This post is taken from an article posted under The Genesis Epic.
Job lived in an environment of SIN, surrounded by REBELLIOUS people with diverse backgrounds, agendas, ethics, and values. Uz, the land of counsel, influenced the inhabitants to seek counsel, but advice and guidance without God’s wisdom and understanding of the holiness of God is worthless counsel. Uz and its people resemble every nation in our age and the people of our age. Any land that is ruled by mingled people sets the stage for a mingled, mixed and confused government. The Spirit of God NEVER errs when He selects a specific word. The Spirit of God tied Uz and its people with the act of mingling. To mingle and to mix results in confusion because values and historical identities become diluted. The old world was destroyed because children of FAITH mingled with the children of Cain (the giants in the land). There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
Later in the new world, Israel mingled among heathens. But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. (Psalm 106:35) And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. (Psalm 106:36) Mingling continued into the New Testament because man refused to accept the disastrous results of mingling. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2nd Corinthians 6:14) Mingling takes in much more than sexual mingling. Allow error to come into the realm of truth, and error will attempt to murder truth. The unifying strength of the Christian is to be of ONE MIND in Christ Jesus. ONE MIND, ONE HOPE, ONE FAITH is unity unconquerable.
That ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:6)
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. (Philippians 2:2)
Job was surrounded by a land of counselors without the knowledge of God. We, the FAITHFUL and FOLLOWERS of Christ, are also surrounded by a land of counselors without the knowledge of God. Thousands of different voices clamor for predominance OVER those of ONE MIND. Mingling is a passive word for domination and division because ALL that first begins with mingling culminates in political totalitarianism, and religious confusion. Mingling is the first strike from the scheme of ‘divide and conquer,’ under the banner of diversity.
Diversity is NOT a unifying element. Diversity cannot unite. It divides. Diversity in our contemporary age supports confusion. How can over hundreds of diverse languages, and over hundreds of diverse ideologies, and over hundreds of diverse religions, and over hundreds of diverse moral values form a united nation? It cannot. Diversity and unity are impossible because they are in opposition against each other. I write from the view that moral and immoral diversity is in conflict with Biblical principles of morality and truth. This is our current spiritual battle hiding in the folds of the flag labeled equality. Moral diversity (which is in reality immoral diversity) promotes diabolical hatred and malice towards those with contrasting moral principles and values based on Biblical truth. A nation cannot sustain itself as a united entity when it deliberately strengthens the divisiveness of diversity into every educational, social, political and religious format. There are two things to consider, a nation united by immorality or a nation united on Biblical truths and principals. After creation God deliberately set His platform for all to comprehend where true strength comes from. It is DIVISION. The Biblical principle of UNITY is unity through SEPARATION. United with God through Christ is separation from the world and from the things of the world. Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1st John 2:15) GOD DIVIDED And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:4) CLICK HERE to read about God’s principle of division. Darkness and Light cannot mix as error and truth cannot become one together. A nation cannot be united by division, as the Church cannot be united without division. Do you understand the difference? Conflicted minds and hearts have been captured by confusion.
That is why Babylon is CONFUSION, and that is why the Age of Babylon comes to an end. AND that is why the nations of our world are citizens of Babylon. The following paragraph is taken from a previous article. (Remember that Babylon means CONFUSION.)
Babel, Shinar and Babylon all mean confusion. Although Babel, Babylon, and Shinar all have the same meaning, within each name there is a root of a specific form of confusion. There is the confusion of languages (Babel), there is the confusion of the mixing and intermingling of peoples (Shinar), and there is mental, physical and spiritual confusion (Babylon) at its completeness of madness. Each name typifies a distinctive area of confusion: verbal/communication, physical, emotional and spiritual. Babylon symbolizes mankind overcome by his own will. A will centered around sin; sin so intractably vile that man can no longer reason outside the parameters of his own fantasies; unfettered sin is madness unrestrained. CLICK HERE to read the full article about Babel, Sinar and Babylon.
CLICK HERE for more about mingling and the results of mingling.
To read the complete article about mingling and diversity CLICK HERE.