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Today: Apostasy Interrupted:
Key Takeaway: The Human Heart Is Inclined To Seek Its Own Glory Instead Of God’s.
THE TOWER OF BABEL.
I. Mankind's Rebellion (11:1-4).
a. Introduction (11:1-2).
b. Building a City, Tower, Name (11:3-4).
II. God's Response (11:5-9).
a. Judgment (11:5-7).
b. Punishment (11:8-9).
INTRODUCTION:
A. Chapter 10, A Record Of The Migration Of Noah's Sons.
B. Chapter 11, Some Explanation Of:
A Great Variety Of Different Languages.
A Great Variety Of Different Dialects.
Explains Why They Are Found GLOBALLY.
Explains How Languages Originated.
GENESIS 10 TELLS US WHAT WAS THE MIGRATION.
GENESIS 11 TELLS US WHY WAS THE MIGRATION.
Perhaps:
This Event Took Place Around 150 Years After The Flood.
The Population Was About 30,000.
A Grandson Of Noah.
From The Lineage Of Ham ( Not Shem ).
Nimrod Was Perhaps A Demon-Possessed Tyrant.
HE SET UP A RIVAL RELIGION TO THE ONE TRUE GOD.
Nimrod, Which Means REBEL.
Nimrod Made The First Attempt:
To Unify The Population.
To Unify Into A Political Entity.
To Unify Into A Religious Unity.
Nimrod Was Running From God.
Nimrod Went To Babylon To Flee God's Revelation.
He Was An Apostate.
Nimrod Was Going To Build A False Religious System.
Nimrod Was Going To Build A New Approach To God.
To Reach God His Way.
To Reach God Thru Human Achievement.
To Build A Tower By His Own Works
A Substitute For The One True Religion.
The First Organized Idolatrous Religious System Ever.
Idolatry Was A System Opposing The One True God.
FOUNDING OF NIMROD'S RELIGION:
Secular History States: Nimrod Married Semerimus.
She Was High Priestess Of The Babylonian Mysteries.
Babylonian Mysteries:
Consisted Of Sacred Religious Rites.
Developed As A Part Of The Worship Of Idols In Babylon.
REMEMBER:
The Revelation Of God Was Carried By Oral Tradition.
Semerimus Would Have Known God's Promise.
She Would Have Known About The Coming Messiah.
She Would Have Known Through Woman's Seed.
BUT:
Semerimus Set Out To Corrupt God's Promise.
She Set Out To Counterfeit God's Promise.
Semerimus Had A Son: Tammuz.
Semerimus Claimed:
Tammuz Was The Fulfillment Of God's Promise.
Tammuz Was Conceived In A Miraculous Way.
Tammuz Was Considered A Savior Of His People.
Purported To Be The Fulfillment Of The Promise To Eve.
But He Was A False Messiah.
What Was The Symbol Of This Apostate Religion
Of Semerimus And Tammuz?
A Figure Of A Mother Holding A Child In Her Arms.
It Was The Mother-Child Cult.
A. Semerimus Set Herself As A Way Of Approach To God.
Worshipers Would Had To Go Through Semerimus To Approach God.
B. The Miracle Child Proved Semerimus Could Give Life.
She Called Herself The Queen Of Heaven (Jer. 44; Ezk. 8).
C. Salvation Was By Good Works And By The Sacraments Of Water And Ceremonial Cleansing.
D. Ultimate Cleansing After Death In A Place She Called Purgatory.
E. An Order Of Virgins Dedicated To Religious Prostitution.
An Order Of Earthly Male Priesthood To Further The Mother-Child Cult.
F. Tammuz Was Killed By A Wild Beast But After 40 Days Tammuz Was Resurrected From The Dead.
This Resurrection Was Celebrated Each Year By 40 Days Of Lent (Sacrifice).
This Celebration Ended With A Big Feast: The Feast Of Ishtar.
This Celebration Recognized The Egg As Sacred And Exchanged On The Feast Of Ishtar.
G. It The Evergreen Tree, The Symbol Of Life, Was Made The Symbol Of Tammuz;
It Was Prominently Displayed In Mid-Winter In The Month Of December, The Supposed Birthday Of Tammuz.
H. It Taught That Relics, Images, Holy Water, Lamps And Wax Candles Were Part Of Worship.
Nimrod's Religion Spread Throughout The Ancient Nations.
The Names May Have Been Changed But The Characters And Worship Were Essentially The Same.
The Mother-Child Cult Spread:
To Phoenicia:
Characters Were Called Ashteroth And Tammuz.
Added The Worship Of The Sun.
Became The Worship Of Baal.
To Egypt:
Characters Were Called Isis And Hornus.
To Greece:
Characters Were Called Aphrodite And Eros.
To Rome:
Characters Were Named Venus And Cupid.
To India:
Characters Were Called Ushas And Vishnu By The Hindus.
The Cult Has Also Crept Into Christianity.
It Forms The Basis For The Idol Worship Of Mary.
Found In The Roman Catholic Church.
The Mother And Child Are Worshiped As Joint Redeemers,
NOTE:
The Final Form Of World Religion:
Will Be A Revived Form Of Nimrod's Religion.
Will Be Like The One That Began In Babylon (Rev. 17).
Will Be Called MYSTERY BABYLON: The Great, The Mother Of Harlots, Abominations Of The Earth.
A CITY.
Man, Seeking Unity And Power, By Building A City.
A Big Population Center Where Political Power Could Be Manipulated.
This City Was Organized In Order Not To Obey God.
God Had Told Men To Scatter Over The Earth. (Gen. 9:1).
They Refused To Scatter (11:4).
They Were Acting In Defiance Of God Himself.
A TOWER.
This Tower As The Basis For A New Religion.
This Tower As A Rallying Point For The People.
This Tower As A Ziggurat.
This Tower Was A Pinnacle Of An Anti-God Religion.
A NAME.
This City, Tower And Religion.
Was Built To Exalt Man And Not To Glorify God.
This Whole System Was Built On Humanism.
This Whole System Left God Out Of The Society.
This Was A False Substitute Religion.
This Was Counterfeit For The One True Religion.
A. The Lord Conveys The Thought That God Stands Amazed At The Apostasy Of Men.
B. God Must Stop This Apostasy OR Again There Would Be No Limit To The Evil They Might Do.
A. The Lord Confound Their Language.
The Lord Judges By Giving Them Various Languages.
They Are Forced To Break Off From One Another.
They Are Forced To Form Different Groups By Language.
God Did Not Want One False Religion And One Political Unity Headed Up By A Dictator.
The Prince Of Peace Will Be The Only One Qualified.
The Future Anti-Christ Or World Dictator Will Come To Power Through This One World Religious System.
C. BABEL Is The Place That Language Was Confused.
This Is Where It Happened.
This Is When It Happened.
This Is How It Happened.
This Is Why It Happened.
GOD INTERRUPTED APOSTASY.
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