The Garden of Eden was located near the
junction of four rivers --the Pishon, the Gihon, the
Hiddekel, and the Euphrates. These were real rivers which
existed before Noah's flood. The now-dry Wadi al Batin
was the Pishon River, the Gihon was the Karun River, and
the Hiddekel (Tigris) and Euphrates Rivers flowed in
approximately the same course as they occupy today in
Modern Day Iraq.
The Tower of Babel was built in the city of
Babylon, Capitol of the ancient Babylonian Empire one
hour south of Baghdad in Iraq. ... Genesis 11:4 Let's
build a great city with a tower that reaches to the
skies--a monument to our greatness! This will bring us
together and keep us from scattering all over the
world."
Abraham was from Ur, which is in the south of
Iraq. ... Nehemiah 9:7 "You are the LORD God, who chose
Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and
renamed him Abraham.
Isaac's wife Rebekah was from Iraq (
Mesopotamia ) ... Genesis 24:4 He traveled to
Aram-naharaim and went to the village where Abraham's
brother Nahor had settled.
Jacob met Rachel in Haran which is in the
southern part of Iraq. ... Genesis 29:4 Jacob went over
to the shepherds and asked them, "Where do you live?" "At
Haran," they said.
Jonah preached in Nineveh, which is the current
city of Mosul in Iraq. ... Jonah 3:1-2 Then the LORD
spoke to Jonah a second time: "Get up and go to the great
city of Nineveh, and deliver the message of judgment I
have given you."
Daniel was in the lion's den in Al Hillah in
Iraq ... Daniel 6:19-22 Very early the next morning, the
king hurried out to the lions' den. When he got there, he
called out in anguish, "Daniel, servant of the living
God! Was your God, whom you worship continually, able to
rescue you from the lions?" Daniel answered, "Long live
the king! My God sent his angel to shut the lions' mouths
so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found
innocent in his sight. And I have not wronged you, Your
Majesty."
Ezekiel was the Prophet to Israel during the
Babylonian Captivity. His tomb is in Kifl, Iraq about 100
miles south of Baghdad ... Ezekiel 1:1 On July 31 of my
thirtieth year while I was with the Judean exiles beside
the Kebar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened to
me, and I saw visions of God.
Matthew 2:1-2 Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem
in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. About that time
Wise Men from eastern lands (Iraq or Mesopotamia)
arrived in Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the newborn king
of the Jews? We have seen his star as it arose, and we
have come to worship him."
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Babylon is located in
southern Iraq on the plains of Shinar
(Genesis 10:10) where people migrated after the
Flood and built the Tower of Babel. Babylonia
was divided into Accad to the north, and Summer
("Shinar" of the Old Testament) to the south.
Along with Ur and the city of Babylon itself,
other major cities were Uruk, or Erech , Larsa,
or Ellasar, Sepharvaim, Eridu, and
Calneh.
The Babylonian Empire (see
artist's concept at left) existed from 606 to
539 B.C. and fully conquered the southern
kingdom of Judah in 586 B.C. It was then that
the Babylonians under the rule of King
Nebuchadnezzar completely devastated the city of
Jerusalem, looted and burned the original Temple
of God, built by Solomon and carried the people
of Judah, including the prophets Daniel and
Ezekiel, off into captivity.
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Nebuchadnezzar'
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The capital of Babylonia
fell to the Persian King, Cyrus the Great on
October 29 539 B.C. After 70 years of supremacy,
the Babylonian empire, the "head of gold" in
Daniel's statue, came to an end. ... The main
entrance to Babylon was the Ishtar gate which
can be visited today. Underneath King
Nebuchadnezzar's name Saddam Hussein has had his
name inscribed
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Saddam falls
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Saddam called himself The
Successor of Nebuchadnezzar. The
Bible records in Daniel 4:4 "I,
Nebuchadnezzar, was living in my palace
in comfort and prosperity. Daniel
4:29-30 Twelve months later, he was
taking a walk on the flat roof of the
royal palace in Babylon. As he looked
out across the city, he said, `Just
look at this great city of Babylon! I,
by my own mighty power, have built this
beautiful city as my royal residence
and as an expression of my royal
splendor.'Daniel 4:31 "While he was
still speaking these words, a voice
called down from heaven, `O King
Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for
you! You are no longer ruler of this
kingdom.‚ Daniel 4:33 "That very
same hour the prophecy was fulfilled,
and Nebuchadnezzar was driven from
human society. He ate grass like a cow,
and he was drenched with the dew of
heaven. He lived this way until his
hair was as long as eagles' feathers
and his nails were like birds' claws
... And so it has come to pass: Saddam
Hussein followed in the footsteps of
Nebuchadnezzar just as he himself
predicted.
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THE HANDWRITING ON
THE WALL
The last king to reign in
Babylon was Belshazzar, who celebrated the pagan
Babylonian ritual using the sacred Jewish Temple
vessels which his father, King Nebuchadnezzar,
confiscated from the Jewish Temple in 587 B.C.
Later that night the Persian Emperor Cyrus
conquered Babylon and forced the Babylonian
princes to flee to Pergamum.
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They continued their reign there
until 133 B.C. when Attalus III, the last Babylonian King
to rule in Pergamum, willed his dominions to the
Roman Caesar, and the kingdom of Pergamum merged with the
Roman Empire along with Nimrod's throne and the title
"Pontifex Maximus." In 63 B.C., Julius Caesar, who
had been elected Pontifex Maximus, became emperor of Rome
and vested the office of Roman emperor with the priestly
powers and functions of the Babylonian Pontiff.
Henceforth, the title Pontifex Maximus was used by the
Roman Caesars as illustrated on a Roman coin depicting
the image of Augustus Caesar (27 B.C.-14 A.D.) with his
title Pontifex Maximus - see below. The Roman emperors,
like the preceding Babylonian emperors, now served as
chief priests of the Babylonian Religion and bore the
title Pontifex Maximus.
Thus, like the Babylonian emperors
and the Roman Caesars before them, the Roman Catholic
popes were seated on the throne of Nimrod or Papal seat
and possessed the title Pontifex Maximus as displayed on
medals portraying Popes with the inscription "Pont. Max."
see below. They also wear the scarlet robes of Nimrod and
the miter representing the mouth of the fish-god Dagon
They carry the magical shepherd's crook or crosier of
Nimrod and the mystical keys of Janus
and Cybele, representing the
Babylonian gods, Nimrod
and Semiramis.
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The
architect of the Tower of Babel.
Nimrod, from the Hebrew
"marad" or "we will rebel," was the son of Cush
and a mighty hunter before the Lord born in
Ethiopia - Genesis 10:9.. Nimrod established the
first Kingdom in Babylon and later extended it
to Nineveh in Assyria. He also established the
first Universal false religion "before the Lord"
or openly in the presence of God and defied God
to send another Flood
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The tower of Babel, discovered in
1876, was 300 feet high and 300 feet square with 8
stories or platforms. The tower was finished but the city
was not. ... An ancient Babylonian tablet reads "The
buiding of this illustrious tower offended the gods and
they threw down what was built. They scattered them
abroad and made strange their speech"
In Histori Romani Scriptorium
Justin states, "Ninus ( Nimrod ) strengthened the
greatness of his acquired dominion by continued
possession. Having subdued, therefore, his neighbors,
when, by an accession of forces, being still further
strengthened, he went forth against other tribes, and
every new victory paved the way for another, he subdued
all the peoples of the east."
Josephus (Ant. Jud.)
says: "2. Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an
affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham,
the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of
hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if
it was through his means they were happy, but to believe
that it was their own courage which procured that
happiness. He also gradually changed the government into
tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear
of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on
his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if
God should have a mind to drown the world again; for that
he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able
to reach! and that he would avenge himself on God for
destroying their forefathers !
3. Now the multitude were very
ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to
esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they
built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in
any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of
the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high,
sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it
was so great, and it was so strongly built of burnt
brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen,
that it might not be liable to admit water."
Following the death of Nimrod, his heathen form of
worship was continued by his wife, Queen Semiramis. She
claimed that her husband had become the Sun god, and was
to be worshipped. Queen Semiramis conceived through
adultery and gave birth to an illegitimate son whom she
named Tammuz, who she declared was actually Nimrod
reborn, and that he had been supernaturally conceived.
However, it was she that was worshipped, not the son. She
was worshipped as the Mother of the gods. In 2150 B.C.
Queen Semiramis built a tunnel below the Euphrates River
linking the royal palace of Babylon with the Temple of
Jupiter.
As the Babylonian people were
scattered throughout the world, they took with them the
idea that Semiramis had miraculously conceived and given
birth to Nimrod reincarnated. Thus, all through the
world, men began to worship a divine mother and
god-child, long before the birth of Christ. The woman
appears in different ways, and is called by different
names, but she is always the same person: Isis in Egypt,
Indrani in India, Cybelle in Asia, Fortuna (the boy) in
Rome, Ceres in Greece, Shing Moo in China, Hertha in
Germany, Sisa in Scandanavia. But the woman was really
Semiramis, the queen of Babylon. Even Israel, when it
fell into apostasy, worshipped Ashteroth, who was known
to the Jews as the "queen of Heaven" as told in Jeremiah
44:17-19.
In his deified form, Nimrod the Sun
god is known as Baal. Semiramis, as the female divinity,
would be called Baalti. This word translated into English
means "My Lady." In Latin it would be translated "Mea
Domina". or "Madonna"
