We have been watching the template unfold. It is sometimes hard to grasp that it is actually happening………in our lifetimes….on our watch. The Islamic invasion of Europe and wholesale incursion into the US is a planned thing – designed to transform those states and claim them for Allah. In more honest moments ISIS leaders and radical imams have declared it so. We began to unfold the purposes of the Vatican in uniting all religions under its rule. It all began in earnest in 1986 when Pope John Paul II hosted a conclave at Assissi that included witch doctors, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and pagans of various sorts; all gathered to pray for peace. This was an empty and even blasphemous attempt to unite religious sentiment and it served to falsely legitimize rank paganism. But Psalm 95:6 tells us: “For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.” (KJV) Sacred Scripture holds believers to a higher standard. “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?” (2Corinthians 6:14-15) Pope Francis continues that drive today, opening the gates of heaven – if he could – even to unbelievers, atheists.[i] And part of that drive toward a universal church is the Vatican’s long-held desire to control Jerusalem and the Holy Land. In Catholic thinking: The Church (Catholic of course) has replaced Israel and inherited the promises of God. It is this biblical misinterpretation that drives Rome to recognize Palestine, support the Iran nuclear agreement that threatens Israel’s very survival – and maneuver for the establishment of Jerusalem as an international city and de-facto capital of a Palestinian State.
Another facet of the Holy See’s vision for a New Global Order involves the calls for actions that will address climate control and promote sustainability; two code words used by Leftists everywhere to bash capitalism and promote socialist policies. In his latest encyclical, ‘Laudato Si: Care For Our Common Home, ’ Pope Francis argues for “stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions.” But this new international apparatus is not to be limited to climate issues alone. To this end he quotes his predecessor, Pope Benedict as to the purposes of this emerging arrangement.. “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to[ii] regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority.” As Rebecca Terrell points out in The New American: “This plan disturbingly parallels the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals enumerated in its Agenda 21 program, formulated at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” This plan has been described as a blueprint ‘for the global control and restriction over your daily life, including your private property, individual rights, and civil liberties — all in the apparent name of the environment and so-called social justice.’”[iii]
But the quest for religious unity and world government is not the only prophetic trend emerging. The streams are many – and they are coming to life before our eyes.
THE MYSTERY OF RELIGIOUS UNITY
We will never be able to understand what is happening in the world today until we grasp one simple truth. All of history is at root, the story of mankind’s rebellion against God. It dates back to Nimrod and Babel – and even further to the Garden. Note Satan’s first temptation to Eve. He began his assault with a simple query that questioned the validity of God’s Word. “Did God really say…” (Genesis 3:1) (NIV) He was planting doubt; readying her to accept the lie. A few verses later it came. Eve had acknowledged God’s prohibition against partaking of the tree in the middle of the garden. Genesis 2:17 records God’s warning: “you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (NIV) Now the Serpent baited the hook. “‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” (Genesis 3:4-5) (NIV) There it was; the temptation to be like gods. It was too much for Eve….and Adam – and it has been too much for mankind ever since.
The story of the Tower of Babel is one where Nimrod introduced paganism into the world and organized the first full scale rebellion against God. Just who was this man? Now the word Nimrod, may not be a name at all but rather an appellation derived from his chief characteristic. The root word in the ancient Hebrew means “rebel”, and rebel he was. Extra-Biblical literature tells us that he was born of the mixed parentage of ‘the gods’ and men. Genesis 6 tells us of these unnatural unions that produced “giants on the earth in those days, [before the flood] and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown”. (Genesis 6:4) Many scholars believe that these “sons of God” refer to nothing less than the Fallen Angels who followed Lucifer when he rebelled against God. More on that later. In addition, get this, there is a Masonic connection. The Masons can trace their roots to the globe’s first master builder. Mackey’s History of Freemasonry names “Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry.”[iv]
Now Nimrod became the founder of empires, (Babylon & Nineveh), the builder of the tower of Babel, (an open act of rebellion against God), and the dictator of the known world. His was an empire that exercised both civil and religious control. He introduced the black arts including “astrology, occultism and devil worship”. He married a beautiful woman named Semiramis, and together they established a religion based on the worship of themselves, – and eventually their son. It was a religion full of mystery and ceremony and secret sacred knowledge. As a unifying centerpiece, he began to build a tower that was to house an astrological / astronomical observatory at its’ peak. So when God scattered the people after their attempt to build the Tower of Babel, they took aspects of their Babylonian Mystery Religion with them to the far ends of the earth.[v] What they took with them was a strange amalgam of both the dimly remembered “revelations of God” as well as the Devil & Nimrod worshiping cultic ideas that originated in Babylon. This system is known as ‘The Babylonian Mystery Religion’.[vi] As we will see later, this manifested itself in some very interesting ways.
Just for the record: While Semiramis was busy developing her following, Nimrod was gathering one of his own, – again transferring from culture to culture with only the name changing. In Israel and the surrounding nations such as Phoenicia, Syria and Caanan; – the Babylonian god named Bel became the more well known and Biblically condemned Baal. (It is from here that we get Satan’s appellation Beelzebub, or Lord of the Flies.)[vii]
So here’s how this relates to today. The Global Elites, our would-be rulers – are engineering the formation of another global government right now. As Pope’s and Prime Ministers and Presidents scheme and maneuver to enshrine “sustainable development” to fight “global warming” or build structures to address the perceived needs of a global economy they do so with one end in mind; the establishment of total control over all the earth. This includes the reams of politics, finance and religion. They are forming a kingdom after Nimrod’s design. They are aided and abetted by the globalist vehicles they’ve built. These include the UN itself, the Club of Rome, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderbergs and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. And this entire enterprise can trace its roots and its modern-control to the heirs of the ancient pagan religions founded by Nimrod, which later spread throughout the world.
Here’s how Paul McGuire explains the workings of that network. “These groups are controlled by powerful secret societies with very real occult and Luciferian beliefs. The existence of these secret societies and their multi-generational occult and Luciferian beliefs is concealed from the masses by the people controlling the media, education, politics, art, entertainment, and religion…. These secret societies go all the way back to ancient Babylon and The Tower of Babel created by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, and the world’s first sustainable one world government, one world religion, and one world economic system. You cannot understand what is happening today with the United Nations unless you first understand what happened in ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was ruled by an occult and satanic system known as ‘Mystery Babylon.’ Nimrod was not a normal human ruler genetically; he was a god-man, or what the philosopher Nietzsche referred to as a ‘superman.’ The Tower of Babel was built through occult technology and it was an interdimensional portal and stargate which allowed for the entrance of interdimensional entities into our world. As far-fetched and as outrageous as this must sound to those who have not done their homework in this area, the fact remains it is true, and we document this. The reality of a satanic system and occult religion had to be hidden from the masses in order for the elite to maintain their power. As such, secret societies had to be created to pass this information on from generation to generation. In the Biblical account of the Tower of Babel, God judges this ancient globalist system because at the heart of it Man is attempting to become God.”[viii] And thus we circle right back to the first temptation offered in the Garden; the lying enticement that we mere mortals can “be like God.”
That circle is tighter and more intimate than many may imagine. The religion founded by Nimrod and Semiramis not only spread across the globe – but many of its essential practices were adapted first by apostate Israelites and later by the early Christian Church as Emperors and Popes compromised doctrinal purity in the interest of making it easier for the pagan masses of the Roman Empire to accept Jesus. Here’s how it all went down.You see, the people apparently bought into this whole notion of worshipping Nimrod, Semiramis and her son, Tammuz. Banking on the remembered promises of God later recorded in Genesis 3:15; – that salvation for the human race would come from ‘the seed of the woman’; – she presented her son as the fulfillment of that prophecy. So Nimrod and Semiramis developed what you might call a ‘shadow religion’ or imitation of God’s real plan, – as best they could. Tammuz would play the role of the world’s savior. Semiramis, desired worship for herself and was presented as the ‘mother of this savior’. She became the only way to God and the “Queen of Heaven.”[x] [xi] Through their contacts with other cultures in the region, even the Hebrews picked up the worship of this “Queen of Heaven”. Jeremiah 7:18 quotes God saying: “The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger”. Chapter 44 of Jeremiah details how the Israelites persisted in their rebellion by continuing this pagan worship. They subsequently lost the favor and protection of God for a season on account of this sin.
However it was not just the Israelites that were involved in this abomination. Statues began appearing all around the world depicting the likeness of the Queen of Heaven, all in the form of a mother holding an infant child. The worship of mother and child spread throughout the ancient world, taking on local names. In Egypt, mother and son were Isis and Horus or Osirus. In parts of India it was Devka and Krishna. The Greeks called the mother figure Ceres or Irene or Aphrodite and Eros. Rome gave us Venus. Even Germany and Scandinavia had their versions. The cult spread as far as Japan and China where the mother Shing Moo was portrayed holding her child with a halo of light around her.[xii] Now where have I seen that before?
What’s even more interesting is the whole look of the thing. This Mystery Religion introduced practices that while innovative at the time, were adapted successively by the various adopting cultures. One of the central feasts of this religious system was based on the ‘resurrection’ of Semiramis’ son, Tammuz. The story goes that he was killed by a wild boar and after 40 days raised from the dead. Temple virgins would fast those 40 days each year, in mourning over the dead son. After the days of fasting came the feast of Ishtar, (from whence we get our name Easter), which is just another name for Semiramis. During that Feast of Ishtar, colored eggs serving as a sign of fertility became part of the celebration. Son and mother were both being honored: He as savior and she as Co-Mediatrix between God and man.[xiii]
Summarized below are some of the practices and characteristics of this Mystery Religion:
- The son, Tammuz was the ‘savior of the world’.
- Semiramis was the “Queen of Heaven”.
- Salvation came by following certain ceremonial rituals or sacraments.[xiv]
- A period of purging followed death, ‘cleaning’ one of his remaining sins. Instead of entering paradise, the dead person would at first reside in an intermediate place where they awaited the release of their soul.
- To release the soul from this bondage, prayers for the dead were instituted as well as a system that credited donations to the Babylonian priesthood to the account of the imprisoned dead person.[xv]
- An order of virgins were dedicated to Semiramis alone. They wore long robes and lived in community.[xvi] These vestal virgins were known as “Daughters of Nimrod,” and according to one source they got their name from the Chaldean word “NUN”.[xvii]
- A black robed celibate priesthood was developed. They were marked by the ‘clerical tonsure’ or the shaving of the middle of the top of the head bald, leaving the edges to grow in a circle in honor of the Sun God. In the Old Testament this became a mark of the priesthood of Baal and was forbidden in Leviticus 19:27 & 21:5.[xviii] [xix]
It is no secret that many of these same practices became part of the religion of the Roman Church. And now, we live in a day when the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has come out in favor of the re-establishment of a de-facto World Government. The Book of Revelation tells us of a False Prophet, a religious figure will lead the worship for the coming Antichrist. “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” (Revelation 13:11-12)
But this religion will not come out of nowhere. In fact, it has been with us from Babylon and often dressed itself in ‘Christian’ garb to hide its sting. In some form or another, this strange hybrid religion manifested itself throughout the ancient world. It was headed by a supreme High Priest who took the title Pontifex Maximus, (bridge maker), – and who served as the gate or bridge between life on earth and the afterlife. This Pontiff remained in Babylon, – a kind of head of the amalgamated pagan religions, – through the life of the Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires when the seat of power moved to Pergamos, in present day Turkey. It remained there officially until 133 BC when the leadership of this ‘Babylonian Priesthood’ moved to Rome. Pergamos, however remained a hotbed of Satanic / pagan activity. Jesus Himself acknowledged this fact in his letter to the Church at Pergamos found in Revelation 2. In Revelation 2:13, He instructs John to write “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is”, and later refers to the city as “where Satan dwells”.
By 63 BC the civil and religious power had merged once again, – just as in the days of Nimrod. It was in that year that Julius Caesar was made Supreme Pontiff of the Babylonian Order. From that point forward that religious office became the purview of the line of Roman Caesars until AD 376, when the Emperor Gratian refused it as an improper office to be held by a Christian. Two years later, Damus, the Bishop of the Church at Rome was prevailed upon to accept the office. Thus in the words of Clarence Larkin, author of Dispensational Truth: “So in AD 378, the Head of the ‘Babylonian Order’ became the Ruler of the ‘Roman Church’”.[xx] Thus was laid the foundation for the infiltration of the Church and the Great Apostasy of the Last Days. We seem on the cusp of those very days.
As he neared death, Catholic St Francis of Assisi revealed a vision God gave him of the End Times. “At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death.”[xxi] As the prophecy of St Malachy predicts: Might this pope be the last?
[i] Pope Francis assures atheists, The Independent (UK), September 11, 2013
[ii] Image of The International Day of Prayer 1986 taken from: trueorthodoxy.org/images/kissofjudas/World-Religions-Assisi%20good.jpg
[iii] Rebecca Terrell, Pope’s Environmental Encyclical Calls for World Government, The New American, June 19, 2015
[iv] Albert Mackey, History of Freemasonry, pg 601
[v] Babylon Mystery Religion, Petersburg Gospel Center
[vi] Nimrod, Mars and the Marduk Connection, Bryce Self, (onesimus@ix.netcom.com)
Edited November 1985 by Lambert Dolphin
[vii] Nimrod, Mars and the Marduk Connection, Bryce Self, (onesimus@ix.netcom.com) Edited November 1985 by Lambert Dolphin
[viii] Paul McGuire, Born Again Babylon, News With Views, September 21, 2015
[ix] Lucas van Valckenborch: The tower of Babel (1568), https://www.google.com/search?q=images+tower+of+babel&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CBwQsARqFQoTCMXKndSakcgCFUw6Pgod0KkFnA#imgrc=zCtg0V3gsQtBEM%3A
[x] Woodrow Kroll, from a sermon entitled The History of False Revelation,
Back to the Bible, broadcast on WDCX , Buffalo, NY, 2006
[xi] Babylon Mystery Religion, Petersburg Gospel Center
[xii] This admission is presented by an official website of the Bahai Faith, arguing in short that all paths to God are ultimately the same. The Bahai’s Under the Provisions of the Covenant. The article entitled : Worship of Semiramis.
[xiii] Babylon Mystery Religion, Petersburg Gospel Center
[xiv] Woodrow Kroll, from a sermon entitled The History of False Revelation, Back to the Bible, broadcast on WDCX , Buffalo, NY, 2006
[xv] Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pg 169
[xvi] Woodrow Kroll, from a sermon entitled The History of False Revelation, Back to the Bible, broadcast on WDCX , Buffalo, NY, 2006
[xvii] Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pg 222
[xviii] Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pg 222
[xix] Fausset’s Bible Encyclopedia, pg 291 as quoted by Babylon Mystery Religion, Petersburg Gospel Center
[xx] Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, pg 140. I was led to this reference by Babylon Mystery Religion, Petersburg Gospel Center
[xxi] St Francis quoted in: St Francis of Assisi Prophecy, Novus Ordo Watch, viewed September 24, 2015
http://www.novusordowatch.org/francis.htm
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