Nimrod, the first tyrant

By Michael Bahjejian

Gen 10:9
Let’s talk about Noah’s family. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth who went through the flood. After the flood, Noah planted a vineyard, drunk the wine and got drunk. While he was drunk, he got undressed in his tent and accidentally one of his sons, Ham saw him. He told his brothers who made sure they wouldn’t see there father naked, so they brought him some cloth while walking backward. When Noah learnt what had happened, he cursed his son Ham with a curse of submission of his offspring to his brothers.

Gen 9:25-27
5 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.

As a result of this curse came Nimrod. He was the son of Cush, one of Ham’s sons. Nimrod became a strong, powerful and charismatic leader whose influence led many people away from worshiping the true God. Our brother Odon gave us a message on the Tower of Babel in 2000. He told us that Nimrod left the East, the mountainous area to go to the plain in the West, away from where the morning light rises, where the morning light in a picture of the spiritual light of God. According to the historian Josephus, Nimrod is alleged to have pushed people to trust themselves and attribute their happiness to their own merit instead of praising God for their lives. It is said that people were quite happy to follow that path. Then it is said that Nimrod became progressively a tyrant, not only a hunter of animals but also a hunter of man. Likewise, it is understood that the term ‘before God’ in the expression ‘a mighty hunter before the Lord’ (Gen 10:9) literally means ‘in the face of God’ to suggest a certain rebelliousness in the establishment of a human government. In both Jewish and Islamic tradition, Nimrod remains an emblematic evil person, an archetype of an idolater and a tyrannical king (Nimrod the Evil and the Tyrant or Thug). He established his kingdom in Babel and built a few cities such as Nineveh that is the best known of all the big cities he built. Also, he might have been at the origin of the construction of the Babel Tower, symbol of people’s rebellion against God’s order to go and disperse around the world. His cities were fortified, surrounded with walls. This protection against the danger of this time, one of them being the wild beasts made it very attractive for people to live inside these cities. The cost to pay was to be submitted to a tyrant that was leading them astray.

While still alive, Nimrod and his wife Semiramis organised a cult to themselves, with one representation of them is the mother and child where the mother is Semiramis and the child is Nimrod. It is then alleged that Semiramis killed her husband and then the cult was mostly devoted to Semiramis who reigned over Babylon for over 100 years. She was eventually called the Queen of heaven, one of the titles officially given today to Mary, the mother of God by the Roman Catholic church.

(Today’s worship of Kim il-sung, the Eternal president and of his son, Kim Jong-Il Chairman of the National Defence Commission, is an example of humans worshipped as gods. And many other presidents and kings elsewhere give themselves or have given themselves the title of god through the age.)
Government
Juche socialist republic,Single-party communist state
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Eternal President of the Republic
Kim Il-sung(deceased) a
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Chairman of the National Defence Commission
Kim Jong-ilb
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President of the Supreme People's Assembly
Kim Yong-namc
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Premier
Kim Yong-il

Although the Bible doesn’t give us too many details about Nimrod’s life, historians have identified Nimrod with a complex of Mediterranean deities thanks to some similarities between some characteristics such as being a good hunter, building cities or closeness in the name. Eventually, the worship of Nimrod but especially the worship of Semiramis is at the origin of many of the Eastern religions that will be a permanent temptation for the people of Israel, and we remember that even Solomon who had so much wisdom and knowledge fell into that trap with serious consequences such as the creation of the kingdom of Judas and the kingdom of Israel that will fight for centuries against one another and have for most of the time evil king worshipping evil spirits until their complete destruction.

It is worth mentioning too that Abram’s genealogy goes back to Shem.

To come back to the flood, it is worth noting that the end of the flood is the beginning of the covenant of human government by which a human government is given by God the responsibility to restrain evil actions by punishing evil people even with the death penalty if a murder has been committed. Before this covenant, men were restrained by their conscience only.

A dispensation is a period of time under which mankind is answerable to God for how it has obeyed the revelation of God which it has received. These dispensations are commonly identified as Innocence that was the governing of the earth in worshipful submission to God, from Creation to the fall of man and God sending them out of the Garden of Eden, Conscience, the covenant with Adam, ending with the judgement and the flood where people were asked to walk before God with a clear conscience, Human government, the covenant with Noah, extending to the time of Abraham, and the Promise given to the patriarchs, from Abraham’s call to Moses. Some covenants finish with the next covenant but others are everlasting and overlap with the next ones, like the Promise that is still true today. Actually, some of the old covenants are still held in higher esteem by God than the new ones, even if they replace the old ones, as it is shown in Mat 19:8 when Jesus refers to the book of Genesis and says “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” The name ‘Moses’ refers to the Law that is the fifth dispensation or covenant and ‘the beginning’ refers to the previous covenants.

Now, 3 generations after the flood, that can be up to 1000 years given the long age of people of that time, we face a situation of rebellion against God that is similar in many respects with the pre-flood situation. However, there are a few differences.

God has promised that He wouldn’t destroy the earth by flood, so instead of destruction, He sent the confusion of languages to stop people in their evil plans of disobedience.
Demons who did not keep their first estate as it is said in Jude but left their own habitation were already in chains until the great day of judgment. The flood destroyed the hybrid people, half human, half demon, who were the giants of old that couldn’t be redeemed by Jesus’ death, given that Jesus could not come on earth as a demon, or half demon.
Human government had begun. People were not committing evil actions on their own but it was guided by a human government that they were lead astray. It doesn’t mean that people are not able to commit bad things on their own since as I said before, previous covenants such as Conscience are still valid today, but the worst evil were to be committed by human governments. The 20th century, starting with World War 1 and ending with the war in Congo has certainly shown how governments could kill and destroy with an exponential efficiency made possible by the incredible technical improvement of the power and capacity of production of armaments and ammunition since the Industrial Revolution up to this day.
It is not made mention of foreign worship in the time of Noah. People’s minds were just focussed on evil and that was it. In Nimrod time and from this time on, the religious component is associated to the practice of evil. For example, the Nazis adopted the swastika as a symbol or logo but the history of the swastika spans 3000 years and is still in use in many countries and religions of the East. They associated it to dark rites of the Mystic Order. Any religion with mystery is associated to the Mystery Babylon quoted in Revelation. In today’s catechism of the Catholic church, anyone can read paragraph 963 that begins with Since the Virgin Mary’s role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church… and paragraph 966 reads “Finally the immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation to her Son’s resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians. This is just one paragraph but it goes on like that for 12 that are more or less similar in idolatry.


Our Lord Jesus brought us back to His simplicity in the Gospels of marc, Luke and Matthew 20:25-28. There are no mysteries there. It is dead simple and straightforward although not that easy:
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

To conclude, I would like to give homage to the Book of Genesis. With 50 chapters only, it includes the story of a few thousand years on earth, not less than 3.5 dispensations, and the germ of all the ages and countries history. God blessed His creation with Adam and Eve. They sinned by eating the forbidden fruit and as a result, Satan and the earth were cursed and Adam and Eve punished. When Noah came out of the arch, he was blessed by God with his family, given the same blessing to multiply given to Adam and Eve. Then he sinned by drinking the product of another tree that was not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and as a result, he cursed Ham or Canaan. Why did he do it? I still don’t know. Maybe it was necessary that the spirit fights against the flesh in the world and in each individual and the promises is the victory of the Spirit. But today, as a result of it, we are surrounded with conflicts between brothers of the same race and all kind of false religions are flourishing. The time of the giants is back, all these batmen, supermen, superwomen etc, more seriously the giants of ignorance, laziness and spiritual blindness…but as for us, we are longing for the next dispensation that is not fare from coming that is the Kingdom of our Lord.

May God bless you