It All Began at the Tower of Babel!



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
flood, when 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 after the flood, the descendants of Noah began to multiply,
in great numbers. Noah's close relatives became the patriarchs of many
families which had coalesced into nations, this setting the stage for the
Babylonian Empire and Babylonian Religion.

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

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

The Bible tells us about the beginning of the apostasy at Babel - the clear
rebellion against God and his commands of Genesis 7:9:


"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 learn in the Giants of Scripture section of this site, the people
of the post-flood era began to do what their ancestors had done before the
flood - make "a name for themselves". They began, once again, to disobey
God's commandments! Why? They remembered the stories of how their
ancestors rebelled against God's commandments before the flood, and
thought highly of them. They wanted to make sure that if God ever
became angry with their refusal to follow his ways, they could never be
swept away by a flood again. This was a major reason for the tower.

According to a variety of ancient texts, the people of Babel, under Cush's
command, wanted to build a structure so high that they could be able to
escape any flood that God would impose on them. They also thought they
could eventually reach up to heaven, march over to God, and destroy His
authority over them. There was power in their unity, and, nothing, at least
in their minds, was going to stop their resolve for "freedom". It seems hard
to believe that those people deviated so far from God's righteous ways so
soon after the Flood of Noah. As always, God had a perfect plan to thwart
their rebellion:


"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


Thats about all the Bible discusses it, but what happened at the Tower of
Babel set the stage for, probably, the most influential movement in our
world since the flood. After God confused the languages of the people,
they began to speak in many diverse languages, often not understanding
any of those around them. The construction of the tower came to a
grinding halt. Cush, the former great leader of these people, gave up his
tower-building project, and hung his head in disgrace.

The family-nations once united in this tower-building project were now
separated and scattered abroad - just the way God originally intended.
Though scattered, these people remained rebellious to God. As they settled
to form other countries and lands, they brought with them the knowledge
they had once acquired from Cush, thus establishing the influences of
Babel to their own cultures!

Most people also gave up on the idea of building the tower. Those who
remained in the area continued the job of finishing the city. The city "they
left off to build" (Genesis 5:8) was no longer called Babel, it was now
called Babylon.

The word Babylon literally means confusion. This confusion resulted from
God changing all of the languages. Even though Cush was disgraced, he
was still looked with high esteem because he was the first after the flood to
challenge God. Cush's son Nimrod, however, took over the reigns of
power after the downfall of Cush. He would soon bring back the dignity
and respect Cush once had over those around him. He would take this
rebellion another step further. The Bible mentions him in only 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 (also mentioned in Micah 5:1) KJV


Nimrod was the first "Mighty One" of the post-flood world. Also known as
"The Subduer of Leopards", he earned his fame primarily through the
conquering of animals. Eventually, he turned his sights on other people
around him. This hunter began the world's first empire - the
Assyrian/Babylonian Empire. He brought the original grandeur and
power of the original tower-building project into an empire, and,
ultimately, into a religion. From this, the foundations of pagan religion
developed.

Cush and Nimrod were involved in "channeling" - communicating with
ancient spirits of the dead. These spirits were the spirits of their pre-flood
ancestors. From them, they acquired the forbidden, occult knowledge and
power to do many things, such as the construction of the tower and
development of their society. Just as the pre-flood had done, Nimrod and
Cush "made a name for themselves". In fact, their followers thought so
highly of them they began to idolize them as "gods".

As new nations were formed and founded by descendants of those who
left Babylon, the names of Cush and Nimrod were incorporated into the
culture and mythology of these new nations. Cush became known Thoth,
Hermes, and Mercury, for example, Nimrod as Jupiter, Osiris, and Mars.
The Bible even makes reference to them, as Baal and Merodach. For
Noah and his descendants, the perception of God, as being the one and
only God, was about to change. We discover more in Origins of Babylon
- Part 2.


Copyright 2007, Brett T., All Rights Reserved
"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel..."
                Genesis 10:10
The Origins of Babylon -
Part 1
Dedicated to exposing the system of ancient Babylon, and its parallels today.