The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

It seems for his day Nimrod’s warrior prowess was unprecedented and with it he controlled and conquered all around him. His military might and skill were complemented by his industrial strength, political savvy, and architectural and ecclesiastical genius. Truly, this was a man prepared for the call on his life, which was to supply the children of Adam from Cain’s lineage with an alternative culture and religion to the one they inherited from their father and his Father. Nimrod and his offspring progenies were insolent, violent, and proudly independent of the Maker. He took his skills, gifts, and talents much like his surrogate father, the devil, and used them to turn on the Most High Lord and make himself a god instead. The name Merodach (Marduk) is synonymous with Nimrod and so designates the wild ruthless hunter as a deity himself. The words for his history, as simply stated as the Bible presents them, refer to one who used violence to profane, pollute, and desecrate the holy and sacred. Nimrod did this by instituting Marduk and Ishtar worship, among many other deities of the Babylonian pantheon. He injected full-scale ritual sexuality and idolatry into the mainstream of human culture. He defiled everything and anything that could be named God and trampled his Creator’s covenant under the pollution of sin. Nimrod violated and vilified anything that stood in his way and slaughtered and wounded thousands in building and subduing his kingdoms. His strong musical bent, no doubt inherited from Jubal (Genesis 4:21) aided his campaigns as they lulled the deluded into following his sway uncontested. All the forces and agents of sin, darkness, and death and their implements, Nimrod gave place to flourish and dominate. These were equally a part of his overall building and institutional campaigns. The references to his hunting skill were to say more than the man was brave because it is linked to his city building. Therefore, his superior hunting ability would have been a significant factor in what he ultimately accomplished in the land. Considering the era in which Nimrod lived, he must have used his hunting expertise to the benefit of the people of his day. The word for his hunting includes the acts of stalking, entrapping, and storing kill for food. Nimrod then must have provided enormous amounts of kill for the village people to eat and subsist on in barren times. His provisions would have undoubtedly elevated him swiftly in the eyes of his community to eventually serve as a seductive maneuver to gain power over the land. His stockpile must have been a potent negotiating tool for amassing an army and gathering a following that grew with the gifts and favors he no doubt diplomatically handed