January 30, 2009
“Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter BEFORE the LORD; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter BEFORE the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel . . .” (Genesis 10:9-11).
“Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana
Dear Brethren,
A
s
one beholds the signs that Jesus Christ spoke of in His Olivet
Prophecy (Matthew 24) coming to pass and the sun setting on this
present evil age (Galatians 1:4);
we
find ancient history being repeated in the United States of America,
whose Biblical name is Manasseh.
The fulfillment of these signs make known the end of the House of Joseph as nations is now very close, very close indeed!
Some years after the drowning deaths of the corrupt civilization during the worldwide Flood that the LORD had brought upon the earth, a man arose to such great prominence that he is remembered and written about by many historians. Please note what Scripture tells us about this man:
Cush
begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a
mighty hunter BEFORE
the LORD;
therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter BEFORE
the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel . . . (Genesis
10:9-11).
Nimrod’s role in the beginning of that ancient civilization has had such great impact on all of the generations that followed over the millennia that it continues in our time; and in such destructive ways that only the few recognize. And even with those few historians what they do understand is in small part.
Writers and speaker on national television are noting the dramatic changes being made by the new leadership in Washington, D. C. that could be thought of as Nimrod coming back to life and beginning his reign as king once again.
Nimrod’s lineage goes back from his father Cush to Ham and his wife, Naamah. She was the daughter of Zillah and Lamech, the Caanite (Genesis 4:19, 22). Lamech had two wives one of which was Zillah. Zillah (meaning: shadow or darkness) was a black woman and the other wife was a white woman (Adah).
2000 Years of Pre-flood History, Page 13, Roy Shultz
“The Negro race is a mutation from Adam’s stock. It originated in a certain generation after Adam. This is also true of the oriental or yellow race. THE WHITE, BLACK AND YELLOW RACES ALL EXISTED BEFORE THE FLOOD!
“Now the importance of Zillah is becoming clear. It is likely THAT ZILLAH WAS THE FIRST TRULY BLACK WOMAN IN HUMAN HISTORY. This factor alone would have made her famous! Being the wife of Lamech made her even more well known.”
Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 794, “Nimrod (Hebrew rebel), the son of Cush and founder of the kingdom of Babel (Babylon, Genesis 10:8, 9). . . . In the Bible Nimrod appears as a great personality in whom great earthly imperial powers first appears in human history.”
Clarke Commentary, volume 1, page 86, “Nimrod began to be a mighty man in sin, a plunderer of innocent men, and a rebel before the LORD. . . . The Jerusalem Targum says, ‘He was a mighty man in hunting (or in prey) and in sin before God, for he was a hunter of the children of men, and a rebel before the LORD.’”
Experimental Commentary, Volume 1, pages 112, 113:“Nimrod,” if of Hebrew etymology, comes from a verb signifying TO REBEL . . . being by some considered as the past participle, and denoting a determined, and extremely impious rebel; and by others taken for the first person plural future, ‘We will rebel’ that being in their view, the watchword of the leader and his party in resisting the divine decree for dispersion over the earth.”
Is there a connection of Nimrod, the King of that ancient time, to the newly elected President of the United States? The above quotes make known Nimrod was rebellious against God and His laws.
Nimrod was also worshiped by the peoples of that time (Satan’s Great Deception, page 20, Dr. C. Paul Meredith) just as many people today President Obama. Millions of people treated him like the Messiah, just as the people of Germany worshiped Hitler prior to World War II...
W
hile
serving in combat in Germany during World War II, a question was
asked by one of our soldiers of a German woman, “What do you
people think of Hitler?” She responded by saying, “In
the beginning we thought he was God but after finding all of the
nations we were fighting we begin thinking he was the devil.”
Consider the following statements made of President Obama at his inauguration:
“You feel like God is speaking to you", said one attendee at the inauguration.
"“The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist –(he is like) any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.” Denzel Washington said.
"I would say that he would be like Joshua going across to the Promised Land" said Martin Luther King Jr.
Consider the writings of two leading black people who viewed President Obama’s election in a different way
Just
call him 'President Nimrod'
Posted:
January 17, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
~ George Bernard Shaw, "Revolutionist's Handbook" (1903)
Prologue
As I view all of the cataclysmic world events of today and how society lurches towards Perdition, I am reminded of the august words of that magnificent playwright George Bernard Shaw who, quoting the French writer Alphonse Karr, said, "The more things change, the more things stay the same."
Obama's modern lineage
"Change" was a mantra of President-elect Barack Obama, and "change" is what propelled him into the White House as the first black president of the United States by defeating a sitting senior senator from New York and the wife of the original "first black president," Bill Clinton. Yet, I don't see real change with Obama; I see Presidents Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Jimmy Carter and William Clinton, redux (part II) – but also LBJ and George W. Bush.
I see Barack Obama mimicking the fascist and socialist policies of President Wilson (1913-21), father of the League of Nations (1919), precursor to the United Nations (1945), whom conservative writer Jonah Goldberg called "the first president to speak disparagingly of the Constitution." Goldberg continued on Wilson:
Wilson's view of politics could be summarized by the word "statolatry," or state worship. … Wilson believed that the state was a natural, organic and spiritual expression of the people themselves. … Constitutional democracy, as the founders understood it, was a momentary phase in this progression. … The State does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.
I see Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) as a precedent figure to Obama because he himself in his own words has promised Americans FDR, part II. FDR fulfilled Wilson' League of Nations' dream by helping to create the United Nations.
I see Jimmy Carter (1976-81) as a precedent figure to Obama. Despite all his vaunted rhetoric of "Yes we can," now that Obama has been elected, his tone is much more somber, grave, almost depressing regarding the economy. President Carter called his economic times "malaise" and constantly chided Americans to "conserve energy," put on sweaters, bicycle to work and turn your thermostat down. Now that's a leader you can follow.
Finally, there are the Clinton retreads Obama is putting into key upper-level Cabinet positions. Why? Did not Obama defeat Hillary? Why is he kowtowing to the political hacks of the Clinton administration who squatted in the Reagan revolution of a great economy and took credit for it despite the fact that it was the Gingrich Congress and his "Contract with America" that held the Clintons' (Bill and Hilary) socialist tendencies in check.
Ironically, it wasn't the liberal Bill Clinton that ended the 20 fat years of Ronald Reagan, but thanks to the so-called "conservative" George W. Bush who single-handedly destroyed the conservative movement, derailing the Reagan Revolution and establishing a rejuvenated Bob Michelesque "loyal minority" for another 40 years of political irrelevance for the GOP.
Obama's ancient lineage
Speaking of utopia, this brings me to perhaps Obama's most interesting and least talked about precedent figure, the biblical Nimrod of the book of Genesis. Nimrod was the first great world leader mentioned in the Bible after the flood in the land presently known as Babylon (Iraq).
Was Nimrod good or evil? The Bible says little of Nimrod the man, but what it does reveal is very significant:
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." The centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in Shinar (Genesis 10:8-10).
Without getting too detailed about biblical history, how does Nimrod relate to the United Nations and Obama? All three were one-world-government utopians, meaning their worldview and political philosophy is predicated on man being the alpha and omega of all things, the sole master of his own destiny, and that mankind has the capacity through his own efforts (apart from God and morality) of establishing a perfect society here on earth. These pagan, humanist assumptions are repeatedly condemned throughout the Bible as heretical and diabolical.
What policies or ideas did Nimrod establish that are similar to the U.N. and Obama? Nimrod was a very significant man in ancient times, the grandson of Ham and great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod started his kingdom at Babylon. He arrogantly violated an expressed commandment of God for mankind after the flood to disperse throughout the earth ("Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it," Gen. 1:28) and consolidated his lust for one-world globalism and centralized power at his stronghold of "the plains of Shinar" in present-day Iraq.
As a monument to his narcissistic power and deification of his divinity, Nimrod ordered built a giant "ziggurat"; an astrological tower, not to climb to heaven, as some biblical scholars contend, but as an observation tower to view the movements of the planets. Nimrod and ancient society at that time worshipped the stars and planets of heaven, another blasphemous violation of the Bible.
Epilogue
We clearly see though the fascist and socialist legacy of Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Carter, and even through the utopian tendencies George W. Bush, that Obama will enact statist policies designed to confiscate more of our constitutional rights and give them to the federal government. This is bad for all Americans and will only further denigrate our natural rights, or what Jefferson referred to as "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
We see in the biblical figure, Nimrod, an ancient precedent figure for Obama who was utterly narcissistic, pagan and utopian in that Nimrod was the first person to try to establish a one-world government. God was so against this idea that he "confounded their languages" so that the people who were originally of one language couldn't understand one another, and work on the "Tower of Babel" was discontinued.
Likewise, Obama's early Cabinet picks have been characterized by the propaganda media as "centrists," though they are not. These careerist politicians, appointees and ideologues – from Hillary Clinton to Carol Browner, Eric Holder, Tom Daschle, Michelle Obama, Leon Panetta, and Rahm Emmanuel, are dyed-in-the-wool socialists with overtly fascist tendencies. They are utopians in that their sole objective is to continue the FDR revolution of making "We the People" foreswear more and more of our inalienable rights to become voluntary slaves of the leviathan State.
Let me end with a quote on the Declaration of Independence from President Woodrow Wilson, who wrote that "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle." According to Wilson, "if a law couldn't be executed, it wasn't a real law, and that 'abstract rights' were vexingly difficult to execute."
With these two utopians controlling the most powerful nation in the history of civilization – George W. Bush on the right and Barack Hussein Obama on the left, Jefferson's "law of nature and of Nature's God" has been perverted into Wilson's "[law of] whatever experience permits or the times demand.",
Ellis
Washington is currently a professor of law and political science at
Savannah State University, former editor at the Michigan Law Review
and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John
Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on
constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical
race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and
several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and
Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law"
(2002). See his law review article "Reply
to Judge Richard Posner."
Washington's latest book is "The
Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust."
Please note the writing of another Writer
This
article by her is another point of view......
No
He Can't
By Anne Wortham
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America
I
cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no
elation.
There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with
joy.
There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions
and
behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about
the requirements of human flourishing and survival, all that
I
know about the history of the United States of America, all that I
know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack
Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the
"change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most
importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that
you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been
on for over a century. I would have to pretend that
individual
liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would
have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on
which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it
somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this
country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are
permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by
self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him
because he doesn't look like them. I would have to
wipe
my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have
advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his
administration, political intellectuals like my former
colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of
Government.
I would have to believe that "fairness"
is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that
man
who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new
service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would
have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes
from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he
can will it into existence by the use of government force. I
would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the
masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the
generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So
you have made history, Americans. You and your children have
elected a black man to the office of the president of the United
States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between
John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over and Fonda won.
Eugene
McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie
Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their
Kennedy
look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the
suburbs
can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black
person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals,
80s
yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black
America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke,
Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual
who
is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the
pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to “Do Something!"
You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your
freedom
and mine, “what little there is left“ for the chance to
feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy
obliviousness.”
By: Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman
“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution” --Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitution – the bedrock of our country – is … dead.
This is the dirty little secret that bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. Gutzman expose in this provocative new book. The fact is that government officials – Democrats and Republicans, president, judges, and congresses alike – long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government’s power.
Woods and Gutzman round up the suspects responsible for the death of the government and Founding Fathers designed. Going right to the scenes of the crime, they dissect 12 of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution. In chronicling this “dirty dozen,” the authors show that the attacks began long before presidents declared preemptive wars, congresses built pork-barrel bridges to nowhere, and Supreme Court justices began to behave as our surpreme legislators.
Never shying away from controversy, Woods and Gutzman reveal an unsettling but unavoidable truth: now that the federal government has broken free of the Constitution’s chains, government officials are restrained by little more than their sense of what they can get away with.
Thomas E. Woods Jr., Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” and “33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask.”
Kevin C. Gutzman, Jr., Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution” and “Virginia’s American Revolution.” He is associate professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University.
T
he
leadership and peoples of Israel are in direct rebellion against God
today just as they were when
Moses went upon the
mountain of God to receive from Him the 10 Commandments and molded a
golden calf that was to be their god instead of the true God (Exodus
32).
Coming back down from the mountain and upon seeing the outright rebellion of Israel, Moses in disgust and great anger threw the tablets of stone, on which the 10 commandments were written by the finger of God, at them— (Exodus 32:19).
Those laws were to be their bedrock and foundation and be a way of life for them, just as the constitution was to be to this once great country having been developed by men who held a belief in God.
Through
obedience to those holy and righteous laws of God would have kept
them in a right relationship with Him and would have provided them
with every good physical blessing (Leviticus 26:3-12; Deuteronomy
28:1-16).
In the latter part of this past century saw many dramatic moves away from any recognition of God, His laws and way of life. And it continually and progressively grows worse until there is no recognition of God. It was reported that a Bible could not even be found in the White House for the second swearing in ceremony of the new president.
When we view changes made, and others promised to be made, since the new president has been voted into office, and supported by his very liberal congress and politically motivated supreme court (as Justice Scalia stated sometime ago in an interview on television), the changes are similar to what Nimrod and his party did within just a few years after the Flood.
Changes in our time that are leading to the prophesied horrors just in front of us similar to the time in which God brought about the drowning deaths of perhaps two billion peoples more or less except for Noah who walked with God and his immediate family (Genesis 6:8-9; 7.1-24).
God destroyed the world at that time just as He also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-29) for the same reasons He is going to punish severely not only the House of Joseph but all of the tribes of Israel for their wickedness, perverse, and corrupt way of life –worshiping the creature instead of the Creator (Romans 1:18-32; Genesis 6:1-22; Ezekiel 5:12).
T
he
sun will soon rise revealing a new millennial age – one that
will be far different from the one into which we were born and have
had our human existence; the one we have known all of our human
lives, but now is a
world that has
veered clearly off course from any recognition of God and His laws
and teachings (Galatians 1:4).
The new world will be governed by the newly coronated KING of Kings and LORD of Lords, Jesus Christ (Daniel 7:13-14). And under His firm hand and righteous teachings it will come to be the Wonderful World of Tomorrow because it will be based on righteousness.
Ambassador Bible Correspondence, Lesson 5: Jesus Christ is soon to return to earth in supreme POWER and GLORY, to put down all rebellion, to RULE all nations with divine power and force, to institute a totally new and different system of education . . . !
In view of the terrible times coming upon America and Britain and later the world; we are admonished to come out of this world, its system, lest we be destroyed with it (Revelation 18:4-5).
And for all of God’s people who are living with hope to become a part in God’s new world there is of the utmost necessity the need to be putting forth real effort to remove the spots on our wedding garments knowing this is vital for each one to be acceptable to God (Revelation 19:7-9).
In contrast to this evil world that has rejected God, and His holy and righteous laws, God’s laws have been written voluntarily in the minds and hearts of His true people and each one is walking in His way of life aided by His wonderful Holy Spirit (John 14:15-18).
David
wrote of the importance of God’s laws in his life just as it
should be with all of God’s true people, Israel, and the world:
“The law of God is perfect, converting (margin: restoring) the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; the statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; the FEAR of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More are they to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them Your servant is WARNED, and in KEEPING them there is GREAT REWARD” (Psalm 19:7-11).
Holy Scripture reveals the time ahead when all of mankind from every generation will come back to human life again (Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29). They then will have the opportunity to repent of their sins and accept God and His beloved Son Jesus Christ (John 3:16-17).
Through repentance and the acceptance of His blood mankind’s sins can be blotted out and then they can come to know the real happy and abundant way of life that can lead to immortal life (John 7:37-39; John 14:6).
We should all be praying to that end, “Thy Kingdom Come” (Matthew 6:10).
Your friend and servant in Christ,
Don Billingsley
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