Nimrod - Babylonian - Musical Worship Teams

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Nimrod - Babylonian - Musical Worship Teams

This site has very interesting details on Israeli involvement with Temple Paganism in Babylon.. Worth a look over... ---The CSR

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The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop, Mother and Child

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"In the cultic practices, humans fulfilled their destiny: to take care of the gods' material needs. They therefore provided the gods with houses (the temples) that were richly supplied with lands, which people cultivated for them.

    The Tithe was added to support the priestly and civil authorities when Israel rose up to play in musical, perverted worship of the Egyptian Triad. The "lay by in store" scam intends to support the neo-Babylonian religion.

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"In the temple the god was present in--but not bounded by--a statue made of precious wood overlaid with gold. For this statue the temple kitchen staff prepared daily meals from victuals grown or raised on the temple's fields, in its orchards, in its sheepfolds, cattle pens, and game preserves, brought in by its fishermen, or delivered by farmers owing it as a temple tax. The statue was also clad in costly raiment, bathed, and escorted to bed in the bedchamber of the god, often on top of the temple tower, or ziggurat.

To see to all of this the god had priests trained as cooks, bakers, waiters, and bathers, or as encomiasts (singers of praise) and musicians to make the god's meals festive, or as elegists to soothe him in times of stress and grief.

    Because of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai God "turned them over to worship the starry host." Saying so helped get Stephen murdered (Acts 7)

    And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 1 Sam 8:5

        Gowy (h1471) go'ee; rarely (short.) goy go'-ee; appar. from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (fig.) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people

        Speaking of Israel but inclusive of Judah:

        And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. Eze.20:32

    And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Sam 8:7

        According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. 1 Sam 8:8

        Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 1 Sam 8:9

    God then defines the monarchy as quite identical to the Babylonian Harlot seen again in Revelation 18:22.

    And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots [musical]. 1 Sam 8:12

    And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 1 Sam 8:13

        Confectionaries:

        Raqach (h7543) raw-kakh'; a prim. root; to perfume: - apothecary, compound, make [ointment], prepare, spice.

        And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries art: and they made a very great burning for him. 2Chr.16:14

        DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. Ec.10:1

        Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. Eze.24:10

    And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 1 Sam 8:14

    And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 1 Sam 8:15

    And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 1 Sam 8:16

    He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 1 Sam 8:17

    And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. 1 Sam 8:18

    Cry is: Convene public assemblies, cry out, gather in great companies.

    Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 1 Sam 8:19

    That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. 1 Sam 8:20

"Diversions from the daily routine were the great monthly festivals and also a number of special occasions.

    Such special occasions might be a sudden need to go through the elaborate ritual for purifying the king when he was threatened by the evils implied in an eclipse of the Moon, or in extreme cases there might be a call for the ritual installation of a substitute king to take upon himself the dangers threatening, and various other nonperiodic rituals.

        > Cleansing of the Temple in order to stop God's punishment (2 Chron. 29). People, places and things were cleansed and rededicated without music while only the burning of the sacrifice was signalled with music. Hezekiah reached all the way back to David for the prescription. 2 Chronicles 29:25, King Hezekiah's Reform, Worship Authority

        > The Coronation of Joash with sound of judgment against Athaliah (2 Chron. 23, 2 Ki 11)

        See more dedicatory and purification rituals as the major use of instrumental music, separated by almost 300 years in some events.

    "Elegists and other funerary personnel were in attendance and conducted the laments seeking to give full expression to the grief of the bereaved and propitiate the spirit of the dead. In later times burial in a family vault under the dwelling house was frequent. Mesopotamia Cult, Britannica Online Or Click Here

    "In many communities the lament for the dead god took the form of a procession out into the desert to find the slain god in his gutted fold, a pilgrimage to the accompaniment of harps and heart-rending laments for the god. Mesopotamia Cult


The very name "serpent" is directly connected to brass musical instruments which had the magical power to "hiss" and arouse or appease the serpent gods. In contemporary traditions Genun (Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain, Naamah) was taught how to invent and play musical instruments and organize mixed musical worship teams to pervert and destroy the holy Sethites who remained upon God's Holy Mountain. Satan's homosexual and music connection reaches back to the garden of Eden (in tradition) where he seduced Eve as a beautiful man and Adam in the form of a beautiful woman.

    "Now therefore, since you do not yet understand how great darkness of ignorance surrounds you, sometime I wish to explain to you whence the worship of idols began in this world. And by idols, I mean those lifeless images which you worship, whether made of wood, or earthenware, or stone, or brass, or any other metals: of these the beginning was in this wise.

        Certain angels having left the course of their proper order, began to favour the vices of men, and in some measure to lend unworthy aid to their lust,

    "in order that by these means they might indulge their own pleasures the more; and then, that they might not seem to be inclined of their own accord to unworthy services, taught men that demons could, by certain arts--that is, by magical invocations--be made to obey men; and so, as from a furnace and workshop of wickedness, they filled the whole world with the smoke of impiety, the light of piety being withdrawn." (Reognitions of Clement, Book IV, Chapt XXVI, Ante Nicene Fathers, Vol 8, p. 140)

    "Under the assumption that a common pattern of 'myth and ritual' prevailed in the ancient Near East, it has been argued that the enthronement psalms belonged in the cultic setting of a 'throne-ascension festival,' held every New Year, when Yahweh's kingship over Israel, the nations, and the cosmos was celebrated in song, ritual, and pagent (play)."

    "In the Babylonian cult, for instance, hymns of praise had an important place. Every New Year, when the cycle of the seasons returned to its beginning, the worshipers reexperienced and reactualized the victory of the powers of life over the powers of death. The creation myth of Enuma elish depicted the victory of the god Marduk over the dragon of Chaos, Tiamet.

        Not only was the myth recited, but the battle was reenacted during the festival. At the climax of the celebration worshipers joined in the acclamation, 'Marduk has become king!' This is interpreted to mean that he had reascended his throne for another year." (Anderson, p. 522).

Musical worship teams repeating the Marduk / Nimrod pattern of female temple staff rapidly deteriorates to a Sabbaterian restoration of the Babylonian Shabatum.

This drawing of the "Silver Lyre" found at Ur (ca. 2800 B.C.) illustrates the kind of lyre played in the royal courts of the city from whence Abraham and his family came. Originally it was covered with silver plating and had inlays of gems and ivory. Its eleven long strings and large soundbox gave it a deep tone, apparently in imitation of a bull's voice.

See how Sophia and Zoe are involved as the "enlightener" or "female instructing principle" and who is identified as the "Beast."

The symbol of Babylon was the serpent in many forms:

    "The symbol of Marduk is the pixax (Akkadian, marru), and his emblematic animal is a composite serpent-dragon (with a name derived from the Sumerian mush-hush, "fire-red dragon"). Finegan, Jack, Myth and Mystery, p. 29, Baker

    See Music and Devil Worship.

    This common story appears in many ancient writings. Marduk is the sun god of Babylon but other nations had their own distorted versions. For instance,
    ...........the serpent steals the Word of God or
    ...........he threatens the Sun as the life giver of Egypt.

    "In Egypt the serpent opposed the sun god during the night, trying to prevent him from rising.

        In Canaan, it was a sexual symbol in certain cults. According to the Gilgamesh epic, it was the serpent which stole the herb of life."... The essential concern of the text is to show that sin does not come from within man, that it is not part of his nature: it comes from outside." (Charpentier, Etienne, How to Read the Old Testament, p. 40).

Israel had historically lived under the oral law under the direction of first-born sons or patriarchs. There was no need for a "life-enabling document" as long as people lived right and practiced social justice. However, as preparation to going into Canaan, Moses at God's direction, wrote up to 2000 years after the Babylonian musical worship teams were already the accusers and overseers of the Babylonian people. His God-given goal was to turn Israel away from the same form of worship they had practiced in Egypt to the worship of Yahweh Who revealed Himself in righteousness and justice. He could not be awakened by arousal psalms.

God did not give and Moses did not write this history (often in parables) until Israel rejected The Book of the Covenant which was much like the Covenant given to Abraham. Because they failed the test and returned to an Egyptian form of the common religion they did not need the Mosaic law which was to police them as they lived among Canaanites.

In ancient pagan temple-states, the musical worship team was part of the religious-commercial complex. In Babylonia, they were part of a state worship team made up of priests, soothsayers and musicians.

God warned of a religion where:

    "The rectangular central shrine of the temple, known as a 'cella,' had a brick altar or offering table in front of a statue of the temple's deity. The cella was lined on its long ends by many rooms for priests and priestesses. These mud-brick buildings were decorated with cone geometrical mosaics, and the occasional fresco with human and animal figures. These temple complexes eventually evolved into towering ziggurats.

        "The temple was staffed by priests, priestesses, musicians, singers, castrates and hierodules (including Temple Prostitutes or ministers). Various public rituals, food sacrifices, and libations took place there on a daily basis. There were monthly feasts and annual, New Year celebrations. During the later, the king would be married to Inanna as the resurrected fertility god Dumuzi..."

            Asherah: Queen of Heaven, Ashtoreth, Athirat, Astarte, and Ishtar. Her "male" priestesses were known as kelabim, the faithful "dogs" of the Goddess, who practiced divinatory arts, danced in processions, and served as hierodules, qedeshim, in the company of other priestesses.

                Goddess worship were largely erased in a cultural purge c. 630 BCE by King Josiah.

    "there may have been large numbers of eunuchs, as well as temple slaves. Merlin Stone believes that "sacred women" celebrated their sexuality and fertility by making love in Eanna in Inanna's name. This seems to be supported as that H.R. Hays says that there were temple prostitutes associated with Inanna, which is not too out of line as that she is supposed to be the goddess of prostitutes." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 461).

        The ancient Middle East constituted an ecumene. The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene, which means the inhabited world and designates a distinct cultural-historical community. The material effects of the commercial and cultural interconnections that permeated the component regions of the ancient Middle Eastern ecumene are richly supplied by archaeological excavations, which provide evidence of the spread of architectural, ceramic, metallurgical, and other products of ancient Middle Eastern man's industry. Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft. The mobility of such guilds throughout the entire area helps to explain the spread of specific religious ideas and techniques over great distances. Just as guild potters spread ceramic forms and methods, so also guild priests spread their religious concepts and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea, and from the Nile River to Central Asia. The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels. Guild priests called kohanim were found at ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria as well as in Israel. Moreover, Mycenaean Greek (late Bronze Age) methods of sacrifice are similar to the Hebraic methods, which are preserved in many countries to this day in the traditional techniques of Jewish ritual slaughter.

        "The ancient Middle East made a place for homosexuality and bestiality in its myths and rites. In the Asherah cult the qedeshim priests had a reputation for homosexual practices, even as the qedeshot priestesses for prostitution. Israel eventually banned both the qedeshim and qedeshot, while in Ugarit the and kohanim were priestly guilds in equally good standing. Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. The biblical book of Leviticus (18:22&endash;27) bans homosexuality and bestiality expressly because the Canaanite population had been practicing those rites, which the Hebrews rejected as abominations. Middle Eastern Religion

            Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

            Lev 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

            Lev 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

            Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

            Lev 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

            Lev 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

            Lev 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

        The word 06945 qadesh is translated as sodomite in King James or as 'male temple prostitute' in the RSV. This word occurs only 6 times, once in Deuteronomy, 3 times in 1 Kings, once in 2 Kings and once in Job.

        The word 06948 Q'deshah pronounced ked-ay-shaw' occurs four times. It is translated as harlot or female temple prostitute.

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