Phil & Brad,
         Greg's sermon was about the Tower of 
Babel  today.  Something about the story that I had never noticed 
before had to do with the materials used.  When God told His people 
to build an altar, and later the temple, they were to always use 
stones and no tools were to be used on the sight.  the Tower of Babel 
was built with inferior, man made materials of brick and tar.  Greg 
used that example to illustrate what our ideas and drives are like 
when we just want to do things our own way and not seek God's will in 
the planning.  "Bingo!"
Kathy




At 02:46 PM 2/11/2007, you wrote:
>I noticed that in one of the resources but that is a good point, too.  Had
>to be a weird strange period of time in those days.  I wonder how high the
>tower of Babel got before God came down and scrambled the language?
>
>Phil.
>
>
>
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> > Phil,
> >
> > Could be because he was Ham's kid. Noah's grandson. Ham was the one who
> > peaked at Noah while he was naked and drunk and then told his brothers who
> > then went in walking backwards to cover Noah's indecency up. Noah found
>out
> > what happened and God cursed Ham and his descendents... see below the
> > Nimrod reference here...
> >
> >  From Nelson's Bible Dictionary:
> >
> > NIMROD
> > NIMROD
> > [NIM rahd] (meaning unknown)-a son of Cush and grandson of Ham, the
> > youngest son of Noah (Gen 10:8-12; 1 Chron 1:10). Nimrod was a "mighty one
> > on the earth"-a skilled hunterwarrior who became a powerful king. He is
>the
> > first mighty hero mentioned in the Bible.
> > The principal cities of Nimrod's Mesopotamian kingdom were "Babel,
>Babylon,
> > Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" (Gen 10:10). From the
>land
> > of Babylon he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh and other cities
>(Gen
> > 10:11). In Mic 5:6 Assyria is called "the land of Nimrod."
> > The origin and meaning of the name Nimrod is uncertain, but it is doubtful
> > that it is Hebrew. It is probably Mesopotamian, originating from the
> > Akkadian (northern Babylonian) god of war and hunting, Ninurta, who was
> > called "the Arrow, the mighty hero."
> >
> > HAM
> > HAM
> > [hamm] (hot)-the name of a person and two places in the Old Testament:
> > 1. The youngest of Noah's three sons (Gen 5:32). Ham, along with the rest
> > of Noah's household, was saved from the great Flood by entering the ark
> > (Gen 7:7). After the waters went down and Noah's household left the ark,
> > Ham found his father, naked and drunk, asleep in his tent. Ham told his
> > brothers, Shem and Japheth, who covered their father without looking on
>his
> > nakedness. Noah was furious because Ham had seen him naked, and he placed
>a
> > curse on Ham and his descendants. The offspring of Ham were to serve the
> > descendants of Shem and Japheth (Gen 9:21-27).
> > Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan (Gen 10:6). The
> > descendants of these four are generally thought of as immoral and evil.
>The
> > tribe of Mizraim settled in Egypt, while the tribes of Cush and Put
>settled
> > in other parts of Africa. The tribe of Canaan populated Phoenicia and
> > Palestine.
> > 2. A city east of the Jordan River during the time of Abraham. It was
> > attacked by Chedorlaomer and other allied kings (Gen 14:5). The modern
>city
> > of Ham lies six kilometers (four miles) south of Irbid.
> > (from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c)1986, Thomas
> > Nelson Publishers)
> >
> >
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