Whatever They Can Imagine They Can Do

Gen 11 March 28, 2015

Looking upon the conspiracy God said, “Now, they shall be able to do whatever they may imagine.”

While Nimrod is the archetype of all antichrists, so the rebellion signified by the Tower of Babel stands as the archetype of all worldly spiritual revolutions against God.

The rebels’ defiant song rose from the floor of the Euphrates Valley as, year by year, they sent levels of their clay brick tower spiraling upward majestically high into the clouds. The grandson of Ham had rallied them, goading them to not just a military and political coup against God but a moral and spiritual one. The final objective of the rebellion being to shake off God so they could rule the world themselves without enduring what they considered his meddling interference.

It had not taken the charismatic spirit of Nimrod much effort to convince the rank and file people of this unholy brave new world that they could counter any measure God might take to defeat their defiant purpose. They were taking necessary measures to avert any judgment God might impose to thwart their purpose, even if it were his plan to use another deadly flood to put down the revolution. Erecting a seven tiered tower that rose to the clouds they declared themselves safe, free of God, free from flood. Though God may try to impose edicts against violence, hate or any subversive activity against decency and good, they could frustrate his judgments. They would make themselves safe of any reprisal or attack.

The condition of heart that God was seeking in a person was just the opposite. They amounted to those things which God had detected in the heart of Noah. They represented the sum and substance of what God approved, they were the reason why God had decided not to end his quest for the heart of the creature called Man. It was love, joy, peace, gentleness … the things possessed by Noah that God continued to endure the rebellion of mankind.

But men wanted another spirit to lead them, one devoted to selfish lies and oppression of freedom. One that would allow them to take what they wanted, to enslave the weak and to hold nothing sacred but the whims that fed their lust. They wanted no limits put on their greed, no boundaries placed on their oozing and slimy desires. Nimrod promised them heaven, a place safe from God’s judgment. He required that they only confide in him. But for this he must be given authority over their souls. So they studied the stars for guidance.

They were taught how to commandeer the story of the redeeming Messiah with magic. They perverted the narrative of the promise which God had taught Adam, the story written in the sky, depicted in the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with their details told by the constellations. They absconded with the story and by it the first formal antichrist religion was conceived. And they believed they could tell their future with this knowledge and thereby save themselves.

But the rebels did not stop there, for the tower was to be their insurance and their refuge in case it did flood again; so God stepped in to disperse them, to put down and to disperse the mad society of the lunatic rebels.

Looking upon the conspiracy God said, “Now, they shall be able to do whatever they may imagine.” In his perfect understanding he had endowed the human race with the power to be gods. He had enriched them with knowledge and understanding, imbued their souls with the enormous responsibility of being able to speak intelligibly so they could plan and conjure a thing. He endowed them with physical abilities like hands and mobility so they could adroitly turn those concepts, ideas, hopes and conjurings into things that are, things which bear real effect upon earthly and physical realities and the breath of life itself.

Man was equipped with the liberty to come to his own conclusions. He could ignore God because he had free choice. He could tailor things according to his own whim, for his own use, thinking, declaring, inventing. He could think of it, he could eventually engineer it. Implied in God’s declaration about Man is that he someday could find the key to life and live for eternity. Albeit, in a desperate unhappy state. So it was with fitting purpose of his own that God used language to put a halt to the conspiracy. The conspiracy was derailed. The woeful people were sent packing.

God did not tear down the tower however, as we would likely have done. The strange remains still stand today in the plains of Iraq as a monstrous monument testifying to the prophetic reality that the rebellion still lives, because it most certainly survives stronger than ever in the spirit of the World today. Man, as united against God, has chugged along for these five millennia. A succession of rebellious events have come and gone among the peoples of disparate civilizations over the millennia and the centuries. Some of those civilizations are buried and gone, others are dying and some, like Rome, are in the throes of revival but they all hold in common the history of a Babel conspiracy. Yet nothing like what is happening in this hour has ever occurred. Since the revolution of technology and knowledge which ramped up two and a half centuries ago and has since reached mach speed in the last three decades, the spirit of Babel has invaded the globe knocking on the door of nuclear powers, third world countries, ancient dynasties in the east and every island on earth. The spirit can stake claim to being the actual religion of the world because it encompasses the continents and the seven seas. Now, thanks to technology, knowledge and speed the World can come together unrestrained as they once did in provincial fashion at the Tower of Babel. It is in the same spirit that Man has decided to pin all his hopes on – his science and intellect, while keeping God from interfering.