iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 5
The Tower
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 5: "The Tower" --- THE PLAIN OF SHINAR The world was empty, but not for long. Noah's three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—became the fathers of nations. Their children had children, and those children had children, and within a few generations the earth was filling again. Humanity spread across the land, a growing tide of life reclaiming the world the flood had cleansed. But they didn't spread far. "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there." One language. One people. One culture united by a common tongue. The diversity that would one day define humanity didn't exist yet—everyone could understand everyone else, collaborate with everyone else, dream with everyone else. This was, in some ways, humanity at its strongest. No barriers of language to divide them. No confusion of tongues to slow their progress. They could pool their knowledge, combine their labor, achieve things no scattered people could accomplish alone. And they looked around at the flat, fertile plain of Shinar—the land we now call Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization—and they saw potential. Not for farming, not for families, not for the simple life God had commanded. They saw potential for something bigger. --- THE...