BLACK, BROWN, RED, YELLOW, & WHITE, ALL  ARE BEAUTIFUL & PRECIOUS IN GOD'S SIGHT!!!   

CLEANED THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD!!!

JOHN 15:3 KJV * NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU.

1 Peter 1:23 NKJV 

23/ having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,  

REVELATION 1:5, 6 NKJV
5/ AND FROM JESUS CHRIST THE FAITHFUL WITNESS,THE FIRSTBORN OVER THE DEAD, AND THE RULER OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, TO HIM WHO LOVED US AND WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD, 6/ AND HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD AND FATHER, TO HIM BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER.  AMEN.





 

Let's all see ourselves, and see each other, the way God sees us.

FEARFULLY & WONDERFULLY MADE {PSALM 139:14}

IN THE IMAGE OF GOD{GENESIS 1:27}

 

 Washed by the Blood   OF KING JESUS Made by the WORD OF GOD 

John 1:3, 12-13 NKJV 

3/ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 12/ But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God,   to those who believe in His name: 13/ who were born, not of blood {not of biological blood from human parents}, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

 

Review Weekly Bible #29 "You Must Be Born Again"

Genesis 11 NKJV
The Tower of Babel

1/ Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2/ And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

 

 3/ Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4/ And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens;

let us make a name for ourselves, 

lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

 [Remember God told Noah and his sons to replenish the whole earth, not just one section of it. 

Genesis 9:1 KJV
1/ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.



But they rebelled against God's instructions and clung together on the plain of Shinar to build a Tower whose top would ascend into Heaven.]

Depiction of the Tower of Babel

“a tower whose top will reach into heaven” (Genesis 11:4) 

Drawn by Lieven Cruyl and etched by Coenraet Decker, this detailed etching appeared in the Jesuit Priest, scholor, & scientiest, Anthanasius Kircher's 1679 Latin book "Turris Babel".

According to Bible Apocrophy: The Book of Jubilees, states that the height of The Tower of Babel which our ancient ancestors built {Genesis 11:5 KJV*the children of men builded*},   amounted to 5,433 cubits or 8,149 feet & 6 inches. An immense building of this size would be impossible to build with today's technology.

Let's take a look at the size of the tallest building in the world today. The height of it is 2,717 feet.

 The 828m {2,717 feet} tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai,

city in the United Arab Emirates,

has been the tallest completed building in the world since 2008.

The Burj Khalifa has been classified as Megatall. 

Genesis 11:5-9 NKJV

5/ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6/ 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. 7/ Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8/ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9/ Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

  The Book of Genesis does not tell us what the Tower of Babel looked like, but archaeological ruins provide clues. Ancient ziggurats or pyramids exist all over the world. Ziggurats are stepped, tiered, or terraced pyramids that usually have a shrine on top. Ruins of these exist in almost 30 different countries including Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, India, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Peru, and Mexico.

According to biblescienceguy.wordpress.com: Both the Egyptian, the Mayan pyramids, and others, were likely built by people groups who migrated from Babel.

Although there are many theories of how these ancient structures were built, nobody today knows the techniques our ancient ancestors

 

used to build these gargantuan structures.^^^The Abu Simbel temples {above}^^^  

are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel, a village in Nubia, southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. 

The temple complex is originally cut into a solid rock cliff. 

PICTURED BELOW NUBIAN WARRIORS

Old Kingdom (c. 2686 BC - c. 2181 BC)

Sixth dynasty (2345 BC - 2181 BC)

  Mentioned as early as Old Kingdom Egypt c. 2400 BC, when Egyptian texts listed them among other Nubian peoples as warriors serving with the Egyptian military serving under Pepi I Meryre, 3rd pharaoh of the 6th dynasty of Egypt (2332-2282 BC). 

 ^Great Sphinx of Giza, in El Giza, Egypt, with the Pyramid of Khufu in the background.^ 

The Great Pyramid of Giza, or Khufu, is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

See above: The City of Cairo, in Egypt, with the  ancient pyramids towering above the tallest buildings of Egypt in today's modern times.  

  ^^Kulkulkan Pyramid, Chichen Itza, Mexico^^

The image above was taken from a group of tourists in 2012 at the ancient site in Mexico. A group of researchers led by Richard Hoagland measured that there are indeed various un-natural energies that are being emitted from the top of the pyramid and seem to be amplified during electrical storms. The strongest of these energies come directly from underneath the ancient pyramid and then shoot straight through the top implying that some ancient device could very well be buried underneath it. 

China had some of the world’s greatest ancient empires and civilizations. They  accomplished some amazing feats of architecture, engineering, and art.

One of the greatest human feats in history is, "The Great Wall of China".

The Great Wall is an ancient world wonder that winds for more than 5,500 miles across China, with towers & walkways. It is recognized around the world as the longest premodern megastructure.

 

Emperor Qin Shi Huang, ruled the first Chinese empire and began the joining together of this vast structure around 206 BC..

Pictures above from china.org.cn

"5 guesses on Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb" 

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor that united China, was constructed over 38 years, from 246 to 208 BC, and is situated underneath a 76-meter-tall {76 meters = approximately 250 feet} tomb mound. Discovered in 1974, today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is China's most impressive mausoleum and unique in the world.   

Thousands of statues representing the Army that United China, known as the Terracotta Warriors, housed in Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum, are the best known part of this huge complex. 

The Terracotta Warriors are an excellent example of China's rich and impressive history.

From archaeological and anthropological findings, the descendants of Ham and Shem populated many more territories than previously thought, or acknowledged; not listed on the map below. 



 

Shem’s Descendants

Genesis 11:10-26 NKJV

10/ This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11/ After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12/ Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah {Salah is called Cainan in Luke 3:36 KJV. 13/ After he begot Salah {Cainan}, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14/ Salah {Cainan} lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15/ After he begot Eber, Salah {Cainan} lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16/ Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17/ After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18/ Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19/ After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20/ Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21/ After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22/ Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23/ After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24/ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25/ After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26/ Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.





Genesis 11:27-32 NKJV 

Terah’s Descendants

{see "Family of Abraham" diagram above} 

27/ This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28/ And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29/ Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30/ But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31/ And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32/ So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

1/ SUMMARY OF GENESIS CHAPTER 11:1 thru 4 

 The Tower of Babel and the settling down of the people;

[Genesis 11:4 NKJV * 4/ And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”]

 

It is my belief that:

Unbelief &/or Forgetfulness

of God's promise to never again destroy the world's inhabitants, minus a selected few, with a flood: {Genesis 8:21 ..... Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; 

 BEFORE SLAVATION 

BUT AFTER SALVATION

Genesis 8:21 continued

nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.}

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Review Weekly Bible Study  #142 "GENESIS 8 - GOD REMEMBERED NOAH"}, & Review #143 "GENESIS 9.

fear, arrogance, rebelliousness, and pride,

provoked the united, but unregenerated {not yet renewed in heart and mind or reborn in spirit}, human race after the great flood, to willfully disobey God. They tried to build their way to Heaven within their own strength.

Psalm 127:1 NKJV 

1/ Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city,The watchman stays awake in vain.





 SEE: "SALVATION PRAYER PAGE" 

2/ SUMMARY OF GENESIS CHAPTER 11:5 thru 9

The judgment of confusion of languages, and the separation and scattering of the people; 

 United mankind gets God's attention with the building of their self-willed tower to Heaven.

  Man's plans will never derail God's Purposes!

God would not allow mankind in their spiritually unregenerated state, to access and spread evil in His Heavenly Realms.



SCRIPTURE BELOW KJV

 Ephesians 4:8-10 NIV 

8/ This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” 9/ (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10/ He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 



Ephesians 4:11-13 NKJV

11/ And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12/ for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13/ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,

to a

perfect man,

to the measure of the stature

of the fullness of Christ;



Psalm 147:5 KJV

5/ Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #98 "JESUS OPENED THEIR UNDERSTANDING" 



3/ SUMMARY OF GENESIS 

CHAPTER 11:10 thru 26 

The line of descent from Shem to Abram; 

NOTE: creationism definition

1. the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution
2. another term for creation science.

The following diagram is from the website"creationism.org" 

4/ SUMMARY OF GENESIS CHAPTER 11:27 thru 30; 

The Genealogy of Terah





In the diagram below, obtained from biblehistory.com, follow the dotted lines and green stars to see the lineage of our beautiful, wonderful, awesome, Messiah Jesus;   

but remember what Jesus told us in   JOHN 8:58 NKJV

58/ Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.

 

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #129 "THE EVERLASTING FATHER"

5/ SUMMARY OF GENESIS CHAPTER 11:31,32; 

 The move of Terah, Abram, Sarai, and Lot from Ur to Haran; 

 



Are you enjoying delving deep into the scriptures with me? Oh I hope so!!! Be sure to come back often and on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 for the next Weekly Bible Study, #146 "Genesis Chapter 12-The Abrahamic Covenant".