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

BIBLE EXPLAINED IN 3 MINUTES - NYOBS 25.35

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 25 - SECOND COMING

The Bible in three minutes – the Three Earth Ages

• First Earth Age - This is eternity past   See NYOBS 17.16 - The Other Flood
• In the beginning God creates the Heavens and the Earth. He sees that it is good - Gen 1:1
• Man and animals are created with free will – They are good
• The angels are created with free will, including Satan – They are good
• There is NOT a Law:  If you sin, you die.
• Satan is given dominion over all of the Earth – But he wants to be worshiped as God
• Time did not exist - but probably millions of years as we know it would pass by.
• Satan rebels – so does 50,000,000 angels and they leave their assigned post to follow Satan
• Man’s heart becomes filled with evil and violence and man wants to do his own thing.
• All of Heaven sees what’s happening and waits to see if Satan will succeed.
• God gives eons of time for Satan and man to come around, but they don’t
• God floods the earth wiping out everything.
• The earth becomes without form and void – Gen 1:2
• Heaven watches to see what Satan will do about it.

• Second Earth Age – This is the present age – but before Jesus Christ is born.
• The earth is still void and the spirits of the dead are still alive, but they have no bodies.
• They become Satan’s demonic followers. – See NYOBS 7 Eschatology
• Time as we know it Begins - Satan is unable to give life or create anything.
• God starts over – All of Heaven is watching to see what Satan will do next.
• The plan of salvation of man is put into effect.  “The law of sin and death”.
• A mystery is also put into effect.  A new ruler of the earth will come and defeat Satan.
• Everything is recreated or “brought forth” starting in Genesis 1:3 – Man has free will.
• God put Adam and Eve in the Garden – Everything is put under Adam’s authority.
• Satan is determined he will not report to a man made lower than him, made out of dirt.
• God tells Adam “don’t eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil”, or you will die.
• Satan tricks Adam into eating the fruit – God knew he would – Adam is now a sinner.
• Adam now has Kids – Satan thinks Able will be the new ruler – gets Cain to kill Able.
• Now everybody is a sinner – Satan is home free – He is king and worthy of praise.
• About 2,000 years passes – Man is hopelessly evil – Heaven is wondering what’s next.
• God gets Noah and his family to build an ark – fills it with pairs of God’s creation.
• God Floods the earth for over a year. Only 8 people are saved.  This is God’s remnant.
• Noah’s family and the animals and creatures start over populating the earth.
• About 1,000 more years pass – Satan hears the Prophets talk about a hidden mystery.
• A messiah is prophesied to come from the Jewish nation to rule the earth.
• Satan gets Pharaoh to kill all the male children – Moses is saved – Moses must be the one.
• Satan gets Moses to kill an Egyptian – Now Moses is a sinner – Satan thinks he is home free.

• The Church age begins – Jesus the Messiah prophesied.  NYOBS 7
• Another 1,000 years pass – Satan hears more talk about a “mystery that’s been hidden”.
• A Messiah is coming - a new ruler of earth – Now all creation is watching what will happen.
• Satan gets the king to kill all the babies two years old and under – But, Jesus is saved.
• Jesus is found at age 12 in the temple, but does not start His ministry till He is about 30.
• Satan tries to tempt Jesus into sinning – but is unsuccessful – Satan needs another plan.
• The Jews are excited – They are looking for a reigning Messiah to set up a kingdom.
• Jews are disappointed – Jesus comes as a suffering Messiah – with a message of salvation.
• Jews don’t understand and reject Jesus as the Messiah – Satan is ecstatic.
• The prophets say everyone that hangs on a tree is a sinner
• Satan enters Judas and tricks him into forcing Jesus to take action as a reigning Messiah.
• It didn’t work – This was not the Plan – Judas sees he made a mistake – kills himself.
• Jesus is crucified on a tree– Sinless Jesus takes all of man’s sins– Satan is dumbfounded.
• All Heaven, Hell, demons and angels both good and evil are watching to see what happens.

• The Church age continues – More prophecy revealed
• Jesus goes to a compartment of hell know as paradise or Abrahams Bosom.
• Jesus preaches to the good guys and takes them to heaven with the keys of death and hell.
• Jesus spends time with His disciples and about 500 others.
• Jesus is translated to Heaven and sits at the right hand of God
• The prophets tell that the Messiah is coming back - This time to be a reigning Messiah.
• Satan is upset – knows his time is short. All Creation is watching and giving witness.
• Time is given to Satan and all in the earth to hear Christ’s message of salvation and repent.
• John is thrown into the prison on the island of Patmos - Satan starts killing the Disciples
• God gives a vision to John – John cryptically writes it down – sneaks it out to the believers.

• Last of the Church Age – John is given a Vision; the Rapture - the Tribulation – the Future
• Warnings are given to the Church’s of all ages; the body of Christ, about the end times.
• 2000 more years pass; time enough for Satan and all living to respond to Christ’s message.
• All Creation is watching as a witness of God’s patience and Satan’s total rebellion
• Satan enters into a man and he becomes his false prophet – The Anti-spirit.
• Satan enters into another man and he become the Antichrist
• Satan still sees himself as God – he now has a trinity – This will fool many, he is like God.
• The Antichrist is shot in the head and appears dead – is resurrected – similar to Christ
• Many think he is the Messiah and follow and worship him.  Satan is ecstatic.
• Jesus comes back and raptures the believing church – It happens faster than you can blink.
• Great confusion exists – Satan, the fallen angels, demons and the wicked are all that’s left.
• This is the first part of Christ’s second coming – Some get saved because of this event.
• God seals and marks 144,000 Jews to preach the gospel of salvation one more time
• All creation sees God’s love for His creation and they are a witness to his patience.
• Seven years of tribulation begins – The Antichrist makes a peace treaty with Israel.
• Wars, famine, pestilence, boils, sickness, hail, earthquakes & natural disasters are prevalent.
• The Antichrist seals his followers with a mark on their forehead like God did. 
• They can now buy food and sell stuff - They worship the Antichrist as the Messiah.
• They are doomed forever – this is the unpardonable sin.  They cannot change their mind.
• Some do not take the mark, many are killed.  Heaven takes note – The angels ponder it.
• Antichrist breaks the Peace agreement with Israel  3 ½ years into the agreement
• Antichrist stops the sacrifices in the Temple
• Antichrist sets up an image of Satan in the temple – it can talk – it is worshiped.
• There is war in heaven.  Michael; God’s Archangel, defeats Satan and his angels.
• Satan and one third of the angels are thrown out of heaven.
• God sends two witnesses to preach one more time – They do miracles – many are saved
• The two witnesses might be Elijah and Enoch, both previously raptured or translated.
• They preach the Gospel for the last 3 ½ years of the tribulation
• They are supernaturally protected during their mission
• They perform great miracles; call down fire from Heaven, and cause droughts
• When their mission is complete, God allows the Antichrist to  kill them
• They lie in the streets  of Jerusalem for 3 ½ days  - It’s televised by satellite
• People are happy and give each other gifts… Might be at Christmas time.
• The Heavens thunder - The Two Witnesses are resurrected and raptured or translated
• The process is slow enough for everybody on earth to see it via satellite.
• A great earthquake hits - A tenth of Jerusalem is destroyed
• Seven Thousand men are killed. - Survivors recognize the power of God
• God has everybody’s attention and they see His invitation to salvation.- All creation sees.

• The Third Earth Age preamble – war of Gog and Magog; the millennium reign -  NYOBS 22
• Russia and its allies attack Israel and are defeated by nature – wind up killing each other.
• During the entire tribulation period, one half of the world’s population is killed.
• Birds are summoned to eat the dead. - It takes seven months to bury the dead remains.
• Antichrist and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire.
• Satan is bound in chains for 1,000 years so he cannot deceive the nations.
• Christ returns and reigns - there is peace and an abundance of everything for 1,000 years.
• Those born during the 1,000 years have borne witnessed to the love and peace of God.
• Many embraced God because it was politically correct, but have no relationship.
• This proves mans heart is inherently evil and is doomed without the Holy Spirit’s drawing.
• Satan is released after the 1,000 years for a short time and starts the deception again.
• There are a bunch of people just ripe for the picking by Satan.
• All Creation sees that God has let man’s spirit freely choose whom he will serve
• There is another war – The war of Armageddon – 200 million fight against the Antichrist
• All are defeated – There are no survivors
• The unsaved are judged and with Satan are thrown into the lake of fire forever.
• All creation now knows the awesomeness of God and tells the story of Satan’s rebellion.
• There is now no doubt, only the pure and faithful are in the presence of Jehovah God.

• The Third Earth Age– begins
• There’s a “whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on”. - God does Urban Renewal
• A New Heaven and Earth are created
• The New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven already constructed.
• The Holy Temple looks like crystal, but with colors like a rainbow.
• Living water flows out of the throne room both east and west.  There is no more sea.
• The walls are transparent with its twelve gates, each made out of a single pearl.
• The redeemed of the earth live here.  We the redeemed rule and reign with Him forever.
• The remaining Nations of the earth make annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem to worship.
• There is no sin – no tears, no trouble.  Just peace and abundance of everything.
• The fruit of the Spirit for the healing of the nations is in everyone.  Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
• The story of Satan and fallen man is told over and over again– It will never happen again
• Time no longer exists – Just eternity.

BLACK CURSE - NYOBS 15.03

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 15 - PLAGUES OF EGYPT

BLACK CURSE RABBIT TRAIL

• NOTE:  There are arguments that the curse on Ham’s descendents included making them a black people. – While the descendents are black; there is no scripture that supports or even hints of this as being a part of the curse; this must be dismissed as only someone’s opinion.
• In my opinion this is a divisive attempt by Satan to divide men and promote bigotry and hatred. – Satan did the same thing with the Jews; calling them Christ Killers; creating hate and anti-Semitism – The executioners were the Romans; it was not the Jews that drove the nails into the hands and feet of Jesus the Christ.

CAIN'S MARK - NYOBS 16.09

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 16 - CAIN AND ABEL

The Mark on Cain

• This was the first murder in history. The boys were not kids, they were full grown married men and there were lots of brothers and sisters and families - it would be his fellow kinsmen that would want to avenge the murder of Abel. – The atonement for this sin was the shedding of his own blood. – He was a dead man walking.
• Cain did not say his iniquity was too great to forgive, he said his punishment was too great to bear. – There was no remorse – No cry of repentance - No cry for a pardon.
• God marks Cain so no one would try to kill him. - What was the mark? – Some say a tattoo, others a disease of the mind, lunacy, a maniac or leprosy, others say God turned Cain Black – What if Cain was already black and God turned him white? – Why do we assume that Adam and Eve were white or even olive complexion?
• To say that God, as a curse, made Cain “black” is allowing Satan to drive a wedge between the races – Satan did the same thing with the Jews and the Gentiles – Hate is sin and a foothold for Satan in your life. - The curse was on Cain; not on “a people”
• Satan’s shakes his fist at God, desiring to destroy Man; God’s finest creation that was made in His own image
• Understand – Cain called out to God for mercy - It was God’s compassion that Cain received “the mark” instead of death. – Bloodshed pollutes the land.
• The Mark - A man’s hands and forehead are the most prominent; and a discoloration like leprosy or a type of tattoo is the most scripturally logical. – I personally favor huge splotches of discoloration on his whole body that everyone could see. – Real Scary Stuff.
• Some scholars feel the “city of refuge” he built may have been his “mark of protection”. Others feel it’s also possible, as a mark or token, that God just “symbolically” assured Cain that He would protect him. (Don’t worry Cain; you’re now predestined, marked by my plan.) - (I don’t think so)
• The purpose of the mark was to let everyone know that Cain had murdered his brother and was sentenced by God to be a perpetual fugitive and a restless vagabond cursed to wander the earth - not to death, for he was not to be killed – Death was God’s prerogative alone.
• Cain went out of the Lord’s presence – That means Cain separated himself from God and there is no record that he ever came back.

Gen 4:10 – The ground calls out your brothers blood

10 Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. NIV

Isa 26:21 – The earth will disclose the blood shed.

21 The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer NIV

Num 35:33 – Atonement is only by the one who shed it.

33 "`Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. NIV

Heb 12:24 – Only the blood of Jesus cries louder than Abel’s

24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. NIV

Deut 28:16-19 – Cursed in the city and in the county

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. NIV

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Gen 4:15-16 – God put a mark on Cain to save his life

15 Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. NIV

Ex 13:16 – The mark is a symbol

16 And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead NIV

Rev 14:9-10 – Mark on the forehead or hand

9 "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand,

10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury NIV

Isa 44:5 – Tattoo on the hand

5 One will say, `I belong to the LORD'; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, `The LORD's,' and will take the name Israel. NIV

2 Chron 26:20 – Leprosy on the forehead

20 They saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the LORD had afflicted him. NIV

Num 12:10-15 – Miriam marked with leprously like snow.

10 there stood Miriam--leprous, like snow.

15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, NIV

Isa 3:9 – See it on their faces

9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. NIV

Gen 4:17 – Cain was married

17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. NIV

Dan 4:33 – Crazy - ate grass

33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. KJV