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Speaker 1: today's episode from our archives. This one is really cool
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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoy it. Today's story is called the
Speaker 1: Tower of Babel and this comes from Genesis chapter eleven,
Speaker 1: verses one through eight. Let's begin. During the time of
Speaker 1: our Bible story, the whole wide world spoke one language.
Speaker 1: Everyone used the same words. There were no different languages
Speaker 1: like Spanish or English, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese. Today we have
Speaker 1: about six thousand, five hundred different languages. Wow, whoa, that's
Speaker 1: a lot. But back then there was just one, so
Speaker 1: everyone could talk to one another and understand each other.
Speaker 1: As people moved from the east, they found a plain,
Speaker 1: a large area that was flat and did not have
Speaker 1: many trees. This was in the land of Babylonia. They
Speaker 1: must have agreed this spot looked like a good place,
Speaker 1: because they settled there to live. They said to each other, Oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I have an idea. Let's make bricks and bake them
Speaker 1: to make them really hard. So they used bricks instead
Speaker 1: of stones and tar instead of mortar. Then they said
Speaker 1: to each other, oh, yes, and let's build for ourselves
Speaker 1: a city and a tower. And let's make the top
Speaker 1: of the tower to reach high, high into the sky.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can reach to heaven. Why maybe if we
Speaker 1: make it tall enough, we will become famous. Oh, if
Speaker 1: we do this, we will not be scattered all over
Speaker 1: the earth. You see, they thought if they could build
Speaker 1: it tall enough, they would be like God and would
Speaker 1: not need him. They could stick their noses in the
Speaker 1: air with pride at what they had built with their
Speaker 1: very own hands as they looked down on others. Well,
Speaker 1: they got to work, all working together, they began to
Speaker 1: make bricks and then stack them higher and higher and higher.
Speaker 1: I hope no one was afraid of heights. Since there
Speaker 1: was only one language, everyone understood one another. Someone could
Speaker 1: yell out, hey, I'm ready for the next brick, bring
Speaker 1: it over, or they could say, tim, those bricks are
Speaker 1: looking a little bit crooked, and they could understand one another.
Speaker 1: The Lord came down to see the city and the
Speaker 1: tower that the people had built. I can picture God
Speaker 1: whistling a happy tune as he peers around a cloud
Speaker 1: to check out what they've done. I imagine the whistling
Speaker 1: stops when he sees their pride that they felt they
Speaker 1: did not need God, and he sighs. Oh boy, here
Speaker 1: we go again. The Lord said, Now these people are united.
Speaker 1: They all speak the same language. This is only the
Speaker 1: beginning of what they will do. They will be able
Speaker 1: to do anything they want. Come, let us go down
Speaker 1: and confuse their language. We will mix it all up.
Speaker 1: Then they will not be able to understand each other.
Speaker 1: And poof, suddenly they could not understand one another. Someone
Speaker 1: would say something like, can you hund me those nails
Speaker 1: and bricks, And instead they'd wander off and bring back
Speaker 1: mail and a big bag of tricks, both of which
Speaker 1: are not helpful for building a tower. Well, since they
Speaker 1: couldn't understand what each other was saying, they could not
Speaker 1: work together to build the giant tower anymore. So the
Speaker 1: Lord scattered them from there over all of the earth,
Speaker 1: and they stopped building the city. That is where the
Speaker 1: Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the
Speaker 1: place is called Babel. Everyone say Babel, very good. Have
Speaker 1: you heard a baby babel? Does it sound like words
Speaker 1: to you? No, not at all. Goo goo and gaga
Speaker 1: doesn't make much sense. That's what it's called Babbel. It
Speaker 1: shares the same name as the tower in our story. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue. So the Lord caused them to spread out
Speaker 1: from there over all the whole world. Well, that is
Speaker 1: it for our story today. But before we go, let's
Speaker 1: think about what we just learned. The people building the
Speaker 1: tower were proud and thought they did not need God.
Speaker 1: Was that good? No, of course not. God loved them
Speaker 1: so much that he stopped them from doing this, even
Speaker 1: though to them it seemed like a good idea, just
Speaker 1: like you may be thinking, it's a great idea to
Speaker 1: eat Dorito's or chocolates all day long. But your parents
Speaker 1: they know better. That's actually not good for you to
Speaker 1: eat all day, so they stop you. What did God
Speaker 1: do to stop them from building the tower? That's right,
Speaker 1: He confused or mixed up their language? Answer yes or no? Today?
Speaker 1: Is there only one language? No, we have lots and
Speaker 1: lots of languages, thanks to God. What languages do you speak?
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Speaker 1: That was incredible to hear. Thank you to each of
Speaker 1: you listeners for helping me. You see, there were languages
Speaker 1: you understood and some you did not. You heard from
Speaker 1: kids all over the world. I did this to show
Speaker 1: you just how alive the Bible is, how real it is,
Speaker 1: and how people all over the world love Jesus. It
Speaker 1: brought me such joy to hear from you guys. Thank
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