First published May 16th, 2007. I have added some thoughts which came to me last week as the scientific community launched experiments with its underground "atom-smasher." With economic foundations beginning to crumble (the current "rebound" in stocks are an illusion), this writing is more timely than ever.
I realize that the nature of these writings this past week are difficult. But the truth sets us free. Always, always bring yourself back to the present moment and be anxious about nothing. Simply, stay awake… watch and pray!
The Tower of Babel
THE past couple weeks, those words have been on my heart.
So high have the sins of this generation reached, even to the very threshold of Heaven. That is, man has assumed himself to be a god, not only in his mind, but in the work of his hands.
Through genetic and technological manipulation, man has made himself the new master of the universe, from the cloning of life, to the alteration of food, to the manipulation of the environment. With the new media of Internet, man has acquired god-like powers, near angelic powers to communicate instantaneously, crossing vast distances in the twinkling of an eye, drawing upon knowledge of good and evil at the tap of a keyboard.
Yes, the new Tower of Babel stands erect, taller, and more arrogant than ever. The CERN Large Hadron Collider is a 27km underground tunnel of technology designed to find the "God-particle"—the conditions after the "big bang" which created the universe. Is this the upper floor of this Tower?
Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Gen 11:4)
God's response:
This is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. (vs. 6)
With that, He sent them into exile.
Economic, social, medical, scientific, educational, agricultural, sexual, and religious perversions are the bricks which have built this tower. Hollow bricks built on the shifting sands of materialistic capitalism and corrupted democracy, built on the backs of the poor, built on false illusions and lies. Built on pride.
The Tower is tilting… the Tower must fall.
…and we must not be found in it!
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