2. DRAMA OF THE AGES FLY THROUGH HISTORY WITH THE ANCIENT BOOK 11. THE RELIGION OF REBELLION SPREADS WORLDWIDE

3. Those that spread out from Babel after the languages were confounded, carried with them both some of the true knowledge and also the ideas of the counterfeit pagan/nature worship.

4. This is why we find these things world-wide in the legends and stories of the native peoples. Most used ideas from the evil knowledge from before the flood and the idol gods and Satan’s false worship was soon set up again.

5. Two of the sons of Ham, Cush and Canaan became very wicked. Canaan became the head of a race of idol worshippers and Nimrod, the son of Cush, became a cruel and wicked King who later was worshipped as a god.

6. He was a hunter of fierce animals but he did not love God. He killed a wild bull and wore its horns on his head and later he killed a lion and wore its skin as a cape.

7. It is Nimrod who was the origin of the legends of Hercules, and also where the idea that the parts of animals or the blood of animals would give the power of the animal to those who wore or ate them.

8. Meat eating, which started before the flood, originally came about not from necessity for food, but rather through pagan rites of people wanting the power and vitality of the animals and thinking they could get it by killing them, eating their flesh, or drinking their blood.

9. Genesis 10:8,9, And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

10. This text actually means that he was a mighty man in rebellion against God. He built a city on the plains of Shinar.

11. Some ancient legends say that he was so wicked that the family of Shem executed him. We know he died quite young.

12. His wife, Queen Semaramis told the people after his death that he was the sun god and she was the moon goddess, Queen of heaven. She was also known as the “Heavenly Dove’

13. She had a illegitimate baby boy named Tammuz and she told the people that he was Nimrod, the sun god, born again.

14. It was way back there that the idea of worshipping a woman and her baby son started, not from Mary and Jesus.

15. When still a young man, Tammuz was killed by a wild boar. The women mourned for forty days for Tammuz.

16. Every year this became a custom. This was were the idea of Lent first had its roots.

17. This was also where the idea of serving the boar's head at the 25th of December came about.

18. All the aspects of pagan worship were set up just around the time of Babel, and no doubt followed pretty much the false religion of Cain and his wicked race.

19. DRAMA OF THE AGES Continues: 12. GOD CHOOSES A MAN