A Tale of Two Cities
BABYLON
“confusion“ (by way of mixing)
Jerusalem
“peace” (by way of separation)
Established by
Initiation
Grace
the 2 woman
Prepared by:
The Whore of Babylon
Prepared for:
The Bride of Christ
2 Circular Parallel Paths
Psalms 1 : The Two Paths (Matthew 5:3-12; Luke 6:20-23)
1Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. 2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night. 3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. 4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
BABEL
BIBLE
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Depiction of the fabled Hanging Gardens, with the Tower of Babel in the background.
were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a term given to it by ancient Hellenic culture.
The Hanging Gardens were described as:
a remarkable feat of engineering
with an ascending series of tiered gardens
containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines.
The gardens were said to have looked like a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks. Because no physical evidence for the Hanging Gardens has been found at Babylon, The theory is that they were purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden.
A garden, like a city, is the result of the manipulation of nature according to a plan,
an island of architecture in the midst of the chaos of nature.
The Hanging
Gardens of Babylon
The Original
Garden of Eden
The same recurring pattern
occurs 4 different times
in Genesis and Exodus.
Cities built by work of men’s HandsPride & Wickedness EnsuesJudgement & DestructionMen’s work of their hands made desolatethrough the work of God’s HandsA remnant is saved
Cain’s Pre-Flood CityGenesis 6 : The Wickedness of Man5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Flooded
Noah and his family spared(8 Total)
Nimrod’ Post Flood City of BabylonGenesis 10 : The Tower of Babel4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.
Nations Scattered
Abraham called out andchosen as God’s new seed
The Twin Cities of Sodom & GomorrahRained down upon with
fire & brimstone
Abraham’s brother Lot is sparedalong with family
Pharoah’s EgyptDestroyed with 10 plaguesIsrael is spared
Psalm 46 : God is Our Refuge and Strength
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolation’s he has made in the earth.
Psalm 119 :
49Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope. 50This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD;and have comforted myself.
53Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law. 54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts.
Jude 1 : God’s Judgment on the Ungodly (Genesis 4:1-7; Romans 2:1-16)
11Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain,
After the flood Nimrod took after
“the way of Cain”
and built the cities located in Babylon
(They were attempting to rebuild the
pre-flood city built by Cain and his descendants.)
The descendants of Noah became the 70nations
that went to build the Tower of Babel.
Genesis 10 : The Hamites (1 Chronicles 1:8-16)
6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: why it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11 : The Tower of Babel(Daniel 1:1-7)
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 
And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 12 : The Calling of Abram (Genesis 26:1-5)
1Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you: 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: 3And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
God chose Abraham as his new seed, out of Babylon, and God disinherited the nations.
DEUTRONOMY 32 : THE SONG OF MOSES
8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Genesis 14 :The War of the Kings
1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim , which is the salt sea. (Dead Sea). 10And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits;[h875][h2564] and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelled in Sodom [h5467] , and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 19 : Lot Welcomes the Angels (Genesis 8:1-5)
1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 12And the men said to Lot, Have you here any besides? son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place: 13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it. 14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons in law.
15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here;
lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16And while he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful to him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25And he overthrew those cities,
and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew on the ground.
Lot’s Wife Looks Back
26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, see, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelled.
After being called out of Babylon and Sodom was destroyed…
Abraham and Sarah gave birth to Isaac.
Isaac and Rebekah gave birth to Jacob
Jacob gives birth to 12 tribes of Israel.
70souls from Jacob go in to Egypt and they multiply.
Exodus 1 : The Israelites Multiply in Egypt (Genesis 46:8-27)
1Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Oppression by a New Pharaoh
8Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falls out any war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
Exodus 2 : God Hears the Israelites’ Cry
23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God by reason of the bondage. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25And God looked on the children of Israel, and God had respect to them.
This is similar to when God had respect to Able’s offering and not Cains…
Genesis 4 :
And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering:5But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
God then speaks with Moses in the burning bush and uses him to deliver the Hebrews from the Egyptians.
Exodus 3 : Moses at the Burning Bush
7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus 7 : I will Stretch Out My Hand
1And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. 2You shall speak all that I command you: and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. 3And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh shall not listen to you, that I may lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Exodus 8 :
22And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there;to the end you may know that I am the LORD in the middle of the earth. 23And I will put a division between my people and your people: to morrow shall this sign be.
EXODUS 11:7
that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Book of The Dead
Book of Life
The way God distinguished himself from the gods of Egypt and their people was by establishing his covenant with them and the giving of the Law. All the things stipulated in the Law that you were not to do, were the things that they were doing in Babylon, Sodom, and Egypt. God’s Law establishes Judgement. It establishes curses for those who don’t obey and blessings for obedience.
1 Timothy 1 :
9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for murderers, 10For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind,for enslavers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Leviticus 20: Keep All My Decrees
22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey:
I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.
25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26And ye shall be holy unto me:for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
God then established covenant with Israel to keep his commandments, and in turn, He would would bring them to the promised land, and give them cities that they did not build.
Deuteronomy 6 : The Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34)
1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it: 2That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.
4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9And you shall write them on the posts of your house, and on your gates.
10And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give you great and goodly cities, which you built not,
11And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dig, which you digged not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full; 12Then beware lest you forget the LORD, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name. 14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; 15(For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 17You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers. 19To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Teach Your Children (Ephesians 6:1-4)
20And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? 21Then you shall say to your son,
We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, before our eyes: 23And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
in the beginning..
Gen 3 : Serpent’s Deception
Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made.
in the End…
Rev 18 : Lament over Babylon
for by your sorceries
were all nations deceived.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled”
~ Mark Twain
THE ART OF WAR (by Sun Tzu)
“O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
Through you we learn to be invisible,
through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands.”
~ Sun Tzu
“All warfare is based on deception”
~ Sun Tzu
2 CORINTHIANS 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Isaiah 14 :
12How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13For you have said in your heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
The Serpent taught how to create an artificial reality through manipulation of what was already created. A replica, imitation, fake, artificial version of the original designers work. At first glance, an imitation or fake looks like the genuine article. If you don’t know the original designers work, however, you can’t compare the 2 because you have no frame of reference.
Geminoid-F, designed and built by Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and Japan’s robot maker Kokoro, is equipped with 12 actuators, powered by air pressure, and her motion can be synched to imitate that of a real human being.
Just as the chaff would be blown away by the wind; while the heavier grain would fall at the winnower’s feet.
Fake Rolex watches are generally lighter than a real Rolex because a real Rolex is made of high-quality metals, and will weigh significantly more.
Copyright Code : Title 17
Burnt right through verse 17in the book of Joel
Just as a tarelooks similar to an edible grain, it isn’t suitable for food. The specific tare, or weed, referred to in this parable is the darnel. It is a poisonous weed that is very similar in appearance to wheat. The Wheat and Tares look almost identical up until the Harvest which is the process or period of gathering in crops.
Tares
wheat
The Wheat and Tares look almost identical up until the harvest.
PRIDE
The tares standing tall
Humility
The wheat boughed over
18Pride goes before destruction,and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
The names of the Nasa Space Shuttles can be read::
“A Columbian Enterprise to Endeavor
for the Discovery of Atlantis
and all Challengers shall be destroyed”
Atlantis, Arcadia, Columbia, the Golden Age, the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail, the Philosopher’s Stone…
These are all legends of a quintessential “something” that was sought after, lost, but still possible to restore. Myth speaks of a former time and place,
of fabulous deeds by men of renown…and of an object of wisdom that was highly prized but dangerous to procure. A tree with golden fruit is the symbol of that lost quintessence; The “god” of the fruit tree is the bestow-er of lost knowledge.
Just as the Bible describes his plan of redemption from the transgression in the garden of Eden…
All Mythologies (Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Mesopotamian, etc.) tell the same story on how to restore the cities that God destroyed.
Deuteronomy 32 : Song of Moses
31For their rock is not as our Rock,32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand,
Some of the greatest philosophical influences transferred to Western Europe from Constantinople was the work of the Neo-Platonist’s. This philosophy continued the ideas of Plato, who believed that all the workings of knowledge and civilization had been conveyed to humanity from a divine source, and was not conceived by the mind of man. Through a series of disasters on a world scale, civilizations and the knowledge that had produced it was lost.
In Plato’s TIMAEUS, is the story of Atlantis, the greatest and oldest civilization the world has ever seen, that had disappeared “in a single day and night of misfortune”. There exist no earlier sources of the legend of Atlantis besides the world of Plato. Timaeus was one of the most copied and widespread of Plato’s works in the Renaissance. In the Neo-Platonic philosophy, the story of Atlantis was considered allegory with underlying truth,or in some cases, a true historical account.
In the beginning after the flood they left off to build the city. At the end of Revelation we see the city has been rebuilt. The woman that rides on the beast is the re-established global city of Babylon/Altantis.
The story of Atlantis provided “the framework”
from which the Neo-Platonists searched for lost knowledge.
Manuscripts of Hippolytus, Proclus, Arisophanes, Plutarch, Apuleius, and many others from antiquity developed the theme that knowledge had been given to man from a divine source. Through its misuse resulting in the corruption of mankind, it was lost by a subsequent judgment from heaven. Neo-Platonic views of the time also sought to link the celestial and natural world with the divine, an idea borne out of a reawakening to the scientific value of the ancient texts of the Greeks. The Scientific Revolution was united with an Occult Renaissance. Geometers, mathematicians, chronologists, philosophers, and theologians of the age searched the texts of the ancients for the “Lost Pure Knowledge” or Prisca Sapienta that would “merge all sciences”.
The greatest minds of antiquity believed “gnosis” was the foundation of all religion.
[Greek] gnōsis or in[hebrew]daʻath :“knowledge, science.”
1 Corinthians 3 :
11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.