00:00Okay, so let's go back to the Tower of Babel.
00:04The Bible actually doesn't say that Nimrod built the Tower of Babel.
00:08It does say that he built Babel, the city of Babel.
00:12And there's clearly a connection spiritually between the two.
00:16I guess we can assume that he inspired it, it was his project.
00:20There are also certain religious associations which are connected with Nimrod,
00:28and false religions.
00:30Now, what I'm going to tell you now is not actually in the Bible.
00:32It's a conclusion which was come to by a man called Alexander Hislop,
00:36who wrote a book called The Two Babylons.
00:39Some people dispute this story and some people say,
00:41well, it's not in the Bible, so you can't take it literally.
00:44And it is true that it's not in the Bible.
00:47But there are myths and stories which are handed down,
00:50which have some bearing upon it, and is interesting from our point of view.
00:55So I'll tell it to you now, you don't have to take this as biblical truth,
00:59but it is an interesting little count into traditions
01:03which were handed down relating to this man, Nimrod.
01:07Nimrod had a wife called Semiramis.
01:10And according to various legends, she was a very powerful woman herself.
01:15She actually be cared to on some occasions as the Queen of Heaven.
01:20And she took on this role as the powerful woman figure alongside the powerful man.
01:27And according to various legends,
01:29Hemiramis became pregnant after engaging in an adulterous affair
01:33while she was still married to Nimrod.
01:35About the same time, Nimrod died an untimely death.
01:39In an effort to retain power and to hide her misdeeds, Semiramis made a claim.
01:45She publicly declared that upon Nimrod's death,
01:48he had been resurrected as the god of the sun.
01:51And as the sun god, Nimrod used his sun rays
01:54to miraculously inseminate Semiramis with child.
01:57This child was thus considered to be divinely conceived.
02:00The child's name was Tammuz, which she claimed was the reincarnated Nimrod.
02:07Therefore Semiramis became both the wife of Nimrod and his mother, her mother, his mother.
02:16So that's just a story.
02:17It's not something which is in the Bible.
02:19But if you see, there are certain parallels which are kind of themes
02:23which have been developed in the development of religion.
02:26You've got the Queen of Heaven, the figure.
02:29You've got the idea of the woman with child.
02:32You've got the idea of reincarnation.
02:34You've got all kinds of concepts which have been repeated and passed on in various religions.
02:41And according to Hislop, this story becomes one of the stories which,
02:48and what comes out of Babylon was going to reproduce itself in some form in all the religions of the world.
02:54And if you look into all the religions, you'll find that there are these themes
02:58of the powerful man-god and the woman-god who becomes the kind of queen of heaven
03:03who is the one who introduces you to the powerful man-god.
03:07And the powerful man-god may be a little bit threatening, but the woman-god is going to be the one who's kind of accessible.
03:13And if you look into the development even of Christianity, you can see that as Christianity became spread amongst the pagans of Rome
03:20when they became Christians, one of the things they said was,
03:23we don't see a woman, we don't see a mother goddess figure within Christianity.
03:28So they searched through the scriptures and they found, well, there's one person we could make into the queen of heaven,
03:33Miriam, Mary, queen of heaven, and mother of Jesus, and make her into the female goddess figure.
03:39And you even got the mother of his child figure, virgin birth, all that kind of thing.
03:43So it kind of fitted in with the pagan ideas which were already there and translated them into a form of paganism
03:49which corrupted true Christianity.
03:55Now, after the scattering that occurred at this Tower of Babel, this story was disseminated through the world,
04:01led to the rise of various birth and death, rebirth cults that littered through history.
04:08And these mystery religions of the future generations were adopted through Semiramis and her child, Tammuz.
04:16In fact, Tammuz, it's interesting, actually, that Tammuz does appear in the Bible.
04:20In the book of Ezekiel, there's a passage where people are, God says, the people are mourning for Tammuz,
04:26and God is angry about this.
04:28And the Jews actually even took Tammuz as one of their months.
04:31So you can see one of the Hebrew months is actually the month of Tammuz.
04:36A little bit strange, but that's in there.
04:39Okay.
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