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If you are in the northern hemisphere you start August 12 with the planetary alignment before sunrise and end it by watching for some
Perseid meteors after sunset. Plan your skywatching marathon with the free Star
Walk 2 astronomy app, check what is visible from your location, and make sure you do not miss the best moments. Within 24 hours, three
major astronomical events will take place: a six-planet
alignment, a rare "golden hour" solar eclipse, and the
peak of the famous Perseid meteor shower.
Before sunrise — Start with the planet parade. Find a place with an open eastern horizon and begin observing before the sky gets too
bright. Mars and Saturn will be the easiest to spot. Mercury and Jupiter will sit low, so a clear horizon will matter.
Day or evening — Watch the solar eclipse. Check the exact eclipse times for your
location from cities in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Use certified eclipse glasses, follow safe solar eclipse viewing rules, and never look at the Sun without proper protection. If you are in Spain,
Portugal, or another low-Sun location, a clear western horizon is essential.
Night — Stay out for the Perseids. After dark, move away from city lights, let your eyes adjust, and watch the sky from late evening
into the early hours of August 13. The New Moon will keep the sky dark, so conditions should be excellent.
Detailed guides for each event
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of
Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Anthony Grigor-Scott
On August 12, 2026, six planets — Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Saturn,
and Neptune — will appear before sunrise. Mars and Saturn will be the easiest targets, Mercury will be low but possible to catch with a clear
horizon, Jupiter will sit even lower than Mercury, Uranus will require binoculars, and Neptune will need a telescope. Venus will not be visible. A
total solar eclipse will be visible in much of the northern hemisphere. After sunset the heavens
will be teeming with shooting stars during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. It truly will be one of the most memorable days that
astronomers have experienced in a long time.
The a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. Alaska to North Carolina, most of Canada, much of Europe, and northwestern Africa will
experience a partial eclipse. The western path of the eclipse, mainland Europe and Africa will see a partial eclipse of the Sun. The path of the
total solar eclipse begins in northern Russia and ends crossing over parts of Spain and Portugal . . . the path of totality starts in far northern
Siberia, close to the North Pole, then runs south through the Arctic and the North Atlantic, crossing western Iceland, including Reykjavík,
reaching northern Spain with a small corner of Portugal inside the band.
The Moon will be barely a day past its closest approach to Earth, so its disk should cover the Sun without a ring of sunlight light. A total solar
eclipse is possible only because the sun is about 400 times larger than the moon, but also about 400 times farther away, making them appear
the same size in the sky. The moon's orbit is tilted about five degrees to Earth's orbital plane. Only when the new moon crosses one of its
orbital nodes can a solar eclipse occur. Once the Sun goes down on August 12th, earth will enter the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower.
Earth is plowing through debris shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, its nucleus measures about 16 miles (26 kilometers) and that night as we
pass nearest the dense core of the stream. Full story: jamiecartereurope
Comment: Visit Starstruck and also starwalk.space
August 7, 2026 — Col Doug Macgregor: This is a war for Israel. Full story: youtube.com
August 6, 2026 — When the United States bombs another
country, threatens its government, kills its people, occupies its territory or attempts to dictate its future, the consequences do not remain
safely contained thousands of miles away . . . they come home in flag-draped coffins to shattered military families . . . with retaliatory attacks
on American bases and embassies . . . through terrorist plots, cyber sabotage, disrupted shipping lanes, higher energy prices, depleted weapons
stockpiles, and trillions of dollars in debt.
They come home through hacked water systems, vulnerable power grids, heightened domestic surveillance, militarized police and government
demands that the American people surrender still more freedom in exchange for the promise of protection from dangers the government
itself helped create . . . the Trump administration has lurched between war and threatened war, massive bombing campaigns and
aborted strikes, demands for surrender and claims that peace is imminent. There is, however, a mounting bill—and it will be paid in American
lives, American dollars, American security and American freedom . . . when a government appoints itself judge, jury, executioner and police
officer to the world the government creates enemies faster than it can kill them. Full story: globalresearch.ca

August 5, 2026 — The Tariff Game:
Most recently, Trump rebated a number of companies billions of dollars in tariff rebates. Total amount so far is $81 billion in rebates to
such affected companies as Ford, Wal-Mart, Amazon, UPS, FedEx, Costco, etc. To people who actually absorbed the tariffs via higher prices =
ZERO Rebate! The amount of rebates remaining unpaid by Trump: $85 billion. Now Trump wants to impose more illegal tariffs despite the
Supreme Court ruling. President Donald Trump's new tariffs include 10% to 12.5% global import duties being imposed on 60
trading partners. The new citations are based on foreign countries which fail to combat 'forced labor.' A separate 50% tariff on specific Canadian
goods such as automotive, dairy, and alcoholic products is completely illegal according to the Supreme Court and will simply lead to more
refunds. Twenty-five states have thus sued Trump claiming he is in violation of the Supreme Court's decision.
The countries included in the scheme of disregarding 'forced labor' or human rights abuses include one-third of the globe: The UK, Canada,
Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, China, EU, Russia, India, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia . . .
Canada the hardest at 50% is contrived to destroy their economy so Trump can attempt to add them as the 51st State . . . Trump has
declared that these 60 countries are in violation for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods
produced with forced labor, most specifically China. Any country which trades with China must be punished according to Trump, despite the
punishment being born by American taxpayers . . . China does not respond well to blackmail any more than Iran . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

August 5, 2026 — Since February 28 when
Washington and Tel Aviv launched an unprovoked war against Tehran and its 92 million people, this act of blatant aggression represented a
monumental miscalculation related to the support for the Iranian Revolution and the capacity of the people to repel repeated attempts aimed at
political destabilization and the overthrow of the government.
The prolonged war against Iran is now creating a crisis of immense importance in that the very weapons being used to kill civilians and destroy
infrastructure are rapidly being depleted. It has become widely assumed that the pause in aggressive actions against Iran is due to the
declining capacity of the Pentagon to carry out large-scale strikes aimed at defeating Tehran . . .
"The strain on US arsenals comes as the administration of President Donald Trump seeks to expand weapons production. The Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has warned, however, that efforts to rapidly replenish 'exquisite-class' weapons will take years to
bear fruit. The Trump administration has reached agreements with arms manufacturers aimed at quadrupling production of such advanced
weapons, while Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst has announced plans for expanded multi-year procurement contracts as part of Trump's $1.5
trillion military budget request. Yet even under optimistic projections, analysts say rebuilding depleted stocks could take several years. Delivery
timelines for newly contracted missiles are expected to stretch between three and five years, despite efforts to expand production capacity."
The focus is on imperialist domination around the world in conjunction with the implementation of fascist policies domestically in the US.
Therefore, social justice organizations and movements cannot ignore the international questions of the contemporary period related to
Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, the Alliance of Sahel States in West Africa and other contested areas. The mass struggles in the US cannot
make headway as long as the ruling class and the capitalist state utilize the resources of the people to replenish its arsenal in the failed
attempts to maintain global hegemony . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
August 4, 2026 — Col. Douglas Macgregor: In this video, we examine the mounting strategic pressures converging on Israel and the narrowing timeline analysts believe now defines its next moves. We explore how a combination of military overextension, diplomatic isolation, and shifting regional alliances has compressed decision-making windows that once spanned months into a matter of days. We break down the intelligence assessments, resource constraints, and battlefield realities shaping this urgency, while tracing how regional actors and global powers are recalibrating their positions in response. We analyze the historical parallels to past moments when nations faced similarly compressed strategic clocks, and what those precedents suggest about the choices now on the table. This is not simply a story about conflict—it is a story about time itself as a strategic resource, and what happens when that resource runs short. We ask the question that regional and global observers are increasingly forced to confront: can current trajectories be altered, or has the window for recalibration already closed? What follows is a closer examination of the forces driving this timeline, and why the coming days may prove more consequential than months of prior developments combined. Full story: youtube.com
August 3, 2026 — The Moroccan migrant invasion of Spain might
be the most extravagant fake news story of all time. According to the official narrative, the roughly 60,000 mostly military-aged men swarmed
the Spanish city of Ceuta on July 31 with the intention finding work and "making a better life for themselves". The obvious truth,
however, is that the entire incident was a poorly choreographed slapstick aimed at eroding support for the left-wing Spanish government and its
outspoken anti-Zionist president Pedro Sanchez.
The puppet masters behind this pitiable vaudeville are the usual suspects (non-Semitic Zionist) Bibi Netanyahu and "little" Marco Rubio
(who aligned with Morocco's malleable leaders) to manufacture a phony crisis that would "teach Spain a lesson." As you may recall,
Sanchez has been sharply critical of Bibi's ongoing massacre in Gaza and has stubbornly refused to let Trump use Spain's military bases to
transport munitions and bombers to Israel. In response, Netanyahu publicly threatened Sanchez just weeks ago in a thuggish presentation that
is still available on X . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The crisis erupted almost concurrently with explicit threats from the administration of President Trump, who has been vocal in his criticism of the
Spanish government for its refusal to commit to a defense spending target of five percent of GDP for NATO, for its prohibition on using the
military bases at Rota and Moron for any potential operations against Iran and for deepening economic ties with China, including awarding
contracts to Chinese tech giant Huawei for sensitive infrastructure . . . See globalresearch.ca.
August 2, 2026 — Col. Douglas Macgregor. No description is added to this video . . . Full story: youtube.com; August 4, 2026, Israel in Deep Trouble — on The Brink of Collapse

August 1, 2026 — The Trump
administration has made numerous threats to Iran, including its "disappearance overnight," a
clear nod to potential nuclear attacks. Such extremely belligerent rhetoric failed to compel Tehran to even consider surrender . . .
"This is a bombing campaign in search of a strategy. We are . . . entrenching ourselves deeper into a broader war that we don't have the
capability or desire to sustain," Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who resigned in protest to the US aggression
against Iran, posted on X, adding: "There is not a military solution
here that will lead to a win. More bombing will not convince Iran to open the SOH or to give us the deal we want, it will only harden their
position" . . . Trump is deeply egocentric . . . already "drowned" in the "Swamp" he once
promised to "drain", he can at least exercise enough common sense and understand that his political (if not physical) survival depends on
the outcome of the midterms.
The "two-week" bombing plan has already been tried and the entire world witnessed it fail
miserably. Thus, expecting anything else this time is . . . unwise . . . one definition of insanity
is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. Full story: globalresearch.ca
August 1, 2026 — While 5G networks operate across frequencies
ranging from approximately 0.6 to 48 GHz, 6G networks are expected to extend into terahertz (THz) frequencies. Under laboratory conditions,
THz radiation has already been shown in human-derived cells and tissues to induce: Trump Signed a Directive to Accelerate 6G Deployment to
Operate "Implantable Technologies". One study found that THz exposure caused DNA damage,
impaired proliferation, and apoptosis in human neural stem cells, with stronger effects at higher intensities and longer exposure durations.
Full story: thefocalpoints.com
Comment: New
paper-thin brain implant could transform how Humans connect with AI.
July 14, 2026 — In the case of the recently departed Senator
Lindsey Graham finding laudatory words is a nearly impossible task. George Galloway was on point in calling Graham "a perfectly revolting
specimen, and a poor excuse for a human being." Galloway also ventured some very cogent speculations about the circumstances and
causes of Graham's truly unexpected and otherwise not easily explicable death.
. . . Graham was not a patriot, as in their insincere eulogies some of those hypocrites are now shamelessly claiming. He was a national
embarrassment to America, and in the midst of intense competition he in fact stood out as such, as a towering figure in that pathetic bunch . . .
an inveterate, bloodthirsty warmonger . . . He thirsted for conflict and war the way normal people thirst for peace . . . he did not see a war
anywhere that he did not like . . . in the jingoist camp in 2003 when he expressed strong support for the war on Iraq to "disarm" it and
confiscate its non-existent weapons of mass destruction. More recently he became a vocal supporter of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime and lobbied
insistently for it to be supplied with unlimited quantities of weapons and money to conduct its operations. In 2023 whilst visiting V. Zelensky, a
"statesman" of matching caliber, he made the ghoulish statement that funds expended on the corrupt Kiev regime are the best possible
investment because it would ultimately lead to the seizure by Ukraine's senior partners of vast natural resources and, as an extra dividend,
facilitate the "killing of tons of Russians." The public expression of such sick sentiments by a high-ranking government figure provoked nary a
criticism in the political chambers or media outlets of the civilized collective West.
Lindsey Graham never personally killed anybody, as far as is known. But to earn the status of a mass murderer he did not have to. In Iraq,
Ukraine, and Iran he advocated acts of inhuman retribution and destruction clearly targeting the civilian population. His incitement resulted in
large-scale slaughters that others were encouraged or made to engage in and commit on his behalf . . . without batting an eye Graham urged
the nuclear bombing of Gaza . . . Full story: strategic-culture.su
Nimrod established the first Catholic church, which was the first church. It
was called the "Gates of Heaven" or "Paradise" first, then "Babylon;" later it was called "Confusion." But Nimrod, the
son of Ham established the Babylonian kingdom, and in there idol worship was set up for the first time. He went out and got other cities, and
they paid tribute to Babylon: just the very picture of the thing today, perfectly (54-0809A, I Will Restore unto You, saith the Lord, par. E15).
(You will understand from the genealogy that Ham committed
adultery with his father Noah's second wife Naamah, who was of Cain's accursed lineage as was Canaan). Pergamos was not originally the place
where Satan (as concerning human affairs) dwelt. Babylon has always been literally and figuratively his headquarters. It was in the city of
Babylon that Satanic worship had its origin. Genesis 10:8-10, "And Cush begat Nimrod (meaning "rebellion" or "the valiant"); he
began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" (Genesis 10:6-11; I Chronicles 1:8-10).
Genesis 11:1-9, "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime they had for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may
reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see
the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and
this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound
their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth; and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the
earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth".
The Tower of Babel was akin to a modern day planetarium. Ham brought the pre-flood pagan worship of the heavenly bodies into the
post-flood world much as egotistical non-Semitic Zionist President Donald Trump has done today.
Babel is the original name for Babylon. It means confusion. It was literally started by Cush, the son of Ham, brought to a
kingdom of power and grandeur under his son, Nimrod, the mighty hunter. Nimrod, according to the Genesis eleven account and also according
to profane history, set out to accomplish three things. He wanted to build a strong nation, which he did. He wanted to propagate his own
religion, which he did. He wanted to make a name for himself, which he also accomplished. His accomplishments were so monumental that the
kingdom of Babylon was called the head of gold amongst all world governments (Daniel 2:31-32). That his religion gained prominence is proven
by the fact that Scripture identifies it with Satan completely in Isaiah 14 and Revelation 17-18. By history we can prove that it invaded the
whole world and is the basis for every system of idolatry, and the theme of mythology, though the names of the gods differ in various sections
of the land according to the language of the people. That he made a name for himself and his followers goes without saying, for as long as this
present age goes on (until Jesus reveals Himself to His brethren) he will be worshipped and honored, though under a different name from
Nimrod, and in a temple slightly different from the one in which he was originally adored.
Since the Bible does not deal in the histories of other nations in detail, it will be necessary to search the ancient profane records to find our
answer as to how Pergamos became the seat of the Satanic religion of Babylon. The major sources of information will be in records of Egyptian
and Grecian culture. The reason for this is that Egypt received her science and mathematics from the Chaldeans and in turn Greece received
them from Egypt.
Now since the priests were in charge of teaching these sciences, and since these sciences were used as a part of religion, we already know the
key as to how the Babylonish religion gained its strength in these two countries. It is also true that whenever a nation was able to overcome
another nation, in due time the religion of the subduer became the religion of the subdued. It is well known that the Greeks had the very same
signs of the Zodiac as did the Babylonians; and it has been found in the ancient Egyptian records that the Egyptians gave the Greeks their
knowledge of polytheism. Thus the mysteries of Babylon spread from nation to nation until it appeared in Rome, in China, India and even in
both North and South America we find the very same basic worship.
The ancient histories agree with the Bible that this Babylonish religion was most certainly not the original religion of earth's early peoples. It
was the first to drift away from the original faith; but it was not itself the original one. Historians such as Wilkinson and Mallett have proven
conclusively from the ancient documents that at one time all the peoples of the earth believed in ONE GOD, supreme, eternal, invisible, Who by
the Word of His mouth spoke all things into existence, and that in His character He was loving and good and just (Matthew 28:18; John 1:1-14;
Colossians 1:14-17; Revelation 4:11). But as Satan will always corrupt whatever he can, we find him corrupting the minds and hearts of men so
that they reject the truth. As he has always attempted to receive worship as though he were God and not the servant and creation of God, he
drew worship away from God to the end that he might draw it unto himself and so be exalted. He certainly did accomplish his desire to spread
his religion throughout the whole world. This is authenticated by God in the Book of Romans, "When they knew God, they glorified Him not
as God, until they became vain in their imaginations, and through darkness of heart accepted a corrupted religion to the extent that they
worshipped creatures and not the Creator." Remember, Satan was a creature of God (Son of the Morning). Thus we find that where once
truth was disseminated amongst men, and all held to that one truth, there later came a day when a vast group turned from God and spread a
diabolical form of worship around the world. History bears it out that those of the tribe of Shem that stood with the unchanging truth were in
solid opposition to those of Ham who turned away from truth to the devil's lie. There is no time to engage in a discussion of this; it is merely
introduced that you may see there were two religions and two only, and the evil one became worldwide.
Monotheism turned to polytheism in Babylon. The devil's lie and the devil's mysteries rose up against the truth of God and the mysteries of God
in that city. Satan truly became the god of this world and exacted worship from those that he had duped; causing them to believe that he was
truly the Lord.
The polytheistic religion of the enemy began with the trinitarian doctrine. It was way back there in antiquity that the "one God in
three persons" idea came into existence. How strange that our modern theologians have not spotted this; but evidently just as duped by
Satan as were their forebears, they still believe in three persons in the Godhead. Let us be shown just one place in Scripture where there is any
authority for that doctrine. Is it not strange that while the descendants of Ham went on their way in Satanic worship which involved a basic
concept of three gods that there is not one trace of the descendants of Shem believing such a thing or having any ceremonial worship that
involved even a type of it? It is not strange that the Hebrews believed, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE God," if there were
three persons in the Godhead? Abraham, the descendant of Shem, in Genesis 18 saw only ONE God with two angels.
Now how was this trinity expressed? It was expressed by an equilateral triangle even as it is expressed in Rome
today. Strange, the Hebrews did not have such a concept. Now who is right? Is it the Hebrews or the Babylonians? In Asia the polytheistic idea
of three gods in one came out in an image with three heads on one body. He is expressed as three intelligences. In India, they found it in their
hearts to express him as one god in three forms. Now that really is good modern day theology. In Japan there is a great Buddha with three
heads like the one we previously described.
But the most revealing of all is that which sets forth the trinitarian concept of God in a triune form of: 1. The head of an old man symbolizing
God the Father, 2. A circle which in the mysteries signified "Seed" which in turn means the Son. 3. The wings and tail of a bird (dove).
Here was the doctrine of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three persons in the Godhead, a veritable trinity. You can see the same thing in Rome.
Now let me ask once again, is it not strange that the devil and his worshipers actually had more truth revealed than the father of faith,
(Abraham) and his descendants? Is it not strange that the worshipers of Satan knew more about God than the children of God? Now that is
what modern theologians try to tell us when they talk about a trinity. Just remember this one thing from now on: these records are facts and
this is a fact—Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and whenever he comes with any light it is still a lie. He is a murderer. And his doctrine of
the trinity has destroyed the multitudes and will destroy until Jesus comes.
According to history it did not take long for a change to be made in this concept of a Father and a Son and the Holy Ghost. Satan took them a
step at a time away from the truth. The evolved concept of Deity was now: 1. The eternal father, 2. The Spirit of God incarnate in a HUMAN
mother. (Does that make you think? Adam called his adulterous wife's name Eve; because she was "the mother of all living" Cain the
elder, son of the devil-incarnate Serpent, and his half-brother Abel whose father was Adam Genesis 3:20), 3. A Divine Son, the fruit of that
incarnation, (Woman's seed, Matthew 1:18-20).
But the devil is not content. He hasn't achieved worship of himself yet, except in an indirect way. So he takes the people away from the truth
still further. Through his mysteries he reveals to the people that since the great invisible father God does not concern himself in the affairs of
men, but remains silent relative to them, then it follows that he may well be worshipped in silence. Actually it means to ignore him as much as
possible, if not altogether. This doctrine spread around the world also, and right today in India you can see that temples to the great Creator,
the silent God, are strikingly few in number.
Since it was not necessary to worship the creator-father, it was only natural that worship swung to the "Mother and Child" as the objects of
adoration. In Egypt there was the same combination of mother and son called Isis and Osiris. In India it was Isi and Iswara. (Note the
similarity of names even.) In Asia it was Cybele and Deoius. In Rome and in Greece it followed suit. And in China. Well, imagine the surprise of
some Roman Catholic missionaries as they entered China and found there a Madonna and Child with rays of light emanating from the head of
the babe. The image could well have been exchanged for one in the Vatican except for the difference of certain facial features.
It now behooves us to discover the original mother and child. The original goddess-mother of Babylon was Semiramis who was called Rhea in
the eastern countries. In her arms she held a son, who though a babe, was described as tall, strong, handsome and especially captivating to
the women. In Ezekiel 8:14 he was called Tammuz. Amongst classical writers he was called Bacchus. To the Babylonians he was Ninus. What
accounts for the fact that he is represented as a babe in arms and yet described as a great and mighty man is that he is known as the
"Husband-Son." One of his titles was "Husband of the Mother," and in India where the two are known as Iswara and Isi, he (the husband) is
represented as the babe at the breast of his own wife.
That this Ninus is the Nimrod of the Bible we can affirm by comparing history with the Genesis account. Pompeius said, "Ninus, king of Assyria,
changed the ancient moderate ways of life by the desire for conquest. HE WAS THE FIRST WHO CARRIED WAR AGAINST HIS NEIGHBORS. He
conquered all nations from Assyria to Lybia as these men knew not the arts of war." Diodorus says, "Ninus was the most ancient of Assyrian
kings mentioned in history. Being of warlike disposition he trained many young men rigorously in the arts of war. He brought Babylonia under
him while yet there was no city of Babylon." Thus we see this Ninus started to become great in Babylon, built Babel and took over Assyria,
becoming its king, and then proceeded to devour other vast territories where the people were unskilled in war and lived in a moderate way as
said Pompeius.
Now in Genesis 10, speaking of the kingdom of Nimrod it says, "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded Nineveh, and Calah etc."
But the translators made a mistake in translating Asshur as a noun for it is a verb, and in the Chaldee means 'to make strong.' Thus it is
Nimrod, who having been made strong (he established his kingdom by building the world's first army which he trained by drilling and through
the rigors of hunting) went beyond Shinar with his strong army and subdued nations and built such cities as Nineveh, which was named after
him, for even today a chief part of the ruins of that city is called Nimroud!
Since we have discovered who Ninus was, it is now necessary to discover who his father was. According to history it was Bel, the founder of
Babylon. (Now it is to be noted here that Bel founded it in the sense that he started this whole move, but it was the son, Ninus, that
established it and was the first king etc.) But according to the Scripture, the father of Nimrod was Cush: "And Cush begat Nimrod." Not
only is this so but we find that Ham begat Cush. Now, in the Egyptian culture Bel was called Hermes, and Hermes means, "THE SON OF
HAM". According to history Hermes was the great prophet of idolatry. He was the interpreter of the gods. Another name by which he was
called was Mercury (read Acts 14:11-12).
Hyginus says this about that god who was known variously as Bel, Hermes, Mercury etc, "For many ages men lived under the government of
Jove (not the Roman Jove, but Jehovah of the Hebrews who predates Roman history) without cities and without laws, and all speaking one
language. But after that Mercury (Bel, Cush) interpreted the speeches of men (whence an interpreter is called Hermeneutes) the same individual
distributed the nations. Then discord began." It is seen from this that Bel or Cush, the father of Nimrod, originally was the ring leader that led
the people away from the true God and encouraged the people as the "interpreter of the gods" to take another form of religion. He encouraged
them to go ahead with the tower which his son actually built. This encouragement is what brought the confusion and the division of men, so
that he was both, "interpreter and confuser".
Cush, then, was the father of the polytheistic system and when men were deified by men, he of course, became the
father of the gods. Now Cush was called Bel. And Bel in Roman mythology was Janus. He is pictured as having two faces and he carried a
club by which he confounded and "scattered" the people. Ovid writes that Janus said concerning himself, "the ancients called me Chaos". Thus
we find that the Cush of the Bible, the original rebel against monotheism was called Bel, Belus, Hermes, Janus, etc. amongst the ancient
peoples. He purported to bring revelations and interpretations from the gods to the people. In so doing he caused the wrath of God to scatter
the people, bringing division and confusion.
Now up to this point we have seen whence polytheism or the worship of many gods came. But did you notice that we also found a mention of a
man named Cush who was given a title of "the father of the gods"? Did you notice here the old theme of ancient mythologies, that gods
identify themselves with men? That is where ancestor worship comes from. So we might just examine history to find out about ancestor
worship. Well, it was brought out that Cush introduced a three god worship of father, son and spirit. Three gods who were all equal. But he
knew about the seed of the woman coming, so there would have to be a woman and her seed come into the picture. This was brought to pass
when Nimrod died. His wife, Semiramis deified him, and thus made herself the mother of the son and also the mother of the gods. (Just exactly
as the Roman church has deified Mary. They claim she was without sin and was the Mother of God). She (Semiramis) called Nimrod "Zeroashta"
which means, "the woman's promised seed".
But it wasn't too long until the woman began to attract more attention than the son, and soon she was the one who was depicted as trampling
underfoot the serpent. They called her "the queen of the heaven" and made her divine. How like today wherein Mary, the mother of Jesus, had
been elevated to immortality and right now as of September 1964 the Vatican council is attempting to give a quality to Mary she does not
possess, for they would like to call her, "Mary the Mediatrix," "Mary the Mother of All Believers," or "Mother of the Church." If there was ever
Babylonish ancestor worship in a religion, it is the religion of the Church of Rome.
Not only did ancestor worship originate in Babylon, so did the worship of nature. In Babylon the gods were identified with the sun and
moon, etc. The chief object in nature was the sun which has light giving and heat giving properties and appears to man as a ball of fire in the
heavens. Thus the chief god would be the sun god whom they called Baal. Often the sun was depicted as a circle of flame and soon around that
flame there appeared a serpent. It wasn't long until the serpent became a symbol of the sun and consequently worshipped. Thus the desire of
Satan's heart became full-fledged. He was worshipped as God. His throne was established. His slaves bowed to him. There in Pergamos in the
form of a living serpent he was worshipped. The tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, now symbolized in the form of a living serpent had not
only seduced Eve but the majority of mankind.
But how did Pergamos become the seat of Satan if Babylon was the seat? The answer again is in history. When Babylon fell to the Medes and
Persians, the priest-king, Attalus fled the city and went to Pergamos with his priests and sacred mysteries. There he set up his kingdom outside
the Roman empire, and thrived under the care of the devil.
This has been a very short resume of the history of the Babylonish religion and its advent to Pergamos. Many questions are no doubt left
unanswered and much more, no doubt, could have been said to enlighten us, but this is not intended to be a study of history, rather it is
intended to be a help to the study of the Word.(An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 182-189).
Writing in 1876, George Smith tells us that, "Nearly thirteen hundred years before the Christian era, one of the Egyptian poems likens a hero
to the Assyrian chief, Kazartu, a great hunter . . . and it has already been suggested that the reference here is to the fame of Nimrod. A little
later in the period 1100 – 800BC, we have in Egypt many persons named after Nimrod, showing a knowledge of the mighty hunter there"
(Chaldean Genesis, p. 313).
In fact, Nimrod was probably the most notorious man in the ancient world who is discredited with instigating the Great Rebellion at Babel, and
founding the very features of paganism, including the introduction of magic, astrology and human sacrifice. There is, moreover, much evidence
to suggest that he himself was worshipped from the very earliest times. His name, for example was perpetuated in those of Nimurda, the
Assyrian god of war, Marduk, the Babylonian king of the gods; and the Sumarian deity Amarutu. His image was likewise incorporated very early
on in the Chaldean zodiac as a child seated on his mother's lap, and both mother and child were worshipped—a pattern since repeatedly
followed throughout history. He was also worshipped as the god Bacchus, this name being derived from the Semitic Cush, meaning the son of
Cush. A mountain not far from Ararat has been called Nimrud Dagh (Mount Nimrod) from the earliest times, and the ruins of Birs Nimrud bear
the remains of what is commonly reputed to be the original Tower of Babel. Likewise, Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (1634) shows a
map in which the Caspian Sea was once known as the 'Marde Bachu', or the Sea of Bacchus. One of the chief cities of Assyria was named
Nimrud, and the Plain of Shinar, known to the early Syrians as Sen'ar, was itself once known as the Land of Nimrod. Iraqi and Iranian Arabs
speak his name with awe even today, and such is the notoriety of the man that his historical reality is quite beyond dispute.
Babylon appears in the first of the Bible, Genesis . . . Babylon appears in the center of the Bible. Babylon appears in Revelation at the end of
the age. See? Starts in Genesis, comes through the Bible, goes over into Revelation. (54-0809a, I will Restore, saith the Lord. par. E15).
"But the eagle . . . God likened His prophets to eagles. He made that comparison because the higher you go the further you can see. If you
could get up so high above the earth, you could see the entire earth as it is round. And higher you get the further you can see"
(57-0324, Why some people can't keep the Victory. Par. E13).
"Now, you couldn't get no accuracy in what doctors would agree upon. You can't even get accuracy of them now. You can't get accuracy in
science now.
Now, you know, sometime ago, they told us that . . . "When the Bible said that 'he saw four Angels standing on the four corners of the earth,'
that that couldn't be. The earth was round." But the Bible said, "four corners" (North, South, East and West). Well, now two weeks or
three weeks ago it's been now, the papers packing this article, they found out that the world is square. How many seen that? Why, sure. See? I
got it all copied off, just waiting for somebody to say something.
And they're going to find out, someday, that they're not seeing a hundred and fifty million years of light space either. They're going right around
in a circle. That's exactly.
You're going to find out, one of these days, that when you go to Heaven, you don't fly off somewhere else. You're still right here, too, just in
another dimension faster than this.
Right through this room is coming color. Every color, shirt, dress, whatever you got on, is Eternal, laying right on records, going around and
around the world. Every time you bat your eyes, it's right on record. Watch, television will prove that (65-0822M, Christ is Revealed in His Own
Word, par. 63-65). nl1402.htm
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Brother
Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-
time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations
overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available
to teach in your church.
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