In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 9; with verse 14. Here I will discuss the River Euphrates and the link to Nimrod of Genesis.
In our last study we were covering verse 14 and looking at the phrase ‘Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Loose the four angels which are bound at the river Euphrates."’
We learned that The Euphrates was known as the great River, the River, the Flood. And that the four angels are demons, because nowhere in Scripture is there any record of holy angels being bound. But that certainly is the case for a variety of other demons as we read in 2 Peter two and as well as in Jude six. In fact, in Revelation chapter 20 verses one and two we read about an angel with the key to the abyss who will one day lay hold of the dragon, the serpent of old who is the devil and Satan and bind him for 1000 years. Furthermore, you must understand that holy angels have no need to be incarcerated to prevent them from doing something contrary to the will of Yahweh.
This is the place where Satan first introduced sin, where rebellion first occurred, where the curse on creation was pronounced, and from the beginning this was a land of defiance against Yahweh. It was the land of Noah. It was the land of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis and the tower of Babel which spawned the counterfeit religious system of the mother and son fertility cult, god, goddess worship that branched out into the entire world even as we see remnants of it today in virtually all of the pagan religions
Nimrods name is mentioned 4 times in Scripture;
Gen. 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
(Don’t forget that Cush was the son of Ham and Ham’s father was Noah.) (Do you remember the sin of Ham? Gen 9:22-26)
Gen. 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Yahweh. Gen 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
1Chron. 1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
Micah 5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
In verse 8 there is something very interesting when read in the Hebrew, “’koosh’ ‘yaw-lad’ ‘eth’ ‘nim-rode’ ‘he’ ‘khaw-lal’ ‘haw-yaw’ ‘ghib-bor’ ‘eh-rets’”
The word ‘eth’ is made up with 2 Hebrew Letters the Aleph and Tav
Aleph = the original pictograph for this letter is a picture of an ox head representing strength and power from the work performed by the animal. This pictograph also represents a chief or other leader.
Tav = the Ancient picture is a type of "mark", probably of two sticks crossed to mark a place similar to the Egyptian hieroglyph of, a picture of two crossed sticks. This letter has the meanings of mark, sign or signature.
Now when we combine these 2 letters we have a picture of ‘chief or leader’ with some type of cross as a mark or sign. Can you think of anyone that may fit this ‘eth’? How about Yahshua Messiah who is our chief/leader and died on a cross at Calvary that when He died and resurrected to the Father giving us the opportunity to receive that mark of faith which protects us during the tribulation period!
So what we have here in this verse 8 with the birth of Nimrod is the fact that Yahweh/Yahshua Messiah’s hand was instrumentally in his birth. Did Yahweh know something that you and I don’t?
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