Kingdom Come

“Nimrod [from the verb מרד (marad), to rebel]….was a mighty hunter / Adversary before / facing off against the LORD...And the beginning of his kingdom was Bab-el / Confusion, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.” (Genesis 10:8-10)

As of October 2024, archeological excavations of Babylon have unearthed artifacts dating back to 1894 BC, consistent with Nimrod’s reign. However, these artifacts do not prove that Babel did not exist prior to that level of excavation. As detailed in the relevant post, the beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom was not the establishment of new cities, but the takeover of existing cities from Sargon, who had himself rebuilt the pre-flood power centers built by Cain.

Like Cain before the flood, Nimrod is simply the post-flood prototype of the Luciferian leader of humanistic rebellion against YHVH.

In ancient Mesopotamian societies, cultic [religious] functions belong to the office of the king. 

1. prophet of _____
2. priest of _____
3. king of _____

The personal name of the primary god was embedded in the name of the king who embodied him / her.  Exactly like Isra-El.

Get the plagiarism to Melchizedek, ultimately in YHVH’s Chosen Savior / Jesus Christ. ” I am in the Father, and the Father in me.” (John 14:10

1. “God…Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son – prophet
2. we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens…
3. unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: – king (Hebrews 1:1-8, 4:14-16, 5:1)

And like its religious ruler, historic Babylon is not a single entity, simply the prototype of the center of Anti-Christ worship.

Nebuchadnezzar II, the greatest of the Babylonian kings, transformed his father’s kingdom into the Neo-Babylonian Empire, a renaissance of Hammurabi’s original Babylonian Empire 1,000 years earlier. Like Europe’s Renaissance Ancient Greek and Roman paganism, the Neo-Babylonians resurrected the ancient gods, preserved statues and artworks from the earlier Babylonian era, and built many lavish buildings turning the city of Babel / Babylon back into one of the wonders of the world.

Significantly, Nebuchadnezzar did not claim Hammur- abi “Ham is my father’ as his ancestor, but rather Naram-Sin (2254-18), the grandson of the first emperor, Akkadian Sargon, thereby claiming descent from a “living god.” In keeping with his association, Nebuchadnezzar is first mentioned in government documents as working in the restoration of the temple of Marduk / Mariutu / demigod son of Apollo.

This explains his lofty image of himself.

”I Nebuchadnezzar…saw a dream…a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth [AKA King of the four corners of the world].

”the king Nebuchadnezzar…walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon…and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.” (Daniel 4)

Interestingly, “The final ruler to claim the title [King of the four corners of the world] was the first Persian Achaemenid king, Cyrus the Great, after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC…in the famous Cyrus Cylinder, an inscription deposited in the foundations of the Esagila temple dedicated to the chief Babylonian god, Marduk. The text of the cylinder denounces Nabonidus as impious and portrays the victorious Cyrus pleasing the god Marduk.”

Wait, what? Wasn’t Cyrus a true believer?

Apparently Cyrus, who was likely a devout Zoroastrian who practiced religious toleration in his empire, allowed Mithraic ministers to express their perspective of his victory. Most likely, like Nebuchadnezzar and Job, he knew enough about the Creator through Zoroastrianism to respect, honor and worship him, but didn’t personally know the LORD God of Everything until he met a Spirit-filled believer who manifested him to Cyrus.

As one of the most knowledgeable ministers in the newly absorbed state, Daniel would have been one of the few men directly interviewed by Cyrus. And don’t you think that Daniel brought to his attention Isaiah’s and Jeremiah’s prophecies, written hundreds of years before Cyrus fulfilled them?

Why do people think God just zaps ideas into our heads, when throughout history he delegates to and collaborates with his anointed people? How much input must Daniel have had into transforming the good king Cyrus into the LORD’s Anointed Ruler of the Four Corners of the World during the Times of the Gentiles.

“Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand

• I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and
• I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the [famously strong Babylon] two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
• I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:
• I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And
• I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that
• I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee [son of God] though thou hast not known me.
• I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
• I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me…

I have raised him / Cyrus up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways:

he shall build my city [the City of God], and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts…I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. ” (Isaiah 45)

And that happened through Cyrus the Great’s sacral kingship whose subjected bowed their knees and hailed him as king, because Cyrus proclaimed “All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me (II Chronicles 26;23), whose “dominions composed the largest empire the world had ever seen to that point stretching from Asia Minor in the west to the Indus River in the east.”

Subsequently Xerxes (ruled 486-465) destroyed. “this sanctuary of daevas / devils and proclaimed, “Let daevas not be worshipped!” There…I worshipped Ahura Mazda [Persian name for One True God] .”

“As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth…against thee, O daughter of Babylon…

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldea…surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.” Jeremiah 50:40-45)

When Alexander the Great defeated the mighty Persian Empire he was welcomed through the gate of Babylon as a savior, not a conqueror, because he commanded the rebuilding of all the temples which had been destroyed by Xerxes. Babylon remained in the possession of successive Persian Empires for nine centuries, but due as the West grew in importance Babylon’s significance declined, the population significantly decreased and the city itself fell into ruins.

The Bible tells us that the Adversary’s religious capitol moved from Babylon in Mesopotamia to Seleucid Greek territory at this time.

“To the angel of the church in Pergamos write…I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.” (Revelation 2:12-15)

Babylon is notable at this time only for Trajan taking a side trip In 116 AD during his Second Mesopotamian Campaign, finding merely mounds and stones and ruins. 

Therefore Peter’s reference to the church at “Babylon” (I Peter 5:13 is not the actual Chaldean Babylon, but like the number 666, a veiled reference to an evil entity whose name is best not spoken aloud, and indicates Rome. (I Peter 1:1). We can confirm this scripture with the historic role of Rome’s leaders against followers of YHVH’s Savior at this same time.

In 650 AD the Muslim Empire incorporated the province of Babylon, overturning paganism while permitting freedom of monotheism found in the Babylonian Talmud, the Gnostic Mandaean religion, Eastern Rite Christianity and the religion of the philosopher Mani.

in 1921 the British Empire created the modern Iraqi state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, building a replica of the Ishtar Gate and a reconstruction of Ninmakh Temple on site. We can deduce from this action that the British were pawns of the Adversary.

In 1978 Saddam Hussein, began the “Archaeological Restoration of Babylon Project” including the Southern Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, with 250 rooms and five courtyards, One frequent inscription reads: “This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar.  

When United States forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they constructed a military base on top of the ruins of Babylon. Doesn’t planting a flag always proclaim ownership?

What does this tell us about who is the real power behind the American leader, and where his spiritual capitol is currently located? The spiritual depravity exhibited by American society in the last 20+ years is a dark testimony to the fact that it is not YHVH’s Jerusalem.

King Sennacherib drove his army against Babylon, sacked it, and looted the temples of the idols which carried the spirits of the gods whose power could be unleashed.

When his son Esarhaddon (681-669 BCE) took the throne, one of his first projects was to rebuild Babylon.

The last great ancient Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE), is best known for the vast library he collected of literary works from all nations in Mesopotamia, in pursuit of Knowledge Is Power.

In 612 BCE Nineveh was sacked and burned by a coalition of their enemies. The flaming walls falling down on the library of Ashurbanipal baked the clay tablets, preserving the history of Mesopotamia and burying them away from looters.

Two hundred years later in 400 BC Xenophon’s Ten Thousand Greek mercenary soldiers across Anatolia in a famously successful retreat from a failed war with Persia. In his memoire (Anabasis) ruins described by Xenophon have been identified beyond a doubt as Nineveh, surrounded by 8 miles of walls 50 feet thick and up to 100 feet high. The evidence of sacking is particularly gruesome.

The ruins of Nineveh as seen in the contemporary photo above, with the current city of Mosul, Iraq, in the background.

“the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.” (Jeremiah 46:12)

Hmmm. Is there something we need to learn from the past?

The photo below is also at Mosul.

• I will…cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and [grand]son [Nimrod], and nephew [Asshur] [of Ham]…
• I will also make it a possession for the bittern [heron, i.e. uninhabited by humans]…
• I will sweep it with the besom of destruction…
• I will break the Assyrian [Asshur‘s spiritual heir / agent] in my land.” (Isaiah 14:22-28)

Let’s put that prophecy in its historical context.

Unity is the key characteristic of God’s people, ergo competition and constant fighting are the key characteristics of the Adversary’s people. “There more than 45,000 Christian denominations globally” What does this tell us about the state of Christianity?

King Adad Nirari I , whose name indicates his bond to the god of war and storm / destruction (H)adad, (c. 1307-1275 BCE) who expanded the Assyrian Empire to the north and south…is the first Assyrian king about whom anything is known with certainty.

“[King] Ahaz [of Judah] sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. (II Kings16:7-8)

Note here that Ahaz joined the expansionist Assyrian empire not just by signing his name to a political treaty but by legally changing his own identity to merge with the high king. He became an adopted son of the king who is both human and god and in the process rejected YHVH.

“Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement…Therefore thus saith the LORD God…your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isaiah 28:14-18)

The following passage predicts the demise of the Assyrian Antichrist.

“Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high [reference to the sea of outer space]…Therefore thus saith the LORD God; Because…his heart is lifted up in his height; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves... (Ezekiel 31:3-14)

As promised in chapter 14 of Isaiah referenced above, God did destroy the Assyrian Empire.

As portrayed in the Star Wars series, that didn’t stop the war.

Lucifer’s dystopian universe is a dark mirror image of God’s theocratic political dynasty which is conceptualized as a family three, with life preserved in it so that his heir buds out of the stump years after it was cut down.

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.” (Isaiah 11:1)

The world tree is central to ancient Aryan / Iranian, Norse and Nazi paganism.

The family tree that branches out into the Babylonian, Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian dynasties is rooted in none other than the notorious serpent / nachash, whose offspring change nationalities but continue his theocratic aspirations.

“Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina / Philistina , because the rod of him that smote thee [the Assyrian] is broken:

• for out of the serpent’s / nachash’s  root
• shall come forth a cockatrice / venomous adder [the (Neo)Babylonian]” (Isaiah 14:29-30)

“The king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.” (II Kings 24:7)

A significant role of the king was to provide salvation, which was often accompanied by the words, “Fear not!”

The greatest fear was the dread of perpetual thirst and hunger in darkness and solitary confinement underground in the afterlife. So the prophet-priest-king of the pagan god of the nation provided salvation through practicing religious rites to obtain the god’s favor in exchange for improved after-life conditions, although still as a bodiless soul underground.

We can parallel Nebuchadnezzar’s state of mind with another ruler driven to rebuild the glory of Babylon.

Evil tyrants are nothing new to the region of Babylon, present-day Iraq. One of the most vicious in history was Nebuchadnezzar (sixth century BCE), the Babylonian king who built the most powerful nation in the world by ruthlessly attacking and annexing neighboring countries…Whenever Nebuchadnezzar made a conquest, he used the stolen wealth to build monuments to his own glory…in his capital city…each brick was inscribed with Nebuchadnezzar’s name.

And so it is in our time. Saddam Hussein pronounced himself as the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, and dreamed of restoring the Babylonian empire to its former size and glory…Saddam commissioned archaeologists to restore the city and…each new brick was inscribed — this time with Saddam’s name.

With his megalomaniacal vision in place, Saddam embarked on a campaign of terror and conquest, first in Iran, then in Kuwait. Ultimately, he dreamed of recapturing Jerusalem.

And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will 1) in the army of heaven, and 2) among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” (Daniel 4)