Nimrod tower of babel

Nimrod & The Tower of Babel
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Nimrod, the son of Cush, had an impact on ancient Israel unmatched by any other of Ham's descendants. Cush, the oldest son of Ham, fell under the Noahic curse. Consequently, the descendants of Cush, Nimrod included, would fall under the curse as well.
The son of Cush
The son of Cush's name literally means "Let us rebel". Cush felt threatened by Noah's prophecy of servitude, and consequently sought to establish his own kingdom through his son.

Ham had laid the groundwork for open rebellion against his father Noah. He had resented Noah's authority, and in effect, God's authority. This attitude trickled down to his son Cush. Cush, in turn, raised his son in a spirit of rebellion against God and His plan for mankind.

He would become the founder of the very empire which would one day completely destroy the nation of Israel and its Temple, and send its people into exile.

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This empire would, in due course, come to represent the satanic government set up and established in Revelation to pursue and utterly destroy all Jews and Christians from the face of the earth.
Genesis 10:8-10
"And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."

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His Empire
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The Tower of Babel

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NIMROD

As the descendants of Ham moved into Arabia and Africa, Cush and his clan choose to settle in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.
By the time the son of Cush had come of age, he had established himself as a "mighty one in the earth".
The Jerusalem Targum has this to say about him:
" He was powerful in hunting and in wickedness before the Lord, for he was a hunter of the sons of men, and he said to them, 'Depart from the judgment of the Lord, and adhere to the judgment of Nimrod.' Therefore is it said: 'As Nimrod the strong one, strong in hunting, and in wickedness before the Lord.' "
The spirit of rebellion is seen clearly in Ham's grandson. He has no desire to pursue the commandments of God.
Instead, in an effort to thwart the Noahic curse of servitude, Cush had raised his son in the hopes of establishing their own kingdom on earth, and perhaps even enslaving the descendants of Shem and Japheth.
Nimrod was without a doubt a man of great charisma and ability. He held tremendous influence over the people. It is noted that he was a "mighty hunter before the Lord".
Such a phrase would seem to indicate hunting above and beyond the normal hunting required to gather food for one's family.
Throughout the Old Testament the Bohemath and Leviathan appear sporadically, indicating that extremely large animals were present in Old Testament times. Some geologists and scholars claim that the Ice Age immediately followed the Genesis flood , and fossil records from the Ice Age, and pre-Ice Age (before the Flood), indicate that enormous animals existed, perhaps even dinosaurs, or some ancestors of them that found their way onto the ark.
As the environment changed due to the flood, the food supply would have changed as well. Animals that were used to abundant supplies of food before the flood, perhaps found it hard to survive on the limited food supply after the flood.
These fossil records indicate that enormous animals were in fact living around this time. These animals may have been a serious threat to man in the centuries following the flood.
Any person that gained a reputation as a Big Game Hunter in those times would surely have gained fame and popularity among men.
However, this ability was taken and used "against the Lord".
Verse 9 from this passage literally translates;
"He was a mighty hunter against the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter against the Lord." (italics added)

He hunted and killed these animals in a heart of deliberate and open rebellion towards God. Perhaps he viewed his killings as a way to establish his control over God's creation, thus his independence from God's sovereignty. Cush had taught his son that God was against their side of the family, and it was up to him to save his lineage from enslavement and humiliation.

It was by his prowess as a hunter that fame and honer were obtained, and ultimately he rose to a position as a world leader of his time, using his charisma, ability, and energy to establish an empire, centered in Babel.
God had given Noah and his sons the order to establish human government, but the kind He intended was a far cry from what Ham's descendants would build and establish.
The Babylon mentioned throughout the entire Bible, from the captivity and destruction of Israel in 586 B.C., to the Babylon of the book of Revelation, is the Babel built and established in Genesis.
This was truly a government set up against God, and everything God represented.