The Christian Journey Out Of Babylon

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Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) 16:19   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁹ YHWH, my Strength, my Fortress, and my Refuge in time of tribulation, the Gentiles will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say: "Surely our ancestors inherited nothing but deception and futility of no profit."

Zechariah (Zekhariyah) 8:23   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
²³ Thus says YHWH of Hosts: "At that time ten strong men from all languages and nations will grab firm a Jewish man by the wing of his garment and say, 'Let us walk with you because we hear that Elohim is with you'."

The Anti-Babylonian Hebrew Civilization

In the previous section we saw how and why Babylon became the default pattern for almost all spiritual, religious and cultural human experience. The only exception to it was delineated by the also hyperdimensional Intervention, and direct Revelation, which the Almighty exercised when He gave Torah to the people of Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai through his servant Moses. Torah was to be the ONLY Heavenly Pattern approved and ordained by YHWH Himself to generate a spiritually healthy and societally effective Religion and culture among all humans. Following their respective philosophies, at first HaSatan gave his evil revelation to the most powerful empire in history — since it had control over every human being living at that time — Babel or Babylon; later on YHWH gave His Perfect Revelation to the weakest nation in the world — a nation of slaves — Israel. A drastic contrast indeed.

Israel was to be the example of YHWH's alternative Culture, Religion and Lifestyle to the rest of humanity in opposition to the one from Babylon. YHWH's Torah was intended to be the Divine Antidote against the satanic ravages of Babylonianism. But the Torah Principles were not to be implemented by default; they could only be put into practice by conscious Decision. This is a Decision to be made by every human being. This is why, whether we like it or not, we will dwell in Babylon by default, or in Jerusalem by our Decision.

The Torah Culture and Religion, which center is located in Jerusalem, emanated from a series of Revelations that YHWH directly delivered unto the people of Israel through Moses while they were in the desert on their way to the Set-Apart Land. This delivery is carefully detailed in the pages of our Written Torah.

[ Obviously, some elements of Torah (Hebrew for Instruction) were given to Adam and Eve (Hawah) previous to their leaving the Garden of Eden. These Statutes were orally passed down from generation to generation through the blessed line of the Hebrew Patriarchs until the time when the full revelation of Torah took place in the desert. The compliance with these pre-diluvian Statutes is what made some of these men be righteous enough in the Eyes of the Almighty as to be taken alive to Heaven (Enoch), delivered from the Flood (Noach), and called out of Ur of Chaldea — Babylon — toward the Land of Promise (Abram). ]

In view of this, it is evident that the Hebrew civilization — like the one from Babylon — was not the product of any natural sociological development, but instead of hyperdimensional interventions.

[ Of course, these interventions did take place in an uncanny way despite the deep, deep chagrin and the loud protests of Darwinian historians and sociologists who, with their limited materialistic presuppositions and narrow frame of mind, cannot allow themselves to consider — or even conceive — anything unnatural. ]

Due to the vital importance that this matter entails, and how long and widely ignored it has been, it bears to repeat some of what has already been said, while adding a few new thoughts. The exceptional Hebrew Civilization, which several centuries after Moses took its final seat in Jerusalem, was the direct and necessary Response of YHWH to the civilization that haSatan had previously founded in Sumer, i.e. Babylon. Thus, since the appearance of Torah in the human midst, both civilizations have continually collided while competing for the hearts and minds of every human being on the planet. In this way, since the early time when Torah was given, the only choice humans have had has been between Jerusalem or Babylon, nothing else.

Now, if we allow ourselves to pay attention to historical appearances, the Hebrew civilization would seem to be on the losing side of the contest between the Models of Babylon and Jerusalem. This is so, in the first place, because Babylon, having been the first of the two in existence to have been experienced by ALL humans, became the default one. (There may have been other Models in the Age before the Flood, but they are not active as they were any more). Secondly, because humans tend to spontaneously embrace the Babylonian Model, since it is the one that catters to and pleases all their sinful appetites. And thirdly, and possibly more importantly, because Babylon tends to syncretize (mix) with and adapt to any other form of religion or philosophy. In opposition to this easy Road, we have the other option — the non-default Hebrew (Jerusalem) Model — which demands a strict moral code of conduct, and a rather meticulous adherence to a standard of spiritual and ideological separation (sanctification) for the committed service and worship of our Creator, Savior and Protector. Obviously, this last choice flatly leaves no room for any possible form of syncretism, or self-gratification. Evidently, its scrupulous moral code and rigorous spiritual separation is not a popular one. No one should ever allow himself to think that YHWH would ever accept a divided allegiance, or an ambivalent choice. This is the reason why Yeshua sternly said:

Matthew (Mattithyahu) 6:24   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
²⁴ No one is able to serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be loyal to one and disregard the other.

And to make the point even clearer, years later, he said through his disciple Yohanan to one of the seven congregations in Asia Minor (Laodicea, the one representing the situation of his followers living at the end of this Age, i.e. our times):

Revelation (Gilyanah) 3:15-16   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁵ I know your actions — that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot! ¹⁶ So, since you are lukewarm — and neither hot nor cold — I intend to vomit you out of my mouth.

The most successful tactic that haSatan has possibly ever used in order to keep most humans away from the Safe but unpopular Jerusalem Road — thus maintaining then on the Dangerous but popular Babylon Road — has been to constantly show them how "difficult" and depopulated — and even discredited! — this Good Torah Road is. To do this he plants in their minds a seemingly logical but very deceptive question: "How can a minimal amount of people be right and the majority be wrong? Evidently, the majority has to be right, and the minority wrong! And you want to be right, don't you? So go, walk with the majority and you'll be right!" It is the false and lethal conclusion which arises from such a delusional "evidence" what Yeshua corrected when he said:

Matthew (Mattithyahu) 7:13-14   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹³ Enter through the Narrow Gate because Broad is the Gate, and Wide is the Road, that leads to Destruction — and many are going through it. ¹⁴ How Narrow is the Gate, and how pressured is the Journey, that leads into Life — and how few are those who find it!

So, as we have seen, the Babylonian civilization was disclosed to humans with the satanic intent to deviate them as far as possible from their Creator's Goal for them. On the other hand, the blessed Hebrew civilization, which reflected some of the Traits of the Civilization of Heaven — as depicted in the Ten Commandments and other Torah Statutes — also sprang suddenly. But this one did it from a Revelation given by YHWH, a Revelation that took place in a such a relevant way that was imprinted in the collective mind of Israel for many centuries to come. This collective imprinting took place due to the profound cumulative results of witnessing these unforgettable events of supernatural origin:

1. All the ten wondrous Plagues that were performed by YHWH against Egypt through Moses in order to bring about Israel's freedom — chief among these wonders was Pesach (Passover).
2. The parting of Yom-Suph, and their dry passage through it, bringing them out of the Egyptian territory for good, thus saving all Israelites from a sure destruction at the hands of the Egyptian army. Noteworthy is the fact that, after all Israel had safely passed the parted sea into the safety of Midian (what now is Saudi Arabia), the opened sea closed over the pursuing Egyptian army to its utter destruction.
3. The extraordinarily loud and fiery display of the first Shavuot in front of the Mountain of Elohim, when all Israel literally heard the Voice of the Almighty ordering them His Ten Commandments from the midst of a thundering Cloud — a Cloud which totally scorched the top of the Mountain to this day. This was the most terrifying and convincing display of Power and Glory ever experienced by any group of humans in the history of our planet.
4. The parting of a massive boulder from which it came out enough water as to quench the thirst of the entire nation.
5. Many other miracles which list is too extensive to detail here.

At this point it is necessary to say that, despite all these phenomena and the lasting imprinting that it caused in the collective mind of Israel, due to a relentless demonic activity combined with the natural human gullibility, the tendency to syncretize with the default Babylonian Model was practically constant among the Israelites of old. This is a sad and shocking reality that has spiced the Hebrew experience in spite of the constant protests, warnings and threats that Israel has received from Elohim through His prophets, and the chastisements she has received — mostly at the hands of other "Babylonized" nations, and even from Babylon itself! This syncretizing tendency continues to be active among their modern descendants nowadays, and is the cause of many additions [takanot] to the original Torah Judaism founded at Horeb. This syncretizing tendency is also the cause of the assimilation of many Jews into the Gentile torrent of Babylon-descended nations. Having said that, those who are not of Jewish lineage should not allow themselves to be unduly conceited and look down upon the Jews for our faults because, if this has been true of Israel, the tendency among Christians has been even more intense, and their syncretistic distortions have been even greater. I shall demonstrate such a statement in due time, not only in this writing but in others yet to come which will deal with such matters in a more specific way. For the time being, allow me to say that it would be a crass mistake to believe that a specific group of humans has been spared from the deeply ingrained human tendency to syncretize with Babylon, as well as from the constant attempts of deceptive interferences from our hyperdimensional satanic foes.

We should all be aware that haSatan has done, is doing, and will do every possible effort to have everyone culturally and spiritually infected with his Babylonian spiritual illness. After all, it was for that purpose that he instigated the raise and development of that evil culture and religion under the highly demonic rule of (Bel) Nimrod and his wife Semiramis (Beltis). HaSatan knew that it would deeply influence humanity's spiritual makeup and experiences for all generations to come. Yes, he constantly will try and take us spiritually and culturally captive to Babylon — and he will do every effort to keep us there — because he knows we all tend to take the easier Road — the one that leads to our demise. HaSatan designed and built the Babylon Road knowing that Babylon's deceptive cultural and religious teachings would always lead humans into ways which are foreign to the appointed religious and cultural Ways of YHWH. That is precisely one of the reasons why, Adonai wants us out of, and far away from, the accursed of Model of Babylon. No wonder it is written:

Revelation (Gilyanah) 18:1-5
¹ After these things I saw another angel coming down from Heaven, having great Authority, and the earth was illumined with his Glory. ² And he cried out with a mighty Voice, saying: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. ³ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality." ⁴ I heard another Voice from Heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues, ⁵ because her sins have piled up as high as Heaven, and Elohim has remembered her iniquities."

Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) 51:6-9
⁶ Flee from the midst of Babylon, and each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her Punishment, because this is YHWH's Time of Vengeance. He is going to render Recompense to her. ⁷ Babylon has been a golden cup in the Hand of YHWH, intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine. Therefore the nations are going mad. ⁸ Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken. Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed. ⁹ We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, since her Judgment has reached to Heaven and towers up to the very skies.

Isaiah (Yeshayahu) 48:20
²⁰ Get out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with the sound of joyful shouting. Proclaim this. Send it out to the end of the earth. Say: "YHWH has redeemed His servant Ya'akov."