Nimrod And The Tower
There appears to be an increase in the number of people
ascribing the office of the antichrist to the post-flood figure, Nimrod. Several modern exegetes also claim the religious
idolatry mixed with false Christ anti-god worship of end-times mystery, Babylon
is originated in the city of Babylon instituted and ruled by Nimrod.
The historian, Josephus, gave this description:
Now it was Nimrod who excited
them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the
grandson of Ham,
the son of Noah-a
bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to
God, as if it
were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own
courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government
into tyranny-seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to
bring them into a constant dependence upon his own power.
He also said he would be
revenged on God,
if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a
tower too high for the waters to be
able to reach and that he would avenge himself on God for
destroying their forefathers!
Gilgamesh, also considered to be another name for Nimrod
has another confirmation of Nimrod’s obsession below.
The Gilgamesh Epic describes the
first “God is
dead” movement. In the Epic, the hero is a vile, filthy, perverted person, yet
he is presented as the greatest, strongest, hero that ever lived (Alexander
Heidel, 1963: 18). So that the one who sent the Flood will not trouble them
anymore, Gilgamesh sets out to kill the perpetrator. He takes with him a friend
who is a monstrous half-man, half-animal-Enkidu. Together they go on a long
journey to the Cedar
Mountain to find and destroy the monster who sent the Flood. Gilgamesh finds
him and finally succeeds in cutting off the head of this creature whose name is
“Huwawa” (“Humbaba” in the Assyrian version; see Heidel 1963: 34ff).
Most people assume the builders of the tower of Babel
were attempting to construct a tower so tall that it would reach up to heaven. That premise is probably wrong. The idea of reaching to heaven was most
likely a means to produce a star gate-type system that could allow additional
Watchers to return to the earth. This
event happened several years after the flood.
All the pre-flood Watchers (fallen angels) had been placed (imprisoned)
in Tartarus (the bottom level of the abyss) by God. The original Nephilim offspring of the
Watchers had been killed with their spirits becoming the demonic entities of
today. The two or three generations of
Nephilim offspring were drowned in the flood.
The various DNA (mixed, spliced, and altered) created chimeras and
monstrosities such as: minotaurs;
centaurs; lion-men; fauns; dinosaurs; pterodactyls were also drowned and not
carried on the ark.
Genesis 11:1-4 seems to indicate the majority of the
post-flood population desired to stay in one area, build a city, and remain
unified.
The whole earth had a common
language and a common vocabulary. When the people moved eastward, they found a
plain in Shinar and settled there. Then they said to one another, "Come,
let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of
stone and tar instead of mortar.) Then they said, "Come, let's build
ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a
name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the
entire earth."
(Genesis 11:1-4 NET)
They also agreed to make a name for themselves for the
purpose of not becoming scattered around the world.
It is said that Nimrod believed that he could kill God
and become the planet’s new “god”. He
may be the king of Babylon that is referred to in Isaiah 14. It may not directly be referring to Satan
with the Latin name of Lucifer. Peter
Goodgame and other commentators may be correct.
Nimrod could very well be the beast named Apollyon (Apollo) that arises
from the bottomless pit.
You said to yourself, "I
will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will
rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon. I will climb
up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!" (Isaiah 14:13-14 NET)
The non-Biblical, but informative, book of Jasher
(mentioned in scripture) affirms that the people of Nimrod (stupidly) desired
to ascend to heaven and be in control.
And the building of the tower
was unto them a transgression and a sin, and they began to build it, and whilst
they were building against the Lord God of heaven, they imagined in their
hearts to war against him and to ascend into heaven.
And all these people and all the
families divided themselves in three parts; the first said We will ascend into
heaven and fight against him; the second said, We will ascend to heaven and
place our own gods there and serve them; and the third part said, We will
ascend to heaven and smite him with bows and spears; and God knew all their
works and all their evil thoughts, and he saw the city and the tower which they
were building. (Jasher 9:25-26)
It is generally assumed by the current population of
today that pre-flood and post-flood people were ignorant and uneducated but
that is not the way the Bible and other historical documents portrays it. Nimrod and his grandfather, Cush, most likely
had the knowledge of constructing a system that would allow a passage from the
heavenly dimension to the earth dimension.
The post-flood population were told to populate the world but Nimrod and
his empire building legions did not desire to be “scattered abroad upon the
face of the earth.” Cush had apparently
taught him about the old ways of the pre-flood era and he desired to have it again. This would only be possible if more Watchers
were to come to the earth.
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 11:4 KJV)
And they said, Come, let us
build to ourselves a city and tower, whose
top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are
scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:4 Brenton)
with a tower that reaches to the heavens NIV
Nimrod “became” a Gibbor (mighty one) because he and his
grandfather, Ham, had the knowledge of defiling or altering DNA as done by the
Watchers prior to the flood and not necessarily in the seminal manner. His grandmother, Ham’s wife, could have
carried a small amount of Watcher DNA of which Nimrod was able to accentuate using
Watcher technology in some manner.
The first post-flood empire was ruled by Nimrod. His empire became the original mystery,
Babylon. The following empires were also
mystery Babylon: Egypt; Assyria; Medo-Persian;
and Daniel’s Babylon. Some of these
areas were ruled by Nimrod and others were founded by the migrants of the
original Babylon. The areas of Greece
and Rome were among the early settled areas after the language change. Greece and Rome have the same god hierarchy
as the Egyptians and Sumerians, just different names and they would also be included
in the mystery, Babylon pantheon of empires.
And Nimrod
dwelt in Shinar, and he reigned securely, and he fought with his enemies and he
subdued them, and he prospered in all his battles, and his kingdom became very
great. And all
nations and tongues heard of his fame, and they gathered themselves to him, and
they bowed down to the earth, and they brought him offerings, and he became
their lord and king, and they all dwelt with him in the city at Shinar, and
Nimrod reigned in the earth over all the sons of Noah, and they were all under
his power and counsel. And all the earth
was of one tongue and words of union, but Nimrod did not go in the ways of the
Lord, and he was more wicked than all the men that were before him, from the
days of the flood until those days. - Book
of Jasher 7:44-46
The concept of mystery, Babylon has infiltrated the
entire earth through the original 70 language groups, European migration, and
the Catholic Church. However, the final
headquarters will be in the original Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian area of
the Old Testament, Jerusalem.
God viewed the tower building scene and put a stop to
it. He wasn’t upset because Nimrod
wanted to build a tall tower, but because he desired a visit from more
Watchers. When one of the disciples asked
Jesus why He spoke in parables, he answered:
For this reason I speak to them in
parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not
hear nor do they understand. (Matthew
13:13 NET) This applied to readers
and skeptics of the Old Testament as well.
They say: “Why would God get mad
about a tall tower? There are tall
towers in the world today. Christians
must be stupid.” However, God was
angered because of the attempt to restart Watcher life as before and the plan
of Nimrod to keep the majority of the population in one location. The punishment of God was to divide the
people into seventy language groups.
Since the people desired to worship angels such as Watchers, God placed
the seventy language groups in the control of 70 angelic beings of the Divine
Council.
When the Most High divided the
nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations
according to the number of the angels of God. (Deuteronomy 32:8 Brenton LXX)
Most English translations as the
KJV render the last sentence as the "number of the children (or sons) of
Israel". However, a Dead Sea
Scrolls parchment read, "the
number of the sons of God," and the Greek Septuagint LXX
version reads, "the
number of the angels of God."
All of these 70 people groups differentiated by language
stayed within their understandable group and then spread around the world as
they were commanded to do initially. The
different groups opinion of Nimrod most likely did not change or their loyalty
to his god-like character As they
migrated they incorporated Nimrod and pre-flood events in their stories with
embellishments as time went on. His fame
or notoriety did not diminish but the names changed due to the nature of their
language. The new Sumerian people wrote
of Marduk and Gilgamesh; to the Greeks he became Apollo; and to the Egyptians
he became Osiris. The internet version
of the Jewish Encyclopedia states that king Amraphel of Shinar, was actually
Nimrod. Some of the details were changed and modified such as: the names of his parents; where he came from;
and the names of other associates but the basic elements are similar.
A Wikipedia article entitled a Short Chronology Timeline
presents the following article: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_chronology_timeline)
Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great "The Great King" (Akkadian Šarru-kīnu, meaning "the true king" or
"the king is legitimate"), was an Akkadian emperor
famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC.[2] The
founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned from 2,270 to 2,215 BC (short
chronology).[3] He became a prominent member
of the royal court of Kish,
killing the king and usurping his throne before embarking on the quest to
conquer Mesopotamia. He was originally
referred to as Sargon I until records
concerning an Assyrian king also
named Sargon (now usually referred to as Sargon I) were unearthed.
Some historians make the claim that the Sumerian Kish is
in fact the Biblical Cush and that Sargon is another name or the actual name of
Nimrod. Nimrod may not actually be his
name but rather a Biblical title meaning “the rebellious one.” The chronology text implies that Nimrod
killed his father to advance his empire.
(NOTE: It is written in the book
of Jasher that Esau killed Nimrod).
