It is not an accident. It is part of the deliberate counsel and policy of God.
Of
course it is true that unity is best … IF …
we
are united in good things.
“being
eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Eph
4:3 WEB
But, not all men are intent on the seeking the things of the Spirit. In fact, not many men are. Jacob, by this same Spirit of God, gave both blessings and prophetic warnings to his sons, but not all of it was in any way pretty.
“5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Weapons of violence are their swords.
6 My soul, don’t come into their council;
My glory, don’t be united to their assembly;
For in their anger they killed a man,
In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.
Gen 49:5-6 WEB
Evil deeds, wrong directions, are not good things in which to be united.
At One Time All of Mankind was United.
All of our races of men came from one man, Noah, and his three sons and their three wives, seven in all. This was before extensive damage to our DNA which then limited our life spans. It says of those days,
“The
whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
Gen 11:1 WEB
“As men “travelled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.” Gen 11:2 WEB. Shinar was in the area latter called Babylon, and is now called Iraq. It was in those days a very fertile plain, nothing like what it is today,
The command of God was to be fruitful, replenish,
literally to fill, the earth, Gen 9:1
But men said, let’s make some really good bricks, and,
“Come,
let’s build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky,
and let’s make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad
on the surface of the whole earth.”
Gen 11:4 WEB
They did not want to scatter out and fill the earth as God commanded.
Then Yahweh came down to see
what
they were doing.
“… “Behold,
they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what
they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which
they intend to do.””
Gen 11:6 WEB
So God agrees this would give them great power, but does NOT AGREE that it is good for sinful men to have this power. So He confused men’s language, so that they could not understand each other.
“So
Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the
earth. They stopped building the city.”
Gen 11:8 WEB
God deliberately DIVIDED MEN,
so that Authority
among men would also be divided. This way
no
single authority could tyrannize
all mankind.
God laid foundations for restraining governments that get out of control. These ARE barriers to big government, and world-wide tyrannies.
Only at the end, when mankind overall deserves to be handed over to Satan, will these things change … for a little while.
WEB
is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the
original ASV American Standard Version 1901