Jared

Who was Jared? Was he the king, giving him civil authority over the people? Was the brother of Jared the court prophet and thus the request from Jared to his brother to cry unto the Lord? Why not Jared himself? Jared seems to figure prominently in the history of the people, but it is with the brother of Jared that the Lord communicates and gives direction to the people. Were Jared and his kinsman and friends a small nucleus of people awash in a wicked society and thus merited separation to a promised land? Why did they not go with Enoch and his people? What gave the wicked people the notion that they could build a tower high enough to get to heaven? That seems utterly absurd given what we know today about the earth's atmosphere and the cosmos. Yet they had enough confidence in their idea to actually make the attempt. And the Lord chose to intervene to confound their language and stop progress on their work. Why would the Lord intervene if there were no possible chance of their succeeding in the first place?
 What if when the city of Enoch was taken up into heaven, it wasn't totally out of sight? What if its ascension were more a process than an event? What if the wicked people could still see the city above the earth? Is that perhaps where they got the notion they could construct a tower--a work around system that would not require them to live a righteous life but to simply climb a tower and become inhabitants of a celestial city? That would mean in their minds they saw no need for an atonement or a Redeemer. They would have been anti-Christs.