06-CHAPTER SIX - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE TOWER . . .
CHAPTER SIX -
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE TOWER OF BABEL
(Philosophy as used here means the principles underlying a thing; the principles which explain a thing.)
The oak is the development of the acorn. The oak, in its fullest and completest form, is the acorn at the climax of its possibilities. The acorn, if it could speak, there atop the mightiest oak defying all the storms that blow, could say: "This is I myself."
An oak - the mightiest oak on earth - is an acorn; it is an acorn having reached the climax of its possibilities.
The world today is Nimrod’s Babel at, almost, its highest possibilities. It is not yet complete; there are a few more stages of development. Every principle operating in the world today was wrapped up in Nimrod’s Babel.
If you can discover and understand the principles underlying the building of the Tower of Babel, you will have a deeper, more matured, comprehensive understanding of the nature of manifestations and ultimate climax of this present world system than any Columbia University philosopher that ever lived.
This word "unity" is one of the profoundest words in any language. It means the state of being one. It means concord, accord, harmony. It means a whole. It means continuity without deviation or change.
What has man been striving for, in every history that has ever been written of him, since we first heard of him? He has been striving for unity - for unity of personality, for harmony with his environment, for continuity.
And he has never found it. Inwardly he is a volcano of conflicts, suppressions, seething passions; knowing not whither he has come, or why he is here, or whither he is to go. He hates himself, is constantly at war with his environment, regards the beasts as more blessed than he. The only thing that keeps the majority of men from taking a pistol and blowing their brains out is their cowardice. They are afraid to do it. Man hates to live, and he is afraid to die.
Why? Because he has no unity. He is a square peg in a round hole.
And right here, incidentally, the fact that man never has found unity except in the surrender of his will to GOD’s will, is one of the very greatest and most convincing arguments that I know for the existence of the GOD of the Bible, for the absolute truthfulness of the Genesis account of man’s origin, and for the absolute trustworthiness of the New Testament’s account of the Person and work of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. Man united to GOD is a sublime mystery; man apart from GOD, as all the history that has been written of him proves, is a cheap and vulgar puzzle.
When Adam was created he was united to GOD. He had perfect unity. There was perfect harmony - harmony within himself, and harmony with his environment. There wasn’t a question-mark within or without. That wonderful term, "continuity," was in the very nature of things. And that was Heaven; for the central fact of Heaven is harmony; everything is in harmony with everything else, and there is unbroken continuity.
In the nature of the case, that unity was grounded in Adam’s faith. The philosopher has never lived who could provide another ground for the unity of man with GOD except pure, naked faith.
That unity was broken. It was broken because the only thing that united Adam to GOD was broken - Adam’s faith.
Discord, misery, unhappiness; or, to gather them all into one term, "disunity," was the natural inevitable result.
Disunity will assume one of three forms:
1. Fear and loneliness.
2. Indifference.
3. Open rebellion.
These three forms of disunity, interestingly enough are represented and symbolized by three great characters in the Book of Genesis.
The first is represented by Adam. "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I WAS AFRAID." (Genesis 3:10)
The second is represented by Cain. "Am I my brother’s keeper?" (Genesis 4:9)
The third is represented by Nimrod. His very name, as we have already seen, means rebel. He was "the mighty" rebel.
With these chunky observations, thrown out almost at random, we shall return to the Tower of Babel, try to discover and understand the fundamental principles underlying it, try to see how those principles are at work today, and try to see what the climax will be.
The Tower of Babel was a symbol of a world unity, a world monarchy, a world government, a world state. The Tower was a monument to that which had already taken place. We are impressed with the Tower, we should be impressed with the forces and principles which erected it.
1. The Tower of Babel was a symbol of deliberate, premeditated, intelligent rebellion against GOD.
The religion of Shem was the real connecting link between GOD and man. Shem was repudiated. " . . .let us make us a name (shem)."
They repudiated GOD’s Shem and made them one of their own. In the very nature of things - if I may use this convenient term again - in the exact proportion as they loved their "shem" they hated GOD’s Shem.
The Tower of Babel was erected upon the foundation of rebellion and hatred.
2. The Tower of Babel was the outward unity of inward fears, loneliness, frustrations, rebellion and hatred.
The Tower of Babel was the outward unity of internal disunity.
The Tower of Babel was like an American night club. There is perfect unity. They all are in agreement. They all drink, and gamble, and dance, and laugh, and giggle, and hug, and kiss, and make dates. There is perfect unity. But it is the unity of rebellion against GOD, rebellion against the Church, rebellion against the marriage vows, rebellion against chastity, rebellion against parental authority, rebellion against the idea of hell - rebellion against everything associated with the Name of GOD! It is the outward unity of inward lust and rebellion. In short, a night club is a rebellious "babble." (We got the word from Babel.)
3. The Tower of Babel was a symbol of violence, despotism and tyranny.
Nimrod, the man behind it all, was one of the most violent, despotic, tyrannical men that ever lived. As I have already pointed out, reputable scholars associate the "Battle of the Titans" with the erection of the Tower of Babel.
Violence is involved in leading the world away from the religion of Shem. Despotism and tyranny are involved in the demand that everybody shall unite, that everybody shall conform, that all individuality shall be sacrificed on the hard, merciless altar of the World State. There is no room for individual conscience, no place for individual convictions. The individual must exist for the state.
4. What can hold all of that together? Nothing on this earth but sheer force and violence. How did Alexander unite the world? By violence and bloodshed. How did Caesar unite it? By violence and bloodshed. How did Napoleon unite nations? By violence and bloodshed. How did Bismarck unite the Prussian states? By violence and bloodshed. How has Stalin united the Soviet states? By violence and bloodshed. How does Stalin keep them united? By violence, bloodshed, despotism and tyranny.
The most violent, despotic, cold-blooded, murderous institution on the face of this earth is the World State.
Nimrod’s World State has today reached a higher state of development and realization than ever before in the world’s history. Today we have, in fact, the United Nations. The United Nations has a Tower - the most imposing on earth. In it and around it there is the babble of foreign tongues. Let’s take a look at the United Nations.
In the first place, there is no place in the United Nations for GOD, none for JESUS CHRIST, none for the Bible, none for prayer.
In the second place, the United Nations organization is based on the Atlantic Charter. The chief man behind the Atlantic Charter was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The record shows that the only promise Mr. Roosevelt ever kept to the American people was the promise to deluge the country with beer and whisky. Roosevelt was the prophet of the New Deal. Roosevelt did all that he could do to destroy the Supreme Court of the United States. Roosevelt sold our Chinese ally down the river to Stalin. Roosevelt refused to allow the American Armies to go to Berlin, and he permitted the Red armies to go there.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the Mother Superior of the United Nations, says that the story of Adam and Eve is fiction. She says that she doesn’t know whether she believes in a life beyond the grave.
In the third place, one of the chief architects of the United Nations was Alger Hiss, now in the penitentiary for betraying his country.
In the fourth place, the most powerful member of the United Nations, everything considered, is Communist Russia.
In the fifth place, it has already cost the American taxpayers more than 43 billion dollars to erect the United Nations.
In the sixth place, American boys are being slaughtered in Korea because the United States cannot afford to "embarrass" the United Nations by giving an American general an order to make an all-out attack against the Chinese Reds.
In the seventh place; the United Nations is preparing to herd up this whole generation of American boys and send them all over the world to fill up bloody sinkholes.
In the eighth place, if the United Nations can’t stop a war in Korea, nobody with any sense believes that they can ever stop one anywhere else.
In order to succeed the United Nations must have three things:
a world culture, a world religion, and a world army.
All three are in the making.
One of the most important departments of the United Nations is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. This organization has the authority of the United Nations to bring education, culture, religion and science into conformity with the World State. Involved in this organization are the radio, television, newspapers, magazines, textbooks - all the media of communication. This organization will write the textbooks, will prepare radio and television programs, will create a religion.
And who is the Director General of this powerful organization - one of the most powerful ever erected on this earth?
He is Julian Huxley.
And who is Julian Huxley? He is a sneering infidel. He says that it is impossible for him, and those who think like him, to believe in a personal GOD. He denies that there ever was any such thing as a revelation of GOD to man.
This is the man who heads the United Nations’ organizations which is planning the education and religion of the whole world, including the United States.
Mr. Huxley has outlined in a book just what kind of culture is being planned for the whole world, including the United States. That book is entitled; "Unesco: Its Purpose and its Philosophy."
If you think I have overstated the aims and purposes of Huxley’s organization, here are his own words:
Unesco - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - is by its title committed to two sets of aims. In the first place, it is international, and must serve the ends and objects of the United Nations, which in the long perspective are world ends, ends for humanity as a whole. And secondly it must foster and promote all aspects of education, science, and culture, in the widest sense of those words. [p. 5].
Julian Huxley and his fellow atheists are, first of all, going to work on the minds of men. Like Nimrod, they are going to change those minds. When they are through, there won’t be but one mind - the world mind.
What is going to be the basis of this world culture? It is going to be Evolution. I have this book here before me as I write. I have underscored in red the words EVOLUTION as it appears from page 8 to page 17, inclusive; that’s 10 pages. How many times does this brute word appear in these 10 pages? It appears 41 times.
And to be sure that nobody misunderstands, here is what Huxley says about the basis of the culture of this United Nations’ World State:
"Thus the general philosophy of Unesco should, it seems, be a scientific world humanism, global in extent and evolutionary in background (p. 8).
The philosophy of Evolution means the "survival of the fit." And that’s exactly what Julian Huxley, in cold-blooded scientific terms, says its going to mean.
What kind of religion is Julian Huxley and his fellow atheists going to fasten on the peoples of the world? He leaves no doubt about that. Here are his own words:
"Thus the general philosophy of Unesco should, it seems, be a scientific world humanism. . ." (p. 8).
That’s the religion: Scientific Humanism. That makes man the center of the universe. All things revolve around man. You no longer have a revealed religion; you have "values!" There is no personal GOD, no holiness, no sin; thus no NEED of a Saviour, no NEED of a Calvary’s Cross, no NEED of a Resurrection. The Bible like all other "sacred books," contains some "values"; therefore it is useful, but useful only as it provides these "values" for man’s "development."
And now don’t forget this: All the power of the United Nations is behind this blatant infidel and his World State philosophy, religion and education. The 43 billion dollars of the American taxpayers is behind it. Most of the members of Congress are behind it. Most of the educators and "leaders" of religion are behind it. These people, in the first place, are RESPONSIBLE to the United Nations. For 35 years - in churches, in schools, in colleges, in universities, in civic clubs - we have heard nothing but a United Nations. We now have it.
I have a righteous hatred of Nimrod and his Babylon, but no more than I have for the Julian Huxleys and their United Nation: And we may as well be plain and understand one another: I don’t want the friendship of any politician, educator or preacher who knowing the real nature of the United Nations, will go on supporting it. I will not have fellowship with any man or woman regardless of who they are, who will support, in any form, cold-blooded, anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Bible, anti-American World State such as the United Nations. Would a real America have fellowship with Benedict Arnold? Benedict Arnold never was as guilty of treachery as this United Nations’ crowd.
That World State in New York, like the one on the ancient plains of Shinar, is now, and will more and more become, an institution of violence, depotism and tyranny.
The written Constitution of the United States must go. Already a California court has ruled that the law of the United Nation supercedes the law of the Constitution of the United States. With the Constitution go the Bill of Rights and all those liberties dear to the hearts of Americans, liberties which were wrested from tyrants at the point of the sword. There can never be a World State as long as the written Constitution of the United States remains valid.
An effort is now being made, and will become more savage, to crush all individuality. Uniformity demands conformity. Christians will die before they will surrender their faith in a risen CHRIST to Julian Huxley’s Scientific Humanism. The United Nations will bring more pressure on the radio chains to keep true ministers of the Gospel off the air. They want the Sockmans. They want the Fatherhood-of-God-and-Brotherhood-of-Man preachers. The don’t object to Roman Catholics. All of those preach a religion which conforms to the United Nations philosophy.
This means strife, the breaking up of communities, the breaking up of some churches and, in many cases, the breaking up of families.
Thousands will never permit their children to be poisoned with Huxley’s teachings. This means more enmities, more strife, more breakups. This means that children will be turned against parents, school authorities turned against preachers, preachers at war with school authorities.
And this will mean the employment of sheer, brutal force. The United Nations’ police force will attempt to blackjack men and women into conformity. It means that this same police force will not tolerate anything which is inimical to the progress of the World State.
You say that I am guilty of using extravagant, irresponsible language? You heard what the California court said, didn’t you? The United Nations already has its tower on American soil, doesn’t it? The Congress of the United States is already placing the interest of the United Nations above the interest of the flesh and blood and bones of your boys in Korea, isn’t it? The Congress of the United States approved the 43 billion dollars in credits to establish the United Nations, and to set up Julian Huxley’s department, didn’t it?
If all this has already happened, how long will it be before the police force of this country will be part of an International Police Force?
Violence, depotism and tyranny will increase. Wars will increase. There will be political and social upheavals which will reverberate to the ends of the earth. There will be inflation, famine, unemployment, every conceivable form of vice.
And what will the United Nations be doing all the time? Just what it is doing today - talking, debating, while men are starving, fighting and dying.
There will rise a spontaneous demand for the elimination of debates, for the elimination of "talking." "We want action. We are sick of debates. We are sick of your impotent parliament. We want a man with the authority and the ability to act."
That man will be on the scene. I shouldn’t be surprised if he won’t be in one of the Balkan states: Meantime, his name will already be known, and his voice familiar. He will be the greatest statesman the world ever produced, the greatest orator, the greatest military genius. He will be a composite of all the Nimrods, Alexanders, Caesars and Napoleons. He will be the man the world is now crying for - the Devil’s man, the ANTICHRIST. And when he takes over, there "shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Matthew 24:21).
If there were not a line of prophecy in the Bible any student of international affairs, it seems to me, could see that the rise of Anti-christ will be the inevitable, logical outcome of this World State.
In view of all this, how significant are those words in the twelfth chapter of Romans:
" . . . be not conformed to this world . . ." (Romans 12:2)
There are dark and dreadful days ahead. The world’s education will be against us, as it always has been against CHRIST. The world’s science will be against us, as it always has been against CHRIST. The world’s politics and religion will be against us: they murdered our CHRIST, and we can expect no better treatment. The "good" people will all be against us: they don’t want to "get mixed up in this." The majority will be against us: it was against GOD on the plains of Shinar.
But GOD will be for us. JESUS CHRIST will be for us. The HOLY SPIRIT will be for us. The Bible will stand by us. The angels will not be indifferent. A "great cloud of witnesses" will surround us.
We will never bow down! We will never conform!
~ end of chapter 6 ~
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