The document describes the biblical story of the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11. It provides context about the people having one language and settling in Shinar where they decided to make bricks and build a city with a tower reaching to the heavens so they would not be scattered. God saw their pride and ambition and confounded their language, scattering them over the earth and stopping construction of the city, which is why it was called Babel. Lessons highlighted are that human pride and self-ambition will persist until Christ returns and that technology can both unite people and push them away from each other and God.

1. The Tower

2. And God blessed Noah and
his sons and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth.
Genesis 9:1

3. The Tower
-The People
-The Language

4. Now the whole world had
one language and a
common speech.
Genesis 11:1

5. The Tower
-The People
-The Language
-The Place

6. As people moved eastward,
they found a plain in Shinar
and settled there.
Genesis 11:2

8. The Tower
-The People
-The Language
-The Place
-The Plan

9. They said to each other, “Come,
let’s make bricks and bake
them thoroughly.” They used
brick instead of stone, and tar
for mortar.
Genesis 11:3

10. The Tower
-The People
-The Language
-The Place
-The Plan
-The Motivation

11. Then they said, “Come, let us
build ourselves a city, with a
tower that reaches to the
heavens, so that we may
make a name for ourselves;
Genesis 11:4

12. otherwise we will be scattered
over the face of the whole
earth.”
Genesis 11:4

13. But the LORD came down to
see the city and the tower
the people were building. The
LORD said, “If as one people
speaking the same language
they have begun to do this,
then nothing they plan to do
will be impossible for them.
Genesis 11:5-6

14. The LORD saw how great the
wickedness of the human race
had become on the earth, and
that every inclination of the
thoughts of the human heart
was only evil all the time..
Genesis 6:5

15. Come, let us go down and
confuse their language so
they will not understand each
other.”
Genesis 11:7

16. So the LORD scattered them
from there over all the earth,
and they stopped building
the city.
Genesis 11:8

17. That is why it was called
Babel—because there the
LORD confused the language
of the whole world. From
there the LORD scattered
them over the face of the
whole earth.
Genesis 11:9

18. Lessons from Babel
• Human pride and self-ambition will persist
until Christ comes again.

20. A symbol of human pride
Come, let us build
ourselves a city, with a
tower that reaches to the
heavens, so that we may
make a name for
ourselves
Genesis 11:4
and the king answered
and said, “Is not this
great Babylon, which I
have built by my
mighty power as a royal
residence and for the
glory of my majesty?”
Daniel 4:30

23. Lessons from Babel
• Human pride and self-ambition will persist
until Christ comes again.
• Technology can bring us together, but also
push us away from each other and God.

25. Lessons from Babel
• Human pride and self-ambition will persist
until Christ comes again.
• Technology can bring us together, but also
push us away from each other and God.
• We are always either building up the Kingdom
of Heaven or the Kingdom of Babel in our
world.

26. What Kingdom are we building up?
Kingdom of Heaven
• Christ is above all
• Common purpose
• Seeks God’s approval
• Unity in diversity (Acts 2:4
• The Cross)
Kingdom of Babylon (New Babel)
• Self is above all
• Different purposes
• Seeks man’s approval
• Division among cultural
lines
• The Tower