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Satan’s Great Deception

Part 2

Semiramis of Babylon Originated Counterfeits

As we have seen, Semiramis possessed the knowledge of true salvation. It was known because of Noah, the preacher of righteousness (II Peter 2:5).

Queen Semiramis of ancient Babylon deified herself, and her son and dead husband, Nimrod, by introducing various types of images, titles, and rituals (Rom.1:21-23). She circulated stories of actual or imagined events which had, or were supposed to have, occurred in their lives. The stories made them appear as liberators, heroes, emancipators, and saviors — delivering men from the rule of God.

These innovations MADE HER AND HER SON APPEAR AS THE WOMAN AND HER PROMISED “SEED” THROUGH WHICH SALVATION WAS TO COME. This promise was foretold by God in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:15).

Holidays were set apart on which the new divinities were to be worshipped. Almost all the principal Bible teaching of salvation were counterfeited by this system — an evil twist being given to them. These “Mysteries” or ceremonies appealed to the physical senses — to the carnal nature with which man is born (Rom.7:14). They became very popular.

What better way could the Devil play upon human lusts and desires! Thus men accepted a false purpose and counterfeit way of salvation. Fables smothered God’s true way to salvation by confusing the people.
Eternal life was promised through the false messiah. The people of the earth gladly gave the rule of their lives on this earth over to him. The mother and son promised security and guaranteed eternal life through rituals and penance. The extremely ambitious and unprincipled Semiramis saw her opportunity. Using all the might of her great empire to back her lie, she enforced her claim to be the mother of this great Savior.

Thus, SHE BECAME THE ORIGINAL RELIGIOUS RULER OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH (Rev.17:1-2). Both her own and Satan’s desires were fulfilled! She ruled the earth and Satan obscured the rule of God which alone can bring life everlasting.

Idolatry Spreads Everywhere

BABYLON WAS THE PRIMEVAL SOURCE FROM WHICH ALL SYSTEMS OF IDOLATRY FLOWED (Herodotus’ History, book ii, p. 109). Layard in his Nineveh and its Remains, vol. ii, p. 440, speaks of this Babylonian system of worship. He writes that we have the united testimony of sacred and profane history that idolatry originated in the Assyrian (Babylonian) area and is believed to be the most ancient of religious systems!

This was the first Babylon. TODAY, THE WORLD IS STILL IN BABYLON THE GREAT! (Rev.17:5). Isaiah 47:1 describes the system which rules the earth today as the DAUGHTER OF THE ORIGINAL BABYLON and Rev.18:3 says ALL NATIONS have drunk of the wine of her spiritual fornication or false doctrine!

As the language in each country was different, naturally the names of Nimrod, Semiramis, and Semiramis’ illegitimate son Horus — the returned false Messiah whom she palmed off as the resurrected Nimrod — were different.

The Devil continued to twist God’s word and the truth which the early inhabitants of the earth had known. Semiramis, inspired by Satan, duplicated all things which were revealed by God. She credited her family with divine attributes to enhance her earthly power and prestige. Among these were her counterfeit of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Truth About God Changed

One of the pagan concepts originating with Semiramis is the false idea of a “Trinity.” How does this compare with what the Bible reveals to us? Let us examine Genesis 1:1-2: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . . . and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The Hebrew word for “God” here is Elohiym, which is plural. The Father and He who was to become the Son are here referred to (John 1:1). The word “Spirit” means the Holy Spirit of God — that divine force by which so much good is accomplished and which resides in both Father and Son.

Genesis 1:1 says that during the creation period: “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” It is this same spirit which God says He will pour out on all flesh in the future: “It shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy” (Joel 2:28). The same Hebrew word ruwach is used in both cases for “spirit.”

Actually, GOD IS A FAMILY, NOT A TRINITY OF PERSONS. GOD IS A FAMILY COMPOSED OF TWO BEINGS WITH A COMMON SPIRIT. It is into this Divine Family that we may be born (John 3). Note now that the pagans termed the Holy Spirit a “Being” such as the Father and Son. They wrongly made a Trinity. SATAN WAS CONFUSING MANKIND.

An examination of the triune emblem of the supreme Assyrian divinity clearly shows a knowledge of the original truth: The emblem had the head of the old man (the Father). Next there is the zero or circle, which stood in the Chaldean (Babylonian) language for “a circle” or “seed” (the Savior). Lastly, the wings and tail of the dove (the Holy Spirit, which Semiramis soon supplanted).

This concept of God preceded the counterfeit of Semiramis which was soon introduced.

At that very early period, an important change took place in regard to the divinity: the Spirit of God, according to the harlot-queen Semiramis, became incarnate in a human mother, and the Divine Son became the fruit of that incarnation. (Hislop’s Two Babylons, p. 18).

Semiramis, through her mysteries, hundreds of years before Christ’s birth, duplicated the truly miraculous event! Her own illegitimate son was the returned “Savior”! HOW BAFFLING IT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAGANS, WHO ONCE HAD KNOWN GOD, TO NOW PERCEIVE THE TRUTH!

Semiramis identified herself as this Spirit and ascribed to herself the power of aiding in the creation of the world. Through her method of deification, she taught her followers that she, in one of her forms, had been the dove — a symbol of the Spirit that “moved upon the face of the waters” at creation. She moved or “fluttered” . . . “upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2) (Hislop, p. 303). She claimed to be one of the “Trinity.” She had become “as the Gods.”

Please recall that it was the dove that lighted on Christ’s shoulder at his baptism. Far in the future, in the day of Christ, this identical symbol — the dove — pictured the descent of the Holy Spirit on Christ! (John 1:32). It is becoming clear, isn’t it, that there was a plan behind these pagan similarities?!

Same Pagan Ideas in Today’s World

To symbolize the “Trinity” doctrine, the equilateral triangle was used, just as the Church uses it today (Layard’s Babylon and Nineveh, p. 605). Some churches in Madrid have an image of a Triune God with three heads on one body (Parkhurst’s Hebrew Lexicon, p. 605). Thus we see the origin of the false doctrine of the “Trinity.”

Here again is seen the influence of the Babylonian Mysteries on religion as it is being carried on today!

“The recognition of a Trinity was universal in all the ancient nations of the world, proving how deep-rooted in the human race was the primeval doctrine on this subject, which comes out so distinctly in Genesis” (Hislop, p. 18). In Japan, the great divinity Buddha has one body and three heads. Gillespie’s Sinim, p. 60, and Japet, p. 184, show that the pagans of Siberia worshipped a god with a similar body.

Later the father was overlooked. As the Great Invisible, taking no immediate concern in human affairs, He was to be worshipped through silence alone (Jamblichus’ On the Mysteries, sect. viii, chap. iii). Today, in some churches we hear much about the Mother and Child (Christ being depicted as being dependent on His mother), but little about God the Father. A HUMAN woman is thus made supreme!!

Family of God Counterfeited

The true teaching of the Bible is that the Father and Son comprise the One Kingdom or Family of God. The Holy Spirit is the common nature, mind, and force of God (Gen. 1:2, John 1:1). Jesus said, “God is Spirit” (John 4:24). “God” is a Divine Family composed of Spirit, not material flesh. As we have seen above, at present only two persons — Father and Son, comprise this Family. But we can become members of that Family!

Is there a mention of the pagan counterfeit of God in the Bible? Yes. It is spoken of in Isaiah 66:17. In the King James Version you will find the ambiguous words, “behind one tree in the midst.” The proper translation should be: “after the rites of the Only One.” The ancient pagan deity “Only One” was the triune counterfeit of God. The concept of the False Triune God!

The proper reading then is, “They that sanctify and purify themselves . . . after the rites of the Only One, eating swine’s flesh . . . shall be consumed” (Hislop’s The Two Babylons, p. 16).

Those who take part in the rites of this counterfeit god shall be destroyed!

The Devil’s Part in the Counterfeits

We have found how Semiramis used the God-Kingdom, spoken of in Genesis 1:1-2, to fit into her mysteries. But how did she fit the Serpent or devil (Rev. 20:2) into these? We shall now see!

Plutarch, in De Iside, says of the serpent (Genesis 3:1): “First Tammuz (Nimrod as the ‘Savior’) was worshipped as the bruiser of the serpent’s head, meaning thereby that he was the anointed destroyer of Satan’s kingdom. Then the dragon himself, or Satan, came to receive a certain measure of worship, to ‘console him’, as the pagans said, ‘for the loss of his power’, and to prevent him from hurting them; and last of all the dragon, or Teitan or SATAN, BECAME THE SUPREME OBJECT OF WORSHIP, the Titania, or rites of Teitan, occupying a prominent place in the Egyptian Mysteries” (vol. ii, p. 362, 364). The same is true of the Mysteries of Greece (Porter’s Antiquities, vol I, p. 400).

What is the real significance of all this? Remember that it was for supporting the rites of serpent worship and sun worship that Nimrod was killed by Shem. So, first, Semiramis cautiously introduced her illegitimate son as the bruiser of the serpent’s head.

But as soon as the way was paved, she cautiously reintroduced a certain measure of the serpent worship which Nimrod had first introduced. The serpent (dragon), Teitan, or Satan, became the supreme object of ancient worship.

Semiramis now changed her position in her Mysteries. She claimed to be the wife of Pluto, the god of hell — the serpent — in order to fit her new position as sponsor of serpent or Devil worship. “Under the name of the ‘Dove’ she was worshipped as the Incarnation of the Spirit of God . . . and WAS KNOWN HERSELF AS THE ‘VIRGIN’ MOTHER. . .Under the name of Proserpine she was celebrated as the mother of the first Bacchus, and known as ‘Pluto’s honored wife’!” (Hislop, p. 126).

Pagan Hades A Myth

Where did the idea of hades or purgatory originate?

Bacchus, as we have seen, was the Grecian god who represented Tammuz. Pluto represented Satan. Now consider the following; “How vitally important was the place that Teitan or Satan occupied, may be judged from the fact that Pluto, the god of Hell, was looked up to as the great god on whom the destinies of mankind in the eternal world did mainly depend; for it is said that TO PLUTO IT BELONGED TO ‘PURIFY THE SOUL AFTER DEATH’ “ (Taylor’s Pausanias, vol. iii, p. 321). Pluto was the Greek name for the Babylonian god Kronos.

Here we see that Pluto (the Greek name for their god who represented Nimrod) — merely different names for the devil or serpent — instead of burning people up, was purifying them by fire after death!

Semiramis, as was her custom in forming her “Mysteries,” linked her deified family with notable characters, whether they were good or bad. She used whichever one best fitted the times. She soon found it helpful to identify her deified husband as Kronos or Saturn — the devil himself! Scattered notices of antiquity say that the name of the first deified king of Babylon was Kronos or Saturn (Hislop p. 31). She had been guided by the devil in order that the devil might be worshipped!

The Bible says that the wages of sin is death — eternal death (Rom. 6:23). And II Peter 3:10, 11, and Revelation 20:15 indicate that eternal death will be caused by this whole earth burning up and causing the destruction of all who have not become spirit beings in the Kingdom of God. NOWHERE DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THERE IS A PLACE UNDER THE GROUND WHERE PEOPLE ARE TORMENTED BY FIRE. This is another of the false conceptions handed down by Semiramis.

Satan has people of the earth so confused today that they actually do not know whether they are coming into the true knowledge which will lead to eternal life or actually going the way which will lead to eternal death. Only the inspired Word of God — the Bible — closely studied, shows us the right way and actual destinations of the sinner and the saved!

Devil Worship Reaches Rome

Purgatory in Paganism was the grand hinge of priestcraft and superstition. “The serpents were the supreme of all the gods and princes of the universe . . . .” No wonder that it came at last to be firmly believed that the Messiah, on whom the hopes of the world depended, was Himself the “seed of the serpent”! (Eusebius Proeparatio Evang., vol. I, p. 50).

“This was manifestly the case in Greece; for the current story there came to be, that the first Bacchus (the Grecian name for Tammuz) was brought forth in consequence of a connection on the part of his mother with the father of the gods, in the form of a ‘speckled snake’. Thus the (devil) . . . got himself almost everywhere recognized as in every deed ‘the god of this world’” (Ibid). The devil, through one form or another, obtained the worship of this world!

Let us note the message of God to His true Churches over 60 years after Christ’s time. What did He reveal through Christ in Revelation regarding pagan worship of Satan? God addressed His message to the Church at Pergamos. It was the true seat of Babylonian devil worship after Belshazzar’s time (Hislop p. 240).

In Rev. 2:13-14, Christ, speaking to the Church of Pergamos, says, “I thy works, even where Satan’s seat is . . . thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam.”

In Pergamos, which was outstandingly “Satan’s seat,” the SUN-DIVINITY BAAL — Balaam’s doctrine was idolatrous sun worship (Num. 25:1-3; 31:16) — WAS WORSHIPPED UNDER THE FORM OF A SERPENT and under the name of Aesculapius, “the man-instructing serpent” (Macrobius Saturnalia, book I, p. 650). In Satan’s seat, over 60 years after Christ’s time, the main worship was sun and serpent!

This sun and devil worship was TRANSFERRED to Rome when Pergamos became part of the Roman Empire. According to the fundamental doctrine of the Mysteries, as brought from Pergamos to Rome, THE SUN WAS THE ONLY GOD. In Pergamos the sun had been worshipped as a serpent!

Counterfeit of Adam and Eve’s Disobedience

In Genesis, chapters 2 and 3, God has given us an account of the deception by Satan of Adam and Eve.

We have already seen the importance to mankind of understanding this event. It furnishes a clue as to how mankind has been misled by the devil and as to the ultimate result.

Also, we have seen that mankind at first did know the significance of this event in Eden. Would the devil let this warning to the people stand, or would he, through human means, counterfeit it and keep mankind under his control? Would he let people remember how he deceived Eve? We shall see.

Let us remember the following: Eve sinned because she saw that the tree appeared to be good. She gazed. The pagans, knowing of this event, typified her in a gazing position by their idols. They remembered this event and Satan’s deception!

Throughout the world there are, in Paganism, many goddesses known as “gazing mothers” or gazing women. The Chinese goddess-mother, or “Queen of Heaven,” in the province of Fuhkien, is worshipped by seafaring people under the name of Ma Tsoopo which is believed to mean “gazing mother” (Gillespie’s Land of Sinim, p. 64). The name of the great Egyptian mother, Mut, in one of its vocabulary forms signifies “to look” or “gaze” (Bunsen’s Vocabulary, vol. i, p. 471).

The Egyptian goddess-mother Mu or Mut was symbolized by either a vulture, or an eye surrounded by vulture’s wings (Wilkinson, vol. v, p. 203). The vulture is noted for its sharp sight, and the great mother of the gods (recall that Semiramis was the “mother of the gods”) in Egypt had been known as “The Gazer.” The Athenian Minerva wore a helmet with two eyes or eye holes in its front (Vuax’s Antiquities, p. 186).

What have these similar Pagan deities to do with the lesson God wanted mankind to learn at Eden? It was believed by the Babylonians that Rhea (Eve) conceived by Kronos (Satan), and brought forth a child named Muth or Death, declared Sanchuniathon.

Sanchuniathon shows that this is in accord with Genesis, for Eve’s lust, inspired by Satan, “when it had conceived did bring forth Death.” “When lust hath conceived . . . it bringeth forth death” (James 1:15).

How did the devil remove this lesson of his deception and even turn it to his advantage?

Again, we find the answer in the goddess queen of Babylon. The goddess queen of Babylon held a pomegranate in her hand. Astarte or Cybele (Syrian and Roman names, respectively, for their goddess corresponding to Semiramis) was also called “Inaia Mater” which signifies “the mother of knowledge” — in other words our mother Eve, who first coveted the “knowledge of good and evil.” The pomegranate was represented as the fruit of the forbidden tree (Hislop, pp. 110-113).

Notice the clever deception! Men were taught to look upon Semiramis as their grand benefactress, as gaining knowledge which they might otherwise have sought in vain! SATAN THUS TAUGHT THAT GOOD CAME TO MANKIND BY EVE’S DISOBEDIENCE TO THE ETERNAL AND OBEDIENCE TO HIM! According to the classic pagan story, it was God who was the snake who would not let man eat of the desirable tree of knowledge of good and evil. The false Messiah, Tammuz (as Hercules), slew it (Hislop, p. 112).

This, then, is a classical example of how Satan twists the teachings that God holds so dear! IT IS CERTAIN THAT AS HE WAS PERVERTING THE TRUTH SO MIGHTILY THEN, HE HAS NOT STOPPED NOW.

We have now seen why the gospel that Christ proclaimed, was counterfeited hundreds of years before Christ! From history it has been proven that these counterfeits do have an effect on religion today! WHY?

Pagans Had Counterfeit Baptism

Through the Babylonian Mysteries, Satan distorted the Truth about the Godhead and the Holy Spirit as spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis. He distorted the facts concerning himself, and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Was he going to turn Noah and his experiences also to his benefit after the flood? We will see that he did just this, in making the forgiveness of past sins a mechanical process through a counterfeit baptism.

Some churches consider water baptism so important that unless an infant is baptized, it cannot “go to heaven” (Bishop Hay’s Sincere Christian, vol. i, p. 363). Says Hislop in The Two Babylons: “The doctrine of Rome is that ALL WHO ARE CANONICALLY BAPTIZED, HOWEVER IGNORANT, HOWEVER IMMORAL, if they only give implicit faith to the church, and surrender their consciences to the priests, ARE AS MUCH REGENERATED AS EVER THEY CAN BE . . . . This doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration also is essentially Babylonian . . . . Hindoos who have never opened their ears to Christian instruction are as familiar with the term and idea as ourselves” (p. 132).

The BRAHMINS in India make it their distinguishing boast that they are “twice born” men, and that as such they are sure of eternal happiness. Among the ancestors of the people of Mexico, Scandinavia, and other countries the same practice was followed (Asiatic Researchers, vol. vii, p. 271). “In certain sacred rites of the heathen,” referring to the worship of Isis (the Egyptian goddess corresponding to Semiramis), and Mithra (the Greek god corresponding to Nimrod as Mediator), “the mode of initiation is by baptism” (Tertullian’s De Baptismo, vol. i, p. 1204). The term “initiation” clearly shows that it was the Mysteries of these divinities to which he referred.

How did it come about that the Babylonians themselves adopted such a doctrine of regeneration by baptism? The Babylonian Mysteries of Semiramis, as usual, give the answer. In these mysteries, the commemoration of the flood, the ark, and the grand events in the life of Noah, were mingled with the worship of the “Queen of Heaven” (Semiramis) and her son-husband Nimrod and her illegitimate son Horus (the “resurrected” Nimrod). Noah, having lived in two worlds — both before and after the flood — was called “Diphues” or “twice-born.” He was represented as a god with two heads looking in opposite directions, the one old and the other young (Bryant’s Mythology, vol. i, pp. 84, 319).

Semiramis saw it was necessary to identify her dead husband Nimrod with the great patriarch Noah who was the father of all. In this way he would thus become the Supreme One, the Father of all the deified “mighty ones.” He would obtain the authority and respect essential to constitute him the head of the great system of idolatry that the apostates inaugurated.

The period in which Osiris (the Egyptian term for Nimrod) was in his coffin, was precisely the same as Noah was in the ark — a whole year (Apollodorus, vol. i, pp. 356, 257). Osiris, at the great and solemn festival called “The Disappearance of Osiris,” was looked upon as dead and buried when put into his ark or coffin. When he came out again, that new state was regarded as a state of “new life,” or “regeneration” (Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, vol. ii, pp. 356, 367).

“Whatever primitive truth the Chaldean (Babylonian) priests held, they utterly perverted and corrupted it. They willingly overlooked the fact, that it was the ‘RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH’ which Noah ‘had before’ the flood . . . that carried him safely through . . . THEY led their votaries to believe that IF THEY ONLY PASSED THROUGH THE BAPTISMAL WATERS and the penances therewith connected . . . it would entitle them . . . to a new birth . . . The WHOLE SPIRIT OF PAGANISM WAS OPPOSED TO THE SPIRITUALITY of the patriarchal religion and indeed intended to make it void, and DRAW MEN UTTERLY AWAY FROM IT, WHILE PRETENDING TO DO HOMAGE TO IT” (Hislop’s The Two Babylons, pp. 137, 141).

THE ANCIENTS, KNOWING THE TRUTH CONCERNING BAPTISM, THAT IT SYMBOLIZED A RIGHTEOUS STATE OF MIND, MADE IT A MECHANICAL PROCESS!

Here again we see the Devil deceiving mankind. He says to man in effect: “Follow your own ideas and ways, not God’s, and you can have your past sins forgiven.” God says, “Repent, and be baptized” (Acts 2:38). Turn to the ways God commands! “In vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matt. 15:9).

What does this mean?

Most churches today have been deceived into employing a counterfeit water baptism. True, some large denominations use the scriptural form — immersion. But a counterfeit looks like the genuine. The deception lies in that which is associated with it — the spirit in which it is done.

BAPTISM IS DONE TODAY IN THE SAME SPIRIT IN WHICH IT WAS DONE IN ANCIENT BABYLON — many are baptized BUT their ACTIONS AFTERWARD DO NOT SHOW THEY HAVE figuratively BURIED THE OLD SELF IN BAPTISM. THEY CONTINUE IN THEIR OLD PRACTICES.

Pagan Doctrine of Penance

We have seen that the Devil’s deceptive doctrine practiced by many churches to this day is that man does not have to change from his old evil ways and then be baptized to obtain forgiveness of past sins. The question now arises: What sort of perverted doctrine does he have regarding the forgiveness of sins we commit unwillingly after baptism?

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE, THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST’S SHED BLOOD TO CANCEL OUR PAST SINS, MAY USE THIS TO COVER THEM (Rom. 3:25, 28, 31). Now let us note the BONDAGE of the pagan counterfeit of forgiveness which many churches practice today.

“In regard to justification, the Chaldean doctrine was that it was by works and merits of men themselves that they must be justified . . . perfection depended on the exertions of the individual” (Hislop, pp. 144, 145). The doctrine of many churches is the same. From the days of Cain downward, the doctrine of human merit and self-justification has everywhere been indigenous to the heart of depraved humanity.

In the Middle Ages, according to legend, Michael the archangel had committed to him the balance of God’s justice and that in the opposite pans of the balance the merits and demerits of the deceased are placed (Review of Epistle of Dr. Gentianus Harvet, Book ii, chap. xiv).

This same system of human merits for justification is found in paganism over the world. Wilkinson’s Egyptians, vol. v, p. 447, shows that in Egypt, the land of Ham, it was to Anubis that the SCALES OF JUSTICE were committed. If a person is found wanting, he is rejected and Osiris (Nimrod) pronounces judgment. The same system is found in Grecian and Chinese mythology. In China, lists and comparative tables of good and bad actions are recorded (Davis’ China, vol. ii, chap. “Religion — Buddhism”).

“In spiritual despotism in every age, both pagan and Papal . . . ITS GRAND OBJECT HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO KEEP THE SOULS OF ITS VOTARIES AWAY FROM DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE INTERCOURSE WITH A . . . MERCIFUL SAVIOR” (Hislop’s The Two Babylons, pp. 148-150). Continuing, Hislop quotes from a decree of the Council of Trent: “No man can know with infallible assurance . . . that he HAS OBTAINED the grace of God.” It seeks “to keep its devotees in continual doubt.” “In the confessional there was from time to time . . . a mimic rehearsal of the dread weighing . . . when they have a man of influence . . . or wealth . . . they will not give him the slightest bit of hope till round sums of money . . . be cast on the scale.”

Notice how the pagans acquired merits for justification. Hislop continues, “Nimrod was the first after the flood that violated the patriarchal system, and set up (himself) as ‘king’ over his fellows . . . In almost every land bloody worship prevailed . . . human victims . . . were his most acceptable offerings. In pagan Rome the worshippers of Isis (Semiramis) observed the same practice in honor of Osiris (Nimrod). When it is remembered that Saturn (Nimrod) was cut in pieces, it is easy to see how the idea would arise of offering a welcome sacrifice by setting men to cut one another to pieces (in war) . . . TO LAY UP A STOCK OF MERIT . . . in their behalf.”

In these “latter days” — TODAY — a turning away from true doctrines was foretold (I Tim. 4:1, Heb. 13:8-9). GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A SIMPLE WAY TO HAVE THEIR PAST SINS FORGIVEN, BUT THE COUNTERFEIT SYSTEM ENSLAVES ITS FOLLOWERS IN BONDAGE! MANKIND TODAY STILL FOLLOWS THE OLD BABYLONIAN SYSTEM IN SEEKING TO HAVE THEIR SINS FORGIVEN! IF THEY DO NOT PAY FOR FORGIVENESS, THEY abstain from some things which THEY HAVE DECIDED ARE EVIL: going to shows, dancing, card playing, to mention a few. They hope to BALANCE any evil they might do by abstinence from these.

BUT these same people go on divorcing and remarrying, and observing other practices which the Bible clearly condemns. THEY WILL NOT TURN FROM THEIR WAY (REPENT) SO THEY CAN HAVE CHRIST’S BLOOD FORGIVE THEIR SINS — the ONLY WAY by which sins may be forgiven (Acts 2:38)! Romans 5:9 says we are “JUSTIFIED by His BLOOD!” MANKIND CONTINUES TO DESIRE TO LIVE BY PRACTICES WHICH YIELD ONLY UNHAPPINESS, BONDAGE, AND DEATH. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).

Forgiveness By Blood Unnecessary?

No! God says that without the shedding of BLOOD there is NO remission of sin (Heb 9:22). Modernism stands condemned.

Where then does today’s idea of a UNBLOODY sacrifice originate? Evidence shows that this is of BABYLONIAN origin.

NO blood was allowed to be offered on the altars of the Paphian Venus (A Grecian form of Semiramis). These rites came from Cicilia in Asia Minor. (Tacitus’ Historia, vol. ii, p. 106). Cicilia, in turn, had acquired the rites from Babylon when Sennacherib, the Assyrian, built Cicilia in express IMITATION OF BABYLON. For this reason, the bloodless altars of the Paphian Venus are the same as the bloodless altars of the Babylonian goddess Semiramis from which she was derived (Bunsen, vol. i, p. 718). This false worship of Semiramis differed from the worship of her husband and son, Tammuz, whom she carried in her arms.

He, as we have seen, was represented as delighting in blood. She was the mother of grace and mercy, the celestial “Dove” — the hope of the whole world (Bryant, vol. iii, p. 226). Whereas he desired bloody sacrifices, she desired only an “unbloody sacrifice” — cakes. When her followers were initiated into the higher Mysteries, they could eat of these cakes or wafers.

“All this was done,” says Hislop, p. 159, “TO EXALT THE MOTHER, AS MORE GRACIOUS AND MORE COMPASSIONATE THAN HER GLORIOUS SON.” THEREFORE WE CAN FIND THE WOMEN OF JUDAH “OFFERING CAKES TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN” (Jeremiah 44:19). Today, many professing Christians, thinking they worship Christ, actually worship Semiramis through the eating of the cakes or wafers at communion.

Semiramis also bore the name of “Mylitta” — that is Mediatrix. But Scripture says THERE IS ONLY ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN — CHRIST (I Tim. 2:5). The idea of a Mediatrix as held in some churches today has its origin in paganism, not the Bible! It is CHRIST WHO IS MEDIATOR FOR US — He paid the penalty for our sins by the offering of His blood.

Communion With the Sun-God

Christ said, “I am the bread of life.” This statement by Jesus has been twisted to confuse the world for centuries.

Some religions today are very intent on the roundness of their unbloody sacrifice — a round cake like that formerly used in the rites of Semiramis, queen of heaven. Why is this roundness so important? Hislop says that the ROUND DISK, so frequently used in the sacred emblems of Egypt, SYMBOLIZED THE SUN. Osiris (Nimrod) the sun-divinity, became incarnate and was reborn (p. 160). Recall that Semiramis in her mysteries represented Nimrod after his death as being reborn — corresponding to the birth of Christ, as a human being, and the resurrection. The round wafer used in communion does not really represent Christ at all. It came from pagan sun-worship.

“When OSIRIS, THE SUN-DIVINITY . . . was born,” declared Hislop, pp. 160-163, “it was not merely that he should give his life as a sacrifice for men . . . but also be the LIFE AND NOURISHMENT OF THE SOULS OF MEN . . . It is universally admitted that Isis (the Egyptian goddess representing Semiramis) was the original of the Greek and Roman Ceres . . . she was worshipped as the “mother of corn.” The child she brought forth was symbolized by “the corn.” Those who were uninitiated into the Mysteries worshipped “Ceres for the gift of material corn to nourish their bodies, but the initiated adored her for a higher gift — FOR FOOD TO NOURISH THEIR SOULS.”

Here then, long before the apostles’ time, was the counterfeit of Christ as bread. He said, “My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven” (John 6:32). CHRIST SAID, “I AM THAT BREAD OF LIFE” (verse 48).

“That the initiated pagans actually believed that the ‘corn’ . . . was not the ‘corn’ of this earth, but the ‘Divine Son’ through whom alone . . . eternal life could be enjoyed, we have decisive proof . . . The Druids were devoted worshippers of Ceres . . . the grain of corn is expressly identified with ‘the lovely babe’.”

“THIS SON WHO WAS SYMBOLIZED AS ‘CORN’ WAS THE SUN-DIVINITY incarnate according to the sacred oracle of the great goddess of Egypt . . . ‘The fruit which I have brought forth is the Sun’. What is more natural then, if this incarnate divinity is symbolized as the ‘bread of God’, that he should be represented as a ‘round wafer’ to identify him with the Sun?”

“In Egypt, the disk of the Sun was represented in the temples . . . In Babylon, the golden image of the Sun was exhibited . . . in Peru, the disk of the sun was . . . upon the wall . . . The Paeonians of Thrace were sun-worshippers. In the worship of Baal, as practiced by the idolatrous Israelites, the worship of the sun’s image was equally observed . . . the image of the sun was erected above the altar . . . Even in comparatively modern times . . . among the Cushites of the East, . . . we find the image of the sun . . . If the sun-divinity were worshipped in Egypt as ‘the seed’, or in Babylon as the ‘Corn’ precisely so is the wafer adored in Rome. ‘Bread-corn of the elect, have mercy upon us’, is one of the appointed prayers of the Roman Litany, addressed to the wafer.” THE SON BECAME THE SUN! Here we see churches of today paying homage to the sun!

Now, I ask, is it possible that a world-wide worship of the sun as had persisted from the time of the Flood right up to the time of the Protestant “Reformation” should totally stop with this reformation?

WHY DO CHURCHES TODAY HAVE EASTER SUNRISE SERVICES? It is the SAME service the pagan Assyrians used to honor their goddess Ishtar! The pagans’ celebration commemorated the birthday of Semiramis who was the mother of the Sun-god Tammuz. They faced the rising sun just as many sincere people do today. Why do today’s churches speak of having pagan LENTEN SERVICES? Why do they OBSERVE THE BIRTH OF THE SUN-GOD NIMROD ON DECEMBER 25TH (CHRISTMAS) just when the sun is starting to wax strong again in the sky? And why do they have communion on SUN-DAY (day of the sun)? If they are not still worshipping the Sun-god, then why do they still observe the same customs the pagans used to honor him? THEY ARE WORSHIPPING THE SUN-GOD! PEOPLE TODAY, IN KEEPING THESE CUSTOMS, ARE STILL IN BABYLON AS MUCH AS OUR ANCESTORS. In ignorance people HONOR THE SUN AS THE ONE WHO WILL SPIRITUALLY NOURISH THEM!

BUT REMEMBER THE SUN AND SERPENT (THE DEVIL) WERE IDENTIFIED TOGETHER! Sun-worship, then, is devil-worship!

GOD SHOWS WHO THE REAL SUN IS THAT WE SHOULD WORSHIP: “UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY NAME SHALL THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISE” (Mal. 4:2). Who is this? God said, “I will raise . . . a King . . . and this is His name . . . He shall be called The Eternal OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS,” (Jer. 23:5-6) says God! But He is not to be worshipped by symbols of the sun — that is IDOLATRY! Satan has a false sun — the sun in the sky! When the pagans accepted Christianity they mingled their pagan sun-worshipping practices with the teachings of Christ. They believed they thus honored the True God. But what does God say about doing this? God said, “How did these (pagan) nations serve their gods? . . .Thou shalt NOT do so unto the Lord thy God” (Deut. 12:30-31). YOU CANNOT WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD BY CELEBRATING PAGAN CUSTOMS AND HOLIDAYS!

The CHURCHES OF TODAY ARE DECEIVED BY THE DEVIL JUST AS THE PEOPLE WERE IN THAT DAY WHEN, AFTER THE MYSTERIES HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED, THE MEANING OF THE DIABOLICAL SYMBOLS WAS NO LONGER EXPLAINED TO THE PEOPLE! PEOPLE TODAY are DECEIVED BY OUTWARD APPEARANCE. They will continue to be, unless they use what the Bible says as their standard with which to judge.

Yes, SATAN HAS SUBSTITUTED A FALSE CHRIST AND DIABOLICAL CUSTOMS. THOSE WHO OBSERVE THESE PAGAN CUSTOMS AND REJECT THE TEACHING OF CHRIST SHOW BY THEIR ACTION THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT SALVATION REALLY IS! Satan has substituted a false baptism — a mechanical act which does not signify the burying of the old self. He has perverted the teaching of God that man must repent. HE HAS THUS BLOCKED THE VAST MAJORITY WHO FOLLOW HIS TEACHINGS FROM BECOMING SONS OF GOD NOW, UNLESS THEY CHANGE THEIR WAYS!

World Deception Planned From Time of Flood

The vast majority today believe they are on the right road to salvation. They are honest, sincere people. They do what they think is right. Never has it entered their minds to question that they might be wrong.

Just after the flood, Nimrod founded in Babylon, a civilization which ignored the rule of God (Gen. 11:1-9). The gospel of the coming Christ and much of the Bible teachings were counterfeited in such a way as to appeal to its followers but lead them to DESTRUCTION INSTEAD OF SALVATION. From Babylon these deceptive teachings spread throughout the whole world — including the Christian-professing nations! Because of their marked similarity to Christ’s teachings, the pagan counterfeits became mingled with His, and have deceived the people to this very day — just as the devil had planned!

Millions celebrate — unknowingly — the supposed birth of Nimrod on December 25th and call it the birthday of Christ, the Savior, who was not born in the winter season! At the beginning of spring, men face and bow in the presence of the rising sun on Easter morning — in the same act of worship as that of the pagans who bowed in honor of Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven, the supposed mother of the sun god. And Christians have been led to believe that this abominable kind of heathen worship was ordained by Christ and the apostles!

Jesus Christ never commanded us to celebrate His resurrection. He commanded us to commemorate annually, His death — on the eve of the very day on which He gave Himself for the world. Strange as it seems, almost no one obeys the very One whom Christianity acknowledges as its Savior!

Now notice the facts of history. They are startling!

Pagan Worship Continues Today

You will recall that in the time of Nimrod, the sun (which was associated symbolically with the Serpent, or Satan) was symbolized on earth by fire. NIMROD, as the SUN-GOD or fire-god in the Mysteries, was worshipped by the sacrifice of HUMAN BEINGS IN FIRE TO HIM. Has this pagan custom persisted in even our “Christian” times? Let us examine.

The Feast of the NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN is set down in the Papal calendar for the 24th of June. The very same period was equally memorable in the Babylonian calendar for one of its grand original festivals — to commemorate the death and reviving of Tammuz, or Nimrod (Stanley’s Sabean Philosophy, p. 1065).

Why is this a “coincidence”? The apostate Church followed the now famous advice of Pope Gregory I, that by all means they should meet the pagans halfway and so bring them into the Church (Bower’s Lives of Popes, vol. ii, p. 523).

Here is how it happened.

About the sixth century A.D., emissaries were sent over Europe, with an eye to gathering the pagans into its fold. Remember, the apostate Church was formed by a union of pagans and professing Christians (Consult Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. i, chap. 15). These emissaries or investigators found that the keeping of the 24th of June in honor of Tammuz (Nimrod) was very popular.

To gain numbers to the church was the thing! This meant both professing Christians and pagans must be satisfied. The pagans wanted this festival. The Christians would not tolerate a name suggestive of its real meaning. So a Christian name was put on this pagan festival. This is exactly the way our pagan Christmas came into Christianity and why there are so many pagan festivals observed in the churches today.

Now what Christian name was attached to June 24th — a pagan festival?

As the pagans had already established December 25th as Christ’s supposed birthday (actually it was in the autumn), that could not be used. But June 24th — six months earlier — could pass for John the Baptist’s birthday! John was born 6 months before Christ. The Feast could be called the nativity of St. John. But where could a connection be found between John and the name of Tammuz? In the Latin language adopted by the Church, John was called Joannes.

One of the many sacred names by which Tammuz or Nimrod was called, when he reappeared in the Mysteries after he was slain, was Oannes (Bunsen’s Egypt, vol. i, p. 707). How similar is Oannes to Joannes or John!

But Oannes was the ancient Fish-god. How did Nimrod acquire this characteristic and name?

When Nimrod was overcome by Shem, Semiramis concocted a fable. She said that Nimrod took refuge in the sea. When he therefore “reappeared” he did so in the very character of Oannes, the Fish-god (Hislop p. 114).

So the PAGAN “NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN” FESTIVAL, which actually commemorates the death and reviving of pagan Oannes or Tammuz, BEARS A CHRISTIAN NAME!

How was this Christian-named festival originally observed? How has it been observed even into our times?

“St. John’s Day” in Britain

Before Christianity entered the British Isles, the 24th of June was celebrated by the Druids with blazing midsummer fires in honor of their great divinity who was Baal (another name for Nimrod or Tammuz). It was thus observed to our times! “I have seen the people running and leaping through the St. John fires in Ireland . . . proud of passing through unsinged . . . thinking of themselves in a special manner blest by the ceremony” (Toland’s Druids, p. 107). It has been a widespread custom. Herodotus, Wilkinson, Layard, and many others record its observance in various countries.

The grand distinguishing solemnities of St. John’s Eve are the mid-summer fires. These were lighted in France, Switzerland, Ireland, and Scotland (Hislop, p. 114). “When the FIRE had burned for several hours and got very low, everyone PASSED THROUGH IT . . . here was . . . worship of Baal, if not Molech (II Kings 23:10) too, by millions professing the Christian name” (Bell’s Wayside Pictures, p. 225).

SO, WE SEE THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN-GOD OR SERPENT AGAIN IN OUR TIMES, UNDER THE CLOAK OF A CHRISTIAN NAME! Our world is not as far removed from paganism as we think!

What does God say about this heathen practice? The people of Old Testament times were practicing this identical rite to honor this same pagan god. “They built the high places of Baal . . . to cause their sons and their daughters to PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH [Nimrod]: which I commanded them not!” (Jer. 32:35). Again God says, “When ye make your sons to pass through the fire, YE POLLUTE YOURSELVES WITH ALL YOUR IDOLS, even unto this day” (Ezek. 20:31). God COMMANDS that this idolatrous festival NOT be kept! He says it is IDOLATRY! — in honor of an idol god! THE PEOPLE TODAY HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE THE TRUE GOD. The very first of the Ten Commandments says, “THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME” (Ex. 20:3).

What About Christmas Observance?

The day set apart by Semiramis in memory of the “new birth” of Nimrod, her husband who had been slain by Shem, is familiar to everyone. What day is this? CHRISTMAS!

Through her mysteries her dead husband was said to have been miraculously conceived of Semiramis and to have returned in the form of Horus (Semiramis’ illegitimate son). It was the BIRTHDAY OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN! (Gieseler’s Ecclesiastical History, vol. ii, p. 42). She claimed Shem had not vanquished Nimrod even though he had slain him.

In Egypt, the son of Isis (Semiramis), the Babylonian queen of heaven, was supposedly born at the approximate time of the winter solstice (Wilkinson’s Egyptians, vol. iv, p. 405). The winter solstice then was December 25th, the place marking the beginning of the days becoming longer and longer. TO PAGAN SUN-WORSHIPPERS IT MEANT THAT THEIR GOD — THE SUN — WAS NOT GOING TO DIE AFTER ALL, BUT WAS BECOMING STRONGER AND STRONGER. The very name “Yule-day” which is used among us today proves its pagan and Babylonian origin (Mallet’s Northern Antiquities, vol. i, p. 130). “Yule” was the Chaldee name for “infant” or “little child” long before Christ’s time. It did not appear in Christian worship until around 350 A.D.!

The Sabeans of Arabia regarded the 24th day of December as the birthday of their pagan “Lord” (Stanley’s History of Philosophy, p. 1066, col. 1). The Saxons observed December the 25th. Hislop, p. 96 states: “It was an essential principle of the Babylonian system, that the Sun or Baal was the only God. When, therefore, Tammuz was worshipped as god incarnate,” (after he had supposedly taken the human form, as Christ did centuries later) “that implied he was an incarnation of the Sun.”

Here again, then, we see why observing the BIRTHDAY of Tammuz is Sun-worship! In observing THIS DAY, PEOPLE OF OUR TIME ACTUALLY PAY HOMAGE TO A MORTAL MAN (now dead) AS BEING GOD INCARNATE, WHILE THEY THINK THEY ARE HONORING CHRIST’S BIRTHDAY.

And the Christmas Tree?

What about today’s Christmas tree? The Christmas tree in Egypt was the palm; in Rome it was the fir. The mother (Semiramis) of Adonis the Sun-God (Grecian name of Nimrod) was mystically said to have been changed into a tree — the Christmas tree. While in this state she was said to have brought forth her so-called ‘divine’ son (Ovid’s, Metain, lib. XV 500-513). Hislop, on p. 97, indicates that if the mother was the tree, the son must have been the counterfeit “Man of the branch.” But Christ is the true “Branch” (Jer. 23:5). This is another pagan duality.

This, he states, accounts for putting the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas eve and the appearance of the Christmas tree next morning — the tree that supposedly brings all divine gifts to men. When people use the Christmas tree in their celebrations, they pay homage to Semiramis, the mother (and giver) of the false “Savior.” Who then do they thus acknowledge as their savior? NIMROD — the very man who “saved” mankind from following God at the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:6).

What does God say about the Christmas tree? “Learn not the way of the heathen . . . for one cutteth a tree . . . They deck it with silver and with gold; fasten it . . . that it move not . . . they are altogether brutish and foolish” (Jer. 10:1-8). God commands us to commemorate Christ’s death (Mark 14:22-24) — not His birth, which occurred before winter (Luke 2:8).

Christ’s Conception Counterfeited

Is there a counterfeit for the miraculous conception of Christ? Yes! Lady Day, celebrated each March 25th — 9 months before the supposed “Savior” was born. This day was observed long before Christ’s time in honor of the Babylonian “Messiah” (Ammianus Marcellinus, book 23, ch. 3, p. 355).

How clear it is becoming that the Devil supervised the fashioning of these counterfeits. They not only could be used in deceiving mankind then, as to the True way to salvation, but also could be used in deceiving people after the real Savior came! So we see that, THOSE WHO KEEP CHRISTMAS TODAY MARK THEMSELVES AS WORSHIPPERS OF THE SUN, SATAN, NIMROD, HORUS, AND SEMIRAMIS — the apostate heroes who founded civilization after the Flood in defiance of the way of God. What a group for a modern “Christian” to be worshipping!

And Semiramis? Does she have a day? Yes, she has a day reserved for herself also — Lady Day — and the people here and in other countries are dutifully keeping it! After all, had it not been for her, the MYSTERIES (II Thes. 2:7) which deceive the earth today would never have been formulated and the pagans would never have had a false “savior.”

The name of Semiramis found on Assyrian monuments is “Ishtar.” This corresponds to one of the titles of the Babylonian Beltes (Semiramis) — called Astarte in the Bible. So, the very word “Easter” shows that this festival originated in Babylon (Layard’s Nineveh and Babylon, p. 629).

What does this day commemorate?

Origin of Easter Observance

To discover the origin of Easter we have to go back to Semiramis and her Mysteries again!

Notice what Hislop admits on page 110: “As everything that was good . . . to mankind was represented in the Chaldean (Babylonian) mysteries, as in some way connected with the Babylonian goddess (Semiramis), so the greatest blessing to the human race which the ark contained . . . was held to be Astarte . . . the great civilizer and benefactor of the world . . . It was easy for her worshippers to be made to believe that in a previous incarnation she had lived in the Antediluvian world.”

The words for “egg” and “house” in the Hebrew and Chaldean are very similar. So the house or ark of Noah floating on the waters, became the “Egg.” “An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates . . . out came Venus, who afterward became the Assyrian goddess” (Hyginus’ Fabulae, pp. 148, 149) — that is, Astarte. The pagan classic poems are full of fables of the Mystic egg of the Babylonians.

The event that the “Ishtar egg” or Easter egg first commemorated was the “arrival” (birth) of the future mother of the Sun-god on this earth after the Flood! So we see Easter commemorates Semiramis’ birthday — not Christ’s resurrection!

Easter worship is actually sun-goddess worship!

What does God say about observing Easter? “Trust ye not in lying words . . . the women . . . make cakes to the queen of heaven [This world today is doing the same thing!] . . . walk ye in all the ways I have commanded . . . But they hearkened not . . .”

And what happens to those who continue to disobey? — “The carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of heaven” (Jer. 7:1-33). This is the result of Easter keeping — of following the Devil’s deceptive Mysteries!

Jesus knew that men would attach His name to pagan practices, claiming to worship Him. He shouted the warning: “Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46).

Let us now notice one more of these deceptions that masquerade as Christian — but are actually pagan.

The Counterfeit Cross

Is the cross which took Christ’s life a thing to be proud of and adored? Or has the Devil deceived us here also? Our sins and the Devil’s deception killed Christ. Satan was to bruise the heel of the seed of woman (Gen 3:15) — Satan was to kill Christ. How did he do this?

Satan deceived us into sinning and OUR sins killed Christ. Should we parade OUR INSTRUMENT OF DEATH, which took Christ’s life, before the world and be proud of it? But notice even more about the practice of parading the cross.

The true original form of the Chaldean (Babylonian) alphabet letter “T” is made like the CROSS CHURCHES USE TODAY — and WAS THE INITIAL OF TAMMUZ, the sun-god. “This was marked on the foreheads of those initiated into the Mysteries; the Vestal virgins of pagan (not modern) Rome wore it suspended off their necklaces as nuns do now. There is hardly a pagan tribe where a cross has not been found . . . the X which in itself was not an unnatural symbol of Christ, and which was once regarded as such, was allowed to go entirely into disuse and the Tau cross, the sign of Tammuz, the false messiah, was everywhere substituted in its stead” (Hislop, The Two Babylons, p. 119).

People and churches nowadays are even going to great lengths to identify themselves with the symbol of the Sun-god! The great display of this symbol today is an outward sign of how blinded the world is to the truth of God.

Origin of God’s Week

When did God’s week originate? What was this week like, which He has given to the world to use forever? Notice!

When God remade our earth, He said of the first evening and morning, “The evening and the morning were the FIRST day” (Gen. 1:5). Then followed the SECOND day (verse 8), the THIRD day (verse 13), the FOURTH day (verse 19), and so on until the day following the sixth. He not only gave that day a number — He gave it a name — the Sabbath!

This, then, is when God’s week originated. Note that it was composed of seven days, SIX OF THEM BEARING NUMBERS, and ONE OF THEM — the last, THE SEVENTH, BEARING A NAME (see Ex. 16:23).

GOD’S Week Corrupted Early

In the library of Asshur-bani-pal of Assyria (a country which lay just north of ancient Babylonia), many clay tablets have been found relating the epic of creation. One of these tablets reads:

“On the seventh day He appointed a holy day, and to cease from all business He commanded” (Henry H. Halley Pocket Bible Handbook, p. 64 [EDITOR’S NOTE: p. 62, 24th ed., 1996]).

Here is absolute PROOF from the ancient records collected by this Assyrian King, that long before the time of Moses, Babylonia knew of God’s seven day week.

But recall that Babylon was the place which Nimrod and his Assyrian wife, Semiramis — called the “queen of heaven” in the Bible — ruled. It was the country in which Satan started his perversions.

Would Satan leave God’s simple calendar intact? Or would he pervert it and thus try to “change times and laws”? (Daniel 7:25).

Here is what happened. In ancient Babylon “evil days,” which were observed on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th days of the month, were gradually set apart (Webster’s Rest Days, p. 230). The seventh day of each Babylonian week was called a SHABATTUM — the pagan corruption of the SABBATH. Thus the sabbaths of God — times when man might enjoy spiritual pursuits — were soon changed into periods of “ill omens” or “Evil Days” (Webster’s Rest Days, p. 232).

On these “Evil Days” the pagans had to afflict themselves — they had to do penance. They could not eat flesh cooked upon coals, nor change garments, nor could the physician lay hand upon the patient. At night, the king was to bring his gift before the images of Marduk (Nimrod) and Ishtar (the “Queen of Heaven,” Semiramis) and offer sacrifice (Rest Days, p. 232).

The point is that even then, Satan was having other gods — Nimrod and his wife — worshipped on this crude imitation of God’s Sabbath day. SATAN HAD CORRUPTED THE SABBATH AND THEREBY THE TRUE WEEK OF GOD. Did he establish a COUNTERFEIT WEEK OF HIS OWN? Yes!

Satan Produces His Own Week — Today’s Week

How did the pagans, under Satan’s influence, formulate the week — the planetary or astrological week WHICH THE WORLD STILL RETAINS TODAY?

Here is the answer: “The planetary week presents itself as a curious amalgam [or mixture] of ideas derived from different sources. BABYLONIA, THE MOTHERLAND OF DIVINATION, PROVIDED THE DOCTRINE of the influence of the stars upon human destinies: Greece furnished the mathematical astronomy which grouped the planets according to their distance from the earth . . . upon these foundations astrologers of the Hellenistic (Greek) era, familiar with the cult of seven and with the division of days into twenty-four hours, built up what was, at the outset, an entirely PAGAN INSTITUTION.”

Notice the origin of our week — a pagan institution!

Continuing, “This seven day week, in its astrological form . . . probably first appeared . . . [in] Syria, certainly not before the 2nd century B.C. had passed . . . thence to Alexandria (Egypt) . . . and about the age of Augustus (31 B.C. - 14 A.D.) . . . into the Occidental (Roman) lands” (Webster’s Rest Days, pp. 218, 219). Today’s week was born from mother Babylon!!

Names of the Days

How did the pagans, under the guidance of Satan, name the days of this week — today’s week? As we have seen, old Babylonia provided the doctrine of the influence of the stars on human destinies. Remember the “Queen of Heaven,” Semiramis, had identified herself with the planet Venus. Also we have seen, she identified her dead husband, Nimrod, with Saturn, and then with the SUN, ultimately making him the SUN-god.

Guided by these Babylonian influences, the pagans of a later time named the days of this new planetary week for these ancient heroes who became honored as gods: Sunday was at first set apart for the “god of this world” — Satan, the Sun-god — but was later associated with Nimrod after his supposed “Sunday” resurrection. Monday was set apart for the moon (Cush, the first husband of Semiramis, the “Queen of Heaven”); Friday for Venus or Frigga (Semiramis); and Saturday for Saturn (Nimrod, when he was associated with the planet Saturn as the hidden god — the pagan “Savior” who was hid in the grave on Saturday after being killed on Friday). Nimrod’s fabled “Sunday” resurrection led the pagans into honoring him on Sunday as the Sun-god.

The other days of the week received their names in similar fashion. Each received its name from a heavenly body which had been associated with some old Babylonian god or goddess which the “Queen of Heaven” — Semiramis — had named in honor of herself and her husband, and of Ham, Cush, Horus, and Asshur — the first apostates!

Is this the week that God gave us — a week with its seventh day, only, bearing a name — the Sabbath, and its other days bearing only numbers? No!

HERE IS A STRANGE WEEK. Here is a week whose days bear the NAMES of pagan gods. The Sabbath day nowhere appears in this week. But Sunday, the Day of the Sun — the SUN AROUND WHICH THE PAGANS SYMBOLICALLY ENTWINED THE SERPENT — the DEVIL — does appear! It is the one day which is most observed by all the earth TODAY !

This new planetary week which the world uses today is a part of our present Roman calender.

God’s weekly cycle with its Sabbath on the seventh day has, of course, never been altered. But SUNday was made to come on the first day of God’s true week. SUNday WAS PLACED NEXT TO GOD’S SABBATH! This proximity causes confusion!

Why Was Sunday Created?

The world after the Flood knew and understood that a Savior was to come (Gen. 3:15). So did Satan! What did he do about it?

Satan, as we have seen, inspired Nimrod to become the priest of the SUN, whose worship he initiated and furthered after the Flood. At Nimrod’s death, his wife Semiramis, for purposes of prestige, contrived to convince the people that one of her illegitimate sons was miraculously conceived of her by the SUN — her god-husband up in the sky. She claimed this son was the son of the SUN-god. Notice that this event was actually patterned after the future birth of Christ.

What connection have these events which occurred 4000 years ago, to do with the day of the SUN — SUNday of our time? A great deal! Let us examine!

In Egypt shortly before 2000 B.C., (the very time when the “Queen of Heaven” — Semiramis — was most active in having her dead husband Nimrod worshipped as the SUN-god) worship of the sun became completely dominant. Sun worship became associated with almost every god which had not received a clear cosmic function at an earlier time (Gray’s Mythology of All Races, vol. XII, p. 28).

Now it can be understood why the PAGANS, about three hundred years before Christ’s coming, came forward with the week that is used by the world today — a week which CONTAINS THE DAY OF THE SUN — SUNday — A DAY ON WHICH THEY WORSHIPPED THEIR GOD THE SUN!

Satan was again inspiring his agents. Satan was influencing them to set apart a day — SUNday — on which he, through the dead Nimrod, the SUN-god, could be worshipped instead of God. The serpent, Satan, was (symbolically) entwined around the SUN!

Sunday — The “Lord’s Day” — Enters Early Church

When did the churches adopt the practice of keeping SUNday, which the pagans who joined their congregations brought with them?

When was the planetary week — the week the world uses today — adopted by the early church in place of the week which God commanded at creation?

Here is the answer!

“The early Christians had at first adopted the seven-day week [God’s] with its numbered weekdays, but by the close of the 3rd century A.D., this began to give way to the planetary week [Satan’s]. The use of planetary names [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.] attests to the GROWING influence of astrological speculations introduced by the converts from paganism” (Webster’s Rest Days, p. 252).

THE USE OF THE PLANETARY WEEK BY THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WAS A YARDSTICK WHICH MEASURED HOW MUCH THEY WERE BEING AFFECTED BY PAGANISM.

But what about the “LORD’S DAY” which we hear so much of today? By many it is said to be Sunday. And right they are!

St. Augustine, one of the early “church fathers” (the “fathers” being a group of men who formulated the teachings of the churches after the days of the apostles), said that the “Lord’s Day” was DECLARED NOT TO THE JEWS — which it should have been if it had been declared to Christ or the apostles, as they were Jews — but to the “Christians” (the newly “converted” PAGANS) by the resurrection of “the Lord” (from the Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, vol. 2, under “Lord’s Day”).

St. Augustine here declares the “Lord’s Day” is the day of the week on which the “Lord” was resurrected. Could this “Lord” be Christ? No!

Christ was cut off “in the midst of the week” (Dan. 9:24-27) — Wednesday — and, after being three days and three nights in the tomb (Matt. 12:38-40), WAS RESURRECTED — ON SATURDAY!

THE “LORD” REFERRED TO BY AUGUSTINE WAS NOT CHRIST! SUNday CANNOT BE OBSERVED AS THE DAY OF HIS RESURRECTION!

Then whose day was it?

“Lord’s Day” Among Pagans

The “LORD’S DAY” EXISTED BEFORE CHRIST CAME!

Who then is “The Lord” that the people worship today when they observe Sunday — the “Lord’s Day”? The whole world today has been deceived by this surprising counterfeit!

THE PAGANS WHO FLOCKED INTO CHRISTIANITY WERE CARRYING IN MIND THEIR “LORD” NIMROD, THE FIRST GREAT LORD OR BAAL OF THIS EARTH. The word “baal” means a LORD or master. You probably never understood this before.

It was Nimrod’s wife, Semiramis (counterfeit of Mary), who, after her husband’s death, misled the ancient pagans to believe that THE “LORD” NIMROD HAD BEEN RESURRECTED! It was he who was supposedly “resurrected” on SUNday!

Nimrod, according to this, was the first of Satan’s (the Sun’s) created beings, just as Christ is the first-fruits of God’s created spirit-created beings. What does this mean? It means that if we observe Sunday, we serve Satan instead of God, as the Creator and Giver of Eternal Life, and show our obedience to Satan and not to God!

Why Sunday Worship Is Widespread Today

But what was responsible for the later widespread rise of SUNday or “Day of the Lord” worship which prevails today?

Constantine, a civil — not ecclesiastical — ruler of the Roman Empire, had the most to do with the ascendancy of Sunday as the day of worship. “Constantine’s famous edict (321 A.D.) definitely enrolled Sunday among the holidays of the Roman state religion. The change from Saturn’s day to Sunday must have further commended the planetary week in Christian circles, where the Lord’s Day . . . beginning the week, had long been observed as the day on which Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, rose from the dead. Thus a pagan institution was engrafted in Christianity “ (Webster’s Rest Days, p. 222).

Do you grasp this? A human civil ruler — not God, established the custom of observing Sunday as a time of “Christian” worship.

What was Constantine’s own religion? Gibbon, the authoritative historian, in his Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, vol. 1, pp. 636-638, tells us: “Constantine . . . persevered till he was near forty years of age in the practice of the established religion (paganism) . . . But the devotion of Constantine was more peculiarly directed to the genius of the Sun . . . The Sun was universally celebrated as the invincible guide and protector of Constantine.”

Notice that Constantine became a “Christian” after he was about forty years of age. But, it was also after he was about forty that he, by his legislation, brought his Sun-god — the “lord” — and Sun-day into the “Christian” Church to stay. Today, the vast majority of “Christians” are still following in his footsteps.

What were the words of Constantine’s famous edict of 321 A.D.? “On the venerable day of the sun let all magistrates and people . . . rest.” (Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, article “Sunday Legislation”).

Satan wants, as always, to be God! He has substituted his week and his day — Sunday. He, Satan, wants to be known as the Creator of all things — including time — and Giver of Eternal Life. Yes, Satan has been successful in this deception. The earth today has adopted his pagan week and Sunday worship!

Vain Repetition of Prayers

Jesus commands, “WHEN YE PRAY, USE NOT VAIN REPETITIONS, AS THE HEATHEN DO: FOR THEY THINK THAT THEY SHALL BE HEARD FOR THEIR MUCH SPEAKING” (Matt. 6:7). Where does this mechanical repetition and telling of prayers upon beads come from then, if it is not commanded of God?

The rosary (the instrument containing beads on which prayers are counted) was used as a sacred instrument among the ancient Mexicans (Humboldt’s Mexican Researches, vol. ii, p. 29), also among the Brahmins. Hindu sacred books refer to it often. It was used by the heathen of ancient Tibet, China, and Greece, and ancient Rome (Rome before the time of Christ!). The name “Rosary” itself seems to be from the Chaldee (Babylonian) ‘Ro’, ‘thought’, and ‘Shareh’, ‘director’ “ (Hislop, p. 188). The very present name — Ro-sar-y — indicates that this method came from Babylon.

The Rosary allows people to think they are worshipping God but to overlook the great fact that God wants above all things that prayer should be from the heart.

As regards the Rosary of the Sacred Heart, the “Heart” was one of the sacred symbols of Osiris (the Egyptian Tammuz or Nimrod), when he was supposedly born again as the infant divinity, and carried in the arms of his mother Isis (the Egyptian Semiramis). Dryden’s Aeneid, book i, pp. 937-940, shows why the heart was Osiris’ symbol when he was born-again: Venus (a Grecian name for Semiramis), speaking to the boy-god, her son, said, “My Son, my might . . . To thee thy much afflicted mother flies.” The son was called “the Strength” of his mother. “Thus the boy-god came to be regarded as the “god of the heart,” or cupid, or god of love.

In this Rosary of the Sacred Heart, therefore, it is Tammuz, the Sun-god, who is venerated — and in our day!

St. Valentine’s Heart

Christ said: “I am the light of the world. He that followeth Me shall . . . have the light of life” (John 8:12). Through Christ’s WORDS, LIGHT was shed to the people on how to attain eternal life. Did Satan have counterfeits formulated to correspond to this part of Christ’s character? Let us see.

Nimrod being reborn as the incarnation of the SUN (the light-bringer), the “sacred heart” was frequently represented as being aflame. It became an emblem of the incarnate Son. “To be represented as a heart on fire, required also that burning lamps and lighted candles should form part of the worship of that Son” (Hislop’s The Two Babylons, p. 191).

The Savior is spoken of as the “Messiah which is . . . Christ” (John 1:41). The word “Messiah,” according to Peloubet’s Bible Dictionary, means one who is anointed with Holy oil. Kings of Israel were called “anointed” from this mode of consecration. The Saviour was the Messiah, the anointed one consecrated by God.

Extreme Unction a Counterfeit of Salvation

We now shall see how Satan, knowing of the Messiah’s coming — the One who would come to make peace between mankind and God — produced counterfeits hundreds of years before He came. It did not take Semiramis, inspired by Satan, long to incorporate this into her Mysteries and identify this title with her dead husband, Nimrod:

“Among the many names of the Babylonian god (Nimrod) was the name ‘Beel-samen’, ‘Lord of Heaven’, which is the name of the sun. But Beel-samen also properly signified ‘Lord of Oil’ and was evidently intended as a synonym of the Divine name ‘The Messiah’.” (Note here the subtle counterfeit of Semiramis, as inspired by the Devil, to duplicate the real Messiah!)

“This also accounts for the fact that the body of the Babylonian Belus (Nimrod) was represented as having been preserved in his sepulchre . . . floating in oil. And . . . at Rome the ‘statue of Saturn’ (Nimrod) was made hollow and filled with oil . . . As the olive branch was one of the symbols of their Messiah (Nimrod) whose great mission it was to make peace between God and man so, in bearing this branch of the anointed one, they thereby testified that in the name of that anointed one they came seeking peace” (Hislop, p. 165). IF ONE WAS ANOINTED WITH OIL BEFORE HE DIED, HE WAS SURE OF A GRACIOUS RECEPTION BY HIS GOD, THEY BELIEVED.

“The worshippers of this . . . ‘Lord of Heaven’ . . . were also anointed with ‘magical ointments’ . . . to fit and prepare them for being admitted in vision, into his awful presence . . . Thus the pagan system naturally developed into an ‘extreme unction’ . . . [which] was entirely unknown among the Christians till corruption was far advanced in the Church” (p. 166).

Extreme unction thus was being practiced by pagans hundreds of years before the great falling away from the truth occurred in the Church. It was being used to prepare those who were being initiated into the Mysteries to meet their god in vision in an initiation. It was also to prepare others to make their last journey into the unknown beyond.

After Christ’s coming, the apostate Church, desiring to retain this pagan practice for the thousands of incoming pagans and also to pacify the professing Christians, concocted a spiritual basis: “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil . . . and the Lord shall raise him up” (James 15:14-15). THIS COMMAND IS OBVIOUSLY GIVEN FOR PHYSICAL HEALING AND NOT TO PREPARE MAN TO MEET THE CREATOR! This scripture was deliberately misinterpreted to allow a pagan counterfeit to masquerade as Christian. Repentance and Christ’s blood make forgiveness possible. But by this pagan rite, men claim to prepare one another to meet the Creator — but the rite or ceremony is only a continuation of pagan Sun-worship, worship of a false Messiah.

So those who could have life by God’s healing COMMAND are led astray, by Satan’s counterfeit, into other ways which bring death. They are deceived into honoring a false Messiah — into using a false method to prepare them for their final judgment!

Today this same deception is perpetuated in the name of “Christianity”!

Relic Worship of Pagan Origin

IN MANY CHURCHES TODAY THE WORSHIP OF RELICS PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART. It is believed that, “Whenever a chapel is opened or a temple consecrated, it cannot be thoroughly complete without some relic . . . of he-saint or she-saint to GIVE SANCTITY to it . . . The grossest impostures have been practiced in regard to such relics . . . and their WONDER WORKING POWERS . . .” In the realms of Heathendom the same worship had flourished for ages before Christian saints or martyrs had appeared in the world (Hislop p. 176).

It was found in China, Greece, India, and other places. Nimrod, it will be remembered, was cut in pieces. Plutarch (vol. ii, p. 358, A), describes the search Semiramis made for these pieces, “Isis (Semiramis) set out . . . in search of the scattered pieces of her husband’s body . . . and one reason assigned for the different sepulchres of Osiris (Nimrod) in Egypt is that whenever any one of his scattered limbs was discovered she buried it on the spot. Not only were these Egyptian RELICS SACRED THEMSELVES, BUT THEY CONSECRATED THE VERY GROUND IN WHICH THEY WERE ENTOMBED” (Ibid. sec. 20, vol. ii, p. 359 A).

“If the places where the relics of Osiris were buried were accounted peculiarly holy, it is easy to see how naturally this would give rise to pilgrimages so frequent among the heathen.” In the Middle Ages such pilgrimages to the tombs of the saints, were to wash away sin (Hislop, p. 180).

Nowhere in the Bible are pilgrimages commanded!!

Mankind spread from the original Babylon to all parts of the earth to form Babylon the Great. It is thus easy to see where today’s “Great Babylon” acquired this practice. Such practices are entirely contrary to God’s teachings. When a human being dies today, he remains dead. He cannot “sanctify,” “work wonders,” or “consecrate” anything. Even David, one of God’s most beloved, is still dead (Acts 2:29). Only when Christ comes will the righteous live again (I Cor. 15:51; I Thes. 4:16). IT IS OBVIOUS WHERE THE FALSE IDEA THAT MAN CONTINUES TO LIVE AFTER HE IS DEAD COMES FROM!

Other Deceptive Counterfeits

Church government in the Middle Ages was patterned after the Pagan College of Pontiffs, with its “Pontifex Maximus,” which had existed in Rome from the earliest times. It is known to have been framed on the model of the grand original Council of Pontiffs at ancient Babylon, and the keys that their human leader emblazons on his arms as the ensigns of his spiritual authority were the symbols of two well-known pagan divinities who existed at Rome before the apostate Church was ever founded — Janus (the Roman name for a god who represented Nimrod in one of his many forms), and Cybele (Nimrod’s wife Semiramis). Each of these two divinities had a key which opened the doors to the kingdom of heaven.

Clerical celibacy, the shaving of the heads of priests, the pontifical crosier, and the mitre were all known in ancient Babylon.

These are other pieces of evidence as to what the people of today are actually worshipping. DOES GOD HOLD PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE TODAY FOR WORSHIPPING THIS SYSTEM JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE DECEIVED? HE HELD OUR FOREFATHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR WORSHIPPING THIS IDENTICALLY SAME SYSTEM OF MYSTERIES EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE DECEIVED! Why wouldn’t He hold us responsible? He says He will! (Rev. 18:4). We are to come out of Babylon or we will receive of her plagues! The plagues will soon fall!

“Mystery of Iniquity” A Secret System

As we have seen, the OPEN WORSHIP of the sun (or fire) and the snake (the Devil) was STOPPED when the righteous forces of Shem destroyed Nimrod, who had been the great power promoting this worship. SHEM FORBADE THE WORSHIP OF THESE SYMBOLS. When Semiramis started the forbidden system again, it had to be through a SYSTEM OF MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS. We have seen that she deified her dead husband Nimrod, herself, and her son, Tammuz. She associated them with great personages of the past, and set up a system whereby they might also be worshipped through symbols. Thus those who were initiated into the meaning of these symbols could continue their worship of the things which had been forbidden.

THIS MYSTERY SYSTEM BECAME THE MOST POWERFUL DECEPTIVE RELIGIOUS DEVICE THIS WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, as will later be proved by the Bible itself!

Nimrod had many titles as did also his wife (Wilkinson, vol. iv, p. 179). As we have seen, one of Nimrod’s names is Saturn, which signifies the Hidden god. To those who were initiated, he was revealed; to all others, he was hidden. Why is this word “Saturn” the very key that connects the idolatrous Babylon of that time with the Babylonish fountain-head of idolatry in our time?

“The name Saturn in Chaldee (Babylonian) is . . . Stur. This name contains exactly the Apocalyptic number 666: S=60, T=400, U=6, R=200 . . . But still further it turns out . . . that the original of Rome itself was Saturnia, ‘the city of Saturn’. This is vouched alike by Ovid, by Pliny, and by Aurelius Victor.” Thus ancient Rome was branded with the number 666 (Rev. 13:18). “Virgil . . . showed that Lateinos, to whom the Romans or Latin race traced back their lineage, was represented with a glory around his head, to show he was a ‘child of the Sun’” — a symbol of devil worship (Hislop, pp. 269-270).

Note in particular that NIMROD, THE HEAD OF THE PAGAN SUN-SERPENT WORSHIP, WHO WAS FALSELY REPRESENTED AS THE VERY SON OF GOD, BORE THE NUMBER 666! This same number continues to be branded on the present-day Babylonish system, whose symbols hide the actual worship of the devil. How do we know? Because a world-wide religious leader who represents this system will brand himself with this number by his very actions! — by acting as Nimrod did — setting himself up in the place of Christ, the Son of God!

It is prophesied that Christ will come and smite the nations and rule them (Isa. 2:1-4). But what is also prophesied to happen just before Christ will establish His rule in Jerusalem?

God says, “I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem” (Joel 3:1). Literal Jerusalem is soon to go into captivity to a coming union of fascist dictators in Europe. The religious head of this coming union will “. . . plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain” in Palestine (Dan. 11:45).

He will place his headquarters of worship in the land which prophecy shows Christ intends to use as His own headquarters and place of worship. Furthermore, this human religious head will exalt “himself above all that is called God . . . so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (II Thes. 2:4).

Christ, THE SON OF GOD, is to come to Jerusalem to establish the worship of God on the earth, but there will be a mortal man who will come to this same place to spread the Babylonish worship on earth. This man will thus attempt to usurp the authority of Christ . . . he will actually try to be the only “Representative of the Son of God,” which translated into Latin is “Filii vicarivs Dei.” It adds up to 666: i=1, l=50, v=5, c=100, d=500. The letters f, a, r, s, and e have no numerical value. THIS MAN WILL PLACE UPON HIMSELF THE SAME NUMBER THAT NIMROD, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE WORLD’S FALSE RELIGIOUS WORSHIP, CARRIED. NIMROD, AS THE “SON OF GOD,” WAS REPRESENTED AS BEING CHRIST!!!

Here is proof that the system of Mysterious Iniquity, whose head will brand himself with the number 666, is the same hidden system that has existed from the Flood and only for the purpose of perverting God’s teachings. It is no wonder that Christ’s gospel was “infiltrated” and twisted. The wonder would have been if this had not occurred!

In summarizing, recall that mysterious or hidden symbols are used. These symbols exist today, such as the Christmas tree, the Easter egg, the hot cross bun — there are many others.

Also, just as symbolic as the Christmas tree and other material symbols, are the periods of time set apart by Satan for the worship of other than the true God — Christmas, Easter, Lent — and many other symbolic periods which are hiding from people today the real “gods” they are worshipping! SATAN HAS ALWAYS TAUGHT ANOTHER GOSPEL — A WRONG AND IMPOSSIBLE WAY OF OBTAINING IMMORTALITY — YOU CAN’T WORSHIP THE SYMBOLS OF SATAN’S GODS AND OBTAIN ETERNAL LIFE. Even to the initiated, this worship was mysterious or hidden until explained. The individual (Satan) who is at the head is mysterious or hidden. God has given Satan’s system the name “Babylon,” which means “Confusion” (Rev. 17:5). No wonder the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with confusing doctrines (Rev. 17:2).

Satan hid in the form of a serpent; Adam hid in the garden after he had sinned; Nimrod was hidden in the Chaldean Mysteries. The Devil is now the (hidden) god of this world (II Cor. 4:4) and is deceiving the whole earth (Rev. 12:9)! The WORLD TODAY THINKS IT IS WORSHIPPING GOD, BUT HE SAYS IT IS DECEIVED.

We have seen that there were pagan religious practices in the time of Christ and the apostles which closely resembled the doctrines the apostles practiced and preached. We have studied these pagan customs and found that they originated from a common source — the old Babylonian Mysteries of Semiramis, and that they have found their way into religious practices of our day. They mask the way to salvation which Christ taught. THIS BABYLONISH SYSTEM, MASQUERADING AS CHRISTIAN, CONTROLS THE WORSHIP OF THE WORLD TODAY!

Fortunate will be the few who find their way out of this morass of confusion and STAND READY to be transformed at Christ’s soon coming!

Today’s Greatest Religious Hoax!

It comes as a shock to realize that the professing Christian world is being deluded by a FALSE MESSIAH — one who has been masqueraded as Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul knew of this clever deception that would be foisted upon the Church. Here is what he said under the inspiration of God:

“I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your thought should be corrupted . . . For if he who cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach . . . or another gospel, which ye did not receive” — that is, if any minister comes who preaches about ANOTHER JESUS — a false Jesus whom the apostles did not preach about, or another GOSPEL — a different way to ETERNAL LIFE than the way you received from Christ and His apostles — “ye bear well with him” — you accept his false message! (II Cor. 11:3-4).

Paul was shocked at the fact that Christians in his own day were giving heed to the false doctrines about another Jesus — a false Messiah to whom the name of Jesus Christ was appropriated.

A false savior appeared long before Christ’s time and is the one upon which people today are depending for their salvation! IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP! Bible evidence proves that this is just what has happened!

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