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[1] {one language}
The history of Babel ("confusion") strikingly parallels that of the
professing Church. (1) Unity
# Ge 11:1
--the Apostolic Church
# Ac 4:32,33
(2) Ambition
# Ge 11:4
using worldly, not spiritual means
# Ge 11:3
ending in a man-made unity--the papacy; (3) the confusion of
tongues
# Ge 11:7
--Protestantism, with its innumerable sects.
» See Note "Isa 13:1"
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[1] {generations of Shem}
Genesis 11. and 12. mark an important turning point in the divine
dealing. Heretofore the history has been that of the whole Adamic
race. There has been neither Jew nor Gentile; all have been one in
"the first man Adam." Henceforth, in the Scripture record, humanity
must be thought of as a vast stream from which God, in the call of
Abram and the creation of the nation of Israel, has but drawn off a
slender rill, through which He may at last purify the great river
itself. Israel was called to be a witness to the unity of God in the
midst of universal idolatry
# De 6:4 Isa 43:10-12
to illustrate the blessedness of serving the true God
# De 33:26-29
to receive and preserve the divine revelations
# Ro 3:1,2 De 4:5-8
and to produce the messiah
# Ge 3:15 21:12 28:10,14 49:10 2Sa 7:16,17 Isa 4:3,4 Mt 1:1
The reader of scripture should hold firmly in mind: (1) that from Gen
12. to Mat 12.45 the Scriptures have primarily in view Israel, the
little rill, not the great Gentile river; though again and again the
universality of the ultimate divine intent breaks into view (e.g.
# Ge 12:3 Isa 2:2,4 5:26 9:1,2 11:10-12 42:1-6 49:6,12 52:15 54:3 55:5
# Isa 60:3,5,11-16 61:6,9 62:2 66:12,18,19 Jer 16:19 Joe 3:9,10 Mal 1:11
Ro 9. 10. 11.
# Ga 3:8-14
(2) that the human race, henceforth called
Gentile in distinction from Israel, goes on under the Adamic and
Noahic covenants; and that for the race (outside Israel) the
dispensations of Conscience and of Human government continue. The
moral history of the great Gentile world is told in
# Ro 1:21-32
and its moral accountability in
# Ro 2:1-16
Conscience never acquits: it either "accuses" or "excuses." Where the
law is known to the Gentiles it is to them, as to Israel, "a
ministration of death," a "curse"
# Ro 3:19,20 7:9,10 2Co 3:7 Ga 3:10
A wholly new responsibility arises when either Jew or Gentile knows
the Gospel
# Joh 3:18,19,36 15:22-24 16:9 1Jo 5:9-12