It was supposed to reach to heaven. It collapses, because its human foundation is too weak for that long a journey. Then God comes down to Abraham with the real religion. That’s like an upside-down Tower of Babel. That’s the beginning of what the New Testament calls the New Jerusalem, the real Tower that comes down from God out of heaven. It works because its foundation is in heaven. God can build a bridge, or a tower, down to earth; but earth can’t build one to heaven. Libby: I don’t really see
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