Genesis 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people are one and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 118] Here they decided to build a city, and in it a tower of such stupendous height as should render it the wonder of the world. Thus, their city would become the metropolis of a universal empire. The magnificent tower, reaching to the heavens was intended to stand as a monument of the power and wisdom of its builders, perpetuating their fame to the latest generations.
[2] The overwhelming majority of created intelligences in heaven, with the freedom of choice would use it for good, and not for evil. Planet earth is the only one of the very many that has gone astray, because all of the other created worlds with their intelligences and the freedom to choose, have done right. Thus, when Jesus speaks of the “One lost sheep” He is referring to our planet in the most literal sense.
Matthew 18: 12 How think you? if a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, to seek that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that he finds it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
May The Lord add His blessing to the stud of His word. God bless!