...everywhere.

Pete Kersker - Dec 05, 2025

Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Cain was the first to murder. In the days of Noah, everyone needed help reconciling with the LORD.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 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; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth" (Genesis 11:1-4 NIV).

The people who built the tower of Babel did not want to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth as the LORD commanded. They were fine with the first two. They did not want to do the third: fill the earth. Pride drove them to try to outmaneuver the LORD.

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. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other" (Genesis 11:5-7 NIV).

The LORD had already promised Noah that people would not be completely wiped out for their rebellion. So, the LORD enacted a different plan to stop them from rebelling so completely again. Their languages were confused so they could not continue to conspire with one another against the LORD. Then, they were sent out to "fill the earth."

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

All people, everywhere, need to be reconciled with the LORD. This universal need cuts across languages, culture, distance, and time. People need Jesus to help us reconcile with the Father and walk with God again.

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 NIV).

Have you let Jesus reconnect you with our Father in heaven?
Do you know someone else who needs the Lord?