"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 (NIV)
After the Flood, humanity started over.
Everyone spoke the same language, lived together, and shared one purpose. But unity without humility can be dangerous.
On the plains of Shinar, people decided to build a tower that would reach heaven itself — not to honour God, but to prove they didn’t need Him.
It wasn’t about worship. It was about power.
🧱 The Tower That Tried to Touch God
The Tower of Babel wasn’t a fantasy. It was a real structure, a ziggurat, built from sun-baked bricks and tar in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
Archaeologists have even found similar towers near Babylon that might trace back to this time.
It was meant to bring heaven to earth. Instead, it brought confusion to humanity.
"The Lord confused their language and scattered them over the face of the whole earth.”
— Genesis 11:9 (NIV)
One moment everyone understood each other. The next, they were speaking in hundreds of different languages.
Imagine the chaos, builders shouting orders no one could follow, friends suddenly unable to communicate.
It was God’s gentle but firm reminder that creation works best when it listens to the Creator.
🌍 The Birth of Diversity
From that day forward, people began to scatter, moving into new lands, forming nations, and developing cultures and languages of their own.
Today there are more than 7,000 spoken languages around the world, and linguists say most trace back to a handful of ancient roots, many from the same region as Babel.
Even genetic studies confirm it: humanity really did spread out from a common origin.
At that time, most people were dark or olive-skinned, living under the sun in the Middle East and Africa. The fairer tones of the north came later as people migrated into colder regions.
It’s a reminder that humanity began as one family, one spectrum of God’s image — and still is.
🌑 Enoch and the Shadow of Revelation
The story of Babel even links back to Enoch, the man who walked with God and disappeared into His presence.
Some spiritual accounts, like those of Kenny Corris, Psychic medium, describe Enoch as having darkened skin after decades dwelling in caves, symbolic of being transformed by divine mystery.
And just as Enoch’s time in darkness brought revelation, humanity’s time of confusion at Babel would eventually bring wisdom.
Sometimes God scatters to sanctify, pulling us apart to teach us how to come back together in Him.
💜 A Modern Reversal — Darren’s Light
Thousands of years after Babel, God reversed that confusion through the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
People of every language understood one message: “Jesus is Lord.”
Unity restored, not by brick and mortar, but by Spirit and love.
And today, that same Spirit shines through Darren’s light. His way of communicating through energy and thought is the pure language of heaven, where words aren’t needed, and love is instantly understood.
It’s the undoing of Babel, heaven’s voice breaking through the noise.
🙏 Reflect
Where might pride or fear be building your own “tower”?
How has God used confusion or change to guide you back to Him?
And how might His light, through Spirit, through love — be helping you understand what words never could?
Lord,
When pride divides us, bring us back to humility.
When confusion clouds us, shine through with Your Spirit.
Teach us to celebrate diversity, not fear it.
Unite us again in Your light.
Amen
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