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CRAZY, DELUSIONAL GERMAN BELIEFS

CHAPTER 1

ORIGINS OF GNOSTICISM

Since German beliefs are Gnostic beliefs, to understand German beliefs it’s important to understand who the first gnostic was and the origins of Gnosticism. That history will make it easy to understand how the Germans acquired those beliefs. You will be surprised to learn that Gnostics existed well before the beginning of the German nation.

WHAT IS GNOSTICISM?

The word Gnosticism is derived from the Greek work “Gnosis”, meaning knowledge, but a specific kind of spiritual knowledge that is thought to bring salvation. It is secret, esoteric knowledge that is revealed by teachers that only those could understand who had the divine spark in them. The key here is that it is SECRET KNOWLEDGE.

Gnostics are those who are “in the know.” And what is it that they know? They believe they know secrets or have secret knowledge that can bring them salvation.

Believe it or not, Gnosticism started with the very first human born, Cain, the son of Adam and Eve.

The Bible explains what salvation is and how humans can attain it. It is not secret knowledge. Therefore, the source of secret knowledge that Gnostics believe they have is none other than Satan, the adversary of God. Since Satan is the adversary of God, his goal is to destroy all of God’s projects, including humanity. If he cannot achieve that, then his goal is to deprive as many humans as possible the chance for eternal life, which is what salvation is. Peter the apostle warns us in 1 Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.”

But Satan is not the creator of the earth and humanity. He can only react to what God does with human beings. Therefore, his initial strategies to deal with human beings had to be changed as he learnt more about God’s plan for human beings as it unfolded.

Satan is the author of all deception, as Revelation 12:9 says he deceives the whole world. Since he is not the creator, he can only react to what God does with human beings. Only the creator God understands His creation perfectly, including human beings. To deal with humanity, Satan had to experiment. To deceive, he had to keep inventing new lies to cover previous lies which proved to be inadequate to counter new revelation as God’s plan for humans unfolded. Lies to cover previous lies made them inconsistent. Therefore, all the gnostic beliefs did not emerge soon after the Garden of Eden with Cain. Innovations continued to be added through the centuries. And humans keep adding their own explanations to resolve inconsistencies in what Satan has palmed off to them. That’s why there are many different creation myths, and who brings the knowledge of salvation to Gnostics.

IMMORTAL SOUL IDEA

To understand German beliefs and their origins, we must understand how and when the “immortal soul” idea came to humanity. We need to begin at the very beginning of human history with the creation of Adam and Eve and understand Cain’s activities and how he lived.

After Adam was created, God planted a Garden in Eden. Adam saw God in the act of creating the garden and knew He was his Creator and provided food for his sustenance. Genesis 2:8-9 (NKJV) states, “8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”

God planted the Garden and put Adam in it. Then God caused the trees to grow in Adam’s presence that would provide food for him. After planting the Garden, Genesis 2:15-16 (NKJV) state: “15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

God then taught gratitude to Adam by requiring an offering of the firstfruits of the ground.

Satan was then given access to Adam and Eve who told Eve a lie in Genesis 3:3-4, “4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

At this stage Adam and Eve had not witnessed any death. Only God had informed them what death was. Eve was deceived by Satan and took of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and gave it to her husband Adam who also ate. But they did not die.

God then pronounced judgment on Satan, Eve and Adam for disobeying His instructions. First mention of a Savior in the Bible is made in Genesis 3:15 (NKJV) when judgment was pronounced on Satan: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed [meaning snakes, as well as human beings figuratively who are tuned to Satan’s ways such as when we say “child of the devil”] and her Seed [Seed of the woman but not by man, meaning Jesus Christ]; He shall bruise your head [destroy Satan’s power and displace him as ruler of earth], and you shall bruise His heel [by having the Savior killed].”

God then told Adam and Eve that they had sinned, and animal sacrifice would be required from them as an offering for sin. God then sacrificed animals in front of Adam and Eve to teach them how to conduct animal sacrifices and made clothing for them from the skins. After killing of the animals Adam and Eve saw what death was. Earlier Adam was required to tend only to the Garden. Now he was told that he would also need to keep domestic animals for sacrifices, food and clothing.

Offerings of the firstfruits as well as animal sacrifices, most probably around the time that later came to be called the Passover, were instituted as laws.

Adam and Eve were then expelled from the Garden of Eden, though not from the land of Eden. After their sin, though humanity would be influenced by Satan, God did not completely abandon them. He taught them His laws and that their violation was sin.

Then they had children born to them, Cain the firstborn and then Abel. Eve thought Cain was the promised Seed because she said in Genesis 4:1, “1...I have gotten a man from the Lord.” Therefore, she spoiled Cain in raising him. He became a brat, used to getting his own way.

Then the Bible describes their activities in Genesis 4:2-7 (NKJV), “2...Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. 4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6 So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”

Over the years as they grew up, Cain and Abel had seen their father Adam offer the firstfruits of the ground as a thank offering for providing food to sustain the family. They had also seen him offer animal sacrifices for sin. Now Cain and Abel had become adults and for the first time they were required to give offerings on their own.

The reason Cain’s offering was rejected was that it was the wrong kind of offering. The evidence is that Abel brought an offering of his best animals and sin was mentioned when God told Cain why He did not respect Cain or his offering. Therefore, the required offering was for sin.

God then separated Cain from the rest of Adam’s children and told him in Genesis 4:12: “12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.” Then verses 14 and 16 state: “14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground...16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”

This is a three-part prophecy about what Cain’s lifestyle would lead to. His agricultural pursuits would come to nothing as the land would not yield good crops. As a result, he would become a vagabond, moving from place to place. Then he would become a fugitive.

After Cain was separated from Adam’s family, Cain became bitter and began to hate God. He refused to obey God’s instructions. He refused to keep domestic animals for sacrifices whose manure would have helped maintain the fertility of the soil he tilled. That’s why the ground did not yield its strength to him as prophesied by God. How the prophecies about Cain becoming a vagabond and a fugitive were fulfilled, we must first understand what Cain’s activities were after he was sent away. He lived a lifestyle called the “Way of Cain” or “Cain’s Way.”

THE WAY OF CAIN

the Bible mentions the “Way of Cain” in Jude 1:11 which says, “11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain...” No details are provided about the “Way of Cain,” meaning the way he lived, but his activities can be gleaned from other sources.

Ancient Jewish historian Josephus provides additional details about Cain’s activities in his book “Antiquities of the Jews” that are not mentioned in the bible:

“But Cain was not only very wicked in other respects, but was wholly intent upon getting; and he first contrived to plough the ground… a covetous man, and [offered as sacrifice what he had] gotten by forcing the ground…” (Antiquities I, II, 1)

“And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and there he settled his abode, where also he had children. However, he did not accept of his punishment in order to amendment, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed to procure everything that was for his own bodily pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his household substance with much wealth, by rapine and violence; he excited his acquaintance to procure pleasures and spoils by robbery and became a great leader of men into wicked courses. He also introduced a change in that way of simplicity wherein men lived before; and was the author of measures and weights. And whereas they lived innocently and generously while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed the world into cunning craftiness. He first set boundaries about lands: he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch,” (Antiquities I, II, 2)

The following significant points can be gleaned from what Josephus has written about Cain’s character and activities. You will see the same traits and way of life practiced in the world by many people, and in full measure by the Germans:

1.  Cain was a ‘covetous man’ who was ‘wholly intent upon getting.’ He was completely self-centered.

2.  Cain was the first man to plough and force the ground. His farming practices devastated the soil rather than building it and maintaining its fertility.

3.  Cain did not repent of his sin of murdering his brother, did not accept his punishment to change his character but only increased in wickedness, meaning that he had no qualms about murdering people who got in his way, just like the Germans who started both world wars and are maneuvering to start the Third World War. An estimated 20 million died in World War I and about 60 million in World War II. Germans and German masqueraders then carried on the war clandestinely after unconditional surrender in 1945 and have murdered an estimated 120-150 million people and unborn children through abortions worldwide.

4.  Cain’s only aim was to procure everything for his own bodily pleasure and comfort, even if it meant injuring his neighbors. That means he had no concern whatsoever for the welfare of others. He simply used people for his own purposes. He engaged in robbery, plunder and violence to augment his wealth. The Germans have started wars to conquer people throughout their history, to plunder their wealth and resources and put them to tribute and use them as slave labor.

5.  Cain became ‘a great leader of men into wicked courses.’ This means he convinced his own children and later others among Adam’s children, as the family grew over centuries of Cain’s life, to follow his way. His wrong example was copied by others. After World War II, the Germans have taught their evil ways to their allies the Chinese, many Indians, Palestinians, Pathans or Pashtuns in Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent.

6.  Cain was the author of ‘measures and weights,’ which means he introduced trading into the world. By his statement, ‘changed the world into cunning craftiness’ Josephus implies that his weights and measures were dishonest. To have successfully introduced such a practice in the world, Cain must have had some commodities to sell which were in great demand. This was in fact the case which we shall see later.

7.  Cain was the first to ‘set boundaries about land.’ He occupied land and set boundary markers around it or built fences and would not permit anyone or their cattle or flocks to intrude on that land. Cain was actually occupying land that belonged to the descendants of Seth, the son of Adam born after Cain murdered his brother Abel. The parallel with the Germans, Chinese and Pathans is that they lay claim to lands of their neighbors which helps them justify warfare against their neighbors. Then it’s just a matter of when they can occupy it permanently and call it their own.

8.  Cain ‘built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch…’ The city he built is also recorded in Genesis 4:17. This is the only account of a walled city before the flood. The walled city was built to protect themselves after Cain and his descendants had robbed and plundered their neighbors. When the Assyrians started their civilization, their original ancestor Asshur built Nineveh his capital city with high thick walls for protection after they had conquered their neighbors and put them to tribute.

Working from the genealogies and life spans of the ancients mentioned in the Bible, I have pieced together a timeline for Cain’s activities in my book Satan vs. God: From the Beginning to the Flood” Volume 1. This is what happened in Cain’s life. After he was banished from Eden, he traveled over many lands for about 150 years as Josephus says to find a suitable place to settle down with his wife and family. But no land would yield good crops for him. The problem was not with all the lands, but with his farming practices.

Cain’s offering was rejected by God because it was the wrong kind of offering. Cain wanted to worship God the way he wanted and not the way God had instructed. God required an animal sacrifice whereas Cain brought grains and vegetables he grew, rather than trade with his brother Abel for his animals. After he was separated from Adam’s other children and banished from Eden, he hated God and still refused to keep domestic animals. Do we have proof of this? Yes, archaeology has provided proof.

He had children born to him when he wandered the earth, who settled down in the places they were born. They adopted Cain’s lifestyle.

Archaeology has found evidence of how such descendants lived. Some of them are known to archaeology as the Neanderthals. The Neanderthals were not subhumans. DNA studies show they were human, and archaeology also shows that they intermarried with other humans. This proves they were fully human. They were humans with heavy bones and massive bodies, about 25% bigger than other humans of the same height. Bible calls them giants. They were giants in strength, but similar in height as other humans.

Many of these descendants lived in caves. Bones of unclean and clean animals such as elephants, hyenas, tigers, lions, deer as well as human bones have been found in their cave dwellings. This indicates Cain’s descendants had degenerated so much that they lived in caves, ate unclean animals and practiced cannibalism. The reason? They simply would not keep domestic animals which would have provided them all the wool, meat and milk they needed for food and clothing and helped them maintain the fertility of the soil so that they did not have to keep moving to raise sufficient crops for their needs. They did not have good weapons to hunt clean animals. That’s why they ate slower unclean animals. That’s how much Cain had begun to hate God. Because his offering was rejected, he simply would not raise animals that could be used as offerings to God for sin. This is very strong evidence that the offering required in Genesis 4:2-9 was specifically animal sacrifice and grain offering was not acceptable.

Because Cain did not keep domestic animals, he had no manure to maintain the fertility of the soil. He would use some land to plant crops. After 3-4 years the fertility of the soil would be depleted, forcing Cain to move on to new land. Thus, he became a wanderer, a vagabond. This fulfilled two of the prophecies concerning Cain. The land would not yield its strength in good crops for him, and he would become a vagabond. He was also reduced to hunting, fishing and gathering to provide for his growing family. Children that were born to him also became nomads and vagabonds. They continued living that way and settled in lands where they were born. Many of them took to living in caves or crude tents rather than building dwellings for themselves. Some of them later became so depraved that they started practicing cannibalism to supplement the meat they had taken of clean and unclean animals.

After a century and a half of wandering, it perhaps dawned on Cain to find out how the rest of Adam’s family was surviving. He had nothing to lose. Survival for him and his family was hard as it grew. He could afford to take the risk of violating his ban on entering the land of Adam’s other children. Satan, of course, wanted to use Cain and his descendants to seduce the other descendants of Adam away from God. He had already reduced Cain and his children to a life of misery and poverty. He wanted to do the same for the rest of humanity. That is why Cain felt the urge to build a city. Adam had done so after being removed from the Garden of Eden. Cain had lived in the dwelling built by his parents. He also decided to build a city.

Cain’s Walled City

Recall Josephus’ words: Cain “built a city, and fortified it with walls…” Now see the evidence for the famous city he built.

Archaeologists made astonishing discoveries in the mid 1900s at the site of ancient Jericho, which lies near the present-day Jericho in Israel. In their excavations they were astonished to uncover an immense fortified town in the early ‘Pre-Pottery Neolithic’ period. This city existed thousands of years before archaeologists expected to find cities of this type. But here was this large town, with an enormous wall around it, existing at a time when people usually dwelt in hamlets of huts or tents. When we use the archeologist defined cultural periods only to place archaeological findings in proper chronological order, the evidence points to this city being in existence before the Flood.

Thus, when we put Josephus’ statements together with the evidence from archaeology, and the fact that the Bible record mentions only one fortified walled city before the flood, the only logical conclusion we can draw is that PRE-FLOOD JERICHO WAS ENOCH, THE WALLED CITY THAT CAIN BUILT.

The fortifications are the most astonishing part of the discovery. The massive defenses consisted of a rock-cut ditch or mote about 27 feet wide and 9 feet deep. Inside the ditch was the town wall, about 6 feet 6 inches wide, built of massive stones, some weighing several tons. The circumference of the wall was over half a mile. The wall as discovered was preserved to a height of 12 feet on the west side but had been destroyed at its north and south ends. The great significance of the destruction of the wall will be discussed later. A massive circular tower was built against the inside of the wall, surviving to a height of 30 feet even today. The fortifications could actually have consisted of more than one tower, but only one is preserved today. For purposes of defense, the tower had a passage inside, consisting of a 22-step stone staircase for guards to climb to the top. The architecture of the tower was amazingly sophisticated. In fact, the entire gigantic fortifications are stunning for any period.

There were large water reservoirs and other large public buildings at least one of which was used for religious purposes. In the room several female and animal figurines related to fertility cults were found. Thus, the city was also a religious center.

This city built near the modern Jericho means that it was built in Seth’s land. Thus, Cain had dared to disobey God and come back to live in the forbidden land. He was no longer afraid of anyone killing him for the murder of Abel.

Archaeologists have reached another significant conclusion: agriculture was not the main reason for the incredible growth of pre-Flood Jericho. Not enough fertile land was available to support its large population by agriculture alone. So, Cain’s city must have supported itself by trade and commerce. Herein lies the significance of Josephus’ statements about Cain. “Cain invented weights and measures,” which implies that he was a trader. Josephus also said that he “augmented his household substance with much wealth, by rapine and violence” and procured “spoils by robbery.” In other words, he forced surrounding peoples to pay tribute, engaged in looting and pillage, stealing cattle and harvesting crops planted by the line of Seth.

For everyone to accept his system of weights and measures, he must have held a monopoly control of some precious commodity that everyone needed. That precious commodity was most likely salt. With the Dead Sea nearby, he must have controlled the salt supply and trade with force. Do we see the parallel in Germany and China trying to control the world’s mineral resources and create monopolies.

Cain built trade monopolies in certain other much sought-after minerals, available from the Dead Sea area – bitumen and sulphur. Bitumen was used for construction, cementing flint blades, sickles and other tools and implements to their hafts and for waterproofing purposes. The Tower of Babel episode after the Flood shows that the ancients were familiar with the use of bitumen for construction purposes. Sulphur was probably used for medicine, for lighting fires and for religious ritualistic rites.

Thus, the great walled city Cain built became a trade center. Cain did not build a massively fortified city because he faced threats from others. He was the threat to the rest of society. He sent raiding parties of his children to rob the surrounding villages and towns by stealing their goods, cattle and harvesting their crops who then escaped their pursuers, if any, by running into the city inside its impenetrable walls. Later, he offered protection from his pillaging and plundering for payment of tribute to him. Those who brought the amount of tribute he demanded to his city were left alone. Those who didn’t submit or did not bring tribute as required were attacked, killed as necessary and their goods plundered. Thus, the third part of God’s prophecy about Cain was fulfilled as he became a fugitive from the rest of society. That is how he built his ‘civilization.’

What is “The Way of Cain”

Thus, “the way of Cain” was much more than just envy, selfishness, hatred of humans and God, way of violence and murder, and an intense desire to be admired, held in awe, indeed worshipped by other humans. It was a way of intense covetousness, desiring what others have and taking it by force and violence, even killing for it, if necessary, with absolutely no concern for the welfare of others. It involved subduing and even enslaving others by threats and force where necessary and ruling over others and demanding that they pay taxes and tribute to be used  only for their own welfare, and not the welfare of the ones they ruled over. It involved getting “wealthy,” not by own honest labor, but “any which way you can”, including taking the fruit of the labor of others with force or with as little payment as possible through cunning craftiness, even taking advantage of the destitution of others by driving hard bargains, reducing them to further penury and misery, leading to even death.

Cain and his descendants also hated the true God and His way of love and concern for the welfare of all. They were totally cut off from God. They had contact with Satan and the demons. Satan seduced them with the promise that he would help them become wealthy. He told them that God wasn’t fair to curse him [Cain] and his posterity. But he and his “angels” [he palms himself off as an angel of light as stated by Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:14, “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”] would help them solve their problem of survival and get even with God and those whom He favored. So, he led Cain to build a city near the descendants of Seth and guided him in his lifestyle of robbery, pillage, ruling over all his neighbors, forcing them to pay tribute, and doing violence to those who resisted and enslaving them.

That is the way Cain lived. And that is how he organized his society, his civilization. His children continued to live his way. That is the kind of society we have had ever since and have even today. That way today is epitomized by the Germans and German masqueraders around the world, who have taught it to their allies the Chinese, Indians, Palestinians and Pathans. So, man’s civilization as we have it today originated with Cain. That is what the bible calls “Cain’s Way.”

Cain didn’t pillage just some people. The world population about 600 years since Adam’s creation had reached only about 16,000 – 20,000. Cain troubled the entire world population, and his goal was ruling the entire world.

Genesis 4:17-18 tells us the names of Cain’s descendants: “17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.”

About 625 years after Adam’s creation, Lamech was born. The world population was only between 35,000 – 40,000. When Lamech was about 150 years old, he had established himself as a very powerful man. Rivalry between him and his ancestor Cain for control of the world was inevitable. When the world population had reached about 2 million by year 890 after Adam’s creation, a ten-year war was fought between Cain and Lamech. After winning the battles in other towns Lamech’s forces finally attacked Cain’s fortified city. The weapons were wooden staves, javelins and stones.

Lamech’s forces were unable to break down the walls of Cain’s city. Javelins and stones from Cain’s forces kept them away from breaching the wall. Lamech’s forces were unable to throw stones far enough to breach the wall. Then Lamech’s forces got an idea.

A line of Cain’s descendants known as the “giants,” is mentioned in Genesis 6:4, “4 There were giants in the earth in those days.” These were non-white people of the line of Cain, about normal human height. All non-white people originated in the line of Cain because of his ever-multiplying sins. The chief body characteristic of the giants was that they were of the same height as other humans but had very big bones and were about 25% heavier than other human beings. This means they were not giants in height, but giants in strength. Archaeologists have discovered their remains and have foolishly labeled them “Neanderthals, a so-called sub-human species even when they have evidence that they interbred with other human beings and DNA evidence shows they were fully human.

Because of their great strength, these giants troubled and bullied other human beings. Cain had imprisoned some of them in another city outside his walled city. The idea Lamech’s forces got was that these giants had massive hands and could throw heavier stones at the wall from a distance out of the reach of javelins and stones thrown by Cain’s forces. Therefore, Lamech freed them on the condition that they would help his forces breach the wall and fortifications of Cain’s city. They were successful in doing so and Lamech defeated Cain and killed him in year 900 after Adam’s creation, probably when he was around age 850.

WHEN DID THE IMMORTAL SOUL LIE ORIGINATE

The idea that humans have an immortal soul is believed in almost all religions. It is difficult to pinpoint when the idea originally came to humanity. It is Satan’s lie because God says in Ezekiel 18:4, “4... the soul that sins, it shall die.” Humans don’t have an immortal soul.

After Adam and Eve sinned, Satan had access to them, and their minds were opened to his ideas. There is no indication from the bible record, however, that Satan was able to impart the idea of humans having an immortal soul to Adam and Eve and their children that lived with them. Abel was a righteous man is indicative of that, and Seth was a preacher of righteousness. The idea certainly entered originally through the line of Cain.

When Satan deals with humans, he does not appear to them to be roaring a lion ready to devour them. He appears to them to be an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14, “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”) But since the record is scanty, we cannot completely deny the possibility that Satan told Adam and Eve that they had an immortal soul and that they cannot die, that they are actually divinities in human flesh. He told them that God was withholding good from them and also the “true” knowledge that he was giving them because He knows that with the knowledge of good and evil they could become like God.

However, Cain was separated from the rest of his family after he murdered Abel and was certainly open to Satan’s influences, because he wanted to have nothing to do with God whom he considered his enemy. It is among his descendants that we find the name for God, which is El, first used.

Genesis 4:17-18 gives the names of Cain’s descendants: “17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch... 18 To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehuja-el, and Mehuja-el begot Methusa-el, and Methusa-el begot Lamech.”

Cain had children when he wandered the earth known as the “giants”. Since the line of Seth maintained these written records, the descendants of Cain recorded here were only the ones that were born to him when he came back and settled in Eden next to Adam’s other children.

Commentaries are uncertain about the meanings of these names but some attempt it anyway. According to them, Irad means “citizen”; Mehujael means “smitten by God”; Methusael means “man of God” or “man of prayer” and Lamech means “strong youth,” or “man of prayer.”

Cain hated God after his offering was rejected. His children also hated the true God. He certainly would not name his children or grandchildren “man of God” or “man of prayer” or “smitten by God.” He certainly did not mean to use the name of Almighty God as part of the names of his descendants. The word “el” means mighty. Therefore, Cain called his grandchildren the “mighty ones.” Names of Cain and some of his descendants   have come down to our time from secular history through mythology. They called themselves the “mighty ones” in mythology. Therefore, Mahujael and Methusael could not have meant “smitten by God” or “man of God.” They were most likely calling themselves “gods” or “mighty ones,” because they had already started believing in Satan’s “Immortal soul” lie when Mehujael was born.

Enoch the son of Cain was born about 275 years after Adam’s creation. Based on the genealogy of the line of Seth given in Genesis 5 and the age at which each patriarch had his first son, Irad was born probably 70 years after that and Mehujael probably another 70 years after that. This means that about 140 years after Cain returned to Eden and about 415 years after Adam’s creation, he and his children had already deified themselves, calling themselves “gods,” because they started believing they had an immortal soul. Therefore, the false idea that all human beings have an “immortal soul” entered humanity about 400 years after Adam’s creation. Satan was innovating on his lie to Adam and Eve that they would not surely die and that if they ate the forbidden fruit, they would be like God.

Abel had died which proved God right and nailed Satan’s lie to Adam and Eve that they were like God. Satan’s innovation to that lie was that all humans have an immortal soul. Though Abel died, he had an immortal soul which did not die. So, Abel really did not die.

However, Satan’s goal is to destroy humanity and the best way to do that is to divide and have humans fight and kill each other. The defect with the immortal soul lie is that it still makes all humans equal. It would be difficult to convince them to wantonly kill each other. That’s when Satan and the demons came up with another innovation. That innovation is that only some humans, the mighty and powerful ones, have an immortal soul whereas all others are mere flesh and blood creatures like animals. Satan told physically powerful people like Cain that this was “secret knowledge” he was giving them. That is precisely what the Gnostics believed. Thus, Cain was the first Gnostic in human history.

As already mentioned, Lamech, the descendant of Cain was born around 625 years after Adam’s creation. By about year 700, Cain and some of his descendants had started calling themselves “Titan gods” by deifying themselves. Myths also mention them as the “mighty ones.” The evidence that Cain had deified himself is that in mythology he is worshipped as the god Kronos. He also introduced ancestor worship among his children, which still prevails among some oriental people who are his descendants.

Lamech grew up into a powerful young man. Probably that’s why his name meant “strong youth.” He was powerful enough to challenge his ancestor Cain. Since Cain had deified himself, Lamech being as physically powerful as him also deified himself and conferred that “honor” on his powerful children (Genesis 4:18-24) and demanded that the rest of humanity worship them. In fact, they introduced idol worship to humanity by building temples in their own honor and installing their bronze idols to be worshipped by the people. Even today from mythology we know Lamech as the god Zeus of the Greeks and Jupiter of the Romans, Jabal as Hercules, Jubal as Apollo, Tubalcain as Vulcan of the Romans and Hephaestus of the Greeks and their sister Naamah as the goddess Athena of the Greeks and Minerva of the Romans. Lamech’s wife Adah is Hera, and his negro wife Zillah is known as Demeter. They called themselves the “Olympian gods” ruling from their capital Mount Olympus. The most original Olympic Games were not held by the Greeks, but by Lamech’s children before the Flood. His capital Mount Olympus was also located in what is Greece today.

In human history, Lamech was the first polygamist and the first to marry interracially as he was born non-white and married the white Adah. All non-white races originated in the line of Cain because of his ever-multiplying sins.

As already mentioned, Lamech and his family defeated and killed Cain. After that they were left as the most powerful family on earth though they had powerful rivals in the “giants.” Because of their great strength, these giants troubled and bullied other human beings. They were bound to come into conflict with Lamech and his descendants. A war was fought between Lamech and his forces who by now had developed superior weapons such as metal-tipped javelins and arrows, and the giants, known in myths as the war between the “gods” and the “giants” beginning around year 1430 after Adam’s creation. The war lasted for about 5 years in which Lamech and his forces were able to destroy the power of the giants globally. Thereafter, Lamech and his family ruled the entire world which has happened only one time in human history. But because of humanity’s multiplying sins and widespread bloodshed, God drowned like rats all Lamech’s descendants who were still alive at the time of Noah’s Flood and thought they were divine, except his daughter, black Naamah, who survived as the wife of Noah’s son Ham. Another of Cain’s oriental-looking descendant also survived as the wife of Noah’s son Japheth. His third son Shem married a white woman.

We clearly see a pattern here. Satan selects the most powerful people on earth and deceives them with his lies and creation myths into believing that they are a special creation and are divinities in human flesh so that they can oppress the rest of humanity with cruelty and brutality and wantonly kill without any qualms believing that they have been created like animals to serve them. That’s how he used Cain and Lamech before the Flood. They were all Gnostics.

Human beings have a tendency to readily believe, even lies billed as “secret knowledge” in some cases, what puts them into the best light as God’s favorite and fit to rule over the rest of humanity or the only ones who will receive salvation while the rest of humanity will be doomed to hell. Roman Catholics and Muslims believe that. After the Flood, black Cush, Nimrod, and the white Asshur, ancestor of the Germans believed that. Gnostics readily believed that. That’s why the Germans have been easily duped into believing that.

Caution About Attempts to Discredit Sources of Truth

I need to caution the reader about attempts to discredit ancient sources of truth. Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA), through whom God founded the modern era of His Church, was a very diligent researcher. For some of his beliefs, he cited Alexander Hislop’s book “The Two Babylons.” After HWA passed away on January 16, 1986, his successor Joseph W. Tkach Sr., a German masquerader (person of German ancestry living in white countries) whose family came to the USA from Russia, discarded all the doctrines God had restored to the Church of God through HWA.

The Germans are very thorough in their deceptions. To discredit the fundamental beliefs HWA restored to the Church, they launched a campaign to discredit the sources HWA cited in his writings as support for his beliefs.

While researching an aspect of ancient history, I happened to do a google search and the AI (artificial intelligence) answer it gave me concerning Hislop’s “The Two Babylons” surprised me. Its AI answer stated that modern scholarship has discredited the book. It cited a review article dated April 9, 2009, by theologian Ralph Woodrow in the Christian Research Journal of the Christian Research Institute on his book titled “The Two Babylons: A Case Study in Poor Methodology.” Woodrow tried to discredit the book by “proving” that Hislop reached conclusions in his book based on poor research methodology.

One can use the bible to reach two opposite conclusions or prove almost anything by citing scriptures selectively, partially or out of context. Woodrow accuses Hislop of doing the same in his book. HWA was a careful researcher. He believed the Bible to be the word of God. He understood bible prophecies better than any man in history except Jesus Christ because prophecies were sealed till the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9-10) and were first revealed to him. He knew that Catholicism was based on the ancient Babylon Mystery religion as prophesied in Revelation 17:1-6. He found support for that truth in Hislop’s book. The truth was based on the Bible and not Hislop’s book. Therefore, Woodrow trying to discredit Hislop’s book does not discredit the truth. Since Hislop reached the same conclusions as the truth prophesied in the Bible, his conclusions that are in agreement with the Bible are sound. I am not saying all Hislop’s conclusions are sound. I am saying that his conclusions that are in agreement with the Bible or prophecy are sound.

To explain Gnostic beliefs after the Flood, I am using information from my book “Satan vs God: From the Flood to Abraham’s Call”, Volume II, which also cites Hislop’s book “The Two Babylons” as a source. But like HWA, I also use corroborating sources to biblical truths such as the ancient historians Josephus, Manetho of Egypt, Diodorus Siculus of Sicily and Berossus of Babylon.

When I read Woodrow’s review article, I saw that Hank Hanegraaf is the President and Chairman of the Board of the Christian Research Institute. Hanegraaf is obviously a German masquerader. Then I found from my sources that Woodrow is also a German masquerader. On researching further, I discovered that in 1966, he had written a book titled “Babylon Mystery Religion” based on Hislop’s work and preached it. Then in the review article Woodrow states that as time went on, he began to hear rumblings that Hislop was not a reliable historian. Then in 1991, he replaced his book “Babylon Mystery Religion” with a new book “The Babylon Connection.”

The year in which “The Babylon Connection” was published, 1991, is very significant. HWA passed away on January 16, 1986. Soon thereafter the new German masquerader leaders in the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) with Joseph W. Tkach Sr as the head had started discarding the doctrines HWA had restored to the Church. German masqueraders in other Christian Churches also knew that God had restored truths through HWA. When they discover truth, whether benefits of certain medicines or methods of healing, or biblical truths, they immediately launch a propaganda campaign to start discrediting that information and any sources on which it is based. That is their nature. They want to keep the truth to themselves and dissuade others from believing it or benefiting from it. Woodrow’s new book and his review article were part of that campaign. They know that by merely casting doubt they will drive away those who are not grounded in their beliefs. HWA was confident of his conclusions. So am I about the brief account of ancient history I am providing in this book. I am not deceived by German masquerader propaganda. Please do not be deceived by them.

Other damning evidence about the propaganda campaign is that the leaders at WCG headquarters, Joseph Tkach Jr. and others, asked members to send in all the Church literature, including all the books and booklets written by HWA, they had kept in their homes because they want to archive it at headquarters and preserve it. When members sent it in, they burnt all of it hoping to destroy any trace of as much of what HWA had written as they could. They also discontinued publishing literature authored by HWA. When Gerald R. Flurry (GRF), head of the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG) started publishing it, the WCG fought PCG in court to stop it from publishing books and booklets authored by HWA. Ultimately settlement was reached and PCG was given the rights to several books and booklets written by HWA on payment of $3 million.

ACCUSING HWA OF PLAGIARISM

Joe Tkach Jr. and others at WCG tried to destroy HWA’s credibility by launching a two-pronged attack on him to justify changing all the doctrines restored by him. They said HWA was not trained in hermeneutics, which means principles of Bible interpretation. Therefore, his interpretations of the Bible were not accurate, which is the reason he got his understanding of Christian doctrines wrong. Secondly, they accused HWA of copying the main ideas for his most important and most requested book by the public “United States and Britain in Prophecy” from another author J.H. Allen’s book “Judah’s Scepter and Joseph’s Birthright,”originally published in 1902, thus accusing him of plagiarism.

Many among us who still adhered to what HWA taught were well educated with PhD and MA degrees and knew that HWA was a self-taught man, without a college degree, but a first-class researcher and historian. Moreover, all the PhDs in theology in mainstream Christianity who have all the training in hermeneutics, despite all their lifelong learning and study of the Bible could not come to the knowledge of the truth. God called HWA into His Church and work to specifically reveal the truths to him which he then restored to God’s Church.

As far as the Tkach’s second criticism is concerned, here is where their diabolical intentions were exposed. Information in J.H. Allen’s book was nothing new. It was already known to British royal historians 70-80 years before Allen wrote his book in 1902. HWA was not copying from J.H. Allen but was writing from historical facts which others were aware of.

After the Tkaches criticism emerged, I read J.H. Allen’s book about 20-25 years ago. About three years back, I tried to check again for similarities between HWA’s and Allen’s books. I downloaded a version of Allen’s book and skimmed through it. I found that this version was not the same version that I had read decades ago. I realized that it had been doctored to look similar to HWA’s book. Others who had access to both versions confirmed that the new reprint had indeed been doctored to concoct “evidence” that HWA had copied from Allen’s book. Thus, the Tkaches and the German masqueraders’ deception stood exposed, and both their criticisms of HWA’s book fell apart.

Now back to Gnosticism after the Flood.

Gnosticism After the Flood

Humans still did not learn the error of their ways even after having gone through the Flood. After the Flood, Noah instructed his family in God’s way of life. But Naamah, daughter of Lamech and wife of Ham the son of Noah instructed her black children in the way their family had lived and ruled the world before the Flood along with their Gnostic beliefs that they were a special creation fit to rule the world. As a result, her children, particularly her son Cush (the name means “black” as he was born negro black) developed similar dreams of ruling the world. Japheth’s wife instructed her children in the way of ancestor worship that her family followed before the Flood.

Then the incident mentioned in Genesis 9:20-27 between Noah who inadvertently got drunk and Canaan the younger son of Ham occurred. This led Noah to pronounce a curse on Canaan, and prophesy about the future of the three races of his family.

Genesis 9:20-27 (NKJV), “20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son [that is, what Canaan, the younger son of Ham] had done to him. 25 Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants

He shall be to his brethren.” 26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. [the RSV translates this verse this way: 26 He also said, “Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.] 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; Aad may Canaan be his servant.”

In this prophecy, Canaan was cursed and no blessings were pronounced on Ham the father of Canaan, whereas Shem and Japheth were blessed. Satan then knew that the leading nations in the world would come from the white descendants of Shem.

Before the Flood Lamech’s family ruled the world and because of interracial marriages the world had become saturated with violence. God wanted to prevent one man from ruling the world again and prevent interracial marriages. So, God gave Noah a plan to colonize different areas of the earth. This would separate the races, and each would develop their own civilization, and not try to force their rule over others. Before the Flood, the only separation had been between Cain’s descendants and Adam’s other descendants. But then Cain was allowed back by his brothers which resulted in mixing of races, leading to violence and bloodshed.

Noah took a ten-year long journey with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth to different areas by land and sea to explore lands to send colonies to and the best way to do so. While they were gone, for full ten years all the tiny human population of all races heard Naamah’s fantastic tales about how her family had ruled the world. In addition to her own sons, particularly Cush, Asshur and Elam the sons of Shem also began to dream of ruling the world.

Then Cush, about 80 years old, already married to his black sister with children by her, seduced and had an illegal relationship with the strikingly beautiful, about 20-year-old, white Semiramis, a great granddaughter of Japheth. She became pregnant and their African-looking black son Nimrod was born.

When Noah returned from his journey, he refused to let Cush interracially marry Semiramis. He simply was not going to allow conditions of violence and bloodshed to develop as before the Flood due to forced interracial marriages.

By that time wild animals had multiplied faster than humans, as they mature and produce offspring faster than humans, and began to threaten the tiny human population. The tall and physically powerfully built Nimrod rose to the occasion and began to protect humans from wild animals. He organized hunting parties to kill wild animals such as lions, tigers, hyenas and wolves which drove them away from human habitations into forests. Genesis 10:8-9 state, “8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore, it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” Thus, Nimrod began to be looked upon as a savior of mankind.

Noah then began to implement God’s plan and send out colonies to different areas of the earth. But Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis, and Shem’s son Asshur and a slight majority of humanity rebelled against God’s colonization plan. They refused to go to their assigned territories. Instead, they separated from Noah, Shem and those loyal to them and went to the land of Shinar in modern Iraq and set up their own civilization. Thus, after the Flood, rebellion against God and Noah was led by the black part of the human family, though they had white and oriental followers as well.

These rebels hated the true God and His restrictions and laws. In rebellion they set up their own god, the Sun-Fire-Serpent god. This indicates that they were already heavily influenced by Satan [he serpent in the Grden of Eden] because of Naamah’s influence. They developed their own pagan worship system and built a very high tower as a sanctuary for worship and began building a city. Cush and Nimrod became the high priests of the god they had set up.

Cush and Nimrod were rebelling against not being allowed to marry whomever they wanted, mainly white women. Now free from Noah’s influence, they began to force interracial marriages among their followers.

Just as Nimrod’s great grandfather and Cush’s grandfather Lamech had done before the Flood, they too began to develop plans to rule all of humanity, and make the world of one race, one religion [their religion] and one society, under their control. To accomplish that they would probably have to assassinate Noah, his loyal son Shem and those with them who would refuse to come under their rule. When God saw their plans, He decided to intervene. He confused the language of mankind and destroyed the tower in a lightning strike (Genesis 11:1-9). Because of confusion of language men could no longer freely communicate with anyone except those of their own race. So, they were forced to separate by race and move away from the city they were building.

After the destruction of the Tower and confusion of language, Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis began to pick up the pieces of their empire. Their goal to control the entire world population remained intact. At that time the population of the world had reached only 5,000. Slightly less than half that number were loyal to Noah and Shem and had started going out in colonies as instructed by them. But they had not travelled far. So, the population of the world was still concentrated around the Middle East, in and around the land of Israel, Iraq, coasts of Egypt and the Mediterranean in Europe.

The reason for the destruction of the tower and confusion of language was not lost on those in the Cush and Nimrod camp. They knew that the destruction of their project was from God and noticed that the language they could understand was only of those of their own race, according to the division Noah had made for colonizing the earth. This caused a division in the Cush and Nimrod camp. Asshur the white son of Shem separated himself and built Nineveh to the north of the cities Cush and Nimrod were building. This is described in Genesis 10:10-12: “10 And the beginning of his [that is, Nimrod’s] kingdom was Babel [meaning Babylon], and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [cities built to accommodate people of different languages under their control]. 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah. And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.” However, Asshur and his descendants at that time were still part of Nimrod’s empire, and worked with him, under his rule.

History of the Babel project of Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis and Asshur from secular sources in the ancient Akkadian ‘Epic of Creation” [from the city of Accad Nimrod built] concerning the building of the city of Babel and another structure, which they called the “shrine” or “sanctuary” [meaning the Tower] is contained in James Pritchard’s “Ancient Near Eastern Texts”, pp. 68 – 69 as follows:

'NOW, O Lord, thou who hast caused our deliverance, what shall be our homage to thee? Let us build a shrine...Let us build a throne, a recess for his abode…When Marduk heard this, Brightly glowed his features, like the day: 'Like that of lofty Babylon, whose building you have requested, Let its brickwork be fashioned. You shall name it "The Sanctuary"…For one whole year they moulded bricks. When the second year arrived, They raised high the head of Esagila [shrine] equaling Apsu. Having built a stage-tower as high as Apsu [meaning ‘a great height’], They set up in it an abode for Marduk, Enlil, and Ea…The gods, his fathers, at his banquet he seated: 'This is Babylon, the place that is your home!”

The “Epic of Creation” is describing the building of a city, and a tower of great height, exactly what is described in Genesis 11. Both sources are describing the same event.

While the Bible stated several motives of the rebels, the Akkadian “Epic of Creation” adds another motive: religion. They were calling the stage-tower they were building “the sanctuary” or the “shrine”. It seems that in the minds of the people the great tall structure they were building was nothing less than a great religious temple.

The tower is also described as an abode for Marduk, Enlil, and Ea. This means that they set up in it images or statues of the gods Marduk, Enlil, and Ea, which apparently were Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis themselves. Where did they get the idea of setting up statues of themselves in the religious shrine they were building? They were imitating what Lamech, Tubalcain and others (including Naamah) had done before the Flood. They had pagan temples (shrines) built in their honor, in which they had set up bronze statues of themselves, and had people offer sacrifices to them, and worship them as gods.

This shows that when the tower was being built, Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis and Asshur had already been sold on Satan’s idea that they were “gods” with an immortal soul whereas the rest of humanity was not. But they had not yet deified themselves among the people. They had yet to sell that idea to the people. They were priests of the Sun-fire-serpent god they had created. The “Epic of Creation” was written well after the events by the priests under Semiramis’s control, after she had deified herself, Nimrod, Cush and acknowledged Asshur and others as gods. That occurred well after the destruction of the tower and even after Cush had died and Nimrod had been slain and  as other cities were being built and control over people of different races and languages had been consolidated.

For the efficient working of people on their projects of building cities, places of worship and growing food, Cush [the Menes of Egypt and Manu in the Indian scriptures] had organized all the workers in their camps according to the tasks performed by them, as he had determined what ‘aptitude’ they had. But this division of labor was rigid. Those working on growing food would always remain on agriculture and would not be allowed to change their work to construction and building. Those assigned the task of keeping the cities clean would always attend to that task. Cush and Nimrod enforced their rigid division of labor on all. The people could not choose what tasks they wanted to perform according to what they enjoyed or had an aptitude for or aspired for.  Such rigid division was passed along to the children also as they grew up.

Thus, the system Cush had originated, which he and Nimrod enforced, became highly oppressive. People could not get away from it though many longed to do so, because of fear of being killed for their rebellion. But others still did not forget the deliverance brought to them by Nimrod from wild animals and remained loyal to him, accepting their oppressive division of labor.

The ancient Jewish historian Josephus describes the result of Cush and Nimrod’s policies in Antiquities I, IV, 2: “He [that is Nimrod] also gradually changed the government into Tyranny…seeing no other way of turning men away from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power…”  This was the nature of the merciless, brutal, oppressive, freedom-less regime that was developing in Babylon, the area from which Nimrod ruled.

We see the continuation of this horrible and oppressive system in the development of the rigid caste system in India and to some extent in Egypt.

Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis also continued to develop their worship system opposed to the worship of the true God. At this time for the first time in human history Nimrod introduced live human and infant sacrifices in his worship system. The live humans being sacrificed were probably captives who rebelled against Nimrod’s religion. Under the oppressive system, some were forced to give up their infants for sacrifices and were persuaded to do so "for the sin of the soul" as Hislop mentions in Chapter 7 of his book “The Two Babylons.”And Cush and Nimrod continued to promote and force interracial marriages. Many in the pure white line of Arphaxad whom Noah had trained to be priests were lured to become priests of Semiramis’s pagan religion with massive financial incentives such as no taxes, huge land grants and whatever they could charge the people for their religious services. They were also forced to racially mix with the black and yellow races.

There was movement in and out of Noah’s camp and the Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis and Asshur camp. According to Chinese classics, Nimrod imprisoned Magog, son of Japheth and the ancestor of the Chinese people because of resistance to racial mixing. Later this led to rebellion of the descendants of Japheth at Babylon against the rule of Cush and Nimrod. As they grew in strength, they first forced Cush out of Babylon and Semiramis went with him to Ethiopia, the area allotted to Cush and his descendants in God’s colonization plan given to Noah. Later even Nimrod was forced out and went to Africa. But he still continued to propagate his religion far and wide.

The death penalty was instituted by God after the Flood (Genesis 9:6, “6 Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.”) It seems God ordered Nimrod’s execution because of his many crimes and because he had started making inroads into Europe with his religion where Noah and Shem were active. The execution was carried out by Shem with the help of 70 princes in Egypt. This was the very first execution carried out in human history ordered by God. Nimrod died at around age 120 when humans lived to the average age of around 400 years.

Thus, after the Flood, the black portion of the human family led the rebellion against God. Now perhaps we can appreciate why God prophesied the future of the 3 races through Noah the way He did. Even after the Flood, the black portion of the human family ruled a majority of mankind. But over the centuries they were to lose their influence. If God had continued to let them materially prosper and rule the rest of mankind by force, they would have driven all of humanity away from the true God and forced everyone to marry interracially. The result would have been the same as before the Flood: worldwide violence, corruption and bloodshed.

After Nimrod was executed, a fear fell on the entire world population, which at that time was small and concentrated largely in and around the Middle East and southern Europe, around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. They could no longer openly worship their false Sun-fire-serpent god for fear of being executed. After Nimrod’s execution, Semiramis fled to the delta region of Egypt, and from there to Babylon. The world population at that time was only around 90,000.

After he had sent out all the colonists, Noah left Armenia and took a 115-year long journey to visit the colonists he had sent to inquire about their welfare and help them as needed. When he reached Egypt, he saw that his descendants there were living a degenerate lifestyle. He spent 50 years there, countering the pagan teachings of Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis and his own son Ham who by that time had been thoroughly corrupted by his wife Naamah. Noah’s work with the Egyptians was to lay the foundation of Egypt’s greatness in the centuries following.

Meanwhile Semiramis fled to Babylon and had an illegitimate son with Ninus II the son of Asshur and named him Horus. She soon returned to Egypt with her young son and reigned there. Horus then became the ruler in Egypt. She continued to develop and propagate her pagan religion from there.

Because of the fear of being executed for propagating paganism, Semiramis now began developing her Mystery religion in Babylon, which later would become known as the Babylonian Mystery Religion (Revelation 17:5). In this religion they outwardly worshipped objects such as trees, and creatures such as the bull, but those initiated in the mysteries knew exactly what they were worshipping. Bull worship was Nimrod worship and tree worship (which has come down to our time as the Christmas tree) was actually worship of Semiramis. Since Nimrod was worshipped as a bull or calf, his mother Semiramis would obviously be worshipped as a cow. That is the origin of cow worship among the Hindu Indians.

Only those initiated in the mysteries knew what they were really worshipping in worship of animals, objects and idols. Those not initiated in the mysteries just followed the priests for their concocted reasons in their worship of animals and objects without really knowing what they were worshipping. For example, the priests said that the bull was worshipped because it is a very useful animal for labor. Trees are worshipped because of the fruit and other benefits they provide for humanity. Over the centuries even the priests forgot what they were actually worshipping when they worshipped bulls, cows and trees. But they continue to follow traditions and worship cows, trees [in the Christmas tree] and other objects even today.

It seems at this time Satan and the demons for the first time understood the very first prophecy given in the Bible in Genesis 3:15 (NKJV): “And I [that is God] will put enmity between you [Satan or serpent or snake] and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed, it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

This is a prophecy of the woman’s Seed coming to earth to redeem mankind from death, making eternal life possible. That promised Seed was Jesus Christ. Satan bruising his heel was understood to mean that Satan would cause Him to be put to death. But He would bruise Satan’s head by defeating him and ending his rule on earth.

It seems Satan then immediately began developing a counterfeit religion through Semiramis centered around this prophecy. Nimrod was already considered a savior of mankind for having saved humans from wild animals. Now Semiramis deified him as the promised Seed of the woman sent to save mankind. She said he had been killed to save mankind. She then deified herself as the Mother of the Savior and began to be worshipped. So, worship of the Madonna and Child originated with Semiramis soon after the Flood. It did not originate with the birth and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The Bible nowhere tells us that Mary is to be worshipped in any way. Worship of the Madonna and Child in mainstream Christianity is an ancient tradition going back more than 2000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, foisted on Christianity by the great false Roman Catholic Church.

All the false worship traditions, customs and festivals such as Christmas and Easter of modern Christianity are nowhere even mentioned leave alone required in the Bible. Our modern word Easter comes from the name “Ishtar” which was the Assyrian name of Semiramis. Worship of the Trinity, the cross, hot cross buns of Easter, colored eggs and rabbits, the tree of Christmas, worship of the bull, calf and cow, worship of the Sun god on Sunday, worship of relics, start of the new year in the dead of winter, all originated with Semiramis soon after the Flood and have been foisted on a gullible Christianity by the false Church. Worship of idols had originated before the Flood and remained an important part of the religion originated by Semiramis.

SAME “GODS” WORSHIPPED UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES

Much of the world population was still living around the Middle East and coasts of the Mediterranean and had not moved too far away. Semiramis was active in Egypt, Babylon, and Mesopotamia. She developed most of her religion when she was in Babylon. She also initiated the Temple prostitute system. She had become a literal whore as the Bible calls her in Revelation 17:1,5, committing fornication with the “kings of the earth.” These were patriarchs of the various tribes or branches of Noah’s descendants who still lived near Babylon whose descendants later became nations. That’s how Semiramis was able to spread her religion to all the world. As a Temple prostitute, she committed whoredom with all of them. That’s why there are some similarities in pagan religions all around the world with similar myths. And that is why every religion on earth has the belief that humans have an immortal soul.

Since all these people had different languages, they would have different names for Semiramis and Nimrod, deified as gods. For example, Nimrod was worshipped as the “god” Baal by the Phoenicians, Osiris in Egypt, Tammuz by the Assyrians and Babylonians, Bacchus by the Greeks and the Romans, Balder of the Scandinavians, Moloch of the Ammonites, Chemosh of the Moabites and Krishna of the Indians. Semiramis was worshipped as the “goddess” Queen of Heaven, Egyptian Isis, Grecian Ceres, Assyrian Ishtar and the Babylonian Beltis.

Asshur was among the leaders who rebelled against Noah’s colonization plan. He too was deified when Semiramis and Nimrod were deified. He was worshipped as the “god” Mercury when Nimrod was active but then took on the title of Jupiter Belus (Belus means “lord”) according to Salverte in his “History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places.” Thus, when Nimrod, Semiramis and Asshur deified themselves, they had acquired Gnostic beliefs with “secret knowledge” introduced to them by Naamah but reinforced by direct communication with Satan and the demons. Thus, German Gnostic beliefs originated with their Patriarch Asshur. Living “Cain’s Way” is a natural consequence of Gnostic beliefs.

ERRORS ABOUT ORIGINS OF GNOSTICISM

Some believe that Gnosticism preceded Christianity by about 5-10 centuries, whereas other scholars believe that it emerged just after various gospel accounts had been written, meaning in the first century A.D. or very soon after that. I will not burden you with those accounts of history because I believe they are all wrong. I believe Gnosticism in one form, or another emerged very soon after the Garden of Eden, after Eve and Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Satan is the author of all deception, as Revelation 12:9 says he deceives the whole world. But Satan is not the creator. Only the creator God understands His creation perfectly, including human beings. To deal with humanity, Satan had to experiment as God’s plan for humanity unfolded. When a new aspect of God’s plan unfolded, Satan’s earlier deceptions would prove inadequate. So, he had to add new deceptive explanations, resulting in inconsistencies in his explanations. That’s why we see so many Gnostic creation myths, inconsistent with one another. Therefore, all the gnostic beliefs did not emerge soon after the Garden of Eden with Cain. Innovations continued to be added through the centuries. And humans keep adding their own explanations to resolve inconsistencies in what Satan has palmed off to them. That’s why there are many different creation myths, and who brings the knowledge of salvation to the Gnostics.

The strategy that salvation is only for the Germans has been used by Satan with all religions, particularly those that have been violent. Islam and Roman Catholics believe salvation is only for them. They have been the most brutal in imposing their religion on others. Islamists think they are doing the world a favor by imposing Islam on them, even by the sword, so that other humans can also attain salvation. Roman Catholics burnt heretics alive because they believed others would not then rebel against the Catholic Church and lose their salvation by doing so. They also conquered by the sword to bring salvation to those they conquered, though swords of monarchs were used, who were called “protectors” of the Church.

In conclusion, there is also nothing new about German beliefs. The seed of Gnosticism was sown in the Garden of Eden. Satan declared to Eve in Genesis 3:4-5, “4 And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die: 5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

Satan implied to Adam and Eve that they had an immortal soul and that they cannot die. But that lie became evident to them when Cain murdered his brother Abel.

Satan then started working on the embittered Cain after he was separated from Adam’s other children. He continued the lie with Cain that he had an immortal soul. Only his descendants started using El, the name for God, as part of their names because they believed Satan’s lie that they were gods and had an immortal soul. Cain and some of his descendants later deified themselves as the Titan gods. They later imposed tribute and taxes on Seth’s descendants. Thus, Satan seems to have eventually convinced Cain and his descendants that they only had the immortal soul in them whereas the descendants of Seth did not and were created to serve them. That’s why they could rule over them, impose tribute and taxes on them. It thus seems that the earliest form of Gnostic beliefs originated with Cain.