Unveiling Babylon: The Deception of False Worship

**The Wine of Babylon**

So let's have a look at why the system is called Babylon and what is the prominent role that the beast power, which we have sadly identified as the papacy, plays in this Babylonian Trinity.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto you do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your heart. (2 Peter 1:19)

We have to diligently study the prophecies. We have to know what's going on behind the scenes. We have to know why and wherefore God says things.

Jeremiah 51:6-7, speaking about literal Babylon, says, "Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul." Now, the type of literal Babylon is our lesson book to tell us why God calls the end-time Confederacy also Babylon.

We are not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense. So this system is a deceiving system. It has a false religion and leads people to perdition.

Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunken her wine; therefore, the nations are mad. In other words, the nations that drink the wine of Babylon go crazy.

Wine in the Bible—now if Jesus is the vine, then the wine that comes forth from the vine must be what he says. It must be his fruit; it must be the doctrines. So Babylon has false doctrines.

Now we are not going to deal with all the false doctrines tonight. We are going to look at why the Bible defines the system as Babylon, and we are going to go to ancient Babylon in order to do that.

That is why it is called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of the whole world. (Genesis 11:7-9) This has been a thorn in the devil's side ever since that time.

And they were building the tower of Babel in order to unite in apostasy towards God because God had said he would never destroy the world by a flood again. They still built a tower in case he tried something like that in the future.

So God separated the nations, and then he was something that was essential for our salvation because by separating the nations, this constant tension on this planet would lead people to seek God. Because if you are threatened by one or the other, you seek God, and God can stay in the minds of men.

The devil doesn't like the separation, and he wants one unitary system whereby all will worship him.

And they followed another angel, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." (Revelation 14:8)

So in other words, here you have a system that is selling wine that is full of fornication—that is apostasy towards God. Now if you are apostasizing towards God, who are you serving? The other one. The other one.

And he also has a gob. He presents himself either in this form or in that form or whatever form he wants to present himself. But whatever form it is, it's not God's way; it's his way.

So here is a false system that has been set up. Revelation 16:19 tells us that the great city, referring to spiritual Babylon, cannot be ancient Babylon because God said ancient Babylon would never be rebuilt.

So that serves as a type, and a type by definition is always smaller than the anti-type. The lamb stands for Jesus Christ. So the lamb is just a small example of the greater, more prominent anti-type, which is Christ himself.

Babylon, the type, stands for those who would apostasize against God, and on a larger scale at the end of time, it represents all those who in Confederacy work together to oppose God.

Jerusalem served as a type for all of those who would seek God and seek salvation through the lamb. So that's typology.

So here we have this great city divided into three parts. So now we know Babylon has three components, and we're going to deal with all three of them in this lecture series. Don't miss any of this.

And the cities of the nations fell, and great Babylon came into remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

So if you stay in Babylon, then you're going to have to deal with this side of the issue—God or recompense.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. This is heavy. The spirit that actuates Babylon consists of unclean spirits. And they came out of the mouth of the dragon—that's Satan himself—because the Bible defines the dragon as Satan in Revelation chapter 12.

And out of the mouth of the beast, Revelation tells us about the beast, and we've already dealt with it in great detail—the little horned power of Daniel chapter seven and the beast out of the sea, Revelation chapter 13.

And we sadly had to identify it as the papacy. And out of the mouth of the false prophet.

And now in the other languages, this comes out a little bit better. If you take it in German, then it is "rachen des Drachen," "rachen des Tieres," "mund des falschen Propheten." If you know what that means, there's a harsher word and a softer word for the word mouth.

And the dragon and the beast get the harsher word, and the false prophet gets the softer mouth. Now the false prophet are all those who once had the truth but return back to the mother system.

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles. And we looked at miracles last night, and these miracles will deceive people which go forth unto the kings of the earth—that's the political systems of the world—of how much of the world? The whole world—to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty.

So the conflict is going to be between this false trinity and the people of God—those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

So Mystic Babylon consists of the dragon component, the dragon Satan working directly with man. That would be spiritism, strange currencies, appearances—all of those spiritualistic activities.

The beast is organized religion, culminating in the papacy, and the false prophet—those who once knew but are returning to false prophecies.

We are told by Eusebius that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed in their own development of Christian doctrine.

And the evidence points out the fact that Christianity early on was paganized and just took on the garb of Christianity. And this is derived according to the writings of the secret societies.

It can be traced all the way back to Simon Magus. Simon Magus followed Peter and Paul to Rome, and he was a magician. He was a pagan priest who put on a cloak of Christianity because he wanted to have that power, and Peter rebuked him.

And this Simon Magus, by the way, the name Simon also means Peter; he followed them to Rome, and this occult mixture between paganism and Christianity finds its seat in him.

He was the Petra, PTR. And the Petra, Pitas, have nothing to do with Simon Peter, the Apostle, but have to do with Simon Magus.

I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in amongst you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number, men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

The teachings of Magus, of Simon Magus, having come from Sumeria, were Kabbalistic in nature. And out of Kabbalism comes Gnosticism.

And Gnosticism is the teaching that the Messiah is the Osiris of old. So the ancient Egyptian mythologies, which come from the Book of the Dead, which come from Thutmose III, who was the very Pharaoh who clashed with Moses, who was the high priest of occultism and paganism.

This religion of Osiris and Isis, the goddess—this, how shall we say this, anthropomorphic, human inputs into this religion. And androgenic worship because the deities were both male and female, and they were interchangeable.

This religion is what was brought into Christianity. Now, the ancient gods, if we want to find the thread into modern Babylon, we'll have to look at ancient Babylon.

The Chaldeans worshiped Bel or Marduk. And then there was Ninurta, the Sun, and the Sun was also worshiped as Tammuz. And the women of Israel were very apt to weep for Tammuz because he was an artificial account of faith, Messiah.

The devil had the Messiah prepared before the real one so that people would not accept the real one. How do we know Jesus is the real one?

Remember the prophecy we dealt with? Do you remember the prophecy on the Messiah, the 70-week prophecy, where the rabbinic curse says that you are cursed—your hand, your finger, your wrist, your arm—that you are cursed if you should number the 70 weeks because it identifies the real Messiah spot on.

So the counterfeit Messiah was already there, and he was Tammuz. And there was the goddess Rhea. She was also worshiped as Ishtar, from which we have the word Ishtar today, Astarte, Beltis, and she was the queen of heaven.

She was the queen of heaven. And she was known as the Roth subduer. Now in Catholicism, we have exactly the same thing. It is stated, "Nobody comes to the Father except through Jesus, but nobody comes to Jesus except through Mary." Mary is the mediator. She is the Roth subduer.

So we have a similar system to what we had here in Babylonian times. Now if you take these religions and you look at them on a worldwide basis, in Egypt, these deities were worshiped as Isis, the goddess, and a son of Osiris.

And Osiris was the one who died, became part of the sun, was resurrected, and came back to this earth as Horus, the divine child, and the divine mother, Isis. So you have mother and child worship.

In India, they were worshiped as Isi and Iswara. It is the same religion. In fact, the Babylonian religion is today the universal religion of all the religious systems.

In China, it was Shingmu and the Holy Mother and Son; in Greece, Cybele and Irene and Plutus; in Rome, Fortuna and Jupiter, Puerh. This was the ancient system of worship.

It is interesting that in the latest seminar taking place about Christianity in the world today, the so-called Jesus seminar, where they are speaking about a new reformation—not for that we should call it a reformation—where they talk about a reformation and want to put Jesus on a par with a Cyrus.

I have a problem with that because one is a counterfeit of the other, and the religious doctrines associated with the Book of the Dead, which concerns Osiris, are totally the opposite of what the Bible says.

Well, Ezekiel 8:16 says that the door of the temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their backs towards the temple of the Lord and their faces towards the east, and they worshiped the sun towards the east.

So ancient Israel, although they knew God and knew the power of God, were already diverted towards this paganism. I will tell you why—because it is a very sophisticated religion.

But underestimate paganism; we think these peoples were silly or stupid because they worshiped pagan gods. We know less stupid, did you know that? Most of my life, I served pagan gods and didn't even know it. Didn't even know it, but that's the fact.

So they worshiped the sun because sun worship is a perfect counterfeit of Messianic worship. So in other words, it's easy to substitute the one for the other. Put him in the right garb and apply the right liturgy, and you've got a religion.

Now the religion comes from the legend of Nimrod and Semiramis. Nimrod was a warrior against the Lord, and he was the one who apostasized, and then he was put to death, and his widow Semiramis claimed that he had been resurrected or had been taken up to the sun and had been reborn through her.

And as the fish swims in the waters of the Euphrates, so the fish symbol became the symbol of the god that protected Nimrod in this transition. And then she gave birth to the child who was, of course, the rebirth, the resurrection, if you like, in a child of Osiris.

In Scandinavia, they were worshiped as Frigg and Balder; Venus and Adonis in Rome; and Ashtoreth and Baal in Phoenicia. And the child became the Sinbara and became the Savior, and this was his name. He was called Zoroaster.

By the way, Zoroastrianism is alive and well and living in the Middle East. It is the seed of the woman, Mithras, the Savior. Mithraism is one of the most sophisticated forms of sun worship, and we will be dealing with Mithraism because it is astounding who Mithras was and what Mithraism is today.

And in the United States, you will be surprised how much Mithraism there is. Dionysius is the Sinbara, Bacchus, the Branch, Vishnu, the victim man, Osiris, King of Kings.

Do you recognize those titles? Those are all titles that belong to Jesus Christ, and they have been captured by these pagan deities.

Now if you were a priest of the pagan deities, then you worshiped this deity in many, many forms. One of the most prominent forms was in the form of the god Dagon, and the priests to Dagon—Dagon, on is the Egyptian for god.

Dagon is fish, so it is the fish form of this god. The priests wore the fish miter on the head, and they had a complete fish cloak. And the fish in ancient Egypt and in pagan religions becomes the symbol of Dagon.

In this particular Egyptian one, you have the horns of the bull. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet was the symbol of the bull in the east. It was the aleph, the elephant, becomes the bull of the east, and these creatures become symbols of the sun god.

Therefore, you have bull worship, and you have elephant worship, and the horns that were between the eyes of the bull also are a symbol of the half moon, the sickle moon, which becomes a symbol of the womb of the woman which receives the rebirth of the sun god.

So later on, they became a little bit more sophisticated, and the priests of Dagon wore the fish miter and the cloak, and then later on, they substituted the fish cloak for colorful robes, normally in the colors crimson, which is the color of sacrifice, purple, which is the color of royalty.

Now do you recognize that sort of miter on the top there? Do people wear it today in another form? Yes, they do.

Well, let's go and see if we can find it really in the ancient Babylonian finds. Yes, we can. This one here comes from the Pergamon Museum. I took this one myself.

Here you have the symbol of the sun and the wavy lines, by the way, wavy lines emanating from the sun are the sign of the female symbol; straight lines are the sign of the male symbol. Through the union of the male and female deity, you had the birth of the Savior.

And here you have priests of Dagon walking around with pails over there containing holy water. And they would have little brushes which were made from his soap, and then they would sprinkle the people to wash them.

Is that a ritual that is practiced today? Yes, very much so. Here you have a priest, a high priest of Dagon; there you had the symbol in the sky of the god Shamash, who is the symbol of the deity.

He has the wings, normally the wings of an eagle, and then you have the solar symbol in the middle. There is another solar symbol which has two stars superimposed over each other, making eight spokes.

So you make a solar wheel of eight spokes, and if you were the high priest, then you had to bow down to the high priest, or if you were the representative of the god himself, and you had to often kiss the ring and kiss the slipper.

Now if we go to Rome, this is the Pantheon outside Rome, and this is the place where all the deities of ancient times were worshiped. And outside, you have this little statue over here where you have a cuboid down there, which is also a symbol of paganism, by the way.

Then you have the aleph standing at the bottom, symbol of the sun god, then you have the stela, which is the symbol of the phallic symbol of Osiris because when Isis put him back together again, this is one of the parts you had to reconstruct.

And on top of that, you have the symbol of the cross, and we'll deal with that a little bit later. If you go into the Pantheon, you have interesting little things on the floor; you have squares.

The pagan deities were either in a square or they were represented in a circle. So you have circles and you have squares, and because they were both good and evil representing both shades, therefore you had black and white squares.

Now if we go to Roman Catholic churches, you will find in cathedrals, you'll find the fish over there. This is the ancient goddess Astarte; there is the fish miter with the symbol of the star or the sun and the half moon over there, and then you have a whole plethora of pagan symbols in the hands, many of which are used today.

This one is used by the medical world. That one up there is very interesting; here's a fish, for example, this comes out of Hinduism as a symbol of the pagan deity.

There was the goddess Cybele, and here you have some interesting symbols on the miter of the pope. There you have the symbol of the sun god—that's one of the main symbols of the sun deity—where the four and the four spokes within a circle, and that over there is a cross which is known as the Maltese cross.

The Knights of Malta wore that particular cross, and we will see that that particular cross, look at it carefully, is a direct symbol of the sun deity. It's got nothing to do with Christianity.

Well, let's go there. Here is one of the kings of ancient times, and this is an Assyrian king, Sardon. What does he have around his neck? Can you see it? This is in the British Museum.

There you have the Maltese cross, which is the same cross that the pope has on his side, and he's pointing here with his finger like this, which is also a symbol of the one—meaning the one deity, the number one—the one stands for the sun god.

There you have the symbol which we just saw on the miter of the pope, the symbol of the sun god. There's another symbol; you have the compass, the set square and the compass, which you find in Freemasonry.

Over there, you have the half moon with a sickle in it, which you find in many religions. There you have the multi-layered one as you find in the Aztec religions of sun worship, and there you have the triple miter, the three aspects of the sun god.

Those are some of the main symbols of sun worship as you find them in ancient times. Where do you think we'll find them most prominently today? Probably in the papacy.

All of these are wearing fish miters; those are miters of Dagon. Let's go to Basilica Saint Clement, one of the churches in Rome. Let's go down to the bottom.

You will find that they used an altar which on one side was inscribed with Christianized symbols and on the other had petroglyphs of pagan sun worship. So both religions worshiped in the same capacity, used the same venues, switched the altars, and eventually they fused into one.

Church history tells us Christianity became the established religion of the Roman Empire and took the place of paganism. Christianity, as it existed in the dark ages, might be termed baptized paganism.

It's very interesting. You see what the Roman Catholic Church has to say about this. The Story of American Catholicism, page 37, states, "It has often been charged that Catholicism is overlaid with many pagan incrustations."

Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast. The great god Pan is not really dead; he's baptized.

So paganism is within the church, and the real deity behind the scenes that is worshiped is not Jesus Christ but is Osiris in whatever form he is. In the form of Pan, you would find him in the groves; he was the god of the groves.

He was the god of fear; that's where the word panic comes from. This god Pan is the one that is worshiped either as a beautiful young man who wears and carries the sheep as the shepherd, or he is worshiped as the one with goat's feet, depending on which aspect you are looking at.

Because whether you worship him in his positive sense or whether you worship him in his negative sense, it's the same deity. It's the same whether you worship Lucifer or whether you worship the good side; the dark and the light are one and the same deity.

Well, let me take you to this very prominent Roman Catholic cathedral, and I was looking for these symbols in this Roman Catholic cathedral in the south of Germany, and here I found what they call the statue of David.

You see it over there with the sheep carrying the sheep around his neck, and I was wondering whether that was a representation of David or whether it was a representation of the other one.

Well, it's not too difficult to tell because what has he got in his hand? He's carrying the pan flute. Now did David ever play the pan flute? Yes or no? No. No. David didn't carry the pan flute. He had the harp, the hand harp.

So this instrument tells me that this is Pan and not the other one. Then I was interested, having seen Pan over here, whether I would find Pan in his negative form in the same construction in the same building, and sure enough, there he is.

There's Pan with the goat's feet and all the other symbols of paganism, including Janus, the two-headed one. So this is paganism in its highest form.

If we go to St. John's Lateran, which is the church where the papacy speaks ex cathedra, or if you go to St. Peter's, the whole system over here, the whole construction is a system of pagan sun worship.

The site is the ancient site, by the way. Most of the cathedrals in the world are built on the very ancient pagan sites where the ancient deities were worshiped. The construction of these buildings is also in accordance with the ancient pagan rites.

So here you have the triangle, for example; you have the famous sundial, and you have this pilaster structure which is normally known...