The Tower Of Babel

Has anyone ever thought of this? Chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis has the story of the Tower of Babel. Humans, speaking one language, get the idea that they can build a tower that "reaches to the heavens". This doesn't mean Heaven itself as "the heavens" is a common term for the sky.

The tower was to be made of baked bricks held together with tar for mortar. Some translations of the Bible have "oil" or "slime", instead of "tar". In biblical days, long before cars or machinery, the oil that seeped from the ground in places didn't have much usefulness and "oil" almost always meant olive oil.

This seems to not be a very good choice of construction materials as "tar" or "oil" wouldn't work very well as mortar for bricks. Furthermore, long before the development of structural steel for framework, bricks could not be used to build a very tall building as the bricks at the bottom would crumble under the weight of the bricks above.

Anyway, God decided that He didn't want humans to be able to build such a tower. He caused them to speak different languages so that they couldn't understand each other. This made sure that the world couldn't unite and, of all the great empires down through history, none has come close to ruling the entire world.

But this would have to be suspended in the Last Days of the Antichrist will, at least temporarily, gain control of the entire world. This doesn't mean that everyone has to understand each other's languages, but education and technology will be such that language differences will no longer be an insurmountable barrier.

If the barrier to a one-world system has been suspended for the Last Days then what about the barrier to the tower that would "reach to the heavens"? 

With modern construction materials, maybe the "bricks" in the story could refer to panes of glass. In biblical days, glass for windows was far in the future. The "tar" or "oil", as mortar, could refer to modern petroleum products, such as the laminate that joins panes of glass together to make them shatterproof. Even if both panes are shattered, it is nearly impossible for the shatter patterns of both to be identical so the panes hold each other together even if both are shattered.

The following image, from the Wikipedia article "Burj Khalifa" shows the tallest building in the world alongside ordinary tall buildings. The Burj Khalifa, in the United Arab Emirates, is nearly a km in height. The biblical reference to "oil" could be indirect, meaning that the tower will be built with oil wealth.

The fact that there are skyscrapers all over the world, and they look pretty much the same as each other, is an indication that this language prohibition is suspended for the Last Days.