((The people of the earth didn’t want to populate the earth after the flood. They wanted to stay close knit. That’s not what God intended for mankind. He even commanded Adam and Noah to multiply and replenish the earth. Let’s take a look.))
Genesis 1:26-28
26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 9:1
1. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth
((Okay, let’s take a look at see how all these languages we have came about.))
Genesis 11:1, 4-9
1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
((The people didn’t want to obey the commandment of God, which was, to replenish the earth. Let’s continue.))
5. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
((God saw the willingness of man in his own imagination. God’s was thinking in his mind, “I’m gonna fix this.” Let’s continue.))
7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
((Basically, what happen was, is that, those who could speak the same language, grouped together and separated from others who they couldn’t understand, thus everyone started to scatter abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth.))
9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
((We’ve might have used the term babel in a sentence for instance, “That guy over there babbling, I don’t know what he’s talking about.” This is where it originated, at the Tower of Babel.
babel means – a confusion of voices and other sounds
Let’s now read about the Lord returning us back to one language for all people.
Zephaniah 3: 9
9. For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
At his 2nd coming, the whole earth will be return to one language.
Until again
Grace and Peace