End Time Babylon – Part 4
The First Rebel and the Last Rebellion
So the spirit of Babel was really the spirit behind mankind’s first attempt to re-establish Eden without its owner, the Father God. God, committed to eventually give mankind what it wanted, confused the languages and scattered the people of Babel, in order to “pause” what God would eventually allow mankind to get when “knowledge increased.” It is no coincidence that the famed Babel, and later Babylon, was located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers…the same general location the Bible describes as “Eden”
Genesis 2:7-14 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (10) Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. (11) The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. (12) And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (13) The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. (14) The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Mankind was MADE to live in Eden WITH GOD. Our heart KNOWS that this experience we call our lives is less than the “life” we were made for. The corrupted heart of man desires to throw off the constraints of the owner of life, yet still have life. This is impossible, but is the deceptive virus Adam and Eve introduced to the human race. This virus is even a danger for Christians. Having your “passport stamped” (salvation) is not the same as loving the leadership of the king (desiring holiness…sanctification)!
God will eventually let mankind have their way, but up until “That Day” as the Bible calls it…also known as the “Day of the Lord”…God has patiently given mankind time to figure out what they REALLY want. Those with “no root” in God’s leadership will “fall away”…those with strong roots will stand firm during the final storm meant to sweep out all rebels:
Luke 8:13 But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
Matthew 7:23-27 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (24) "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: (25) and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. (26) "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: (27) and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
“You who practice lawlessness!”…Lawlessness is at work both IN and OUT OF the Church, according to Jesus. The antichrist is the final “man of lawlessness” and he will lead multitudes…in and out of the Church…into a final rebellion rooted in the spirit of Babylon! This MUST happen…this falling away…according to Paul:
Paul taught this ALL THE TIME (he reminds the church in this passage that they have heard it before)…how few times we hear it in America:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, (2) not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. (3) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (5) Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
There is the full range of expression of this “lawlessness” in the earth…from the forthright “rebel”…the avowed atheist… who says there is no God and in the same breath extols the beauty of the butterfly…all the way to the deceived “Pharisee”…the modern day Pastor… who says they speak for God, but replace His perfect leadership designed to draw us into holiness (the reformatting of our hard drive) with the traditions of men. Everyone is somewhere in their relationship with God, and there is coming a valley of decision that will push all people one way or the other…either “for” Jesus in loyalty to his perfect leadership reaching for more and more obedience to the law in grace, or against Him…still desiring life but refusing the perfect leadership of Jesus:
Luke 12:51-53 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. (52) For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. (53) Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Right now, the division Jesus prophesied has been felt only a little here and there. In the western Church, this division is almost non-existent! Tragedy!! This is because “wholeheartedness” is so rare. Jesus promised that when you lived the Sermon on the Mount, you would CERTAINLY feel this division flare up:
Matthew 5:10-13 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (11) "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. (12) Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (13) "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
The “American brand” of Christianity is generally much more “bland” than the full flavor of the salt intended by Jesus. Full flavored salt “disrupts the thinking,” as my friend Elaine says, of the average Church goer, and radically demonstrates the truth and love of Jesus to the world. Right now, this is pretty rare in our American Christian experience. It is a little more common in the places where choosing to follow Jesus marks you for instant persecution. This is GOING to change. Persecution of those loyal to Jesus is going to go global, and it is going to happen nearly overnight, at the signing of a 7-year peace deal for Israel (I will get more into this later). You REALLY want to be ahead of the curve in this change. Now is the time to choose an all-in Sermon on the Mount lifestyle. God is going to orchestrate the circumstances of the earth to hem the whole world in to the Joel 3 “valley of decision.”
God has been VERY patient in letting mankind sort out the loyalty of their own heart. There is a Day coming, though, when God will no longer wait for what HE desires…what He called “very good” in Genesis 1:31.
This is what God made everything for: God, on earth, with every person who has chosen to love Him back.
God has “paused” His own desire for very good, and temporarily withdrawn from His Garden, which He made for His own delight, sent His own Son to redeem man’s desecration of His Garden…His vineyard… and is patiently waiting to return. All the while, most of the people…the vast majority of the people in world history to “occupy” His Garden, have desired to basically steal the Garden from God. People want all the benefits of God’s leadership, called “life,” without the very source of that life. This is rebellion:
Matthew 21:33-46 "Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. (34) Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. (35) And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. (36) Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. (37) Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' (38) But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.' (39) So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. (40) "Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?" (41) They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons." (42) Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES' ? (43) "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. (44) And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder." (45) Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. (46) But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitudes, because they took Him for a prophet.
This is the spirit of Babylon. Jesus, in this parable, ends by referring to the first famous king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. In Daniel 3, Daniel was told Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and its meaning. Daniel was shown four consecutive empires that would all share the “spirit of Babylon” and control the physical city of Babylon, formerly Babel. (Do you know where the world’s largest embassy is? Hint: it is on the Tigris River) It should be noted at this point that the famed Babel, and later Babylon, was located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers…the same general location the Bible describes as “Eden”
Genesis 2:7-14 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (10) Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. (11) The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. (12) And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (13) The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. (14) The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Babylon is the city that grew out of the first city state of the “Nimrod religion”…the mystery religion. The religion of Bel and Nebo, Nimrod and Semiramis, Jupiter and Venus, Baal and the Queen of Heaven, is a “mystery religion.” That means there are numerous symbols and signs that transmit information between the upper echelons of leadership, while most of the masses have no idea what the top is really all about. For Nimrod’s city of Babel, He couldn’t come right out and say “I want you all to see how great I am the way I see it so you can worship me and make me your God!” No way! People are way to selfish to go for that…most people want to be the top dog themselves!! Instead, Nimrod had to cast a vision of the “collective” working towards elevating the whole city. “Let us build for ourselves…”…What Nimrod really meant was “let us build for ME and my closest friends a tower I may sit upon” (and whispering to His wife “so I can be your god”.) This is what is behind the eye of Horus (the pyramid on the American Dollar), the Ashera pole (like the ones in Washington DC and at the Vatican), and the countless other “occult” symbols used in the first mystery religion, and then down through history. The “illuminati”…those pulling the strings at the top, use symbols to communicate their understanding of where the whole thing is going…and the masses at the bottom blindly play along…all the while, the Pied Piper…satan himself… charms the masses into rebellion against God. Satan IS the original rebel…the original thief of God’s garden. The first vinedressers were Adam and Eve…and the first rebel who corrupted the vinedressers is satan.
Satan, who fancies himself a “king”, always uses a prince…a man. This is because dominion of the earth was given by the owner of the vineyard…God the Father…to the vinedressers …mankind…to care for it. In this passage of Ezekiel, we see the spirit of the first rebel, the king of Tyre, working through his human agent, the “prince of Tyre.” From this passage we gain GREAT insight into the heart of the satan, and how he works through his human agent. We also see another reference to the “mystery” religion in the reference to “secrets”:
Here, God first addresses the human agent of satan:
Ezekiel 28:1-18 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, (2) "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas,' Yet you are a man, and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god (3) (Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you! (4) With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; (5) By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches, And your heart is lifted up because of your riches)," (6) 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god, (7) Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor. (8) They shall throw you down into the Pit, And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas. (9) "Will you still say before him who slays you, 'I am a god'? But you shall be a man, and not a god, In the hand of him who slays you. (10) You shall die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of aliens; For I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.' "
Then God addresses the prince’s true father, satan:
(11) Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (12) "Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (13) You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. (14) "You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (15) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. (16) "By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones. (17) "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you. (18) "You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
So God gives us insight into the deception satan used to foment the first and on-going rebellion. This deception was so effective that one third of the multitude of CREATED angels bought the lie and rebelled against the UNCREATED God!! This should show us that this sneaky deception of satan is HIGHLY effective. This is what satan did: he traded what he didn’t own in order to consolidate his own power. He said to the angels “God didn’t give you a very powerful position, did he? Look at Michael and Gabriel. What makes them so special? Come with me and I will give you the top spot in my new kingdom. I appreciate how special you are!”
Satan was the very first “redistributor” of wealth. He promised something he didn’t yet own, to those who would be loyal to him, in order to fabricate a kingdom out of nothing. This is EXACTLY what socialism and communism does: a few “elites” promise that if the masses will help them confiscate the wealth of a few, that they will redistribute that very wealth fairly to said masses. This is ALWAYS a straight up lie. Why? Because the few elites plan to keep the control of the wealth for themselves. Even if they aren’t planning that from the start (history shows they usually are), as Lord Acton famously observed “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” There is only one man capable…only one man worthy…to have absolute power. It is the Man Christ Jesus who had all the power and laid it down to rescue everyone:
Philippians 2:5-11 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. (6) Though He was God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. (7) Instead, He gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When He appeared in human form, (8) He humbled Himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross. (9) Therefore, God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name above all other names, (10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, (11) and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus is going to have all the power. The title deed to the earth…the Scroll…is the ownership document of all the power:
Revelation 5:1-10 Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals. (2) And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: "Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and open it?" (3) But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it. (4) Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it. (5) But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals." (6) Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth. (7) He stepped forward and took the scroll from the right hand of the One sitting on the throne. (8) And when He took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people. (9) And they sang a new song with these words: "You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For You were slaughtered, and Your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. (10) And You have caused them to become a Kingdom of priests for our God. And they will reign on the earth."
There is ONLY ONE worthy to hold absolute power, and right now He is in a resurrected body just itching to take it back!
BUT, the Bible promises that God is not ever going to violate love. That requires God give people what they want. And just like Israel wanted when they rejected Jesus, just like Israel wanted when they demanded God give them a king like Saul…Israel wants a man to promise to save her from her enemies. That man…the one who promises to protect her as her God for 7-years, will become the anti…alternative to…Christ. That is how the Antichrist becomes the antichrist. By promising to play God to Israel first, then the world.
The world wants a king…a man like them…handsome, crafty, powerful, and smart enough…lawless enough… to put their trust in. There is an arrogant and “lawless” man coming who will claim he can do it. He and his few elite friends will promise wealth redistribution to the masses one last time in order to create his own power structure, and the Bible promises this man, first a regional leader of the last global superpower…the last attempt at Babylon…will export it globally. When he does, God is going to let the world get what it really wants for 42 months. Even though the world has seen the fruit of this rebellion time and time again, the whole globe is primed for one last try.
EVERY time God has lifted His “hand of restraint” from mankind’s desire to agree with satan about how power should be distributed the same thing has happened: world war, famine, disease, pestilence, and a few elites controlling all the resources the people were promised. In the communistic experiment of the Soviet Union, that small group of elites were called the “Politbureau, “ in China they are called the “Calq,” in North Korea they are called the “Central Committee”…
Saul Alinsky, who wrote the “play book” for the current progressive (Marxist) movement in America, called “Rules for Radicals,” dedicates his book…made famous as the play book for the presidential campaign of 2008…like this:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
More soon…
So the spirit of Babel was really the spirit behind mankind’s first attempt to re-establish Eden without its owner, the Father God. God, committed to eventually give mankind what it wanted, confused the languages and scattered the people of Babel, in order to “pause” what God would eventually allow mankind to get when “knowledge increased.” It is no coincidence that the famed Babel, and later Babylon, was located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers…the same general location the Bible describes as “Eden”
Genesis 2:7-14 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (10) Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. (11) The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. (12) And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (13) The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. (14) The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Mankind was MADE to live in Eden WITH GOD. Our heart KNOWS that this experience we call our lives is less than the “life” we were made for. The corrupted heart of man desires to throw off the constraints of the owner of life, yet still have life. This is impossible, but is the deceptive virus Adam and Eve introduced to the human race. This virus is even a danger for Christians. Having your “passport stamped” (salvation) is not the same as loving the leadership of the king (desiring holiness…sanctification)!
God will eventually let mankind have their way, but up until “That Day” as the Bible calls it…also known as the “Day of the Lord”…God has patiently given mankind time to figure out what they REALLY want. Those with “no root” in God’s leadership will “fall away”…those with strong roots will stand firm during the final storm meant to sweep out all rebels:
Luke 8:13 But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
Matthew 7:23-27 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (24) "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: (25) and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. (26) "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: (27) and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
“You who practice lawlessness!”…Lawlessness is at work both IN and OUT OF the Church, according to Jesus. The antichrist is the final “man of lawlessness” and he will lead multitudes…in and out of the Church…into a final rebellion rooted in the spirit of Babylon! This MUST happen…this falling away…according to Paul:
Paul taught this ALL THE TIME (he reminds the church in this passage that they have heard it before)…how few times we hear it in America:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, (2) not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. (3) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (5) Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
There is the full range of expression of this “lawlessness” in the earth…from the forthright “rebel”…the avowed atheist… who says there is no God and in the same breath extols the beauty of the butterfly…all the way to the deceived “Pharisee”…the modern day Pastor… who says they speak for God, but replace His perfect leadership designed to draw us into holiness (the reformatting of our hard drive) with the traditions of men. Everyone is somewhere in their relationship with God, and there is coming a valley of decision that will push all people one way or the other…either “for” Jesus in loyalty to his perfect leadership reaching for more and more obedience to the law in grace, or against Him…still desiring life but refusing the perfect leadership of Jesus:
Luke 12:51-53 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. (52) For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. (53) Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Right now, the division Jesus prophesied has been felt only a little here and there. In the western Church, this division is almost non-existent! Tragedy!! This is because “wholeheartedness” is so rare. Jesus promised that when you lived the Sermon on the Mount, you would CERTAINLY feel this division flare up:
Matthew 5:10-13 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (11) "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. (12) Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (13) "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
The “American brand” of Christianity is generally much more “bland” than the full flavor of the salt intended by Jesus. Full flavored salt “disrupts the thinking,” as my friend Elaine says, of the average Church goer, and radically demonstrates the truth and love of Jesus to the world. Right now, this is pretty rare in our American Christian experience. It is a little more common in the places where choosing to follow Jesus marks you for instant persecution. This is GOING to change. Persecution of those loyal to Jesus is going to go global, and it is going to happen nearly overnight, at the signing of a 7-year peace deal for Israel (I will get more into this later). You REALLY want to be ahead of the curve in this change. Now is the time to choose an all-in Sermon on the Mount lifestyle. God is going to orchestrate the circumstances of the earth to hem the whole world in to the Joel 3 “valley of decision.”
God has been VERY patient in letting mankind sort out the loyalty of their own heart. There is a Day coming, though, when God will no longer wait for what HE desires…what He called “very good” in Genesis 1:31.
This is what God made everything for: God, on earth, with every person who has chosen to love Him back.
God has “paused” His own desire for very good, and temporarily withdrawn from His Garden, which He made for His own delight, sent His own Son to redeem man’s desecration of His Garden…His vineyard… and is patiently waiting to return. All the while, most of the people…the vast majority of the people in world history to “occupy” His Garden, have desired to basically steal the Garden from God. People want all the benefits of God’s leadership, called “life,” without the very source of that life. This is rebellion:
Matthew 21:33-46 "Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. (34) Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. (35) And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. (36) Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. (37) Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' (38) But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.' (39) So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. (40) "Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?" (41) They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons." (42) Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES' ? (43) "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. (44) And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder." (45) Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. (46) But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitudes, because they took Him for a prophet.
This is the spirit of Babylon. Jesus, in this parable, ends by referring to the first famous king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. In Daniel 3, Daniel was told Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and its meaning. Daniel was shown four consecutive empires that would all share the “spirit of Babylon” and control the physical city of Babylon, formerly Babel. (Do you know where the world’s largest embassy is? Hint: it is on the Tigris River) It should be noted at this point that the famed Babel, and later Babylon, was located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers…the same general location the Bible describes as “Eden”
Genesis 2:7-14 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (10) Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. (11) The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. (12) And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (13) The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. (14) The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Babylon is the city that grew out of the first city state of the “Nimrod religion”…the mystery religion. The religion of Bel and Nebo, Nimrod and Semiramis, Jupiter and Venus, Baal and the Queen of Heaven, is a “mystery religion.” That means there are numerous symbols and signs that transmit information between the upper echelons of leadership, while most of the masses have no idea what the top is really all about. For Nimrod’s city of Babel, He couldn’t come right out and say “I want you all to see how great I am the way I see it so you can worship me and make me your God!” No way! People are way to selfish to go for that…most people want to be the top dog themselves!! Instead, Nimrod had to cast a vision of the “collective” working towards elevating the whole city. “Let us build for ourselves…”…What Nimrod really meant was “let us build for ME and my closest friends a tower I may sit upon” (and whispering to His wife “so I can be your god”.) This is what is behind the eye of Horus (the pyramid on the American Dollar), the Ashera pole (like the ones in Washington DC and at the Vatican), and the countless other “occult” symbols used in the first mystery religion, and then down through history. The “illuminati”…those pulling the strings at the top, use symbols to communicate their understanding of where the whole thing is going…and the masses at the bottom blindly play along…all the while, the Pied Piper…satan himself… charms the masses into rebellion against God. Satan IS the original rebel…the original thief of God’s garden. The first vinedressers were Adam and Eve…and the first rebel who corrupted the vinedressers is satan.
Satan, who fancies himself a “king”, always uses a prince…a man. This is because dominion of the earth was given by the owner of the vineyard…God the Father…to the vinedressers …mankind…to care for it. In this passage of Ezekiel, we see the spirit of the first rebel, the king of Tyre, working through his human agent, the “prince of Tyre.” From this passage we gain GREAT insight into the heart of the satan, and how he works through his human agent. We also see another reference to the “mystery” religion in the reference to “secrets”:
Here, God first addresses the human agent of satan:
Ezekiel 28:1-18 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, (2) "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas,' Yet you are a man, and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god (3) (Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you! (4) With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; (5) By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches, And your heart is lifted up because of your riches)," (6) 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god, (7) Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor. (8) They shall throw you down into the Pit, And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas. (9) "Will you still say before him who slays you, 'I am a god'? But you shall be a man, and not a god, In the hand of him who slays you. (10) You shall die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of aliens; For I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.' "
Then God addresses the prince’s true father, satan:
(11) Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (12) "Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (13) You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. (14) "You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (15) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. (16) "By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones. (17) "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you. (18) "You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
So God gives us insight into the deception satan used to foment the first and on-going rebellion. This deception was so effective that one third of the multitude of CREATED angels bought the lie and rebelled against the UNCREATED God!! This should show us that this sneaky deception of satan is HIGHLY effective. This is what satan did: he traded what he didn’t own in order to consolidate his own power. He said to the angels “God didn’t give you a very powerful position, did he? Look at Michael and Gabriel. What makes them so special? Come with me and I will give you the top spot in my new kingdom. I appreciate how special you are!”
Satan was the very first “redistributor” of wealth. He promised something he didn’t yet own, to those who would be loyal to him, in order to fabricate a kingdom out of nothing. This is EXACTLY what socialism and communism does: a few “elites” promise that if the masses will help them confiscate the wealth of a few, that they will redistribute that very wealth fairly to said masses. This is ALWAYS a straight up lie. Why? Because the few elites plan to keep the control of the wealth for themselves. Even if they aren’t planning that from the start (history shows they usually are), as Lord Acton famously observed “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” There is only one man capable…only one man worthy…to have absolute power. It is the Man Christ Jesus who had all the power and laid it down to rescue everyone:
Philippians 2:5-11 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. (6) Though He was God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. (7) Instead, He gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When He appeared in human form, (8) He humbled Himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross. (9) Therefore, God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name above all other names, (10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, (11) and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus is going to have all the power. The title deed to the earth…the Scroll…is the ownership document of all the power:
Revelation 5:1-10 Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals. (2) And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: "Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and open it?" (3) But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it. (4) Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it. (5) But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals." (6) Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth. (7) He stepped forward and took the scroll from the right hand of the One sitting on the throne. (8) And when He took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people. (9) And they sang a new song with these words: "You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For You were slaughtered, and Your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. (10) And You have caused them to become a Kingdom of priests for our God. And they will reign on the earth."
There is ONLY ONE worthy to hold absolute power, and right now He is in a resurrected body just itching to take it back!
BUT, the Bible promises that God is not ever going to violate love. That requires God give people what they want. And just like Israel wanted when they rejected Jesus, just like Israel wanted when they demanded God give them a king like Saul…Israel wants a man to promise to save her from her enemies. That man…the one who promises to protect her as her God for 7-years, will become the anti…alternative to…Christ. That is how the Antichrist becomes the antichrist. By promising to play God to Israel first, then the world.
The world wants a king…a man like them…handsome, crafty, powerful, and smart enough…lawless enough… to put their trust in. There is an arrogant and “lawless” man coming who will claim he can do it. He and his few elite friends will promise wealth redistribution to the masses one last time in order to create his own power structure, and the Bible promises this man, first a regional leader of the last global superpower…the last attempt at Babylon…will export it globally. When he does, God is going to let the world get what it really wants for 42 months. Even though the world has seen the fruit of this rebellion time and time again, the whole globe is primed for one last try.
EVERY time God has lifted His “hand of restraint” from mankind’s desire to agree with satan about how power should be distributed the same thing has happened: world war, famine, disease, pestilence, and a few elites controlling all the resources the people were promised. In the communistic experiment of the Soviet Union, that small group of elites were called the “Politbureau, “ in China they are called the “Calq,” in North Korea they are called the “Central Committee”…
Saul Alinsky, who wrote the “play book” for the current progressive (Marxist) movement in America, called “Rules for Radicals,” dedicates his book…made famous as the play book for the presidential campaign of 2008…like this:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
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