A LESSON FROM BABEL
I learned about the Illuminati back in the 70s,
and just figured they’d always be around. But that doesn’t have to be true. There’s
no place in the Bible that tells us Satan’s strongholds on the earth are
everlasting. In fact, the Bible shows us that the opposite is true. What
happened in Babel? And all through history,
we’ve seen that kings and kingdoms rise up, and then they fall down. Egypt in
Old Testament times was the greatest power on earth. Where is it now? Just
because an entity has been around for many years, doesn’t mean it can’t fall
apart. After all, powerful groups are
made up of mortal men who are subject to the sicknesses, financial
devastations, relationship disasters, and all the other ailments other human
being experience. God loves everyone and abundant pardons anyone who repents,
but when people purposefully get together to come against us, we need to take
action. God gives us a strategy in Genesis 11.
Nimrod made himself an enemy of God by organizing
a plot to overtake God’s authority.
“And the Lord said, ‘Behold,
the people is one,
and they have all one language, and this
they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s
speech.’
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build [stopped building]
the city. 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” (Gen. 11:5-9).
First, we learn from this passage that there is power in
agreement, but that ‘agreement’ can be broken. When people agree “nothing will
be restrained from them.” God confused their language both physically and
otherwise. They no longer spoke the same natural language, resulting in the
inability to agree on anything. Nimrod’s plan was foiled.
In James 3:16 God gives us a truth we can use as a prayer tool
to break up the plans of any anti-Christ group, or individual who comes against
us in our righteous adventures with God. “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” We can pray that
the spirit of Babel, envy, and strife be
rampant in the anti-Christ group or an individual. God says these two spirits
bring confusion and every evil work. In Genesis, the group not only had to stop
the big plan they had, but they were scattered. We also use this word referring
to an individual being “scatter-brained.”
Jesus said: “Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided
against itself shall not stand” (Matt. 12:25).
We see another great Old Testament example of
how a group of three kings and their armies came against God’s people and were
taken down by strife and division within their group: It’s found in 2 Chronicles 20.
“It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and
with them other beside the
Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
“And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord:
“And when they began to sing and to praise, the
Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which
were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up
against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an
end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
“And when Judah came toward the watch tower in
the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the
earth, and none escaped” (2 Chron. 20:1,4,22-24).
There are many other passages we can pray against an enemy of
our God. Psalm 7:15-16 is among them: “He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His
mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall
come down upon his own pate [head].”
Another couple passages that David used are in Psalm 69:23 and Psalm 37:14-15:
“Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and
make their loins continually to shake.”
“The
wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to
cast down the poor and needy, and to
slay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into
their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.”
I know this stuff is a bit heavy, but
sometimes we need to know about what we can do in a war.
We never forget that when people turn away
from God, He still loves them and wants them to turn back to Him. That’s why we
continue to pray for them. God’s word to them (and us when we mess up) is: “Repent and live!” (Ez. 18:32). That
has to be our first prayer for evildoers.
But some will not repent and continue to do evil to God’s children, so I give you
God’s written weapons to put into your personal arsenal for when you need them.
“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with
thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I
destroy kingdoms” (Jer. 51:20).
How powerful are we? Ephesians 2:6 says God “hath
raised us up
together, and made us sit
together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus,” “to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God”
(Eph.3:10).
Love, Carolyn
FREE THRU TUESDAY: BEING BOLDER AS A CHRISTIAN
In this sample book I’ve chosen chapters
specifically about being bolder in our Christian walk. The true stories show
the different ways God has to help us be bolder but not annoying in the
challenging situations we encounter daily. Chapters include: SPEAKING FAITH,
CHASE THE DEPRESSION OUT, NO MORE TOIL, DON’T GIVE UP, DIG AND DUNG and TELLING
THE DEVIL WHERE TO GO
