"Politically, economically, and
ecclesiastically, the nations today are attempting to reverse what God did at
Babel in dividing the nations. The United nations, the New World Order, the
European Union are all manifestations of this vain imagination of men that will
succeed for a little time,” writes Noah Hutchings in God Divided the Nations.
“God looked down
through the ages and saw the time when Satan would deceive the nations with
another Babylonish scheme: The dictator of a world government would repeat the
attempt made by Nebuchadnezzar to command all nations and peoples to worship
his image as God or be killed.”
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“When God destroys the international scheme at
Babel by confounding their language, isn’t it interesting that all He had to do
was just make them not talk the same language?” ponders Jordan. “Some little
simple thing and it overthrew everything they were doing. I’ve tried to wonder
about what it would have been like.
“Here they’re diligently building this thing
and they’re working on it and then the Lord just gives a ‘SNAP!’ of the fingers
and BOOM, now there’s 10,000 fellows talking German, 10,000 talking Korean,
10,000 talking Spanish, 10,000 talking Chinese Mandarin, 10,000 talking French and 10,000 still talking in Hebrew.
“You got this guy who goes up the ladder and
says, ‘Hand me a brick,’ and the guy down below thinks he’s saying, ‘Pull the ladder
out from under me.’ A guy says to a guy below, ‘Give me the brick!’ but the guy above him thinks
he says, ‘Hit me in the head with one!’
“Can you imagine? You know how that would be. Suddenly
everything’s been thwarted. Just some little simple thing like stopped the
thing dead in its tracks. That thing would get looking like a Chinese fire
drill within a half-hour.
“It’d be a mess and then you’d find somebody
you could talk to and realize, ‘Man, let’s you and me stay close together
because this is BAD out here today! Things are confused!’ That’s how they get
to dividing up and going their own way.
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“Come to Revelation 17 and see the prophetic
significance of what’s going on there. Dispensationally what’s happening there
is God’s giving up the Gentiles. He’s giving up the nations.
“They have rejected nationalism for
internationalism and He comes in and throttles that rejection of His principle
so that the divine institutions He set up would continue to function.
“God rejects the nations and sets them aside,
suffering them to walk in their own way as He turns to one man, one family, and
says, ‘I’m going to make you a great nation and I’m going to use you to be the
example to everybody else about how nationalism ought to work. These people are
too hardheaded, dumb, thickheaded, rotten rascals to learn it from me, so I’ve
just got to take them and give them ONE example in the earth of what it is to
be a nation that walks in my precepts and according to my principles.’
“He sets one nation up; the nation Israel.
Israel’s purpose, folks, was not to be something special because they were so
wonderful. They were to be a testimony before the nations of what it was for a
nation to walk with the Lord, and they were to be the shining light and example
of nationalism in all of its proprieties.
“You know what happened to them, though? They
failed to bear that testimony repeatedly, but yet God Himself will do for them
one day what they couldn’t do for themselves and then the nations of the earth
will come to them and emulate their example and walk with them.
“Prophetically, this thing about the internationalism—this
CITY and this TOWER, this POLITICAL system and this RELIGIOUS system that are
set up at the Tower of Babel—goes all the way through to the Antichrist and
culminates in his ministry.”
Hutchings writes, “We have noted that with
Israel’s restoration in 1948 to nationhood and statehood, the characteristic of
these end-times is an attempt to bring back into a single fold the nations that
were scattered by God at the Tower of Babel. As the United Nation’s name
indicates, they are determined to unite under one ruler. They will not have
long to wait.”
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