WHY JESUS NEEDS TO RETURN TO EARTH?

Posted on by

Whenever mankind unites in pride and human self‑exaltation, God intervenes to humble him and remind creation that “the Most High rules in the kingdom of men.”  ( Daniel 4 : 17 ).
The Tower of Babel episode really is the clearest early type of what the present world is becoming again — a globalized, technocratic rebellion built on autonomous self‑will.

Scripture draws parallels between the arrogance and unity of sinful humanity at Babel and the last‑days global order that Jesus will confront and replace with His righteous Kingdom.

Let’s look at how Scripture itself unfolds this pattern and how it culminates in Christ’s return and His Millennial rule.

HUMANITY’S REBELLION AT BABEL (GENESIS 11)
The Tower of Babel becomes the first great picture of unified human rebellion against God.

Key themes:

  • Collective arrogance: “Let us make a name for ourselves.”
  • A unified system built on pride, self‑exaltation, and independence from God
  • Human government elevating itself above divine authority
  • God’s intervention to restrain evil and create the nations

This becomes the Bible’s first prototype of a global order united against the Lord.

THE PATTERN REPEATS THROUGH SCRIPTURE
Throughout the Old Testament and prophetic literature, Babel/Babylon becomes a symbol of:

  • Human kingdoms that defy God
  • Political‑religious systems that oppose His rule
  • Arrogant empires seeking global dominance
  • Persecution of God’s people
  • Idolatry, immorality, and spiritual rebellion

Examples include:

  • The Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar
  • The Beastly empires of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. These have unfolded exactly as prophesied: Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greece, Rome and Ottoman Empires.
  • The coming prophetic “Day of the Lord” judgments on proud nations

Daniel especially shows a clear progression of world empires culminating in a final blasphemous kingdom that mirrors Babel in both structure and spirit.

THE LAST‑DAYS GLOBAL ORDER (REVELATION 13–18)
Revelation brings the pattern to its climax.

The final world system includes:

  • A unified political empire (the Beast)
  • A global economic system (the mark and controlled commerce)
  • A counterfeit religious unity (the false prophet)
  • “Babylon the Great”, a symbolic city/kingdom embodying humanity’s rebellion

This world order is:

  • Centralized
  • Arrogant
  • Defiant toward God
  • United under false leadership
  • Persecuting God’s people,

Just like Babel, it rises in apparent strength—only to fall under God’s judgment.

JESUS’ RETURN: THE DIVINE REVERSAL OF BABEL
Christ’s Second Coming brings the final overthrow of all Babel‑like systems.

Scripture describes His intervention as:

  • The destruction of the Beast and his armies
  • The collapse of Babylon the Great
  • The end of rebellious human government
  • The binding of Satan

Where Genesis 11 shows scattered nations resulting from judgment, Revelation 19–20 shows gathered nations brought into peace under Christ Himself.

THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM: GOD’S RIGHTEOUS ORDER
Jesus’ thousand‑year reign restores everything Babel tried to counterfeit.

Features of His Kingdom:

  • Righteous authority rather than arrogant domination
  • Global unity under the true King
  • Peace among nations
  • Justice, truth, and holiness
  • The fulfilment of God’s covenant promises to Israel and the nations
  • The restoration of creation under Christ’s rule

Where Babel sought a name for humanity, the Millennium exalts the name of Jesus.

SATAN HAS BLINDED THE WORLD TO THESE TWO REAL HISTORICAL EVENTS

Posted on by

The first is God’s judgement of the world with the worldwide flood of Noah’s day.

Uniformitarian geology introduced by Hutton and Lyell in the 19th century is coming under increasing criticism due to the prevalent evidence in the geological record of catastrophism. For example, uniformitarian scientists have several difficulties explaining passive margin uplift. This is especially the case with the Great Escarpment that rims southern Africa. The erosional profile of the Great Escarpment does not fit uniformitarian expectations. However, it fits very well the catastrophic erosion of the Sheet Flow phase of the Recessive stage of the Flood. As well, the best explanation for the billions of dead things all over the world including fossil fuels is the worldwide flood of Noah’s Day which represented the judgement of God on a wicked world.

Jesus tells us that prior to His second coming the world will be lawless just as it was in Noah’s day and that scoffers will not countenance God destroyed mankind with the worldwide flood of Noah’s day. This is exactly the situation we have in the world today. Further evidence we are living in the prophesied “last days” before Jesus return.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:24

“you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.” 2 Peter 3:2-6

Kentucky’s new ‘Tower of Babel’ will ‘tackle racism issue’
Noah’s Ark replica built to Biblical dimensions (510-foot-long,155-meter-long) at the Ark Encounter theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky

The second is God’s judgement of the post flood population at the Tower of Babel when He confused their language and created the nations that exist today.

The new attraction to be built at the Ark Encounter site, “The Tower of Babel” will “tackle the racism issue” by helping visitors “understand how genetics research and the Bible confirm the origin of all people groups around the world.

“Now the whole earth had one language and the same words... and they said to one another, … come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.” Genesis 11:1, 4-

Tower of Babel

On the fifth anniversary of the Ark Encounter, which features a 510-foot-long wooden Noah’s ark, founder Ken Ham has announced the expansion of the Bible-themed attraction in Kentucky by building a Tower of Babel attraction on the park’s grounds.

“Next year, we will start fundraising for a Tower of Babel attraction that we hope to open in three or four years, where among other things we will help people understand what genetics research and the Bible say about the origin of all the people groups around the world,” Ham, the CEO and founder of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, says on the website of the Answers in Genesis ministry.