KC Podcast - Episode 117: Passing the Baton

More Humor from the Tower of Babel

The men set about to build "a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven." This doesn't mean, as we often think, that the tower was supposed to be really tall. It means that the tower was intended to be a temple: a stairway to heaven.

Dr. Leithart points out that Nimrod built Babel, and the earth was divided (i.e.- by languages) in the time of Peleg. Nimrod was the 3rd generation from Noah, Peleg was the 6th. So the building of the tower didn't happen in a month or two; Nimrod had been overseeing it for at least three generations.

Here's the punchline. These men had spent three generations building their tower to storm the gates of heaven and put themselves in God's place. They had taken at least 100 years building their stairway to heaven. Finally God, from heaven, "came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded."

Get it?

Comments

Virgil Hurt said…
are you happy now?
Anonymous said…
Very nice. I never thought of that before :-)
-the awesome sis
Anonymous said…
I don't git it!