Bible Study 
No Comments Genesis 10-12: Confusion and Calling
The Tower of Babel occurred somewhere near 2242 BC. How do I know that you ask? Well, after years of careful research into the genealogies of the Old Testament I was able to calculate in reverse from the time of Christ to the Tower of Babel! Okay, I admit – I didn’t do the research, but it has been done. The confusion of the languages at the tower is one of the great events of world history. God clearly reveals the origin of modern languages. Why were the languages confused? After the flood, mankind was instructed to disperse and fill the earth (Genesis 9:7). While heading east, what seems to have been most of the post-Flood group, under the leading of the powerful Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-10), decided to stop and establish a city as a monument to their pride and for their reputation. This was likely more like a ziggurat than a tower.
Although chapter 11 divides the people into many different groups, the focus of God’s redemptive plan for mankind shifts to one family – the family of Abraham. The promises given to Abraham extend throughout all of Scripture and find ultimate fulfillment in Revelation 20. The covenant included 1) the coming Savior (Genesis 17:7-8; Galatians 3:8, 16), 2) the land, 3) a nation, and 4) divine blessing and protection. This covenant is unconditional in the sense of its ultimate fulfillment of a kingdom and salvation for Israel, but conditional in terms of immediate fulfillment.