One Little Divided Family

At the Tower of Babel God “came down” to judge the pride and folly of men. They thought they could build a tower up to heaven. But God revealed the confusion in their hearts by turning it into a confusion of their voices.

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The builders had twisted hearts. And so the judgment that comes upon them is the twisting of their tongues.

Acts 2 speaks of the reversal of Babel. In Genesis 11 the twisted hearts of the builders resulted in twisted tongues. Now, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit brings all tongues back together in pouring forth the praises of God!

All nations now hear the mighty works of God proclaimed because the resurrection of Jesus reverses the curse of Babel, as the Holy Spirit untwists our hearts and gives us voices to praise the living God.

But if we would understand the reversal of Babel, then we should understand what Babel was all about in the first place.