Quote (ChivasRegal @ Oct 16 2017 06:57am)
you might want to read some more...there most certainly is a reference regarding Nimrod and his purpose of the tower reaching the firmament.
Where?
Genesis10
8Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.a
9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
12Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
Quote (The scholar Josephus wrote)
“Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, – a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe to God as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that is was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, – seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence upon his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach and that he would avenge himself oon God for destroying their forefathers.”
· “Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains nor being in any degree negligent about the work; and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it it grew very high soner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less that it really was.
It was built of burnt brick cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not growing wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them divers languages; and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another.”
According to Josephus account it was built in rebellion to God to escape the flood should it happen again
This post was edited by kai_jph on Oct 16 2017 12:38am