Mac Dominick has given
us a series of articles this week titled "PART
4 OF THE GODS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: REAL, OR SOMEONE'S
IMAGINARY FRIEND? TOWER OF BABEL REBELLION"
and Ron Riffe has written his comments about a list
- "44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost
Too Crazy To Believe" - Thanks to Doug
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THE GODS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD:
REAL, OR SOMEONE'S IMAGINARY FRIEND? by
Mac Dominick
This is a series of articles.
We will publish one each week. Here are the titles:
After
the Flood, mankind had been granted a "great reset."
The evil forces of the Watchers and the Nephilim had
been washed away in the waters of the Flood, and Noah
and his family had the opportunity to realign with the
plan of God for humanity. It took only 2 centuries for
things to "go south." Remember, with the longevity
of the human lifespan, Noah and his family were still
alive when the Tower of Babel Rebellion occurred, and
only a few subsequent generations of Noah's immediate
family led the Tower of Babel Rebellion.
While the actual events
that provided the narrative for the exploits of the
gods were pre-Flood, the worship of false gods did not
"kick into gear" until the time of Nimrod
and the Tower of Babel. While the name "Babel"
does mean "confusion" in Hebrew, the Mesopotamian
definition of the word is "gate of the gods."
The construction of the infamous tower was initiated
with the very intention of opening a portal to the Abyss
(or Tartarus if you prefer the Greek rendition) to release
the Watchers who had been imprisoned there just before
the Flood and provide an artificial "holy mountain"
for the gods. Had Nimrod and his comrades been successful,
this once again would have created the extinction-level
event for all of humanity as was planned before the
Flood.
At this point, we must
deal with Nimrod. For these details, I will include
an excerpt from my recent book, Cosmic Conflict--Jerusalem
vs. Babylon:
The Bible never directly
states that Nimrod led the rebellion in Babylon, but
the inference is certainly clear. The Bible also is
not clear as to whether Nimrod built his entire kingdom
before or after the disaster in Babylon. When one looks
at the archeology of the region in light of the Scriptures,
the sequence of events appears to have occurred in this
order:
1. Nimrod became a gibbor.
(This is the same Hebrew word used for the "mighty
men" in Genesis 6) How did Nimrod become gibbor?
He was either born with the evil genome from a supernatural
mother or embraced the change from direct contact with
a malevolent entity or entities that performed an occult
ritual to make him a gibbor. The result was the same
in either scenario. Nimrod became the Devil's man to
do the Devil's business.
2. Nimrod then exercised his new supernatural intellectual
and physical prowess to build a kingdom that encompassed
all of humanity. He did not pursue his goals in a "kind
and gentle" fashion, but as the mighty slaughterer,
he annihilated his opposition and built cities to consolidate
his power over humanity.
3. He then led the efforts to build an artificial mountain
in Babylon as a home for his false gods. This structure
would also serve as a portal to release the Watchers
(the rebellious angels from Genesis 6). The goal was
to return all of creation to the evil society that existed
before the Flood and corrupt the entire human genome
to prevent the appearance of the "Seed of the Woman"
that would redeem mankind as promised in Genesis 3:15.
4. At this point, Yahweh said, "Enough!" He
stepped into the situation and separated the population
into sub-groups by changing the languages of the inhabitants
of Nimrod's kingdom. The archeologists label this sudden
appearance of new civilizations and languages the Uruk
Expansion. This study estimates the timing of this event
about 2950 BC. This brought a cataclysmic end to Nimrod's
globalist political ambitions and sent the region of
Sumer into decline. Mesopotamia was depopulated, and
Babylon was abandoned and forgotten for 5 centuries.
Babylon reappeared c.2120 BC.
Because God is a just
God, humanity's rebellion at the Tower of Babel cannot
be ignored. There were grave consequences that would
impact mankind until the Return of Christ. The words
of Dr. Michael Heiser best sum up God's reaction and
plan for mankind moving forward from Babel:
"In the wake of Babel,
God as much as told the nations, 'If you do not want
to obey me, I am not interested in being your God—I
will match you up with some other god.' But eventually,
God will rule over the entire earth: 'Rise up, O God,
judge the earth, because you shall inherit all nations.'
(Psalms 82) (7)
This idea of God turning
over the nations to other "gods" initially
boggles the mind and leads to a negative reaction from
many. However, this is an instance of "sticking
to the text," and in this case, text the Church
missed for more than 2000 years. To examine Dr. Heiser's
contention, one must go to Deuteronomy 32:8-9 which
describes the judgment of God at the Tower of Babel.
One must begin with the KJV translation of the Masoretic
Text:
"When the Most High
divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated
the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according
to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's
portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
All agree this passage
speaks of God's actions after the Tower of Babel Rebellion.
The phrase "God divided the nations" establishes
that without any doubt. There is also no doubt in verse
9 that Israel is God's inheritance. We are told elsewhere
in Scripture that the archangel Michael is the "Prince
of Israel." (8) The questions arise from the last
part of verse 8 with the statement, "according
to the number of the children of Israel." The issue
with this statement is that Israel did not exist at
Babel, so was God basing the division of the nations
on some unknown future event? Where in Scripture would
any such event occur?
To get a resolution to
these questions, one must seek the wording of the original
text. The first location of the investigation is the
LXX (Greek Septuagint). The LXX is more than 1000 years
older than the Masoretic Text and was translated from
an older and perhaps the original Hebrew Vorlage. The
LXX reads:
"When the Most High
divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam,
He set the bounds of the nations according to the angels
of God. And his people Jacob became the portion of the
Lord. Israel was the line of His inheritance"
Wow! This is quite a difference.
The Masoretic Text reads "children of Israel"
and the LXX reads "angels of God." Nowhere
in the Scripture does God call the children of Israel
angels. Thus, we have an issue because both cannot be
correct. To get a majority view of the ancient manuscripts,
we must find a collaborating source. There is such a
collaborating source in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Before going further,
one must remember that the translators of our English
Bible often sourced the LXX and other ancient manuscripts
when compiling the English version of the Old Testament.
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were not discovered until
the middle of the 20th Century, this significant resource
was not available to the likes of Tyndale, Coverdale,
and the other early English translators. However, the
Dead Sea Scrolls are available to scholars in the 21st
Century, and their use as a reliable resource should
be utilized whenever needed.
The translators of the
ESV translation did exactly that, and found the DSS
to read, "according to the number of the sons of
God." Who are the Sons of God (bene ha elohim)
in the Old Testament? Watcher-class angels. The ESV
reads:
"When the Most High
gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided
mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according
to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord's portion
is His people, Jacob His allotted heritage."
The ESV and the LXX resolve
the issue, but before becoming too critical of the Masoretic
Text, one more avenue must be pursued. In 2013, scholars
Simon and Nicholas Wyatt proposed an alternate translation
of the Masoretic Text of Deuteronomy 32:8-9
• The "children
of Israel" reading in the Masoretic Text lacks
so much coherence that some
scholars now suggest a consonantal regrouping from bene
yisra el (sons of Israel) to bene
sor el (sons of Bull El.)"
• This reading would be consistent with the Canaanite
religion, the god El had 70 sons who
held assemblies on Mt. Hermon.
• While we do not want to play fast and loose
with the text, translating ancient Hebrew to
English is sometimes very subjective with no vowels
in the original Hebrew Vorlage.
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the LXX align with
this general train of thought as the sons of Bull
El would indeed have been angels (disobedient) or sons
of God (again, disobedient.) (9)
The conclusions from this
study: God allotted supernatural entities to preside
over each of the nations from the spiritual dimension
except for Israel, which He would establish and keep
for Himself. He charged these entities to rule justly,
so the people would seek God. However, these entities
allowed themselves to be worshipped as gods in the place
of God and showed partiality to the wicked rather than
providing justice.
This is the key to the
origin of many false gods and is especially relevant
for the territorial gods so prevalent in ancient cultures.
But here's a news flash: In less than two centuries
after the Flood, humanity went from the knowledge and
worship of the One True God to worshiping other gods
as a direct result of the Rebellion at the Tower of
Babel. More importantly to our current world population,
these entities are still the cosmic rulers of every
nation in the world except for Israel. Remember Deuteronomy
32:9? Israel is God's inheritance; the rest of the world
is still under the cosmic influence of the rebellious
sons of God--the ancient gods of antiquity.
NEXT WEEK - ADDITIONAL
REBELLIOUS ELOHIM
44 Statistics From 2024 That
Are
Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Followed by Cutting Edge comments from Ron Riffe
“2024 was definitely one of the wildest years
that any of us have ever experienced. During the past
12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York
jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential
election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person
of the Year. Nobody has ever had a year quite like that.
Of course 2024 was also a year of war. Israel battled
Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was
overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles
provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep
inside Russia, and Russian forces stormed even deeper
into eastern Ukraine. 2024 also brought us Hurricane
Helene, a “Great American eclipse”, and
“the comet of the century”. Now here we
are at the end of the year, and we are being told to
brace ourselves for a bird flu pandemic. I have a feeling
that the year ahead is going to be absolutely nuts,
but for a moment I wanted to look back at the crazy
year that we just went through. The following are 44
statistics from 2024 that are almost too crazy to believe…
Michael Snyder
Dec 31, 2024
See the full article with
list of statistics HERE
and before you read Ron's comments below:
Cutting Edge comments
from Ron Riffe:
Do these statistics sound
like “happy days are here again?” I feel
I am on fairly safe and solid ground to believe that
over half of voters in the US are happy that Donald
Trump was elected to another four years in office. Why?
Based on his performance during the first term he managed,
despite massive bureaucratic interference, to accomplish
some pretty amazing things with regard to our economy—in
fact, contrary to what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris claimed,
things for the average family were definitely looking
up. But along came that Democrat dynamic duo and the
past four years have been anything but rosy due to rampant
inflation brought on by a number of factors—not
the least of which came about due to ridiculous deficit
spending and “pounding sand into a rat hole”
by throwing away multiplied billions of dollars to the
Ukraine in support for an unwinnable war—over
174 billion, according to fact #38 in the article above.
I am not ashamed to say
I voted for Donald Trump simply because he offered—based
upon prior successes—to “Make America Great
Again.” And I would do it again under similar
circumstances. But divine intervention is the only thing
that can heal the self-inflicted wounds by the citizens
of our beloved nation. Never before in human history
have so many people devoted their lives to living beyond
their means!
#7 Total U.S. household
debt is nearing 18 trillion dollars.
#10 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 37 percent of Americans
are having trouble even paying their most basic bills.
#8 The number of shoplifting incidents per year in the
United States is up 93 percent compared to pre-pandemic
levels.
#19 37 percent of U.S. cardholders have already maxed
out at least one credit card.
#20 The amount of money that Americans owe on their
credit cards is twice as large as the GDP of the 100
poorest nations on the entire planet combined.
Without a doubt some of
this sad tale is due to inflation—said to be “the
cruelest tax of all.” But a great deal of it is
due to fiscal irresponsibility on the part of the individual:
“I want it, therefore I am going to buy it,”
is the attitude of far too many today. “After
all, it is easy to use the plastic.” Yeah, but
a day of reckoning is coming, if you do! “Oh well,
I guess I will have to file for bankruptcy.” But
to take that step you will engage in a legal, but dishonest,
way to cheat the lending agency. You incurred the debt
of your own free will and were under no obligation to
do so. And if that truth does not bother you, apparently
you have plenty of company in our obviously sick and
failing nation.
What I have said up to
this point has been aimed at a specific demographic:
irresponsible individuals who dig their own monetary
hole and then find they can’t claw their way out.
But I want to make it clear that my heart goes out to
all those citizens who, through no fault of their own,
have fallen on hard times. Unexpected medical bills,
auto/home repairs, loss of a job and a host of other
things William Shakespeare referred to as “the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” at times
bring down people of high character. It doesn’t
seem fair, but such is life.
What I intend to say next
will doubtless cause more than a few raised eyebrows,
but here goes: Our nation desperately needs a MAGA miracle.
Right? But let’s get real here. Note that I said
a miracle is needed to fully accomplish that lofty goal.
And Donald Trump has already survived some intense “slings
and arrows” in his latest rise to political prominence—that
seemingly border on the miraculous. So “what if,”
against all odds, he and his new administration pull
off a MAGA miracle and the good old USA experiences
a renaissance and once again becomes the premiere bulwark
of democracy in the entire world. Would you not view
that as being miraculous? But just as an aside, have
you noticed how many world leaders are traveling to
Mar-a-lago to “kiss Trump’s ring”
(an allusion to the practice of Roman Catholics kissing
the “ring of Peter” worn by the Pope—even
though the practice is said to have been discouraged
by recent Popes.) And how many politicians are retiring
and otherwise “getting out of Dodge” to
escape their perceived idea of possible retribution?
Is it not highly suspicious that the current spate of
resignations among world leaders has never occurred
before? What about Justin Trudeau resigning as Prime
Minister of Canada? And Assad fleeing Syria to live
in Russia? Hmmm.
The former director of
Cutting Edge Ministries, David Bay, now deceased, wrote
about the United States being a “revived Roman
Empire” and that our system of government, along
with several symbols within the capitol building in
Washington, District of Columbia, are clearly based
upon those of ancient Rome. Hmmm again!
Get ready to call me crazy,
but bible prophecy has a great deal to say about a man
who will appear on the world’s stage during the
“last days” and will convince Israel that
he is their long-awaited Messiah. And here is what the
Lord Jesus Christ said to the leaders of Israel about
that individual:
“I am come in my
Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall
come in his own name, him ye will receive. “
John 5:43 (KJV) [Emphasis mine]
Conservative bible scholars
agree that this comment by Jesus Christ refers to the
Antichrist—a counterfeit christ.
