After the flood, God spoke to the remnant of humanity— Noah and his sons. God told them to increase in number and fill the earth. But humanity had other ideas. It decided that all would congregate in one city.

Humanity said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11: 4.

At that, the Lord determined that because they were united and all spoke the same language, they wouldn’t stop striving for the means to carry out their purpose: reaching the prerogatives of heaven, making a reputation that would claim equality with God.

So the Lord stopped them at that time by confusing their language. The building stopped and the Lord caused them to scatter over the face of the earth.

But, doggone it, humanity has gotten around the language barrier and come together again to resume tower-building. This time, though, I see the construction taking place in the area of cloning.

Humanity’s current building of the Tower of Babel is an attempt to reach and operate from the hallowed grounds on which life is created. Of course, it’ll never happen; because although humanity can start the process of life’s development – natural conception, in vitro fertilization, stem cells, etc.—only God can give life.

However, that doesn’t stop humanity from thinking that it can  indefinitely extend life through the harvesting of cloned body parts. Humanity dreams and insists on achieving  immortality. It even thinks that can be accomplished by genetically engineering duplicate people, repeatedly.

The point I’m making is that humanity has not given up its goal of wanting to be like the Most High. With its intellect, it is reaching upward towards God’s territory. It hopes to discover and utilize the heavenly resources by which to create perfect, everlasting life.

Once again, though, humanity will be stopped in its track; this time for good; this time by the return of Jesus.