In April,2003-President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in for a second term as president.
4-18 October,2003 All African Games ( COJA) were held in Abuja, more than 10,000 foreigners visited the country.
July 29, 2003- Nigeria Satellite,Nig SAT- 1 was launched into space at the Military Base of Russia at 7:12 am Nigerian Time.
Many years passed. Noah's sons had lots of children. And their children grew up and had more children. Soon there were many people on the earth.
One of these persons was a great grandson of Noah named Nim'rod. He was a bad man who hunted and killed both animals and men.
Nim'rod also made himself a king to rule over other people.
God did not like Nim'rod.
All the people at that time spoke one language. Nim'rod wanted to keep them all together so that he could rule them. So do you know what he did? He told the people to build a city and a big tower in it. This is the picture.
God was not pleased with this building. God wanted the people to move out and live all over the earth. But the people said:_ Come on! Let's build a city and a tower so high that it's top will reach into the heaven's. Then we will be famous!' The people wanted honor for themselves, not for God.
So God made the people stop building the tower.Do you know how he did it? By suddenly causing people to speak different languages, instead of just one. No longer did the builders understand one another.
This is why their city came to be called Ba' bel, or Babylon, meaning " Confusion."
The people now began to move away from Babylon.Groups of persons who spoke the same language went to live together in other parts of the earth.
Genesis 10:1,8-10
Outside the ark,the people went about their life the same as before.The still did not believe that the flood would come. They must have laughed more than ever. But they soon stopped laughing.
All of a sudden water began to fall. It poured down from the sky as when you pour water from a bucket. Noah had been right! But it was too late now for anybody else to get into the ark. The door had been closed tight by God.
Soon all the low ground was covered. The water became like big river. It pushed over trees and rolled around big stones, and made a lot of noise. The people were afraid. The climbed up to higher ground. Oh, how they wished they had listened to Noah and gotten into the ark when the door was still open for them! But now it was too late.
The water kept getting higher and higher. For 40 days and 40 nights the water poured out of the sky. It rose up the sides of the mountains, and soon even the tallest mountains were covered.
So just as God had said,all the people and animals outside the ark got died. But everyone inside was safe.
Noah and his sons had done a good job building the ark. The water lifted it up, and it floated right on top of the water. Then one day, after the rain stopped falling,the sun began to shine.
What a sight it was! There was just one big ocean everywhere. And the only thing that could be seen was the ark floating on top. The Giants were gone now. No more would they be around to hurt people. All of them had died, along with their mothers and the rest of the bad people.
If someone were walking toward you and he was as tall as the ceiling in your house, what would you think?
That person would be a giant! At one time there really were Giants on the earth. The Bible shows that their fathers were angels from heaven.
Remember, the bad angel Satan was busy making trouble. He was even trying to get God's angels to be bad. In time, some of these angels started to listen to Satan. They stopped the work that God had for them to do in heaven. And they came down to earth and made human bodies for themselves. Do you know why?
The Bible says that it is because these sons of God saw the pretty women on earth and wanted to live with them. So they came to earth and married these women. The Bible says that this was wrong, because God made the angels to live in heaven.
When the angels and their wives had babies, these babies were different. At first they may not have looked very different. But they kept growing bigger and bigger, and getting stronger and stronger, until they became Giants.
These Giants were bad. And because they were so big and strong,they would hurt people. They tried to force everyone to be bad like themselves.
E'NOCH had died, but there was one man on Earth now who was good. This man's name was Noah. He always did what God wanted him to do.
One day God told Noah that the time had come for him to destroy all bad people. But God was going to save Noah,his family and many of the animals. Let's see how God did this.
Genesis 6:1-8
Look at Cain and Abel now. The have both grown up. Cain has become a farmer.
He grows grains and fruits and vegetables.Abel has become a keeper of sheep. He likes to take care of little lambs. They grow up into big sheep, and so Abel soon has a whole flock of sheep to watch over.
One day Cain and Abel bring a gift to God. Cain brings some food he has grown. And Abel brings the very best sheep he has. God is pleased with Abel and his gift. But he is not pleased with Cain and his gift. Do you know why?
It is not just that Abel gift is better than Cain's. It is because Abel is a good man. He loves God and his brother. But Cain is bad; he does not love his brother.
So Good tells Cain that he should change his ways. But Cain does not listen. He is very angry because God liked Abel better.
So Cain says to Abel,'Let us go over the field.'There, when they are all alone,Cain hits his brother Abel. He hits him so hard that he kills him. Wasn't that a terrible thing for Cain to do?
Even though Abel died,God still remembers him. Abel was good, and God never forgets a person like that.
