The Tower of Babel - the Beginning of this System.


The story of Babylon is monumental and of great historical significance,
but it, considering the circumstances of the world today, has been demoted
to probably one of the most obscure and insignificant events in our history.
This very important story is rarely mentioned in modern history texts,
almost intentionally forgotten.

When we hear the name Nimrod we tend to think of a clumsy person of
little intelligence. In actuality, the Nimrod of old was a mighty leader, the
founder of the first great empire of post-flood civilization - the kingdom of
Babylon.

The flood of Noah devastated the world Noah once lived in. After the
waters receded, and Noah and his family left the Ark, God commanded the
survivors to "spread out, and fill the earth" (Genesis 9:7). Unfortunately,
the people of the day chose not to obey God. Nearly two hundred years
beyond the flood, the descendants of Noah began to multiply, in great
numbers. Noah's close relatives became the patriarchs of a number of
families who had coalesced into nations. This would set the stage for the
Babylonian Empire and Babylonian Religion.

Noah's grandson Cush was one of these early patriarchs, one who became
the leader of many. He did not to follow God's commandment to "fill the
earth", but did quite the opposite - he brought the people together. He
began to unite everyone into one nation, thus beginning the unification
movement centered at the Tower of Babel.

The Bible gives up little information about Cush, Nimrod, and the Tower
itself. We read in Genesis 10:8 that Cush was the father of Nimrod -
period. Even though the Bible does not give us much more, we learn from
other ancient texts that Cush and Nimrod both became legendary
throughout the secular/Gentile world.

The Bible does tell us about the beginning of the apostasy at the Tower of
Babel - a major rebellion against God and His commandments:


"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech... they
found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.... And they
said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the  
face of the whole earth..."        

                              Genesis 11:1-4 KJV












As we will discover in Giants of Scripture, the people of the post-flood era
began to pursue what their ancestors wanted before the flood - ways to
"make a name for themselves". Once again, they intentionally disobeyed
the ways God wanted them to live. Why? Why would they become so
rebellious? One reason was that many people still recalled the stories of
how their ancestors rebelled against God before the flood, and thought
highly of their efforts. Man of these people also seemed to be concerned
only about themselves.

Their leaders wanted to make sure that if any God would ever became
angry at them again He could not sweep them away by a flood! This was a
major reason for construction of the tower - pure rebellion. According to a
variety of ancient texts, the people of Babel, under Cush's authority,
wanted to build a structure that was so high they wouldn't have to worry
about any judgment God had in store for them. They also thought they
could be able to climb up to heaven, march all the way to God, and
destroy Him with their swords. Their power, at least in their own minds,
was in their unity. Nothing was going to stop their resolve for their own
perceptions of "freedom". It's so hard to understand how these people
could deviate from God's righteous ways so fast, but the more we
understand how they lived the more it begins to make sense.

As always, God had a perfect plan to thwart their rebellious ways:


"And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one,
and they all have one language; and this they began to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they had imagined to do. Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they might not
understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of the whole earth: and they left off to build the
city. Therefore the name of it was called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."

                            Genesis 11:5-9 KJV


This is about as far as the Bible goes into it, but what happened at this time
set the stage for the establishment of one of the most influential
movements of power and authority in history.

After God confused the languages of these people at the Tower, nobody
could understand anyone around them. The construction came to a
grinding halt. Cush, their former leader, was forced to give up this
tower-building project, and hung his head in disgrace. The groups of
families/nations once united in this project now began to scatter abroad -
just the way God originally intended. Although separated, the people still
retained their rebellious ways. As some established states form into
empires, the people brought the influences and knowledge they acquired
from Cush into their own cultures!

Although most people gave up on the Tower of Babel project, there were
those who continued on, in another endeavor: the completion of a city.
The city "they left off to build" (in Genesis 5:8) was no longer associated
with Babel, it now became Babylon.

The word Babylon simply means confusion: the confusion that resulted
from God changing the languages of people building it. Even though Cush
was disgraced he was looked upon with high esteem because of his
pompous arrogance.

Cush's son Nimrod began to take over the reigns in Babylon after his
father's downfall. Nimrod would soon bring the dignity and respect he
thought his father was due. He also took the rebellion Cush instigated one
step further. The Bible only mentions him in a couple of verses:


"And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He
was a mighty hunter before the LORD... And the beginning of his
kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar."                      

                 Genesis 10:8-10 KJV (also Micah 5:1)


Nimrod was the first "Mighty One" of the post-flood world. Also known as
The Subduer of Leopards, he earned his fame through the conquering of
wild animals. He was very strong: a giant in name and deed. Eventually,
after conquering all the animals of the area, he turned his sights on people.
He eventually began the first empire of the post-flood world - the
Assyrian/Babylonian Empire. Nimrod brought the original grandeur of
the tower-building project into his own empire, and, ultimately, into a
religion of his same control. From this, the foundations of individual
control and manipulation were about to take hold over people, on a grand
scale.

Cush and Nimrod were famous for "channeling", or communicating with
spirits of the ancient world. These spirits were actuality the dead spirits of
their antediluvian ancestors - also known as demons. From them, these two
acquired a great deal of occult knowledge, as well as the ability to
accomplish great feats of construction, such as the Tower. Just as some
patriarchs did before the flood, Nimrod and Cush really "made a name for
themselves". In fact, their followers loved them so much they even began
to revere them as "gods".

In regards to the new nations formed after the fall of the Tower, the names
Cush and Nimrod became incorporated into the cultures and mythologies
of many of their succeeding empires. For example, Cush became known
Thoth, Hermes, and Mercury, Nimrod became known as Jupiter, Osiris,
and Mars. The Bible even makes reference to them as the gods Baal and
Merodach. In consequence, for Noah and his descendants the theology of
there being one God - one and only one God - was about to be challenged.
Again, God had a plan to upstart their established apostate beliefs.

We'll discover more about what happened in Origins of Babylon - Part 2.


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"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel..."
                       Genesis 10:10
The Origins of Mystery
Babylon - Part 1