Glorifying Nimrod

From an online article by The Square Magazine:

“Some people believe that the Masons trace their spiritual origins back to the builders of the Tower of Babel, and that Nimrod, as the initiator or primary supporter of the project, played a crucial role in the establishment of Freemasonry.

“In this view, the tower represents the first large-scale joint effort in engineering and architecture, laying the foundation for the traditions and practices of masonry.

“Some conspiracy theories claim that Nimrod was a founder or significant figure in the secret society of Freemasonry. These theories allege that Freemasonry perpetuates or carries on Nimrod’s legacy and seeks to establish a new world order."

From the website Universal Co-Masonry:

The universal sentiment of the Masons of the present day is to confer upon Solomon, King of Israel, the honor of being their "first Grand Master." But the Legend of the Craft had long before, though there was a tradition of the temple extant, bestowed, at least by implication, that title upon Nimrod, the King of Babylonia and Assyria. It had attributed the first organization of a fraternity of craftsmen to him, in saying that he gave a charge to the workmen whom he sent to assist the King of Nineveh in building his cities.

 . . . It was the first time that the Craft were organized into a fraternity working under a Constitution or body of laws; and as Nimrod was the autocratic maker of these laws, it results as a necessary consequence, that their first legislator, legislating with dictatorial and unrestricted sovereign power, was also their first Grand Master.

From the website CrisisBoom:

“There is a direct connection between Freemasonry and the ancient Babylonian mystery religion from which the ancient pagan religions of Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome eventually developed. It all goes back to a man named Nimrod who the Freemasons view as the true originator of their Order . . .

"In fact, the new religion centered around Nimrod and his wife Semiramis eventually evolved into Baal worship from which all the pagan religions of the Middle East and Europe later developed. Not only that, according to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Nimrod is one of the founders of Masonry.

"Initiates in at least some forms of Freemasonry are still required to take the 'Oath of Nimrod.' A Masonic publication tells us that the Oath of Nimrod is part of the initiation process for the 'indentured apprentice.' "

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Revelation 2:20: [20] Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Jezebel pushed Baal worship into the nation Israel and, through her husband, Ahab, made this Babylonian religion the official religion--the STATE religion--of the nation Israel, explains Richard Jordan.

Notice he talks about Baalim and he talks about the woman. There's something you need to remember about Baal worship. There's a female deity associated with this religion Baal worship; you're not simply worshipping a god in the male sense, a man-god.

Judges 2: [10] And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

[11] And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
[12] And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
[13] And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
[14] And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

Here you're seeing the REASON God first sent that FIRST cycle of chastising judgment upon Israel--the one He told them He would send if they broke His covenant.

Israel is fixing to go through a horrendous period of chastisement from the Lord and when you read that thing about "provoking the Lord to anger," that's the reference back to Leviticus 26 when they provoke Him to punish them and to chasten them for their sins and the reason for it all has to do with they've forsaken the Lord and they go out and serve other gods and they're committing spiritual adultery.

Ashtaroth is a female goddess; she is a goddess whose origin goes back to Nimrod. All of the Babylonian religion goes back to Genesis 10 and 11.

Over and over as you see this Baal worship appear in the Bible, there is associated with it this female deity who is involved in propagating the worship, almost like the false prophet is in the tribulation.

It's almost like the relationship the false prophet has to the beast, the Antichrist, this female deity has toward Baal and the worship of Baal. She is used in the system to promote people's allegiance to Baal and to commit the spiritual fornication and to participate in the idolatry and she is a key figure in the Babylonian religion to that end.

You're going to see that in every system of idolatry in every culture, and in all the nations of the earth, you can find this woman and you can find the same system and all these various forms all have their origin back in Genesis 10 and 11 with Nimrod.

These are passages that ought to be well-worn in your Bible; you ought to be fully aware of what's going on in these passages because it's a critical point in human history. It is as dispensationally significant a point as Acts 7 is in the Book of Acts.

Two of the major dividing lines in God's dealings with men take place in what most people never even think about as significant places.

In Genesis 10 and 11 is a rebellion of mankind. Paul describes it in Romans 1; he says it was at this point God gives up mankind and gives up the nations and allows them to walk in their own ways and He suffers them to go on in their own ignorance. Why? “They did not like to retain God in their knowledge.”

In Genesis 12, He calls out one man by the name of Abram and makes him a promise of a seed and a nation that would come from him; that would be the nation that belonged to God. All the other nations didn’t want God; they’d been let go of and given up.

And the middle wall of partition between Israel and God’s nation and all the nations of the earth begins to be erected in Genesis 12.

That middle wall of partition, dispensationally, has been the issue all the way down until you come to the time of the Apostle Paul, where the middle wall falls.

So, something tremendous was going on back there in Genesis 10 and 11 and what happens is this rebellion headed up by Nimrod.

They come off Noah’s Ark and go out and begin to propagate on the earth, and one of Ham’s descendants, Nimrod, comes out here and I was fascinated to hear a woman on the television from some church down on the Southside of Chicago.

She’s bouncing around and singing and carrying on, building up a sweat. She’s preaching, man, getting on with it, you know, and her subject was Nimrod; about him being a great guy and a hero, and how wonderful it was to be a descendant of Nimrod.

I never heard anybody glorify Nimrod and I asked Brother Art Johnson (head preacher of Shorewood South in Chicago), and you won’t find anybody who’s studied the Bible any better than Art, “Have you heard that before in the black community?” He said, “Well, yeah, there’s a book out where they’re glorifying Nimrod.”