Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar;

“Genesis 11:4: “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth.”

The Talmud teaches that this tower was so high that even after its destruction there remained 1/3 of the original tower. That was so high that a person could walk three days and be in its shadow. Of course, from an engineering standpoint that it is impossible but the Talmud is shrouded in mystery and this is meant to express a point. The massive effort to do something not of God.   The Talmud also teaches that there were three groups of people.  One group who wanted to live in the tower in the event of  another flood.  You see the tower was the city itself.  There was another group who wanted to worship idols in the tower and a third group wanted to wage war against God.  Thus when men and women who are seeking security in the flesh, say through financial security (avoid the flood though human means), invest in those who manufacture pornography or perform abortions (those wage war against God) and sell to those who purchase pornography or receive abortions (the idol worshippers),  this unity creates a power base such that  “nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do”  (verse 6).   To break this power base, God broke their ability to communicate resulting in such fighting between themselves that they had to scatter.

You know the enemy uses the same tactic on us.  We come together as a body of believers.  There are those who come because they need security in God.  There are those who came to wage war against satan, and there are those who come to worship God.  The enemy sees this and says: “Look they are uniting themselves and soon they will become just one in purpose to be united as one with God. Come let us destroy their communication, let us cause them to fight each other.

There is an old rabbinical story of a kingdom which had large flocks of birds fly North to South in the spring and vice versa in the fall.  The people loved to watch the birds as they flew through the country. Once there was an amazingly beautiful bird, with feather so brilliant that all stood in awe.  It wasn’t long before word of this special bird reached the King who offered a large reward to whoever was able to capture it.  But the people were bewildered as to how to reach the bird since it was flying so high.

The king suggested that they build a human tower (like a cheer leading squad) so that the top person could reach out and grab the bird.  The king’s subjects were excited, they immediately started to build a human tower.  They climbed onto one another’s shoulders and the tower got higher and higher.  But eventually the people on the bottom of the tower got restless.  After all, they couldn’t see what was going on higher up.  Eventually they lost so much interest that they started to wander off and the tower collapsed.

So it is with us, we come together to pray.  Some to seek security from God. Some to wage war with enemy, and some to just worship God.  Soon the worshippers will say: “I can’t worship God with all these people crying out for their need or rebuking the enemy.”  Or some will say, “How can I get my petitions to God when all these people do is worship or rebuke the enemy.”  Others may say: “Don’t they realize you can not get your petitions answered or worship God until we do battle against the enemy?”  Then one or two leave the fellowship and soon the who structure collapses before they reach their common goal of oneness with the Father.

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