people gathered from every kindred and tribe and language of the earth. This was His design in the beginning, when He made man and woman in His image and charged them to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” with His glory (Gen. 1:28 NAS; cf. Ps. 86:9; Is. 43:21; Rev. 4:11). Though the sin of our forebears necessarily brought havoc and death upon the human race, it did not change the divine will. Even when the wickedness of mankind so invokes the wrath of God that He cannot bear their folly