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1. The Original Creation Order: God created heaven and earth and gave Adam and Eve dominion. The command was to multiply, be fruitful and grow

a) Man under God

b) Man as steward, not owner

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 2: 15

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

2. Nimrod -  Genesis 10:9

a) First attempt to unite the world

b) Reject God 

c) Attempt to usurp God's authority

d) Nimrod as political leader and as religious leader (humanism: no god or false religion: Nimrod is god)

3. Nebuchadnezzar - Leader of Babylonian Empire

 

a) Daniel 3: bow before my image - attempt to unify - common religion - totalitarian

b) Daniel 4: rebukes Nebuchadnezzar: God will break you if you do not break yourself e.g. be a good ruler, show mercy to the poor and weak

c) Nebu was political leader, assumed he was priest as well - religion and politics conflated: command nobles to bow down (political sanction, religious direction)

4. Jesus very radically said: "Render!"

 

a) limitation of human government - not absolute but subject to God

b) Return to Creation Order: Human Government subject to God; not ultimate, within God's Creation order

c) Humanism (godlessness) and False Religion / Mystery Babylon (wrong gods) are enemies but united in hatred of Christians/believers/the faithful

d) Jesus also said: beware the leaven of the Herodians (politicos) and Pharisees (religious ritualism)

HUMANISM + FALSE RELIGION (MYSTERY BABYLON) = HERODIANS & PHARISEES

HUMANISM ------------HUBRIS-------------HOMOSEXUALITY (self definition of morality)

                                                                 HEDONISM

HERESY ------------------------HATRED OF THINGS OF GOD ----- HADES                                     

HARLOTRY

wHORedom

 

 

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