(A Note About Fire Worship: Fire (or sun) worship comes from Babylon originally and it is still practiced

today. The Yazidi (or Yezidi) people

of Iraq (modern-day Babylon) worship a sun-god. Their religion is similar to ancient Zoroastrianism (pg. 54) (i.e. sun-god worship of Babylon).
In this religion, the people pray toward the sun, dance around bonfires, jump through fire, and worship the sun-god "Mirtha" (which originates
from Tammuz). In the Zoroastrian religion (The Two Babylons, Chap. II; Sub-Sect. V; The Deification of the Child [Baal]; pg. 54), people
worshiped the sun-god with fire, claiming that the fire was sacred and somehow connected to the power of the sun. Fire was thought to cleanse or
help cleanse sin. In some Catholic countries people will jump through fires on "St. John's Eve." This also goes back to Zoroastrian fire-sun-
worship (as Hislop shows in The Two Babylons, pg. 106 and pg. 54).



Mystery Religion: The Antichrist and the
Zoroaster (Part 1 of 2)

(Click here to read part 2 of 2.)


Nearly five thousand years ago, after the flood of Gods judgment on a wicked world, a man
built a city in the land of modern-day Iraq (or Babylon). This man was the ringleader of an
apostate religion: a religion that twisted the truth
of Gods Words and distorted the plan of
salvation God told Adam and Eve in Genesis 3.

The serpent in the Garden of Eden told Eve that
eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil would give her wisdom and that she
would never die. He told her a half-truth (a
deception); for Adam and Eve did die, but they
truly did get the knowledge of good and evil. This
knowledge of sin has not helped us, their
descendants at all. Because of Adam and Eves
rebellion in eating that forbidden fruit sin entered
the world and their sin-nature passed onto their
descendants (us).

God was not going to let the human race perish without giving them a savior, Jesus Christ, the
seed of the woman who would bruise (or crush) the serpents head (Satans head). Jesus Christ
(the seed of the woman) was promised to the early patriarchs to save the human race (mankind)
from its sin and to give mankind eternal life in Heaven.

Satan, who had possessed the serpent, wanted to create a counterfeit religion that would also
claim to have a messiah (or savior) who was supposed to be the seed of the woman (see
Genesis 3).

To do this, Satan had to be very crafty and subtle. He could not bring this apostate religion out in
the open because godly men, like Noah and Noahs son Shem, would intervene. After the flood
of Noah (when God judged the whole Earth with water), Noahs sons and grandchildren and
great-great grandchildren began to multiply in number. Many moved into the land of Shinar, near
the area of modern-day Baghdad, Iraq. In this fertile, Mesopotamian region the first post-flood
civilization was founded. Its capital was later called Babylon. In this great city, a tower of brick
and mortar was being constructed (likely a ziggurat). Everyone spoke the same language because
they all were the same family: they were related closely.

Nimrod, who the Bible calls a mighty
hunter, became the main leader behind
this effort to rebel against God and build a
tower unto Heaven. Their goal was to exalt
themselves above the one true God, the
Creator.

We find that Nimrod started the worship
of the host of heaven (the sun, the moon,
and the Zodiac) (see Zephaniah 1:4-5).
People in pagan religions worshiped the
constellations, the moon, and the sun,
which God forbids.

Exodus 20:5-6

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

Nimrod, the head of this idolatry, was taken by his godly uncle Shem and some other patriarchs.
They found him guilty of idolatry and many other gross sins (such as murder) and had him put to
death. Nimrods body was cut up into pieces and sent to important cities that followed Nimrods
apostasy. This was a warning to them not to follow in Nimrods path. In Egypt, Osiris was said
to be killed by Set (or Seth) and his body was cut up into pieces (click to see the Appendix note
#7).

After God confused the languages at the
Tower of Babel, people grouped together in
families with the same language and
dispersed across the earth. People who spoke
ancient Chinese moved into China.
Europeans moved into Europe. Africans
moved into Africa. Egyptians brought
Nimrods system of idolatry with them when
they moved from Babylon.

The ancient Egyptians taught that their god Osiris was killed and cut into pieces by Set (or Seth,
a name they wrongfully gave Shem). Egyptians taught that the dead Osiris was reincarnated into
the form of his son, Horus, and that Osiris, Isis (his wife), and Horus formed a trinity to be
worshiped. In this idolatrous system, however, the mother and child were mostly worshiped.


Mother-Child Worship and the "Zero-ashta"


Mother-child worship came from Babylon and
reached into many countries. In ancient Assyria, Rhea
(the mother of the gods) and Ninus (the son)
were worshipped; in Egypt, Isis and Horus; in India,
Isi and Iswara; in Greece, Ceres (the "Great Mother")
and her child; in Rome, Fortuna and Jupiter-puer (or
Jupiter, the boy) (see #1); and in ancient Canaan,
Ashtoreth and Baal (Tammuz) were worshiped.

In the mystery religions that came from Babylon this
child was called the seed of the woman or the
Zero-ashta (#2). Zero means seed and ashta
means woman. Zoroastrianism is the worship of a
woman and her seed (her son) who they believed
were gods.

Ancient Babylonians and other mystery religions believed that the sun is a god who became
incarnate into the form of a boy called Baal, the sun-god (#6). This sun-god boy (Nimrods son
Tammuz or Baal) was worshiped with fire, symbolizing the sun. Zoroastrians will pray toward
the sun and run through fire because they believed that the fire has magical properties for
purification (#3).

This is similar to the Catholic belief that the fires of Purgatory will cleanse them of the stain of
sin. This belief contradicts Gods Holy Word, the Bible (see Hebrews 9:11-12, Colossians 1:13-
14, Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 9:24-28). If one believes in the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, and
makes Jesus Christ his or her personal Savior and Lord, that persons sins (and all stains) are
washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ (1 John 1:9).

The ancient people knew about Gods promise to the Serpent (Satan) that someone born later
would bruise thy head. Genesis 3:15 says, And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.

This promise to Satan was also a promise to all mankind that God would send a savior (Jesus
Christ) to deliver them from their sin by Christs death (bruise his heel) because the Serpent
(Satan) would have his head bruised (or crushed). All those who were Satans captives through
sin would be set free if they truly believed and accepted Christs sacrifice (see Hebrews 2:14-18).

Satan knew all about this promise of the Messiah
and so Satan decided he would set up a false
Messiah, Tammuz / Nimrod, who was claimed to be
the savior of the world (#4). This anti-Christ was the
first antichrist to step into the scene and claim to be
the Christ God promised would come. There would
be others later, but this imposter was worshiped
throughout the ancient world along with his mother,
the so called queen of heaven (Semiramis, Rhea,
Cybele, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Isis, etc.).

This is the antichrist (Tammuz / Nimrod) of ancient
Babylon who was worshiped with Semiramis, his mother. This is the man who claimed to be a
god who set up a mystery religion that spread throughout the ancient world. And, it still exists
today.

In the next part (part 2 of 2), we will look at what mystery religion is and how it is related to
dragon (or serpent) worship and freemasonry. We will also look at the God of freemasonry and
find out his true identity as revealed by a 33
rd
degree mason.


(Click here to read part 2 of 2.)


(Click here to see the Appendix.)