Becoming A Vessel Of Honor Rebecca Brown

153 common form of demon worship, practiced by the Babylonians. Tammuz was a demon god who was supposed to be Nimrod reincarnated. Who was Nimrod? Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, were human beings who were the leaders of the formation of demon worship after the flood. Nimrod is briefly referred to in Genesis 10:9-10. Ancient history shows us that Nimrod is the same as Ninus, the first Assyrian King, founder and builder of ancient Babylon where the tower of Babel was built. Nimrod was worshipped in Egypt as Osiris. It is from the Egyptian records that we find an account of Nimrod’s death which was a violent one. Apparently he was put to death by Noah’s son Shem, in judgment for his abominable practices of demon worship. (See The Two Babylons, by Rev. Alexander Hislop.)

"If there was one who was more deeply concerned in the tragic death of Nimrod than another, it was his wife Semiramis, who, from an originally humble position, had been raised to share with him the throne of Babylon. What, in this emergency shall she do? Shall she quietly forego the pomp and pride to which she has been raised? No. Though the death of her husband has given a rude shock to her power, yet her resolution and unbounded ambition were in no wise checked. On the contrary, her ambition took a still higher flight. In her life her husband had been honoured as a hero; in death she will have him worshipped as a god, yea, as the woman’s promised seed. "Zeroashta," who was des tined to bruise the serpent’s head, and who, in doing so, was to have his own heel bruised. The patriarches, and the ancient world in general, were perfectly ac quainted with the grand primeval promise of Eden, and they knew right well that the bruising of the heel of the promised seed implied his death, and that the curse could be removed from the world only by the death of the grand Deliverer. If the promise about the bruising of the serpent’s head, recorded in Genesis as made to our first parents, was actually made, and if all mankind were descended from them, then it might be expected

Chapter 9 Defilement of God's Temple