The Death of Nimrod And The Beginning of the King of the South (3)

Uranus hated his offspring and as soon as they were born, he shut them up in the depths of the Earth. Angry, because her children were imprisoned, Gaea decided to take revenge against her husband. She made a steel and fashioned a sharp sickle. Then she released Cronus—the youngest Titan, and encouraged him to castrate his father and rule in his place. When Uranus came to lie with Gaea that night, Cronus armed with a sickle, cut off his father’s testicles and threw them into the sea. From the wound, black blood dropped and the drops, seeping into the Earth, fertilized Gaea and she gave birth to the Erinves, or, the Giants; and to the ash-tree Nymphs, or, the Meliads. Uranus’ discarded genitals then broke into a white foam from which was born a young goddess, named Aphrodite.”

Cronus

“A Titan, the youngest son of Uranus and Gaea, became the ruler of the universe after castrating his father. He married his sister, Rhea, who gave him three daughters: Hestia, Demeter and Hera; and three sons: Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Cronus lived in fear that he would be dethroned by one of his children as an oracle had predicted, so he swallowed each of his children as they were born. When Rhea was pregnant with Zeus, she asked her parents, Uranus and Gaea, to help her save the third child. Acting on their advice, she went to Crete and there, in a deep cavern, she gave birth to Zeus. There, Rhea wrapped up a stone in swaddling clothes and gave it to Cronus—who swallowed it. Gaea took the newborn baby and, in secrecy, undertook to bring it up.

The oracle which had predicted to Cronus that he would be overthrown by one of his sons had not lied. As soon as Zeus reached manhood, he wanted to seize power from Cronus. Metis, daughter of Oceanus, gave him a drug which made Cronus vomit up the children whom he had swallowed. Together with his brothers and sisters, Zeus attacked Cronus and the Titans; and the outcome of the ten years’ long war was Zeus’ victory. The Titans expelled them from heaven and locked them up in Tartarus.

According to Hesiod, there was a golden race at the time when Cronus was ruling in heaven. People in those days lived free from worries and safe from grief and distress. They remained eternally young. They had no need to work. When the time came for them to die, they went to sleep peacefully. This race, however, vanished from the Earth during the reign of Zeus, and the Golden Age continued to unfold on the Islands of the Blessed, where Cronus was sent later, after reconciling with Zeus. Cronus is sometimes identified with Chronus, the personification of time.”

We have the following also to draw from:

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Saturn was a malicious god who was overthrown by his son, Jupiter (Gr. Zeus), who, in turn, established a Golden Age on Earth. The Mythology Dictionary describes the brutal disposition of Saturn:

“The Titan, Saturn (equated with the Greek Cronus) castrated his father, hated his children, devoured them, and was castrated and overthrown by his son Zeus. After his defeat, Saturn ruled over the Golden Age of the world; according to Roman mythology, he fled to the west and brought a new golden time to Italy. Originally, Saturn was an old Italic deity of the harvest; the Roman’s built a temple to Saturn on the Capitoline Hill and each December celebrated the winter planting with the Saturnalia, a time of revelry and the giving of presents. Saturnalia today denotes a period of unrestrained or orgiastic revelry. Saturn gives his name to the sixth planet from the sun, the second largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. …a saturnine temperament…is…gloomy or melancholy, characteristic of the god who castrated his father and was overthrown. Saturnian simply means pertaining to the god or the planet Saturn. The planet Saturn was also associated with the element lead, and so the term for lead poisoning is saturnism.” (1047)

Each year, at the Roman Saturnalia, the overthrow of the Atlantean god Saturn (Gr. Chronos) by the god Jupiter (Gr. Zeus) was celebrated and there ensued a return to the Golden Age of Atlantis. John King, author of The Celtic Druid’s Year, explains:

“The Roman festival dedicated to Saturn, the Saturnalia, began on the 19th of December. It celebrated the overthrow of the old father-god, Saturn, by the new, Jupiter or Deus-Pater (God the Father, although in our context he is actually God the Son). These gods have direct counterparts in Greek mythology (Chronos and Zeus) and in Celtic mythology (Bran and Bel or Belin)…” (270:133)

In Roman Mythology, Jupiter (Gr. Zeus), was the last god of Atlantis. Ignatius Donnelly tells of Jupiter’s fame and glory after he deposed his father, Saturn: “The third and last on the throne of the highest god was Zeus… He was called ‘the thunderer,’ and ‘the mighty thunderer.’ He was represented with thunderbolts in his hand and an eagle at his feet. During the time of Zeus, Atlantis seemed to have reached its greatest height of power. He was recognized as the father of the whole world…” 635 (Part IV, Ch. II)


With all this mythology now laid out before us, we can see that Nimrod viciously attacked Cush and, during this attack, castrated him. Nimrod continued to reign supreme in Mesopotamia, or the domain of Babylon. At some point, he was captured by Shem — who is also known to be the Melchizedek of Salem. “Jeru” means city. “Salem” means peace. Therefore, Jerusalem means City of Peace.

Nimrod was tried and found guilty in a court of law, executed, and his body was cut apart and sent to the other nations as a warning not to follow in Nimrod’s rebellious ways. This led to the Babylonian religion and worship of Nimrod becoming secretive and hidden from Shem. Hence, the mysterious Babylonian religion was born—the Babylonian “Mystery” Religion or “mystery” schools to be more specific.

But what became of Cush and his followers? In the book, Legends by author David Rohl (p. 218)we read:

The story begins, or rather continues, with Cush and his three brothers—Mizraim, Put and Canaan—whom the biblical redactor recognizes as the eponymous founders of the lands of Kush (Ethiopia), Musri (Egypt), Put (Libya) and Canaan (Lebanon/Phoenicia). In his Chronikon, Eusebius informs us that Cush was the ancestor from whom the Ethiopians descended. Josephus, the Jewish Historian, makes reference to the same basic story.

“…of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus (Cush); for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even to this day both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites (Kushites). The memory also of the Mesraites is preserved in their name; for all we, who in this country (of Judea) call Egypt Mestre, and call the Egyptians Mestreans. Phut also was the founder of Libya and called the inhabitants Phutites, from himself.

Meskiagkasher, in the Sumerian king list, journeyed across the sea and came to mountainous land. This was Kush (Kasher). Enmerkar, son of Meskiagkasher, king of Uruk, the one who built Uruk, became king and reigned 420 years. Cush left Mesopotamia and migrated down the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and up the Red Sea and landed at what is now called Port of Suakin, just south of Port Sudan around the year 2980 BC. (The Lost Testament, David Rohl pp. 81-83) Masri would sail on to claim the land of Egypt.

We now turn and read page 93.

The people of Susiana had long since maintained strong ties with Kushite traders from both Punt and the early Kingdom of Kush—centered on the Sudanese Nile valley. They themselves claimed descent from King Mesliagkasher (biblical Cush) of Uruk who, shortly after his death, had been deified both in the Nile valley and in Susiana. The Sumerian king list recorded the first antediluvian ruler of Uruk by the eponym, Meskiagkasher, which translates as Kash, the hero who divided the earth (amongst his followers). The Egyptians, who came later, also remembered him through the name of their southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Kash (which Egyptologists refer to as Kush) and through the Greeks, we derive our own word, “chaos” (i.e., division) from this same hypocoristicon. But Cush is also known to us today by his second and more infamous Egyptian name—Seth Lord Chaos.

The modern day Egyptologist, David Rohl and the Reverend Alexander Hislop both agree in their findings. Cush left Mesopotamia and came to Egypt and continued with the Babylonian religion only with himself as the supreme deity instead of Nimrod.

Please turn with me to the Book of Daniel where we read:

40 At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the King of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through. 41 He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels. (Daniel 11:40-43)

Brethren, this long dissertation was to show you proof positive who is the King of the South. Some would have you believe many wild stories. Others believe it to be Iran. The Bible, History and Archeology all show us that the King of the South is going to be led by Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya. The belief held by some experts that these countries will attack first and provoke the King of the North to retaliate is stated in Scripture. It does not seem possible at the time of this January 2008 writing. But we should be watching for this.
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