Halting Toward Zion

Tower of Babel

event · 12 episodes
236Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 1 13 Apr 2026 18:33¶ 56 “Very much so, and there’s a side issue – actually it’s really a fundamental issue because at Babel God confused languages so people couldn’t…” 18:30¶ 55 “It’s a funny echo of Babel here also.”
235The Words of the Prophets 2 Feb 2026 20:37¶ 69 “Two things that come to mind before we plunge into the sermon itself. First, tagging off what Rachel said earlier, the point is that…” 21:09¶ 70 “It’s transformation rather than undoing.” 21:12¶ 71 “Exactly, transformation. And as we look at the various pictures of heaven in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, we’re told…”
196Greek Life 17 Jun 2024 4:03¶ 15 “So we’ve got here the announcement in advance that language is a thing, division of language is a thing, and chapter 11 tells us…” 3:21¶ 11 “Notice too that they were divided in their lands, everyone after his tongue, after their families. The story of Babel doesn’t come until chapter…” 51:03¶ 180 “There was a time when our fathers built a ladder to heaven and God overthrew it, and we wandered south and east and came…”
191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel 29 Apr 2024 0:46¶ 3 “Something I don’t think the average Bible reader gets, because I know I didn’t for a long time, was that the word Babylon is…” 1:15¶ 4 “In the wake of the flood, people decided that they did not like the promises and the commands that God had given them through…” 2:31¶ 8 “Yes, doesn’t it? A lot more. So this was the first seemingly democratic attempt at world government. As you read the text it’s all…”
183Egypt Reaching for Deity 4 Mar 2024 8:38¶ 31 “Now the question is why pyramids? Well, Babel was a ziggurat. It was a stepped tower. The pyramids are a little more stylish, a…” 17:49¶ 56 “You mentioned the kind of precision. This had to be passed down in writing, in notes, recorded, regulated, checked and rechecked. They had to…” 17:03¶ 55 “Think of Egypt, where the heritage goes back to Ham, who was not exactly the most godly of Noah’s three sons. They come through…”
180The Tower 12 Feb 2024 0:21¶ 2 “We left off last time right on the precipice before the Tower of Babel, so we’re going to pick up with the Tower of…” 14:31¶ 47 “The association of him with Babel was not in his favor, nor in Babel’s favor. These were two headwaters of paganism that the writer…” 23:05¶ 74 “That might be a good place to insert here the fact of what you’re describing, Greg, is very decentralized and individual, whereas what they…”
179Nephilim, The Flood, and Covenant 5 Feb 2024 40:59¶ 115 “Oftentimes we skip over the fact that they formed a city, and the city is built around what we call a ziggurat. The language…” 41:40¶ 116 “That’s not what they’re saying. The heaven they’re talking about is not the sky. They’re talking about where God lives. They wanted to build…” 40:14¶ 114 “And within about 125-150 years there are enough people around to decide that in fact this whole covenant family, God of Noah, creator God,…”
168Walls (Part 2) 10 Jul 2023 1:17¶ 5 “Yeah. And we talked about Babel, Babylon. The tower was topless to be in heaven, and how mankind tried to define himself, give himself…”
136The Lost Empire 19 Sep 2022 11:52¶ 43 “As we look at the Tower of Babel, there seems to have been two leaders, a father and son – Cush, who was sort…” 13:52¶ 48 “In the meantime, for our purposes at least, it seems that this people following their father Asshur moved into the area around the River…” 21:28¶ 83 “Again, it’s going to mean a unified humanity, like the Tower of Babel, which means a unified religion and philosophy, a unified worldview where…”
26Pyramid Building and Social Order 28 Jun 2020 11:27¶ 33 “So here we have the ancient world saying, “Well, you want to talk about the mountain of God, you want to talk about Eden,…” 0:36¶ 3 “Today we’re going to shift our focus over to the pyramids. We’ve talked a little bit about them before in our episode on the…”
17Mythmaking 26 Apr 2020 5:55¶ 23 “The Bible describes for us in Genesis 11 the Tower of Babel and speaks of this tower whose top was unto heaven, man’s attempt…”
15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 5:36¶ 24 “The first attempt that we have recorded for us in scripture – there may have been others before the flood – but the one…” 6:11¶ 25 “The idea was not, “We want to create something so tall that we actually can physically scale the skies.” They weren’t stupid. We’ve been…” 6:28¶ 26 “The ancients repeated both of those ideas, and so have moderns, but what they were creating was a piece of magical technology, a Star…”