Nimrod the first monarch & world government

Nimrod a Mighty Hunter

Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis 10:8-12

Cush was a son of Ham, who was a son of Noah: Nimrod was a grandson (4th generation) of Noah. When we read of the exploits of Nimrod we can better understand the saying of the Lord 'Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children of the third and fourth generation of those who hate me'. It was the third and fourth generations of Noah where the trees begin to bear no fruit. God brought a visitation on those generations at the building of the tower of Babel.

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The Tower of Babel

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:1-9.

The people is one, that is, 'united', and their language is one (also meaning united) suggesting they were of the same mind set (against the Most High?).

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Of Nimrod, the historian Flavius Josephus wrote:

Now the sons of Noah were three,—Shem, Japhet, and Ham, born one hundred years before the Deluge. These first of all descended from the mountains into the plains, and fixed their habitation there; and persuaded others who were greatly afraid of the lower grounds on account of the flood, and so were very loath to come down from the higher places, to venture to follow their examples. Now the plain in which they first dwelt was called Shinar. God also commanded them to send colonies abroad, for the thorough peopling of the earth, that they might not raise seditions among themselves, but might cultivate a great part of the earth, and enjoy its fruits after a plentiful manner. But they were so ill instructed that they did not obey God; for which reason they fell into calamities, and were made sensible, by experience, of what sin they had been guilty: for when they flourished with a numerous youth, God admonished them again to send out colonies; but they, imagining the prosperity they enjoyed was not derived from the favour of God, but supposing that their own power was the proper cause of the plentiful condition they were in, did not obey him. Nay, they added to this their disobedience to the divine will, the suspicion that they were therefore ordered to send out separate colonies, that, being divided asunder, they might the more easily be oppressed.

The Mind of Nimrod

Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach! and that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers!

Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them divers languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion. The Sibyl also makes mention of this tower, and of the confusion of the language, when she says thus: “When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.” But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: “Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Jupiter Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.”

Source: Antiquities of the Jews 1.113-119 Flavius Josephus translated by William Whiston

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The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions, Nimrod is the primary founder of Masonry
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

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"As regards Masonry, Babel of course Represented a Masonic Enterprise..."
Arthur Edward Waite, A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and of Cgnate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature and History (Vol.1) (New York: Weathervane Books, 1970), p.61.

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"It is well known that the Tower of Babel was one of the most ancient traditions of Masonry..."
John Yarker, The Arcane Schools: A Review of Their Origin and Antiquity: With General History of Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Theosophic Scientific and Philosophic Mysteries (Belfast Ireland: William Tait, 1909), p. 267.

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In the Masonic Quiz Book, the question is asked "Who was Nimrod?" The answer is: "He was the son of Cush. In the Old Constitutions referred to as one of the founders of Masonry, and in the scriptures as the architect of many cities."
William O. Peterson, Editor, Masonic Quiz Book: "Ask Me Another, Brother" (Chicago, Illinois: Charles T. Powner Company, 1950), p. 32, 133.

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In the York manuscript we find: "At the making of the Tower of Babel there was Masonry first much esteemed of, and ... Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Mason."
John T. Lawrence, The Perfect Ashlar (London: A. Lewis, 1912), p. 295, updated language. The quotation actually reads: "At ye making of ye Toure of Babell, there was Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt was called Nimrod was a mason himself and loved well Masons."

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Post flood the apostasy and rule of Cain resumed through the linage of Ham

Source: The Herodian Mind by Walter Vieth

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Bitumen/Asphalt
In the biblical account of Genesis 11:3 and also the account from Flavius Josephus we read that the people were using bitumen (slime) for mortar in the build of the tower. Such a huge project would have resulted in long term exposure to the toxic material which can cause all types of health issues, more so when the material is heated.
Pre-flood we learn of the toxic metal antimony being used in cosmetics, jewelry and ornaments. In the not so distant past we learn of lead being used in cosmetics whilst arsenic, mercury and other deadly poisons used in medicine. Today the governments of the world are of one mind to heavily promote lithium products on the premise that we need to save the planet. Lithium being highly combustible when exposed to water and air whilst deemed toxic waste once the batteries and ion storage cells become redundant.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6

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What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9.