There is no bigger story than the Bible and the God of the universe. I’m so grateful to learn with every Weekly encouragement! episode. Thank you for this opportunity to learn, and to learn alongside of you. It’s a blessing to me, and I hope this is true for you. I believe today’s message is a blessing, one that was formed thousands of years ago in an unlikely place, a place many of us have questions about in light of today’s political climate. I’ve had “wonderings” about the Tower of Babel. What happened from there? What were the global effects? And maybe where did people scatter to? The Shang dynasty coincided with the Tower of Babel, I learned in today’s Weekly encouragement! Is it possible that people scattered from this biblical history account to what we now know as China? Having one of the oldest written languages, recorded stories in China predate Jesus by 3,000 years! This Weekly encouragement! message was fascinating! Children in China practice making Chinese characters (part of their language), and these Chinese language characters very specifically tell the story of creation and of Jesus. What incredible evidence in a place we haven’t recognized biblical association with. Until now! Interestingly, Confucius built his philosophy on this. I learned today that the ancient reference to Sinim in the Bible is possibly a direct reference to China. Sin is pronounced Chin, the Chinese ruler where China got its name. The story of Noah’s arc is in ancient Chinese characters, and foundational characters in the Chinese language have children drawing characters that represent boats. And a lamb, essential in Jewish scriptures and also in New Testament references to Jesus as the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. I always hope the Weekly encouragement! helps build your faith as it does mine! In fact, this message opened my eyes to the blessing of the Tower of Babel, something that has been at least a little baffling to me. If possibly the scattering of people from Babel produced an effect in China, biblically (maybe, or maybe likely) Sinim. This produces a whole new encompassing of the Bible and the infinite realm of the Bible. God of the universe. A language that had the scripture before the Bible, inscribing the stories of the Bible and of the resurrection thousands of years before. This gives new meaning to me to the scriptures I’ve known and how powerful the scripture is, transcendent in nature and in definition. I hope you will be encouraged by this message. And please know I’m praying for you because I love you.