Not So Fast, Nimrod: My Take on the War of Genesis 10
Genesis chapter 10 has one of the most important messages in all of the Bible. It is rich and deep ... and missing. YOU. CANNOT. READ. BETWEEN. THE. LINES. WITHOUT. COLONEL. J. GARNIER'S. THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD. I am not selling the book; it is available online at many sites as a pdf. If you buy it (which I highly recommend), do get a hardcover. I owe Kessinger Publishing a plug for giving me the book after helping them fix an error in their initial edition of it. My Amazon review for this splendid material text is now attached to the digital version, which is full of errors introduced by scanning the old font (computer didn't know what to do with it).
From ancient archaeological monuments and texts, Garnier documents and analyzes the history of religion as it spread across the earth after the flood of Noah. It easy to miss the psychological significance of this supposed history, especially the birth records of the sons of Noah--Shem, Kham, and Japheth--in Genesis chapter 10, and the war it contains.
“War? What war? There ain't no stinkin' war in Genesis chapter 10. It’s a freaking genealogy.”
Au contraire, mon cheri. Chapter 10 is a "typical" psychological history of our experience in the process of salvation. In my opinion, it is a Gospel message, an encouraging salvation history evidencing that the promises are true. The war is pivotal. Whatever physical history there was has been absconded for this salvation history. Personal names are the roles that are played in our lives. States of YOUR life. This is your history. I hope it is underway.
First of all, of Shem, Kham, and Japheth, Japheth was the eldest. Shem was the youngest, but is mentioned first because, like David, he was the star of the story. His was the name of renown--YHWH in us. Japheth, our expanding mind, is going to live in his little brother's house. Kham was the stinker. By the way, there were no people in all of this. Kham is the psychological facet of our minds that appreciates the way things work humanly. Things get accomplished by force, by our will and effort. Kham is our living in Egypt, the flesh. It is the ignorance resident in us before we get saved and regenerated, which remains AFTER we have been saved and regenerated. You think everything goes rosie after you get saved? Uh-uh. You have just entered the war to the mortifying of the flesh. They don't say put on the whole armor for nothing (Ephesians 6:10-18). This genealogy is about the war.
Noah, rest, represents our being in God, the imagination of the Ineffable we are all of. In the previous chapters we have just seen the mind of man attain to this rest: we discover God, submit, are accepted, and are transported to a new life. All things become new. Cool. But we are still here in this world of the darkness of ignorance. We want to get things going. Why not just "do do do what we did did did before?" I.e., go back to using human force. The son of Kham was Cush, the rebellion of ignorance--darkness--against submission to God. Our ignorance wants to re-establish the kingdom of its father. Nimrod is the resurgence of our ignorance from BEFORE the flood in the new life AFTER the flood.
In verse 8, "he (Nimrod) began to be a mighty one in the earth." Any Bible study is going to reveal that 'Nimrod' means rebel and that he was a hunter of man's minds "before" (against) YHWH. Nimrod built Babylon and other cities in the land of Shinar--Mesopotamia. Nimrod, the nephilim. Big guy, Mean guy. Strong guy. For God ... as long as you accepted that he and/or his father WERE God. This was conversion forced by the sword: you submit to "God," or die. It was religion as a tyranny. Faithfulness to YHWH the loving provider was treason. AND NIMROD APPEARED TO BE WINNING THE WAR, you stinking backslider.
What we are likely to miss is verse 11, that OUT of that land, Nimrod's land, came the Ashurai who built Nineveh and other great cities in the area. Nineveh was dedicated to, was named after Nimrod. The Ashurai were descendents of Ashur, the second son of SHEM (verse 22). Shem? What the heck were Ashurai doing there? Were they backsliders who had joined Nimrod in Babylon? No. They took over after Shem got rid of Nimrod, killed him, and liberated all those cities from Nimrod's influence. "Hear the bells ringing; they're singing that you can be born AGAIN." All of this was between verses 10 and 11.
For God's sake, read the end of page 260 and all of page 261 in Garnier's The Worship of the Dead (pages 302 and 303 in the pdf linked above). Osiris - Nimrod - is our minds' sense of independence from God, our reliance upon self, and separateness from everything else: the One being "just me." Nimrod, our residual ignorance, puts us in bondage. The sons of Shem, God's nature in us, are Elam - the Wisdom of Eternity (see the Child in Proverbs chapter 8), Ashur - the Consciousness (Creative Imagination) of the Trinity, and Arpachshad - the One (Holy Spirit) Who Releases. These are the sons of the Name (nature of), YHWH, who eliminate our resurgent ignorance as many times as needed until it is totally overcome. Nineveh backslid after it was freed, but God sent Jonah to call it to repentance. And they did. (Jonah, by the way, like Nimrod found out that God is playing hardball. Heads up.)
Cush, Nimrod, and Semiramis present an unholy trinity that made me balk at accepting the image of Ashur. Ashur's image has the Son exercising rule from inside the disc of the sun/Source, with waves of His Glory all around (shaped like a bird - indicating the Holy Spirit?). It is a depiction of T'lah Qnu-umeh (Aramaic; see the last three pages of Alexander's translation of Genesis), the Three Spirits Of The Trinity, made many years before the giving of the Law by Moses. Because it is not Shem or Ashur who overcomes our darkness and sets us free. It is God.
Criminy. All this in a simple genealogy.
From ancient archaeological monuments and texts, Garnier documents and analyzes the history of religion as it spread across the earth after the flood of Noah. It easy to miss the psychological significance of this supposed history, especially the birth records of the sons of Noah--Shem, Kham, and Japheth--in Genesis chapter 10, and the war it contains.
“War? What war? There ain't no stinkin' war in Genesis chapter 10. It’s a freaking genealogy.”
Au contraire, mon cheri. Chapter 10 is a "typical" psychological history of our experience in the process of salvation. In my opinion, it is a Gospel message, an encouraging salvation history evidencing that the promises are true. The war is pivotal. Whatever physical history there was has been absconded for this salvation history. Personal names are the roles that are played in our lives. States of YOUR life. This is your history. I hope it is underway.
First of all, of Shem, Kham, and Japheth, Japheth was the eldest. Shem was the youngest, but is mentioned first because, like David, he was the star of the story. His was the name of renown--YHWH in us. Japheth, our expanding mind, is going to live in his little brother's house. Kham was the stinker. By the way, there were no people in all of this. Kham is the psychological facet of our minds that appreciates the way things work humanly. Things get accomplished by force, by our will and effort. Kham is our living in Egypt, the flesh. It is the ignorance resident in us before we get saved and regenerated, which remains AFTER we have been saved and regenerated. You think everything goes rosie after you get saved? Uh-uh. You have just entered the war to the mortifying of the flesh. They don't say put on the whole armor for nothing (Ephesians 6:10-18). This genealogy is about the war.
Noah, rest, represents our being in God, the imagination of the Ineffable we are all of. In the previous chapters we have just seen the mind of man attain to this rest: we discover God, submit, are accepted, and are transported to a new life. All things become new. Cool. But we are still here in this world of the darkness of ignorance. We want to get things going. Why not just "do do do what we did did did before?" I.e., go back to using human force. The son of Kham was Cush, the rebellion of ignorance--darkness--against submission to God. Our ignorance wants to re-establish the kingdom of its father. Nimrod is the resurgence of our ignorance from BEFORE the flood in the new life AFTER the flood.
In verse 8, "he (Nimrod) began to be a mighty one in the earth." Any Bible study is going to reveal that 'Nimrod' means rebel and that he was a hunter of man's minds "before" (against) YHWH. Nimrod built Babylon and other cities in the land of Shinar--Mesopotamia. Nimrod, the nephilim. Big guy, Mean guy. Strong guy. For God ... as long as you accepted that he and/or his father WERE God. This was conversion forced by the sword: you submit to "God," or die. It was religion as a tyranny. Faithfulness to YHWH the loving provider was treason. AND NIMROD APPEARED TO BE WINNING THE WAR, you stinking backslider.
What we are likely to miss is verse 11, that OUT of that land, Nimrod's land, came the Ashurai who built Nineveh and other great cities in the area. Nineveh was dedicated to, was named after Nimrod. The Ashurai were descendents of Ashur, the second son of SHEM (verse 22). Shem? What the heck were Ashurai doing there? Were they backsliders who had joined Nimrod in Babylon? No. They took over after Shem got rid of Nimrod, killed him, and liberated all those cities from Nimrod's influence. "Hear the bells ringing; they're singing that you can be born AGAIN." All of this was between verses 10 and 11.
For God's sake, read the end of page 260 and all of page 261 in Garnier's The Worship of the Dead (pages 302 and 303 in the pdf linked above). Osiris - Nimrod - is our minds' sense of independence from God, our reliance upon self, and separateness from everything else: the One being "just me." Nimrod, our residual ignorance, puts us in bondage. The sons of Shem, God's nature in us, are Elam - the Wisdom of Eternity (see the Child in Proverbs chapter 8), Ashur - the Consciousness (Creative Imagination) of the Trinity, and Arpachshad - the One (Holy Spirit) Who Releases. These are the sons of the Name (nature of), YHWH, who eliminate our resurgent ignorance as many times as needed until it is totally overcome. Nineveh backslid after it was freed, but God sent Jonah to call it to repentance. And they did. (Jonah, by the way, like Nimrod found out that God is playing hardball. Heads up.)
Cush, Nimrod, and Semiramis present an unholy trinity that made me balk at accepting the image of Ashur. Ashur's image has the Son exercising rule from inside the disc of the sun/Source, with waves of His Glory all around (shaped like a bird - indicating the Holy Spirit?). It is a depiction of T'lah Qnu-umeh (Aramaic; see the last three pages of Alexander's translation of Genesis), the Three Spirits Of The Trinity, made many years before the giving of the Law by Moses. Because it is not Shem or Ashur who overcomes our darkness and sets us free. It is God.
Criminy. All this in a simple genealogy.
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