This is John from the Bible Project, and today on the podcast, we continue our conversation

on the biblical theme of the Day of the Lord.

If you haven't listened to the first part of our conversation on this theme, I'd recommend

you go and do that.

We introduce the theme and we talk about the Tower of Babel, or the Tower of Babylon, as

it really is, and how Babylon is a central and essential concept to understand the Day

of the Lord.

In this episode, we're going to talk about how Egypt is compared to Babylon, about how

God rescued his people and oppressed immigrant population in Egypt, and how he's described

as a warrior.

Especially in Western Christian culture, we really struggle with warrior imagery, but

here, the biblical authors want us to see that that's a part of God's character.

God is for the oppressed.

But before we get into that, I first wanted to have a conversation with him about technology.

You see, the city of Babylon had a new technology, the brick, which they used to build an impressive

tower that reached up into the skies and made them feel like they were themselves God.

God doesn't like this.

He scatters everyone.

So I wanted to know, what does this mean for how we should view technology?

Is technology inherently bad?

Will we always use it to build Babylon?

That's where we begin today.

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