Genesis 11:1-6

“Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. ² And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. ³ Then they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. ⁴ And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a 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.’ ⁵ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.'”

As we get closer and closer to the US elections, there is a lot of talk from the left about the collective; they have an agenda that destroys families, that will eradicate ownership, individualism, and even true Christianity, and make way only for the collective agreed-upon thinking. There is a saying that it ‘takes a village’ to raise a child, but the left has now taken that even further; now the child belongs to the village, and the parents have no power or authority over their kids.

When we read the passage in the text, it does not seem that there is evil in the actions of the people. They have not too long ago come through the flood, and it would seem prudent to stay close together and work together. But this was in direct defiance of God’s command. In Genesis 9:1, God commands the sons of Noah to ‘be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.’ These folks in Genesis 11 did the fruitful and multiply part, but they did not fill the whole earth. In defiance of God, they stayed close together and agreed to build the tower at Babel.

One of the hardest things to learn and to teach is that partial obedience is still rebellion. These folks understood the wrath of God. They knew God. It is possible that they were still able to see and visit the remains of the Ark. They understood that God was not a god who tolerated rebellion for long, and yet they did just that: rebelled. We know what God did here; He confused their languages and forced them to split all around the world. But for the past 4,500 years, the spiritual powers behind these types of rebellions have been working to bring the world back together. We are almost there.

The EU parliament is built to picture an unfinished building like the Tower of Babel. Since we do not have actual pictures of the Tower, we do not know what it looked like. The unfinished look of the building is being observed here. In the foyer, there used to be a painting by Pieter Brueghel that depicted the Tower of Babel, and the motto is Europe: “Many tongues one voice,” is in defiance of the Lord’s confusion of the languages.

Due to many protests, the painting has been removed. These folks know what they are doing; there is no ignorance here. The same spirits are working in the US and, yes, here in Canada, too. The blatant defiance of God is no longer hidden under wraps. Sadly, there is such an ignorance of the Bible and such a coordinated attack on the veracity of the Scriptures that many do not know the story of the Tower of Babel, and those that do dismiss it as mere myth.

Those of us who take the Bible as the Word of God understand that there is a rebellion amongst us that is active and powerful. The people in leadership positions are not ignorant of who God is. They are just as sold out to evil as we who trust in Jesus should be sold out for good.

In Genesis 6:5, God says this: “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

These modern-day folks pushing the collective all suffer from the same thinking problems; all of their thoughts are evil. From the attacks on the family unit that weaken the place of fathers, to the attacks on our education system to remove all positive mention of God or His word, to the promotion of sexuality in and amongst the youth making our girls and boys have to face the demands of sex way too early, and the attacks on the women, trying to convince them that they are just like men and vice-versa, thus smudging the very clear differences that God created and all for the purpose of creating the mindset for a collective that will defy God and all that is good.

They have succeeded in creating an army of uneducated, rebellious, and carnal people who have no room for God and truthfully don’t want anything to do with God, even if they did know Him. In the meantime, the people promoting the people pushing the narrative actually believe in God. The Pharisees knew who Jesus was; they simply did not want to submit to Him. They killed the Messiah, and they knew exactly what they were doing. The leaders of today are no different; they defy God out of knowledge of who He is, and there is no claim of ignorance on their part.

How many politicians who support abortion rights also claim some kind of religious affiliation? How many professing ‘Christians’ also vote for leaders that promote abortion, promote the demise of the family, promote the transgender agenda, and openly hate Israel? Why would someone who did not know who God was hate Israel? The only reason they hate Israel is because God loves her.

This collective mindset is worldwide; look at what happened in COVID; people from all over the world, of all creeds and all languages, and from various backgrounds were manipulated and led to believe that all not following the collective were evil and deserved punishments.

We are told that in the last days, a man’s enemies will be the people in his own home (Matthew 10:36). I stress again, back to our text, while we do not know how long after the flood this was, it is certain that many of these folk knew the flood story; maybe the elders had seen the ark, and maybe some of them knew Noah. There was no ignorance here of what God wanted them to do. God wanted the people to have kids and spread throughout the earth. God knew what was coming if they stayed in one place, and He commanded them to spread out.

This is the same kind of defiance that we are witnessing here. The people who built the EU Parliament knew and believed the story of Babel; there is no other explanation for their actions. There are no coincidences in these things. At the end of the Millennial Kingdom, after the successful, peaceful, and very productive earthly reign of Jesus, Satan will still be able to raise an army to attack Jerusalem (Genesis 20:1-10). There is no claim of ignorance here, just abject rebellion.

None of us know the time of the end, but we are told to observe the signs of the times. Surely, the end of the age is near. God’s dealing with Noah’s time, His destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and His punishment of Israel under the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and Rome for their open rebellion against Him, His laws, and his loving offer of redemption reminds us that God’s patience, though long, sadly, does have an end.

Lord, please help us! Forgive us for being quiet for so long, for looking the other way and being indifferent for so long that evil has taken root, and no one can come and deal with it but YOU.

The collective is about to run headlong into the power of the Living God, and they have been convinced by the evil one that they can win. The people of Babel thought they could defy God and win; they are wrong, and so are these deceived persons today. May the Lord have mercy on their souls, and by His grace, some will see the light, repent, and miss God’s judgment.

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding
Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church
Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church

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Ezekiel 16:1-14

“Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³ and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. ⁵ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.

⁶ “And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ ⁷ I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

⁸ “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord God.

⁹ “Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. ¹⁴ Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.”

Every day, our news cycles are overrun with the war that is going on in the Middle East. We hear about the missiles that are launched at or by Israel, and we hear about the loss of life and how many military personnel or civilians were killed. We get to see, as I did today, the Iron Dome defense system at work. Someone from my Facebook network had videos sent by a friend living in Israel. There is a hatred for Israel, and the media is naturally turned against her. Everything is skewed, and it seems that it is okay for the enemies of Israel to launch attacks but wrong for her to defend herself or try to hit back at the ones hurting her citizens.

Many in the Christian world have a messed-up view of Israel. Some think that God has abandoned Israel and that now, the local church has replaced Israel. Nothing could be further from the truth. The passage that we have above is God telling us how He found Jerusalem as a baby, and no one cared for her. No one loved her, no one showed her the care to nurture her and to help her live. But God commanded her to live, verse 6. God made her grow and thrive, verse 7, and watched as she became beautiful. Then, God claimed her as His own, verse 8. God performed the act of marriage with the idea of covering her with His wings, and she became His own, Mine, verse 8.

God made her beautiful, made Jerusalem the desire of all the nations, and nation after nation pursued her. But she is God’s, and while at times she is wayward, at times she plays as the adulterous wife (see the rest of the chapter), God is faithful to her and always will be. The New Testament church has not replaced Israel. Paul spends three chapters in Romans telling us this: Romans 9-11. He, Paul, was evidence that God was not done with Israel because God redeemed him, a Jew. In Malachi 2:16, we are told that God hates divorce.

“For the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, for it covers one’s garment with violence,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘Therefore, take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.'”

God wrote the entire book of Hosea to tell us about Israel’s adultery and that even in that, God will redeem her and take her back. He will buy her back from her lovers, and she will be His. The entire point of Hosea 3 is that although Israel has been an adulterous’ wife,’ she will return and worship with David, her king, and seek the Lord in the latter days. In Deuteronomy 32: 8-10, we see that God chose Israel as His inheritance.

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.”

God will not abandon Israel, just like we can be assured that He will never abandon us even when we are the adulterous ones and when we fail Him. Gradually, the focus of the world will come back to Jerusalem, and somehow, some way, she will be the key to ‘world peace.’ The Anti-Christ will set his sights on Jerusalem, God’s temple and Jesus’ earthly throne, and she will be front and center on everyone’s mind. The whole world will be once again focused on her; they will watch what happens with bated breath, and what happens there will determine the mood of the whole earth.

Make no mistake, Jerusalem will not fall again. We are told in many places that she is the ‘apple of His eye’; she is special to God, and yes, at times, God allowed armies to run over her and punish her for her sins, but He, in turn, destroyed all of those civilizations, and the last one to be destroyed is the sleeping Roman Empire. If you look at Daniel 2, you will see that it is the mountain ‘not made with hands’ that destroys the feet of the iron and clay mix. The final vestiges of the Roman Empire are portrayed by the legs of iron.

Pray for Israel; pray for her to repent and turn to the Lord. Thank God that He is faithful and that we can see his faithfulness played out in His love, commitment, and care for Israel. Soon, very soon, all of her enemies will be gone. Jesus will rule, and she will be the center of the world’s political system. There is about to be a switch from the church age back to Israel and the fulfillment of promises that are millennia old, waiting for them to repent and return. I leave you with Zechariah 12:10.

“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”

Pray for the peace of Israel.

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding
Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church
Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church

How to Connect with Us

Online: https://mmbchurch.ca/

Email: seangooding@mmbchurch.ca

Join us on Zoom every Sunday (10:30 am) for Sunday Service AND every Tuesday at 8:00 pm for Bible Study: Meeting ID: 700 794 460 Passcode: 032661; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/700794460?pwd=M3NFRG91ZW5Sa2Z3amVyWkFnYXd6QT09