I don’t support any of the churches or denominations. Not one. They all have the leaven of men. I love my brothers and sisters who are in them though. One day, God will say, come out of her my people. Do not share in the plagues of the great whore.
He already has....."Babylon the great" encompasses more than just apostate Christianity...it is much more wide spread than that.
Why is this 'harlot' called "Babylon the great" in the first place? And why is she called a prostitute?
It is because original Babylon was the springboard for all false religion. When Israel strayed into false worship, God accused her of spiritual immorality. So any kind of adoption of false worship made them spiritual prostitutes in God's eyes.
After the flood of Noah's day, it was Noah's great grandson (Nimrod) who started to elevate himself as the first political ruler and along with his wicked mother Semiramis, introduced all manner of false worship.....instead of spreading abroad in the earth as they were commanded by God to do, they decided to stay put and make a celebrated name for themselves. They built cities, the grandest of which was Babel and they intended to build
"a tower with its top in the heavens". (Genesis 11:1-9)
(Legend has it that this was to save themselves in case God ever brought another flood)
So, because of their disobedience, God confused their language and thwarted their plans, forcing them to spread out in the earth, but in doing so, they took all their false religious ideas with them and that is why we see a common thread running through all of the religions in the world.....multiplicities of gods....and belief in an immortal soul that goes to either a hell of eternal torture or an eternity of heavenly bliss. Each added their own minor details, and the major religions of the world became largely geographical.
So "the greater Babylon" is an image of the original....all of its doctrines can be traced back to Babylon's false religious beliefs.
The rabbinic writings derived the name Nimrod from the Hebrew verb
ma·radhʹ, meaning “rebel.” Thus, the Babylonian Talmud (
Erubin 53
a) states:
“Why, then, was he called Nimrod? Because he stirred up the whole world to rebel (himrid) against His [God’s] sovereignty.”—
Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, by Menahem M. Kasher.
Nimrod distinguished himself as a mighty hunter “before” (in an unfavorable sense; Heb.,
liph·nehʹ; “against” or “in opposition to”) or “in front of” Jehovah. (Genesis 10:9)
According to
M’Clintock and Strong Cyclopædia:
“That the mighty hunting was not confined to the chase is apparent from its close connection with the building of eight cities. . . . What Nimrod did in the chase as a hunter was the earlier token of what he achieved as a conqueror. For hunting and heroism were of old specially and naturally associated . . . The Assyrian monuments also picture many feats in hunting, and the word is often employed to denote campaigning. . . . The chase and the battle, which in the same country were connected so closely in aftertimes, may therefore be virtually associated or identified here. The meaning then will be, that Nimrod was the first after the flood to found a kingdom, to unite the fragments of scattered patriarchal rule, and consolidate them under himself as sole head and master; and all this in defiance of Jehovah, for it was the violent intrusion of Hamitic power into a Shemitic territory.”—1894, Vol. VII, p. 109."
Nimrod apparently remained at Babel and expanded his dominion, founding the first Babylonian Empire.
Nimrod also features very clearly in Northern Hemisphere folk law. Tradition has it that Nimrod died a violent death. Since the god Marduk (Merodach) was regarded as the founder of Babylon, it has been suggested by some that Marduk represents the deified Nimrod. It is said that his mother placed him among the gods after his death, and thereby gave herself the title "Mother of God".
With the passage of time, the gods of the first Babylonian Empire began to multiply. The pantheon came to have a number of triads of gods, or deities. One such triad was composed of Anu (the god of the sky), Enlil (the god of the earth, air, and storm), and Ea (the god presiding over the waters). Another triad was that of the moon-god Sin, the sun-god Shamash, and the fertility goddess Ishtar, the lover or consort of Tammuz. Ishtar is where we get "Easter" and "Tammuz" was the false god wept over by the women of Israel....the dying God who was resurrected in the Spring.
The Babylonians even had triads of devils, such as the triad of Labartu, Labasu, and Akhkhazu.
Thought you might like a bit of interesting history and the origins of a lot of religious beliefs adopted by Christendom, but which find no support in scripture.....it all makes perfect sense. The "weeds" were predicted.....and they consumed the garden as weeds always do.