And what could those joining expect from this new world order? As mentioned, there are two branches: (1) a religious order and (2) a government order.
The Religious Order: an entire new replacement storyline of man’s history was told. Silly humans didn’t know that it was really the good serpent trying to save bound man from a dominate, judgmental and very mean Creator. Lucifer is depicted as the enlightened liberator and came to give man higher knowledge and free himself into the wonders of deserving sensualities and rightful independence.
It is well-documented that primeval astrology told of the fall of man, God sending a Savior that would defeat Man’s enemy, while Babylonian astrology told an opposite storyline that the mean God would send a false messiah, but Lucifer was the rightful ruler of the universe. Replacing God’s truth with a direct lie is Satan’s preferred shortcut to apostasy.
The Governmental Branch would have a king or council of government enforced by creed (laws insured by the religious order) and military might for maintaining and furthering the kingdom. Why the need for laws insured by religious order? By and large, we take for granted that the laws that are the foundation of most moral governments in the world today came directly from the Mosaic Law in the Bible. We have long enjoyed moral values and laws which were first defined by God’s Word. The key defining word to note is moral values in law.
The Nazi’s had values and laws, but they were not moral values or moral laws. It is very important that we understand the demise of morality in civilization. As the godless humanist Karl Marx wrote, “Die Religion... ist das Opium des Volkes,” which translates, “religion is the opiate of the masses.” This is an extremely important point to understand from Satan’s perspective, that by and large people want to live in good conscience, they want to feel good about themselves – so the good in people must be hijacked!
It is imperative for the enemy to have an alternative religious order that will create a permissive code of conduct to validate people’s immoral behavior. When permissive laws demoralize a populace, Satan gains legal access through sin and can manipulate against righteousness by enforcement of all who would oppose it.
Nimrod created his permissive code of conduct from a complete and total rewrite of historical truth, which is Satan’s preferred short cut to apostasy. However, when people who have a righteous code of conduct in place, he is forced to use his slower, but very effective, assimilation tactic (the process of mixing truth, half-truths and non-truths to undermine the power of clarity) to eventually change moral laws that define code of conduct.
For an example, Americans pride ourselves in a Biblical and moral beginning as a nation, however when our nation drifted away from God Himself and His Biblical truths, we have begun to change our laws to accommodate our immorality, i.e., abortion, same-sex marriage, gender confusion, greed on Wall Street, or just plain old soft porn on our TV's and in movies -- because we want to feel good about our immorality. The question is not will God judge those who...x,y,z, no, God has already judged immoral behavior, He has not changed His mind, but He has provided a way to join Him and gives the free-will choice to people.
What once was heralded as good is now shunned as evil. And what was once shunned as evil is now heralded as good. Good has been hijacked by evil! The Tower of Babel was an attempt to build above and beyond the moral judgments the flood God brought upon the earth. Friend, make no mistake, this present age of darkness is furiously building, brick by brick, an ascending tower that is attempting to reach beyond moral accountability.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness…Is 5:20
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power…from such people turn away… But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived… 2 Tim 3:1-13
God, through His Jewish people, would bring forth the promised Seed, Messiah, and all those who were of His Kingdom would be His very own Bride and an extension of His rule in the earth. In true copycat form, those under the rule of Satan would be his bride and an extension of his rule. Nimrod depicted himself as the sun god, given the name Marduk. Semiramis was depicted as a moon god, given the name Astarte. This is important to note because, as we will see, this counterfeit is the underlying religious template for Mystery Babylon.