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COMMERCIAL BABYLON

Commercial Babylon

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Introduction by Rev. David P Griffiths & main text by Rev. Dr. Suresh Ramachandran (prepared by E.M. Lindsay Griffiths M.A. Hons.)

For some time I had been uneasy about singing hymns bound up by a copyright. If a hymn was inspired of God – then how could it be copyrighted? This would surely restrict its flow and be contrary to our Lord’s command to GO into the whole World and preach the Gospel.

I refused to renew our UK copyright licence, the Lord showing me that the “new Bibles” were copyrighted too for commercial gain just like the so called “Worship Songs”. So shame on you “Integrity Music” – Shame on you “Hillsongs” – Shame on you all who have sought to make commercial gain out of God – Repent – remove your copyrights and have the money for what it was intended for – Money!

There is, however, a but … Babylon will not be destroyed till a certain time – read on to find out when –

Rev. Suresh Ramachandran gives detail ….. Suresh Ramachandran

THE SECRETS OF BABYLON EXPOSED

Dr Suresh Ramachandran, March 2007

Introduction: These are the last days, therefore the devil is ever so busy trying to seduce people away from God. Today we are going to study about the three Babylons. [NB: the Jezebel tapes, showing the devil functioning as an evil trinity, but not an omnipotent triune – three personages: Jezebel, Antichrist, Death & Hell].

BABYLON: Modern Babylon is in Iraq – in 1993, in Operation Desert Storm, no bomb fell there; nor was it hurt in Operation Desert Fox. Babylon still remains unharmed today! Why? Babylon happens to be the capital of Satan on this earth. Babylon is ever so famous – every child in school is taught that Babylon is the cradle of civilisation. Babylon is between the rivers Tigris & Euphrates= Mesopotamia/Babylon, the ‘first civilisation’ ever found on this earth. The devil chose this as his H.Q. so he is protecting Babylon.

Why is Babylon important to Christians today?

The oldest civilisation is Babylon – we need to know more about it because unlike all the other old civilisations, the Babylonian civilisation exists to this day in disguise in three ways:

(1) The Political Babylon:

It is the Babylonian politics that provided the framework for all the political systems of this world, except for God, the King of Kings. His kingdom is untouched by any infiltration. The first ever political system originated within Babylon.

Chronology of political system: anarchy gave way to monarchy, then to democracy, which threw theocracy (where God is King) out of the world. Genesis chapters 1-10: God was the sole ruler of the created world = theocracy; then anarchy, which gave way to monarchy founded by Nimrod, then to democracy.

Every government in the world today is infiltrated by Babylonian politics. The Roman government borrowed its political ideas from the Babylonian government. Pompey the Roman general, then Julius Caesar, conquered the east – in 63 B.C. Caesar made himself Pontifex Maximus.

(2) The Religious Babylon:

After 63 B.C. Babylon began to influence the religious life of Rome. Babylonian religion now lives powerfully in every religion of the world. Therefore religious Babylon has survived.

(3) The Commercial Babylon:

The Romans built roads; after Alexander the Great (c.334 B.C.) Greek became the official language of the known world. Why would the Greeks want to communicate with the entire world, & the Romans build roads?

Babylon began to trade with the rest of the world – people (see Genesis 11) scattered throughout the world (after Babel). It was the early Babylonians, called Sumerians, who began to travel & do commerce with the rest of the world. At that time, there was a barter economy; therefore the Sumerians took ‘goodies’ from the Babylonian world & took them to others.

Even the early Babylonians traded with the Chinese. All had barter system with Babylonians. Only Australia & North America not discovered – but Babylon had connections with the rest of the world since early times.

So, Babylon is there, subtly disguised, penetrating every area. We have to be very careful – Babylon is the capital of Satan - we need to be aware of how Babylon tries to infiltrate Christians.

Genesis 10 talks about the post-deluge world – only Noah & his 3 sons + wives survived. Verses 6-10 talk about sons of Ham; ‘Cush begat Nimrod…

& the beginning of his kingdom was Bab.’ NB: Ham was the grandfather of Nimrod. Remember these names: Noah, Ham, Cush, Nimrod.

Genesis 9:20 ‘And Noah began to be an husbandman, & planted a vineyard…’ There was never rain until the deluge, when the water above the firmament came down as rain. Therefore in Noah’s time, a huge volume of water came down from the firmament above the ozone layer. So in those days, prior to the deluge was a pleasant environment (see Genesis 1-10) – a world with no rain, no infectious diseases, bacteria, fungi.

Noah already knew farming before the deluge. He then built the ark – therefore he already knew how to cultivate grapes – but before the deluge, there was no fermentation of wine because no organisms. Noah, after the deluge, drank of wine and this time was drunken!

Genesis 9:22 ‘And Ham, the father of Cush, saw the nakedness…’ NB meaning of the Hebrew is that he committed a sexual act on his father. He also told his two brothers Shem and Japheth, who went back and covered his nakedness. ‘Went back’ means that they did not do what their brother did; they protected the charity of their father.

Genesis 9:24 Noah curses Canaan – why not Ham? Because Noah cursed the entire generations of Ham; he is so angry that he curses the oldest son of Ham. We can trace three lineages from Noah’s sons:

(1) The generations of Shem: Arabs & Jews – these two groups flourish all the time. They are very rich; still have Noah’s blessings.

(2) The generations of Japheth: northern Europeans, who became Angles, Saxons, Goths, etc. The western Europeans (including USA) are blessed. They live in hostile climatic conditions like the sons of Shem, but they flourish.

(3) Generations of Ham: Asians, Africans, Native Americans, Maoris, Aborigines etc. – they live in marvellous terrain, yet are servants; e.g. 600,000 housemaids from Sri Lanka work in Middle Eastern countries alone.

That is why we know that Noah’s blessings and curses were powerful.

Ham’s son, Cush – also the first name given to Ethiopia. Bab-el = Ethopia. Cush also means ‘Bel’ – Nimrod called his head place ‘Babel,’ a derivation of the name ‘Cush.’ So Ethiopia is in a way Babylon. Sursh has met many Ethiopians – found that Ethiopia is a flourishing place – beautiful. But look at Ethiopia today – they are suffering. In a way, Ethiopia = Babylon, and Babylon is holding on to the Ark of the Covenant. Cush=Bel=Babylon; Cush=Ethiopia. Throughout the generations, the physical Babylon exists in Babylon, and a type exists in Ethiopia.

So, this Cush’s son was Nimrod, who began to grow in power; Suresh compared this with ancient Akkadian documents and found that Nimrod=Gilgamesh. There is an ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, which is vile, evil, dirty – pornographic. Gilgamesh=son of Cush, therefore why called ‘Nimrod’? This name is a descriptive noun, meaning ‘rebel’. Nimrod rebelled against God. Remember Satan? His names are also descriptive – Lucifer (morning star); devil (Greek diabolos, meaning ‘the accuser’); Satan (adversary).

Therefore Gillgamesh/ Nimrod became a mighty warrior before the Lord, i.e. ‘mighty hunter.’ This means he would kill anybody or anything – very strong (perhaps like the Nephilim?). This means he rebelled against God. God said to Noah ‘you go and replenish the earth.’ So every living creature perished in the deluge. Nimrod rebelled against all this – brought everyone to one place and commanded them to build a tower. He was an evil man, possessed by Satan, like Hitler, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein=’devil incarnate.’ Gilgamesh claimed to be the supreme God. Gilgamesh said he was two-thirds god and one-third man. He claimed he was God, incarnated as a human being. He said ‘I am the god, but there is a goddess, Semiramis. See Jeremiah 7:18. Semiramis was worshipped in many other lands, e.g. as Ishtar, chief goddess of Babylon. Semiramis is mentioned as the Queen of Heaven. Semiramis was the mother of Nimrod, but Nimrod is also her husband; therefore he came through the womb of his wife to the world! Nimrod married Semiramis, who as the wife of Cush!!

Nimrod married Semiramis, and they had a son called Tammuz. These three personages form the first evil trinity. Later, the devil developed the idea and brought in three equal personages to become the ‘accepted’ demonic trinity: Jezebel, Antichrist, Death and Hell.

So, Nimrod said he was two-thirds god, with the other one-third divided equally between Semiramis and Tammuz. Nimrod decreed that Semiramis and Tammuz would be actively involved in the world, and would bring in the ‘mother and son’ cult. So, when the Tower of Babel caused the scattering of tongues and the migration of people, they took with them the Nimrod/ Babylonian culture, including the mother and son god-thing – e.g. the Japanese religion, over 2000 years ago. Buddhism was brought to Japan, where they had the ‘three-formed Buddha’ where Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz took the names Sam, Pao, Fu. In some other civilisations, the father figure is hidden, e.g. in Egypt, Isis and Osiris; in India, Isi and Ishwara, with Brahman (the supreme Nimrod) hidden. In Rome, the mother Fortuna/ Venus and Jupiter; in Greece, Ceres/ Aphrodite and Ploutos. See I Corinthians 11 – in Corinth, the issue of head covering had to do with the temple of Aphrodite at Akrocorinth. Aphrodite’s son was Eros, the Greek word for sexual love. In all this, the mother-son thing is evil. Nimrod and Tammuz had the same mother – in every religion, there are mother-son gods. Nimrod fathered the evil trinity and counterfeit godhead. Before the original comes, comes the counterfeit.


BABYLON – PART 2

The devil dupes people by giving a counterfeit before the original comes. God had His plan from the beginning – the devil, as an angel in the presence of God, knew God’s plan, so decided that he would provide the counterfeit before the original came.

God is a gentleman – He does not hurry, but waits for the right time. God said to the serpent: ‘Your seed and the seed of the woman will be at enmity – your seed will bruise his heel.’ (Genesis 3:15)

Now, 2000 years have come and gone – the devil, before Jesus comes, brings the idea of the son of God into world religions through Babylon; therefore religious scholars and critics would say ‘the idea of the Christian god was borrowed from other religions.’ Many ideas from the Bible already embedded in counterfeit form through other religions.

[parallel: Sri Lanka imports Toyota vehicles from Japan; Taiwan then produces cheaper spare parts for Japanese vehicles which are bought by Sri Lankans – this is a parallel example to how the devil works].

All that Jesus preached (e.g. ‘love your enemies’) has existed in other religions – e.g. Buddha also preached this earlier. This idea has gained momentum among Sri Lankan Buddhists who thought Jesus went to study under Buddha first, and went back home with these teachings. There are millions of other examples.

The devil has no power, but Christians credit him with power. The Christians do not give the devil credit re intelligence (Ezekiel 28 – ‘full of wisdom’). He is a wise enemy – he was with god for a long time, and has known the heart of God, how He thinks and works. So after he was thrown out of heaven, he deceived the people. He fell with some of those good things God had given him – plus his knowledge of God! The devil knows he is a defeated foe, so he deceives the world before Jesus comes. All Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian records etc. have the ‘flood story’ in them, before Moses wrote it; also, the Tower of Babel story. Yes, God’s original came late – but at the appointed time (Galatians 4:4-5). The devil does things prematurely.

Jesus was 100% man, yet not at the expense of His deity. He is 100% God! People have doubts planted into their minds – e.g. was Mary the mother of God? or the mother of man? Mary was actually created by Jesus – later, Jesus was born through Mary (i.e. the human Jesus). Satan made it appear that the Christian claims are copies of earlier things.

See Ezekiel 8:14 ‘Tammuz’ is ‘the lamented one.’ Here, the first notion of the son of God comes with the idea of lament. One of the tricks of the devil is to bring sadness into your hearts. The Bible says ‘Rejoice; and again I say, Rejoice.’ The devil wants to bring sorrow and grief into people’s lives.

Nimrod was a rebel. There are two kinds of rebellion: active and passive. Passive rebellion is against the leadership. Nimrod also means ‘crown.’ Therefore, it means a crown of rebellion – passive rebellion. Satan wants to break the bridge between God and man. When God created man, He had a good relationship with man. By making Eve to disobey, Satan caused God to break that fellowship. God chased Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. God put a guard there to stop them from coming back. God killed an animal to make skins for them to wear. So, what the devil did to Eve was not to rebel actively, but a passive rebellion causing God to react by keeping them out, etc. The devil was so subtle.

Nimrod rebelled against God in a passive sense – self-centred, self-appointed king notion. He wanted people to build the Tower of Babel – so God caused the confusion of tongues. The devil caused God to cause the problems by punishing people etc. Then, the devil comes with false kindness, false prosperity, to try to win people to him.

Genesis 11: ‘And the whole earth…’ (Suresh has compared this with ancient Sumerian records to see that Nimrod was the author). The Tower was trying to reach heaven, but not heaven as we know it (i.e. where God dwells). Semiramis was called “The Queen of Heaven” – the Tower was trying to reach that heaven, where Nimrod and Semiramis were God and Queen. Nimrod claimed he was two-thirds god and one-third human, and taught the people that they could be united with him if they got rid of their human nature – i.e. that there was a ‘god’ in every human being. Therefore Tammuz + Semiramis + Nimrod were 100% godhead but also 100% humanity.

Therefore Nimrod’s theology: everyone has an element of god within them – but they must reach to be united with Tammuz + Semiramis + Nimrod. Then they would become gods themselves. In all the religions, therefore, people are given promotion to gods – i.e. god is possessing the religious leader; at special times, the religious leader will show he has got god possessing him, although he is a man. People will respect that: ‘Wow! Our spiritual leader has god in him!’ e.g. Shirley McLaine and other New Age people say ‘I am God.’ Who are the gurus of the east? People are duped by them – they want to say they are gods. See also occultisms, Satanism, séances, witchcraft. They all want to show that within them is something supernatural; e.g. Harry Potter – Suresh did spiritual warfare in Harry Potter area in Scotland (November 2006) where J K Rowling lives. These creatures are nothing but deceivers – JKR + the Harry Potter team are trying to show a boy with supernatural strength. People ‘buy’ all this – they want to throw God and everything away – maybe it is a myth!?

All this originated in Babylon to deceive the minds of the people. ‘There’s god in you’ – things like transcendental meditation bring out the supernatural in you. From the days of Babylon, this has been going on – ‘Build this tower, and you will reach God.’ Genesis 11: God was so angry ‘The people are one.’ God likes unity – but these people were one in their stupidity! ‘Go to, let us go down…’ said God – the ‘us’ referring to the Trinity. After this, people lost the language, but not the culture/ religious belief.

What does the word “Babylon” mean?

There are 4 meanings, as with the 4 meanings of ‘Jezebel.’

(1) “The gate of God” (‘god’ can be singular or plural). This is a counterfeit gate to God! Is Jesus apparently saying ‘I am Babylon’ because He says ‘I am the gate?’ No! Babylon is so evil – Jesus is so holy. This meaning (1) gives the idea of pilgrimages; e.g. Buddhists make pilgrimage to Kandy (Temple of the Tooth); Moslems go to Mecca, etc.

The devil wants everybody to go to Babylon: political/ religious/ commercial – so that we can be associated with Nimrod.

(2) Dim-Dil “The Seat of Life.” Jesus said (John 10:10) ‘I am come to give you life…’ This is all 2000 years after Nimrod.

(3) Eriddu Key “The Good City of Paradise.” ‘Paradise’ was used to show the effects of the Garden of Eden. Babylon had to have the Hanging Gardens of Babylon – so, Babylon in the physical sense was shown to the People as the Garden of Eden. (see the new Jerusalem in Revelation).

(4) Su-Ana “The High-Handed/ High-Walled/ Hand/ Defence.” Meaning, Babylon is the protection – you are protected if within Babylon. Therefore, all the notions of Christianity are here. Real Christianity, though, says ‘The Name of the Lord is your protection.’

So, Nimrod wanted Babylon to take the place of Jesus. Babylon is extremely dangerous: be careful!

There are similarities in the different languages of the world – e.g. ‘amma’ is the word for ‘mother’ in Tamil, Sinhala, Korean, Swahili, Navaho. Also, if you take the religions of the world, there are many similarities between them, e.g. dancing around the fire; chanting names/ slogans repeatedly; the heavy beating of drums; sacrifices!

Therefore, Babylon has infiltrated all the ‘world religions.’ Babylon has never ceased to exist; finally (in the end), the political Babylon will be in Rome (Revelation 17:9); the commercial Babylon will be Babylon itself.

Isiaiah 13-14; Jeremiah 50-51 predict that Babylon will be destroyed. Those predictions have not yet come to pass. Many cities, e.g. Seleucia (Greek) still contain Babylonian bricks in them. In 1982, Saddam Hussein began to rebuild Babylon – every August, there is a festival there. Revelation 18 predicts that the commercial and political Babylon will be destroyed (see Suresh’s series of books on Revelation).

BABYLONIAN INFILTRATION IS VERY EVIL

Cush= Babylon= Ethiopia = where the ark of the covenant is. God chose the spiritually worst place to contain the holiest object.

Question: Why did God choose Abram to come out of Ur of the Chaldees? He wanted to choose a sinner, from Satan’s capital, to transform him into the father of a new race, the Israelites, to confound and confuse Babylon. Here, God sends His people, the Jews, into exile in Babylon – He also lets His ark to stay in Babylon.

But God hates Babylon to come into the Church. Joshua and his people conquered Jericho – Joshua sent 2-3000 of his men to attack the city of Ai. But the people of Ai won! A man called Achan had stolen stuff from Ai and buried it in his tent. The silver and the gold were OK – but he had a Babylonish thing – so God had to remove His hand from the Israelites – therefore they were defeated. Achan and the rest of his family were stoned to death. Also, we Christians do not have to commit major sins – but babylonish stuff is sordid.

Ahab married Jezebel, daughter of the king of Sidon. She brought her deity Melcot to Israel with her. Then, Jezebel also brought Baal, which is the Canaanite translation of ‘Nimrod’ – Baal can also mean ‘the Lord.’ When Joshua and his people conquered Israel, they expelled Baal. Jezebel brought Baal and Ashtoreth (= Semiramis) into Israel. Why would she bring the Babylonian deity into Israel? Although she herself had nothing to do with Babylon, she brought in the Babylonian demons. When Elijah asked for all her prophets to come to Mount Carmel, she allowed the prophets of Baal to go (I Kings 18:17) and to be destroyed – not the prophets of Ashtoreth, the ‘prophets of the groves, which eat at Jezebel’s table.’ ‘Groves’ talks about Babylonian idols. Elijah destroyed 450 prophets of Baal, but Jezebel still had the 400 Babylonian prophets.


BABYLON – PART 3

How the Babylonian Infiltrations are Happening Today: how the spirit of Babylon infiltrates the Church of the 21st. century.

Question: How much have we given ourselves to the spirit of Babylon without knowing it?

Babylon is not a spirit, but a place. Suresh is saying that the evil spirits operate from the parameters of the place. We must first understand the political, religious and commercial aspects of Babylon (see other pages). We must know very clearly how the Babylonian spirits operate in the three areas above. The spirit of Babylon infiltrates in these three ways:

(1) RELIGIOUS BABYLON:

The first one to try to infiltrate a Christian’s life, and the Church. Christianity is the only faith which is not a religion. ‘Religion’ is a set of practices as set down by a religious body – e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. – these are all religions. Christianity is the only faith which is not a religion. John 3:16: When Jesus came to earth, he came out of love. We come into a relationship with the Father; Christ is our Saviour, our elder Brother – we are the sons of God. God does not have daughters, only sons; because God uses the Roman system of adoption, where daughters do not become heirs – only sons. God wants us to become His sons – his heirs. The Greek ?????(hooios) means ‘son and heir.’ We also become co-heirs with Jesus – this is a relationship, not a religion. Because of the death and resurrection of Christ, we have come into a relationship with God, with the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:19). Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. When we are led by the Spirit of God, we are the sons of God (Romans 8). We call God ‘Abba’ (Dad) but also Our Father ???????????

???NB: God has no daughters, but women need no be offended, because men are part of the Bride of Christ (impartiality of God re the sexes). The spirit of Babylon wants to turn relationship into religion. In religion, Church services become so formal, organisational structures. God says things should be done in decency and in order; this is true. But it should not convert a Church service into something religious, like a parliamentary session! The preacher is the Holy Spirit: Suresh allows Him to do the preaching – not homilies/ hermeneutics; i.e. he gives the precedence to the Holy Spirit, not to his academics. Religion has entered into churches and into Christian homes. God wants to commune with us as a father treats his son.

The religious spirit has become so powerful – the Bible has become a religious book to many, e.g. they keep it under their pillows for healing; they read it before bedtime as a religious ritual. Suresh is not saying that reading the Bible is a sin – but when you read the Bible, you must feel that God is talking to you. When you come to church, you must feel that all the sons of God come together to glorify the Father. The devil wants to bring that religious spirit into the lives of Christians.

(2) POLITICAL BABYLON:

Bringing into the Church, politics (Revelation 17:1-2; Babylon is here symbolised as a whore). Every monarch is influenced by Babylon. Babylon influences all governments of the world except the kingdom of God. Babylon wants to come into the kingdom of God as well. Why? Because then Babylon can have a say in the kingdom of God as well. John 1:1 ‘And the Word became flesh…’ The Lord is bound to His Word concerning His operations on earth. He is not going contrary to things that are not there in the Bible. He is immutable, and has given the Word of God to us. God is God – those words between Genesis to Revelation he does not change. Satan deceives the people – but God never changes His Word. See Numbers 23:19 ‘God is not a man that he should change.’ But slowly, the devil has brought democracy in instead of theocracy in the Church. Pastors are being appointed by committees, not by God (see Acts 6). Pastors are therefore no longer appointed by God – become man-pleasers. Today, democracy has taken over from theocracy. In Acts 6, the apostles led by God appointed Stephen (the first martyr); Philip; but also Nicolaos, from whom came the Nicolaitans.

Therefore, God has to be given the prerogative – the Church should never become utilitarian, i.e. the greatest good for the greatest number of people. The Bible says ‘Be not men-pleasers.’ The Church should always be reliant upon Jesus, the Head of the Church. See Revelation 3:20 which shows Jesus knocking on the door of the Church.

(3) COMMERCIAL BABYLON:

Babylon brought in commerce – e.g. when Jesus had to cleanse the Temple in Jerusalem. Three years later, when He rode into Jerusalem on the donkey (Matthew 21) Jesus saw the same things again, and had to cleanse it again. Commerce has replaced faith in many people. If God sends Suresh to found a Christian Bible College in Sri Lanka, God should speak to people’s hearts to give. Suresh is therefore called to preach the Word of God – he is not going to take the time to say how poor they are, etc. If he does that, he is putting God down. If you are the person God tells to support us, God will tell you. Then, God will tell Suresh to accept that money. If God does not tell Suresh to accept the money, he will not accept it.

The spirit of Babylon comes in and says it is Ok to go about raising funds. For example, the people who preach on television: Suresh admires them, but some of them make an appeal for money. Suresh spends money to produce DVDs – gives the free, not asking for money. In Sri Lanka, Suresh gives these things free. He says: if you can pay, you pay; because these are the days we have got to do things by the power of God!

ll the money in people’s pockets belongs to God! We are all sons of God – He knows how to look after us. Some people suffer because they are not faithful in tiths etc. Sh used to make the mistake of going out of his way to help poor pastors. Now, he always asks God whether to give or receive money. All the money belongs to God. Don’t ‘do business’ – you make God look poor! See Acts 8:18-20 re Simon the magician. ‘Thy money perish with thee…’ Malachi 3 says if only you are faithful in tithes and offerings. Biblical economics: if you give, God will give to you. But today, the churches are functioning just like companies in the world – that is Babylonian infiltration. Let us not try to get income just like the world does. We don’t give in our abundance; we give in our lack (e.g. Biblical example of the poor widow). Biblical economics: what the right hand gives, the left hand should not know. Give – but ask God if your money is going to the right place. If you are in need, do not receive everything without asking. God is the King – let Him have the prerogative.

Spirit of Babylon: Babylon existed from the time of Nimrod and it exists today. The spiritual, political and commercial Babylons are very powerful, and trying to infiltrate Christian churches and lives. Babylon is not to be destroyed until Revelation 17:18. We have to be extremely careful.