Noah

Genesis 9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a
vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within
his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told
his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and
their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done
unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant.
Noah and his three sons with their families were the only inhabitants on the planet.
Something came into existence again. Noah did exactly what God intended, but
there was a problem. Here was the beginning of another sad event that would colour
the history of the world. Ham ridiculed and made fun of seeing his father's
nakedness, and it launched out a similar class of people who had been before the
flood, Cain's line. This was now Ham's line.
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and
Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as
Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city
Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
The same repetition of those who become decoyed from God's order of things. Cush
was one of the sons of Ham. What was the line of Ham doing? Building cities. The
first city built under Nimrod's care was Babel. These city builders came from the
cursed line. The faithful people like Noah, Shem, and Japheth followed God's order
and spread across the planet. The cursed settled on the plain of Shinah. The city of
Egypt was the next city down the line from where they were going and Egypt
became a great city- building nation.
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain
in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may
reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there
confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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Nimrod
No doubt some of them scattered after God tore down the tower, but some remained
in that city. That first city that was built, from that city the people were scattered
abroad and carried with them the same influence that they had developed in the city
of Babel.
For a time the descendants of Noah continued to dwell among the mountains
where the ark had rested. As their numbers increased, apostasy soon led to
division. Those who desired to forget their Creator and to cast off the restraint
of His law felt a constant annoyance from the teaching and example of their
God-fearing associates, and after a time they decided to separate from the
worshipers of God. Accordingly they journeyed to the plain of Shinar, on the
banks of the river Euphrates. They were attracted by the beauty of the
situation and the fertility of the soil, and upon this plain they determined to
make their home. PP 118
They developed a city to prevent themselves from being scattered across the whole
planet. They were just going to concentrate on that beautiful lush plain but God
scattered them. The observation that we make here is that they desired to forget
their Creator and as the restraint of God's Word conveyed at the hand of those who
were true to God. It was a constant annoyance and they decided to separate from
the worshippers of God. These are the important genetic makeup principles of how
the development of papal infiltration comes about. There is a mentality of not loving
the restraint of God's perfect order so they bring in paganism.
Nimrod launched out true paganism with the sun god. All those things he introduced
because they were not willing to submit to God's way. There was the beginning of
this terrible condition of the city builders and the great city of Babylon was the
launching pad. What was the motive in building that city?
The dwellers on the plain of Shinar disbelieved God's covenant that He would
not again bring a flood upon the earth. Many of them denied the existence of
God and attributed the Flood to the operation of natural causes. Others
believed in a Supreme Being, and that it was He who had destroyed the
antediluvian world; and their hearts, like that of Cain, rose up in rebellion
against Him. One object before them in the erection of the tower was to secure
their own safety in case of another deluge. By carrying the structure to a much
greater height than was reached by the waters of the Flood, they thought to
place themselves beyond all possibility of danger. And as they would be able
to ascend to the region of the clouds, they hoped to ascertain the cause of the
Flood. The whole undertaking was designed to exalt still further the pride of its
projectors and to turn the minds of future generations away from God and lead
them into idolatry. PP 119
What was ancient Babylon built for? To turn the minds of future generations away
from God. Our study is ancient Babylon and its influence on the whole planet. She is
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the great city that has made all nations do that which is the very make up of the
subject which is inculcated in the second angel’s message.
A One World Order
In other words a one world order - that's Babylon's mentality. That's the same
mentality of the city of Rome. That Rome would be the great metropolis of the centre
of the world and that kind of mentality of infiltration even affected the church. They
made their headquarters in Rome and would have an influence over the entire world.
This kind of mentality is what we are picking up here under the second angel’s
message. The wording is so important she has made all nations, that great city.
We can trace that all great nations have been affected by this ancient city. Nimrod
and his ways molded the whole world. All the details of Baal worship and all pagan
worship commenced under Nimrod and even the behaviour pattern of the freemasons
and their chequered floors come from that. It will mold us if we permit our
minds to be affected by the world.
When the tower had been partially completed, a portion of it was occupied as a
dwelling place for the builders; other apartments, splendidly furnished and
adorned, were devoted to their idols. The people rejoiced in their success, and
praised the gods of silver and gold, and set themselves against the Ruler of
heaven and earth. PP 119.2
Look at the huge buildings they build now. They actually create an entire social
function within the building with a sports ground in the building itself. This is defying
God's principle of going out to replenish the earth. They want to do their own thing.
The Babel builders had indulged the spirit of murmuring against God. Instead
of gratefully remembering His mercy to Adam and His gracious covenant with
Noah, they had complained of His severity in expelling the first pair from Eden
and destroying the world by a flood. But while they murmured against God as
arbitrary and severe, they were accepting the rule of the cruellest of tyrants.
Satan was seeking to bring contempt upon the sacrificial offerings that
prefigured the death of Christ; and as the minds of the people were darkened
by idolatry, he led them to counterfeit these offerings and sacrifice their own
children upon the altars of their gods. As men turned away from God, the
divine attributes--justice, purity, and love--were supplanted by oppression,
violence, and brutality. The men of Babel had determined to establish a
government that should be independent of God. PP 120-123
We see that right through that ancient city finally became the city of
Nebuchadnezzar. It continued in its corruption until Belshazzar came and the
prophetic details of Babylon was the destruction of Babylon. When God first
confused the languages of the city of Babylon, it meant confusion. The other name
which they had intended giving it was gate to heaven. This is another meaning of the
word. These two meanings are very significant;