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Welcome to Day 1536 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomDivine Rebellions \u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend; I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1536 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday. Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events. To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word. This week, we will expand on the past course work as we continue reviewing the book from Dr. Michael S Heiser titled \u201cSupernatural.\u201d The book is an abbreviated version of his more comprehensive book, \u201cThe Unseen Realm.\u201d I highly recommend both of these books. Creating a Biblical Worldview based on how the Old and New Testaments connect with God\u2019s overall plan for humanity is essential. This book review will help us understand what the Bible teaches about the unseen world, and why it matters.
Cosmic Geography
The divine transgressions we looked at in the previous chapter had something in common. They were both supernatural rebellions aimed at co-opting God\u2019s plan for humanity and the restoration of his rule. In this chapter review, we\u2019ll look at another rebellion, one that originated with people.
This rebellion produced a predicament that we\u2019re all still part of, and that predicament involves supernatural beings. The titanic struggle for God\u2019s restoration strategy took a turn for the worse that only the return of Jesus will finally resolve.
The Tower of BabelThe story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1\u20139) is simultaneously one of the best-known and least-understood accounts in the Bible. Children learn about it in Sunday school as the time when God confused earth\u2019s human languages.
After the flood, God repeated the command he\u2019d given to Adam and Eve to cover the earth. He was trying to kick-start the spread of his ruling influence through humanity. Once again, it didn\u2019t work. People refused. Rebellion in their hearts, they had a better idea, or so they thought. They decided to build a tower to avoid being scattered (Genesis 11:4). The logic seems odd. Sure, an amazing tower would make them famous (Genesis 11:4), but how would that prevent scattering across the earth?
The answer lies in the tower. Bible scholars and archaeologists know ancient Babylon, and cities around it built towers called ziggurats. The purpose of the ziggurats was to provide places where people could meet the gods. They were part of temple zones. Rather than make the world like Eden\u2014to spread the knowledge and rule of God everywhere\u2014the people wanted to bring God down at one spot.
That wasn\u2019t God\u2019s plan, and he was displeased. Hence his statement\u2014again to his council members in https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11%3A7andversion=NLT (Genesis 11:7) \u201cCome, let us go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won\u2019t be able to understand each other.\u201d God did so, and humanity was separated and scattered. The incident explains how the nations listed a chapter earlier in Genesis 10 came to be. That\u2019s the story most Christians know. Now for the one they don\u2019t.

The Gods and Their NationsGenesis 11 isn\u2019t the only passage that describes what happened at the Tower of Babel. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A8-9andversion=ESV (Deuteronomy 32:8\u20139) describes it this way:
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A8-9andversion=ESV#fen-ESV-5767a (a)] of...