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[music] >> Well, I think today, by God's grace, we are going to finish this series. We've been working through it for a few months now, and uh what a blessing it has been to me, and I hope it has been to you as well. It's been a difficult text or difficult section of scripture.
Now, we started Genesis, I believe in November of last year, and we've worked our way through slowly, and we're finally here at Genesis chapter 11. 9, 10, and 11 are key text to understanding the ordering of humanity, which obviously is a very important topic for today's generation.
Now, so far we've covered the curse of Ham, which we saw in Genesis chapter 9, which I spent a few sermons going through. Uh we've covered also how God preserves, yet redeems, our distinctions. So, we know the gospel doesn't erase distinctions, but it actually sanctifies and preserves those distinctions. We saw that in the table of nations, in which God gave us the organization of the table of nations in chapter 10. And today we turn to the Tower of Babel and the evil behind the efforts of globalism. And so, we're going to see the contrast between globalism and nationalism.
Now, because this entire series has been quite delicate, uh for not only you, but for the people that are listening online, it's been a delicate series. I wanted to help clarify some labels. I think they're helpful. Labels help give some boundaries and distinctions about what I am saying and what I'm not saying as we have gone through this series. And so, the positions of the last several sermons, what we've been talking about as it pertains to race, is a position called race realism. So, if you looked up the term, that there are some there are a few definitions and it's a bit of a fluid term. But, that is the position that I believe scripture supports. And by that, it means that race is not a social construct or some modern invention. That it's actually a feature of God's providential ordering of the world. That God actually through his providence created races from the sons of Noah. So, the three races of the sons of Noah. It's part of the taxonomy of humanity. In other words, I don't believe that God created humanity as a mass of interchangeable individuals. That we're all the same and it's just different melanin levels in our skin. Okay, that is the argument that the world often uses and even in the church. Um you know, there is a taxonomy that God has put together, an order among civilizational stations that we see all for his purposes and all for his glory. And I think it's very easy to defend that from scripture and from history.
Um I'm also want to have another term to say that I'm clear to be clear on is that I'm not what is called a race determinist. Now, a race determinist argues that racial groups are permanently locked in fixed capacities, right? They're fixed outcomes, they're fixed civilizational possibilities, there's no meaningful capacity for transformation at all. That that's a position called race determinism. And I reject that because I believe that all people can be transformed through conversion to Christianity and through the generational outworking in that particular civilization by the work of the gospel.
Now, the gospel does not erase distinctions. We know that, right? Just because, you know, though it says though you are male nor male nor female, it's not talking about, "Oh, now we just don't have sex anymore." No, it's talking about that um there is no distinction that'll keep you from coming into the kingdom of God. No distinction that'll allow that. Um but these stations that the Lord has given us, God sanctifies us within those particular stations. And so, I believe, as we talked about the curse of Ham or the Hamitic people or the African people or whatever it may be, however you want to use that term, uh I do believe that that group of people um will generally have a a subordinate civilizational station that's ongoing. And what I mean by that is that it's been like that for 4,500 years. Um so, it shouldn't be shocking to say, "Well, maybe that'll continue." It's been that way for 4,500 years. I believe it will continue. Um that doesn't mean that I don't believe that there could be progress through the evangelization and the Christianization of Africa, of the Hamitic peoples, and I believe that we'll see that. Um I don't think there's a ceiling for any group of people, and that's to be clear. The Japhethites, the Hamites, the Shemites, I don't believe there's a ceiling. In fact, when Christ comes in and sanctifies those people, I believe they can grow in sanctification, but I do believe stations will still exist as that growth occurs. And ultimately, I I I don't believe that the gospel eliminates temporal or civilizational blessings or curses. And I think this is important because there's some arguments out there that you go, "Well, hey, the the curse of Ham and the civilizational distinctions, those are all gone in the gospel, right? Those have been just disappearing uh since Christ came." Well, no, I I think just to give you one example without offering a massive argument here, is that Christian women still experience the pain of childbirth. That's part of the curse the fall uh of the the curse of the fall. And we know that the gospel comes in and it saves us from the curse of sin. But still, we have women that are struggling as Christian women with the pain of childbirth. And so, I don't believe that the gospel eradicates physical, civilizational, temporal curses and blessings. I believe that it came to eradicate the curse of sin.
Now, second, um I want to clarify that I'm not a race essentialist. So, if you have racialism, you have race determinism, and then you have race essentialism. Now, race essentialism is the idea that it would elevate biology above spirituality. That essentially who you are biologically matters more than anything. Even if you're saved, it doesn't really determine much who you are as an individual, your biology. You are fixed in that position. Now, scripture is not gnostic. We know the term gnostic is that it tries to divorce the physical from the spiritual, right? But scripture is also not materialist, where we're completely material and we don't care about what happens spiritually. You know, um spirituality and biology are both important. They're both important, and they both affect who you are. It's not an accident that you've been made a girl. It's not an accident that you've been made a boy. It's not an accident that you have been made from a particular nation or that you came from a particular place or that you have a particular race. It's not an accident. We are not interchangeable. God has plans and purposes for distinct peoples, but I'm not going to say that your biology is some sort of dungeon to lock you in. No. Christ comes in, and your spirituality and your biology both matter, and we need to figure out how to deal with them equally.
And so, if you remember last week's sermon, we talked about Genesis 10 and the table of nations. And we learned that nations are just extended genetic families. And they share the same language, the same land, and the same laws. Now, we could go on and say the same liturgy and do more L's, but um the reality is that the Bible talked about that shared basic foundation is that they were the same families, they spoke the same languages, they had the same land, and they had the same laws, which is under the word nation. It's kind of a a legalistic forensic term there. And this is why ethno-states uh where you have essentially nations that are of the same ethnic family, and they speak the same language, and they share the same place, and they have the same culture and laws, and generally the same religion, um nations with a clear or racial ethnic ethnic ethnic majority, they're biblical, and they are to be desired. Because they are biblical, they are to be desired. By the way, they are historical. And about 90% of all nations today are still that. It is only where we live here in the West that we are to be told that we cannot have some degree of an ethno-state, where you have an ethnic majority. We need to be diverse, according to the globalist elites, which we will talk about today.
Now, we saw that God's design for nations is good because it's orderly, and order brings peace. Okay, we know that multiculturalism, multi-ethnicism, multi uh plural religious pluralism, all of these things end in chaos, civilizational chaos. And we know that because um you have groups of people that are fighting for government control that are trying to outlaw or prevent other groups from having that control. And we're seeing that now with Islam in the West. We're seeing them get into positions of power, rename streets, change your territory, demographic replacement, national theft, change of uh in reinterpretation of religious laws. It's happening everywhere. And this is important because it is actually sinful. It's a form of envy. It's a violation of the 10th commandment. It's a violation of the 8th commandment cuz it's national theft. And it's also not God's design for nations. We know that multiculturalism and pluralism always leads to civilizational conflict. It's It's creates misery among people. It creates individualism. Think about this for example for example. Imagine you grew up in a nation that was all the same. All the same people. Okay? You had the same ethnic family. And everybody looked like you, acted like you, had the same culture. I know it's hard to imagine in America, but let's just say that you were from Germany or you were from France or you're from Italy in the 1800s. Okay? And you had everything was like you. Everything was similar to you. The when you start importing and immigrating people who don't share the same language, don't share the same ethnicity, don't share the same culture, the same religion, the same values, um what it starts to do when you when you get at critical mass is it produces cultural fragmentation. And what cultural fragmentation does is it leads to individualism. So it takes what was corporate and covenantal and now you start adding multiple people in and you start to pull back. You start to isolate a bit and you start to create individualism and you start to become what's tribal. And you start isolating into a smaller groups. And that starts to break a nation into pieces and it's preparing the way for globalism. That's the structure that we see and we're going to see here in Genesis chapter 11 today.
And so um this framework helped us understand that today's mass immigration in the West, it's not only a political problem. It's actually a a sinful problem. It's actually sinful. So, I know we want to look at the political landscape around immigration and all these things, foreign policy, and we want to just say, "Oh, that's in the political sphere. That's not anything to do with Christianity." No, wrong. Wrong. God has very much to say about Christianity. In fact, if you look throughout the Bible, it's not a book filled with globalism. It is a book filled with nationalism. The Jebusites, the Girgashites, the Philistines, the Israelites. And what does God choose to make his his structure known to the world? He takes what? Not a bunch of individuals, not a globalistic empire. No, he takes a nation. He takes a nation, and that nation is the one that brings the gospel to the other nations. So, we're going to see how God's design for nationalism is actually very clear. And the issues that we're facing today in the political sphere are very much biblical matters. They're very much Christian matters. In fact, if you keep divorcing this topic from uh from the church, because it's it's not something that we should be talking about, we will continue to see our land taken from us. There's nobody's going to fix this, by the way. There is nobody to fix this except the Christians. We are the only ones that will look at the scripture and say, "You know what? What's happening here is wrong." Okay, the liberals don't know what they're doing. The Muslims are going to take our land if we don't give it to them. It's not whether or which. It's not whether we have nationalism. It's which kind of nationalism do we have? Is it going to be Christian nationalism, or is it going to be Islamic nationalism? Is it going to be Hindu nationalism?
And so, chapter 11, before we look at it, I think it's important to understand a few things. Genesis chapter 10 and 11, they fit together in an interesting way. Okay, that uh chapter 10 is not moving to chapter 11 chronologically. It's not a chronological structure. We already talked about we read chapter 10 and it was talking about a post-Babel world even though it was chronologically before chapter 11. And what what's happening here is Genesis 10 gives us the completed map of the nations after Babel and then Genesis 11 backs up to show us the cause. Okay? And this is actually what's called a result then cause just a construction. A result then cause construction of the text. It's actually quite common in scripture, but we looked at the results and then we're going now to figure out well, what caused that? It's a It's kind of backwards, you know, but again then again the Hebrew Bible you reads backwards. We do everything backwards compared to the Hebrew structure, but but that's what what's happening right now. We're going back now to look at the cause of Genesis chapter 10. So, in a Western eyes it would have been nice to read chapter 11 first and then move to chapter 10, but we're not going to do that because the Bible doesn't do that. So, we're going to stay within this chronology.
Now, the Tower of Babel is often overlooked. Um when it's when it's taught, the focus is usually on the confusion of languages. It's just Oh, look, they just changed languages. Imagine how how weird that would be if you went back and your friend couldn't speak English anymore and he was speaking Spanish and how strange that would be. Um Sometimes it talks about the scattering of nations, but that's generally the focus when you go through American Christianity. But the deeper issue is often missed. So, Babel reveals man's fallen man's fallen instinct to do a few things. One, to disobey God. We're going to see that. Two, to erase distinctions. To to not embrace distinctions at the very least. Uh to centralize power. To centralize power and to reorder the world according to human ambition rather than the divine command to scatter and fill the earth. And so, Babel was not just a construction project of the Old Testament. Uh it was a civilizational rebellion against God's design for the world. That's what it really is at the core. It's a civilizational rebellion for God's design for the world.
Now, if you remember in Genesis 1:28, God commanded mankind to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth. And the whole point of that was to exercise dominion, to to name things, and to to bring the chaos of the world into order under subjection of the lordship of Christ. That was our purpose in the world. But at Babel, we see that man said, "No, we will not scatter. We will centralize. We will be We will not be distinct. We will be the same." This is the the message. We're not going to build for outward glory. We're going to build for our inward glory. That's what's happening here in Babel. And it's ambition apart from God's will. It's ascent apart from God.
Now, I believe there have been moments in history where Babel becomes very helpful. Right? But the vast majority of history, I think you read over Babel and you go, "Wow, I'm glad we don't do that anymore." Um nationalism has been the prominent structure for people for many, many centuries. And so, for most of church history, this can easy be a flyover text. Now, today I don't think that it is. Today I think that this is a very important text because we are very much in a time of globalism. And globalism is at the forefront of many discussions politically and geopolitically, and I think we need to have an understanding as Christians what is God's will for organizing people. And so today the impulse for Babel is all around you. Right? Globalism and egalitarianism, right? We erase distinctions, we flatten hierarchies, we dissolve borders, we centralize power, we we order the world for our own purposes, not for the distinct purposes of God's glory. So Babel is not just an ancient story. It's the recurring blueprint of civilizational sin. It's what happens as the default when you don't have a model. This is this is a an interesting point. When you don't know God's design for nations, it's it's going to easily float into globalism. And I think historically we understood nationalism. America understood it. Europe understood it. Australia understood it. Canada understood it. I do not think that we understand it now. I think that we have been deconstructed and we are trying to figure out what is right and what is wrong.
So, let's read verses 1 and 2. It says, "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words." And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. All right. So Babel is the story of the founding city Babylonia or Babylon, okay? It's the same place. And from Genesis 10, we know this project was associated with Nimrod. What a great name, right? Nimrod. Okay? And Nimrod was a descent a descendant of Ham through Cush. So again, right away, we start to see that Hamitic relationship with the curse. And it's not through Canaan, it's actually through Ham's other son, Cush, which again supports this idea that it was not just a curse limited to Canaan, but also a curse to all of Ham's posterity. And so, Nimrod is described as a mighty man. He's described as a kingdom builder. And some scholars believe that humanity may have actually began to scatter at this time after the flood, but Nimrod saw that dispersion as a threat for his desire for centralized power. So, that could be possible. That's one interpretation. And so, rather than allowing the families of the earth to spread out under God's design, he gathered them, he organized them, he centralized them into a globalistic structure. So, that's I think it's a very possible thesis or hypothesis. And so, the Bible does not give us an exact date of Babel. A lot of scholars believe that it's somewhere between 100 and 300 years after the flood. There's somewhere between a few thousand to tens of thousands of people, but not millions of people. And so, we're seeing thousands of people a few hundred years after the flood. We still have fairly long lifespans at this point. Probably greater reproduction than we have obviously in this generation. And many people read the Tower of Babel and say, "See, unity unity was ideal, right? Unity was ideal, one language, one people, one humanity." And what they're doing there is they're turning it upside down. And and I'll explain how they do that. They take the opening condition of of one language and one culture. And as though like essentially they they say, "See, God is the punishment is nationalism." That implies that that what they had was actually good. They They might have done it wrong, but nationalism is the consequence. See, they reverse it, they flip it out on its side, and they reinterpret this passage of scripture. They'll even say things like, um, you know, "Hey, but see, even at Pentecost, Pentecost is a reversal of of Babel's consequence of nationalism. And now, see, um, you know, we want to have one humanity, one mankind, that are all back in Christ, as long as we're all Christians. It the the the the design for nations doesn't matter anymore." Okay, that's a very common interpretation. But Pentecost does not erase the nations. Pentecost does not abolish languages. Okay, at Pentecost, pay attention to this, the Spirit does not make everyone speak a universal language. That's not what happens. He causes the mighty works of God to be heard in distinct languages. Okay, it's reaffirming the national distinctions of language. Language is so important. Right? You cannot separate language from ancestry. You cannot separate language from place. You cannot separate language even from geography. It is it is so embedded when you start to study these distinctions. So, Babel is man-made unity under globalism and rebellion against God. Okay, uh, Pentecost is Spirit-given unity to the nations to submit to Christ. So, Babel is globalism rebellion. Pentecost is saying, "No, we Christ is coming to save the nations." And we know this, right? Uh, "Go therefore and make disciples of the nations, baptizing them in the baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them" Who is them? Bring bring it back. The nations to obey all that I have commanded. And so, we know that God is a pro nation He's a nationalist. He designed the world for nations. And so, common speech, to be clear, it didn't erase God's command to spread, multiply, fill the earth, form distinct peoples, distinct places. The problem at Babel was not that mankind could understand one another. Okay? That's fine. Europeans speak English, a lot of them, and they're all distinct nations. There's nothing wrong with the ability to have one particular shared language. The problem was that mankind used that shared language to organize in rebellion. That was the point.
So, after the flood, people moved from uh they they were they moved um southwest. Okay? Um at least the Hamites did. Southwest. So, the Japhethites, we know, moved northwest. They moved from Mount Ararat, and they moved up northwest to the Caucus Mountains is where we have the white people called Caucasian. Right? But, Cush's um uh people and we And again, we have this is This is what happens with uh in Genesis chapter 10. So, this is happening after Babel. But, um uh you have this group of people that's down here southwest at this point, um slightly southwest of Mount Ararat, and they are in the plains of Mesopotamia. And which is modern-day Iraq. Okay? So, you have the people here, the languages gets dispersed, and then they move northwest, and then the Hamites move down southeast, and so you have different structures there. I wish I had a map to show you all. Um but, it's modern-day Iraq, and it actually looks I looked online. It looks like rolling hills right now. It looks pretty deserty. But, uh but it if you kind of look at the rolling hills of Prescott Valley, it looks similar to that. There's mountains way in the background, but it says here that they went to the plains of Shinar to to build this project, to build this and establish this city.
So, in verse three, it says, "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.'" Now, notice the phrase, "they said to one another." Okay, it's going to be repeated in verse three, it's going to be repeated in verse four. Moses is emphasizing again this one language idea. They're communicating to one another. They have common speech. Now, notice next that they decide to build with bricks. Now, this is a I I passed over this pretty quick, and I had to do just a little bit of study, but prior to brick, think about it. Prior to brick, civilization was limited to where you could find stone. If you wanted to build something out of stone, you needed to be near mountains, where you can break off rock, so that you could build something out of stone. And so, uh you needed access to that. But, Babel is built on a plain. Okay, so it's there's no mountains around this particular area. And there's uh so so they're starting to manufacture their own building materials from the ground, from the dirt. Um and so, brick gave them a scalable substitute for stone. And this is a very massive technological advancement at this particular time. It allows them to build anywhere now, compared to building in geographic locations that were next to mountains. And it was uniform, it was easy to shape, it was easy to multiply, it could produce be produced in mass quantities, they could dig it up everywhere they were at. And it shows, I think as a principle, that technology can accelerate rebellion. And I think all of us can see how technology could be used for good, it could be also used for bad. I think we could see that with the internet and with AI. Uh technology can accelerate rebellion. It can also accelerate righteousness. But I think what we're going to see here is that this particular instance, it's accelerated for the use of evil.
And it says here in verse 4, "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves pay attention here lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.'" So, verse 4 is I I what I would say is I think it's the central text for today. Okay, we're going to spend the most time on this particular verse. And so, I know what you're thinking, "Oh my gosh, Dale, you have nine verses and you're in verse 4." We'll get through it, okay? But the rest of verses are going to be very quick. Um so, verse 4 is is a very important text. So, um there's two great sins at Babel. Number one is pagan worship. Number two is globalism or centralized power. Pagan worship and globalism. Kind of sounds like our world today, right? Pagan worship and globalism. And both are forms of rebellion against God. So, to understand what's happening here, we need to remember that nobody in the ancient world is an atheist. Okay? Atheism is okay? We need to know that that everybody everybody believed that there was gods or a spiritual world or there was something beyond the physical. Men did not build great towers as this like uh civic achievement. Oh, look at this civic monument. Look how great I am at architecture. Look at my engineering skills. Look at this great beautiful structure that I built. That that's not what's happening. It's not architectural achievement that they're trying to accomplish here. Okay? They built them because they believed the gods dwelt in the heavens. They believed the gods dwelt in the heavens and these were were essentially buildings to create a meeting point between man and God. That's essentially what's being uh portrayed here. And so, this is why the ancient world is filled with pyramids. Okay, pyramid structures. Um they're called ziggurats or temples or Do you guys know the Old Testament? What are they called? The high places. Okay, so the high places and this idea is that the Tower of Babel was probably something like a massive ziggurat. And a ziggurat is like this stair-stepped tower that reaches up to the heavens. And um in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, places like the Mayan civilizations, uh priests would come up, they would ascend up these towers, and they would make blood sacrifices to their pagan gods. And if anybody has seen the movie Apocalypto, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Right? You have these people climbing up the mountains and they're making human sacrifices, cutting off their heads, throwing it down the steps, catching them at the bottom. Evil. I mean, evil stuff. And this is what's happening here. This is the tower, the kind of thing that is being built here in the Tower of Babel. And so, Babel's not merely a construction project, it's a religious project. It is a religious project. They were not just building upward, they were trying to reach heaven on their own terms. They're trying to make a name for themselves, to be equal with God. To show that they are are one to be reckoned with. It's the same motive of Satan. Okay, this is actually a very satanic motive. And we know this because of Isaiah chapter 14 verses 13 through 14. And it says, This is talking of Satan, and it's talking about Satan's fall from heaven. But it says, For you have said in your heart, that you, as Satan, for you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also on the mount of the congregation of the farthest sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. End quote. Okay, that is a satanic desire. And that is what we see here in Babel. It's what we see even in some of the hearts of the men that build skyscrapers. I'm going to build the tallest tower. There's There's a little bit of that in there. Let me make a name for myself. Look at the thing that I built, right? It's It's all kind of that spirit is twisted up in there. So, Babel was very much satanic. It was a satanic place.
But Babel is not only about ascent, it's also about centralization. So, it's not just about ascent, it's also about centralization, or globalism. So, Genesis 9:1, we know that God blesses uh Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, and he reiterates Genesis 1:28, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Okay, so we get the dominion mandate again, given to these three covenant heads of humanity. And so God uh God's design for both the pre-flood world and the post-flood world is to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Okay, so it's not a result or reaction to sin to fill the earth. It's actually before sin enters the world, it's actually good that God said, "Hey, no, you're going to You're going to be fruitful, you're going to multiply, and you're going to scatter across the earth." And God says the same thing again to even a fallen world, you're going to do that. You're not going to stay in one place, you're going to move, and you're going to scatter across the whole world. So God's design uh was dispersion, not concentration. God's design is for dispersion, not concentration. Okay, he intended for households to become peoples, families to become peoples, and peoples to become nations or inherit lands and and create nations. We see this even with the story of the nation of Israel. We we saw probably the expectation of languages forming, at least dialects forming. And again, of course, nations to form. And so the people at Babel were explicitly rejecting God's command. They even tell us the purpose. Why are they building the city? It says it right in the text. Lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. They were trying to stay together. J.D. Hall, friend of mine, said in an article on this passage, quote, they knew exactly what God had told them to do, and they were engineering around it. The city was designed from the ground up to circumvent it. Staying in one place, pooling under one language, construct constructing one centralized urban hub. That was That was the explicit goal, and the explicit goal was disobedience cast in brick and mortar, end quote.
So ultimately, this is very important. If you don't get anything, get this, okay? Genesis presents us with two clear extremes of human rebellion. Two clear extremes of human rebellion. So, after the fall of Adam, we see humanity plunge into anarchy. It's just anarchy and individualism. Uh it's tyranny. That's what you see prior to the flood. There's really not There's groups of people. There's not really nations. It's individualism. There's a lots of rise and fall and tyrannical realities that are going there, but there's not a lot of order. And so, there's anarchy is one form of rebellion. And then, after the flood, we see humanity plunge into globalism and the erasure of nationalism. So, you have anarchy and individualism, and then you have globalism. You have these two errors that you see highlighted here in the first chapters of Genesis. And this is crucial to understand because nationalism is God's ordained solution for human order. Okay? Nationalism is the answer. It's God's design for human order. It's the only structure that allows distinct peoples to fulfill the commandment that God gave them, to to be dispersed, to scatter, to fill the earth, and it is the only way you can do that with order to harmony. It is the only way. So, we will try individualism and tribalism and anarchy. We will try that. And we will also try uh globalism and empires and all those things. Both of them are ditches on the side of the road. And the road that God has designed for our nature and for his design is nationalism. It is the way for harmony.
So, God has ordered creation in a particular way, and the civilizational model that aligns with both our nature, our human nature, too. Birds of a feather flock together, right? Our human nature that we have familiarity. We have We like likeness. We want to be around people who are familiar to us and like us. There's actually a biological, scientifically proven, historically shown reality with that. We like to be around people who like us. Again, go to a prison for a day and you're going to see everybody breaking up into these particular groups. Look throughout all of church history. Do you want to be a foreigner who is foreign foreign? Do you want to be a stranger who is strange in the land? No. No, people like nationalism. They like to be among their own people. This is normal. This is biblical. And so ethno-nationalism, the idea of an ancestral people, is God's design for harmony among peoples. Now, the greatest way to have that is to have all the nations Christian. Christian nationalism, the whole world in ordered nations, yet they are Christian and relate to one another, though they are different, the way that you might relate to someone of a different race. Hey, I love you. You have great times together, great conversations, discussions, friendships, all of those. You could have that at a national level when they are Christian. When they are Christian. And so nationalism allows for limited compatible immigration. It does. So, the good thing about this is that it doesn't mean that every nation has to be a 100% white or 100% black or 100% Arab or whatever, right? No, you The Bible offers, because Israel's example, is that there are immigrants. There's foreigners. There's sojourners in the land. But, it is never at a degree in which would produce demographic replacement, national theft, or change the language of the the nation, change the religion of the nation. Everything there, which is happening now in the West is sinful and violates God's design here for nations. So, nationalism is not merely a political preference. It's not This is not something that is political. This is something that is biblical. It is Christian. It is something historical. You should embrace it. I believe you can say without a doubt that Jesus Christ is a nationalist. It is his design for the world.
Now, one final note that I want to say on this particular verse is that I also believe empires are out of step with God's design for nations. Um an empire is kind of a halfway house to globalism. It's just like a It's It's essentially one massive conglomerate of nations with one power over it. And I think honestly that's what's going on in America. America right now is not a nation. It is the states are closer to nations, but it were really much like an empire right now. And I think we feel it. It's not harmonious. Not many people like it. We've become less engaged in society. Uh depression has gone up. Um you know, national pride has gone down. There is confusion, chaos, conflict between races, between uh generations, between um conservative and our political positions. There are wars politically and ideologically going around us at every possible level right now because we don't understand this. Now, confederations, unions, uh cooperative alliances between nations, I think those are legitimate. I think but empires are something different. I think an empire gathers many distinct peoples and puts them under one central throne. And I don't think that's great. I think that's sometimes necessary, but I don't think that is the ultimate goal. I don't think it is the ideal, and I don't think it is something that we should say, "That's the end game. Let's make massive empires, and that's that's it."
So, um moving on to verse 5 through 8. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and nothing they propose to do now will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language so that they may not understand one another's speech." So, the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. All right. Now, if their goal was to build a tower where God where they could climb up and God could come down, to some degree they succeeded, right? Okay. Um God did come down. Um now, is it Did he come down physically? Did he come down spiritually? We don't know the the the um actual realities of this text, but God did come down to some degree, and he did not come down to acknowledge their greatness. He came down to acknowledge their wickedness. And obviously to correct and rebuke and uh uh give consequences to them. And what they would what they thought would make a name for themselves turned out to making confusion for themselves. So, they wanted everybody to know them in clarity, and ultimately they get confusion. Now, the word Babel is not the exact word for confusion in the Hebrew, but it's very close, like one letter difference, and it's to sound like confusion. And so, it's a it's a literary tool to imply that this is a place of confusion. Now, the phrase uh the phrase "and nothing they purpose or propose to do will be impossible for them." That's a figure of speech. It's not saying I've heard a lot of interpretations. Oh man, they could have just come up with everything from if we just had one language, man, they would just they would have came up with AI back then. No, I don't think that's what it's talking about. I think what it's talking about is it's a it's a um figure of speech that refers to their potential for evil. They would have just continued to reproduce evil and evil and evil to a kind of an endless degree. Now, we do know that overcoming language barriers certainly does allow for acceleration in invention. And so, there is some truth there, uh but I don't want to get too much into that.
Now, here's the point that I was making earlier. Nationalism is not the punishment. Nationalism is not the punishment. It is the redirection of what they refused to do voluntarily. Okay? Nationalism is not the punishment. It is the redirection of what they refused to do voluntarily on their own. God said, "You know what? I'm going to make you do what I commanded you to do cuz you should have done it on your own, but I'm going to do it for you." And so, he created circumstances that would scatter the people by force, creating the nationalistic structure. And so, um he was restoring his original mandate. That's essentially what we see here.
Verse 9. Therefore, its name was called Babel because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of the earth. Okay. This is going to start my conclusion here. Now, there's a reason why the story of Babel comes so early in scripture. Um the drive to globalize, the drive to internationalize, to erase borders, to dissolve distinctions, this isn't some sort of modern tendency. This is actually a very early tendency of sinful and fallen humanity. Now, since the scattering and confusion of languages here in Babel, globalism has been functionally difficult to achieve. Um, it's just been hard to to achieve. We're going to become a global nation. I'm going to hop on my horse and we're going to do that in this ship. We're going to cross the ocean. It's just it was difficult. Right? It was slow to try to create empires. It would took a lot of time to do that. Today, with airplanes shrinking the world, the translation apps erasing, you know, language distinctions, with the internet connecting people at a great degree, social media flooding our eyes with images of everywhere else but our own home. The spirit of Babel is kind of it's returning. But it's not returning to the Middle East. It's returning to the new plains of Shinar. And the new plains of Shinar are the West. Okay? The spirit of Babel is returning to the West. And when I say the West, I mean the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe. Okay? We are seeing Western civilization become the new plains of Shinar. And the Zionists, the technocrats, the liberal institutions, they're making bricks and they're making bricks again. And they're making them in a very different way. And they're shaping the people into these bricks. They're turning us into globalists. They're turning us into these these centralized people. And they're getting us The way they're doing that is they're getting us to hate our nationalistic distinctions. They're getting us to hate ourselves. Okay, think about how they're doing this. White guilt, reparations, abortions, kill your kids. Kill your kids. Demonizing all of our history. Tearing down our monuments. Privatizing Christianity. Can't have that out here in the public. Affeminizing our men. Masculinizing the women. Making everybody single. Nobody's getting married. Pornography is everywhere. Turning kids into barren homosexuals and Sex changes. Weird stuff. Marrying our daughters off to foreigners that are incompatible. That's what's happening. What they're doing is they're actually tearing apart. They're deconstructing all of our nationalistic tendencies so that we lose all of our identity. And we can be fitting in to a globalistic structure. All of it is erasing that Western identity. Just this week, I I was actually reading I doing a lot of study on this concept of nationalism. I think it's one of the forefront issues, possibly the forefront issue for the West. And I was fascinating I I heard a guy do a a piece little essay on this. But I learned how the dumb blonde moniker came to be. The dumb blonde moniker came to be. It was created by Hollywood Jews who began casting blondes into these airhead roles. You Yes, if you're old enough you remember this. Certainly it started in the '60s and the '70s, but it actually went into the '80s, '90s. I remember growing up and it was yeah, if you were a blonde woman, man, you were an airhead, you know, you're a valley girl. Like there was just all of these phrases that we'd use, especially in Southern California where I lived. Dumb blonde was a very real thing. In fact, it was to a point where where women really were dying their hairs cuz they didn't want to actually appear to be a dumb blonde. Now, in 2015, a study revealed that blonde women actually have the highest average IQ over any other hair color. Not fascinating? So, they take this group of people who are actually the brightest women on Earth and they make them to be the least desirable. And they do that only in the West. It's just a very strange thing. It's one of like a hundred things that you can notice. But, that shouldn't shock us, right? Because they did this with dumb dads, also. If anybody saw Home Improvement or Everybody Loves Raymond or all the shows back in the '90s and in the early 2000s, it was the dumb white dad. What an idiot that guy is. And the And the mother, oh, she's so smart. So, we effeminize and we make the dads fools and then we masculinize the women. We turn this feminist culture and it was again very heavily the Zionist influence in in Hollywood that is influencing this culture to deconstruct us into this crazy hate self-hating structure. Everything is sexualized. You know how many movies Every You can't watch a movie. I have to like the invention of apps that tell us, "Can I watch this show or movie with my kids?" We had to actually invent that service because they sexualized with pornogra- or uh pornifying everything that was media. And so, you you can't watch a movie without first checking, "Oh my gosh, is there going to be some terrible pornographic scene in this PG-13 movie that I can't watch with my own family?" Um our past is and our national heroes, they've been demonized. Um racially, there's If you look at like anti-white racism that's happening throughout the media, it's unbelievable. What do you see in media today? Oh, we got to have a white guy and an Asian woman and a black woman and a Hindu guy and a Muslim there and every possible thing. And this is so new. You got to remember Friends, that ended its last episode I think in like 2003, was basically seven white people in New York, okay? Imagine a show that did that today. It would be mocked. Everybody's white. Oh my goodness. That that is This has only been like 20 years that it's really dove so heavily into this racial conglomeration of you're not a white nation, even though that's how we were since 1620. You're not a white nation. You are a conglomerate of multiple different races and for any desire to keep sort of national identity, it's evil, it's wrong, you shouldn't do that. Now, Mexico can do it. And Nigeria can do it. And Bangladesh can do it. And Japan can do it and Korea can do it. And Colombia can do it. South America can do You can't do it. We have to embrace this and if you don't, you are wicked. And so as they fill form these bricks of globalism up, they start taking false religions. And then
We have Hinduism, and then we have Islam, and we have Judaism, and we have all these religions flooding in. And I just saw an image, and it shows a picture of a guy, he's wearing a shirt that says "atheist," and he's walking happily through the streets. And it shows all the religions, and it shows Hinduism, Christianity, uh, Buddhism, and Islam. But it doesn't show Judaism, right? Atheism never condemns Judaism. And it's a very strange thing.
And so you have this privatization of Christianity. You have this flooding in of Islam, flooding in of Hindus. Have you been to Texas recently? Because you should go. And when you go to Texas, you will see the demographics that have changed rapidly just in the last five to ten years. You have Hindus everywhere in Texas. And any remaining nationalists are labeled Nazis. Just because you want to have a nation, now you're a Nazi. Uh, any traditionalists are called misogynists. Uh, any bold Christians are called bigots, extreme. Right?
And I will say, and for a moment, it looks like we're going to lose. Like it can feel like we're going to lose. Like, how, how do you recover this? How do you get out of this? But by God's grace, I believe that we can trust that Babel always falls. Always falls. Multiculturalism never leads to peace. It leads, as I said earlier, to civilizational misery. Even liberalists are going to hate this. Even liberals are going to hate the world that they're creating, 'cause it's painful. Nobody likes globalism. Nobody likes universalism. It is unnatural to your own human nature. We are not made for religious pluralism. We're not made for these realities. We're made for unity. We're made for tribalism. We're made for community. We're made for likeness. We're not made for diversity. And this is good. God designed us this way. Globalism, the heart of Babel, is not God's design for humanity. And we know that in the end, it's not going to be that. And here's why. Revelation 21 and 22, it's the inauguration of the new heavens and the new earth. And we do not see globalists entering into the kingdom of God that way. We do not see some sort of ethnic slurry where everybody speaks one language and everybody's one color. We don't see that.
What we see is distinct tribes, distinct nations, distinct tongues, all bringing their own unique glories into the new heavens and the new earth. And the only way that could occur is if God actually, by his providence, preserves those distinct nations. And so everybody that's screaming for diversity, what that really means is not diversity. If you want to keep the actual mosaic of the world, then you actually have to keep nations, borders, and boundaries, and peoples. If everybody intermarries, then you do not keep distinct nations. You do not keep distinct languages. No, you need to keep the mosaic differences. Now, it doesn't mean we're enemies. It means that in Christ, we can be close, we can love one another, and understand our differences, especially in the church.
And so, I want you, as an application, is to help tear down the high places of the West. Help tear down the things that are the Babel impulses that you see in the world. Reject anything that internationalizes a particular set of nations. Reject anything that perverts Christian nations' historic identity. Embrace the idea of mass deportations as truly a biblical reality. It's actually a good thing. Assimilation is a really good thing. These are not just political desires, but biblical realities in order to uphold God's design for the world. And by God, we will have our home again. Amen?
Amen.
Amen. Let's pray. Father, we thank you, Lord, that you have given us a template that we might follow. Lord, we ask that you would help us to not abuse it. Lord, that we would never hate people that are made in the image of God. Lord, that you would give us wisdom to understand and navigate distinctions without becoming extreme. Lord, that you would help us to be like Christ. Lord, that we would love all people, but Lord, that we would understand the ordering of people. Lord, not for our own interest, but for the interest of peace, for the interest of accomplishing the will that you have for the world. Lord, because it's good. And we believe that it's good. Lord, we ask that you would eradicate any emotion for globalism in our own hearts. Any desire to be quiet about these distinctions in our own hearts. Lord, that we would move the Overton window, that we would open the conversation that Americans and Westerners alike would be able to have these conversations, but with scripture in hand. Lord, that we might not make the mistakes that other nations have made in the past. And then we would do it all for your glory. We ask in the name of Christ. Amen.