Jim Gallagher

Genesis 10:10
“And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel…”

Genesis is the book of beginnings. In it we are introduced to many things which play a prominent role as the rest of Scripture unfolds. Here in Chapter 10, we are introduced to the city of Babylon, which becomes a major player in the Biblical narrative.  it is mentioned 257 times in the Bible. We learn Babylon was built by a man named Nimrod (whose name means rebellion); he built Babylon in defiance of God. His purpose in building the city is recorded in Genesis 11:4

“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Babylon is important because of its symbolic representation of man’s false religious systems. The focus of the city of Babylon was a tower to the…