Thoughts for another day

Oct. 3, 2007

Today's verse: Gen. 11:9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Today, I am being led to reflect on God’s work in dividing the race of mankind and then bringing them back in Jesus Christ. A look at the verse above coupled with what happens in Ch. 10 of Genesis tells us that from being one race, one nation if I may call it, man was dispersed throughout the earth. The Bible says that by the time Peleg was born to Eber, the descendent of Shem, the son of Noah, the earth was divided and in harboring intentions of building the tower of Babel to make a name for themselves, God decreed further scattering and the birth of many languages.

In understanding God’s ways, atleast somewhat (none will ever understand fully God ways), we realize that whenever, man tried to do something that went against God’s role in fathering and nurturing the universe, God worked against him and man had to retreat. Very critical also is man’s foolishness in trying to attain to that knowledge that isn’t his to grasp, a reason why Adam was banished from Paradise.

In the coming of Christ all changed. God’s knowledge opened up to man. Mysteries of old began to unfold as Paul says in Col. 1:26, ‘Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints’. The mystery is the unification of the world so then an offering of ‘the one world’ may be made to God through Jesus Christ His Son. The circuitous route and time this will take is because of Adam’s fall and man’s reliance on himself. Much time is appointed till the human race understands their reliance has to be on God and God alone; don’t we see a trailer of this in the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land which took 40 years rather than a few weeks at the most?

Now that it has been revealed, we know that the whole world will be assimilated into one big unity into Christ. Paul says that blindness happened to the Jews until the fullness of the gentiles be come in through Christ. And then all Israel will be saved. That God then gather together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and on earth, and then the son Himself will be subjected to the One who subjected (gathered) everything to Him, so that God may be all in all. Understand this if you can.