Tower of babylon
Babylon was built much later and is 135 miles to the northwest by west). The actual Tower of Babel is Tell El Obeid today (nothing but the very bottom base ruin left. Once you learn to identify the elements of the ancient Babylonian mystery religion, you quickly recognize that they are virtually everywhere in the modern world. Some of our most cherished "holiday traditions" can be directly traced back to ancient Babylon and to Nimrod. Elements of the religious system which Nimrod helped establish can be found in virtually every major world religion. Nimrod was a tyrant and a purveyor of false religion. The truth is that Freemasonry has always very closely identified itself with the first great post-flood rebel against God. As Nimrod was the autocratic maker of these laws, it necessarily resulted that their first legislator, creating laws with his unlimited and absolute governing power, was also their first Grand Master." It was the first time that the Craft was organized into a fraternity working under a Constitution of body of laws. That is to say, he framed for them a Constitution, and, in the words of the legend, this was the first time that ever Masons had any charge of his science.
It had credited the first organization of the fraternity of craftsmen to him, in saying that he gave a charge to the workmen whom he sent to assist the King of Nineveh in building his cities. 32 Terah died there at the age of 205.But the legend of the Craft had long before, though there was a tradition of the Temple in existence, given, at least by suggestion, that title to Nimrod, the King of Babylonia and Assyria. They went as far as Haran and settled there.
30 Sarai was not able to have children.ģ1 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. 29 Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. Haran was the father of Lot, 28 and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living. The Descendants of TerahĢ7 These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 11 After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.ġ2 When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah 13 after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.ġ4 When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son, Eber 15 after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.ġ6 When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg 17 after that, he lived another 430 years and had other children.ġ8 When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu 19 after that, he lived another 209 years and had other children.Ģ0 When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son, Serug 21 after that, he lived another 207 years and had other children.Ģ2 When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son, Nahor 23 after that, he lived another 200 years and had other children.Ģ4 When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah 25 after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.Ģ6 After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad. The Descendants of Shem ( A)ġ0 These are the descendants of Shem. 9 The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! 7 Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 4 They said, “Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”ĥ Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they had built, 6 and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. 3 They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. 2 As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. 11 At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.