Plain Truth 1959 (Vol XXIV No 03) Mar - Herbert W. Armstrong

March, 1959
The PLAIN TRUTH
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into fights. Work came to a halt on the tower. (Genesis 11: 7-8.)
Can you imagine what it would be like if each one in your family would start
speaking in a language of his own? Not understanding each other would lead to much
trouble, and it would be hard to live together. So it was with the men who were working
under Nimrod on the tower that came to be known as the "tower of Babel." Not
every workman necessarily spoke a different language, but so many ways of speaking
developed through God's influence that there was too much confusion to continue
erecting the tall temple. The tower was thereafter called "Babel" because "Babel"
meant "confusion" in the language Noah spoke.
Not understanding their neighbors, many of the families living in or near the city
of Babylon moved away to seek a living in distant parts of the land.
This was what God had intended for them to do. (Genesis 10:25 and Deuteronomy
32: 7-8.) His way of scattering them by confusing their language was a great
blow to Nimrod and his schemes for quick growth of his kingdom and greater control
over man's religious hahits.
But during the next few years, while people were scattering out over the lands,
those who stayed in or near Babylon were also becoming greater in numbers. Besides,
many families who had never before been near Babylon stopped there in their travels.
In time, there were so many men again living there that Nimrod once more put men
to work on the city of Babylon.
People came from afar to gaze upon the vast mass of buildings and
high walls of the city called Babylon.