Revelation of Jesus Christ
From the KJV 1611 with Strong's Concordance
The Priesthood of Babylon
The Cult of Inanna
In the study of the four beasts of Daniel 7 we discovered that Nebuchadnezzar as well as being king was also High Priest of the temple of Eanna also known as the Cult of Inanna. This study is part of the Daniel four beast kingdoms in order to better understand the driving elements, and to find patterns of consistency within these four beasts kingdoms with a view of better understanding the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.
The Cult of Inanna: The Eanna temple was a major center for the cult of Inanna in Uruk, and its high priest was often the king himself, a position associated with ensuring agricultural prosperity and performing the sacred marriage rite. Notable figures who served in a priestly capacity at Eanna include Meshkiangasher, a legendary king and priest of the temple, and Nabonassar, a šatammu (high priest) of Eanna in the 7th century BC. High-ranking priestesses, like the entu, also held authoritative roles within the cult of Inanna.
The King as Chief Priest
Agricultural Prosperity:
This ritual guaranteed the agricultural abundance of the city, a role heavily emphasized in depictions like the Warka Vase.
Title "EN":
The Sumerian word "EN" for high priest originally meant "husband" or "owner," reflecting the king's position as the goddess's consort.
Historical Figures
Nabonassar:
A high priest (šatammu) of Eanna in the 7th century BC, he is significant as the likely father of Nebuchadnezzar and grandfather of the first king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Other Priestly Roles
Source: Google.
Gender nonconformity or gender variance is gender expression by an individual whose behaviour, mannerisms, and/or appearance does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A person can be gender-nonconforming regardless of their gender identity, for example, trans gender, non-binary, or cisgender.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_nonconformity
Location of Uruk
Uruk was not located in Babylon; Uruk was a separate, important city in ancient Sumer and Babylonia, situated about 110 miles (177 km) southeast of Babylon. It was the location of the world's first urbanized city during the Uruk period and was known for its pioneering development of writing and administrative systems.
Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East or West Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. The site lies 93 kilometres (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur, 108 kilometres (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur, and 24 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of ancient Larsa. It is 30 km (19 mi) east of modern Samawah.
Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the final phase of the Uruk period around 3100 BC, the city may have had 40,000 residents, with 80,000–90,000 people living in its environs, making it the largest urban area in the world at the time. Gilgamesh, according to the chronology presented in the Sumerian King List (SKL), ruled Uruk in the 27th century BC. After the end of the Early Dynastic period, with the rise of the Akkadian Empire, the city lost its prime importance. It had periods of florescence during the Isin-Larsa period, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods and throughout the Achaemenid (550–330 BC), Seleucid (312–63 BC) and Parthian (227 BC to AD 224) periods, until it was finally abandoned shortly before or after the Islamic conquest of 633–638.
The second city of Nimrod
William Kennett Loftus visited the site of Uruk in 1849, identifying it as "Erech", known as "the second city of Nimrod", and led the first excavations from 1850 to 1854. In myth and literature, Uruk was famous as the capital city of Gilgamesh, hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Biblical scholars identify Uruk as the biblical Erech (Genesis 10:10), the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar.
Early Dynastic, Akkadian, Ur III, and Old Babylonian period
Uruk continued as principality of Ur, Babylon, and later Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian Empires.
Note: Ur of the Chaldeas was the city that Abraham was called out of by God the Father.
Artifacts
The Mask of Warka, also known as the 'Lady of Uruk' and the 'Sumerian Mona Lisa', dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest representations of the human face. The carved marble female face is probably a depiction of Inanna. It is approximately 20 cm (7.9 in) tall, and may have been incorporated into a larger cult image. The mask was looted from the Iraq Museum during the invasion of Iraq in April 2003. It was recovered in September 2003 and returned to the museum.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk#Artifacts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk
Summary: The marriage ritual between a person and the 'goddess' performed by the priest-king Nebuchadnezzar points to the initiation into the cult, a binding of oneself, possibly a submission of ownership (body and soul) to the consort and the goddess. The initiation into these secret societies and the mystery school religions appears to begin with a ritual (an act) and an oath of secrecy. In the cult of Eanna, this may have included the princes, governors, captains, judges, treasurers, counsellers, sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces. Many of the presidents of America have been 32nd or 33rd degree Freemasons, meaning they took an oath of secrecy on pain of death to never reveal the secrets of the society they then swear another oath to the people of the country during the inauguration ceremony where they are sworn in as president, but who do they really serve?
The word 'inauguration' comes from the Latin word 'augur', noun The first syllable is from avis, a fowl; but the meaning and origin of the last syllable are not obvious.
1. Among the Romans, an officer whose duty was to foretell future events by the singing, chattering, flight and feeding of birds. There was a college or community of augers, originally three in number, and afterwards nine, four patricians, and five plebeians. They bore a staff or wand, and were held in great respect.
2. One who pretends to foretell future events by omens. Source: Websters 1828 dictionary.
The cult of Inanna appears to be centred around goddess worship which points to the woman in Revelation who sits on a beast (king/kingdom), she has a name written upon her forehead, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, and she is drunk on the blood of the Saints, and with the Martyrs of Jesus. From Semiramis, Isis, Ishtar, Venus, Diana, and Mary (Catholicism) to name but a few, Goddess worship (often with a child) can be traced throughout the ancient world, and into the modern world. The word MYSTERY meaning; (to shut the mouth); a secret or mystery (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites) and BABYLON meaning confusion which points to the outcome, being a strong delusion.
We learn that gender confusion can be traced back (post-flood) to the ancient priesthoods of Babylon. Nimrod, believed to be the first monarch, and builder of Babel and Nebuchadnezzar from the book of Daniel were both high-priests (political and religious power in one man) today coined as church and state. Just imagine these divisive destructive components combined in one man? Then add the gender confusion component, then add a clergy of feminised yes men around the priest-king, and we have a potential megalomaniac in the making. Worst of all, this priest-king power house was in charge of everything. Upon investigation into Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar we learn of men with incredibly huge egos who both perceived themselves as more than just mortal men. These were men who challenged the creator, setting themselves up to be like God. The clergy of the priesthood being of gender-nonconforming could be seen as a means of submission to the priest-king as a means of control through the feminisation of the male. The clergy performed lamentations and musical rites, and when we overlap this onto modern day society it would explain the feminised males of the music scenes of recent decades, where male acts perform with long hair, sexually provocative clothing, wearing make up, singing lamentations about failed relationships, worldly love, and the promotion of sex, drugs and alcohol. The acts are presented as heroes for the masses to idolise and worship (idolatry), all appearing organic yet orchestrated by a multi-billion dollar industry, a production line, constantly pushing the boundaries to blur the lines between male and female, reality and fiction, whilst sexualising (grooming) the youth of each generation to transcend the natural boundaries. Through repetition these social influencers are projected into the minds of the masses via movies, television programming, radio, and the internet. In more recent times the acts have become even more brazen with men dressed up as women with facial hair just to nudge society even further down into the depths of depravity. Political leaders claiming men can have babies, health services jumping on the band wagon. Drag queen story hour in libraries, schools now promoting the transgender ideology mixed in with politics and sex education to further radicalise the minds of our children, whilst parents are ignored when daring to confront the destructive nature of this indoctrination or coerced to self censor themselves in fear of losing their jobs. There is an agenda at play, doubt it not, and the outcome being many minds destroyed in the process. The goal being to create an apostasy on a worldwide scale where they, the rulers of the darkness of this age, the builders can bring in their new world order. I do not proclaim to fully understand the ideologies of the mystery schools, I am merely an observer trying to make sense of the world that has been projected onto myself from my arrival here. It is not my intention to offend, but to hopefully point out some of the obvious deceptions that are uncovered in these investigations, that said, ultimately all these things point to a perversion of the natural order as intended by the creator.
It is in these times that we can truly understand, and appreciate the importance of the teachings of Christ, and why we can do nothing without Him.
'And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.' Matthew 16:18.
Related: The Two Babylons - by Alexander Hislop in PDF Format