What Do You See in these Two Images?
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| Tower of Babel |
Take a close look at these two images and compare them?
Both are in vertical lines--The Pentecost "flames" are really "tower like" themselves the way it is laid out.
The similar shape teaches the message of Pentecost that it reverses the Tower of Babel story. The Tower of Babel came from human pride and arrogance to reach into the heavens and grasp divine power. As a result, the peoples of the earth are said to have had languages mixed to promote the confusion and division to prevent it. But Pentecost reverses it! The power of the Spirit unifies in Christ as that each one hears the other and understands.
The Day of Pentecost, Acts 2
Both are in vertical lines--The Pentecost "flames" are really "tower like" themselves the way it is laid out.
The similar shape teaches the message of Pentecost that it reverses the Tower of Babel story. The Tower of Babel came from human pride and arrogance to reach into the heavens and grasp divine power. As a result, the peoples of the earth are said to have had languages mixed to promote the confusion and division to prevent it. But Pentecost reverses it! The power of the Spirit unifies in Christ as that each one hears the other and understands.
And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
8And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?
The Day of Pentecost, Acts 2
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