(The origin of the world’s different languages).
December 29, 2020
By: Zeida Pelliton
United States and some European countries have been experiencing stressful situations. Large groups of dispersed people from many parts of the world have been showing to their borders, hoping to be accepted into the lands. Many thousands were welcome in; many others have still waiting at the borders while thousands of others are still coming. For months, the social media has not stopped dramatizing the events like it is the first-time such crisis is occurring. Nations being diffused or scattered to all over the world is not new. Throughout the ages people or nations have been removed from their comfortable lands to be relocated to foreign countries. According to historical and biblical research, most of the times, these events have occurred because national leaders were persuading people to commit abominations against The Lord God Almighty. Therefore, this current phenomenon is a repeating pattern; nothing is new on earth.
The Origin of Diffusing or scattering nations – The first time It has happened was three hundred years after the great flood that cleaned-up the planet earth. Before the event occurred, God saved a faithful man named Noah and his family, because He wanted to use Noah is three sons, (Shem, Ham, and Japhet) and their wives to replenish the entire planet earth (Gen.9:1). Instead, they have chosen to disobey God by establish themselves in a few lands around the mountain of Ararat (Now: Turkey) where the Ark was landed after the waters from the flood dried out. The three brothers have multiplied, become wealthy, they have decided to limit their generations there, and stick together as one family one language. The worst of their rebellious actions is that they had also rejected the Almighty God of their father who saved them from the flood because He ordered them to spread to all over the planet earth. They have adopted a false god and built a magnificent TOWER to worship it in one of the cities that they have built. The city’s name was BABEL. The intents were to build a tower that would touch the kingdom of the Almighty, would give them access to heaven as desired, would incite God’s jealousy, to show that they are no longer need Him, and that they are also powerful as God. Despite all these efforts to competing with Him, God had to bind down to see what they were doing on earth; “The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens” (Ps. 113: 4). God has decided to come down personally to see their rebellious act, and He says: Behold, “the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined doing. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech” (Gen. 11: 1-7). Since they were not able to understand one another, they had no choice but to be separated as God wanted. The word of God says: “The Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth and they left off to build the city” (Gen. 11:8). This was during that Biblical event God has also created multiple languages that are currently spoken globally.
How and why God diffused national leaders to exile – Even though it has happened many times in the stories of the Bible, I want to focus on one national leader and his heirs. His name was Jehoiakim, a wicked king of Judah. He was not only deeply involved in worship idols and encouraging the nation to do likewise, but he was also doing it in the temple of the true God. Jeremiah, the prophet of The Lord God, was sent to him with a message that he must repent, or he will be removed and deported away to foreign land, but he refused all council. So, God has sent king Nebuchadnezzar against Jehoiakim. The merciless king Nebuchadnezzar did not only relocate Jehoiakim to Babylon, but he also brought in captivity a group of skilled innocent young men; among them was the prophet Daniel. (2Chronicles 36: 5-7; Dan. 1: 1-3)
Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim, became king to his father’s stead. His transgressions were worse than his father’s. After three months and ten days, God has sent the king Nebuchadnezzar again to remove that king and send him into exile. Once again, Nebuchadnezzar brought an additional large group of people to exile with Jehoiachin; among that was included the prophet Ezekiel. (2 Chronicles 36: 9,10; Ezek. 1:1).
The third wicked leader in this example was the last king of Judah; his name was Zedekiah. During his reign, abominations were so much increased in Jerusalem that even the priests were corrupted, and the house of the Lord polluted. Despite that, God was patient and compassionate; He is sent to them Jeremiah the prophet; and from time to time many messengers were also sent to them. But they had refused to listen, until The Lord God of their fathers said enough, and poured His wrath on the city of Jerusalem with its inhabitants. God was tired of those idolaters; now He ordered Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the city of Jerusalem and the temple where His name has been called in vain; and disperse the entire population, except the homeless people and the poor.
Finally, The Lord our God is Omnipotent and omniscience, therefore He does not take order from human about how to control the world, which He has scientifically created. Moreover, He control us, we do not control God. When He speaks it is as command; and the reason for His command is only known to Him. While He is a compassionate/lovingness/caring, there is one thing about God’s character that will never be negotiable; it is His reputation. The Lord’s reputation must be preserved forever. He says it clearly here: “As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord” (Num. 14: 21). we cannot disobey God’s order and expect to have peace and enjoyment. Until nations of the world acknowledge that the God of the Bible is the only true God and everything that has breath must down before Him, deadly calamities will always strike, nations will be continuing to be scattered and restless. NATIONS OF THE WORLD, WE ARE INTERING INTO THE YEAR OF 2021; SEEK THE BLESSING OF THE LORD. DO NOT DEFYING GOD.
ZEIDA PELLITON
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