QUOTE (NIGHTMARE @ Nov 28 2008, 01:55 PM)

If you look at these passages closely you will see that the flood of Noah was not worldwide......
Genesis 11:1 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
All people and nations of the earth had the same language and understanding of speech. This aided in the forming of Nimrod's one world order. Nimrods role plays a big part in the endtime maybe someone can touch on it later......
Genesis 11:2 "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Who journeyed???????
"Shinar" is the area where Iraq is located today. The migration of the early civilizations were to the east of Iraq.........
Genesis 11:3 "And they said one to another, "Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
in the Hebrew text the word for slime was "bitumen",
[2564 chemar (khay-mawr'); from 2560; bitumen (as rising to the surface): -slime (-pit).]
Genesis 11:4 And they said, "Go to, let us build us a city and a 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."
Here is the key:::::::
In the Hebrew text, "let us make us a great name", reads, let us provide our own salvation."
Why were these people trying to provide there own salvation?????????Because they did not believe God....
What were they trying to do??????????? They were building a tower to heaven so they could escape the next flood (even though God said he would not flood again)---
Do you see and understand?????There were many who made it throught the flood and they knew the devastation that came, upon the earth,,,,, and that it was caused by God......This was not Noah and his family that built this tower it was those that were not consumed by the flood who instead of leaning to God for salvation would make there own salvation (bunch of idiots)
ok this is really very simple if we just look at the word of God. If we want to know who the people in gen 11 are we have to look at gen 10 for the info.
Gen 10:1
Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. Gen 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Gen 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Gen 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Gen 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Gen 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Gen 10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Gen 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Gen 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Gen 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Gen 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
Gen 10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
Gen 10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
Gen 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Gen 10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
Gen 10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Gen 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Gen 10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
Gen 10:20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
Gen 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.
Gen 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Gen 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Gen 10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Gen 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons:
the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan.
Gen 10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Gen 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
Gen 10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Gen 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
Gen 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Gen 10:31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Gen 10:32
These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Gen 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found
a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Gen 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Gen 11:4 And they said, Go to,
let us build us a city and a 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.
Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, 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 11:9 Therefore
is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there
confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Now we are told in gen 10:10 WHO went to this place and built a city and a tower there.
Gen 10:8 And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Gen 10:10 And
the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh,
in the land of Shinar.
So we see that it is NIMROD who went to shinar and made cities even BABEL. we see from chapters 10 AND 11 that CUSH begat NIMROD and CUSH is the Son of HAM and HAM is the SON of NOAH.
the word of God is clear all these people are the ones who filled the earth with people, and these were the ONLY people, and no one lived through the flood but these people and the flood was world wide
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls were saved by water.2Pe 2:5 And
spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Hbr 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.