Now, the story of the confusing of the language and the tongues of the Babylonians is really well known to most people.

But what is less familiar, what is less known, what is less understood is the very heart of that rebellion that motivated them to construct this building, this

tower in ancient Babel.

Here's the background to it, so you can follow with me.

After the flood, Noah and his family came out of the ark, and he had three children, Shem, Hem, and

Jeffeth. And the Lord said to them spread throughout the earth and multiply. That's in Genesis

chapter 9. But there is in Genesis chapter 9 also a very disturbing story, very disturbing story, where Noah got drunk after the

harvesting of the first vineyard after the flood. Ham, his son, exposed his father's sin

and ridiculed his father. As a result, Noah cursed Ham's, Canaan, from which we get the Canaanites.

Please be careful. I'm just going to stop here for a moment. To parents, please be very careful what

you say to your children. Choose your words very carefully. Always bless them. Even when you are rebuking them, bless them and

not curse them. On the other hand, Shem, the son who honored his father, God honored him and

his descendant was Abraham. Ham was cursed and his descendants were cursed.

The Canaanites who were constantly like sand in the eyes of God's people, the Israelites.

One of Ham's descendants, a fourth generation from him, a mighty warrior by the

name of Nemrod. By the way, when the Bible said he was a mighty warrior, it doesn't mean like rainbow

and, you know, strong guy, mighty in battle. No, no, no, it wasn't a military man, but he's a founder

of a state. That's what's called

a warrior. He was a proud man. He was an independent king. He devoted his life to the building

of a civilization that is opposed to God and to his will and to his Word, and that is why Nimrod's decision to build a

tower or a structure was the natural step in the progression of sin. The first stage we see in the

scripture is that of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God when

...