Why did Nimrod gather the people at the Tower of Babel?
Nimrod gathered the people to establish a religion, not merely to build a clay-and-pitch tower. His purpose was a religious system that would usurp the throne room of heaven, marking man's first organized rejection of God's authority and the beginning of pagan idolatry.
Les explains that Nimrod was not just a hunter of animals but a hunter of men and the first world's totalitarian despot. He brought the people to the Tower of Babel, not with merely the idea of building a structure of clay and pitch, but to set up a religion. Their reaching to heaven meant a religious system that would usurp the very throne room of heaven, and there the beginning of all pagan idolatry lies. Before the Flood there was no idolatry, no temple worship, and no organized worship. After the Flood, eight people had a knowledge of God, yet within about 200 years, a generation or two, the expanding population gathered around the Tower of Babel and was ready to embrace pagan worship. Les also connects the New Age movement to bringing the world back under that same idolatry that began at Babel.