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Man's misapprehension over the character of God began in the garden when Adam and Eve sewed for themselves fig leaves and hid. This mindset continued throughout man's history, and was seen markedly in Nimrod who institutionalized it and made it an ideological system that today we call Babylon. It was seen at Babel because the tower was built on that false premise...that rebellion against God was fully justified for two reasons...God is to be feared and God doesn't care.
The tower of Babel was built on 2 principles...self exaltation and self-preservation. Self exaltation because God only cared for Himself, and self preservation because God was to be feared. Human beings today are doing the only thing they can do in ight of their perspective on the character of God inherited by the race from Adam, and made an official religion at Babel. To live for themselves and preserve themselves. They don't believe God is interested in them and nor do they believe He is interested in protecting them or looking after them....in fact most believe, even many Christians, believe God wants to take stuff away from them that is for their good.
But man is deceived!
The God who man is rebelling against does not exist. So what was God's response to this dilemma? First, He called a man out of Babylon and started him on a journey whereby he would learn to trust God in all things and prove God a loving beneficent Protector and Saviour. His name was Abraham. God gave him and his progeny commandments and a law and a mode of living that was to be a blessing for all people. And God has been calling people (ekklesia) out of Babylon ever since. And it is our calling to bring others with us. But we cannot do that if we ourselves are unwilling to accept those things which God gave to be a blessing, demonstrating His willingness to take care of and preserve and protect man from all that would harm him. One such blessing is the Sabbath. In rejecting the Sabbath, man is reverting to Babylon...."seeking his own pleasure and doing his own ways" (Isaiah 58:13,14.)
Abram was called out of the self-exalting culture of Babylon in order to be a blessing to all the nations of the world. And that call still resounds today..."Come our of her My people, that ye be not a partaker of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues".
The tower of Babel was built on 2 principles...self exaltation and self-preservation. Self exaltation because God only cared for Himself, and self preservation because God was to be feared. Human beings today are doing the only thing they can do in ight of their perspective on the character of God inherited by the race from Adam, and made an official religion at Babel. To live for themselves and preserve themselves. They don't believe God is interested in them and nor do they believe He is interested in protecting them or looking after them....in fact most believe, even many Christians, believe God wants to take stuff away from them that is for their good.
But man is deceived!
The God who man is rebelling against does not exist. So what was God's response to this dilemma? First, He called a man out of Babylon and started him on a journey whereby he would learn to trust God in all things and prove God a loving beneficent Protector and Saviour. His name was Abraham. God gave him and his progeny commandments and a law and a mode of living that was to be a blessing for all people. And God has been calling people (ekklesia) out of Babylon ever since. And it is our calling to bring others with us. But we cannot do that if we ourselves are unwilling to accept those things which God gave to be a blessing, demonstrating His willingness to take care of and preserve and protect man from all that would harm him. One such blessing is the Sabbath. In rejecting the Sabbath, man is reverting to Babylon...."seeking his own pleasure and doing his own ways" (Isaiah 58:13,14.)
Abram was called out of the self-exalting culture of Babylon in order to be a blessing to all the nations of the world. And that call still resounds today..."Come our of her My people, that ye be not a partaker of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues".