THE MYSTERIES OF BABYLON
There is a lot happening in this World, which man does not understand. However, God reveals truth through His Word. Truth is seeing things as they really are. God created man and gave him free will. Man has free will to love God or to love himself. Man has that choice. God created man to love Him without being under any obligation. If there is an obligation to visit another person the visit is not made out of love – but under duty. God does not need man. Why then does God desire that man loves Him? God so enjoyed having a relationship with His Son Jesus that He wanted more sons and daughters – one big happy family. Before man was created Satan was expelled from Heaven. Jesus said that He saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven. Jesus the only begotten Son was there and witnessed it. Satan was tired of praising God and wanted to be praised. “Out!” From that moment on Satan has attempted to spoil God’s plans. Why then did God not destroy Satan right away? God has allowed Satan to tempt man. It does not seem fair. Would it not have been easier for man if Satan had been destroyed? When a soldier joins the army he undergoes physical and emotional training to make him fit for battle. Temptation by Satan is spiritual training for children of God. It builds them up spiritually so that, provided they come through the training process and do not give in to temptation, they are stronger than before. Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. The Scripture says that Jesus was perfected in His suffering. He was morally perfect. He never sinned. Yet God perfected Him through temptation and suffering, so that Jesus was fit for the greatest challenge – to die for the sins of the World. In His message to John on the Island of Patmos Jesus said that there are blessings in the form of a prize for those who overcome the World, the flesh and the Devil. Rev chs 2 and 3. Satan tempted Adam and Eve to disobey God. Why did Adam rebel against God’s authority? It was utter foolishness – as it is each time man disobeys the Word of God. There is absolutely nothing to be gained and everything to be lost in disobeying or rebelling against God’s Word. This is especially true for believers.
Where does Satan operate? The Bible presents a picture of two spheres or realms of operation - the area of light and the area of darkness. The Devil operates in the realm of darkness and wherever there is spiritual darkness, the Devil will be there. Jude v 6. The Devil was cast out of Heaven into prisons of darkness. The Devil has initiated warfare against believers. God is light and therefore the absence of God means the absence of light. God is light in whom there is no darkness. Gen ch 1 v 3. Light. God created it as an expression of His character. Gen ch 1 v 15. The sun was created to give light to the Earth. Jesus said: "I am the light of the World.” John ch 8 v 12. "He came to His own but men preferred darkness to light.” John ch 3 v 19. John ch 12 v 35-36. Walk in the light while you have the light. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. God operates in truth while Satan operates in deception and untruth. He is called the father of lies. The mind is the area of battle. Satan seeks to control the mind of man. Jesus said that man is to love God with all his heart, his mind and will. The mind is the theatre of the battle.
The Bible is the answer to God’s problem. The human beings He had created in His image had rebelled against Him. What was God going to do about this rebellion so that man could be brought back into a living relationship with God? He could have destroyed mankind there and then and started afresh. However, He had just created this man and woman and loved them. So He did not destroy them. Although God allowed them to live on physically sin brings forth death. The wages of sin is death. Ever since mankind has to face physical death.
God devised an amazing plan to rescue mankind from itself and the consequences of sin and death and to bring man back into a relationship with God. He would send His Son at the right time in the history of this World to die for the sins of the World and everyone who repented of their sins and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour would be welcomed back into a relationship with God their Creator and receive the gift of eternal life. As early as Gen ch 3 v 15 the plan is unfolded in its initial form. A human being born of a woman would crush the head of Satan while allowing Satan at the same time to bruise the heel of the man. Satan would inflict injury on the man but at the same time the man, by His humility and acceptance of God’s will, would crush Satan’s power over mankind. That is the good news to mankind. The question is – who is this human being who will fulfil the purpose of God? His name is Jesus?
There has always been a remnant throughout history, who have loved and obeyed God. Jesus said that He came to bring life in all its fullness, while Satan comes only to steal, kill and destroy. Once God’s plan was announced it is perhaps not surprising that Satan should seek to counterfeit it and devise a similar plan but one, which would not lead man into freedom but into bondage, keeping man under the wrath of God.
The challenge to man is to love God with all his heart and obey what God tells man to do. Noah did it. Noah loved God and obeyed Him by building an ark. The Bible says that in the days of Noah there was only one righteous man in the whole World. Abraham did it. He obeyed God and left Ur of the Chaldeas with all its prosperity. Jesus said that Abraham saw my day and rejoiced. Abraham and Noah had grasped the fundamentals of God’s plan to deal with sin. By believing in God they received faith and entered into a personal relationship with God. They obeyed God – each in his own way.
The people had the Word of God from Noah, who was a preacher of righteousness. Gen ch 10 v 8. Ham was the disgraced son of Noah. He ridiculed his father and mocked Noah, who by his obedience to God, had saved his family. Noah was not perfect. Ham saw his father naked and laughed at him to his brothers. The brothers walked backwards into the tent and covered their father’s nakedness. Noah proclaimed a curse on Canaan the son of Ham. Cush was a son of Ham and Nimrod was a son of Cush. Nimrod was of the line from Noah, which was not spiritual. Satan used Nimrod to deceive mankind and has done so down through the centuries. Satan is the anti-Christ or alternative Christ. Satan’s plan is for man to save himself by special knowledge and not by accepting Jesus as Saviour and Lord. Special knowledge appeals to pride. Satan has devised a series of religions and religious practices to suit man in different situations and cultures but they all have the same theme. Religion is man's attempt to reach God on his own terms. The error in religion is that it scales down its gods to a size, which the human mind can accommodate. Christianity is God saying to man through Jesus: “You cannot come to me on your own terms. Believe in Jesus and obey His teaching and I will guarantee that you arrive in Heaven at the end of your life on Earth.”
This was Satan’s plan. The seed of woman has come in Nimrod, who was a mighty man and popular with the people. He was physically strong. The death and resurrection of Nimrod as the sun god was the beginning of what is called the Babylonian mysteries. Down through the centuries the false teaching of the Babylonian religion was that the one promised by God and born of woman had come. In this way through deception Satan has used man’s fallen nature to keep man in darkness and to prevent man from receiving God’s forgiveness and the gift of eternal life. Once again God could have destroyed mankind. However, He allowed them to live on making the sun to shine on the righteous and the unrighteous – those who do right in the sight of God and those who do not. Today man still has the choice to make – to accept Jesus on God’s terms or to choose to worship another god of his own imagination. Satan is well called the god of this World. He holds millions in darkness.
Just as God chose Jerusalem to be His special city, so Satan chose Babylon as his sphere of operations. The Bible is a tale of two cities – Babylon and Jerusalem. Babylon can mean the physical city, the capital of the Babylonian Empire and also all cities of the World and Worldliness. The World is man organised in community without reference to God. That was what the Tower of Babel was all about. The promise of a saviour was perverted. Noah was a type of Christ in that he physically saved his own family though obedience to the Word of God. But the real seed of woman promised in Gen ch 3 v 15 was to come at a future date.
Satan’s plan was that man should commend himself to God’s by his own efforts. God would then be obliged to man to allow man to enter Heaven on man’s own terms. This plan appeals to man’s pride and independence from God. It allows man to make his own decisions. Of course Satan knew that this would not be acceptable to God and that millions of human beings would be deceived and denied access to Heaven. In that way Satan would rob mankind of their opportunity to have a relationship with God.
The Tower of Babel.
The people had the Word of God from Noah. God had said to multiply and spread over the Earth. The people had disobeyed God. They were concerned to make a name for themselves rather than for God. The enterprise was to weld the people together as one society. They were of one language. Language is the basis on which science feeds itself and grows. This was the beginning of the explosion of knowledge. But the knowledge gained was used wrongly. This is similar today when the explosion of knowledge gained (as spoken of by Daniel) is used wrongly. The people in Nimrod’s day wanted to live together in a city. They would be materially better off living in a city. Now 80 % of the population of the World lives in cities. This was not God's plan for mankind. The sons of Noah were told to replenish the Earth.
Nimrod founded Babylon. The Greek is Babylon. The Hebrew is Babel. The Bible is not the only source of information. Historians have researched the whole story. Ancient classical writers have provided significant information about Babylon’s founder and first king – Nimrod. The word in English means rebellion. The wife of Nimrod was Semiramis. She was very beautiful but also very immoral. Nimrod also founded Nineveh the capital of Assyria. There he was known as Ninus – hence Nineveh. There were statues of Nina all over Nineveh when Jonah arrived there. The statues were of a nude female with a fish coming out of her belly. It is not surprising that the people were interested in Jonah, who had died and come back to life and had just come out of the belly of a fish.
Nimrod introduced the worship of the sun. He was also noted for the use of sorcery and fire in gaining his victories. The sun god was known as Baal. He led a great rebellion against God. False religion had a set back when Nimrod died. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod was now a god in the form of the sun. That may sound foolish but man becomes darkened in his mind when he rebels against the truth of God. There was born to Semiramis a son whom she claimed was the reincarnation of Nimrod. The child was called Tammuz. She claimed that this was the seed of the woman referred to in Gen ch 3 v 15. The very religious people claimed that the secrets were revealed only to a few initiates in the inner circle. The religion came to be known as the Mysteries of Babylon. This teaching spread to Egypt, Greece, Rome, Assyria and India. In time Semiramis came to be called the Queen of Heaven. The idea of a Mother god and Mother Nature gives a feeling of comfort and affection to man. Nimrod was the sun god. Semiramis was worshipped as the goddess of the moon and the stars. Semiramis was pictured as the Mother with child. The worship of Nimrod involved fire and as a result Nimrod was worshipped as the giver of light to mankind. From this came the name Lucifer, the light giver or enlightener. In effect the worship of Nimrod was worship of the Devil himself. Behind the worship at that time were vile and unmentionable immoral activities. Their activities were hidden behind a facade of outward holiness.
Astrology and the signs of the Zodiac are of Babylonian origin. The Ziggarut was built above the desert sands to study the stars. This tower was a stairway to Heaven. It is the most dangerous heresy on Earth. Humanism is man’s belief in man’s supremacy to be able to reach to God by human wisdom and human effort. It expounds what is man’s belief that what man does for God matters more than what God has done for man. The Tower was constructed by human effort. It was all about what man decided to do without any involvement by God. It commemorates human achievement and it confirms human reputation. It asserts man’s supremacy over God. The ziggarurt was a temple as an expression of man’s religious impulses. God found it repulsive to him. God rejects this religious expression since there is no reference to Him. In Ephesians ch 2 there is the alternative stairway to Heaven, where God plans salvation, Jesus purchases salvation and the Holy Spirit executes the plan by coming into the lives of people to restore the relationship with God. It is God’s idea and His purpose. He raises man up through the sacrifice of Jesus. This asserts the supremacy of God and not man.
Every human being is naturally flawed when he comes out of the production line. Babel represents fallen man at his best. It shows man organised, industrious, adventurous and religious. The Tower indicates that there is a god, although what was understood about him shows that there is no understanding of the living God. The builders were self-centred and not God-centred. They were self-seeking rather than God seeking. There was no consultation with God. When Adam sinned man’s love for God died. Self was at the centre of man’s World. They were self-serving and not God-serving. The city was their idea so that there would be greater prosperity. Today millions flock from the countryside into the city in the hope of a higher standard of living. Instead pollution is choking to death the cities and the people living there. They wanted to make a name for themselves, rather than to give God the glory. Most people reinterpret God subjectively to make God fit their self-centred life style and ambition. “I think that God wants this or that.” Prosperity is seen as material rather than spiritual. Man was disobedient in not going out to conquer the whole Earth. They preferred to live in a city but built a tower to acknowledge God. This put them on a confrontation course with God. Man is the object of God’s wrath. “Not by works” is the no-entry sign across the way to Heaven. Man was disobedient in not going out to conquer the whole Earth.
The story can be seen as a religious work. The people were building their way to God by their own efforts. The Tower may have been started with sincere motives but soon the project became more important than God. In the same way a Church can become more important than God. Those who stood against it were singled out for ridicule and criticism. The supporters started off with enthusiasm but in the end became enslaved and it became a burden to them. Satan enslaved them since the project was not of God. The project became an obsession to the leaders. Pride was their ultimate motive. The first curse in the Bible for disobedience is confusion. Deut ch 28. That is what occurred. After confusion, division resulted. The World Council of Churches fits well into this category of a project as does the European Union. It is not of God. The results are the same. 1. Pride on the part of the leaders. 2. Enslavement on the part of the supporters. 3. Confusion and division.
Since the days of Babel various factors have mitigated against a new attempt at a World order or government. Principally God reigns in the affairs of men. He is in control. Rev chapter 4 explains that Jesus alone is found worthy of opening the scroll or the rule of World history. The factors include language, distance, religion or false gods, lack of communication, different currencies, petty aspirations of individual dictators and the fact that many countries were making progress. The Princes of the demonic World do not agree but fight amongst themselves. God had set the boundaries of the nations of the World. It was His idea to divide the peoples into nations. Most countries could and should have been economically successful in themselves. e.g. Congo. Only greed and corruption has ruined the great opportunities afforded these developing countries.
From the Mysteries developed three Beasts. They are part and parcel of the initiation ceremonies. The initiate rites were celebrated in secrecy. The occult is the hidden things. There is a sense of privilege and power in darkness.
First was the Great Red Dragon. Rev ch 12 v 3. Red signifies blood and fire.
Second was the Beast from the Sea. It was part fish and part man Dagon was the fish god. (Samson destroyed the temple of Dagon.)
Third was the Beast from the Earth. It came out of a cave or hole. It was accompanied with all kinds of miracles and sorcery.
Babylon was the centre of occult worship. God called Abraham out of Ur of the Babylonians so that He could begin a new people, who would have nothing to do with such worship but would worship Him as the true and living God. This is a picture of God calling men and women out of a fallen World. God always gives a physical picture to teach a spiritual truth.
The tragedy is that after Israel entered the Promised Land the people joined the pagans in worship of idols. Indeed Solomon married 700 wives, many of whom were foreign. They brought with them their followers and friends and also their foreign gods. Fire and sacrifice were part of the worship of Nimrod. Tammuz means the perfecting of fire. Baal and Molech mean Lord, Master and Possessor. Jer ch 32 v 25. Israel was expelled from the Promised Land because of the worship of Molech and the sacrificing of their children to Molech. Jer ch 15 v 4. Abortion in Britain. 7 million babies have been aborted since 1967. In U.S.A. there have been at least 48 million abortions since 1967.
Baalzebub means Lord of the Flies. Baal was the god credited for ridding the land of tormenting flies. However there is another meaning. Zebub comes from the root word signifying restless motion - hence the name means the Lord of restless and unsettled motion. Satan was challenged by God in Job ch 1 v 7. He answered: ”From going to and fro in the Earth and from walking up and down in it.” The sun god is a picture of light. Lucifer is described as the shining one in Isaiah ch 14 v 12-15. The female goddess is known as Asherah, or Astatre. She was commonly associated with sexual activities.
In Ezekiel ch 8 Ezekiel was led by the Spirit of God to see what was happening in the Temple in Jerusalem. Among several abominations there was the worship of Tammuz and of the sun.
In Daniel when Nebuchnezzar had his dream he called for the sorcerers. Sorcery was common in the land. Daniel interpreted the dream with the help of God. In Revelation Jesus is presented as the only one able to open the seals and be in control of the history of the World. The dream foretold of four empires - the Babylonian, the Persian, the Greek and the Roman. They would eventually collapse in the face of a fifth Empire – the Kingdom of God. When Gabriel came to speak to Daniel he had to fight his way past the Prince of Greece and the Prince of Persia. Each Empire was controlled by a demonic principality. When the Persian Empire defeated the Babylonians the magicians and sorcerers of Babylon were expelled by the Medes and Persians and fled to Pergamum in Asia Minor. This is the place described in Rev ch 2 as the seat of Satan. This might be described as the centre of Satan’s operations on Earth – his headquarters. Satan is a territorialist. He controls territory. They took the Babylonian Mystery religion with them. The Temple of Pergamum has been rebuilt in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin. Berlin is the capital of the largest country in the reformed Roman Empire. Have the demons followed the Temple to Berlin? Since it was rebuilt in Berlin there have been two World wars and 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Many millions of other peoples were killed.
In Pergamum the kings were called Sovereign Pontiff. That name was to re-emerge later as the name for the Roman Emperors who came to be worshipped as gods.
In Daniel’s vision in ch 11 v 38 speaking of the anti-Christ he describes one who worships the god of forces or fortifications. This is another name for Nimrod – the Babylonian god. This is the god Daniel says will be worshipped by the one who is possessed by Satan and known as Anti-Christ.
In the Roman Empire religions were tolerated – all except true Biblical Christianity. In the days of the early Church the Mysteries manifested themselves in the Gnostics. Paul and John wrote in part to counter the false teaching by the Gnostics. The word means special knowledge. They taught a mixture of Christianity and Babylonian Mysteries. The Gnostics were presenting a religion with aspects of Christianity mixed into it. They believed that all religions had in them something divine but no one had a full and complete revelation from God. This teaching features in the modern Ecumenical Movement and New Age teaching. John was at pains to point out that Jesus is the embodiment of truth – “I am the truth” - and the only way by which a man could come to know God and have a relationship with Him. In the days of the early Church there were many heresies. Actually they were just the same as today – Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses etc but were known by different names. Remember that Satan is the master of deception.
All the major religions of the world stemmed from the Babylonian Mysteries. Constantine’s religion was at best nominal. At worst it was counterfeit. He was probably a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The title of the Roman Emperors was Pontifax Maximus. This meant that they were the head of the Mysteries of Babylon. Constantine continued to hold this title. The Church and state became one. This is always a danger for the Church. Many political leaders like to be regarded as Christian in order to gain respect but deep down are far from servants of the living God.
The Roman Church welcomed in all kinds of superstitions and ceremonies – as they still do today. The Church of Rome had enormous influence over what is commonly regarded as Christianity today. Pagan titles were given to the Roman Emperors – like “father” and “your holiness.” The Pope means papa or father. The Pope adopted pagan symbols. The mitre worn by the Pope was the pagan mitre of the fish head of Dagon. The colours of scarlet and purple were those of the Babylonian Mystery religion. Daniel was clothed in Scarlet by Belshazzar. The Church of Rome finally became the centre of the Mysteries of Babylon. Mass became an act of sacrifice. The secret worship was dressed up in acceptable religious overtures. The Lord’s Supper has been turned into a re-enactment of Christ’s sacrifice. The thin wafer in the form of a round cake symbolised the sun. Nimrod was the sun god. The Mass claimed that the wafer is changed into Christ. Jesus was presented as an angry judge and Mary as a gentle mediator. The people were encouraged to pray to Mary to intercede with the angry Jesus. The Catholic religion developed as a religion of salvation by works and not by grace. The scales of good deeds were weighed against the bad deeds. These were the scales of Annubus mentioned in Daniel ch 5 v 27. Tekel means that the person has been weighed and found wanting. This is exactly the same as the teaching in Islam today. There is a common belief on the part of unbelievers that if man does his best God will be pleased with him. This belief stems from the Roman Catholic and Liberal Church. What is the pass mark? God’s pass mark is 100%. No one can attain that except by receiving the righteousness of Jesus. Purgatory teaches that souls suffer for a time after death for their sins. The prayers of those on Earth are supposed to help them through into Heaven. Jesus said that it was appointed for man to die once and then the judgement. The fires of Baal and Molech were supposed to purify the souls. This was widely believed by pagan Rome. Tammuz is the perfecting fire. The halo is to symbolise the sun divinity of Babylon. Candles come from Babylonian worship. Candles tend to be superstitious. However they also symbolise the light from Nimrod, the false Messiah. Even the cross was only introduced into the Church in 431 A. D. The cross is an ancient symbol of Tammuz – the T. The God of Israel is not a perfecting fire but a consuming fire. Heb ch 12 v 29.
The festivals of the Church were introduced to accommodate pagans. They have an appearance of Christianity but are taken from the Babylonian mystery religion. Christmas was worship of the sun god. Nimrod was regarded as the unconquered sun. The Church of Rome tagged the birthday of Jesus onto this pagan festival. Santa is an anagram of Satan and is dressed in red – the Babylonian colour. This deceives children who learn that it is a lie. When they reject Santa, they reject the whole story of the birth of Jesus. The use of anagrams was a device of the Occult to confuse the uninitiated as to the true meaning. Jesus was certainly not born on 25th December. He was probably born at the Feast of Tabernacles in late September – early October. The festivals add colour and provide religious symbols and traditions but have no basis in the Bible. The idea of Santa flying through the air is like witchcraft.
Easter is the goddess of Spring and new life. She is known as Astarte and Asherath – otherwise as Semiramis. Hot cross buns have the figure T on them – for Tammuz. Cakes were made for the Queen of Heaven. Layer and layer of deception and untruth are linked to the Babylonian Mysteries. Jesus says that man is to worship God in Spirit and truth. God would send the Holy Spirit to lead man into all truth. Satan is the master of deception and lies. In various ways Rome turned the Church into a religion barely different from other religions – largely because the roots were the same as other religions.
There is an interesting comparison between Nebuchadnezzar and the Emperor Vespasian both sent armies against Jerusalem to destroy the Temple of God in Jerusalem. The temple was destroyed on exactly the same day of the year in 586 B. C. and 70 A. D.
Rev ch 17 v 5. Rome was Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. The great city was Rome was built on the seven hills. In the early fifth century the Church of Rome established the doctrine of apostolic succession and claimed that the Church of Rome was the one true Church of Christ outside of which there is no salvation. Eventually the Pope assumed both temporal and spiritual sovereignty to become the same as the Roman Emperors - Potifex Maximus. The Emperor placed himself in the same position as the Babylonian kings. So the Roman Empire - the fourth empire spoken of by Daniel - reigned in the World. It was made up of the nations of Europe. As Daniel prophesied all attempts to unite Europe failed because the iron will not mix with clay. Down through the centuries true believers died terrible and cruel deaths when they opposed the rule of the Pope.
Islam arrived on the stage of World history at the beginning of the seventh century. Long before Mohammed the tribes of Arabia worshipped the Moon god under the name of Allah. The symbol of the crescent moon was used as a symbol of the pagan Allah. The father of Nimrod – Cush – was worshipped as Meni or Manai, which means “the numberer.” At the centre of the pagan worship in Mecca was the square stone temple called the Kabah. Is there a statue of the moon god Allah inside the Kabah? This remains a mystery. There are many similarities between the Church of Rome and Islam. Perhaps the most telling similarity is that both have consistently persecuted both the Jewish people and true believers. The wife of Mohammed was called Khadijah and she was a devout Romanist. There is evidence of involvement of the Roman Church in the establishment of Islam. It may be asked – why then is there so much animosity between the Catholic Church and Islam? It is important to understand that Demonic princes are fallen beings and do not agree with each other and themselves fight for supremacy. Islam has fought for control of the World. On two occasions at Paris and Vienna the armies of Islam were defeated and Islam retreated from Europe until the Twentieth century. The wealth generated by oil has given new importance and power to Islam, which now openly seeks again to establish a World Islamic Republic.
During the time of the Crusades instigated by the Pope in 1095, which led to 200 years of wars in the Middle East there arose an organisation known as the Knights Templar. They adopted many practices of eastern Mysticism, drawing on the secret societies of the Babylonian Religion.
The next group to emerge, which held to the Babylonian Mysteries were the Jesuits. They were a powerful force in the Church of Rome against the Reformation in Europe. The founder of the Jesuits was Ignatius Loyala. He became the general to whom total loyalty was given by his inferiors. The Jesuits specialised in warfare by stealth and deception undermining the enemies of the Roman Church. They became the military arm of the Roman Church to defeat those who opposed the Roman Church. The teachings of the Jesuits include: 1. The leader is beyond questioning. 2. The end justifies the means. This was derived from the Gnostics. 3. The right of following one secret policy whilst openly stating something quite different in the eyes of the World. Half-truths and lies are permitted, if it for the greater good of the society. There is no absolute standard of morality. The Jesuits increased the worship of Mary in the Roman Church. They also pursued their aims of undermining Protestant Churches and nations by infiltration and sabotage. They reached positions of great power in many European countries and at the same time accumulated vast wealth and property. By the eighteenth century they were feared by monarchs and were driven from friendly countries. However this was in public only. Their activities continued in greater secrecy.
At this time the body known as the Illuminati was formed. They became the most important branch of the Jesuits. The name means “enlightened.” They claimed that their involvement with the Babylonian Mystery religion gave them enlightenment. They were in effect worshipping Lucifer - the supposed light giver and illuminator of mankind. Lucifer was not just the sun god of Babylon but was Satan himself. The Illuminati are a small and powerful group, which includes bankers, industrialists, scientists, military and political leaders, educationalists and economists. They have accepted the Luciferian doctrine and give loyalty to no nation. Their plan is to obtain control of the World and everything in it. To do this they use the promise of wealth, luxury, self-esteem and pleasure to lure men into their trap from which there is no escape. They also plan to destroy Christianity and all religion and to bring a total change of government.
In the process the leaders of the Illuminati slipped into Freemasonry and continued their devious plans for control of the World. In 1782 the two were officially united. Freemasonry is widely seen as a means to gain advancement in society or in employment. It also engages in much charitable work, especially helping fellow masons or their dependants in hardship or trouble. However the members of the lower degrees do not know what is hidden to the members of the higher degrees. The true god of Freemasonry is Lucifer or Satan. Those who think that it is possible to be a Freemason and a Christian should know that it is forbidden in Freemasonry to use the name of Jesus in prayer or worship. The leaders have surrounded themselves with a cloak of respectability of the members of the lower degrees. The theme running through Freemasonry is that man can attain salvation by good works. The pentagram or five- pointed star is a common symbol of Freemasonry as of witchcraft and Satanism. It symbolises the horned goat, Baphomet or Lucifer. There are other names for the god of Freemasonry. Jahbulon embraces Jahweh, Baal and On - the sun god of Egypt. Satan is also known as Abbadon Rev ch 9 v 1-4. He is king of the demons of the bottomless pit. The name in English means “destruction.”
With all these attempts by Satan to control the World it is important to remember the verses in Daniel ch 2 v 21 and Revelation ch 4 that the one who is in control of the World and every minute detail is Jesus, the only one found worthy to open the seal and control the affairs of this World.
New Age. This is Satan’s latest attempt to deceive the peoples of the World. It sounds good. It is new. It is modern – for this age. It is for the Twenty first century. Man has come of age. Man is grown up now and does not need the crutch of religion. It is religion, which has caused so many wars and division in the World. However New Age is a religion. It is pantheism – the belief that God is the sum total of all that exists. There is no personal God but a god force. This energy or god force flows through all living things – plants, animals and human beings. Man therefore is part of God. It is the same Satanic lie to Adam and Eve – you shall be like gods. Humanity will take a leap of progress. There will be a new age of enlightenment and man will be able to do as he has never done before. A New Age has come with a New World Order. In the culture of the West “old” means redundant. Only the “new” thing is good. Even the “Old Testament” is considered by many believers as redundant. Many in New Age are into channelling of spirits. The individual is given an ascended master or spirit guide (otherwise a demon) to guide him in his life. New Age embraces re-incarnation – man will never die. It all ties in with witchcraft and occultism. Mysticism is a gentler way of saying occultism. It is no surprise that pantheism originated in Babylon. The ancient Babylonian religion had an occult priesthood. The highest priests took their orders from Satan. The demonic spirits, with whom the priests communicated, became the gods and goddesses of the mystery religions. It was for this reason that God commanded through Moses that the people of Israel worship no other gods. The Lord knew the dangers. God forbids witchcraft and dealings with the dead. Meditation other than on the Scriptures is emptying the mind and allowing seducing spirits to influence the mind of man. Hypnosis is a dangerous activity as it allows the mind to be controlled by another. Constant exposure to television allows the person watching to be brainwashed. Many cannot tell the difference between fictitious characters and real people. Many of the alternative medicines are influenced by spiritual powers. New Age people are involved in control of the population of the World by aids, disease, genocide, abortion and wars. Millions are dead, who should still be alive.
The New Word Order.
The whole story of man’s attempt to run the World without reference to God is so big and complicated and there are so many things done in secret that it is almost impossible for any man to grasp what is happening. The trouble is that when it becomes clear it will be too late to stop it.
There are detailed plans afoot for a New World Order. President George Bush regularly talked about the New World Order. The great barriers to mankind regulating their World as one large unit have been language, distance and self-interest. Suddenly the nations of the World sat up and realised at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 that mankind is destroying the planet. If the nations do not get their act together, there will not be any planet worth fighting for. Someone or somebody is going to have to take control or mankind will either blow itself to pieces, starve itself to death or poison itself to death. Year after year, century after century, the legacy of man's rage, jealousy and greed has spilled blood across the pages of history. It is time something was done to stop this human carnage. The economies of the World are lurching out of control. The cry is ringing out from every nation - "Surely there is a better way to organise our World." Those who advocate a New World order are trying to answer several questions.
1. Why is there suffering in the World?
2. Why is there evil in the World?
3. Will there ever be lasting peace?
4. Will man ever love his fellow man?
5. What does the future hold for me?
It would be wrong to question the sincerity of those who seek answers to these matters. But it has to be said that God has spoken and the answers are contained in the Bible. Man generally and few World leaders today will acknowledge the Truth as revealed in the Bible. Man seeks to solve his problems his own way. It need not come as a surprise that Christianity is seen an as enemy of the leaders. The Bible speaks of the futility of man’s efforts to rule this World without reference to God. In this way the World leaders do exactly what Nimrod and his colleagues did so long ago. President Bush wanted to be a World ruler. Actually there is far worse in store for mankind.
There are good logical arguments for wanting a World Government - an end to war - greater resources made available to controlling disease and poverty - control of global warming and pollution. Without a World government one people affected by the activities of another can only ask the other or go to war over it. The very control of water supplies is becoming critical. If Sudan and Ethiopia were to use up all the waters of the Nile, the Egyptian economy would collapse.
The greatest World power today is America. Many of the founding fathers of America were Freemasons and they sought to establish a New World Order in the United States. The great seal of the United States appears on each dollar bill. It shows a pyramid with a Masonic triangle containing the all seeing-eye of Osiris and the Latin words Novus Ordo Secolorum. This means in English “New World Order.” However the power basis is shifting to Europe since Europe is now the World’s biggest market. The Fourth World power seen by Daniel in his vision is the Roman Empire reformed under the Treaty of Rome. All the founding fathers of the European Union are Catholic. Step by step the Empire has been built up. The symbols of the Empire are all taken from the Babylonian religion. The European Parliament building has been built on the design of the Tower of Babel. All over Europe are pictures or statues of the Woman on the Beast called Europa. At the centre of Berlin the capital of Germany – the largest country in the European Union is the Museum of Pergamum. Has Satan moved his sphere of operation from Babylon to Berlin?
The Black Pope and the White Pope. The White Pope is the friendlier face of the papacy. The Strings are pulled behind the scenes by the Black Pope.
At the U. N. tiny countries have the same vote as the superpowers. U S A. has contributed by far the most of all the countries despite having had only one vote. Coupled with a one World Order is the plan for a One World religion. Basically all religion is man’s attempts to reach God on their own terms. The ecumenical movement brings the people of the World together into one religion. There are so many similarities that it is possible for Satan to do this. Their roots are the same and their objective is the same. They have a spiritual basis for union, since all worship Satan. Behind every false religion is a demonic principality.
Satan’s tactics.
The Kingdom of God is the rule of God in the heart of man. Satan is determined to remove God from the throne of the hearts of men and women and to put in God’s place anyone or anything, which will steal the affection and loyalty, which is due to God. One of the chief ways of dislodging God from His throne on the hearts of men and women is to keep them so busy that they do not have time to devote themselves to God. If Satan can stir up trouble, man becomes pre-occupied with his own self-preservation. War, movement of population, poverty and disease all keep man’s attention away from God. War is perhaps Satan’s greatest weapon in preventing the spread of the Gospel.
Since 1945 the number of wars has continued unabated. In 3,358 years of history man can only point to 227 years of global peace. Russia has been at war 75% of the time during her history. From 1,500 B. C. to 1860 man had signed 8,000 peace treaties - with an average life expectancy of less than two years. In that time man has fought 14,531 wars. That amounts to 2.6 wars each year. More than 600 million men have marched off to battle never to return. In the twentieth century and the current century man has made idols of self-reliance, self-confidence and self-centredness. Jesus said that there would be a time of distress on the Earth. Luke ch 21 v 25. The Greek word for distress means "unable to discover a way out" or "coming to an impasse." The leaders of the World have come to an impasse. There is no way out of the present financial problems. The story of the struggle of man with his sin has been written with the ink of blood and tears. The concluding chapters are now being penned.
It is as if a giant plan is unfolding, everything perfectly on cue. Europe sets its date for union. Communism collapses. A hugely popular war is fought in the Middle East. The United Nations is rescued from scorn by an easily swayed public. A New World Order is announced. Christianity has been battered in the public arena and the New Age religion is in place in the schools and corporations and among the elite. Then a financial collapse accelerates the move toward a World money system. Countries cannot afford defence. They will gladly turn over their defence to the United Nations, along with their sovereignty. Television is a great tool of the enemy. It portrays violence, sex, materialism, and it trivialises the important things like life and marriage and makes important the trivial things, such as appearance and idols. Prior to World War II there was a conference held at Evian le Bain on the shore of Lake Geneva. The nations of the World came together to decide what to do about the Jewish people in Europe. One by one they departed with no concrete proposals. Hitler knew that he could do what he liked with the Jewish people. God shook the World because of the attitude by the peoples of the World towards the Jewish people. They abandoned the Jewish people to Hitler and he destroyed 6 million Jewish people. Then God brought His people back to His land.
What hopes for a better World and for its citizens would a New World Order hold out? Utopia would be on offer. The E. E. C. – now the E. U. has meant an end to war in Europe and proved to be a material success, in the stable economic climate of peace. Why not extend it to the rest of the World? People are yearning for peace. If the money spent on weapons were to be spent on economic development, urgent steps need to be taken to prevent pollution of the sea, land and air. Individually the countries of the World are not prepared or able to act. The ecological balance of the Earth could be preserved. Food needs to be distributed Worldwide. If there were a central World currency, there would be an end to currency imbalances. There could be control of nuclear weapons and other chemical and biological weapons. Genocide could be prevented.
Satan’s tactics throughout history include fear, revolutions disorder, chaos, movement of population, poverty and disease and dictators and terrorism. All of these militate against an orderly society where there is stability and time to reflect and build up relationships and to worship God.
World control has been the plan of Satan through all the ages. “Follow me! Obey me! Worship me! You shall be as gods and the glories of this World shall be mine.” The international bankers are driving toward complete control of the World's long-range monetary policy for their own profit. They even ferment wars to aid this objective. "No man can buy or sell or live in my one World society, unless he takes the number of our Universe." Satan will use brilliant men to promote the World system. They will persuade the people that it will lead to peace and prosperity. The World leader will rise to power with flattery and gain complete control of the military and monetary powers of all nations.
The One World Order or New World Order. It is the same offer Satan gave to Jesus in Mat ch 4 v 8-9.
The Bible only tells man all he needs to know about salvation. It touches on history and geography because it is set in a real situation and real people. It is not a history book as such but is selective history from God’s point of view to get across the message He wants to bring. Satan is always the master of deception moving from one name to another. The idea of greater prosperity, an end to war and freedom from the God of Israel appeals to the people of the World. Is this what is behind support for the Palestinians? In the last one hundred years there has been a concerted attack on the truth of the Bible and there has been an enormous growth in occultic activity. The founders of the Mormon Church and the Jehovah’s Witnesses were both Freemasons. In Rev ch 20 v 7 God said that towards the end of time He would give Satan more room for activity. Partly this is God testing mankind and partly He is allowing man to have what in his free will he wants – freedom from the Law of God. God is still in total control and uses Satan to punish mankind. Satan is always the instrument of God’s wrath and judgement but is never out of His control for one second.
The power of Mammon.
It is all about money – wealth. Jesus said: “You cannot serve Mammon and God.” Mammon was the Canaanite god of wealth. Paper money is reaching its limits and a new method of money is needed – a cash-less society with every man having a number on a massive computer. Daniel ch 11 v 36. He who controls the supply of money dictates policies. Europe is the Roman Empire reconstituted by the Treaty of Rome. The centre of World trade is moving from U.S.A. to Europe as the financiers see greater profits in Europe. The Chancellor of Germany may well be the Anti-Christ – the leader of the one World government. It is still Satan’s plan. His demonic princes do not always agree with him and fight for their own territory. Money was always central to power. “Give me control of the finances of the country and I care not what policies you decide to introduce.” Rothschild. The leading financiers were Masonic. The power of money brings pressure to bear and money gives opportunity to convey messages.
The theme of Daniel and Revelation. God is in ultimate control and uses Satan to achieve His own objectives. It will happen. God has said so. The Jews and the believers will be the problem and will be dispensable. Is this the abomination of desolation - when the Anti-Christ states that it is right to kill those who stand opposed to his great design for mankind. That is what Antiochus Epiphanes IV did. The peace of this World is not the peace, which Jesus gives. The first president of the Council of Europe Paul Henry Spark said: “Send us a man who can hold the allegiance of all people, and whether he be God or the Devil we will receive him.”
International bankers. The House of Rothschild became the most powerful banking house in Europe. By 1850 it represented more wealth than all the royal families of Europe combined. The founder used as his logo a red six-pointed star or hexagram. The Rothschilds financed the Illuminati. The Rothschilds rule the U.S. through their foundations and control the Council on Foreign Relations. They attempted to establish the first League of Nations in Vienna after the Napoleonic wars. In order to achieve their goal of World domination, they would have to instigate a series of world wars, which would result in the levelling of the Old World Order in preparation for the construction of the New World Order. They are prepared to finance both sides of the war. They have put governments in power in the U. S. A. in order to get their way.
Clues about the Anti-Christ.
Jesus promised that God would send the Holy Spirit to lead believers into all truth. God Himself in His Word gives man many clues to help identify Anti-Christ. Satan entered into Judas. He came in person for the really big job and thought that he had won the battle. He will come again and possess the man called Anti-Christ - the World ruler in the last phase of World history. He is referred to as the man of sin. Actually he will not acknowledge sin. Sin is a personal affront to God. Rev ch 13 v 11-18 says that he can be identified by the number 666. There are many numbers used in the Bible to teach truths. Every letter in the Chaldean, Greek and Hebrew languages has a numerical equivalent. So the words have a numerical value. Latin has only a few letters with a numerical value. M. L. C. X. V. I. Examples in Scripture are 7 – perfect. 10 - complete. 8 - a new beginning. 9 - judgement. 40 - testing or wrath. 12 - government. Rev ch 13 v 18.
Nimrod was also known as Satur. The numbers add to 666. In Hebrew it is Sethus. This also adds to 666. The Vicar of Christ in Latin equals 666. The words “wealth” and “tradition” in Greek add to 666. The last 7 words of a dying Church are – We have always done it this way. In Deut ch 17 v 14. God told Moses that the people would ask for a king like the other people. The King must avoid 3 things. 1. Trading with Egypt, which signifies going back to the ways of the World. 2. Marrying many women. 3. Seeking for silver and gold. In 1 Kings ch 10 v 14. Solomon received 666 talents of gold. Solomon craved for gold and it turned his heart from God – just as God knew it would. In Acts ch 19 v 24-27. Demetrius the silversmith opposed Paul’s preaching about Diana the goddess. The silversmiths made their wealth by selling silver idols of Diana. The word “wealth” adds to 666. Paul’s opposition to the wealth of Demetrius landed him in great trouble.
There is much confusion today regarding male and female gods. There is Mother god and the worship of Mary. Men are straying away from the clear Biblical distinctions between male and female. Unisex hairdressers, homosexuality, lesbianism, transsexuals and feminism.
The mark of the Beast. Quite how this will work is not clear but the Anti-Christ will set up a system whereby in order to trade and eat and drink it will be necessary to have a mark or symbol indicating loyalty to his system.
Conclusion. Ephesians ch 6 v 10-17. Never in the history of the World has it been more important to pay attention to these words of Paul as the time of Anti-Christ draws ever nearer.