Let us go into Genesis and look at what Babylon was. Let us see if we can get the feel for why God would speak that He hates Babylon in such massive terms (as we will get into later on in chapter 18). In Genesis 10:8 we see the beginning of Babylon as recorded in Scripture. “And Cush begat Nimrod: he (Nimrod) began to be a mighty one in the earth.” The word in the Hebrew is a hero. Verse 9,“He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.” The word “mighty” is incorrectly translated from the Hebrew. It should read as “might” and not as “mighty”. Notice also that the words “before the Lord” are used every time the Scripture says the “mighty hunter.“ The proper translation of that phrase from the Hebrew is “in the face of the Lord”, as in opposition to the Lord. Nimrod was indeed a Hunter – of souls. Nimrod was not with God, he was doing this in himself, and it was not God. Verse 9 is correctly translated as: “He was a might hunter [a hunter of might] in the face of [in opposition to] the LORD; wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the might hunter in the face of the LORD”. in-spirit-and-in-truth.kulanukechad/revelation-jesus-christ-chapter-18/
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:41:41 +0000
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