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Hello again everyone who is joining us on the Methodist Voice podcast.

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As we get closer to the finish line of what is called Primeval History, which is Genesis

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chapters 1 through 11.

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Today we are going to be covering one of the main characters in Genesis 10 because he is

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the prototype of the figure who will be referred to much later in scripture as the Antichrist.

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That's right, Nimrod is the first Antichrist and he's the template for the game plan that

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Satan and other rebellious divine beings run in their corrupt governance of the affairs

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of human beings.

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When we use the term like Antichrist, it's important to think about and define what we

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mean when we use that word.

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There are several different terms to describe this character in the New Testament, but the

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specific word Antichrist according to Strong's Concordance means either one who puts himself

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in the place of or the enemy, the opponent of the Messiah.

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Other terms of this figure portraying himself as a false political savior or a false religious

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teacher.

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The New Testament also teaches us that there will be many of these figures appearing on

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the landscape of history, as well as one final manifestation of this agenda that will be

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more powerful and concentrated and evil than any other previous appearance.

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I'd reference 1 John chapter 2 verses 18 through 20 on that.

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So let's begin to explore the idea of Nimrod as Antichrist by first looking at what the

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text has to say about Nimrod and his kingdoms.

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That's going to be from Genesis 10 starting in verse 8.

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Cush fathered Nimrod.

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He was the first on the earth to be a mighty man.

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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, therefore it is said like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before

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the Lord.

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The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erek, Akkad, Kalna in the land of Shinar.

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From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth, Kala and Rezin between

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Nineveh and Kala, that is the great city.

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Okay, so texts like this are very difficult to render correctly.

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So I'm going to rely upon some expert advice from Douglas Petrovich.

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Douglas Petrovich, his letters are PhD, MA, THM, MDiv, lots of degrees, is a professor

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of biblical history and exegesis at the Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas.

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He also serves as epigraph for the Shiloh excavations in Israel.

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His PhD from the University of Toronto includes a major in Syro-Palestinian archaeology, a

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first minor in ancient Egyptian language and a second minor in ancient near Eastern religions.

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So texts like this are his expertise.

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I'm going to be drawing from his book Nimrod the Empire Builder, Architect of Shock and

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Awe.

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Utilizing his insights, I'm going to paraphrase this passage from Genesis that we just read

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to help tease out a better character sketch of Nimrod and then the cities that he built.

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So here's my kind of interpretation.

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Nimrod's name means we will rebel.

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So this harkens back to the Garden of Eden and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and

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Evil.

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Adam and Eve were tempted to become like God.

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The temptation was to depart from obedience to God in order to follow your own desires.

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I want to be my own master.

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So to rebel could be rendered.

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Let's stop being oppressed by doing what God wants and demands.

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Let's follow the desires of our own hearts and get what we want out of life.

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In Nimrod's rebellion, he became blasphemous against God.

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In this pursuit of being his own master, he became blasphemous against God.

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When the text refers to Nimrod as a hunter, perhaps a better rendering according to Petrovich

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would be butcher or slaughterer.

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The text immediately transitions to the kingdoms he developed, the implication being through

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warfare.

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Nimrod was the first mighty conqueror of other human beings.

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The motivation for such activity can be found in the following chapter where it says of

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Babel, one of the contexts of the story in Genesis 11 for, then they said, Come, let

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us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and let us make a name

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for ourselves.

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So when the text refers to Nimrod as mighty, this not only describes his accomplishments,

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but also his motivation to be great in the eyes of other people and to dominate them

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in forced subjugation to his own selfish desires, purposes and wants.

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Working from the might makes right principle.

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Nimrod engaged in unrestrained selfishness, bending other weaker humans to his will.

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He was full of selfish ambition.

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Here's how Petrovich puts it.

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The whole point of the Nimrod story is to document the utter evil that can be unleashed

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when a city appoints a king, who, when he gives himself over to a lust for conquest,

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can invade other sovereign cities, decimate innocent residents through warfare and bloodshed,

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then incorporate those cities into his own dominion that was pieced together by a craving

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for unlimited power.

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Nimrod was the forerunner and role model of many subsequent conquering empire builders

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in ancient history.

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Many if not most of those subsequent conquering kings of the ancient Near East demanded worship

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as a god.

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Whether they got that from Nimrod or not is unclear, but for example, many scholars want

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to identify the ancient Akkadian hero Gilgamesh with Nimrod, who was deified upon his death.

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Petrovich himself identifies Nimrod with Sargon the Great of Akkadia.

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World History Encyclopedia says this about Sargon.

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Sargon of Akkad, and note that's one of the cities listed in Genesis that Nimrod is supposed

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to have established.

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Sargon of Akkad was the king of the Akkadian Empire of Mesopotamia, the first multinational

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empire in history, who united disparate kingdoms of the region under a central authority.

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Sargon, also known as Sargon the Great, true king or legitimate king, was according to

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his own autobiography, the legend of Sargon of Akkad, born an illegitimate son of a changeling

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and never knew his father.

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And so let's talk about what that word means.

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What is a changeling?

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That's explicitly what Sargon says of himself, that he was an illegitimate son of a changeling.

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What does that mean?

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Well, according to Wikipedia, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being

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on kidnapping a human being.

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Sometimes the changeling was a stock, a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped

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human.

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More often, the changeling was a supernatural being made magically to look like the kidnapped

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human.

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Now, that's not too out of bounds because the Bible says sometimes angels appear as

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humans to other humans.

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So that's not too far off.

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So continuing now with the world history encyclopedia.

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His mother could not reveal her pregnancy or keep the child.

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And so he was set adrift by her in a basket in the Euphrates River, where he was later

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found by a man named Aki, who was a gardener for Ur-Zababah, the king of the Sumerian

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city of Kish.

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From this very humble beginning, Sargon would rise to conquer all Mesopotamia.

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Interesting.

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Now, this is just my take here.

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Now, if that description reminds you of Genesis six and the sons of God having marital relations

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with the daughters of men, which produced mighty men or men of renown, then you're

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on the right track.

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Continuing with world history encyclopedia, scholar Paul Krewasek sums up the impact of

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Sargon, the impact Sargon had on later generations in Mesopotamia for at least 1500 years after

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his death.

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Sargon the Great, founder of the Akkadian Empire, was regarded as a semi-sacred or a

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demi-god, half man, half God figure, the patron saint of all subsequent empires in the Mesopotamian

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realm.

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So with that brief character sketch drawn, let's now turn our attention to the cities

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associated with his leadership and the Tower of Babel story.

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Let's first talk about economics.

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The world's first banks can be traced back to ancient Babylon.

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This is where we trace the origins of fractional reserve banking and a debt based currency,

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which is nothing more than a subtle form of enslavement.

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It produces massive amounts of wealth for a few individuals and massive amounts of debt

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for the majority.

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This is a big reason why Babylon is a prototype for evil throughout the Bible and especially

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the book of Revelation.

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These types of corrupt economic practices are condemned and forbidden in the Old Testament

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law.

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But given that it further consolidates power and control into the hands of the ruling class

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over not only its own citizens, but also over its rivals, the morality of that system does

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not factor into its utility for those who are behind it.

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Blind ambition doesn't bother with silly questions like right and wrong.

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If governments really wanted to create prosperity for its people, they would provide government

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issued debt free currency, which is the Austrian system of economics.

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Every time this has happened in history, it has created massive prosperity for the many.

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But Satan likes control.

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So do people who are full of selfish ambition.

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Satan likes control and he always worms his way into governments, especially powerful

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governments.

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Now let's talk about religious practices.

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Most any scholar will tell you that the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 was a Mesopotamian

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ziggurat or a species of pyramid building.

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I'm going to read to you an excerpt once again from the World History Encyclopedia on ziggurats.

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The ziggurat was an artificial mountain raised for the worship of the gods to elevate the

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priests toward heaven.

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Now pause.

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The Genesis six scenario where the sons of God came down and saw that the daughters of

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women were fair according to the ancient book of Enoch, that event happened on Mount Hermon,

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a mountain.

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And so this is why a ziggurat is thought of as an artificial mountain.

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It is a meeting place, a symbolic meeting place with those beings.

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So continuing with the excerpt from the encyclopedia, the people of the Ubaid period, that's roughly

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5000 to 4100 BC, are thought to have come down from the mountains to the plains of Mesopotamia

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and influenced the Sumerians, or they were the Sumerians, the first to build ziggurats

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as religious sites mirroring sacred high places.

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During the Sumerian Urak period, that's 4100 to 2900 BC, ziggurats were raised in every

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city in honor of that community's patron deity.

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The ziggurat temple was not a public house of worship, but the earthly home of the god

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of the city, who was attended by the high priest and lesser priests of the temple complex.

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The most famous ziggurat in history is the Tower of Babel associated with the great ziggurat

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of Babel known as Etemenanki, the foundation of heaven and earth, or the link of heaven

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and earth.

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Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, discusses this purpose of the ziggurat, claiming that

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the god Marduk of Babylon, referred to by Herodotus as Zeus, was believed to come down

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to the temple at the top of the city's ziggurat to sleep with a woman who lived there.

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No statue of Marduk was kept in the temple, only the woman.

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This custom, as Herodotus suggests, was in keeping with the belief that the god would

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have sexual intercourse with a chosen woman to ensure the fertility of the land.

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The structure may also have served as an observatory, a claim made by the historian Diodorus Siculus

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90-30 BC, who notes how Babylonian astronomers used the ziggurat to make their observations

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of the stars, whose risings and settings could be accurately observed by reason of the height

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of the structure.

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Burtmann observes that the ziggurat could have been used for all of these purposes,

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and no single reason given for the structure rules out any of the others.

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The ziggurat was built out of sun-dried mud bricks from the center outward with no internal

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chambers.

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The structure was then faced with kiln-baked brick, ornamented and painted.

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Initially the high priest oversaw the operations of the temple as well as administrative duties

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in the city, but in time this seems to have become too taxing for a single individual

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and his assistants, requiring the creation of a secular leader, the king.

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The position of the king developed from the concept of the lugal, or strong man, the head

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of a clan or tribe, who had proven himself an effective warrior and leader.

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After the creation of kingship, the high priest could devote himself completely to the service

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of the god, while the king, whose authority was established through military conquest,

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plentiful harvests and care of the people could deal with the day-to-day administration

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of the city.

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And continues, the priest would have thus been the local god's representative on earth,

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managing the temple lands and the people who worked them.

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A second office, that of king or governor, arose, whose duty it became to manage civic

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affairs, law and order, commerce and trade, and military matters, while the priest continued

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to manage the business of the temple.

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Now, that's the end of the encyclopedia entry.

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What we have constructed here with this sketch is the foundation upon which the Antichrist

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false prophet harlot-Babylon motif is built in the book of Revelation.

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We have a political, military leader, working in conjunction with a religious leader, operating

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under an oppressive, satanic, corrupt economic system, which enriches them beyond all measure.

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All of these systems are working together to build human civilization in rebellion to

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obedience to the one true uncreated god.

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The people at the top of this system are motivated by selfish ambition, not serving other people.

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Like the opposite, they are using and exploiting the people they conquer and rule for their

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own selfish ambitions.

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They want to become like god.

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That is, they want to have unilateral authority, tyrannical power, to call the shots and have

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everyone obey them.

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With this sketch, we have just explained the history of all human civilization and governments

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everywhere.

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It doesn't matter what kind of government or economic system we're talking about.

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There are beings in the unseen realm looking for talented people with unbridled selfish

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ambition to empower over others who will enslave and exploit the people of the earth to make

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themselves great.

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Now, in closing, let's draw some parallels and distinctions.

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First the parallels.

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At the end of the day, this is a plagiarized version of God's plan.

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The messianic profile in both the Old and New Testaments is of a chosen man who will

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be empowered by God to militarily conquer the nations of the earth and to establish

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a centralized global government.

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In his military conquests, he is destroying these satanic antichrist systems built upon

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human ambition.

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He's destroying those governments.

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The headquarters of that new government will be the political, economic, and religious

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capital of the world, Jerusalem.

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The antichrist motif is a plagiarization of this plan which originates with God himself.

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Now the distinctions.

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The antichrist motif is a satanic inversion of God's plan.

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A pyramid, think about it, is a symbol that represents a tiny minority at the top supported

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by a massive structure at the bottom.

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It makes the masses slaves serving an elite minority.

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The kingdom of God, on the other hand, can be represented by an upside down pyramid.

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It's an inversion.

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The elite, it's still a minority, but they're at the bottom serving the masses.

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Remember what the Bible says, the son of man came to serve, not to be served.

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And Jesus says of those who are going to be called great with him, the one who is great

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among you must be a servant of all.

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God's chosen man proved his commitment to this plan by submitting to a brutal beating

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and death on a cross to sacrifice himself as a ransom for many.

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He proved he's in it for others and not his own selfish interests and ambitions.

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That's why the return of this man to the earth is called the blessed hope of the church.

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All of the systems of this world only function to serve Satan's purposes and keeps the masses

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of humanity subjected to a life of quiet futility.

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It's cliche, it's cliche, but true.

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There is no political solution to a spiritual problem.

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And the spiritual problems, we'll say problems, resides in unseen high places, which we're

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going to talk about next week.

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And that will be the final episode of this series.

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But these final episodes naturally lead us into what will be the next series that will

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begin together after that, which will be, you guessed it, the book of Revelation.

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So that's all for today.

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Hope to catch you next time for our final episode over Genesis 11.

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We're going to go deeper into the Tower of Babel.

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Stay blessed and I hope to see you then.

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Thank you for watching.