<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Now, our subject starts tonight with one of these junctions. And that was... Our scene opens up in Babylon. And Babylon appears in the first of the Bible; it appears in the middle of the Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible. Now, there is nothing on earth now but what always has been. It come out of Genesis, every ism. If you'll go back and study close, you'll find that every ism on the earth today, begin in Genesis. Because it means "the beginning, the seed." And all the sin that you see on the earth today began in Genesis.
And I want to ask you something, "What is sin?" Sin is righteousness perverted. Did you ever think of that? You married men that has wives, and you live with your wife; she is your wife. And she's just as pure and holy as she was before you married her in the sight of God, if you're legally married. But the same act with another woman, would be perverting righteousness unto unrighteousness, which would condemn your soul to hell for doing it, yet the same act. All unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Sickness is health perverted. Death is life perverted. Everything that is, was.

L-16 And now, Babylon appearing in the first of the Bible, in the middle of the Bible, and in the last of the Bible, it behooves us to kind of study about Babylon. The first, it was built by Nimrod, which was the son of Ham. And it was a great city. And all the round and about cities paid tribute to this great city. And it was like a great organization that all the rest of the churches paid tribute to this one great leadership, headship. And it was founded in the--the valley of Shinar, which was one of the valleys, one of the greatest richest places in the known world of that day, and the river Euphrates... Tigris, passed above it, and the Euphrates went right through the valley. And this information could be gotten from Hislop's "Two Babylons" and many of the ancient writers.

L-17 And as we notice, it was built for the purpose of being predominant, ruler over. And God never did intend any city or any man to rule one over the other. We are all the same creatures of God, made in His image and in His likeness.
And this great city was built... Let's take a look at it. It was a hundred and twenty miles around this city. And the walls of this city was eighty feet across the wall. You could run a chariot race around that wall just as hard as a horse could gallop. And every street in the city was some two hundred feet across. Now, in those days the cities had very small streets. I've been most of the world, and some of those old cities, like in Norway and so forth, they--the cities are so small, that, well, they can't even get an automobile through the street because it was a little carriage went through the street.

L-18 But in those cities, streets of Babylon, they was wide across as this auditorium, practically. And many chariots could come down. And if we notice, as the chariots came and every city, every gate opened up, and they led straight to the palace, which set in the center of the city.
I was reminded of it not long ago, when I was in Rome. Every road leads to Rome. Every street, looks like, it leads to the Vatican. Instead of having a mile post, they had the virgin holding the Christ child pointing towards the city.
But all the city, the streets led right straight up to the palace. And before the palace there was great steps that run down, and the river Euphrates came through the city right in front of the palace.


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