Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

the opposite of those that had been given. All work came to a
standstill. The builders were completely unable to account for the
strange misunderstandings among them. In their rage and
disappointment they blamed one another. As an evidence of God's
displeasure, lightnings from heaven broke off the upper portion of
the tower and threw it to the ground.
God's Purpose in Changing Their Language
Up to this time, everyone had been speaking the same
language. Now those who could understand one another's speech
united in groups. Some went one way and some another. "The Lord
scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth." This
spread people all over the earth; and so the Lord's plan was
accomplished through the very means by which some had tried to
prevent its fulfillment.
But at what a loss! It was God's plan that as people would go
out to different parts of the earth they would carry with them the
light of truth. Noah, the faithful preacher of righteousness, lived for
three hundred fifty years after the Flood, and Shem for five hundred
years; as a result, their descendants had opportunities to learn the
requirements of God and the history of His dealings with the human
race. But they had no desire to keep God in their knowledge; and by
the confusion of languages they were largely shut out from
communicating with those who might have given them light.
Satan was trying to bring contempt on the sacrificial offerings
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