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The account of Sodom's destruction is in Genesis 18-19. Key points to note:

(1) God does not hide what He is to do from His prophets: vv 17-18

(2) Gravity: "the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great" as their sin was "very grievous" (v20)

(3) Abraham intercedes "Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" (v23) Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (v25) - 50 to 10.

(4) Lot: from the "plain" oriented towards Sodom to the gate of Sodom (place of authority; Lot wanted significance so got into bed with sodomites - compromised his identity) - sojourner to judge they mocked!

(5) People of Sodom wanted to "know" the 2 angels/visitors i.e. rape.

(6) Lot so compromised - offered his 2 daughters "do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof."(v8)

(7) Struck with blindness (judgment) but did not cease groping the door (blind and groping!) Cannot take warning.

(8) Sons in law could not take warning.

(9) entire cities are punished- warning to get out : Lot was warned as morning dawned, "but he lingered" - The Lord's mercy - seized by the men

(10) Go to hills but Lot wanted to go to little city (Zoar)

(11) Wine and Incest (Dionysus)

  • Zeus and Hera - brother and sister, husband and wife
  •  Cronus and Rhea (married siblings)
  • Uranus and Gaia (son and mother)

In Egyptian mythology, the gods frequently married their siblings. For example, Shu and Tefnut are brother and sister and they produced another pair of gods, Geb and Nut. Their children were Isis, Osiris, Set and Nephthys; Isis married Osiris, and Set Nephthys.

King Arthur - half sister Morgause - Mordred - ultimate nemesis

Biblical references to Sodom

1) A proudful declaration/celebration of sin - gay "pride"

Isaiah 1: 7-8 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

2. Comparison to "Worst Practices"

Romans 9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."

3. Judgment of the Nations

Matt 10:15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

4. Sodom as Precedent - Extinction - making an example of what happens to the ungodly - God cannot be mocked.

2 Peter 2:6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

Amos 4:11 I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians' pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  

 

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Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:34:00 -0700 Mystery, Babylon (Or, Uncovering the Harlot) http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/mystery-babylon-or-uncovering-the-harlot http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/mystery-babylon-or-uncovering-the-harlot

UNRAVELLING MYSTERY BABYLON

(Babel, Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar, Rev 17 Mystery Babylon)

 

 

 

 Nimrod - Genesis 10 - great empire encompassed Shinar

 

8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.  11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city. (NIV)

 

8 Kush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful ruler on earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Adonai this is why people say, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.10 His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar. 11 Ashur went out from that land and built Ninveh, the city Rechovot, Kelach, 12 and Resen between Ninveh and Kelach — that one is the great city (CJB) 

 

Rabbinical literature Nimrod is the prototype of a rebellious people, his name being interpreted as "he who made all the people rebellious against God" (Pes. 94b; comp. Targ. of pseudo-Jonathan and Targ. Yer. to Gen. x. 9). He is identified with Cush and with Amraphel, the name of the latter being interpreted as "he whose words are dark" ( ; Gen. R. xlii. 5; for other explanations see below). As he was the first hunter he was consequently the first who introduced the eating of meat by man. He was also the first to make war on other peoples (Midr. Agadah to Gen. x. 9).   

 

The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews (c AD 94), recounted history as found in the Hebrew Bible and mentioned the Tower of Babel.

 

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 were 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... 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, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners [in the Flood]; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion... 

 

§       Note: Noah's ark was covered with pitch (Tar) to water proof it. - Genesis 6:14 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 

 

Babel

 

Babel - Genesis 11

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

11 (S: vii) The whole earth used the same language, the same words. 2 It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shin‘ar and lived there. 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them in the fire.” So they had bricks for building-stone and clay for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”

5 Adonai came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 Adonai said, “Look, the people are united, they all have a single language, and see what they’re starting to do! At this rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them! 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.” 8 So from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 For this reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth. (CJB)

 

 Shinar, Again: Daniel 1: 1-2 site of Babylonian Empire (Nebuchadnezzar)

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

Promise of God to recover His remnant from various places, including Shinar

Isaiah 11:11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Mystery, Babylon

 

Rape of Europa

Revelation 17:4-6 (ESV)

4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

Note: Contemporary Babel?

 

 

 

 

 

1.     European Parliament:http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/sinister-sites-%E2%80%93-the-eu-p..."> replica of Babel?  

 

The Rape of Europe (David Hathaway)

 

2.     Isaiah 9:10 and America (pride in rebuilding, not humility)

Sid Roth with guest Rabbi Jonathan Cahn - Pt-1 - Is There an Ancient Mystery Behind 9/11?

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