Jerusalem and Babylon
Both the apostles and many early Christians had an unequivocally negative attitude towards the “Greek wisdom” of Athens: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Col. 2:8).
Tertullian
writes: “Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy ... What
indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Academy to do with the
Church? What have heretics to do with Christians? Our instruction comes from
the porch of Solomon, who had himself taught that the Lord should he sought in
simplicity of heart. Away with all attempts to produce a Stoic, Platonic, and
dialectic Christianity!”
However, from the second century of Christianity, the idea that philosophy is
useful and does not contradict the Bible began to prevail. So Justin Martyr taught
that any truth in the Greek or pagan philosophies was the Word or Logos
reaching out to sinful humanity. He believed Plato's God was the God of the
Bible and Socrates was a “Christian before Christ”, just as Abraham was.
Then, during
some centuries, philosophy has almost completely absorbed the native Christian
biblical doctrine. Therefore, the Rome catholic and East orthodox theology is
only lightly Christianized Greek philosophy.
Later,
already in the Modern times, the concept appears that Western civilization is a
synthesis of Judeo-Christian and Hellenic cultures, that is, a synthesis, a
meeting of Athens and Jerusalem. But what kind of synthesis can we talk about
when the absorption of Jerusalem by Athens took place? Western civilization,
and now the whole world - is Athens with only a few traces of Jerusalem.
However, this idea became popular, especially in the circles of leftist and
liberal theologians.
In this context, the semantics of the city in the biblical worldview seems to
be very interesting.
According to Genesis, the first thing the first Satanist Cain did was to invent
the city. Then, the first thing that humanity did after the Flood was to build
the city of Babylon with the famous “tower”. And further, every civilization in
this world is an urban civilization. Therefore, the earthly city in the Bible
generally has a negative connotation.
It is interesting that modern science, despite the dominance of Marxism and
economic determinism, is gradually coming to the conclusion that the first
cities in the Middle East arose not as economic or political centers, but
precisely as religious centers, as settlements around certain religious
buildings or objects. This completely coincides with the biblical
interpretation of the emergence of cities.
There were many cities, but in the spiritual history of mankind there are only
two of them: Jerusalem, and not Athens, but Babylon.
Babylon was the first to emerge. The name of this city in the Bible is בָּבֶ֔ל Bavel. It is translated as
"mixing" consonant with בָּלַ֥ל "to mix, confuse" (meaning the confusing
of languages during the construction of the Tower). However, the term בָּלַ֥ל is just a play on words with the Akkadian
name of this city Bābili (m), which is a literal translation of its primary,
Sumerian name Kadingir (Gate of God).
The most
important and beautiful gates of Babylon are the Ishtar gates, built there at
the peak of the city's power by Nebuchadnezzar. Ishtar is the female form of
Lucifer. The gate itself depicts the ancient signs of the devil - a lion, a
bull, and the brightest and most complete image of Satan - Sirrush (translated from Akkadian "great
serpent", "red dragon", "fierce dragon").
The cuneiform sign of the word "god" in the Sumerian language is a
pictographic image of a star. For Mesopotamia, the gods are the stars in the
sky. And the brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon is a star
of Ishtar, or rather the planet Venus, Lucifer.
Now we understand of what "god" the spiritual gate Babylon is. And
the Bible clearly recognizes this. In the Bible, Babylon is a symbol of the
center of Satan's presence in the world; Satan is the king of Babylon. Here is
the famous prophecy of Isaiah about the impending collapse of Babylon and its
king: “That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!... Hell from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead
for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee,
Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is
brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under
thee, and the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the pit” (Isa. 14: 4-15).
It is from Babylon that the so-called “Babylonian wisdom” comes from - a
complex of philosophical, occult and esoteric teachings that have formed and
constitute the basis of the worldview of this world from antiquity to this day
(Kabbalah, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Greek philosophy, science,
technology, etc.). The aforementioned
Athens (like Rome, the Vatican, like Shambhala and many other centers) is just
one of the branches of Babylon.
There are
two basically different worldviews in the world: Biblical and Babylonian. All the nonbiblical doctrines, ideologies,
religions, philosophies, worldviews (from magic and paganism till philosophy,
science and technology) have a common basis. This basis was invented and
developed in the ancient Mesopotamia ranging from the Sumerian civilization.
This thesis we will in detail concern in our works.
The city is
a symbolic habitat for sinful people. Before the Fall of man, people lived in
the Garden of Eden, and after that God’s people lived outside the cities,
shunning them. However, after the Babylonian tower, God decided to create His
own people, to whom He would transfer a special land - Palestine. But pagans
already lived in this land and had their own pagan religious cities. And the
Jews, having conquered them in one of them, made their religious capital - in
Jerusalem. God used the invention of sinful people in His Providence of
salvation.
Jerusalem - the name comes from two words, literally "city of peace".
Peace, the Semitic root שלם
"sh-l-m" or "s-l-m", shalom, salam, is a very capacious
word, which means peace, completeness, well-being. In Canaanite times under
Abraham, this city was also called Salim.
In Salim during the time of Abraham, the mysterious Melchizedek “the king of
righteousness”, the priest of the Most High God, ruled. Melchizedek is
Christ-God before incarnation (the same One Who appeared to Abraham near Mamre
or with Whom Jacob fought).
Thus, God chooses a special city for Himself, for His Providence, and David took
it by military force. Having made his capital, David placed the Ark of the
Covenant in it, and his son Solomon built the Temple. Thus Jerusalem became the
only place where God was on earth. In other cities, shrines of Yahweh were
strictly forbidden.
However, 400 years after David and Solomon, the Jews became so corrupt that
they were punished with a terrible and deep symbolic punishment. Shekinah
(presence) of Yahweh left the Temple, the city of Yahweh - Jerusalem and the
Temple were destroyed, and the Jews were moved to the city of Satan - Babylon.
Then the Jews returned to Jerusalem, rebuilt the Temple. But again they were
mired in sin - they changed the Torah and the prophets for Babylonian wisdom,
and 400 years after the captivity, another terrible tragedy broke out in
Jerusalem. Yahweh came to his city - Jerusalem to save the Jews first, but they
did not recognize Him, accused of blasphemy and killed. Then the Romans destroy
Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Jews sprayed around the world.
And now we need to pay attention to one very important aspect. This aspect is
especially discussed in the Apocalypse.
Now the geographical ancient city of Babylon does not exist. Even in the time
of John, Babylon was nothing but ruins. However, in a spiritual sense, Babylon
“great city”, these gates of Satan, still exist. Babylonian wisdom, or, to put
it simply, Satanism, reigns supreme both in the world and in many supposedly
Christian churches. The Matrix of Babylon and Babylonian wisdom has penetrated
into all areas of life. Moreover, John describes the triumph of Babylon, and
then its final fall at the beginning of the End Times.
Jerusalem exists now and it is flourishing. Already in the 4th century,
Byzantium, having privatized Christianity for itself, began to revive Jerusalem
as a religious center. This policy was continued by Muslims, and now it is
continued by the Jews, who gained political power over the city in 1967.
But what does the last prophecy of the Bible, the Revelation of John, say about
Jerusalem?
John with the name Jerusalem, or "the holy city" as the city of God,
calls exclusively the Heavenly City Jerusalem, the heavenly capital of Christ's
kingdom. After the Ascension of Christ in Heaven, New Jerusalem arose, which so
far is only in Heaven and is spiritually present among the Church.
Jerusalem as
a geographical earthly city, John mentions only once - in chapter 11. And he
mentions it in a very bad context: in the Last Times in Jerusalem there will be
two prophets from God killed by the devil who gained strength. In the Last
Times, geographic Jerusalem will become the spiritual capital of Satan over the
world. John calls it “the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and
Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified” (Rev.11: 8).
Great city is one of the names in Revelation for Babylon, Satan's gate in this
world; Sodom is a symbol of extreme and legalized sin, Egypt is a symbol of
slavery. Jerusalem is not mentioned so badly anywhere else in Scripture. Geographic
Jerusalem will absorb all the negativity that is possible.
This is such an apocalyptic castling. Geographic Babylon is destroyed, but
spiritually it is flourishing, and at the end of time it will be geographically
located in the former city of God - geographic Jerusalem. Actually, the triumph
of the devil in the world will be marked by the transformation of geographic
Jerusalem into Babylon.
There is an
active occult-ecumenical movement in the world, the purpose of which is to
unite and unify all the religions of the world in such a way that this religion
will become a religion of worshiping Satan in the Last Times. And in Jerusalem
it is planned to restore the Temple, is not just like a Jewish temple, but a
temple of the new world religion to Satan.
In our
further works, we will research the Bible worldview, the Babylon worldview and
the difference between them.
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