Babylon?

 

Babylon?

How life began, three different belief systems?

1.     Creationism –

Genesis 1:1 – 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

Note:  Here God is depicted as the one, only and actual Creator.  This text also list just what God is the Creator of, the Universe.  It gives the state of the Universe before the creation.  Without form means that the Universe had no structure, organization, and that it was indistinguishable as matter.  Matter is anything that has weight and occupies space.  Void means that there was nothing in existence, empty space, prior to the creation.  Empty space cannot have weight, and therefore matter did not exist prior to creation.  Darkness means that there was no energy force in the Universe prior to creation.  Energy - forces exerted between two or more objects. These forces are what creates weight (the difference in density) and movements in said objects.  

Therefore, before the Creation, there was no Universe, no Energy source, no objects, no matter, and no existence, except God, a void, or state of nothingness.              

2.     Gnosticism – Deism

God is the Cosmos.  The cosmos in an energy source, and the emulator (spewing) of all matter.  As an energy source, the Cosmos does not express or hold emotions to that which it emulates.  It has no relationship with any emulation, including the Demerge.  The Cosmos emulated the Demerge.  The Demerge is the fashioner of the Universe.  It is the fashioner of matter, not the creator of it.  The difference is that the Demerge makes changes to preexisting substrates, he does not cause to exist, that which did not previously exist, this is the definition of Creation. 

The Demerge fashions out of duty, he holds no claim or harbor any emotions for that which he makes.  Over time his interest falters and he allows the substrates to fashion without order or intervention.  (EVOLUTION)

3.     Paganism –

Chaos – Believed to be an unformed mass/heap or a state of nothingness (the abyss), is believed to have been the first thing to exist.  Chaos is understood to have given rise to the Primordial(s) Deities: (First Generation of Deities)

1. Gaia/Earth (the personification of the earth, the goddess Mother Earth, ancestral mother of ALL life),

2. Tartus (an abyss beneath the earth, the underworld, a dungeon for the wicked, a place where souls are judged – hell)

3. Eros/Cupid – (god of sexual attraction, protector of homosexual love)

     Leviticus 18:22 – Law against same sex

4. Erebus – was the personification of darkness, a god. 

5. Nyx – is the Greek goddess or personification of night. 

Chaos was not only a personified being, it was also a place deep and gloomy, where the Titans derived from and lived. 

Titans – were the second generation of divine beings, derived from the Primordial(s). 

A.    Two main groups in this Generation

I.                   Gaia (Earth) and her Children

a.      Gaia gives birth to Uranus (Father of Heaven or Sky) without male involvement (Virgin Birth)

                                                                                      i.      Gaia has children with her son Uranus – Incest

1.     Have 12 Children (most important)

a.    Cronus

                                                                                                                                                              i.      Golden Age –

                                                                                                                                                           ii.      Prophesy of Rebellion

b.    Rhea – Gives birth to the Olympian Dieties

                                                                                                                                                              i.       Zeus – ruler of the gods

                                                                                                                                                           ii.      Hades – god of underworld

                                                                                                                                                         iii.      Poseidon – god of sea

                                                                                                                                                          iv.      Hastia -

                                                                                                                                                            v.      Hera

                                                                                                                                                          vi.      Demeter

2.     The Giants

3.     Cyclopes

4.     Erinyes – Deities of Vengeance –

5.     Mealie – Nymphs

b.     Gaia gives birth to Ourea (Children of the Hills), again a virgin birth

c.      Gaia gives birth to Pontus (god of the Sea), derived from sea weed, again a virgin birth.

II.               Nyx and Erebus – Incest of darkness and night

Rulers of the Titan –

A.                Gaia (Primordial) and Uranus (husband and son of Gaia) served as the rulers of the Titans.  Uranus did not like three of Gaia’s children, and he imprisoned them in Tartarus, deep within the earth, this caused Gaia much pain.  Leviticus 18:7 – Incest Law children and parents 

Cronus’ Rebellion –

A.    Gaia, grieved by the enslavement of her children, created a sickle and asked her children to over throw their father.  Only Cronos, the youngest and most ambitious was willing to do so.  Cronos frees the enslaved children of Gaia and overcomes his father/brother Uranus by castrating him with Sickle given him by his mother Gaia.  He is then enslaved in Tartarus.  Later he returns the Children of Gaia back to Tartarus. 

Cronus’ Rule –

A.    Golden Age/\Age of Aquarius– this the time during Cronos’s rule where Laws, Rules and immorality did not exist.  People allegedly did what was right.

B.    Cronus, upon seizing power, returned Gaia’s children back to imprisonment at Tartarus.  This enraged Gaia.  A prophesy was made against Cronos that his son would overthrow him, as he did to Uranus. 

C.    Cronus took his sister Rhea to wife (INCEST) and she bare him 12 Children.  Because of the fear of losing his rein, Cronos ingested his sons upon their birth.  When Rhea was about to give birth to her youngest son, she hid him and gave birth to him at CRETE.  He remained hidden and was raised by his Grandmother, Gaia.  (Remember)

Olympians – the third generation of deities who were sired by the Titans.

Titan Wars –

A.    Zeus is trained by his Grandmother, Gaia.  She is still upset with Cronos for re-enslaving her children.  She shows Zeus how to disguise himself to get close to Cronos.  He disguises himself as Cronos’ cup bearer and gives him a concoction that causes his father to regurgitate the children that he has swallowed.  This begins a 10-year war between the Olympians and the Titans. 

B.    Zeus frees Gaia’s enslaved Titan children, and they ally themselves with the Olympians against the Cronos.  The remaining Titans, except two, ally with Cronos to suppress the growing rebellion.  Themis and Prometheus ally themselves with the Olympians.  Themis – the Titaness of good counsel.  She is the Personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom.  Since Law, Natural Law and Custom are all derived from the same authority, Themis the goddess, they are all considered to be equivalent in meaning. (Rome’s legal system is based on Themis) Prometheus – is a Titan who is credited with creating man out of clay.  He is also known for being a trickster.  He is also credited for stealing fire from the Olympians and giving it to man, which enabled progress and civilization.  (REMEMBER Themis and Prometheus)

C.    Zeus (Sun God and depicted as the BULL)– King of the Olympian God’s.  He conquers the Titans and imprisons them.  He then takes the power and sets his thrown-on Mount Olympus. 

a.      Zeus is a hedonistic-pleasure seeking god.  (Sexual Immorality)

b.     POLYGAMOUS god, he has 3 wives, 1 titan (Themis), his sister Rhea, and anther.  Leviticus 18:12 – Incest Law brother and sister.

c.      Zeus has unnatural sex with mortal women and sires children, known as demi-gods. (INTRA-SPECIES SEX- Olympians and Mortals)

Age of Man – rebellious against the gods.  Stop their prayers and worship of the gods in an attempt to control them.  Leviticus 18:23 – Law against intra species sex, common sense.

Note:  This pagan belief system claims to be a Golden Age, where rules and laws are believed to be irrelevant.  It is believed that entities will learn to do what is right, and comply with it, without having a standard or knowledge between right and wrong.  There version of morality is devoid of logic, morality becomes infinite without a standard to define it.  Therefore, all that one does is considered moral, regardless of the consequences to another (hedonism).  “Do what you will is the Whole of the Law” Allister Crowley (the most wicked man in the world).  “The ends (pleasure) justify the means.” Jesuit Order (the most wicked group in the world).

Within this system, we find rebellion between child and parent (Cronus & Uranus, Zeus & Cronus, man & gods), we find mayhem (Cronus against Uranus), we find Unnatural Sex and Sexual Immorality (incest, homosexuality, pedophilia, polygamy, cross species mating), we find deception (Gaia against Cronus, Prometheus against Zeus)

We find an era where the ruling class has no sense of order or morality, and yet those whom they rule are expected to know and act in a non-defined moral manner.  It is a philosophy of confusion and repression. 

Throughout the ages we find that the enemies of God, Jehovah, have eventually met their fate.  Elohim’s justice always prevails, and he always keeps His children.  In our bible we find several passages where this is proven.   

First, when the sons’ of Eli lost the Arc of the Covenant to the Philistines.

1 Samuel 5:2, 4, 5– When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon……

And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms were cut off upon the threshold (bottom of a doorway and entrance to a room) ; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

Note:  The Philistines knew of the great power that the arc possessed, and they tried to harness this power by uniting it with the perceived power of their god Dagon.  Jehovah rejected this union and knocked Dagon’s statute from its base, breaking it into three parts.  God then punished the Philistines with sores for defiling the arc by attempting to mix the holy with the unholy. 

Next, we find the story of Jezebel.  Jezebel was pagan princes from Tyrus, who worshiped Baal.  She married Ahab, the king of Israel.  She turned Ahab and most of Israel away from the worship of Yahweh, to the worship of Baal.  She was known for killing the prophets of Yahweh and became their sworn enemy.  Eventually, after the LORD had given Ahab, Jezebel and Israel a chance to repent, the actions of Elijah the prophet at Mount Carmel, she refused to do so, and God pronounces His verdict and executes His judgement. 

2 Kings 9:10 – And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.  And he opened the door and fled.

2 Kings 9:33 & 35 – And he (Jehu) said, Throw her (Jezebel) down.  So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot……..

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 

Note:  God gives Elijah the prophesy of Jezebel’s fate.  It is then executed exactly as was stated.  We find that Jezebel was thrown from the window, run over by horses, and eaten by dogs.  Again we find the remnants of the enemies of God are limited to three parts.  

Lastly, in the book of Revelation we find another enemy of Christ.  This enemy was defined as Babylon.  But who or what is Babylon?  How does it affect the course of time?  What is the eventual fate of Babylon?

Revelation 18:2 – And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Revelation 18:4 – And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her (Babylon) my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Note:  Babylon is described as a place and a system.  One that harbors all that is unholy and contemptible to God.  Babylon has fallen by betraying the principals that used to unite it with God.  

What makes up Babylon?

Revelation 16:13-14 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Note:  Babylon is a unification of three parts, the dragon, the beast, false prophets.  As we have seen above, three come together as an unholy trinity to destroy or alter the people and principals of God.  In this reference the dragon, although biblically does define Satan, here stands for Paganism.  The beast, the one who sits upon seven hills is clearly defined as the Papacy or Gnosticism.  The false prophet is not those who believe in the Judeo-Christian form of Creationism, but rather those who have added or taken away from the word of God, creating their own religion.  We call this new religion, apostate Protestantism, or those who returned to Rome.  Revelation 22:18 & 19 – For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

What is the outcome for this third enemy of the LORD?

Revelation 16:19 – And the great city was divided into three part, and the cities of the nations fell:  and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Revelation 19:19,20 & 21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 

Note:  Here we see the persuasive power of Satan and his minions.  He causes those who have the mark of the beast, to make war against Jesus Christ.  Remember that our Savior is returning with all the hosts of Heaven, billions of angels.  Let us see the destruction that a single angle did.  Isaiah 37:36 – Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote the camp of the Assyrians’ a hundred and fourscore and five thousand (185,000): And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 

Revelation 19:19&20 -And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.  These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 

And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which proceeded out of his mouth:  and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Note:  These false belief systems, those which deceived the masses, and those who perpetuated them will finally receive their just reward.  The Lord will utterly destroy both belief systems and their priests.  God will avenge, protect and save His children.  Mathew 18:6 – But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were handed about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Revelation 20:10 – And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Note: Finally, the great deceiver is separated from those he deceives, and they at once recognize their error in believing in the deceiver.  Unfortunately, this will never transfer into a change in character, or in the hardness of their hearts.  Therefore, the lost are not capable of true repentance, and not able to receive true forgiveness.  Even so every being in the Universe will know that God is Just, and God is Love.  Philippians 2:10 – That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. 

What is the consequences for those who do not succumb to the false teachings?

Revelation 21:1 & 3 – And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

We will finally be united with our Groom.  We will have the eternal pleasure of being with the ones, and the ONE we love.  We will finally know true happiness.