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Civilization
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They wanted to become amal–
gamated through intermarriage of
races.
As mentioned before, God had
set the bounds of the races, provid–
ing for geographical segregation, in
peace and harmony but without
discrimination. But the people
thought they had found a better
way. One purpose for the tower of
Babel was to unite them, and to
prevent them from being scattered
in racial geographical segregation.
They built the tower, "lest we be
scattered abroad . upon the face of
the whole earth" in geographical
segregation (Gen. 11 :4) . But God
looked upon their building of the
tower and said, "Behold, the people
is one, and they have all one lan–
guage; and this they
begin
to do:
and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imag–
ined to do" (Gen. 11 :6).
What has mankind "imagined to
do"? By this 20th century man has
gone into outer space, flown to the
moon and back, invented and pro–
duced the most intricate machines,
computerized instruments, trans–
planted hear ts, and even attempted
to produce life from dead matter .
The human mind's capacity for
material accomplishment seems
unlimited. But his problems are not
material, but spiritual. And before
them he is still helpless without
God.
So God confounded their lan–
guages and "scattered them
abroad ... upon the face of all the
earth" (Gen. 11:8).
Continuing from C. Paul
Meredith's thesis, now out of print
(pages 16-17, 25-29):
Then it was that Nimrod "be–
gan to be a
mighty
one" and a
"mighty
hunter
befare
the Lord"
[Gen. 10:8-9) in aru/ingsense (the
Hebrew word for "mighty" is
gib–
bor ,
which means "tyrant,"
Strong's Concordance of the Bible).
Nimrod became a tyrant over the
people.
He
made the laws. Not
only that but he was "mighty
...
befare"
the Eterna
l.
(The He–
brew word
paniym
translated "be–
fore" here, should be translated
"against"- Strong's Concordance
ofthe Bible
.)
The Bible says Nim–
rod was against God! ...
February 1986
Nimrod kept growing in
power but the inborn desire of
the people to worship must be
satisfied. Nimrod and his follow–
ers had turned against the
true
God. They wanted to glorify God
in their own way!
They
"changed
the glory of the
uncorruptible
God into an
image
made
like ...
creeping things"
Ro–
mans 1:23)-the snake, and other
things God had created. (They
should have worshiped God in
spirit and in truth and not
through idols- John 4:24 and
Ex. 20:4-5.) With the civil power
he wielded, Nimrod set himself
up as the priest of the things
worshiped by the people, to ob–
tain a still stronger hold on them
and gradually put himself in
place of the true God. ...
[But] Noah, the preacher of
righteousness
(11
Pet. 2:5), did
stand fast and gained a staunch
supporter in his son Shem.
While Nimrod was expanding
his kingdom so·rapidly, there was
opposition to Shem, the repre–
sentative of Noah... . Nimrod be–
carne the representative for the
forces of evil in opposing
Shem....
Shem, a very eloquent person,
is said to have obtained the aid of
a group of Egyptians who over–
came Nimrod.
The death of Nimrod seem–
ingly halted the counterfeit pa–
gan worship which he started.
Semiramis . ..
[If] Nimrod had been a man of
unbounded ambition, the ambi–
tion of ... Semiramis- the fu–
ture "Queen of Heaven" (Jer.
7: 18)-exceeded even his. Nim–
rod ... had become the greatest
and most powerful figure in the
world. He was dead. She clearly
saw that if she were to ... have
the great position and power ...
of the most powerful man on
earth, something must be done to
assure ... her power.
Nimrod ' s kingdom, which
consisted of most of the popu–
lated world of that time, had
fallen to her .
Much of Nimrod's
power had come from his setting
himse/f up as the human represen–
tative of the Sun-God.
She must
retain this world rule by any and
all means. T he
religious control
which had given so much power
to [Nimrod] must be used by her
also if she were to retain the
maximum hold on her sub–
jects. . . . In life [Nimrod) had
been honored as a hero; in death
she will have him worshiped as a
god....
Semiramis was actually the
founder of much of the world's
pagan religions, worshiping false
gods. Even such so-called Christian
observances as Christmas, New
Year 's and Easter emerged from
the false religious system she de–
veloped. For details of this the
reader is referred to
The Two Bab–
ylons,
by Alexander Hislop.
Today, the English language is
fast becoming the chief interna–
tional language. Men are starting
to get back to one worldwide lan–
guage.
Present Evil World Oevelops
T he on ly survivors of the great
Flood on earth composed the one
family, that of Noah .
Jt
consisted
of Noah, his wife, their three sons
Shem, Ham and Japheth and their
wives. T he whole human popula–
tion carne from that one family.
The Bible speaks of three
worlds-the world that then was
being overflowed with water, this
present evil world, and the world to
come.
As the flood waters evaporated
the whole earth consisted of the
one family of Noah. But Shem,
who was white and married to a
white woman , started his own fam–
ily . Ham, married to a b lack
woman, had children and began his
own family. Japheth, married to a
yellow or Oriental woman, started
his own family, which inherited
yellow extraction. The early history
recorded in the Bible speaks of
"families," rather than "races."
At the incident of the tower of
Babel, God divided the speech of
the people so that they were able to
communicate each one only in his
new and different language. As
time passed, the families grew,
each family speaking its own lan–
guage in i.ts own local geographic
area.
Nimrod built a number of cit–
ies-Babylon, Erech, Accad, Cal–
neh, Nineveh, etc. There developed
city-states, each with its own local
government. As time passed, na–
tions arose with national govern–
ments. Among these were Babylon
(which became known as Chaldea),
Egypt, Assyria. The religion
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