Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomin:
Genesis 11:1 “And the whole earth was of one language and one speech.”
Here is a trivia question, which if you wish to study the Word of God using esoteric Hebrew is a very important question. Was the Tower of Babel built before or after the flood? Most Christians, even Bible students can not answer this question.
Yet, look at this verse, the whole earth was of one “language” and one “speech.” Would not language and speech be the same thing? Why is this story even included in the Bible? What spiritual value is there to read that the whole earth was of one language and one speech.
As we approach the last days, I believe this question is going to become very significant. My first question would be, what was this language? The word in Hebrew for language is “sapah” which means language, lip, or exalted language. The word “speech” is “devar” which is spelled “daleth, beth, and resh.” Esoterically it would represent a gateway to the power of the Holy Spirit.
In answer to the first question, the Tower of Babel was built 100 years after the flood. Prior to the flood it appears Adam lived about 100 years before this event. What made Adam different than all the animals was that he was created in the image of God. That covers a lot of territory including communication with God. Adam could think and to think you need a language. He used a language to name all the animals. What was that language? It is called by many scholars – Edenic. Edenic, it is believed was spoken all the way up to the time of the flood and one hundred years after the flood until God scrambled the language.
It is interesting that Christians have become fascinated with Hebrew in the past few years. They believe there is more to the Word of God that can be found through Hebrew study. They have turned to a school of thought which is known as linguistic evolution and is actually tied into the evolutionary theory. This theory teaches that the grunts and chatter of monkey and apes was your first language and that it soon developed into actual communication as apes evolved into human beings. Once human beings evolved they soon became more sophisticated in their communication resulting in language. There were many different languages as these new human beings did not hang out together enough to compare notes on their development of their own language.
Here’s the kicker. They soon developed a means of writing this language. Very primitive at first. They used pictures at first to write, then the cuneiform developed which was a little more sophisticated. This lead to various scripts. Different languages and dialects shared similar script, as English, German, French, Spanish, etc. would do.
There is something being taught and embraced among evangelical Christians known as Ancient Hebrew. In other words there was a script shared by languages as the Phoenicians, the Assyrians and the Hebrews. Eventually by the time of Ezra, Hebrew adopted a script known as the Ketav Ashurit. Only Hebrew and Aramaic share this sophisticated script. I don’t doubt that Hebrew was written in Ancient scripts, but this was not the script given by God. This school of thought teaches that the Hebrew is a picture language and shows the origin of it’s alphabet to be in pictures such as an ox head, a tent peg, a wall, etc.
What is very disturbing to me about this is that Christians are searching for some hidden message in the Hebrew letters using these pictures. If a word has an Aleph in it they say that there is something about headship or leadership embodied in this word, because that letter originated with the picture of an ox head. Such Christians are denying the truth of the Tower of Babel story and even the flood, for they are saying like the evolutionist that man evolved from an ape and his language evolved from the grunts of chatter of apes.
Linguistic evolutionist are evolutionist. They deny that there was a world wide flood, a Tower of Babel where languages where mixed up and most important of all they deny that the world had only one global language up to the time of the Tower of Babel.
There is another school of thought. That school teaches there was only one global language. This thought is held by linguists from the Soviet Union who are atheist. It is held by a growing number of scholars and by esoteric rabbis. This language for want of an offensive word is called Edenic. In private these scholars will call it Hebrew and the script it was written in is Ketav Ashurit or what we know as the square script, the Hebrew alphabet as we know it today. Not an Aleph pictured as a ox head, but an Aleph pictured as a Yod, Vav, Yod (the name of God). If I call the origin of the Aleph an ox head, I will have to take my place among the Darwinian Evolutionist, and that I can not and will not do.
The whole earth was of one saphah and one devar. Saphah and devar tell us that they all spoke the same dialect. There were no accents, no Scottish brogue, no Southern drawl. Each spoke the Hebrew language precisely as God created it. Whatever power lies within words spoken precisely as God created it was enough for God to take it away from the inhabitants of earth and leave it only to a chosen few known as the Hebrews. Shem shared 50 years of life with Abraham and would have passed the secrets of this language on to Abraham who passed it on to the next generation and the next and had the Christian church not persecuted the Jews for 2,000 years maybe we would be sharing in these secrets today under the power of the Holy Spirit and not a spiritual guide like the Baal Shem Tov – to perform signs and wonders.
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