The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.
The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!
The Tower of Babel - Shadows of Armageddon
“(Nimrod) also said he would be
revenged on God if He should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he
would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach and that he
would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.”
Josephus, Antiquities
of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 4
Shockingly, Nimrod planned for the Tower of Babel to serve
as an “ark” of safety for all idolatrous rebels! So, the Tower of Babel was a
lightning rod of rebellion – in the war against Yahweh.
Nimrod spearheads the rebellion – and Shem spearheads the
resistance (faithful to Yahweh). Everyone, who resisted Yahweh, supported the
construction of the Tower of Babel. Every pagan tribe/family sent a
representative (or more than one) to help in the construction.
In Babel there were only two sides: Shem’s or Nimrod’s
The seed of Shem later came to be called “Shemites” (there
is a strong circumstantial case to argue that Shem was Melchizedek). Later,
they came to be known as “Semites”. Just as the final Battle of Armageddon will
have only two sides, there were only two sides in the building of the Tower of
Babel.
The Shemites did not participate – in fact they resisted
against – in building the Tower of Babel.
Because they did not participate in Babel, the faithful
Semites did not lose their ability to speak the Mother Tongue. When Yahweh
confounded the languages of the Nimrodian rebels, He judged them with seventy
new languages, effectively disbanding the idolators into seventy smaller tribes
of people who spoke the same new tongues.
The original language is Proto-Canaanite Hebrew, or
Proto-Sinaitic… This language was still
being spoken by Israel at the time of the Exodus. This is because Israel is
Semetic. This is Yahweh’s line… So
actually after Babel the earth had 71 languages – 70 because of the curse of
removing Yahweh’s Word from the rebels (who had rejected it) and the 1 line from
Shem that still kept the mother tongue and the and Word of Yahweh.
The Word of Yahweh was actually written in the sky, with the
ancient Proto-Canaanite alphabet letters serving as the original asterisms of
the constellations. This is why (as Shauna documents in her book Ancient Hebrew
in the Stars), these first letter signs are found all over the world in the
oldest petroglyphs, cave paintings, and ancient monuments all over the world.
Originally, all people knew the Heavenly alphabet. All of mankind could read
and understand the Word of Yahweh, written in the sky (Psalm 33:6; 2 Peter
3:5-7; and Psalm 19:1-3)!
Historical Details on the Tower of Babel:
The Book of Jasher (Sefer HaYashar chapter 9)
depicts Nimrod’s leadership in the building project. It bears a second witness
to the huge labor force which worked on the massive Tower— a building project
which the Book of Jubilees (chapter 10) states continued on for
43 years, before it was halted by Yahweh’s Judgment.
The Third Apocalypse of Baruch mentions that the
yet-unfinished “tower of strife” reached a height of 463 cubits (695 ft; 211.8
m), which was taller than any structure built in human history until the
construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
Gregory of Tours (c. 594) quotes the earlier historian
Orosius (c. 417) as saying the Tower was “laid out foursquare on a very level
plain. Its wall, made of baked brick cemented with pitch”.
Tours reported that it was 470 stades (82.72 km; 51.40
miles) in circumference. (A stade was an ancient Greek unit of length, and was
about 176 metres-577 ft). Tours’ description of the Tower continued:
“Twenty-five gates are situated on each side, which make in all one hundred. The doors of these gates, which are of wonderful size, are cast in bronze.” (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, Book I, chapter 6.)
Thus, we see that Babel was not only a ziggurat Tower, it was central in a great city—the first ancient city of Babylon.
Both Jasher and the Traditional writings of the Jews
(Midrash Rabba and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer) detail how men climbed the Tower of
Babel and fired arrows up into the sky in an attempt to kill their Creator!
These arrows also reportedly fell back upon the archers, supernaturally
dripping with blood (Sanhedrin 109a).
Samuel Kramer documented, Sumerian
records give the account of the Tower of Babel, where linguistic unity was
disturbed by “the gods”, which they referred to as the story of “Enmerkar (or
Etemenanki) and the Lord of Aratta”. Etemenanki is Sumerian for the “temple of
the foundation of heaven and earth”. This was the name of a ziggurat dedicated
to Marduk (Nimrod’s name as a false god) in the city of Babylon, which is
believed to have been another name for the Tower of Babel (“The ‘Babel of
Tongues’: A Sumerian Version”. Journal of American Oriental Society. Vol. 88,
no. 1. p. 108–111).
Eridu Genesis, a Sumerian account
of the global Flood speaks of unified human speech before divine intervention
disturbed it. Parts of Eridu Genesis were found in the library of Ashurbanipal,
ruler of Nineveh in the time of Nahum and Zephaniah (c 668–627 BC).
James 2:19 - “Thou believest that there is one God... the
devils also believe, and tremble.”
· What is the devil up to in instigating the Tower
of Babel rebellion and “kill Yah attempt”?
· Hell sought to incite the Almighty to send the final Fire early. Had He done so, none of humanity could have been saved, for mankind would have been burnt to ashes over 3000 years before Messiah came to accomplish the Plan of Redemption! Spearheaded by the demonic Nimrod, Babel’s rebellion might crush the Hope of Redemption long before Messiah was born. Had Hell’s plans, in Babel, succeeded, no flesh would have been saved.
Humanity,
like the fallen angels of Hell would all have been doomed. For all of mankind—even
the repentant righteous—have sinned and find Salvation only in the Atoning
Blood of Messiah (Romans 3:23), to which all animal sacrifices anciently served
as a promissory note. Thus, we see that the rebellion at Babel was about
denying ALL humanity Redemption.
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