This time, the leader was Nimrod, a man whose name means “the rebel.” He seized the sword of the magistrate, which God had only recently entrusted to Noah, and turned it into the sword of the conqueror. Nimrod’s vision was global. He envisioned himself heading a one-world sovereignty symbolized by a city; a one-world sanctuary reaching to the sky; and a one-world society spurred on by a common language. This new united nations organization would be driven by a revolutionary new religious concept—