BABYLON - QUEEN OF HEAVEN - NIMROD - NYOBS 07.161

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 7 - ESCHATOLOGY

BABYLON – QUEEN OF HEAVEN – NIMROD – RABBIT TRAIL

• Babylon, starting with the tower of Babel, had a woman worshipped as the “Queen of Heaven”.  Her name was Semiramis the wife of Nimrod.  She purports to have had a male child conceived miraculously, named Tammuz who was considered “the savior of the world”; a false messiah.  He was killed by a wild beast and came back to life. 
• They had secret and mysterious rites used in idol worship with priests who practiced the sprinkling of holy water. They had an order of temple “virgins” dedicated to religious prostitution.
• The Babylonians also worshiped, Dagon the fish god, a cult whose priest wore crowns with the inscription “Keeper of the Bridge”.  The bridge between man and Satan.  “The bridge” is used in the New Age movement today.
• Nimrod had many names due to the confusing of the languages by God, one of which was Baal who they worshiped.  God saw him as a hunter and murderer of his people.
• The word Babylon is not so much about the city of Babylon, but the religious wickedness embodied in the name “Babylon” that permeated the nations.  Mystery Babylon.
• The mystery is revealed in the last days; the worldwide apostate church will reject Christ and follows after the Antichrist.
• The reference to Israel as “Babylon” is because they whored after other Gods.

Gen 10:9-10

9… Nimrod;, a mighty hunter before the LORD.

10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar. NIV

Gen 11:4

4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." NIV

Gen 11:9

9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth. NIV