GENESIS CHAPTER 11 11:10

GENESIS  CHAPTER  11

11:1 > The history of Babel ( "confusion" ) strikingly parallels that of the professing Church. ( 1 ) Unity ( GENESIS  11:1 )__the Apostolic Church ( ACTS  4:32__33 );  ( 2 ) Ambition ( GENESIS  11:4 ), using worldly, not spiritual means ( GENESIS  11:3 ), ending in a man-made unity__the papacy; ( 3 ) the confusion to tongues ( GENESIS  11:7 )__Protestantism, with its innumerable sects. See  ISAIAH  13:1.

11:10 > Genesis 11 and 12 marks an important turning point in the divine dealing. Heretofore the history has been that of the whole Adamic race. There has been neither Jew nor Gentile; all have been one in "the first man Adam." Henceforth, in the Scripture record, humanity must be thought of as a vast stream from which God, in the call of Adam and creation of the nation of Israel, has but drawn off a slender rill, through which He may at last purify the great river itself. Israel, was called to be a witness of the unity of God in the midst of universal idolatry ( DEUTERONOMY  6:4;  ISAIAH  43:10__12 ); to illustrate the blessedness of serving the true God ( DEUTERONOMY  33:26__29 ); to receive and preserve the divine revelations ( ROMANS  3:1__2;  DEUTERONOMY  4:5__8 ); and to produce the Messiah ( GENESIS  3:15;  12:12;  28:10 2  SAMUEL  7:16__17  ISAIAH  4:3__4;  MATTHEW  1:1 ). 

11:10 > The reader of scripture should hold firmly in mind: ( 1 ) that from Genesis  12 to Matthew  12:45 the Scriptures have primarily in view Israel, the little rill, not the great Gentile river; though again and again the universality of the ultimate divine intent breaks into view ( GENESIS  12:3;  ISAIAH  2:2,  4;  5:26;  9:1__2 ).  ( 2 ) that the human race, henceforth called Gentile in distinction from Israel, goes on under the Adamic and Noahic covenants; and that for the race ( outside Israel ) the dispensations of Conscience and of Human Government continue. The moral history of the great Gentile world is told in Romans  1:21__32, and its moral accountability in  Romans  2:1__16. Conscience never acquits it either "accuses" or "excuses." Where the law is known to the Gentile it is to them, as to Israel, "a ministration of death," a "curse" ( ROMANS  3:19__20;  2  CORINTHIANS  3:7;  GALATIANS  3:10 ). A wholly new responsibility arises when either Jew or Gentile knows the Gospel ( JOHN  3:18__19,  36;  15:22__24;  1  JOHN  5:9__12 ).

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