Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

survivors: Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives (1 Pet. 3:20). It is likely Noah would have continued to speak the original language of Adam. Three generations later, Nimrod, Noah’s great grandson, constructed the first megastructure, called the Tower of Babel, in the plains of Shinar (Gen. 11). Nimrod’s goal was to escape any future flood: He also said he would be revenged on God, if He should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach! And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.3 During the tower’s construction, all the earth’s inhabitants spoke one language. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” —Genesis 11:6–7 God saw that man’s unbridled knowledge could again cause evil inclinations to spread. In a sudden moment, He struck the tower to the ground and scattered the people by confusing their languages. Nimrod’s kingdom was called Babel, whose Akkadian meaning is “gate of God,” but the Hebrew meaning is from the verb balal , meaning, “confuse or confound.” It was at