Babel, the city that became the capital of a great empire, developed a lunar calendar, and the art of writing, and constructed

a precise lunar system. But, for all the knowledge of science and technology, Babel was built to defy God.

In the days of Noah, who was a "preacher of righteousness (I Pet 2:5),"God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5). Therefore, God determined to destroy mankind from the face of the earth, except for Noah, his wife, his3 sons, and their wives (7:21-23,7). God preserved them in the ark which He directed Noah to build.

When the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, only the 8 people and the animals aboard the ark remained alive. At that time, every person had knowledge of true religion. Therefore, every other religion on earth is invented by man, and is a prostitution of true faith. "And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth.... These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread" (Gen. 9:18,19).

"And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar" (Gen. 11:2). "And they said, ‘Go to, let us build US a city and to 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" (4). But God had early commanded people, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it..." (1:28).

A tower would serve as a temple, and as a refuge against another flood. God had promised "every living creature" that all flesh would never again be cut off any more by the waters of a flood (0:10,11), and He had signified it by the sign of the rainbow. Yet, the people did not believe God. They were defiant and hostile against Him. And, the people were prepared, for they were all of "one lip," i.e. they had one language, and one purpose: they would establish their own religion. Herodotus describes the tower as a ziggurat with each level "painted" a different color to typify one aspect of their new religion.

Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and by these three "was the whole earth overspread" (Gen. 9:19). Ham—to the Latins, he was "Mercury," the "messengers of the gods;" but to the Greeks, he was "Hermes," the "interpreter of the gods." It was from this form of Ham’s name that we have "hermeneutics" or the science of interpretation. It was Ham who apparently encouraged the building of Babel in the name of God.

Ham’s son Cush has been identified as the god "Janus" of the Latins, the "god of beginnings," and hence the word "January." He was anciently known to the Greeks by the name "Chaos," and was to them the "god of gods." In Chaldee, the name "Chaos" is a form of the name "Cush." But, he was also known by the name "Bel," or "confounder," and when Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt the city of Babel, he dedicated it to Bel, which the heathen said was represented by the sun. While Cush founded Babel, it was his son Nimrod, grandson of Noah, who actually built it.

The strength of the people for undertaking such an act of rebellion against God lay in their UNITY, and Nimrod enforced UNITY by conquest in a day when people were unaccustomed to warfare. Nimrod is identified with "Hercules" and with the constellation of "Orion, the Hunter," who with his club and brute force went about to establish a new world order.

Nimrod was the first of many warlike kings who throughout history have sought to usurp the place of God. He founded the first "kingdom" –"and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh" (Gen. 10:10); and, "he was a mighty hunter before the LORD" (10:9).

The name "Nimrod" comes from the root meaning "he rebelled." "Nimrod began to be a mighty man in sin, a murderer of innocent men, and a rebel before the LORD," says the Targum. The Jerusalem Targum says, "He was a hunter of the children of men...and he said unto them, ‘Depart from the religion of Shem and cleave to the institutes of Nimrod.’"

"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" (Gen. 11:6). Unity among sinful men is the very spawning ground of evil. Babel became the birthplace of 1.) Apostasy, 2.) Idolatry, 3.) Human sacrifices, 4.) Tyranny and oppression. The Greek and Roman poets wrote of giants piling mountain upon mountain to scale heaven to war with the gods. The Chaldee simply says Nimrod "waged war with the gods."

"...He waxed strong and built Nineveh." Nineveh became the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Assyria, renown for its cruelty, was known as the "land of Nimrod" (Mic. 5:6). But, Babel was the center of rebellion after the flood. All the false gods of the earth and all the false worship sprang either directly or indirectly from Babel. And, the strength of Babel was its policy of Unity in enforcing its one-world system, the New World order.

Therefore, God said, ‘"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from the thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called ‘Babel;’ because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth..." (Gen. 11:7-9a).

God has scattered men, separating them by language, "and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitations; that they should seek the lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him..." (Acts 17: 26,27). It is by God’s will that men should be separated and divided, but ever since God confounded the people of earth at Babel, men who hate God have been attempting to re-establish the new world order of global politics, based upon an unholy morality. During the 1930’s and 40’s, there was an attempt made to write a universal language. It was called "Esperanto," and has apparently been tabled for the time being, but consider seriously the following –-

World peace through world government and world law is an ancient idea that has fastened itself mightily on the minds of men in many ages. Never before, however, has our human race been so close to inaugurating this utopian "ideal" to establishing and empowering government on a planetary scale.

But our planet and our age have had more than passing acquaintance with utopias empowered. And without exception, the promises of the utopian dream have yielded to dystopian nightmares. The tens of millions of victims of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Ho, Kim, Fidel, Pol Pot, Amin, Lumumba, Qhadaffi, Khomeini, and dozens of other utopic despots cry out to us. They warn us against the utopian siren call. They warn us of the fundamental truth embodied in George Washington’s definition of government:

World government, of course, would necessitate worldwide force--unprecedented power on a global scale. Make no mistake about it, that is what the advocates of "an empowered United Nations" are really after. And what is most disturbing is that they have very nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them.

Since World War II, calls for world government and an end to national sovereignty have proliferated, usually emanating from individuals associated with organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Federalist Association. Below are but a few of the many examples that could be cited.

* In 1950, a Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution was authored by CFR globalists Robert M. Hutchins, Rexford G. Tugwell, and others was introduced in Congress by Senator Glen Taylor (Democrat-Idaho). The submitted World declared that "iniquity and war inseparably spring from the competitive anarchy of the national states; that therefore the age of nations must end." It held as well that nations must "surrender their arms" to the proposed "Federal Republic of the World."

* In 1960, Rhodes Scholar Walt Whitman Rostow, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, claimed that urgent imperatives "argue strongly for movement in the direction of federalized world organization under effective international law" and for "effective international control of military power." The real world problem, said Rostow, is "national sovereignty" and "it is therefore in American interest to see an end to nationhood as it has been historically defined." Incredibly, Rostow was given a top spot in the Kennedy State Department.

* In 1961, the Kennedy State Department brought forth an official policy entitled Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (Department Of State Publication 7277). This amazing document proposed a plan of "progressive controlled disarmament" in which all national armaments, including those of the United States, would be transferred to the United Nations. This disarmament "would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N., Peace Force."

* On Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Norman Cousins, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the long-time president of the United World, Federalists (now the World Federalist Association), proclaimed, "Humanity needs world order. The fully sovereign nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of the environment.... The management of the planet ...requires a world government."

The appeals for world government multiplied with the approach of the UN’s 50th anniversary in 1995.

* In a June 22, 1993 letter on White House stationery to the World Federalist Association, President Bill Clinton congratulated the WFA on awarding the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award to the president’s longtime friend, and No. 2 State Department appointee, Strobe Talbot, also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Clinton’s letter boasted, "Norman Cousins (CFR) worked for world peace and world government.... Best wishes ...for future success."

* In the World Bank’s 1994 Human Development Report, an essay by Nobel Prize winning economist Jan Tinbergen, entitled "Global Governance for the 21^st Century," declares: "Mankind’s problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a World Government." And this government, says he, should be empowered with a "World Police" and a program for "the redistribution of world income."

The real problem we face, however, is that these appeals and proposals are now being implemented through United Nations treatises and conventions which are establishing "Supranational Institutions" with real power and force. Lord Acton’s famous dictum that "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is a sobering truism acknowledged by all intelligent people. To this maxim should be added what we might call the Rummel Corollary: "Power kills and absolute Power kills absolutely."

R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, has spent the past eight years of his life in an intensive study Of a very grim but important phenomenon of our century: genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls "democide." He has thus far produced four powerful and harrowing books, the latest volume being, Death by Government (Transaction, 1994). "The more power a government has," notes Dr. Rummel, "the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others, and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide."

One graph in his newest book lists the top 15 of "this century’s megamurderers-- those states killing in cold blood, aside from warfare, 1 million or more men, women and children." The bloodiest of those criminal regimes -the USSR and Red China-were not only invited into the United Nations, but were given special status on the UN Security Council!

The UN could (and does) accommodate these magamurderers because "the rule of law," in UN terms, is radically, fundamentally different from the "rule of law" as understood by the American Founding Fathers and as embedded in our Constitution. Whereas the U.S. Constitution is rooted in the traditional Western and Judeo-Christian legal concepts of divine law and natural law which circumscribe the limits of government power and posit individual God-given rights which it is government’s duty to protect, the United Nations Charter is based in the framework of positive legal theory which virtually guarantees unrestrained, despotic government.

All of its empty platitudes about "peace," "justice," "law," and "human rights" notwithstanding, the UN is a lawless organization made up largely of criminal regimes pursuing a malevolent, tyrannical agenda. A global, regimented police state under the UN would mean a grim existence -if, that is, you are one of the "lucky" ones allowed to exist. One sure thing Dr. Rummel’s research points up with unmistakable clarity is this: "Power will achieve its murderous potential." Ponder for a moment then this mind-numbing summary of already "realized" potential:

"In total, during the first 88 years of this century, almost 170

million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hanged, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs.

Surely the human mind cannot even begin to conceive the enormity of the global slaughter that would certainly accompany the "Plague of Power" issuing from a world government under any entity other than God Himself. -William F. Jasper, copyright 1995 by The John Birch Society, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54913-8040. Used with permission; submitted by Jim Prestwood.

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"When kings command unrighteous things, and the people suit them with willing compliance, none doubts but that the destruction of both is just and righteous" -John Owen.