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Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel. Genesis = Beginning/Origins. Origins of: The Creation Man Sin World as it now is: Flood Languages Nations “Races”. Origin of Cities.

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Tower of Babel

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  1. TowerofBabel

  2. Genesis = Beginning/Origins • Origins of: • The Creation • Man • Sin • World as it now is: • Flood • Languages • Nations • “Races”

  3. Origin of Cities • Gen 10:8-12 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. (9) He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD." (10) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (11) From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, (12) and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).

  4. Origin of Nations • Gen 10:32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these, the nations were divided on the earth after the flood. • Act 17:26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings…

  5. ARARAT Ancient land of Urartu/Subartu BABEL (Hebrew) Babilu (Sumerian) Babylon (Greek) Area where WHEAT was first domesticated

  6. Archeological site in Iraq thought to be site of the Tower of Babel Babylonian ziggurat – Etemenanki

  7. Origin of Towers, Pyramids and Mounds?

  8. First Written Language: Sumerian Second Written Language: Akkadian Third Written Language: Egyptian

  9. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants

  10. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Man belongs to God and He will do what He wants

  11. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Man belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Sin is not of God, and has dire consequences

  12. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Man belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Sin is not of God, and has dire consequences • Language comes from God, and has exceeding power

  13. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Man belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Sin is not of God, and has dire consequences • Language comes from God, and has exceeding power • The Nations are of God and He will use them as He desires

  14. Lessons • The Earth belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Man belongs to God and He will do what He wants • Sin is not of God, and has dire consequences • Language comes from God, and has exceeding power • The Nations are of God and He will use them as He desires • God is accessible only through humility and obedience

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