I've been watching several videos and TV programs about the ancient past and before the Great Flood. Though I didn't believe the stuff myself (for it all seems very fantastic), the more I researched...the more it made sense. There is a popular show called "Ancient Aliens". There have also been various other documentaries about various subjects that this shows discusses. Now I myself do not believe in aliens. For Jesus died for the sins of the world...NOT the WORLDS!
So what am I trying to say? The past that is taught (intentionally and unintentionally) is not the correct interpretation. Mankind was extremely advanced. There are several technologies behind some of the world's greatest architectural, technological and "mythological" achievements. Such things include the Pyramid of Giza (the only pyramid with NO hieroglyphs or tombs), the Antikythera Mechanism, the Dashka Stone, the Sacsayhuaman Walls, the Baghdad Battery, the Istanbul Rocket, the London Hammer, the Grooved Spheres of South America, the Saqqara Bird, the Cosso Artifact, the Egyptian Helicopter and so forth. Most of these are being debated vigorously. Some are probably mistakes and possibly hoaxes. Creationists, evolutionists and historians all make good points. But there are many many more around the world. And the great stone structures of the world cannot be disputed...because well...they are there. I encourage the reader to google these and just familiarize yourself with them and make your own opinions. Now this blog post is based on the belief that the reader does indeed believe mankind was more advanced than we think (particularly before the Great Flood, the fallen angels had much to do with man's greatest achievements).
This got me wondering about one structure that is not touched upon very much. The Tower of Babel. Most people think of a huge tower that goes up miles and miles into the sky. Here is what the Bible says in the New American Standard. Genesis 11: 1-5
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 into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Now there doesn't seem to be anything real out of the ordinary here. Bricks were made, tar was used as mortar, and so forth. But there are some subtle things within the text that need to be addressed. For instance, "let us build for ourselves a city, AND a tower whose top will reach into heaven." Why would the tower be addressed separately? If you take the Bible literally, whenever something is mentioned separately....it MEANS something separate. Also it says "whose top will reach into heaven" not the heavens (which would mean the sky and/or space). They literally wanted to go into the afterlife.
Now were they so naive as to think that if they built a real tall structure that they would run into God Himself? I don't think so. I think they knew that heaven was another dimension, not just up in the sky somewhere. Now it could be argued that they really thought it was just up in the sky. But in order to actually DO this, it would require a structure as big as a city. It would go miles and miles high. If this thing was being built and it was made AFTER the flood (it wouldn't be buried by sediment and rock) and in a plain...then where is it? According to the Bible...the city AND the tower were built. So...where is it? The text says its in the land of Shinar...so we know the location. Again I ask: Where is it?
So this made me think. Perhaps this thing was a tall structure, but not as tall as we think. It was not literally going miles and miles into the sky. There was something at the top of the tower "that WILL reach into heaven." When I hear this...I think of a transporter...a dimensional gate of some sort. Or maybe even a "launch tower" of some kind. Either way the text really makes you think if you look at it closely.
In conclusion I believe the tower was a tall (but not astronomically massive) building with a "stargate" of sorts at the top. Now could I be completely wrong about this? I could be I admit that. But I'm pretty sure of what I'm reading in the text. I guess we will all find out...when we will ALL reach heaven...through death.
