The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-11
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
A Rift in The Cloud of Mythology.

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wO Id as mysterious as those of our
Lord Jesus. The ones performing them
not being men of God, the question
naturally arises, by what power are
such miracles wrought
Taking the bible we learn that Adam
and Eve were turned out of the Garden
of Eden because of disobedience. In
the garden God had placed life condi-
tions, but Outside, IN the unsubdued
earth, there were no life, trees or hopes
of eternal life, Gen, LIS. Starvation
was the inevitable result of the fall, SO
the scriptures show that physical death
was the wages of sin, Rom. SIP, Gen.
81, 7-19.
The angels in heaven seeing this de-
plorable condition, and that the race
which God had designed should enlarge
the Garden of Eden until it covered the
whole earth were dying, desired permits
sion to try to arrest the downward
course of sin. They were permitted to
try, but Gen. 6: shows their utter
failure. and how they themselves, even,
became sinners, married the daughters
of men, raising children from them and
thus bringing hybrid condition into
Gods creation. God purpose in bring
ing the flood was to purify the race from
the angelic stock. Noah, his three sons
and their wives being pure, adamic
blood, started the world Amen on this
side of the flood. The fallen angels
were not afterward permitted to go
back into their heavenly condition, or
to again assume human bodies, but are
restrained to this extent until the judg-
ment day, and therefore have been as
ISOLATED with satan, the prince OF
lemons, in all his invisible works of
darkness and deception in bringing
damnable heresies among Gods people
by reason of whom many have followed
his pernicious ways, Gil Peter, 2:1-3) ty
reason of whom, also, 1.-THE way Of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
Should we then be ignorant of the
strange power we see manifested in
various ways. bypnOtism, spiritism with
its socalled divine healing" haunted
houses. mesmerism, the speaking with
tongues, none of which has ever vet
been of any avail to the poor sin-sick,
dying race. Does not the world need
Jesus the great physician, who healeth
all our diseases?
Noah'S three sons were named Ham,
Shem and Japeth. Shem was man who
stood for truth and righteousness; Ham
was man who stood for evil, his course
was evil continually, and his descendants
to this day take the side of all the evil
in the earth.
From Shem's side came Abraham.
Isaac, Jacob, Moses. Joshua, David and
our Lord Jesus Christ. From Ham
descended spirit OF evil. From Shem
a spirit of good. These two great
-spirits-have dominated more
or less the minds of all mankind, which
might be represented in Noah's third
Son Japeth. So we see the world divid-
ed into two great camps, Hams camp
of evil, and Shem's camp of good. The
great battle of life has swayed from
side to side between these two armies
of darkness" and of Eight" from the
time of the flood to the present time,
which the bible describes as the present
evil world over which satan is the prince,
the god. John 1870. II. Cor. Al
Noting the course of Hams descen-
dants we see his son Cush was black,
possibly as a part of the course pro-
nounced against Ham for his sin of
shame. Cush had son, Nimrod, who
also was black, as ancient history
pictures him. This Nimrod was the
first great King after the flood He
married his own mother, a young am
bilious, depraved woman, back to whom
the Chaldean mysteries or Black Art is
traced, and all the mysterious miracles
and oracles of pagan Rome, Greece.
Egypt, India and other heather nations.
of early times find their beginning in
her.
NImrod is celebrated as "a mighty
hunter before the Lord" Gen. 1913 II.
Not that he was the Lords hunter
but he was competing with God for the
worship and admiration of men. When
the animals were released from the Ark
they increased in numbers much more
rapidly than did men in the earth, and
in Nimrod's day became so ferocious
that they were menace to human life
Nlmrod became SO expert in destroying
these wild beasts that men looked Up to
him as their saviour with a sort OF
reverential worship which his wife
mother, Semeramis, encouraged and
fostered until he became a real object
of worship as man-god.
The capitol of Nimrod's Kingdom
was Babylon whose walls 365 feet in
height and SO feet in thickness constitut-
ed it the mightiest as we'll as the first
city of ancient times, Its beautiful hang
ing gardens being counted as one of the
seven wonders of the world.
1t is believed that Semeramis was in
league with satan, and when satan
suggested that her son Nimrod was
really the "seed of the woman" who was
not merely to bruise the serpents head,
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earth, she laid hold on the suggestion
courtiers of the King that he was the
veritable SAWYER who ultimately would
DELIVER mankind from the power of
satan. God mentioned the blessing from
''the seed 1t was satan substituted
fraud, deception. Daniel 1911 calls
this false 'seed" the abomination that
maketh desolate and Jesus agrees to it.
Matt 24:15.
This idolatrous religion magnified
Nimrod's powers. He is represented as
Staying bull empty handed after which
he placed the horns of the bull upon his
own head showing thus that he should
wear the crown horns being symbol of
power. He is shown also as Staying
lion. He wears the horns with the
bulls hide down his back including the
tail and his legs encased IN the hide of
the bulls hind legs, hoofs, etc. and thus
arrayed we see the devil as portrayed
today, horns. hoofs, tail and all.
In the Chaldean tongue, Nimrod from
religious standpoint was known as
Zoroaster compound from Zero, seed,
and Ashta, woman, Under the name of
woman and the seed the madonna
and the child this Babylonian religion
was introduced into all nations of that
early date, even while Nimrod was still
living.
Shem, Noah S son, the brother of Ham
lived SOP years after the flood. The