Tower of babylon

The tower of Babel story is familiar but could be better understood. Dr. Michael Heiser explores what really happened and its implications.

The legendary Tower of Babel is said to have been the largest construction endeavor of antiquity. Its goal being to build a tower that reached the heavens, myths tell how the gods disliked this new level of human ambition, so they confused their languages to prevent the tower’s completion. (Babylon, Babylonian Empire)

Pieter Bruegel (1525-69), was the foremost member of a European movement that used the Tower of Babel regularly in their work.

Marten van Valckenborch the Elder. Detail from The Tower of Babel, 1595.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (I Samuel 15:23)

The Tower of Bable was likely the Ziggurat, Etemenanki (Temple of the foundation of heaven and Earth) which was dedicated to god Marduk (deification of Nimrod, Alulin) in the ancient city of Babylon. Originally 298 feet in height, it now exists only in ruins.

The painting is about the Tower of Babel. The story is from the Bible, and it tells how the people of the world tried to build a tower to reach heaven ->> more details in ai-img-gen.com