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Bible Book Club

Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

Bible Book Club

Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

Exodus, Susan Merrill, Spirituality, Heather Rubio, Bible, Genesis, Christianity, Leviticus, Bible Book Club, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.8589 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Genesis 11 describes the Tower of Babel of the Babylonians. Listen as we uncover the purpose for the Tower and what remains of it today. Don't miss out as Susan points out how this attempt of the Babylonians to elevate their name provided a great contrast to Jesus, "the temple" in the New Testament. Make sure to take a peek at the show notes below for Hayley's recap! Show Notes BlogSome Very Compelling Evidence the Tower of Babel was RealArcheologist Doug Petrovich: Site of Tower in EriduOve...

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0:00.0

If you're the only one in your book club who wants to read books that will change your life, you need a new book club.

0:07.6

And we think you found it.

0:09.0

I'm Heather.

0:09.8

And I'm Susan.

0:11.0

And can we be the first to say, welcome to the club?

0:18.7

Thanks for sticking with us.

0:20.4

And if you've been listening for the last couple of episodes, I'm just going to catch you up because we are deep into this story at this point.

0:28.0

So I'm going to give you a little catch up here.

0:29.9

So last episode, Noah Sips, remember he is a man of the soil and he made the very first winery.

0:36.3

Or we think.

0:37.0

And then slips. And it was that really weird

0:39.8

story where something happened in that tent. Ham and Canaan did something really wrong. We don't

0:44.2

know exactly what it was, but it was definitely wrong enough that they were cursed. And Japheth and

0:50.2

Shem tried to cover it up. Noah sees the hearts of his sons through their actions,

0:54.4

and then he prophesies for their future. And the three sons then give birth to the genealogy

1:00.0

of all the nations, 70 nations. Right. So now we have, the land is being filled and we have

1:05.4

these 70 nations. And we are actually at the end of our first division. So congratulations.

1:10.7

Yes. Yes. And there's only two. Basically the end of our first division. So congratulations. Yes.

1:11.1

Yes. And there's only two. Basically the first book in the series. Exactly. Almost. There's only, because Genesis is the first book. Two divisions. The first one, remember, is God in the world, which we're about to finish, where we covered creation, the fall, the flood. And today, the Tower of Babel. Next week, we'll get into the second division, which is the longer one, all about Abraham

1:31.4

and his family.

1:32.4

Susan's favorite part?

1:33.5

Yeah, I love it.

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