Hearts Must Be Touched

Yes, the world knows how to kill, all right,
And with no real concern for the slaughter;
Her pious statesmen mourn with all their might,
For the million graves left across the water;
Their tears induced, before wives and mothers,
While secret threats increase the armor's din,
Booming to force their own ways on others.
Don't they know that God touched the tongues of men,
To form nations, so one could not rule all?
It is not chance that divides the races.
But His will, declared through Babel's fall,
That science's not the god man embraces.
Nations must fade away, peace to prevail;
Men's hearts must be touched, Christ's Kingdom to hail!

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3), it was their new capability of thought that incited the race to improve their living conditions. Thus began the quest of mankind for progress in all fields---science, philosophy, technology, etc. They brought upon themselves the flood that God used to destroy them all except Noah and his family, 8 in all, because men had grown so wicked that God was sorry He created them (Genesis 6). Once more they multiplied and began accumulating much new knowledge, including that of construction with brick instead of stone.

"They said to each other, 'Come, let's make brick and bake them thoroughly.' They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:3-4)

They intended to show themselves as so smart that they could build a tower up to God. Who knows what they would have done next? God saw in this an audacity, that His creature was attempting to make himself equal with his Creator. How was that any different from what Lucifer tried to do in rebelling against Him? Had man obeyed Him in the Garden of Eden, he would have been content to live in comfort in Paradise and never question his status as a creation of God. By committing the act, men made themselves ambitious. Our science has taught us the secrets of how God designed the universe; our technology has projected live pictures and voices around the world; and our philosophy is questioning all truth, making of God's Bible a collection of myths. How long will it be until God sees us as He saw the builders of the tower of Babel? How long do we have to question God's truth until He moves to end the audacity?