We are Called to 'Come' & build the New City

[digging]

My heart spark was lit when I began to notice some powerful connecting patterns in the language between the first account of the city of Babel in Gen 11 and the call of the Sprite and Bride in Rev 22. Some things I just never noticed before!

1st in Rev 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say 'Come' a very basic assumption that needs to be agreed upon here is that the Spirit and Bride are speaking and understanding in one language. Adding to this "And let the one who hears say, 'Come'.....same point in regard to the one language everyone speaking and hearing this invitation to 'Come' are all understanding each other! One set of words, one tongue, one language. However I'm seeing this as a far deeper understanding, a spiritual understanding from within the heart of each person reached that transcends every dividing influence that has been created within the body of humanity.

Notice in Gen 11:3 when they began to try and build that city what was said?? The call to 'Come'. This is hugely important and is giving us some very deep spiritual insights on how the New City Jerusalem is being built.

 

[for_his_glory]

This is called the unity of the Spirit, Ephesians 4:11-16. When the new Jerusalem is ushered down at the end of days then we will all be in unity of the Spirit as for now we are building ourselves as we are preparing to be that Bride of Christ who brings glory and honor to His name.

 

[Sinthesis]

Spending so much time in the KJV, I never would have connected the two because it has Gen 11 using 'go to' instead of 'come'.

Consider the contrast between a man made tower that reaches towards heaven, verses a city that comes down from heaven. Works verses Grace.

 

[for_his_glory]

Go to and come can be two different actions. Go to is a command of being sent out to do something. Come is a request or an invite given by another.
Example: Go to as a command
The tower of Babel has nothing to do with how the new Jerusalem is being built, but does have to do with the unity of those who followed Nimrod. Nimrod gave the command to build the tower and they said go to and let us build us a city and a tower. The tower was built to magnify man and preserve the unity of this race with Nimrod being their god. Nimrod was not a man of God as he rebelled against God and became his own god. God said, "go to let us go down" and destroy the tower and the city and confounded their language and scattered the people so they could no longer be in unity with Nimrod. Genesis 10, 11

Example: Come as an invite
In the following scriptures we see Jesus inviting those to come.

Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mat 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

Mat 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

 

[Edward]

Interesting...

 

[Jim Parker]

Notice in Gen 11:3 when they began to try and build that city what was said?? The call to 'Come'. This is hugely important and is giving us some very deep spiritual insights on how the New City Jerusalem is being built.

Read the next verse:
Gen 11:4 (RSV)
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
(1) They wanted to make a name (shem) for themselves rather than seeking the blessing of THE NAME (ha shem). It was a repetition of the sin of Adam and Eve who ware seduced ny the idea of being gods on their own account.
(2) They wanted to avoid being scattered over the face of the earth but God's first command to man was to be fruitful and multiply and fill the whole earth. (Gen 1:28) Their desire was in direct opposition to God's will for them.

Genesis 11 is the story picking up again after the flood. The Biblical flood story is about 500 years later than the Mesopotamian flood epics in which the problem that was solved by the flood was overpopulation. Overpopulation is the normal, standard consequence of living in cities. The solution for the Mesopotamian epics was barrenness in women, higher infant mortality rates and women choosing not to have children. They saw children as a conditional blessing. They are only a blessing if you can afford to feed them. (Sound like Planned Parenthood to you?)

In the Biblical response to those epics, the problem was sin and the solution was to do as God commanded which was to be fruitful and multiply and fill the whole earth. In the Biblical story, children are ALWAYS a blessing but, to enjoy that blessing, avoid the cities.

God prevented the post-flood people from repeating the error of the pre-flood people by confounding their languages and dispersing over the whole earth.

People do not build the City of God. God builds it.

iakov the fool