Babel and the Confusion of Tongues to Upset Satan’s Kingdom – Genesis Chapter 11
by Sabrina Dawkins
We see in this chapter that the life span of man has drastically decreased. After the flood, initially there was only one language. In chapter 10, the earth was divided. Nimrod was mighty in the earth, and Babel or Babylon was part of the beginning of his kingdom; it was located in a plain in Shinar. The people’s goal was to build a city with a tower that reached to heaven so they would not be scattered across the earth. So God confused their language so that they could no longer understand each other, and they were scattered and left the city and tower they had started to build. It’s called Babel or Babylon because God confounded their language, which caused confusion.
Nimrod was like a type of Satan, or a vessel used by Satan to imagine constructing a tower that would reach heaven, and the people with him were also infected by the ambitions of Satan. We are supposed to resist and destroy imaginations and thoughts that exalt themselves against God’s knowledge and remain obedient to him (2 Corinthians 10:5). Lucifer, renamed Satan, in Isaiah 14:14 said that he would reach above the highest clouds and be like God, the most High. So the king of Babylon addressed in Isaiah 14:4 is also a type of Satan or a vessel used by Satan and addressed as Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12.
Shem had Arphaxad. Arphaxad had Salah. Salah had Eber. Eber had Peleg. Peleg had Reu. Reu had Serug. Serug had Nahor. Nahor had Terah. Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran had Lot and died before his father, Terah. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and she was barren. Nahor married his brother Haran’s daughter, Milcah. Terah left Ur of the Chaldeans with Lot, Abram, and Sarai to go to the land of Canaan but settled in Haran instead.