James Version
7 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.
The result?
Genesis 11:9
King James Version
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.
Let's not forget the leader of Babel, too.
Coming from the seed of Noah:
Genesis 10:1
King James Version
10 Now these are the generations
of the sons of Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth:
and unto them were sons born
after the flood.
Genesis 10:6-7
King James Version
6 And the sons of Ham;
Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush;
Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah,
and Raamah, and Sabtechah:
and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8-12
King James Version
8 And Cush begat Nimrod:
he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod
the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh,
in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur,
and builded Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:
the same is a great city.
Forget unifying organizations.
We are all failed, fallen policy-makers.
There will be no unity.
There will be no peace.
Until it starts with the Gentiles.
Romans 11:25
King James Version
25 For I would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And ends with the Jews.
JESUS declared that Himself.
Matthew 23:39
King James Version
39 For I say unto you,
Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
GOD spoke about Israel, through prophet Hosea as well.
Hosea 5:15
King James Version
15 I will go and return to my place,
till they acknowledge their offence,
and seek my face:
in their affliction they will seek me early.
We all need GOD, and His grace, and blessings, if we intend to build families, communities, cities, and nations.
Psalm 127:1
King James Version
127 Except the Lord build the house,
they labour in vain that build it:
except the Lord keep the city,
the watchman waketh but in vain.
The United Nations cannot broker peace.
They don't even honor Israel, GOD's chosen nation.
Any organization which doesn't honor Israel will simply fail in its misguided peace efforts.
You cannot take away GOD's nation from the equation.
When will people ever realize that?
As the late Chuck Missler said,
"I don't see any peace, until the Prince of Peace comes."
-- Before Jesus Can Return…With Chuck Missler
For now, the earth and her unbelievers groan, in chaos, not realizing all they have to do is CALL upon JESUS.
Peace can only come through JESUS, the PRINCE of PEACE.
Isaiah 9:6
King James Version
6 For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.
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