God’s promises for Israel - session 3.1

People’s disobedience towards God’s perfect plan
From the beginning, God intended people to disperse across the world. He said “Be fruitful and multiply, and

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the earth” (Genesis 1:28).

Q13 What does it mean to fill the earth? Does that allow people to stick to one place? If not, why not? Was God’s plan perfect?

The Tower of Babel

Genesis 11:1-4 reports 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4Then they said, “Come, let us build

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a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Q14 Humanity decided to disobey and build a city for them selves and stay there, instead of filling the earth. Was people’s behavior an act of pride? Whom were they honoring with the building project? Did they want to replace God in Heaven in their own power?

Genesis 11 continues: 5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same

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they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8So the Lord
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them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord
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the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Q15 Who is “us” in verse 7? What were God’s responses; what did God do? Did He ask permission to stop the building project? Why did God confuse them in communication?

Q16 Was God done with His people? He started his plan with one man (Adam). After the punishment of disobedience-sin, He resumed his plan with ….. (see Genesis 12)?