WHERE DID PAGANISM ORIGINATE?

The origin of Paganism (after the flood) dates back to the Tower of Babel with Nimrod, who was son of Cush. Cush was the son of Ham, Noah's son. Nimrod was the founder of the first World Empire at Babel, later known as Babylon. He built the Tower of Babel in defiance of God. Genesis 11:6 says, "And the Lord said, Behold, the people are 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." So God 'confounded their language' to keep them from continuing to build the Tower and the people were scattered upon the face of the earth.

Since that time, Satan has been preparing mankind to be "united" again into a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, so that 'nothing will be restrained' from Satan's 'imagined' evil plans of taking over the Throne of God.

Nimrod's father Cush, married a woman named Semiramis. Later on Nimrod married his own mother! After Nimrod's death, Semiramis promoted the belief that he was a god and claimed that she saw a full-grown evergreen tree spring out of the roots of a dead tree stump, symbolizing the springing forth of new life for Nimrod. She declared that on the anniversary of his birth, December 25th (during the winter solstice), Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts under it. (Which is the real origin of Christmas, a pagan holiday)..... NOTE: No Christian holiday is as deceptive as Christmas! What do evergreen trees, Yule logs, mistletoe or Santa (Satan) have to do with Jesus (who was NOT born on Dec. 25th)?

Pagans developed the belief (during the time of Babel until Christ), that the days grew shorter in early winter because their sun-god (Nimrod/Tammuz), was leaving them. And when the length of day started increasing, they celebrated by feasting and orgies, known as Saturnalia; named after Saturn, another name for Nimrod.

Nimrod's body parts were strewn all around the kingdom after he was killed and Semiramis found all of the parts except his reproductive organ, his 'phallus', so she erected a statue of it. (In order for Nimrod to come back to life, she had to have all the body parts). This is where the Obelisk originated from, from which the Washington Monument, the Obelisk that sits in St. Peters Square in Rome and numerous other Obelisks around the world originated from. This phallus-shaped Obelisk is where the church "steeple" originated from, as well.

Semiramis told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called Baal, the sun-god. Semiramis was creating a mystery religion and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess. She claimed that the moon was a goddess and went through a 28-day cycle and ovulated when full. She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon-egg that fell into the Euphrates River. This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon, after the spring equinox.

Then Semiramis bore a son, Tammuz. She stated that she had been visited by the spirit of Nimrod, who left her pregnant. She declared that Tammuz was Nimrod reincarnated. (Which is where reincarnation originated from). Thus, a perverted 'trinity' was formed; with a father, mother and son, deified. Semiramis (Ishtar) was worshipped as the Mother of god and Queen of Heaven.

When Tammuz was killed by a wild boar, Semiramis proclaimed a 40-day period of mourning each year prior to the anniversary of his death. Ezekiel 8:14 speaks of this pagan mourning-worship of Tammuz ("there sat women weeping for Tammuz").

By now, you should have made the connection, that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.

Every year on the first Sunday after the first full moon (after the spring equinox), a celebration was made with rabbits and eggs, and a 'pig' must be eaten on that Sunday. The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Easter is a pagan holiday, named after Semiramis (Ishtar, which is pronounced Easter). It is in celebration of the pagan mother Semiramis, the Queen of Heaven!.... The truth is that the forty days of Lent (weeping for Tammuz), eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon. These are all antichrist activities! Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry!

In his deified form, Nimrod the Sun-god is known as Baal. Mythology reveals the fact that the god Baal and the queen of heaven, were universally worshiped under various names and titles. History confirms, that Nimrod, and his wife, Semiramis, were the PROTOTYPES for "ALL" the gODS AND gODDESSES that have come into existence in all cultures and societies, to this day!

Nimrod became both the husband and son of Semiramis, and was worshipped as both god the father and god the incarnate son. The father and son were worshipped by different names in the various languages throughout the world. For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Nimrod include: ARES and MARS, the god of war..... EROS and CUPID, the god of love.....HEPHAPTUS and VULCAN, the god of fire..... HERMES and MERCURY, the messenger of the gods.....POSIEDON and NEPTUNE, the god of the sea..... ZEUS and JUPITER, the ruler of the gods..... KRONOS and SATURN, the horned and hidden god of the underworld..... DIONYSUS or BACCHUS, the Greek god of fertility and wine.....and the Greek PLUTO or HADES and the Roman PLUTO, the god of the underworld.....In addition, Nimrod was the Scandinavian god, ODIN or WODAN, who was also known in Mexican mythology as the founder of the Mexican race.....He was the Egyptian god OSIRIS.....In the Bible, Nimrod was called TAMMUZ (Ezekiel 8:14) and Molech (Leviticus 18:21; 20:1-5; 1 Kings 11:7; Jeremiah 7:29-34; 19:1-13; Ezekiel 20:26-39; Amos 5:26.....He was worshipped in Babylon as EL-BAR, meaning "god the son".....In Assyria, Nimrod was called BAAL, BAL or BELUS meaning "lord".....As the Greek ATLAS, Nimrod was viewed lifting the heavens off the earth, representing the fact that he lifted the oppressive heavenly teachings of one invisible God off the people's preferred worship of earth-bound objects. (thunderministries)

WORSHIP OF SEMIRAMIS

Semiramis, who was both Nimrod's wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god" and a "fertility goddess" because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod's worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself. For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include: APHRODITE and VENUS, the goddess of love; ARTEMIS and DIANA, the goddess of hunting and childbirth; ATHENA and MINERVA, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom; DEMETER and CERES, the goddess of growing things; GAIA and TERRA, symbol of the fertile earth (from where the "Gaia", Mother Earth worship of today comes from); HERA and JUNO, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology; HESTA and VESTA, the goddess of the hearth; plus RHEA or OPS, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.

MOTHER AND SON WORSHIP

Semiramis was initially included in the pagan Babylonian trinity as the holy spirit or seed of the divine son in his mother's womb. Within time, however, the father Nimrod was practically overlooked and worshiped only as the god-incarnate son in his mother's arms. In other words, the father became invisible and was no longer worshiped, whereas, the mother with the god-incarnate son in her arms became the grand object of worship. Numerous Babylonian monuments show the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms. This worship of mother and child spread throughout the known world, and given different names in the various languages of the world. Ancient Germans worshipped the virgin HERTHA with child in arms. Scandinavians called her DISA pictured with child. The Egyptian mother and child were worshiped as ISIS with the infant OSIRIS or HORUS seated on his mother's lap (EYE OF HORUS ON TOP OF THE PYRAMID). In India, the mother and child were called DEVAKI and KRISNA, and also ISI and ISWARA as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as CYBELE and DEOISIS; in pagan Rome, as FORTUNA and JUPITER-PUER, or JUPITER, the boy; in Greece, as CERES, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as IRENE, the goddess of peace, with the boy PLUTUS in her arms.

The image of mother with child in her arms was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that by the time Christianity appeared on the scene in 30 A.D., these statues and paintings were merely RENAMED and worshiped as the virgin Mary with her infant son. Thus, the pagan mother and child entered Christianity as the Roman Catholic worship of Mary with the infant son. In fact, in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of the madonna and child as devoutly worshiped as they were in Rome. Shing Moo, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her, exactly as if she had been fashioned by Roman Catholic artisans. (NOTE: This woman is not Mary, it's Semiramis and the baby is not Jesus, it's Tammuz. Furthermore, Jesus is not to be worshipped as a BABY "or" WITH any other person!)

MOTHER WORSHIP

The pagan mother initially derived her deification from the divine nature attributed to her child. She was raised far above the level of all creatures, and worshiped as a partaker of the trinitarian godhead. The mother eventually became the preferred object of worship. The son was exhibited merely as a child in his mother's arms without any particular attraction, whereas the mother's image was displayed in magnificent artistic array and invested with the exquisite beauty attributed to Semiramis during her life.

To justify worship of the mother, she was elevated to a divine station just like her god-incarnate son. The deified queen mother was adored as the incarnation of the holy spirit of peace and love. The highest titles were accordingly bestowed on her. In Egypt, the mother was styled ATHOR, the "habitation of god" to signify that all the "fulness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.

In Egypt, as the "queen of heaven" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities. During Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true invisible God and worshiped the pagan mother. When the Israelites fell into apostasy under King Solomon, they worshiped this mother goddess as ASHTAROTH, a name by which the pagan Babylonian goddess was known to the Israelites: