Come Out of Her

I need to tell you a story.  And I need you to keep reading until you finish it.  And I need you to be brave and understand how this story affects your life.

You ready?

Once upon a time, there was a man named Noah.  This is the same Noah that built the ark. Noah’s son, Ham, had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.  Cush and Semiramis then had a son and named him “Nimrod.”

Noah’s great-grandson Nimrod is described in Genesis 10:8-12. Nimrod is the man who built the Tower of Babel and he was worshipped as the god of Babylon.  He is believed to have been one of the giants as well.

After the death of his father, Ham, Nimrod married his own mother, Semiramus and became a powerful King. 

The Jewish historian, Josephus, further describes Nimrod:

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. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.

After Nimrod died, Semiramis claimed to be pregnant by the rays of the sun, (her dead sun god husband)  and to be expecting the son of the sun god. The child that she gave birth to was named Tammuz. 

Tammuz was also worshipped as a god and when he was 40 years old, he was gored to death by a wild boar. 

This was the basis for a tradition which was begun in his honor; to fast for 40 days – a day for each year of his life – for Tammuz.  Those who worshipped the son of “the sun god” then set aside 40 days of weeping for Tammuz.  They celebrated “Lent” one day for each year of his incarnation – in which they would deny a worldly pleasure for his pleasure in the afterworld (see Ezekiel 8).

The pagans believed that the fasting and weeping for Tammuz must be done ahead of the Spring Equinox in order to bring the spirit of the Babylonian god back up from the underworld in time to impregnate the goddess Ishtar.  If she does not receive his spirit by the Spring Equinox, she can not give birth to the son of the sun god 9 months later at the Winter Solstice.

Every year the maidens fasted and wept for Tammuz for 40 days to represent his 40 years.

Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made to honor Ishtar.

Let’s sum up the little gods and their many names. NOTE: This is by no means an exhaustive list and may vary depending on the source.

To say that the history and the legends and the religions are all mixed up is a gross understatement.  We must recognize that our religious traditions are all married in with the pagan religions, unfortunately.  We know that Satan is a liar and deceiver and only ever wanted to usurp the throne of the one true YHVH, and thus, he has created a close copycat version of God’s plans whenever and wherever he could. 

What we have then is a distorted version of God’s plan in every pagan religion.  When you see these statues and paintings of the virgin mother and child, look carefully, it may be Ishtar and Tammuz. The sun halo on the head will often give it away.

You will also notice the unholy pagan trinities that have been fabricated in the pagan religions.

Regardless of the different names and different cultures and different legends, it all comes down to this….

The Babylonian system condemned throughout the Bible, and whose end is prophesied in Revelation, is based on Nimrod’s rebellion against the Creator and the subsequent false religion his life spawned.

It is all sun worship.  It is all Ba’al worship.  And it is all connected to Babylon.  This is the religion of the Mystery Babylon of Revelation that has never completely gone away.

Scripture tells us that Solomon also followed Ashteroth: (The Babylonian cult that started with Ishtar/Ashtarte)

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

(1 Kings 11:5-6)

Because of his idolatry, Israel was split into two nations after Solomon’s death, as explained later:

Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

I Kings 11:33

Later, King Yosiah (Josiah) destroyed these places which Solomon had built:

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.  And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2 Kings 23

Most of us have been observing and participating in this religion without even knowing it.  The ancient rites and traditions are weaved throughout our culture and right into our churches. 

Gravely, I do believe that “although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.” (Acts 17:30)

For

What agreement has the temple of God with idols?  For we are the temple of the living God; as God said….Therefore “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you.”

2 Corinthians 6:16-17

As YHVH commanded His first Hebrew people…

You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way.

Deuteronomy 12:3-4

We are often told in our modern churches that we need to accept Jesus/Yeshua as our Lord, but that is not scriptural. The one true God that created us is very plain with His Words, and He will not accept just any kind of worship.  We read of these traditions and dismiss it by saying, “Well that’s not what that means to me” …forgetting that it doesn’t matter what it means to us…it only matters what it means to God.

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.

1 Samuel 7:3-4

And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

1 Samuel 12:10

Whenever you see the words Ba’al and Ashera and Ashteroth in scripture, recognize this: It is the Babylonian religion that Nimrod the rebel started. It has been tweaked and distorted and handed down through thousands of generations and it has been melded right into the modern church.

Lupercalia and Valentines Day and Fat Tuesday lead into The weeping of Tammuz for 40 days, whitewashed as Ash Wednesday, this leads up to the sun rise service on Easter morning, held on the spring equinox, the fertility eggs and rabbit, the Easter ham (boar), the celebration of the immaculate conception on the Spring Equinox followed up later in the year by the celebration of the birth of the sun god at the winter Solstice.

These are all remnants of Nimrod’s worship. This is Sun worship. This is Ba’al worship. This is the Babylonian religion. Revelation speaks of the whore of Babylon and the Beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Revelation 17:7-8) Could this possibly refer to Nimrod’s Babylonian religion and the pagan festivities that their calendar revolves around? How closely are we following this Beast and it’s ancient religion? Join me in beginning the process of disentangling our worship of the one True God, YHVH, from the anti-Christ centuries-old religion of Babylon.

Read more about this in this post: Church Passover Hunt | Berean Bible Journeys

Authors note: I have in no way done justice to this staggering subject. The history and legends and traditions are all intertwined in a tangled weave. The information is overwhelming. I have left out much of the gory details. I encourage you to research further and pray without ceasing for eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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