Playing Chess With the Devil: Making Sense of the Most Popular Book In the World. Genesis 6-11. The Covenant With Noah and Babel. Lesson 6

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Shelah to Eber (who became father of the Hebrews) to Peleg (10:22-25). Peleg probably knew little about the Promise he held or why the world suddenly became such a bizarre place to live in on one day in his life. On that day the whole world had need of speech pathology because men’s tongues tangled themselves. Worldwide confusion, fear, anger, and separation between peoples took immediate effect. It would have been incomprehensible to him that the reason everyone talked one way on one day and then talked differently the next day was indirectly because of him (10:25). He had witnessed a cataclysmic, miraculous event of Biblical proportion in his lifetime, but how could he have known that it was because of the future King within him?

Genesis 11:18-26 continues to trace the footprint of the Redeemer till it comes up to the one man whose presence dominates the rest of

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