Sunday, 4 January 2015

What is the spirit that inhabit BABYLON?

BABYLON, (Bab'y.lon = Confusion), the latter name given to Babel. The great city originally built so that it straddled the Euphrates River ( the name derives from root meaning "to break forth") on the Plains of Shinar, and the River's waters were used to form a broad deep moat encircling Babylon and also to form a net-work of canals within the city walls. At the time of Babylon's fall, Cyrus diverted the waters of the Euphrates so that his troops could march through the riverbed into the unsuspected city.
The River is the longest and most important of SW Asia. It is mentioned at Genesis 2 as one of the Four Rivers (Four World's powers) once having had their source in Eden.
In God's statement to Abraham he covenanted to give Abraham's seed the land "from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." Genesis 15. God's promise fully realized during the reigns of David and Solomon.
In Isaiah 44, in a figurative sense, the waters of the Euphrates were "died up." the same thing is prophesied to at Revelation 16 and 17, describing the destruction of symbolic "Babylon the Great," which is said to "sit on many waters," these representing "peoples and crowds and nations and tongues."
Nimrod founded Babylon as the capital of man's first political empire. Construction of this city, however, suddenly came to a halt when confusion in communication occurred. Genesis 11.
Later generations of rebuilders came and went.
Hammurabi enlarged and strengthened the city and made it the capital of the Babylonian Empire under Semitic rule.
Under the control of the Assyrian World Power, Babylon figured in various struggles and revolts.
Then with the decline of the Second World Empire, the Chalde'an Nebopolazzar founded a new dynasty. His son Nebuchadnez' zar II, who completed the restoration and brought the city to its greatest glory, boasted, "Is not this Babylon the Great, that I myself have built?"  Daniel 4. In such glory it continued as the capital of the Third World Power under the successive reigns of Nebuchadnez'zar's son Evil-Merodach (Amel-Marduk), his son-in-law Neriglissar and Neriglissar's son Labashi-Marduk and finally with Nebuchadnez'zar son-in-law Nabonidus on the throne. The latter's son, Belshazzar, was ruling with his father up until the fall before the invading army forces of the Medes, Persians, and Elamites under the command of Cyrus the Great, the alliance broke the impregnable walls of the city. A system of double walls surrounded the city, the outer wall buttressed by towers. Streets ran through the city from gates in the massive walls. Procession Street, the main boulevard, was paved and its walls alongside were decorated with lions, dragons and bulls. This metropoli was a commercial and industrial center of the World Trade. It was a commercial depot for trade between the peoples of the East and the West, both by land and by sea. Babylon had a fleet of three thousand galleys that plied not only the city's canal system but also the great Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The fleet had access to the Persian Gulf and the seas far beyond.
In brilliant strategy Cyrus' army  engineers diverted the mighty waters of the Euphrates River from its course through the city. Then down the riverbed the Persians moved, up over the riverbanks, to take the city by surprise through the gates along the quay. Quickly passing through the streets, killing all who resisted, they captured the palace and put Belshazzar to death. It was all over. In one night Babylon had fallen, ending centuries of Semitic  supremacy; control of Babylon became Aryan (Europeans and Western Asians).

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