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I’ve said many times – the Bible is not just a Holy Book – it is a Magic Book. Here’s a powerful example to demonstrate what I mean…
In this forgotten 24-minute excerpt from a classic 2010 Fox News broadcast, Rabbi Daniel Lapin walks Glenn Beck through the Tower of Babel account in Genesis 11, reframing it as an active blueprint for centralized control rather than a spent ancient fable. The biblical narrative becomes a warning: when society elevates Materialism over spiritual purpose, people are molded into identical units held together by dependency rather than by genuine relation. The answer, Lapin argues, is to remain a unique, sovereign stone – never a manufactured, interchangeable brick.
In other words, my friends and lovers and future lovers – Never Brixz, Roxz
Full Video Transcript
Rabbi Lappin, how are you, sir?
Good to see you.
The rabbi was, when was this, two, three months ago?
And you handed me a CD that you made, The Tower of Power.
Correct.
And you live in Seattle, and you came out, and you were on the set, and you said,
Glenn, I don’t even know why I’m giving this to you.
I just felt like I had to give this to you.
I started listening to it, and I told you this.
I couldn’t believe it because I was doing research on ancient Babylon.
Oh, my goodness.
and all of these things and and i look at this and it is the answer of many of the things that
i was looking for the tower of babel let’s start up here this on this chalkboard here i’ve written
the things that i remember from the story great king says let’s build a tower why is that a
problem who’s the king why the tower well i mean the the important thing is exactly what you said
a few moments ago and that is that we’re living now in a in a time where it’s literally the first
generation in history where people consider themselves educated and yet are biblically
illiterate right i mean there are pundits who historically illiterate in every possible way
but imagine people who are the heirs of western civilization not knowing the foundation of western
civilization people are on television all over the place probably don’t even know how many books in
in the five books of Moses so we’re talking about a remarkable fact which people have dismissed the
Bible as some obsolete collection of legends about long-forgotten nations even if it let’s just do
this let’s say I don’t know Michael Moore is watching and so let’s just say Michael’s out
there and he’s you know got Cheetos all over himself and he’s like it’s a legend let’s just
look at the legend itself. I don’t believe it’s a legend, but what is it teaching? A great king
says, let’s build a tower. What’s wrong with that? Well, a few things are wrong with it. First of all,
he didn’t actually say, according to chapter 11 in Genesis, and these nine verses really reveal
this dark secret that lies at the deepest recesses of the human soul, which is our susceptibility to
become slaves. It’s there. It’s ready. It can pounce at any moment and transform us into serfs.
And, sure enough, these nine verses in chapter 11 of Genesis, as you say, the King Nimrod doesn’t say, let’s build a tower.
He starts off with this extraordinary pronouncement, hey, everybody, let’s build bricks.
And then he says, let’s build a city and a tower.
Now, ordinarily, people would say, hey, let’s build a city and a tower.
Shining city on the hill, said John Winthrop.
And people would say, how are you going to do it?
Well, we’ll make bricks.
No.
Here, the key thing was, let’s make bricks.
and what’s more he’s not identified necessarily or early as a king he’s first of all identified
as a hunter back in chapter 10 verses 8 through 10 now here’s the key thing about that glenn
everybody was hunting right today it’s just the good guys hunt but back then everybody hunted
that’s how you ate why on earth would this one man nimrod be identified as a hunter because he
hunted not animals he hunted people not to kill him he hunted people to seduce them into becoming
his subjects and to allow him to become their master.
Okay. So he said, Nimrod, a great hunter of man, he says, let’s build bricks, and then
let’s build a city. Why did he say, let’s build bricks first? What do the bricks represent?
Okay. Bricks are really important things here. And later on in the five books of Moses, ancient
Jewish wisdom highlights the fact that an altar, an altar to God must not be built of
bricks, right? It has to be built with stone. Why? Because this tension between bricks and stones
is absolutely crucial. Bricks and stones are a biblical metaphor for the way people should be
stones and the way we are easily pulled to becoming bricks. I live in Connecticut. Stone
walls are so beautiful because everything is different and it takes a real artist to be able
to put them all together. So you’re saying that the stones are representative people,
right? Two differences between bricks and stones. Number one, every brick is the same as every
other brick. That’s the whole point. They’re totally interchangeable. If you want to turn
people into bricks, you are able to turn them into interchangeable socioeconomic cogs that can
just be plugged around society. The second thing about bricks is they’re made by man. Stones are
each and utterly unique so when we have as a tradition in western civilization that man is
created in the image of god what it really means is that just as god is unique so is every single
human being unique just like a stone don’t allow other people to turn you into bricks retain the
personality of the purpose for which you were created it’s the difference between yes i can
and yes we can yes exactly right okay so um so nimrod is a guy and and um he says uh we want to
I’m going to build I’m going to build bricks. Was it was it a real religious society?
Because this is right after the Great Flood. Everybody’s wiped off and everybody’s scattered their own way.
They all have their own language. Right. Many different languages. And they’re all and they’re all worshiping God.
Yes. And Nimrod comes. And is there something about, you know, he had a he had a new idea.
right? Tell me about the new idea. The new idea is, and is presented as the Babel blueprint. This
is not a long forgotten story. This is actually something which is as relevant today as it will
be tomorrow, as it was when Robespierre was conducting the French Revolution. The principle
is always the same. The two competing ways of organizing human society, one is the Abraham
vision of individual independence, individual accountability, God-centric, versus the idea
of centralized control.
And it can be really, I mean, even our founders, both Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, were
misled by Robespierre.
They thought the French Revolution was good.
It’s a very subtle difference if you don’t know what you’re looking for, right?
Very important reference, exactly.
Thomas pain when ended up in prison in right so Abraham gives the vision of individual
Independence which always has to include economic independence
That’s absolutely crucial and sure enough Abraham first man in the Bible described as a wealthy man a blessing a good thing
Not a curse. Okay, good thing. All right, so when we come back
The bricks and the mortar and when America when you find out
What the mortar means?
In Hebrew, right? Yes. Yeah, what the border what that translation mortar is not mortar bricks are not bricks in this story
When you see it and you’ll begin to see the parallels of what is happening today
Remember, this is a story to remind us what not to do and then God gets mad and punishes them
No, no, he doesn’t. I
Think I’ve turned into the church lady today
I want to talk to you a little bit about the Tower of Babel
Babel. Why? When you hear the whole story of the Tower of Babel you will see the
pattern that is being repeated today and it will end at the same way unless we
wake up. Rabbi Daniel Lappin is here, a friend of mine, president of the American
Alliance for Jews and Christians, an extraordinarily brave man and a man who
is part of the Black Robe Regiment. It is good to have you here. Wonderful to be
with you Glenn, thank you. Okay, I want to talk to you, I want to pick it up
at we have the Tower of Babel yes a hunter the King Nimrod says let’s build
bricks and then we’ll build a tower but the bricks and the bricks represent
people he’s taking people and making them all uniform and exactly the same
right but in that part he says bricks will use bricks and mortar right what is
the mortar bricks and mortar what why is the mortar part and yeah well this Bible
blueprint is a depiction for all time of how the world really works. And one of the way it
really works is that in every epoch, there is always going to be somebody who tries to seize
power. And what these nine verses in chapter 11 tell us is, here are the things you have to watch
out for. Here are the things that a potential tyrant is going to do in order to seduce you.
Well, number one, he’s going to have a tower.
Now, a tower means reaching for the skies, appealing to everything that is great in human nature.
Now, look, any leader, whether you’re taking care of your family, whether you’re running a business, whether you’re a military leader,
you know, military recruiters don’t say, hey, come join us.
The food is horrible. You’re likely to get killed and you’re going to be in horribly hot.
So they don’t do that. Step forward and play a role to defend your country.
Be all you could be. You appeal to the highest in human nature.
That’s what tyrants learn to do as well.
Here’s what he did, though. He erased religion.
He said God’s not important, right?
We’re making war on heaven.
Right. We’re making a war on heaven, really.
And we’re building a tower to reach heaven.
And we don’t need gods. We don’t need stones.
We don’t need anything that God created because you are great.
People are great. All of this is going to be built with bricks.
And we’re going to make you all interchangeable.
and that’s why tyrants will do exactly that.
And the mortar that holds those bricks together.
Yes. Now, in Hebrew, the word mortar is very related,
the same word, really, as the word materialism.
And you can actually even hear the similarity
transfer into the English language.
Mortar, M-T-R, are the key consonants.
Material, matter, same word, essentially.
And it’s very important because the lesson
from ancient Jewish wisdom here
is that you can bond people and unify people
with a sense of common spiritual purpose.
But if you’re going to eliminate the spiritual,
if you’re going to take God entirely out of the picture,
then you can unify people through materialism.
Get people in debt.
Use your credit cards, folks.
Buy stuff. Acquire stuff.
And then you can rent storage facilities
to keep all the stuff you bought that you don’t need.
But that way, we’ll all be in this together,
and we can all talk about the great commercials
we saw during the football game,
And we’re all in this great materialistic splurge because it’ll unite people.
America, I want you to think about this.
What he’s saying here is the king made everybody into bricks, so they’re all exactly the same.
Everyone’s equal. Everyone’s equal.
And then the mortar that holds it together is the stuff, the material, not their common experiences of spiritualness or even history.
think about this. What holds us together as a nation? Two years ago, did you know a lot of our
own history? How many Americans right now can’t tell you the signers, can’t tell you anything
about the American Revolution, can’t tell you about Frederick Douglass, can’t tell you anything
about our history? But we all know Nike. We all know the Mercedes-Benz logo. We all know everything
about materialism. If you take, think about what we’re headed for, if you take our materialism,
our stuff, our wealth, our TVs, our phones, if you take that away, what holds our bricks together?
Exactly right. And what any tyrant knows is that you cannot enslave a people that believe
in the boss. You can’t. And so, therefore, any tyranny will always begin to develop a hostility
to traditional biblical faith, a hostility to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, a hostility
to a biblical commitment of any kind at all.
You will always find that, whether it’s Cuba
or the Soviet Union or anywhere else,
secularism becomes the religion of the day.
In fact, I gave it a name, secular fundamentalism,
I think is the religion of the day.
Okay, so I’m gonna take a break
because I guess where we go now is,
God gets mad and punishes them,
but actually this is a happy ending.
It’s a wonderful ending.
Yeah, because it’s one filled with hope for us, I think.
right because it’s not god doesn’t get mad and he doesn’t punish them um and then we’re gonna
then we’re gonna end where we began with the actual picture of the tower of babel below your
mind coming up this is the eu parliamentary building i don’t know if you’ve ever seen it
pretty striking it’s uh pretty dramatic the way it looks it’s obviously an unfinished building
it is the symbol of one united europe one language one europe this is what george soros
calls it the european union was built by a process of piecemeal social engineering
as advocated by karl popper indeed is probably the most successful feat of social engineering
in history the whole world is being pushed into a into a global model of government and george
soros we’ve told you we’ve shown you the strings the strings that he’s pulling are amazing is it a
coincidence the eu and really i mean that’s and that’s where we’re going and he’s a big fan really
global government that’s everybody’s answer it seems today our founders would say smaller
government everyone who has power now is saying bigger this may seem like a new story to you but
a new world order is not the very first time that this was tried let me bring in rabbi daniel lappen
he’s the president of the american alliance for jews and christians rabbi the very first time
socialism or communism or a new world order was tried was the tower of babel tower bible yeah okay
so if let’s just pick the story up if you missed the story if you missed the first half of the show
DVR the show, man.
What are you thinking?
The idea was this hunter of men started to erase God.
He became king.
He said, let’s make people all like bricks, all the same, not like stone.
The mortar that will hold those bricks together is materialism.
Yes.
Okay?
And we’ll have this utopia.
We’ll build a tower that will reach the heavens.
Yes, you will be able to fulfill your highest aspirations in that fashion.
We are all bricks.
And I urge people to read the story and to listen to us, not as if we’re describing some
long-forgotten historic event, but we’re describing what’s really happening today and will happen
in our grandchildren’s generation somewhere in the world again.
It’ll happen over and over again.
Okay.
So now tell me the happy ending, because I’ve always read the story, and God gets angry,
and He comes down, and He scatters the people.
Okay, fine.
Now, to just put it into context, the surest indicator that this is going on is when your leaders try to turn you from stones into bricks.
And there are lots of different ways that’s done, depending on the epoch in history.
Right now, for instance, you might find that people want to get you out of one of the most beautiful expressions of freedom and independence, the automobile.
You can buy it in whatever color you want, whatever make you want.
You can go wherever you like, when you like.
No, we want you all in public transport, and it’s always for the tower. It’s always for the higher purpose
We’re going to save the environment. We’re gonna have fewer cars
Surely you want to save the environment right right and then housing where the housing is in Cabrini green in Chicago or in Moscow?
Government housing always looks the same everybody in tiki-taki little boxes because we want everybody to be like bricks
And there will also be a war on states’ rights because we’re taking away individuals’ rights.
We’re even going to take away states’ rights.
It’s all going to go to the tower in the middle, and we see that happening as well.
So the blueprint of Babel is absolutely reliable, and God comes along, and as you correctly said earlier, doesn’t punish the people.
The name of God used in the Hebrew text is not the judgment God.
It’s the mercy God, and he’s saying, I’m on the side of people.
I’m not on the side of tyrannical government.
I’m on the side of the Abraham model, which happens to be the model subscribed to passionately and fervently by the founders of the United States.
So what he says, because we’re going to have to take a break here, what he basically says is, I’m going to make you back into stones.
That’s exactly right.
Not into bricks.
And that’s why he confuses their language, because they’re no longer working as one.
Yeah, he’s not crazy about the one world idea.
Right.
And he’s not punishing them because the people thought they were doing the right thing.
It’s almost like social justice.
people are getting involved in social justice which is a perversion in most
cases or many cases of that that Jesus idea or that grand idea of help one
another it’s push it like Jim Wallace has push it into the government into the
tower they think they’re doing good and that’s why God didn’t punish them he
blessed them by making them stones again right right okay now here come here
comes the big finish boys wait until you see i’m going to start back again um uh and where we began
the show in something that will boggle your mind back in a minute back with rabbi daniel lappen
now we have been talking about uh the tower of babel and hunter and he was a nimrod was a great
king but he was actually a hunter and the difference between bricks and stones these are
individuals this is everybody is exactly the same the mortar that held the bricks together was
materialism and they were building a tower a tower of babel all right i’m going to start where i
began tonight bring up the eu parliament building love this huh beautiful building isn’t it look at
that now let me go back to the tower of babel put the tower of babel back up here’s the tower
of babel here you see it’s unfinished and here’s unfinished a little doorway over here and pretty
pretty amazing put them side by side please coincidence well there’s no word in hebrew for
coincidence, Glenn, so I have to reject the coincidence theory. This is amazing. If you look
at the unfinished doorway here, the doorway here, the little doorways up here, the doorway here,
you have these, what would you call these? Vertical buttresses. Buttresses, which are
all right here. It’s unfinished, I mean, in the same angle. I mean, it’s unbelievable. And how
it steps down all the unfinished work in both in both pictures right and to the in the same
direction both from right to left strange so now you’re not saying rabbi you’re not saying
that they intentionally are building the tower of babel and i i think they are i really do i i i do
believe and was told that the design of the headquarters of the european parliament in
in Strasbourg, France, was the designers were asked to make it resemble the Tower of Babel.
They said, because we called and we tried to verify, and what they say is they’re just
reflecting like the Colosseum.
Yeah, that’s what we want to build in Europe, right, a place where Christians got fed to
lions.
That’s what we want to do, right.
So it doesn’t really make it any better, but it is remarkable, especially since, what was
the name of that report? Virginia, what was the name of that report? One tongue, one language?
Many Languages, One People.
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, their actual slogan is, Many Languages, One Family, which
goes again to the Nimrod story of languages.
They can’t help it, Glenn. Anybody who is following the Babel blueprint wants to eliminate
distinctions between individuals and between countries and bring it all
together under one tower government. Okay so now look here’s the thing America I
don’t know if that’s what they were I don’t know I mean that is wow I don’t
know if that’s what they were doing I don’t really care I just know the lesson
that you should learn here is that we’re we’re stones we’re not all made exactly
alike and materialism is the mortar that holds us together so now what are we
gonna do about it oh that’s right I told you that I was starting on solutions
and answers yes next this program is going to stop just warning people about
what’s coming and we are going to be a part of the solution tonight we take
another step in that direction I just told you the story of the Tower of
Babel and how Nimrod tried to make everybody into a brick and everybody’s
not a brick were stones made him into a brick and then materialism was the
mortar that kept everybody together we’ve got to we’ve got to stop worrying
about the stuff that we have and not be another brick in the wall play a role in
a stone foundation last night I told you to go home and talk to your spouse and
your families about downsizing your life I told you that there’s a study out that
shows the average person has about $25,000 of unused stuff in their house. I find that amazing.
Well, I made a decision to downsize my life by decluttering my house and selling the stuff that
my wife and I, we don’t use. We went around our house this weekend and we tagged all the stuff
and we’re going to start selling it now on a website called upillar.com. It’s coming up next
week. I’m going to have it posted next week. I’m donating all the proceeds of my stuff to a very
special cause this Christmas, and you’ll find more about that in just a few days. Find all the
details about what I’m doing at glenbeck.com. Now, I’m, to be totally upfront with you, I’m using
YouPillar because they happen to be a sponsor of my radio show, and I know the guy who started
YouPillar. I think the guy is a genius. You can use whatever you want. You can sell it on eBay
or Craigslist or whatever. These guys don’t charge anything for it. Now, you could have just a yard
sale. That is if the government is still allowing that in your area. And don’t forget, starting next
year in the health care bill for some unknown reason, if you sell anything worth more than
$600, you need to send out a 1099. So this would be your last chance before the end of the year to
do all the selling without any of the paperwork. Get the clutter out of your life. And then I ask
you to please use that money wisely. Invest it. Invest it in food storage. Have the extra on hand
because we need to be a shelter for others.
Over the next few days, I’m going to show you what’s happening to our food prices
and energy prices and our clothing prices.
I told you earlier the price of cotton is 95% increase this year, 95%.
Do you know what that means for the price of clothing?
Bloomberg had a story today, the gap Walmart clothing cost rise on terrifying cotton prices.
The director at a China market research group warns American consumers
better get used to rising prices on the shelves of Walmart and other retailers.
the world is about to change so we must please don’t incur any new debt focus on
being a shelter for others do these things and realize that you are a stone
and not a brick and that God is our master not man if we do these things
together together as strong individuals we will change the world
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