Babel and Pentecost

Sermons by Bob Vincent and Others

Is there a connection between the Day of Pentecost and God's judgment on the Tower of Babel----God judged the nations because they sought unity and prosperity WITHOUT HIM, so he rewired people's brains so that they could no longer understand each other -Genesis 11-7-.--Though human bloodshed began with Cain's killing his brother thousands of years before -Genesis 4-8-10- and the earth had been filled with violence before the flood -Genesis 6-11-, the judgment at Babel gave us cruel kingdoms and empires that viewed other people groups as worthy of destruction.--Without the Tower of Babel, we would not be having Memorial Days.--At Pentecost, God enabled people from all over the known world to understand in their own languages what the first Christians were saying as they spoke so joyously the praises of God in words they themselves did not know -Acts 2-5-7-.--The attempt at the Tower of Babel failed because it was not under God. But Pentecost is about the whole world uniting under God's authority. --We get the word -pentecost,- meaning fifty, from the Greek translation of Leviticus 23-16. The Feast of Weeks was a joyful celebration, where leavened bread was commanded -Leviticus 23-17-.--How appropriate this joyful feast should be when the Lord Jesus, having received the gift of the Holy Spirit from his Father, should pour out the Spirit on his people -Acts 2-33-. --Every Christian has been baptized with the Holy Spirit -1 Corinthians 12-13-, but we all need a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit -Ephesians 5-18, note the present tense, and how New Testament believers are filled with the Holy Spirit more than once- Acts 4-8, 31- 13-9-.