Whoops. So sorry, I was just made aware that I forgot to record chapter 11, which is part of your January 3rd reading. So please forgive me for that. I thought I would hop on real quick and fix the damage done here. So Genesis chapter 11 is the Tower of Babel, and that's primarily what's happening here. That's the large theme of this chapter, even though there are a few other elements, but let's first talk about the tower. Remember that God told them that he wanted them to be fruitful and multiply and with that the implication that he wanted them to spread all across the globe. At this point in human history, humanity was centralized. We were not in different continents, as we know them today. We were all located in one place. Which is why, if you believe in the local flood, you can still say the effects of the flood were universal. With respect to humanity even if they were local with respect to the location on the planet So with that you have all of humanity centralized after the flood Noah in his family Populate or repopulate the earth again in a local setting and then God says I want you to spread but the But at this point, they're resistant. The whole earth had one language and the same words. That's how we start out chapter 11. So they're all sharing the same words. And consequently, then the same culture, words creates culture. Words are the things that encapsulate the way that we perceive the world around us. And so everyone had the same idea. Everyone understood the same words. Everyone shared the same culture. They then get this brilliant idea that what they're going to do is build a tower to make a name for themselves. That's their goal. They want to erect a monument that testifies to human ingenuity, human greatness. And then they also say, unless we disperse over the face of the whole earth, again, contrary to God's design, God's desires, they say we want to stay local and do something great for ourselves. And so they erect a tower. This tower was likely the shape of a ziggurat. You'll have to look it up on Google to see an image of this, but there's different kinds. It kind of looks like a pyramid. And so they erect this monument to themselves and notice here God has to bend down as it were to see the height Their ziggurat he has to stoop down way low to see what we're doing And then he makes a statement that he's going to have to do something drastic in order to stop them from self destruction. That's the idea He's not afraid he's not threatened. He wants to do something that will cease and desist their progress toward their own demise And so he says, let's go and confuse your languages. That's exactly what he does. And of course, because of that, the language confusion creates culture confusion. It creates a clash of understanding. And so everyone now spreads almost naturally. The narrative traces the lineage of Shem. Verses 10 through 26, we're now seeing the line, which would eventually result in the Messiah, King Jesus. And so Shem is the one who's I'm going to keep the line alive. He's the one who is favored. And so at the end of Shem's line, you get to Terah, who fathered Abraham, Nahor, and Haran. Now, Abram, at this point, not Abraham, is who we're going to trace after this chapter chapters 12 all the way through the end of Genesis It's going to be about the patriarchal history today we look we're looking at Primeval history Genesis 1 through 11 Genesis 12 through 50. It's gonna be patriarchal history. We're going to see how God brings about blessing through the line of Abraham, or at least initiates that blessing. Stay tuned for more. Sorry. I missed this chapter. Please forgive me for missing something so significant. I will do my best to stay on track going forward. Thank you so much. I'll see you guys tomorrow.