Skyscrapers are a monument to man’s spirit of achievement and the spirit of a city is a monument to man’s rebellion against God.

After the Flood, God’s plain mandate was “to scatter and replenish the earth,” but the rebellious counter-charge from the masses was, “We’re going to build us a city and stay right here ‘lest we be scattered on the face of the earth.’ We’re going to build us a religious system and a cathedral out here and we’re going to go up on top of that sky-high monument and offer sacrifices and have such impressive good works that God Almighty will have to accept us.”

The thinking was after Nimrod’s: “Let’s get together on the basis of human viewpoint, not God’s, and let’s amalgamate everybody and be our own gods, and do all things our own ways.”

As R. Dawson Barlow writes in his 2004 book, The Origin of the Races, “It was the human philosophical mindset (which is NOT unlike ‘modern’ humanism) that was responsible for the construction of the tower of Babel. That product of depraved human reasoning also later developed into a theme of false worship that continues throughout the Bible, and even to our own present time.

“In Revelation 17 and 18, the prophetic Scriptures describe the event when God will deal with another manifestation of this false religious and political system, called ‘Mystery Babylon.’ This monstrous system is still alive, operating under many aliases (including some within Christendom) and gaining greater momentum each year. It will be a dominant power at the time of the Second Advent of Jesus Christ to the earth. It is that same mighty system he will destroy at his coming.”

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Jordan explains, “The beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel in the land of Shinar, and if you remember in Daniel 1, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, went into Jerusalem and took them back into the land of Shinar into ‘the houses of his gods,’ which is the same thing.

“Nimrod built Nineveh, which was the capital of Assyria, and the city Rehoboth, a word that means ‘the city of boulevards.’ What he builds is a great metropolitan city of hustling and bustling Fifth Avenues, 42^nd Streets, State streets, Madison Avenues and all the rest.

“And it says Resen, the city between Nineveh and Calah, was a great city. The word Resen means ‘a bit’ or ‘a bridle.’ And he would have named it after the ability to control things. Resen—that’s like saying Wall Street or LaSalle Street—and it’s the power that goes with the concentration of economic and social activity in a metro area, and Nimrod controls it all.

“In Genesis 9-11, you’re reading the history of the world really in its great foundational principles and origins and these are chapters that are extremely important to you and me today.

“You’re told the nations start from the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham and Japheth—

and you’re given their descendants, and where they go, and what they do, concluded by the last verse in Genesis 10: ‘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.’

“The first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis are designed not to give you a history of the first 2,000 years of mankind. If it was that, it certainly wouldn’t cover simply just 11 chapters.

“Anyone who reads the book of Genesis knows that the first 11 chapters cover 2,000 years of human history, and then you begin with Abraham in about 2,000 B.C. and go from chapter 12 to 50 with that mass of information talking about just a couple of hundred years in the life of Abraham and his descendants—you know the emphasis is on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descendants and what’s happening with them in God’s dealings with them.”

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In the first 11 chapters, the issue is in laying down the four divine institutions designed for the establishment of the human race; for its perpetuation and orderly maintenance. They’re the foundational principles for the way mankind is to be operating: Volition, Marriage, Family and Nationalism.

In the last part of Genesis 9 is a far-reaching prophecy given by Noah about Shem, Ham and Japheth and the character to be exhibited by each of these three boys as the progenitors of the races of people who will repopulate the earth.

“Noah focuses on the contribution each of these sons is to make,” explains Jordan. “Just as the man and the woman are to be united in matrimony and recreate as it is, marriage is really the recreation of the original man. So it is that these three boys are going to have contributions—divinely appointed divisions of responsibility—to care for the specific needs of mankind at the three fundamental levels of human existence: the spiritual needs, the physical needs and the intellectual needs.

“And the contributions of the three racial heads—Shem, Ham and Japheth—were intended to be unified activities; it was a division of labor and contribution that was to be done in a perfect unity, just like man and woman are to be one flesh.

“These contributions were intended to be blended to a simple, organized way of life, resulting in the highest form of civilization that mankind could achieve—

something you’ll see perfectly in effect in the millennial kingdom.

“But you know what happened? Satan immediately instituted his policy of evil against God’s institution of nationalism and brought about divine judgment. And when you see Gen 10:32 say, ‘By these were the nations divided in the earth,’ they’re divided in Genesis 11 at the tower of Babel.

“And that division—it isn’t that God desired that the nation be all split up, and divided and warring among each other, when He made the distinctions (between Noah’s three sons). Rather, God intended these different characteristics be blended together into a harmoniously functioning unit but, because of sin, it was all divided and burst up.

“As soon as any one of these groups becomes unbalanced, one of them seeks to get ahead of the other and control the other. Sometimes in history it has momentarily happened, but what happens is it might burst ahead for a little while and then it brings just absolute collapse, and frequently with frightening suddenness in results.

“Shem’s responsibility is to contribute to the spiritual needs of mankind and if you take Shem and his descendants, you’ll see that every major world religion has come from the tents of Shem.

“And when Ham and Japheth get to inventing religions, they’re always spurious—you can spot ’em just like that. Shem’s special contribution was to the needs for inner strength among mankind and he originates and develops religion.

“Ham focuses on the physical needs of mankind and he’s the technology guy; the inventor. His descendants focus on the technological necessities of man and the skills man needs to develop and work and to sustain himself.

“Japheth focuses on the intellectual needs and he’s the man whose purpose is to give direction and purpose. He’s more of the philosopher-type guy. Shem will originate, and Ham will invent, and it’s Japheth who takes what Shem originates, and thinks about what Ham invents, and expands the two into systems that work together.

“If you leave Ham and Shem to themselves, they’ll never develop systems of thought. Japheth takes what Shem develops in religion, and it’s Japheth who presses it on into theology. Ham will come along and he’ll have inventions and technology, but it’s Japheth who will take it and develop it and expand it into a science.

“So, you see you have these three (racial heads) moving together and working together. The difficulty is when any one seeks to exalt itself above the others as being more needful.

“You notice in Genesis, it doesn’t give any suggestion that one branch of (Noah’s) family had any preeminence over the other because God didn’t intend it that way. He didn’t intend that one branch, one nation, or one of the three stocks, be over the other. He intended that each one makes it contribution, and that they all work together, and yet they are distinct and it’s very clear as to who they are.

“I realize you read Genesis 10 and say, ‘This is just a long list of names,’ and it is, but there’s more than just a cold genealogy laid out there.

“What you’ve got there is the distribution of these men who go in three separate directions upon stepping off of the Ark. Shem goes off east, Japheth goes north to northwest and Ham goes south and southwest.

“All the world’s great religions come from the East. Ham goes south. The cradle of the first civilizations man’s ever known is from right there and there. The first great world empire is Egypt. And Japheth goes up (into Europe) and his people don’t really get going until they get some of these other guys’ ideas and mix them together and blend the things.

“You see, you got one group taking care of the technology, one group taking care of the spiritual needs, and you the other guy whose focus is to blend all this stuff together into a workable, usable philosophy for everybody and then the whole thing works together the way God intended it to be.”

We know that when the Lord Jesus Christ returns as King to sit on the throne in Jerusalem, all the nations will flood into it, bringing with them all their contributions.

“They’re not just going to be bringing gold and silver and money and all that stuff up there,” says Jordan. “They’re going to come up and bring all that they have to offer. And He’s going to take it and bring it all together under His headship, and you’re going to see the most perfect-ordered society that could ever be, and He’s going to get everything out of every nation. That millennial kingdom’s going to be something. The nations of this earth are going to run like a finely-tuned sewing machine.”