Mystery Babylon

Babylon

Originally Assyrian Empire
Shortly after flood
- men migrated from East
- Tigris & Euphrates produced abundance
  - Exodus 23:29-30
Shinar
- Genesis 11:2
- became Babylonia
  - 1st government in Bible
  - later Mesopotamia
  - Babel
    - Erech, Accad, Caleh
      - Genesis 10:10
    - Tower of Babel
      - reach heaven and contact God
      - builders
        
        those who built the tower
Nimrod
- Shamash
  - Utu
  - Allah
    - El
    - Arabia
  - Temples in Sippar and Larsa
- father, Cush
  - father, Ham
    - father, Noah
      - son, Shem
        
        came with an army and defeated Nimrod
        
        conquered Babylon
        
        Genesis 11:4-6
        
        fall of tower
        
        destroyed common language
        
        Destroyed and left in ruins
        
        ended 2nd golden age after flood
        
        Isaiah 13:19-22
        
        Jeremiah 51:52
        
        Customs remained
        
        Herodias
        
        Stonehenge
        
        temple of the Sun
        
        men scattered from here, spreading Babylonian customs
        
        to Asia Minor
        
        to Pergamos
        
        to Rome
        
        Iraqis have been rebuilding Babylon
        
        darkness
        
        shut up in a chest which exactly fitted his body
        
        cast into Nile river
        
        floated down to the sea by the Taitic mouth
        
        carried by waves to Byblos
        
        lodged in branches of tamarisk bush
        
        tree grew around chest
        
        Semiramis cut off lock of her hair
        
        put on mourning robes
        
        wandered country in search of Nimrod
        
        took coffin, opened it & wept
        
        magical intercourse with dead body
        
        his parts scattered to various places
        
        scattered the college of priests in Babylon
        
        body cut into pieces and burned
        
        Judges 19:29
        
        1 Samuel 11:7
- means "he rebelled"
  - "he who made people rebellious"
  - changed truth to lie
  - marad
  - ungodly
    - ran original Mystery School in Babylon
      - Harlot HQ
        
        Mother of Harlots
        
        mother of all false religions
    - worshipped creature instead of creator
    - man multiplied gods
    - made man immortal so they couldn't be destroyed
      - Gods repented they made man
- symbolized by
  - Fire
  - Fish
  - Lion
  - Pillars
    - Obelisks
- famous leader
  - mighty hunter before the Lord
  - traveled the world teaching agriculture
  - claimed he was Sungod
    - wore crown of bull horns
  - turned government into tyranny
    - unite religion with politics
      - the Babylonian system
- wife & sister, Semiramis
  - goddess of sea
    - Mare
    - Mary
      - goddess of fertility
      - queen of light
  - built 1st fortified cities
    - to protect from beasts
    - organized cities into kingdoms
  - claimed she was immaculately concieved
    - Genesus 3:15
    - son, Tammuz
      - Nimrod reborn
      - mystery religion
        
        heathen gods
        
        Tammuz and Sariamas worshipped
        
        golden calf
        
        Taurus the bull