The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Three
Cosmic Messages in the
SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.
The Topic
today is: "Many Babylons literally in biblical times for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Three Cosmic
Messages”.
The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"
The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 73.
The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.
Why do you
not click on this now?
--- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:2Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ223_09.pdf
---Two
contrasting systems: truth and error. Two ways: broad and narrow.
---Two
cities: Jerusalem and Babylon. Heavenly Jerusalem or Heavenly Zion and its
opposition on earth, Babylon.
---Truth in
every generation. Heavenly Jerusalem in every generation. Babylon or error in
every generation.
---Same
principles for truth and the same principles for error. In every generation.
---Many
generations, many Babylons.
---Many
Babylons? Is historical Nebuchadnezzar style Babylon not the historical Babylon
only?
---No.
---Stephanie
Dalley in 2005 presented her findings on the topic of Babylon in other cities
including Niniveh. What! Niniveh is called Babylon? Yes, said this cuneiformist
Assyrologist in her paper.
Source: https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc62.pdf
See page 25
and further.
---The
bottomline of her research: Niniveh was called Babylon, and Borsippa, Eridu (Dalley
2005: 25), Ku’ara, Kish, Kullab.
---With these
cities the most ancient cities of Mesopotamia became Babylons, Dalley found. Adventists
are you awake?
---What was
the hallmark of Babylon, as Dalley found it? The following:
a. The original
city itself may be known as Babylon (for example Eridu)
b. It may give
its name to a quarter of Babylon proper for example Eridu, Kullab and Ku’ara.
c. Babylon
proper may contain a temple of the city patron god like Marduk where rites
specific to the original city are performed for example Kullab and Borsippa.
d. The city may
be the place where kingship was first received from heaven like the cities
Eridu, Ku’ara and Kish. That is what the SKL or Sumerian King List said or
read.
e. The
Babylonian Epic of Creation VI dates from the year 650 BC from Niniveh Library
and it reads that when Bel the god built Babylon, he invited the other gods to
a banquet and said to them: “Indeed, Babylon is your home too”. (Dalley, 2005:
26) Thus, Adventists, pluralism or ecumenism. Right? From the start long before
Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.
f. Babylon used
principles established in Nippur and Ashur took it over! The system of error
has children! Posterity! Global posterity. Right?
g. Marduk in
Babylon’s temple was modelled after Enlil’s temple in Nippur from the time of
Tukulti Ninurta in 1207 BC!
h. The “King of
Kish” of that city, early in history was called “King of the World” and the
Akkadian word kiššatu meant “totality”.
---The cuneiform
text Chronicle of Early Kings read “Sargon
II…dug up soil from a clay-pit of Babylon and built a replica of Babylon next
to Akkad”. It was considered an “abomination”. And that Marduk the Babylonian
god became angry.
---Outside
the city of Assur Sennacherib built a New Year Temple in 691 BC and wrote on
its doors the citation from the Epic of Creation but instead of Marduk or Anšar
as the name of the god of the Creation event, he changed the name to Aššur.
This reworking of the Babylonian epic to Assyriolize it, upset the Babylonians
very much. Sennacherib upset the Babylonians so much that in 689 BC he had to
destroy Babylon very vehemently out of control. Sennacherib was not normal for
some time already. Mental deterioration.
---So, if
other empire’s capital cities were all Babylon, and borrowed Babylonian
practices for their cities as well, then they all became drunk with the same
errors. Right?
---In Acts a
citation is made of Amos mentioning the city of Damascus but in the sermon it
is called Babylon.
---Peter called
Rome Babylon in his letter at the end.
---Let us
wrap it up: Every empire since the beginning of man had a main capital and that
main capital was the “gate of the gods” or Bab-ilu. DINGIR.KA.RA or
KA.DINGIR.RA
---Application
for contemporary times: Ur is Babylon in 2004 BC when it fell. Isin was
Babylon, Ashur was Babylon, Niniveh was Babylon, Babylon was Babylon, Susa was
Babylon, Athens was Babylon, Rome was Babylon, Vatican was Babylon since
538-1798. [New York?] is Babylon for the USA empire?
---Who said
this? The Stephanie Dalley principle based on cuneiform studies up to 2005
mixed with historicism of Adventism until 1954 when the spiritualization of vv.
36-45 in Daniel 11 was introduced by many. From literal before to spiritual now
after verse 36.
---But is the
spiritual involvement of the papal system a reality in the USA? Both. Literal
and spiritual. Literal for Daniel 11:36-45. Spiritual for Revelation 12 and 17.