On the subject of Nimrod, one website article reveals, "The Legend of the Craft continually confounds Masonry, Geometry, and Architecture, or rather uses them as synonymous and convertible terms. It is not, therefore, surprising that it should have selected Babylon as the birth-place, and Nimrod as the founder of what they called 'the science.' "
Another article found online: "The connection between Freemasonry and Nimrod’s involvement in the Tower of Babel is primarily derived from speculative interpretations and conspiracy theories. 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."
Yet another website: “The universal sentiment of the Freemasons of the present day is to confer upon Solomon, the 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 in existence, given, at least by suggestion, that title to Nimrod, the King of Babylonia and Assyria. It had credited the first organization of the 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.
"That is to say, he framed for them a Constitution, and, in the words of the legend, this was the first time that ever Masons had any charge of his science. It was the first time that the Craft was organized into a fraternity working under a Constitution of body of laws. As Nimrod was the autocratic maker of these laws, it necessarily resulted that their first legislator, creating laws with his unlimited and absolute governing power, was also their first Grand Master.
"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.
"Nimrod was a great Mesopotamian king who founded the city of Babylon and established the first great empire after Noah’s flood. He is also traditionally associated with the Tower of Babel. According to tradition, Nimrod sought to turn men away from God by setting up a tyrannical government and setting up a new religion. 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: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions, Nimrod is one of the founders of Masonry.
"In fact initiates in at least some forms of Freemasonry are still required to take the 'Oath of Nimrod' even today. The Spring 2006 issue of Freemasonry Today (a Masonic publication) tells us that the Oath of Nimrod is part of the initiation process for the 'indentured apprentice'…..
"The candidate is led into the Lodge by the Deacons, and after prayer, is investigated prior to taking the initiatory oath called the ‘Oath of Nimrod’. Nimrod, of course, the grandson of Noah, is mentioned in the ‘Old Charges’ as a teacher of the masonic craft and the architect of many great cities in Mesopotamia. The working tools are explained, the Ancient Charges (c.1663) and modes of recognition are communicated, and a pale blue cord is placed around his neck. The ceremony of closing the Assemblage is completed with prayer and a ‘seven-fold salute’ to The Most High."
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Unbelievably, the Koran says Abraham took his son Ishmael, not Isaac, for the sacrifice. It says Abraham was thrown into a fire by Nimrod when Abraham wasn’t even born until centuries after Nimrod’s death!
Nimrod brought forth teachings of mystery religions and was associated with astrology and magic, encouraging people to have communion with fallen angels.
[4] Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.”
This territory is what's called today Palestine. The Canaanites lived in Israel’s land, or the land God gave to Abraham, telling him, “Walk out in that land; it's yours!”
“The reason he mentions the Canaanites in Genesis 9, and Canaan the descendant of Ham, is to draw attention to the curse that was on the occupants of the land that Israel was going to go in there," explains Richard Jordan."They didn’t belong where they were and they had settled there against the wishes of the Lord. We’re going to see in Genesis 11 that these are the people that do that kind of thing!
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“You understand that term ‘a servant of servants’ is not a derogatory or pejorative kind of a description. In the Hebrew language, when they wanted to say something in the superlative, they would repeat it.
“You heard it said in Genesis 2 when the Lord said unto Adam, ‘The day you eat of the Tree of Good and Evil thou shalt surely die.’ For years I’ve heard preachers say, ‘Well, that means ‘dying thou shalt die,’ and that’s what it says in the Hebrew. People say, ‘Well, see that means dying spiritually you’re going to die physically.’ That isn’t what that means at all!
“What that is is understanding the exact thing that he says in Hebrew without understanding the language and the grammar of the language that’s being dealt with.
"In the Hebrew language, when they wanted to make something in the superlative, they repeat it. We would say, ‘You’re going to surely die.’ In other words, there isn’t any way to get around it and you see that in Hebrew constantly like that. Well here it’s the same kind of thing.
“He’s saying he’s going to be a servant par excellence. There’s nobody gonna beat this guy at serving. He’s going to be the best there is. He’s going to render extraordinary service to mankind and he does it in the area of mechanical skills and technology; getting the job done. Ham’s descendants are to make a tremendous contribution to mankind in that area.
“Japheth (verse 29) is going to spread out and be a developer, an expander, an explorer. He’s going to have the power of technology (the skills developed by the other two brothers and their respective descendants) to expand it out.
“Shem takes care of religion. Every major world religion comes from the tents of Shem. You know, when Ham develops a religion it’s spurious. When Japheth develops a religion it’s a phony and there’s something about you just say, ‘Eehh, there’s something about that that just doesn’t . . .’
“Ham develops a religion and you get something like voodoo. The Mambo-Jambo stuff and the Spiritism. Japheth develops a religion and you get something like Christian Science or the Mormons.
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“They used to say, ‘The English ruled the waves, the French ruled the land and the Germans ruled the air.’ They were the thinkers in Europe. Well, when you get to messing with Shem, Shem is in his head. He’s thinking.
“I’ll give you an illustration about why you need to understand this; how it will help you in politics and in international affairs. The U.S. went into Korea and got the britches beat off of them. You know why? They didn’t understand Shem.
“Ten years later they went to Vietnam and Shem cleaned their clocks; cleaned our plow! You know why? Japheth isn’t equipped to deal with Shem because he doesn’t think like Shem thinks. Shem looks at that hill out there . . .
"In WW II there was something you were trying to take. You took a city and you could see strategic advantage to it and all that. You go fight Shem and there’s this hill out over there; got nobody living on it but the whole battle, the whole war, depends on taking that hill and keeping it. Well, see that’s in his head! There’s a mental attitude about that thing.
“That’s the same thing that happened in Vietnam. You go up against Shem and there isn’t but one or two things to do. One is to go in there and you just beat him into a pulp, soundly, the first time you mess with him or two, you leave him alone. That’s the only two options you’ve got. You don’t have the option of a limited engagement or that kind of stuff. You know why? He’ll beat you; you just don’t have sense enough to know it yet! He beats you and waits ‘til it dawns on you and that’s just the way he is and you see that all through the Scripture.
“These three men’s descendants are designed to have all those characteristics that are wonderful, good and positively blended together, not in a melting pot but in a divinely ordained system, or nationalism, where all of their contributions were functioning and working and then blended together for the good of the whole. Genesis 10 records the spread
of these men.
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“Now the problem comes up that, shortly after they begin to spread out on the earth, rebellion came in. Satan’s policy of evil is to destroy God-instituted nationalism and bring in internationalism and have a one-world government, one-world religion and one-world race. And God’s purpose was not those things.
"God set out these families and He put them in nations and determined they would have geographic and political boundaries between them for the purpose of ‘if happily they might seek after the Lord and find Him.’
“Gen. 10:2. Japheth’s descendants go up; when they leave the Ark they move out north and they go up into Europe and Japheth becomes the Indo-European people. Verse 6: Ethiopia is Cush, Mizriam is Egypt, Phut is Libya and Canaan didn’t make it down there like he ought to have.
“Look at cross-references over in the Book of Psalms. Psalms 105 and 106 are where Egypt is called the Land of Ham and Ham goes down south and into Africa and that’s Ham’s land. Verse 21. Shem’s descendants go toward the East. Verse 30.
“Shem’s the guy God picks up now from here on out because in chapter 11:10, and the reason he picks up Shem is in verse 11:26: ‘And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.’
“Terah lives 70 years and begat Abram and there’s the guy that the rest of the story is all about! You’re going to get these quick genealogies, but the one they’re going to focus on from now on is Shem and you need to notice the things about Ham and Japheth.
“There’s nothing particularly outstanding about Japheth there except maybe verse 10:5: ‘By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.’ If it’s after their tongue, then obviously the divisions and so forth take place after the Tower of Babel destruction because they were just one tongue prior to that.
“I guess the one descendant of Ham you probably ought to notice the most is in verse 10:14: ‘And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.’
“The Philistines are descendants of Ham. You need to remember that. You get over into Israel’s history and you know they constantly have trouble with the Philistines. You remember Sampson fell in love with a little Philistine gal and so forth?
“You want to remember who they came from, where they came from and what they’re doing. They give you a little insight into the makeup of the controversies that are going on over there. There’s a lot of ‘cosmopolitan’ activity going on in your Bible that sometime you miss.
“Esau went and married a bunch of Canaanite women, and when he saw that the Canaanite women, and him marrying them, made his momma and daddy unhappy, he went and married another one!
"You see, there’s things going on there that you don’t want to miss about what’s happening and what was making him unhappy. It isn’t that much different than what goes on in the 20th Century, see? Not that much different at all.”
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