Summary: The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the story beneath all the stories in the Bible. It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story. And in the story Jesus is at the center of it all.

Disclaimer: I don't own "The Jesus Storybook Bible" or anything, all the credit goes to Sally Lloyd-Jones. This is to help others understand the Bible easily for free.

A/N: Here is a new chapter to those who have been waiting, I've said I was going to write soon, when I say that it means that I will write right away like the next day or usually no more than a week, that's why I suggest following up on my story so you can be notified right away. Also I suggest if you review more, not saying that you should (though it is a nice though) but more reviews tend to draw in more readers as I have known some who just look at the large numbers of review a story gets, the same goes for me, not that I'm judging, rarely a story that is actually great doesn't have that many reviews as it should have but a higher review usually has stories that keeps me hook into the story for a good amount of weeks or more, it tells me that the story might be interesting because many readers seemed to have looked it up. But anyways again you don't have to. Now here's a new chapter…

Chapter 5

A Giant Staircase to Heaven

The tower of Babel, from Genesis

NOAH AND HIS FAMILY lived in the land and his children had children, and those children had children, and then those children had even more - well, you get the picture - until there were lots of people on earth once more.

NOW, BACK then, everyone spoke exactly the same language so you didn't need to learn Swahili or Japanese or anything because you could say, "Hello!" to anyone and they knew what you meant.

One day, everyone was talking and they came up with an idea: "Let's build ourselves a beautiful city to live in! It can be our home. And we'll be safe forever and ever." Then they had another idea: "And ever let's build a really tall tower to reach up to heaven!"

"Yes!" they said. "We'll say, 'Look at us up here!' And everyone will look up at us. And we'll look down on them. And then we'll know we're something. We'll be like God. We'll be famous and happy and safe and everything will be all right."

So they got to work. Brick by brick, the tower grew, higher and higher, until it soared above the city, touching the sky. They built stairs in the tower to climb to the top. It was like a giant staircase to heaven.

"Look!" they cheered.

"We're the once! See what we can do with our very own hands!" They were quite pleased with themselves.

But God wasn't pleased with them. God could see what they were doing. They were trying to live without him, but God knew that wouldn't make them happy or safe or anything. If they kept object on like this, they would only destroy themselves, and God loved them too much to let that happen. So he stopped their plans.

One morning, they went to work as usual but everything was different - their words were all new and funny. You see, God had given each person a completely different language! Suddenly, both one understood what anyone else was saying. Someone would say, "God do you do?" and the other person thought they said, "How ugly are you!" It wasn't funny. You could be saying something nice like, "Such a lovely morning!" and the get a punch in the nose because they thought they thought you said, "Hush up, you're boring!" (You couldn't even say, "Pardon?" to check if you'd heard right because no one understood that word either.)

It wasn't easy to work together after that, as you can only imagine. People were always quarrelling and fighting and getting in dreadful muddle and becoming grumpier and grumpier, until at last they were all to cross to keep building, and just had to stop.

After that, people scattered all over the world (which is how we ended up with so many different languages to this day).

You see, God knew, however high they reached, however hard they tried, people could never get back to heaven by themselves. People didn't need a staircase; they needed a Rescuer.

Because nobody could get to heaven, the way back to heaven wasn't a staircase; it was a Person. People could never reach up to Heaven, so Heaven would have to come down to them.

And, one day, it would.

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