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nations are divided today. A time of 'true' peace and unity will only happen when our Lord Jesus Christ arrives. The Plan of redemption is only through God's Saviour Jesus Christ. This New Babylon World Order of today will fail also, for God will "come down" to stop it, claiming all "the kingdoms of this world". Thus our Father confounded the "one language" here at the tower of Babel, and the people failed in their one-world project.
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they all may call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.
Zeph 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon Me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for My determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them Mine indignation, even all My fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy.
This word "turn" in verse 9 above is Hebrew 'haphak', meaning 'to overturn, return, to turn about' (Strong's no. 2015). This is that language also spoken on Pentecost Day by Christ's Apostles, as Peter quoted from Joel 2 as to the latter days about it. The 'tongue' Christ's Apostles spoke on the Day of Pentecost was only an 'example' of the return of this "pure language", as given by The Holy Spirit (Acts 2:16). And according to Acts 2, everyone hearing that 'language' at Pentecost understood in their own 'dialect' of the region where they were born. It was not a 'Babel' garbled speech that none could understand. Everyone present on Pentecost heard their own language of birth. (See the Tongue of Pentecost study). Moreover, everyone present heard their own specific language dialect being spoken by the Apostles. That's the true Biblical sign of the Acts 2 cloven tongue.
2 Pet 3: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. 1 Cor.15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Nahum 1: Read All. Nahum is undated; but, if 1.11 refers primarily to the Rab-shakeh (as we believe it does) of 2 Kings 18:26-28, then we have a clue of great importance, for that speaks of the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, and gives us the date as 603 B.C. The Rab-shakeh = the chief of the captains, was apparently a renegade Jew, and a” counsellor” high in favour with the Assyrian king (Sennacherib). He was apparently of high office, and insisted on speaking to the common People on the wall in the Jews language; indicating a freedom in the use of Hebrew that would scarcely be possessed by an Assyrian ambassador. The Rab-shakeh’s words certainly show a deadly animosity towards Jehovah; which is borne out by Nah 1:11 and Psalms 120:2 123:3
Psalms 120:2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, Psalms 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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