It's common for Fundamentalist Christians, particularly ones who are Conspiracy Theorists, to argue against the concept of Globalism by pointing to Genesis 11, Global Government is evil because it's a do over of the Tower of Babel.
The thing is this ignores how much of The New Testament is about Jesus and The Holy Spirit through The Church undoing the various curses inflicted upon mankind because of our sins over the course of the Book of Genesis (and beyond). Culminating in us returning to Eden in Revelation 21-22.
And the undoing of the confusion of tongs in Genesis 11 is explicitly one of the things Acts 2 is about. And we later see in Corinthians that in addition to a spiritual gift for speaking in other Tongs there is a also a gift for interpreting tongs.
In Romans 11 Paul explains that God is going to graft the fullness of the Gentile Nations into Israel and THEN All of Israel will be Saved. In Revelation 21 the Gates of New Jerusalem are never closed and all the nations bring their treasures into it.
The main person speaking in Acts 2 is Peter who in his First Epistle tells us he is now at Babylon.
And the Veil being torn in The Temple when Jesus was on The Cross symbolized Man no longer being separated from God. At Pentecost we became His Temple.
None of this means I'm enthusiastic about the Capitalist Global Government the Billionaires and Mega-Corporations are trying to impose on us. But that's a Socio-Economic issue not a National Sovereignty issue.
Objecting to Globalization simply on the grounds of saying "God divided the nations at Babel" displays a really insulting Biblical illiteracy.
For those confused by the title of this post. It is partly a Symphogear reference, I think I might be the only Western Symphogear fan who knows that Balal is the Hebrew word for Confusion used in the text of Genesis 11. The comments section on Crunchyroll I remember assumed it was a reference to Baal.
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