The Tower of Babel

The story of the tower of Babel has been puzzling sometimes. This article may be timely since the world's tallest building - the Burj - will be officially opened in a few hours in Dubai. My initial question was why did God punish people for trying to achieve something and build a civilization. We are have been trying to build tallest buildings for over a hundred years. 

In the verse 6 below, it seems that God is worried that if they build the Tower of Babel, then humans can accomplish anything. For those who know God and have read the entire Bible, it is clear that in no way God is worried.

Babel is a play on the word "babal" meaning "to confuse". Babel is also another meaning for Babylon. Babylon represents society and humans living against God, in pursuit of materialism and pleasure. And Bablyon throughout the Bible, especially in End Times study, is also connected not only to materialistic secular world but to a world order of God's Enemy. 

More on biblical Babylon can be found here

Genesis 11:1-9

 1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.