World Rulers - After the Flood.
AFTER THE FLOOD.
Q. Where did Noah`s descendents go?
After the flood God told Noah and his sons –
`...be fruitful and multiply: bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.` (Gen. 9: 7)
Noah`s sons and their wives then has many children and they in turn had children also. They travelled from Mount Ararat in the east and came to a plain in the land of Shinar and dwelt there.
They should have spread out and repopulated the earth as God said, but instead they decided to build a city and a tower in defiance of God.
`They said to one another,
“Come, let us build ourselves as city, and a tower
whose top is in the heavens;
let us make a name for ourselves,
lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.`
(Gen. 11: 4)
The people thought that they could establish a world empire that would be independent of God. This would mean power and control be a few, `lording it over,` others, which is man`s way of operating.
The city was called Babel or Babylon.
In judgment God sent a confusion of tongues and scattered them abroad. (Gen. 11: 8 & 9)
Government.
After the flood God establishes human government – the government of man by man. The highest function of government is the judicial taking of life. All other governmental powers are implied in that. Man is now responsible to govern the world for God.
`Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, & from the hand of man. From the hand of every man`s brother I will require the life of man.
Whoever sheds man`s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man. (Gen. 9: 5 & 6)
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