Gen 11:3-9
The goal of these men seems to be a noble one, to build a tower to heaven. However, two basic issues reveal their nature. The first is their reason for building the tower. It was not to get closer to God, but to make a name, and to have a project that men could gather around. The second way that their nature is revealed is their means for building it, which is their own wisdom and strength. This is the continuing presumption that men can gain the heavenly nature by their own wisdom and strength. But as the Lord said in Zech 4:6, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.”
What the men of Babel vainly sought was what the Lord wants to give to man. He wants us to dwell with Him in the heavenly places, and He wants to gather us together. However, we cannot do it with selfish motives, or our own strength. This may seem like a foolish thing for men to try to do, but it seems that men have not quit trying to build just such a tower. Christians have been just as prone to do it as anyone else. How many of the huge projects that Christians have built, from cathedrals to even some evangelistic outreaches, have been just an attempt by some to make a name for themselves, or to have a project that will gather and motivate men? Many even do these things in an attempt to reach God, or to be acceptable to Him. However, a true ministry does not come in order to reach God, but from a place of having been reached by God through the cross. A true ministry does not come as an attempt to be accepted by Him, but from a position of being accepted by Him through the cross.
- Command the quarter moons to do only the bidding of the Lord in this season.
- The occult uses the quarter moons as bows for shooting arrows.
- Proclaim Psalm 64 over your life, family, the Ecclesia in this season of quarter moons
- Pray that the Lord will teach your hands to war and your fingers to do battle so you can break the steel bows of the witches, wizards, sorcerers, necromancers, diviners, monthly prognosticators, astrologers, traffickers of familiar spirits and the queen of heaven in this season Ps 18:34; Ps 144:1 .