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days of Ahab and Jezebel, only seven thousand men could be found among the entire
populace who had not embraced Baal and Asherah. Similarly, there is a remnant among the
body of Christ today who have separated themselves from idols.

I John 5:21
Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Jezebel spread idolatry throughout the land of Israel. The spirit of Jezebel continues
to spread idolatry among the body of Christ. Alexander Hislop in the book The Two
Babylons does an excellent job of tracing the proliferation of idolatrous practices among the
nations back to ancient Babylon (Babel), which Nimrod founded.

Genesis 10:10-12
The beginning of [Nimrod’s] kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh,
in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh
and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great
city.

At Babel, the “Mystery Religions” originated. When God came down and visited
Babel and confused the people’s languages, they spread throughout all the earth taking the
idolatry introduced at Babel with them. Because their languages were now different, various
names came to be associated with Baal and Asherah, which in their first origins were
Nimrod and his wife (and mother) Semiramis.
Historical accounts, and religious traditions that have been preserved to this day,
reveal a sordid tale of sexual immorality and idolatrous practices originating in Babel. That
this is so should not be surprising. Nimrod was a descendant of Ham, one of the three sons
of Noah. Ham and his descendants were cursed by Noah because Ham uncovered the
nakedness of his father.

Genesis 9:20-25
Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became
drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth
took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and
covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they
did not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew
what his youngest son had done to him. So he said,"Cursed be Canaan; A servant of
servants he shall be to his brothers."

It was a disgraceful thing for a son to see the nakedness of his father. Rather, than
covering his father, Ham went and broadcast his father’s nakedness to others,
demonstrating great dishonor. Ham had a son named Cush. According to tradition, Cush
married a woman named Semiramis from whom was born Nimrod. When Cush died,
Nimrod took his mother to be his wife. Thus, like his grandfather before him, Nimrod
dishonored his father by uncovering his nakedness.