AN ANTICHRIST SPIRIT OF REBELLION ~ IT IS CAINISH, BABYLONIANISH, PHARISAICAL HYPOCRISY, YOU NIMROD! ~ EXPOSING HYPOCRISY ~ Part 7

"You Nimrod!!!" Hey! That’s not nice! That’s not loving! What kind of Christian would say such a thing? In 1932, someone probably would have LOL’d (laughed out loud) when Elmer Fudd was called a nimrod by both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. According to Wikipedia: In modern American English, the term is often used sarcastically to mean a dimwitted or a stupid person, a usage first recorded in 1932 and popularized by the Looney Tunes cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, who both sarcastically refer to the hunter Elmer Fudd as “nimrod”, as an ironic connection between “mighty hunter” and “poor little Nimrod”, i.e., Fudd.

 

It may be politically incorrect today to call someone a Nimrod, but God calls people fools throughout Scripture, and the spirit of Nimrod in our cancel culture working through social media platforms is the same spirit trying to cancel God!

 

Psalm 14:1 (and Psalm 53:1)—The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; there is no one who does good. God says unbelievers are fools. Fool means foolish, senseless, stupid. Dimwitted? Spiritually blind. Left to ourselves, we are all fools!

 

Proverbs 12:15—The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel. This fool despises wisdom.

 

In the parable of the greedy rich man, we see in Luke 12:20—But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’

 

Passages like Genesis 11, Matthew 23, and Revelation 17 have been wake-up calls to many true believers like me who were once fools caught in the web of deception within the harlot church. (You may read some of my journey at the bottom of this post.) Although there are many denominations under the banner of ‘Christendom’, there are only two veins that need to be observed. They have existed side by side for 2000 plus years and will continue to do so until the second coming of our Lord. The body of Christ is the apostolic church made up of all who have been born again by the Spirit of God. This is the true church that holds to the faith of the apostles submitting to the authority of Scripture.

 

What is the faith of the apostles?

 

If a mainline denomination claims to be the continuation of apostolic authority, how can one know whether or not this is true?

 

Is it okay to claim, as some do, that one born into this denomination just accepts it by faith? Faith in what? The only answer to that question can be ‘the church’.

 

Are we to have faith in the church or faith in God?

 

There is one source of authority, and that is the Word of God. The true church brings all teaching up against Scripture.

 

The other ‘church’ is the harlot church or Mystery Babylon. She wears the guise of the true church, but she is a phony—a counterfeit. Professing Christ but holding to a different gospel, she is apostate Christianity.

Those who hold to a different gospel have never experienced the second birth. They are spiritually dead and blind. Paul said in Galatians 1:8-9—But even though we, or an angel of heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. The people in Galatia had truly believed the gospel of faith alone by grace alone that Paul had preached to them. Then, men called Judaizers came in trying to persuade the people to believe a gospel that was distorted and, in fact, not the true gospel at all. They wanted the Galatians to add “the requirements, ceremonies, and standards of the Old Covenant as necessary prerequisites to salvation.” (John MacArthur). They were now being taught that faith plus works would save them and give them right standing with God. In response to this false teaching, Paul says that anyone who teaches a gospel of works is to be accursed or cursed. The word accursed is anathema. It means “a person or thing doomed to destruction, devoting someone to destruction in eternal hell.” The Roman Catholic Church proclaims anathemas on anyone who does not believe in a faith plus works gospel (Council of Trent on Justification XXIV). But Paul says anyone who believes the way to God is through faith plus works is cursed. Are we to believe God’s Word or the dogmas of man? There can be no unity between spiritual entities promoting very different gospels. There is only one true and saving gospel.

This antichrist spirit behind Mystery Babylon has been working in the world since the beginning of time. You will remember the story of Cain and Abel. Cain, a tiller of the ground, brought an offering from the fruit of the ground. Abel, a keeper of flocks, brought of the firstlings of his flock and their fat portions. Abel’s offering was accepted by God, and the Lord was pleased. With Cain’s offering, however, God was not pleased. Abel worshiped God as required (offering up a blood sacrifice); Cain decided to do things his own way. God gave Cain an opportunity to repent; instead of repenting, Cain murdered his brother, Abel. Maybe he thought, “If God wants a blood sacrifice, I’ll give Him one!”

Cain wanted to approach holy God his own way rather than how God said He was to be approached. Cain, like every religious system, attempts to earn God’s favor by works and rituals rather than by relying on God’s grace. Cain was proud. Not understanding his wretched and desperate condition before God, he didn’t believe he was all that bad but basically a “good person”. All false religious systems put an emphasis on humanity’s goodness rather than on man’s sinfulness. Because the Cain’s of this world believe they ought to be able to do things their own way when it comes to worshipping God, they also believe there are many paths that lead to God. They believe Christianity is inclusive rather than exclusive. But Jesus said He is the way, the truth and the light and that nobody comes to the Father but by Him. Cain could sing, “I did it my way,” all the way to hell because his way leads to eternal death rather than eternal life. Proverbs 14:12 says there is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. The way of Cain laid down a premise in Scripture from the beginning of time showing us that we must come to God His way. This has been the issue of all false religion from that day to the present. And nothing has changed.

Genesis 10 and 11 is our introduction to Babylon…and Nimrod. There is a lot of Nimrod mythology outside the Bible. A lot of it is interesting, to be sure. But I want to stick with what we know for certain. Who was Nimrod? You can read about Nimrod here: Who is Nimrod? Some of the highlights for our study are: Nimrod was the great-grandson of Noah through the line of Cush (Genesis 10:8). He is described as the first of the “mighty men” to appear on the earth after the great flood. Apparently, he was a giant of a man. The giants of Scripture appear to be connected to the line of Ham, through Nimrod. The Canaanites descended from Canaan, the son of Ham and related to Nimrod. The Bible calls Nimrod “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The word before can mean before the face of or against. In Genesis 10:9-10 we see that it is Nimrod that established a great kingdom including “Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar”. Later, he extended his kingdom into Assyria building Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen. Nimrod was a skilled, ambitious, physically strong leader with great strength of will.

 

Nimrod was connected with building the Tower of Babel. According to the historian Josephus, Nimrod “said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers” (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 4). The motive, according to Josephus, for building the Tower of Babel was to protect humanity against another flood. But the reason for the first flood was humanity’s wickedness and rebellion (Genesis 6:5-6), from which humanity refused to repent.

 

Nimrod was rebellious against God, just like his forefathers. Construction of this mighty Tower of Babel ends with God’s show of power by the Lord confusing the languages of the people, making it impossible for them to communicate effectively enough to finish the tower’s construction. Nimrod was exposed as the fool he was before God’s eyes. He was proved wrong—all of man’s strength and ability is a gift from God that He can choose to revoke at any time.

 

I loved the end of this article regarding Nimrod by Got Questions.org.: “Nimrod was undoubtedly a powerful, charismatic hero-figure of the ancient world who actually attempted to build a tower to heaven, hoping to thwart the plans of God. In the end, however, Nimrod’s power and glory came to nothing, because God is stronger than even the mightiest of men, and He cannot be thwarted. Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord, but humility before the Lord is the posture of the wise.”

 

In the next post, I will pick up with Genesis 11 and take a brief look at this doomed-to-failure construction project of these fools who believed they were stronger and wiser than Almighty God.

You can read part of my journey here:  My Journey