Where was Babylon and who built it? What made Babylon so Great? Why is identifying who is Babylon the Great today so important?
Nimrod (Noah’s great-grandson by Cush) was the first man to consolidate power through the strength of war after the Great flood. Nimrod built cities and conquered territory. He built himself a kingdom and a name to the point that people’s and nations where all made subject to him and to his authority.
Genesis 10:8-12… Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth. 9 He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.” 10 His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech (Uruk), Accad (Akkad),and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (Babylonia). 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12 and Resen, between Calah and Nineveh the great city.
Nimrod proved to be a powerful king and a builder of a kingdom. Babylon and Nineveh were the two greatest cities that he built, and both were synonymous for being called by God as wicked. Babylon was built on the Tigris River about 50 miles south of Baghdad in the present day of Iraq. How did Nimrod become the resistor of God? Were the ambitions and the accomplishments acceptable to God?
Genesis 11:1-9… Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words. 2 And it came about that in their journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valley plain in the land of Shinar, and they took up dwelling there. 3 And they began to say, each one to the other: “Come on! Let us make bricks and bake them with a burning process.” So brick served as stone for them, but bitumen served as mortar for them. 4 They now said: “Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth.” 5 And Jehovah proceeded to go down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 After that Jehovah said: “Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them. 7 Come now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another’s language.” 8 Accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah God had confused the language of all the earth, and Jehovah had scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth.
Nimrod became a resistor of God because he violated the commandment and directive given by God.
Genesis 9:3-6… Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for YOU. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to YOU. 4 Only flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat. 5 And, besides that, YOUR blood of YOUR souls shall I ask back. From the hand of every living creature shall I ask it back; and from the hand of man, from the hand of each one who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul of man. 6 Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image he made man.
These people refused to follow the commandment and directive from God, to be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and to have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.” No, instead they subdued people, killing all those who did not want to submit to their domination.
Building the Tower of Babel
What were the people thinking when they started to build this tower what was its purpose and their intentions?
Jasher 9:20-39… And king Nimrod reigned securely, and all the earth was under his control, and all the earth was of one tongue and words of union. 21 And all the princes of Nimrod and his great men took counsel together; Phut, Mitzraim, Cush and Canaan with their families, and they said to each other, Come let us build ourselves a city and in it a strong tower, and its top reaching heaven, and we will make ourselves famed, so that we may reign upon the whole world, in order that the evil of our enemies may cease from us, that we may reign mightily over them, and that we may not become scattered over the earth on account of their wars. 22 And they all went before the king, and they told the king these words, and the king agreed with them in this affair, and he did so. 23 And all the families assembled consisting of about six hundred thousand men, and they went to seek an extensive piece of ground to build the city and the tower, and they sought in the whole earth, and they found none like one valley at the east of the land of Shinar, about two days’ walk, and they journeyed there, and they dwelt there. 24 And they began to make bricks and burn fires to build the city and the tower that they had imagined to complete. 25 And the building of the tower was unto them a transgression and a sin, and they began to build it, and whilst they were building against the Lord God of heaven, they imagined in their hearts to war against him and to ascend into heaven. 26 And all these people and all the families divided themselves in three parts; the first said We will ascend into heaven and fight against him; the second said, We will ascend to heaven and place our own gods there and serve them; and the third part said, We will ascend to heaven and smite him with bows and spears; and God knew all their works and all their evil thoughts, and he saw the city and the tower which they were building. 27 And when they were building they built themselves a great city and a very high and strong tower; and on account of its height the mortar and bricks did not reach the builders in their ascent to it, until those who went up had completed a full year, and after that, they reached to the builders and gave them the mortar and the bricks; thus was it done daily. 28 And behold these ascended and others descended the whole day; and if a brick should fall from their hands and get broken, they would all weep over it, and if a man fell and died, none of them would look at him. 29 And the Lord knew their thoughts, and it came to pass when they were building they cast the arrows toward the heavens, and all the arrows fell upon them filled with blood, and when they saw them they said to each other, Surely we have slain all those that are in heaven. 30 For this was from the Lord in order to cause them to err, and in order; to destroy them from off the face of the ground. 31 And they built the tower and the city, and they did this thing daily until many days and years were elapsed. 32 And God said to the seventy angels who stood foremost before him, to those who were near to him, saying, Come let us descend and confuse their tongues, that one man shall not understand the language of his neighbor, and they did so unto them. 33 And from that day following, they forgot each man his neighbor’s tongue, and they could not understand to speak in one tongue, and when the builder took from the hands of his neighbor lime or stone which he did not order, the builder would cast it away and throw it upon his neighbor, that he would die. 34 And they did so many days, and they killed many of them in this manner. 35 And the Lord smote the three divisions that were there, and he punished them according to their works and designs; those who said, We will ascend to heaven and serve our gods, became like apes and elephants; and those who said, We will smite the heaven with arrows, the Lord killed them, one man through the hand of his neighbor; and the third division of those who said, We will ascend to heaven and fight against him, the Lord scattered them throughout the earth. 36 And those who were left amongst them, when they knew and understood the evil which was coming upon them, they forsook the building, and they also became scattered upon the face of the whole earth. 37 And they ceased building the city and the tower; therefore he called that place Babel, for there the Lord confounded the Language of the whole earth; behold it was at the east of the land of Shinar. 38 And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up one third part thereof, and a fire also descended from heaven and burned another third, and the other third is left to this day, and it is of that part which was aloft, and its circumference is three days’ walk. 39 And many of the sons of men died in that tower, a people without number.
These people who were building the tower had an elitist, globalist, mentality they cared more about their project of building the tower and what it meant to them then of the life of their neighbor. These people of Babel broke the commandments of God, and this path led them further away from God in there thinking and their actions. Eventually this led them to outright rebellion and direct conflict against God. These people imagine they were building a gateway to access God, they even refer to their city as Babilu meaning gate of God. After the intervention of God confusing their languages Nimrod moved further north building cities as he went.
Out of the cities Nimrod built Babylon and Nineveh have become infamous in history. There was a clay cylinder that was discovered called the Code of Hammurabi, below is some of the inscription found upon it which we can extrapolate information about the beliefs, attitudes, and Gods found in the region of Babylon.
Code of Hammurabi
When the lofty Anu, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, lord of heaven and earth, he who determines the destiny of the land, committed the rule of all mankind to Marduk, the chief son of Ea; when they made him great among the Igigi; when they pronounced the lofty name of Babylon; when they made it famous among the quarters of the world and in its midst established an everlasting kingdom whose foundations were firm as heaven and earth – at that time, Anu and Bel called me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, the worshiper of the gods, to cause justice to prevail in the land, to go forth like the Sun over the Black Head Race, to enlighten the land… end of text.
Commentary about the Code of Hammurabi
These are the first lines of cuneiform trail known as the Code of Hammurabi, sixth king of the Amorite dynasty who lived and reigned in Babylon between 1728 and 1686 BC and was proclaimed king of Sumeria. Under his reign he turned the small city-state into an empire that dominated Mesopotamia between Kurdistan and the Persian Gulf, between the lands of Mari to Susa in today’s Iran, beating out the Assyrian capital Nineveh.
Babylon was called in Sumerian times Ka-dingirra, the Gate of the Gods. In Nebuchadnezzar age, during the second Chaldean kingdom, there was built the famous Ishtar Gate, leading to the temple of Marduk.
So, we can see according to the testimony of the king Hammurabi. Along with the following commentary from the archaeologist. Babylon was destined for greatness according to the gods they worshiped. Even the commentator admits to the greatness that Babylon acquired compared to that of Nineveh. Then according to this king Hammurabi these named gods were trying to establish an Everlasting Kingdom, a famous name for their city Babylon and to enlighten the lands around them. I can see why people today want to claim that Babylon the Great is the Empire a False Religion when in fact it was so much more than that.
Babylon the Great was created by the gods that controlled the city of Babylon, and they had in mind to subject the whole world to their kingdom and to enlighten mankind to their ideology, and their rules. Babylon the Great represents the globalist idea of their utopia and anyone or anything that stands in their way risk death.
Who or What is Babylon the Great Today?
Babylon the Great is in fact an invisible city that the wicked spirits hold dear to their hearts. Even though God had destroyed their physical city it still exists in their spirit realm. It also stands in stark contrast to the new Jerusalem that God is building. Which is the best way to describe their city is by this contrast. This City in the spirit realm cast a shadow over an earthly city today. That city will be made manifest by the ideologies of the past. They have stated their intentions to build themselves a kingdom to rule over the earth. This is a globalist idea, a One World Government, One World Economy, One World Religion controlled by them.
Is it possible to point to one physical city in the world and say this represents Babylon the Great today. We can only surmise based on the evidence of the past or it can be revealed by the Holy Spirit to you today.
We will next address who are the kings of the earth and who are the daughters of Babylon. We will also look at some of the fulfilled prophecies against Babylon and some yet to be fulfilled.
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