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Genesis, chapter 11. Let's read the opening nine verses. I will read as you follow along in this very interesting portion of Scripture. Genesis 11, beginning at verse 1:
"Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they journeyed east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.' And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
"And they said, 'Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.' And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
"And the Lord said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.'
"So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth."
The origin of nations is here given to us. The origin of languages is here given to us. The nations of the world, the linguistic families of the world, the languages of the world, all have their origin here. We have been learning, as we study the Book of Genesis, about origins.
And we know that the world teaches that origins is related to some kind of evolutionary process, and that is also used as an explanation for the development of nations and languages. There was a certain long, drawn-out national evolution that began with man when man first stood up upright eight million years ago and then began to find a way to socialize himself, and over a period of time he developed nations and over a period of time he developed languages and so forth. Millions of years of this development took place. That is the typical view of modern anthropologists and linguists.
But that is not true. Nations and languages had a singular origin. It began right here by a direct act of God. God launched it all in one act. And it is true, nations have developed through the 4,000-plus years since Babel, and so have languages developed. Even English, like every other language, is a developing language. All you have to do is get an original copy, if you can find one, of the King James Bible, and you will be unable to read it, even though it's English, because the development is so great.
There has been a development of national identity. There has been a refining of language. But the scattering of the linguistic distinctions happened suddenly, through God's powerful judgment.
Now, let's just put this in context a little bit. We learned last time about this dispersion of humanity over the earth, and the variation in language. This is the explanation of how what is described in chapter 10 came to pass. Because in chapter 10 you have the records of the toledoth, the generations of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Out of the Ark, after the flood, comes one family: Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth, their wives. Eight people. Everybody else has been drowned. The entire world of people from Adam to Noah is now gone. And they are the new humanity. They are the forefathers of the entire world. They come out of the Ark, and there is in chapter 10 a record of the development of Shem's family and Ham's family and Japheth's family.
And as we went through that chapter, we noted that these families developed sons and grandsons and great-grandsons, multiplying into various people groups. And we talked about how that some of them became the Indo-Europeans, some of them became the folks in the North, and in some cases the people in Africa and in Asia and in the Far East, and we can trace the lines of Shem, Ham and Japheth into those various parts of the world, the line of Shem being the most notable line, because out of the line of Shem comes Abraham.
And so the line of Shem is further traced starting in chapter 11, verse 10, where you focus on the line of Shem from Shem to Abram, later called Abraham, who is the father of God's people, Israel, who are given the responsibility of being the witness nation to tell the world the truth about the one true God.
So in chapters 10 and 11 you have these genealogies that indicate to us that families are developing, and societies are developing, and nations are developing, out of that original eight that came off the Ark. And in chapter 11, verses 1 to 9, which I just read, you have the divine catalyst that propels all of that development.
Early human history after the flood is laid out, then, in the genealogical records of chapters 10 and 11, all the way from Noah to Abram, or Abraham. You have that genealogical record. There's a careful, careful record of those genealogies, from Noah's son, Shem, Ham and Japheth. And, as I said, particular attention is given to the line of Shem, because it's all the way to Abram.
When you look at chapter 10, just by way of review again, in verse 5, it says, "From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations." So chapter 10 describes all of this development in nations and languages.
Verse 32 says the same thing. "These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood." Then chapter 11 tells you how it was launched. It was launched because God said, "We're going to confuse their language and we're going to scatter them all over the world." This was a divine act on God's part.
So you could say that the people were scattered is stated in chapters 10 and 11. How and why the people were scattered is stated in chapter 11, verses 1 to 9. This, then, becomes the origin of nations and the origin of languages.
If you go back far enough linguistically, as far back as people can go, you're not going to go back to one common language which evolved into a whole bunch of languages. You're going to go back to a divine miracle in which God instantaneously created languages and gave the people full capacity to speak those languages. Just as God created a mature universe and mature earth, populated by a mature life, he created mature languages so that they weren't just grunting at each other until they could sort it all out.
So we saw then in chapter 10 that the various families spread all over the earth after the initial breakup of their one-world society. We talked about that last time. The reason God broke up their one-world society is there in verse 6, because they were able to do anything they wanted to do. There would be no checks and balances. There would be no restraint on them.
Now, chapter 12, which we'll get to, just kind of a preview, begins the story of God sending His witness to these scattered nations, and He sends His revelation, discloses Himself, reveals Himself, and calls this nation, Israel, into existence to go to the nations of the world and tell them about the true God.
By the time that Babel comes, they're already idolatrous. They're already into false religion. By the time Israel is given its commission and sent to witness, they've become very sophisticated idolaters, and they're into polytheism, many gods, polydemonism, many demons, animism, who knows what. Everything that's imaginable in religion the world was into. But primarily they were into a multigod concept of religion.
And so the monotheism of Israel, one God and only one God, the Shamah, the singular doctrinal truth of Israel, was the starting point of their witness, that there was not all these gods, but only one God. That witness is launched with the calling of Abraham and the covenant that God gives him, starting in chapter 12.
So by the time you get to Abraham's day, you've got scattered nations speaking different languages, in different forms of idolatry, being aided by demons, who are always the purveyor of lies and false doctrine, designing their own demon-inspired gods and worshipping in a condition of utter lostness.
We have studied in our earlier look at Genesis 6 to 9, particularly in chapter 6, the condition of the world when God drowned the whole world, and we know what it was like. It was wretched and wicked, and God looked, and all the imagination of man's heart was only evil continually, you remember, and there was nothing good. God couldn't find anybody righteous but Noah and his little family. The world was wretched. And God said that all that can be done with them is destruction.
Now, the world post-flood, by the time of Babel, and we estimate that the tower of Babel in which God scattered the people would be about 100 years after the flood, it only took about 100 years. They were multiplying rapidly. It was beneficial to have a lot of children. They multiplied rather rapidly, certainly into thousands and thousands if not tens of thousands of people.
But a hundred years after the flood, by the time you get to Babel, the world of Babel is essentially the same as the world before the flood. And God would've had every right to have destroyed that society in the same way that He did the antediluvian society. But common grace prevailed with God, and God said He would never do that again, and He was patient and merciful in not destroying them in spite of their sin.
But what was the society like in specific? Let me have you turn to Romans 1. I think I can give you a specific answer to that. Now, this is a familiar passage, and I don't want to beg the issue for you that are familiar with it, but it's an important component for our understanding in this discussion.
When you come to Romans chapter 1, you have, in verse 18, the wrath of God stated. "Now, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven." And what is it that prompts that, that precipitates that, that initiates that, that motivates that? "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness."
Now, if there would be any generation who would do that, it would be the generation at Babel. They were only 100 years from the flood. That's not very long. The flood family would still be around. They had firsthand witness to what happens to people that disobey the true God. This was not secondhand information passed down thousands and thousands of years by written documents. This is firsthand information, firsthand testimony.
And there were plenty of people who had heard the testimony of those that survived the flood: Noah, his wife and their sons and wives. But in spite of the fact that they had this firsthand, present testimony to the amazing judgment of God that destroyed the entire planet and literally reshaped it, they could tell the whole story about how a benign climate was turned into an extreme climate, the wonderfully sort of gentle climate of Eden becomes the barren, bleak, searing, hot climate of the desert of that same area. All of the natural disasters that came to pass after the flood as a result of the reshaping of the earth, making the mountains higher and the valleys deeper, and creating an ice age and all that goes with that, all of these things could be firsthand testimony from the family who lived in both worlds.
And so it is really pretty amazing that they suppressed the truth in unrighteousness. And it certainly would be true of them, verse 19, that "that which is known about God is evident within them, for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse."
And what the apostle Paul is saying is, "Look, anybody with reason and anybody who can see the creation around them, or him or her, anybody who's aware of that is culpable before God to understand that there is a creator, there is a God, who is divine and who is eternally powerful." You have to have some eternal source for this universe.
So if people just by reason alone, just by virtue of being able to see the creation, are culpable for turning their back on God, how culpable is that generation at Babel, who not only could see the hand of God in the creation, they were pre-evolutionary theory, but who had eyewitness account of the judgment of God? I mean, they are in some serious guilt.
Verse 21 says what happens when people suppress the truth, when they know God but will not honor Him. It says, "Even though they knew God, they didn't honor Him as God or give thanks. They became futile in their speculations. Their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures."
And this is a description of the breadth of idolatry. What happens is, they reject God. They know God, but they will not glorify Him. They will not honor Him. They will not give Him thanks. The lights all go out in their foolish heart. Their minds become futile. They think they're smart. They're actually fools. The whole message is garbled. They are at a loss for truth. And they exchange the glory of the true and incorruptible God for their idols.
Whenever man suppresses the knowledge of God's glory, the whole of life plummets into chaos. Chaos. John Piper wrote, "The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our souls. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit. Otherwise, everything flies apart." It's true.
This is what they did. We know that because they built this ziggurat. It's essentially a temple of idolatry. We'll get back to that in a moment. But what is the chaos into which they plummeted? It's the same chaos anybody plummets into. Verse 24 of Romans 1, whenever there is that abandonment of God, "Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them."
There you go. The first thing that happens is, their physical bodies plummet into chaos. Impurity. Impurity. Wholesome relationships are destroyed in this plummeting chaos. "For," verse 25, "they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, they worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen." And so their physical bodies are plunged into immorality.
And then verse 26, "God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural," that's lesbianism. "In the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." So what happened? They plunged into sexual immorality. They plunged into homosexuality.
Now, this passage in Romans chapter 1 is not describing one period of history. It's describing the inevitable cycle that takes place when men suppress the truth. And they will suppress it because they choose unrighteousness. And when they reject their knowledge of God, they plummet into the chaos. The first area of disaster comes to the physical body. Destroys appropriate, good and wholesome relationships in the destructive sexual degradation that takes over every society that turns its back on God.
It doesn't stop there. The next thing to go is the mind. Verse 28, "They didn't see fit to acknowledge God," they turned their back on the true and living God, so "God gave them over to a depraved mind." The body goes and the mind goes. You can't think properly. You can't think clearly. The mind is totally corrupt. So they do the things that aren't proper.
And they're just "filled with unrighteousness." Here's a description of the pre-Babel society. "Unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death."
Let me tell you something, those people living at that time knew that, because they knew that the whole world had been drowned in some of their...in proximity to their own lifetime, and some of the people...the people, I should say, who had come through that flood were still alive. They knew this. They knew that people who do those kind of things are worthy of death, because there was plenty of testimony that the whole world had been destroyed on this basis. But they do it anyway, and they "give hearty approval to those who practice them."
So if you want to know what the Babel society was like, there it is. There it is. And if it sounds a little bit familiar, it's what our society is like. And it's what the Roman society at the time of Paul was like. And it's what every other society is like. It's just the cycle of the way it goes.
You reject the knowledge of God, and you turn your back on God. You suppress the truth, which is in your conscience and in your reason, made available through creation, made available through revelation. You reject the truth of God. You plummet into the darkness. You think you're wise. You're an absolute fool. And you plunge into the destruction of your body and the destruction of your mind. And this is what they did. This is what our society does.
I'm going to add a footnote here, because I was talking to the kids at the college, I did a series this week in chapel, and, you know, you can paint the picture in America like this. I mean, it's essentially no different, turning your back on God, rejecting the truth that is known and plunging into sexual immorality, homosexuality, perverted, reprobate minds and all the things that are described here.
And I told the kids, I said, "You have to keep something in mind. We hear so much about this, 'America's going down the drain. America's going down the drain. What's wrong with our nation? We've got to call our nation to God. We've got to do this.'" And I sometimes turn on these evangelical preachers who want to reclaim America.
And I said to the kids, and I'll say this to you, "We have no message for a nation." Do you understand that? We have nothing to say to America. We have nothing to say to Congress. We have nothing to say to the senators. We have nothing to say to the governors. We have nothing to say to the authorities. We have no message for a nation. That's not our calling.
Listen to this. We have a message for individuals. We have no message for a nation. Why? Because they are plunged into the chaos of their idolatry, their minds are reprobate. You can't expect them to live according to a divine standard. That is not possible. We have no message. I'm not calling America to anything. We have to call sinners to repentance. Right? We have no national message.
So don't get caught up, and, by the way, don't get sending money to those people who are trying to fix America. You can't fix it. There's not going to be any national godliness. They don't have the capacity for that. You know, "We've got to reform our cities and stop criminality." You can't stop that.
Unregenerate people are wicked and wretched and they themselves can't restrain their sin. "The heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it?" Not even the man whose heart it is can know it. We don't have any message to a nation. That's why I'm not up here preaching at America. That is...I don't have any message for them.
The gospel is not for a nation. The gospel is for individuals. Now, I can preach it to a crowd. I can preach it on "Grace to You" a thousand times a day across America, but the message is not to a national entity. It's to an individual soul. I just threw that in for nothing, because I get worked up about that stuff. Thank you, both of you. Now that I have that off my chest, I feel a lot better.
So you understand the picture here in Romans chapter 1. A people turn their back on God. They become idolatrous. They think they're wise. They're fools. They plunge into chaos, physically described as all different forms of sexual immorality and mentally with a depraved and degraded mind and everything that issues out of it. That was exactly the kind of society in Genesis 11.
Go back to Genesis 11. And they did that, as nations have through all of history. Now, at the time of Babel, they were just one people. That's what verse 1 says. They used the same language and the same words. They were just one nation. The separation described in chapter 10 hadn't been launched until God did it at Babel.
So as the story of Babel begins, they're still one world, one language, one nation, one ruler. Remember who the ruler was? Chapter 10, verses 8-12. What was his name? Nimrod. Now, this results, this one world results in unrestrained wickedness. It results in concentrated, unbridled, unhindered evil. God said, "We can't allow that."
And I told you last time, and I reiterate it again, that's what the New Age movement's trying to create, one world, one world, one world, one world. That is serious trouble. They'll get their one world, and the one world ruler will be Antichrist. And so Satan wants a one world. It's so much easier for him to handle. But the Lord, in an act of common grace as well as judgment, takes issue with that effort and shatters their unity.
Verse 2, we're still looking at the action of man here. "Come, let us," in verse 3. "Come, let us," verse 4. This is the action of man. They found a place in the land of Shinar, a plain. That would be in the Mesopotamian Valley, between the Tigris-Euphrates River, near the original Garden of Eden.
And, without regard for God, they said, "Come, let us." Nobody asks God. There's not any prayer here. There's not any deference to God, not any worship of God. "Let's build for ourselves," not for the glory of God, but for ourselves, "the city."
This was their social action, concentrated sinners corrupting each other like a mass of people with infectious deadly diseases all crammed into one building infecting each other, so that the wretchedness of all is intensified. That's the picture. They wanted a city. And we all know that cities tend to be the hotbeds of corruption.
They also wanted a tower. "Let us build a tower." This is a ziggurat. Archaeologists, I think, have found about 30 of these in the Mesopotamian Valley area. Ziggurats were common structures in that part of the world, in the Babylonian-Acadian culture. And they were used to symbolize the connection between man and the gods, as they reached up into heaven. They weren't really trying to walk to heaven. They couldn't build anything that high. But this was a symbol of the connection with the gods.
And these towers, throughout Babylonian culture, were religious ziggurats. Sometimes there was an idol stuck at the highest point of the tower, and generally a temple built around at the base. When it says that it went into the heavens, or it touched the heavens, the heavens refers to the heavenly powers, or the gods.
There is abundant literature, I've read it for years and years, on the Babylonian mystery religions, which literally spread all over the earth and took idolatry all over the face of the earth, that are traceable back to Babylon and back to Babel. In later Babylonia, every important city had a ziggurat, a tower, even Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, a symbol no doubt introduced here, at the tower of Babel.
Nimrod apparently knew the people needed religion to overcome their knowledge of God. They need a false religion to substitute for the truth. And in very classic Romans 1 fashion, they denied the true God because of their unrighteousness. They didn't want to be righteous. They didn't like His standards. They denied the true God and they created gods that accommodated their iniquities.
The Bible actually traces all false religion back to Babylon. From Babylon, you can trace it back to Babel. They rejected the true God, developed their false gods, and the Babylonian mystery cults come out of that, spreading all over the world.
When you get into the Book of Revelation, at the very end of human history, at the time of the Tribulation, just before the return of Jesus Christ, we read in the 17thchapter of Revelation, in verse 5, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth." Babylon is seen as the mother of all religious abominations. Abominations.
Illustration, you can even trace the Roman Catholic mother cult, Mary, mother cult, back to the mother cult of Babylonian mystery religions, not back to the New Testament. And even in the day of Ezekiel, pagan false teachers were worshipping the queen of heaven. That has never been Mary. That is...well, it goes by a number of names, Ashteroth, Simmaramus, Isis, way back in the Babylonian cults.
What kind of religion was this that they had developed with this tower? Well, we don't know. But there's some interesting thought about it. My friend, Dr. Jim Boice, who preached here a number of occasions, is now with the Lord, and we miss him greatly, came to the conclusion that this religion was probably the start of astrology, the zodiac, which has surely been connected with Babylon and may go back to Babel.
He writes this: "Turn to any book on astrology and you will find that it was the Chaldeans," another name for the inhabitants of Babylon, "who first developed the zodiac by dividing the sky into sections and giving meanings to each on the basis of the stars that are found there. A person's destiny is said to be determined by whatever section or sign he is born under." You're aware of that. Taurus, Gemini, whatever.
Boice goes on: "From Babylon, astrology passed to the empire of ancient Egypt, where it mingled with the native animism and polytheism of the Nile. The pyramids were constructed with certain mathematical relationships to the stars. The Sphinx has astrological significance. It has a head of a woman, symbolizing Virgo, the Virgin, and the body of a lion, symbolizing Leo. Virgo is the first sign of the zodiac. Leo is the last. So the Sphinx, which, incidentally, means 'joining' in Greek, is the meeting point of the zodiac, first and last, indicating that the Egyptian priests believed the starting point of the earth in relation to the zodiac lay in Egypt, on the banks of the Nile."
You can trace all of this fascinating study of the zodiac back to Babylon through Egypt and very likely, Boice believes, back to the original Babel. By the time the Jews, after 400 years in Egypt, remember, left, they had been greatly influenced by astrology. Remember, now, astrology was invented by Babylonian God-rejecters, Babylonian pagans. It's a part of their false system.
But when the Israelites left Egypt, because the tremendous amount of influence had been brought to bear upon them to believe in the stars, there were a series of warnings. In Leviticus 19:31, "Do not turn to mediums or spiritists," and that's pretty general. It would include those who read the stars. "Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God." Don't go near those deceivers.
Deuteronomy chapter 18, I can't read all of this, but just a couple of places I think are really helpful. Deuteronomy 18, verse 9, "When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer," and sometimes that's translated "astrologer," "one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you."
Verse 14, "Those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so." Again, warning about this.
Later on, and this will be more familiar to you, in the Book of Daniel, there are a number of references to this. In Daniel 1:20, it says, "As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them," this is now in Babylon, or Chaldea, "he," that is the king's servant, found Daniel and his friends "ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers," astrologers. Some of your Bibles will say "astrologers" there.
Astrologers are mentioned again with magicians in chapter 2, verse 2. They're mentioned again in chapter 2, verse 10. They're mentioned again in chapter 2, verse 27. They're mentioned again in chapter 4, chapter 5, I think three times. So astrology, having its roots perhaps at Babel, finds its way to Babylon, finds its way to Egypt, infects, to some degree, the people of Israel, as it continues its influence around the world.
Boice goes on to say, "The interesting thing about these Biblical denunciations of astrology is that astrology is identified with demonism or Satanism in the sense that Satan and his hosts were actually being worshipped in the guise of the signs and planets." You have to remember that.
"This is the reason for the Bible's stern denunciation of these practices. Are we to think, then, that Satan was entirely absent from the original attempt to build a civilization without God? Was he absent from the formation of this first non-Biblical religion? I don't think so. If he wasn't, then the religion of the tower was actually a Satanic attempt to direct the worship of the human race to himself and those former angels who, having rebelled against God, were now already demons."
And Dr. Henry Morris writes, "This project was originally presented to the people in the guise of true spirituality. The tower in its lofty grandeur would symbolize the might and majesty of the true God of heaven. A great temple at its apex would provide a center and an altar where men could offer their sacrifices and worship God." And Morris says, "The signs of the zodiac would be emblazoned on the ornate ceiling and walls of that temple, signifying the great story of creation and redemption as told by the antediluvian patriarchs."
And at that point, Henry Morris leaves me in a serious dilemma. That last line bothers me profoundly. I can stay with you with the signs of the zodiac, but that they signify the great story of creation and redemption is impossible. And yet that has been a popular idea, a very popular idea, that you can read the gospel in the stars. Have you heard that? There's a whole book about it, written by a prominent evangelical. To me, that's ludicrous.
This popular writer says, "The Bible is God's little book and the stars are God's big book." God never wrote the gospel in the stars. The heavens declare not the gospel. The heavens declare the glory of God. Why in the world...why would we borrow a pagan concoction and somehow invest it with the gospel? Christian astrology. What a terrible perversion. Finding the gospel in the stars is fantasy. Worse than that, it's borrowing from paganism. But that's another sermon.
They also wanted a name, back to Genesis 11. They also wanted a name. Their social goal was a city. Their religious goal was a tower. Their psychological goal was a name. "Let us make a name for ourselves." Instead of God, let's dethrone Him. There you are. Romans 1. Let's rip God down off the throne. We have to get so powerful and so consolidated, "make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
Guess what? Why would they say that? Why would they even think that was going to happen? Because that was a command from God. They knew that. Genesis 9:1, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." I don't know how many times Noah had preached that. He was a preacher of righteousness, not only before but certainly after the flood. How many times had Noah said, "My text is, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.' Get out of here, folks. Start spreading around the globe."
They said, "We've got to get real strong. We've got to build a strong social base. We've got to build a strong religious base to hold onto these people. We've got to build a strong psychological base. We'll boost up our self-esteem. We'll really be something, so that we don't get scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. We've got to grip things tightly so that God can't move us."
This is defiant. There's no other explanation for it. Their rebellion is motivated by the fact that they know what God wants, and they refuse to do it. So they're in flagrant rebellion, concocting their bizarre religion, which may have included the zodiac, sectioning off of the stars they could see, creating gods out of the sections and living by the mystical movement of the stars and determining destinies in that devilish, Satanic fashion. Don't you ever get near any of that astrology.
That was man's action. Let's look quickly at God's action. Not much commentary is needed. Verse 5, I love this, "And the Lord came down." No matter how high they built their tower, He had to come down to get to it. Way down. They didn't get close. "The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built." Ironic anthropomorphism. They're so far from heaven God had to come down, way down.
It isn't that He didn't know. He just, it's anthropomorphic to say He came down and took a look at the whole thing. God moved into action. Verse 6, "And the Lord said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language.'" "Nobody's gone anywhere. They're not obeying me. They're defying me. They're digging in, fortifying themselves so they don't have to go anywhere, so that they can have this unilateral commitment to wickedness." This is not good.
"And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them." They're all agreed. They're all in one accord. There aren't any checks and balances here. Ultimate power corrupts ultimately, and God's not going to allow it, at least not for millennia, not until the end of human history, when there will be one-world government, one people, one ruler, the Antichrist, empowered by Satan, who will be destroyed by the returning Christ.
You can read about the Antichrist in Revelation 13, first eight verses. You can read more about him in Revelation 17 and Revelation 18, and then Christ comes in Revelation 19 and destroys this world empire. He becomes the ruler, establishes His glorious thousand-year millennial kingdom. And then there is one world, one people, one ruler, but it's the right one, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, God mocks them. There's a sarcasm in His words. "Come, let us go down." He uses their very words, mimicking man. "Let us go down." He has to stoop to see this puny extravagance. "Let's go down and confuse their language." This again is an indication that God is more than one. Right? He's a trinity. "We'll confuse their language that they may not understand one another's speech." Very effective way to create chaos, by the way. Very effective.
All of a sudden, you're having conversations. You're interacting, buzzing around town. Bang. Nobody understands anybody. It wasn't a hearing thing. It was a speech thing. All of a sudden out of your mouth came words you've never said before. And you would really panic and try to find somebody who could understand you.
And as you went to the enclave in which you lived in your little family, and you found that they could speak the way you could speak but nobody else could, you would begin to understand you had to pull away. Anger would be everywhere. Fear would be everywhere. Panic would be everywhere. It'd be a fascinating thing to dramatize. The immediate cacophony of unintelligible speech erupting all over the place would drive people crazy, and they would just congeal into units of common language.
So the power of the one world was shattered like that. The city was fragmented, and the false religion was splintered to bits. And then the Lord did something else, in verse 8. "He scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth." Now, how did He do that? I don't know how He did that. It doesn't say how He did that. But I only bring it up because some of you will ask me. You will say, "How did He do that?" You can read that verse. I don't know how He did it.
I remember when I preached on the fact that when we get to heaven we'll have a name that no man knows. And a lady came up and said, "What is that name?" I gave her several suggestions, but we don't know.
He scattered them. I don't think that this...I don't think they scattered themselves. I think He scattered them. I think, again, you have a miraculous phenomena here. You have a miraculous phenomena in linguistics, and then you immediately have a miraculous phenomena in scattering. The Lord scattered them. They didn't scatter themselves.
These language groups moved away, or were moved away. They were relocated. I mean, that's not a problem for the Lord, who could pick up Phillip and move him. He could take His prophet to heaven in a chariot, or Enoch, who could walk right into the presence of God from earth. If God wants to move people around, He can move them around. That's not a problem. They began to move into their language groups all over the world.
And Japheth's family were moved into the Indo-European area, across Russia, over the Bering Sea, into North America, down into South America, native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Ham's family went into Africa and Asia, the Far East and some parts of Canaan. Shem's family went North and East, and included the Semitic people of the Middle East.
And when they went, they took their sin with them. They took their idolatry with them. They took their false religion, their human pride, their ambition. They took all of the wretchedness of their souls. They also took their human ingenuity, which was formidable. They took the skills that they had been given as people created in the image of God.
And populations began to grow and expand. And people became industrious, clever. Even before the flood, they knew how to work with animals, animal husbandry. They knew how to plant grain and work the fields. They knew how to work with metal. They knew how to write poems. Arts, crafts sprung up everywhere.
And the more industrious and the more intelligent people groups held the more favorable positions as time went on. They became more powerful. They became the greater nations. They conquered the weaker nations or overpowered and absorbed the weaker nations. And eventually nations began to develop alongside tribes in isolated places.
It didn't take millions of years for this to happen. It just took a few hundred years for it to happen. A few generations, the world was essentially inhabited. They developed distinctive patterns of life, social customs and even biological features.
I don't know if you happened to be watching a program yesterday on...I think it was on one of the learning channels, and it was interesting. It was a tribe of people who all have clawed feet. It looks like the foot of an ostrich, without the middle toe. The whole tribe has that. And they just keep having babies that have that. And they were saying that the reason for that is because it's so embedded in the genetics of the tribe, and the tribe is so committed to never marrying outside the tribe, that this is a dominant feature in the gene pool, and it shows up in every single one of the people.
And that is sort of a strange and bizarre illustration of what would happen when you had a little language group hopping over here, and they would begin to intermarry. I don't think the effect of the curse had taken place so they would all be idiots. Not at all. There's not that...there's not enough time yet for that degeneration to take place.
But, rather, whatever the characteristics of that small group were in intermarriage would be profoundly and deeply embedded in the gene pool, and as it continued, they would continue to manifest these characteristics. Hence, you have varying racial characteristics, and we've gone over that in some of our past studies. And they would even develop their languages, as languages tend to develop.
The result of all this is actually indicated in chapter 10, verse 31. They became families and languages and lands and nations. And God stopped the rebellion, broke their power, scattered them all over the earth. And you know something, even...please understand me...even war, as terrible as it is, even war is a corrective. Even war is a restraint.
A nation with other nations on its border can't live any way it wants to live, because as soon as it impinges upon the rights and freedoms of the next door people, there's going to be a problem. A tribe of people in an isolated place can't live any way it wants to live and do anything it wants to do, because as soon as it impinges upon what other tribes believe is their territory or their right, there will be a constraint placed upon them by some kind of an attack. So that even those kinds of things through the ages have acted in some measure as a restraint, as God has kept things divided.
But there will come a time, and I want to show you this, I'll close with this, there will come a time when there will be one nation, and Christ will be the great king. Turn to Isaiah, chapter 2. This is very, very wonderful. In Isaiah, chapter 2, verse 1 to 4, "The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem."
He's looking into the kingdom of Messiah, and he says, "It'll come about that in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; all the nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways, that we may walk in His paths.'
"For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations, render decisions for many peoples; they will hammer their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war."
So here is going to come world peace. It's coming. World peace. And that the kingdom of Messiah, they will all come to hear the Word of the Lord. They will all recognize the Lord as the ruler. Jerusalem is the place of His throne. It is the mountain that is above all other mountains. That is the promise of the great Messianic kingdom. The kingdom will be a theocracy. God in Christ will be the ruler. And everyone will come and submit to Him.
And in that kingdom, a city will come, a city not built by men, but a city built by God. In Revelation 21 it's called the New Jerusalem, and it comes down out of heaven and suspends over the millennial earth and is the capital city of the kingdom. And in that city will be the glorified saints. It's the New Jerusalem described in Revelation 21 and 22. It'll be the city of God.
So there will be that one world, that one ruler, that one language in the millennial kingdom of Christ. False one world precedes it, and the kingdom of Antichrist.
Back, then, to Genesis 11, for our closing word from the author, Moses. After giving the history of Babel, Moses adds a summary comment. We have the action of man in the first four verses. We have the action of God in the next four verses. And then we have a summary comment from the author, Moses.
Verse 9, "Therefore the name of that city," already identified, by the way, back in chapter 10, verse 10, as Babel, but here, the summary, "therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth."
Babel is a term for confusion, even in English. And later on, the Acadian name for Babylon was Babel-Babyloni, which they said meant "the gate of God." Well, Babylon became the gate of the false gods. Babylon became the son of confusion, the gate of false gods, the home of all false religions that were spawned out of that.
And that's why Revelation 17 and 18 describes the last stand of false religion in Antichrist's kingdom as Babylon. Babylon is the most all-encompassing word to embrace false religion. It was launched there, and it sort of ends there. The Babylonian pantheon was the birthplace of paganism. Still evident in the world, even in, as I said, Roman Catholicism. And, in the end, it will be Babylon that identifies the false system of Antichrist.
Moses said it's called Babel, or confusion, "because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth." And Moses, remember now, he's reading Genesis to the Jews, long after these events. They're ready to go into the land of Canaan. They're ready to take that land. And he is reading them the story of origins.
And this explained to the Jews how all these nations came to be. They were all, from the very beginning, under the judgment of God, so that Israel need not feel they were acting in an unjust way by going in and conquering the Canaanites, who were made up of many different tribes, because they were, in fact, already under divine judgment.
The world was filled with pride. The world was filled with ambition. The world was filled with false religion. And now it was Israel's turn to go in, act in judgment on behalf of God, establish itself as a witness nation to spread the message that the Lord is one God, and to tell them about the true and living God.
They wanted a city. They wanted a religion, a relationship with God. And they wanted a name. And they didn't get it. Those of us who are believers, we receive it. Revelation 3:12, "He who overcomes, I'll make him a pillar in the temple of my God. He will not go out from it any more. I'll write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem."
They wanted a city. They wanted a tower signifying their connection with the gods. They wanted a name. And they didn't get it. But we who overcome by faith are made a pillar in the temple of our God. We have written on us the name of our God and the name of the city of our God, the New Jerusalem, which is our eternal habitation. All that they wanted, we receive, the promise of Revelation 3:12-13.
Father, we thank you tonight for the amazing, amazing revelation of your Word. We would add a little bit to what was stated in Genesis 11, where man said "come let us" and you said "come let us," and Isaiah said, "Come let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as wool. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as white as snow."
They had a plan and you have a plan, and now it's up to us to realize that you have provided for us the forgiveness of sins through Christ. That's the message you gave to Israel to spread to the world. That's the message you gave to the church. And we are still responsible to spread that to the world.
That's the message in the future that a restored and converted Israel will again preach during the time of the Tribulation and throughout the kingdom. But, for now, it's for us to preach the message of the true and living God to a pagan world. And we have no message to nations. We just have a message to the people in those nations.
May we understand that our responsibility is the same as Israel of old and of the church through all its history, and that is to proclaim that you are the true and living God, and you provide cleansing from sin to those who believe in your Son and embrace Him as Savior and Lord.
May we be faithful to proclaim this message. Israel we know was not faithful. Most of the "church" is not faithful. May you keep us faithful to discharge this high and holy and joyous responsibility, that you may be glorified. We pray in your Son's name. Amen.
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Today, it's The Horse Soldiers (1959), in which a Union cavalry regiment is sent behind Confederate lines to disrupt and destroy rebel resources, communications and supply centers. The film was directed by John Ford, who has always earned high marks with me when it comes to the attention paid to authentic details in his films.
But that doesn't mean he wasn't ready to engage in a little artistic license, in order to tell a good story. The bulk of the film is inspired by Grierson's Raid, part of General U.S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.
But, a particularly moving part of the film is taken from another, little known battle, the Battle of New Market ..... you know the scene, in a desperate attempt to hold off the Union forces, the rebel commander drafts the corps of cadets from a nearby military academy ..... it really happened ..... just ask anyone from the Virginia Military Institute.
In the movie, it's an occasion for high spirits, even some laughs, as the cadets seek to close with the seasoned Union troops, voices that have not yet been touched by puberty raising their rebel yells to especially high levels. One of them is even captured, and spanked before the Union troopers retreat, yielding the field and the day's glory to the gallant youngsters.
If only .....
After a four-day, eighty-mile march, VMI's Corps of Cadets did indeed close with the enemy at the Battle of New Market, enduring rifle and artillery fire from the Union positions, meeting and repelling a Union charge, then launching a charge of their own, capturing prisoners and artillery pieces, and spurring a Union retreat.
The field, and the glory was theirs' .... but not at the cost of just a spanking. Ten of the cadets were killed outright, or died later from their wounds. Another 45 cadets were wounded in the action. The boys ranged in age from fifteen- to seventeen-years, though some accounts claim some of the cadets were as young as twelve-years. You can visit the battlefield - virtually - at its website. If you get a chance, though, I recommend actually visiting the site ..... for depth of history, culture and natural beauty, it's hard to beat a tour of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
By the way, I said earlier that I always appreciated Ford's attention to authentic detail. In the movie, the school has been renamed the Jefferson Military Academy. Among those cadets killed at the Battle of New Market was Thomas Garland Jefferson (a descendant of President Thomas Jefferson) ..... not a coincidence, I think.


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Biblical Responses to Every Doubter of Tongues
Friends, we live in a time where God's truths are reversed and the devil is whispering lies to believers in Jesus Christ to distort our understanding of the scriptures so that we do not flow with Holy Spirit power. The god of this world has Christians' eyes turned towards movies, television, sports, politics, world events, pornography, fashion, beauty, hair, vacations, new age spiritual experiences, and self-help to the level of worship (worship is defined as the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration) all the while standing ignorant to the truth of God and the power of God through our opportunity for baptism by His Holy Spirit!
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. – Rom 1:25 KJV
Don't ever let anyone tell you that your prayer language to God is not for today. If you need supplemental biblical knowledge for each point that others may argue, study this guide and study the word of God regularly so that God may impart things to you about this important time in our world.
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "I don't believe in speaking in tongues."
BIBLE- And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. Mark 16:17
…Forbid not to speak with tongues 1 Corinthians 14:39
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "According to Acts 1st and 2nd chapters, speaking in tongues is only used to preach to people of a foreign language."
BIBLE – Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. 1 Corinthians 13:1
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 1 Corinthians 14:2
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "I don't believe in tongues because I don't believe you should be in confusion about what you're saying."
Bible -Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. 1 Corinthians 14:13
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also… 1 Corinthians 14:15
For God is NOT the author of confusion… 1 Corinthians 14:33
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "You automatically receive the Holy Spirit at Salvation."
Bible – In Acts 1:4 Jesus said: …wait for the promise of the Father which saith He, ye have heard of (from) me. (Jesus told His already saved apostles to WAIT to be endowed with power from on high – the baptism of the Holy Spirit).
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you… Acts 1:8
Acts 19:2 says: He said unto them, have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, we have not so much heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
* These above scriptures plainly demonstrate that it is possible to be saved, to have received the Holy Spirit at salvation and yet be without the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "I don't like the idea of speaking in tongues because I'm afraid I, or the other person may have received this from the devil."
Bible -If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke 11:11-13
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "Tongues were just for the day of Pentecost, they have ceased in our day."
Bible -Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10
* This verse shows that God never fails in His giving/charity/gifting to us. But when we lack knowledge, our gifts fail. It is WE who fail in prophecy, tongues and knowledge. This verse equates tongues with knowledge and wisdom and we are told that in perfection, all would be used in full, and will be at Christ's return! But because of our failings it is only in part.
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "Speaking in tongues is a sign of fanaticism."
Bible – And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. Mark 16:17
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "People are just magnifying themselves when they speak in tongues."
Bible -For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Acts 10:46
ERRONEOUS BELIEF – "I am embarrassed and ashamed to speak in tongue."
Bible -For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come in His own glory and in His Father's, and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26
credit: edited by me based on an original excerpt from the wonderful believers at heavenlymanna.net
"The first of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
Did You Know Counseling is a Biblical Form of Deliverance?
Proverbs 11:14 For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
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In this program we're presenting to you five areas to assist in rental revenue growth. But it goes beyond just rents and goes beyond just ancillary income. We know that most revenue from a rental property comes from rents but that's not the whole story.Continue reading


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Mesothelioma Awareness
- raising funds for research into better treatment outcomes
- increase awareness of the ongoing risk of asbestos exposure, and
- supporting sufferers of asbestos-related disease including the terminal cancer, mesothelioma.
To find out more about the Reflections Through Reality Foundation and how to donate go to reflections.org.au
The Reflections Through Reality Foundation has been established to allow individuals and organisations to donate directly to medical research that is being undertaken under the oversight of some of the world's leading experts in mesothelioma research at the University of WA. These include 2013 WA Citizen of the Year Professor Bruce Robinson and Clinical Professor of Medicine Professor Bill Musk – who is also a Director on the Reflections Through Reality Foundation Board.
The Reflections Through Reality Foundation was founded in 2015 as a not-for-profit entity to facilitate the administration of the sale and proceeds of the Reflections Through Reality book, proceeds of which are directed to asbestos-related diseases research.
Our Objectives
- promote medical research into asbestos-related diseases (ARD)
- provide support and connections between fellow sufferers of ARD
- network with like-minded organisations
- create awareness of the inherent dangers of asbestos within the community
Reflections Through Reality Launch
November 20, 2015
Funding for research into the deadly, asbestos-related disease mesothelioma will receive a welcome boost following the launch today of the Reflections Through Reality Foundation.
Established by a survivor of the disease, Barry Knowles, the Foundation was officially launched by WA Governor Kerry Sanderson at a special lunch arranged by the Rotary Club of Perth which is partnering the Foundation in its cause.
Barry, a retired builder who defied the odds after being given only months to live when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2010, told of his determination to fight the disease in his book, Reflections Through Reality, published earlier this year.
With the support of his family, the not-for-profit Foundation was established to help raise funds for research being undertaken at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth.
"Barry's amazing story of survival and determination provides hope and inspiration to other victims of the disease," said Barry's daughter Jo Morris, the Foundation's Operations Manager.
"But at the end of the day it's only well-funded medical research which will eventually put an end to this insidious disease."
One of those at the forefront of cancer research in WA, Professor Bruce Robinson, told the luncheon audience that mesothelioma research was heading towards "some exciting new directions".
Prof Robinson, who is Director of the National Centre of Asbestos Related Disease, gave the audience an inspiring overview of the promising research being carried out and supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Rotary Club of Perth President, Graham Peden, said a number of Rotary clubs throughout the State had pledged to raise funds for the Foundation and help make a difference.
"Mesothelioma impacts more Western Australians per capita than anywhere else in the world and the numbers are on the rise," he said.
"Barry's passion to see an end to the disease has become infectious and anything which will help prevent the loss of innocent lives here and throughout the world deserves our support."


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May 31, 2016
Rebalance your investments for better benefits and lower risks
Asset allocation and portfolio rebalancing are topics that you'll hear about when talking finances. Most times these terms are overlooked, unless there's a market crash, which should not be the case. By following a well-executed balancing programme, you could increase your total returns and decrease your overall risk. Don't mix up balancing of your portfolio with a balance transfer, Home Loans offer.
What is asset allocation?
This allocation is an investment strategy that aims to balance risk and reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in a portfolio, based on the investor's risk tolerance, financial goals, and investment tenure. The three main asset classes for an investor include fixed incomes, cash, and equity. Each asset has its own levels of return and risk, so over time each asset will perform differently.
How does this work?
Deciding how to allocate your assets may appear simple, but it's a little more complex than it looks. First, you will need to note down your three most important assets; your income profile, financial goals, and risk tolerance. Average Indians investors have very little equity exposures as they prefer to not risk it all. They will mostly invest in property and use an interest calculator for Home Loans to make sure that their EMIs stay on point. Studies show that even young investors, who earn handsomely, are more likely to invest in a low-risk scheme, even though they can afford to take significantly higher risky investments.
How often should you rebalance?
A majority of financial advisors will tell you that your portfolio must be rebalanced once, every year. However, a more frequent reorganisation leads to higher transaction costs and fewer tax implications. If you sell your debt mutual funds too soon, or if you break your fixed deposits early, then you will have to deal with heavy exit loads and penalty charges. If you happen to sell your equity mutual funds and stock, you will pay 15% to tax on these capital gains. If you aren't careful at this time, you may end up rebalancing your portfolio too often.
With all this, the effort of stabilising your portfolio can be difficult to manage. You won't be able to rebalance unless you track your investment portfolio. Financial portals, including Value Research, offer portfolio trackers that can help you at this time. You can import your mutual fund statement from the registrar and get assistance from online agents, which will include details like past transactions and other details.
Can you rebalance your portfolio by yourself?
Rebalancing your portfolio isn't very easy, as you will have to make a few difficult calls. You will have to sell assets that are doing well and buy ones that aren't, and that's a difficult thing to do. In fact, many financial planners say that small investors should not rebalance their portfolios themselves, as they have neither the emotional maturity nor the discipline to do it. Going to a professional who has both these qualities can help you make difficult choices simpler and help you understand the complexity of rebalancing. They will also take into consideration all market realities, to help you find a good balance.
So, here it is. Just keep reviewing your portfolio as often as you can and consult a financial advisor. In the end, you will be able to increase your returns and reduce risks you might have faced otherwise.


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iKALiZER is a cross-platform development API for writing applications that handle sounds and a system software installable component.
The system software allows a user-friendly configuration to enhance and provide a near perfect audio experience : Provide the best matching between applications and your ears.
iKALiZER try to provide the best realistic audio experience.
About us
I'm the designer and the lead programmer of iKALiZER.
After more than 20 years old in digital audio research and a few years old of gaming experience with Urban Terror, I've decided to enhance the audio quality of ID Tech 3 / ioQuake 3 engine. The initial and original project was born, but it was a proof of concept.
After some user requests and interest in an API-user led me to develop iKALiZER.
My goal is to provide the most advanced audio experience to end user and a very simple API to all programmers.
iKALiZER is based on the principle of dual licensing.
All non-commercial, ad-free projects/applications and ad-free websites could freely use iKALiZER without any fee.
Commercial projects or projects/applications/websites contains advertising need a commercial licence.
All information needs about this dual licence will be available later.
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The system driver is always free of charge. It also contains a user-friendly configuration utility. Users and programmers need this system driver.
All new release of the same iKALiZER generation are backward compatible.
The SDK will be available soon to all licenced projects.
The iKALiZER source code could also be provided with a NDA (Non Disclosure Agrement) on some projects or applications.


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By Mark Condon
I'm a world-class procrastinator. Packed away in a box somewhere there's even a yearbook from 1966 with an admonition
from my homeroom teacher that "an early start would make your life and mine easier."
"You may delay, but time will not," Benjamin Franklin once wrote, which leads me to our economic and financial challenges and our nation's procrastination in dealing with long-term problems. We ignore, at our own peril, the gradual but relentless pace of economic and financial trajectories.
In March 1982 on the cover of this magazine was a cartoon showing President Reagan, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker chasing each other in a circle.
The cover story was a report from the Credit Union National Association's (CUNA) Governmental Affairs Conference highlighting the impact on credit unions of Reagan's economic recovery program, significant increases in federal spending, annual and growing federal deficits, and partisan politics. Two major differences between then and now were double-digit rates of interest and inflation, but in all other respects, the article had an eerie familiarity.
"Much of the success of Reagan's program depends on how willing Congress is to let him have his way in an election year," the Credit Union Magazine article stated. "Already it has become apparent that in its second year, the Reagan presidency can expect tougher battles than it faced in its first." And I smiled a bit at the following: "Representatives from Congress are telling credit union people that record-setting deficits have made many people on the Hill uneasy."
Our nation's financial challenges aren't new; they've just been ignored. The recent era of prosperity made it easy to put off the hard work until tomorrow. Calamity was so far into the future that even simple solutions could be passed on to a future generation. Fury and finger-pointing resolve nothing because we're all responsible for the problem—consumers, politicians, and businesses alike. We've been warned—repeatedly. But as a nation we've been intellectually and even morally lazy. We are a nation of procrastinators.
These issues matter for credit unions because they'll be part of the solution—either by their own design or by something imposed upon them. That's why the advocacy efforts of CUNA and the leagues are so critical to both credit unions and the nation.
I may be a procrastinator, but I'm generally also an optimist. One book looking into the future (and recently receiving excellent reviews) is "The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050," by Joel Kotkin. Unlike so many pundits who believe America is a nation in decline, Kotkin highlights the benefits that will accrue as we add 100 million people to our population during the next 40 years. He believes the path to constructing a successful America lies in understanding our nation's "ability to forge a unique focus amid great diversity of people and place."
None of this will be easy. But 175 years ago, that unique ability and focus cited by Kotkin was first called "American exceptionalism" by Alexis de Tocqueville in "Democracy in America." American exceptionalism has little or nothing do to with anger and fear and everything to do with faith: That as the world's oldest and most successful democracy we possess a unique ability to rise above our sins and our failings, determine workable compromises, and find solutions enabling us to continue our forward progress as a nation.
The road ahead may be littered with occasional blunders, and our vision at times muddled. After all, this is a nation that failed to adequately address the issue of slavery for four score and seven years.
But perseverance requires patience. Remember: It took a quarter of a century after the first credit union opened its doors and the Great Depression before Congress pushed aside bank whiners and skeptics and passed the Federal Credit Union Act.
MARK CONDON is senior vice president, business and consumer publishing, for the Credit Union National Association. Contact him at 608-231-4078 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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For the most part, arrests for the California crime of DUI are without incident. The police pull someone over, suspect that he/she has been drinking, conduct a DUI investigation, and make an arrest. But then there are those times where something's just not quite right…the stop was due to illegal racial profiling, the cop used excessive force to arrest you, you were an innocent victim of police brutality.
Fortunately, even officers have to be held accountable for their actions…especially when those actions are despicable. When a cop violates your constitutional rights, you are entitled to relief under U.S. Code Section 1983. U.S. Code Section 1983 is civil relief, which means that the penalties are monetary. Offenders must pay fines…sometimes substantial fines…but they do not face incarceration.
However, if the incident that triggered the violation is also criminal in nature, an offender can face both civil fines and a criminal conviction. If you suspect that you or someone you know has been the victim of a civil rights violation, you should immediately consult with a California civil rights attorney. (Read our article about when California DUIs become "wobblers.")


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This inaugural event explores the Jewish Journey through film, from Broadway to Baseball. Movies will be shown at the JCC, and the The African American Performing Arts Center at Expo NM.
Find more information and registration at http://jccabq.org/main/film_fest_2014.php
All films are $5/advanced and $8/door.
THE PIN (2013) is a Canadian film about two young Eastern Europeans hiding in a barn during World War II, who speak Yiddish to each other. Naomi Jaye's script touches on delicate notes of make-believe and isolation to create a mood that combines the heartbreak of first love with a more deeply felt trauma. 85 minutes (in Yiddish with English subtitles)
BROADWAY MUSICALS – A JEWISH LEGACY (2012) This engaging, humorous, and provocative this film examines the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. The film showcases the work of legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, which provides insight, alongside standout performances and archival footage. 84 minutes.
THE GATEKEEPERS (2012) Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary, 2012. This Israeli film provides an unprecedented look inside Israel's Secret Service, featuring interviews with 6 former head of the Shin Bet. Shin Bet has dealt with conflict amid the quest for peace for nearly 50 years. For the first time, these men discuss the challenging truths and consequences of their counterterrorism mission. 101 minutes.
JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY (2010) This acclaimed US documentary is narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman and highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Enjoy a rare interview with legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax and commentary from Larry King, Ron Howard, Al Rosen, Shawn Green. 91 minutes.
HAVA NAGILA (2012) It is instantly recognizable musical shorthand for anything Jewish, a happy party tune that you dance to at weddings, bar mitzvahs and even at Major League Baseball games. It carries with it an entire constellation of history, values and hopes for the future. In its own way, Hava Nagila encapsulates the Jewish journey over the past 150 years. It also reveals the power of one song to express and sustain identity, to transmit lessons across generations and to bridge cultural divides and connect us all. 73 minutes.


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As we continue to grow and expand the vision for Claremont School of Theology, we want to hear from our alumni/ae and friends. Please click here to update your contact information, and we'll send you a link to our survey. Your opinion matters to CST!
Over 2,400 Claremont School of Theology Alumni/ae are located around the world serving as ministers, educators, artists, non-profit administrators and pastoral counselors. Claremont School of Theology graduates continue to make a difference in the world. There are many ways to participate in the community life of CST as an Alumnus/a.
We encourage all of our alumni/ae to take part in the many offerings available after commencement from lectures and conferences, to retreats and Alumni/ae Council participation. Please contact email@example.com notify us about change of address, job, life transitions, and publications or fill out this form online. We look forward to hearing from you!
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The Claremont School of Theology Alumni/ae Association is made up of all graduates from Claremont School of Theology and its predecessor schools. The Alumni/ae Council is a representative body that meets quarterly to advise the school, implement activities and events, recruit new students and generate financial support for the school.
Alumni/ae Events
The Office of Alumni/ae holds regional gatherings throughout the year including denominational gatherings and Annual Conferences within the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Throughout the year, all alumni/ae are invited to participate in campus activities including the CST Convocation held each fall, lectures, concerts, the Whitehead Film Festival, mixers and travel opportunities.
Did you know that alumni/ae giving to The CST Alumni/ae Fund helps us receive more grant money? High percentages of alumni/ae giving tells major givers and foundations that our alumni/ae value CST and believe in the future of the institution. Please give today and help us increase our alumni/ae giving rate!
Alumni/ae receive a quarterly e-newsletter highlighting the work of CST graduates around the world as well as school updates. If you have not been receiving this, we may not have your most recent email address. Send updated email addresses to Dmitri Potemkin at email@example.com. To suggest future topics, contactKendra E. Fredrickson-Laouini at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Click here to order T-shirts, caps, pullovers & more with the CST Alumni/ae logo through our provider Lands End.
As an alumnus/a of Claremont, you have benefits at the School that you may not be taking full advantage of. For example:
- Alumni/ae Audits: Claremont School of Theology welcomes all alumni/ae back to campus to observe courses with the written permission of the professor. To audit a course, the written permission of the professor is required as well as an administrative fee ($100 per unit) to cover costs. For more information contact Jennie Allen at the Registration Office firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Library Privileges: On-site borrowing privileges are available for alumni/ae. Application forms are available at the Library Circulation desk. For questions about borrowing contact Library Circulation staff: Koala Jones (909) 447-2510 or firstname.lastname@example.com
- Online Research Database: Alumni/ae have access to ATLAS, the online full text database by the American Theological Library Association, and may be eligible for the CST Library Scholars program. For details, please find information here.
- The Writing Center Assistance:Need help with anything writing related? Please contact Stephanie Rice at sri


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