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The Mysteries of Babylon and

Pagan Sabbaths

Has Satan truly deceived the WHOLE world? Can we really
believe this? If this is true, how has he deceived all the races of
mankind? Does the Bible and history give us a clue? What was
Nimrod's Tower of Babel all about? Did it have anything to do
with changing Jahwah's calendar? Have the Babylon Mysteries
and the worship of Nimrod been Satan's instruments in deceiv-
ing the whole world? Has Satan given the world a false Sab-
bath -- a false appointed time to meet and worship Jahwah?

Deborah Taylor

Before we begin this study, let's go to the Scriptures and get the understanding of how Jah-
wah reveals wisdom and to whom. Jahwah reveals the wisdom of His Word so that it is "here a
little and there a little." He does this in order to separate His people, His "little flock," from the
rest of the pagan world. Isaiah 28:9 states exactly how we are to acquire His knowledge and doc-
trine -- how we have to get weaned from the breast and milk. We have to start eating meat. "To
whom will He teach knowledge? And to whom will He make to understand doctrine? To them that
are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts." Then He goes on to explain HOW He
teaches this knowledge of meat and WHY He teaches knowledge in this way. Verse 10 -- "For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; HERE A LIT-
TLE, AND THERE A LITTLE." Verse 12 -- "....This is how ye may cause the weary to rest; and
this is the refreshing. Yet they WOULD NOT HEAR." Verse 13 states why Jahwah gives His doc-
trine in this way: "But the WORD of Jahwah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; THAT THEY MIGHT GO,
AND FALL BACKWARD, AND BE BROKEN, AND SNARED AND TAKEN."

The mysteries of Jahwah's kingdom are not revealed to everyone. Even when the Messiah
walked the earth He continually spoke in parables and His disciples questioned Him about this in
Matthew 13:10-15: "The disciples came to Him and asked, 'Why do you speak to the people in
parables?' He replied, 'The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to
you, BUT NOT TO THEM. Whoever has will be given more (secrets), and he will have an abun-
dance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to
them in parables, because they see and yet cannot perceive; and they hear and yet do not listen,
nor do they understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "You will indeed hear but never
understand; you will indeed look but never see. For this people's heart has grown hard; they have
stopped their ears and shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their
ears, understand with their hearts and be converted and I would heal them." But blessed are your
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