1. BABYLON is the Greek form of BABEL, the infamous city founded by Nimrod, "Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one ... wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was BABEL,, ..." [Genesis 10:9-10] The accolades, "mighty one" and "mighty hunter" underscore Nimrod's opposition and rebellion against God. God's commandment after the flood, was very clear, spead out and "replenish the earth", Genesis 9:1; Nimrod had other plans, "... let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may REACH UNTO HEAVEN; and let us MAKE US A NAME, LEST WE BE SCATTERED ABROAD abroad upon the face of the whole earth" [Genesis 11:4] The tower was in essence a two-way demonic portal; a gateway to descend hell on earth, a route for men to access powers of hell through secret societies, idolatory and false religion, "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away" [2 Timothy 3:5] God stepped iin and the tower was not finished, "Therefore is the name of it called BABEL; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them ..." [Genesis 11:9]
2. The tower was not finished and Satan was not done. Many years later, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had a dream, interpreted by Daniel, "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the FORM THEREOF WAS TERRIBLE" [Daniel 2:31] at the head of the image was Babylon, represented Nebuchadnezzar, a global empire strengthened from hell through sorcery and magical powers [Daniel 2:2] The "breath and arms" and "belly and thighs" described descent of a new tower, spiritual Babylon, with landfall of "legs and feet" in Rome, "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise" [Daniel 2:4] The grounds for the new tower, Babylon Church, was facilitated by mingling of seed; cohabitation of denizens of hell with men, "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay" [Daniel 2:43] CHRIST was revealed in the days of the fourth kingdom, Daniel 2:44; He was at Babel and returned to set up true highway to heaven, "... in the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: .." [Daniel 2:44]
3. Kingdom of God is eternal life, the life of God in Jesus Christ sown on the Cross; "good seed", "... The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which SOWED GOOD SEED in his field: But while men slept, HIS ENEMY came and SOWED TARES among the wheat, and went his way" [Matthew 13:24-25] Church is the visible Kingdom, the fellowship of Saints united in one body by grace through faith in the revelation of fulness of God in Jesus Christ, "... the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell" [Colossians 1:18-19] The "enemy" came after the "good seed" was in the ground, the same who beguiled Eve and designed tower of Babel came riding a white horse, "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. [Revelation 6:2] This rider on white horse is not Jesus Christ as some think; only a deceiver would ride to "conquer" without a name and a bow without arrows; he came to sow tares [2 Corinthians 11:14, Revelation 19:11-16] The crown was never his own, he received it by deception in Eden. He usurped kingdoms and glory of this world and gives it to whomsoever he wishes for his own end [Luke 4:4-8]
4. Circa 312 AD, the deceiver passed the crown of infamy to Constantine, Emperor of Romean empire. Emperor Constantine claimed to have seen a flaming cross in his dream and a voice saying, "In this sign, conquer!"; it was a snare, Jesus already won on the Cross [John 19:30] Constantine, under guise of decriminalising Christianity seduced a section of the Church into union with Imperial Rome; Babylon Church was born, formalising a new home for the gods of Rome, "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" [Revelation 17:5] Babylon Church is the new tower of Babel promising access to heaven outside the highway of God revealed in Jesus Christ. It has outward forms of godliness but inwardly a nest of cults, new-age fantasies, witchcraft and sorcery, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" [Colossians 2:8-9] Emperors, popes, kings, priests, etc., received the crown of harlotry through the ages to sit as gods over men. King Henry VIII was a classic example, he enacted the act of supremacy in 1534, making himself and heirs head of the Church of England.
To be continued
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