More Origins of Babylon

What happened to Nimrod's Babylon?

The religion formed by Cush and Nimrod was the beginning of polytheism,
the worship of many gods. The snake, the sun and fire were worshipped as
deities. Human sacrifice was openly practiced. Even though God wanted
the people to spread out and to only serve Him, Nimrod, through the
empire and religion of Babylon, began to unite the people into their own
"one-world government". This early Babylonian religion began to be
abhorred to the pious, God-following generations of Noah. One of them,
Noah's son Shem, decided to do something about it.

According to tradition, Shem gathered 72 of his co-conspirators, and made
his way up to the palace where Nimrod lived. After catching him in a
double-cross, Shem murdered him, and cut his body into little pieces! He
told his co-conspirators to each take a piece of Nimrod's body and
distribute it to a city under his rule. They did as they were told. All of this
gore had a purpose, however: this was Shem's all-out warning to Nimrod's
followers to stop what they were doing because it was an abomination, and
they were disobeying God!

Nimrod's followers were frightened because they worshipped him as a god
who would live forever. Now that he was clearly dead, the continuation of
his empire was in question. Cush, his father, was already shamed for his
actions at the tower. He was not able to, once again, unite the people under
the old system of Babylon alone. This feat would be accomplished by
another up-and-coming character in Babylon: a woman.

Little-known by her proper name, Semiramis was exalted to one of the
most famous women on the planet. She was Cush's wife at the time of the
tower, and the mother of Nimrod. After Cush was disgraced at the tower,
subtle Semiramis did not want to go down the same as her husband. She
did the unthinkable - she married her own son!

By marrying Nimrod, Semiramis would maintain her position of authority
in Babylon - as long as her husband remained in power. Once he died, she
was, once again, in danger of losing everything she had.

Semiramis was pregnant soon after this event; the father unknown. This
was a wonderful opportunity for her to further corrupt what would happen
almost two thousand years later. If we recall from Untold Adam and Eve,
there was a famous prophecy, given by God to Adam and Eve:

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy (the
serpent's) seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel."

Genesis 3:15 KJV

This prophecy was well known to the people of Noah's day. It simply
states that there would, one day, be a savior that would arise from the seed
of Eve. This savior would "bruise the head" of the serpent, and his seed.
Semiramis believed that if she could convince the world that her unborn
son would be the one who would have his 'heel bruised' she could still
retain her authority over Babylon. What if this unborn child could be 'the
promised one', the one destined to save the world from the serpent's
curse? Her unborn child would be called none other than Nimrod - reborn.

According to her, what was in her womb was, in fact, Nimrod
reincarnated. Semiramis claimed she "slept with no man", and became
pregnant. She claimed her child was fathered by none other than the spirit
of Nimrod himself. Semiramis began to portray the slaughter of Nimrod as
a good thing. Indeed, Nimrod's death was a blessing. He was now a
martyr. She was looked upon as the "great mother", the virgin involved in
the miraculous birth of a son of god. Sound familiar? Yes, this was the
greatest twist in the history of the world - the twist of Jesus Christ.

Now, this corruption of what God prophesied had robbed millions of what
would correctly be the true 'promised one' - Jesus as their savior. The
people now believed Nimrod was their savior, and that it was his death
that saved them all from the curse of the serpent.

Now, the image of "mother and child" became an idol worshipped not
only by Nimrod's followers, but by succeeding generations. Thus,
Semiramis was naturally deified - the "mother of the child". Nimrod
became the basis for paganism's "Horned God", and Semiramis, the basis
of the "Goddess". Semiramis once again stopped the attempt of Shem, and
his God, to halt the progress of their false religion. She explained away any
doubt and speculation that once existed in the minds of their believers.
Nimrod did not actually die, but was born again. People can also be born
again and again in this way: the beginnings of reincarnation.

In order for the old religion to survive, however, it had to change. No
longer could some of their open and graphic practices be done the same
way as before. Now, some of the more questionable aspects had to look
"good" or more wholesome. This was to make sure that no-one of God,
like Shem, could ever go to such a high level again, and devastate
Babylonian control. The religion and authority that began at Babylon once
again was under the control of those at the top. All that began in this city,
the knowledge, the authority, the beliefs and the culture, eventually passed
on into each empire that succeeded the previous. God was truly their
enemy. His way was not their way. The two belief systems would be at
odds with each other throughout their succeeding generations

This fear of further reprisal, however, prompted the system of Babylon to,
quite often, hide under a cloak of assumed names and positive ideology, all
in the name of their survival. What was once a great city and system of
rebellion now was an obscure system of power and authority, which split
into various forms of political, religious and cultural influences. All of these
different facets, according to the Bible, can, however, be collectively
lumped together under one ultimate, proper title: MYSTERY BABYLON.

The next step of this transformation is in Legacy of Nimrod. This article
gives details of how this Mystery system was adopted by a descendant of
the supposed good line of Shem, and how it began to spread from Babylon
to the entire world. For more background information on this topic,
however, first, please visit The Gap Theory.

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