What happened in the lives of Adams and Eves descendants?
“. . . In the image of God He made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it” (Genesis 9:6-7) In reminding Noah that God created human beings in His image, He reemphasized the key to right relationships. God wants people’s behavior to reflect His character and way of life. That is the only way a civilization can develop peacefully and productively. It is the only way to avoid the evils that caused the flood. The lessons of the violence and destruction before and during the flood were soon lost on the descendants of Noah. Genesis 11 describes humanity, after the flood, again openly opposing God’s rule. At a place that came to be called Babel, or Babylon, men built a tower that stood as a lasting symbol of their renewed determination to build their civilization apart from God’s instruction. The very name Babylon (Babel in Hebrew) became a biblical epithet for the kingdom of Satan. In the last book of the Bible we find that Satan
