The Parthenon vs. The Bible

As you probably know, Caty and I had the opportunity and honor to attend the Feast in Crete this year. We've never been to that area at all and opportunity availed itself. We were able to go with the family of one of my daughters. And Crete is an island which belongs to the general country of Greece.

We had during the trip the opportunity to stop off in Athens. Also, never been there, but I love archaeology, especially biblical archaeology. And that was one of the places where the Apostle Paul was able to visit.

And so we were able to go up to the area called the Areopagus. And there, if you turn with me to Acts chapter 17, Acts chapter 17, the Apostle Paul wanted to share the good news with the people in Athens at that time. In Acts chapter 17, it says about this trip, it said in verse 16, now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his companions, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. And so what we're going to see today are some of those idols. And he was truly incensed over them.

He realized they went against the true religion.

And he was right there in front of the Acropolis.

It says verse 17, therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers and in the marketplace, they're called the Agora, which is right there in front of the Acropolis where they have the Parthenon Temple. He was there daily with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicureans, which are philosophers, these believe that there's no afterlife.

So as Howard brought up, they were of the attitude, live and drink and be merry because you're going to die tomorrow.

So Epicureans just wanted to have a good time every day.

And the Stoics were the opposite. They were very abstemious. They were very disciplined and they really submitted, humbled their bodies to somehow acquire some purity. And so they encountered him and some said, what does this babbler want to say? Others said he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. Of course, the Greeks at that time, they had all, as we're going to see, their own religion, which they believed in the immortality of the soul and that no such thing as a bodily resurrection was ever going to happen.

And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and that's the area right north of what you see there, the Acropolis. We were able to stand right there and where Paul had been and said, may we know what this new doctrine of which you speak? So again, you see there's two religions in the world.

One is a true religion and the rest are false religions. Now they might imitate and take a lot to mix what is true and false, but it is part of the false religions. And so the title is "The Parthenon versus The Bible" because what you're dealing here is with the Greek religion at that time.

And this was not only in Greece, but as we're going to see, it went all the way back to after the flood when people started again populating and we have that account in Genesis that they acquired their own system of religion, of which those who were Greeks took some of that information with them. And so in the first PowerPoint slide that I have, this is the Acropolis at Athens and the other one is the Temple in Jerusalem, which was the true or the false religion. But you can't choose between all these multitudes. Either it is God's way and where Jerusalem stood or Christ taught where we have the Old Testament as the foundation and the New Testament is the edifice over which that solid foundation has been established.

So the true religion was in Jerusalem and not in Athens or Rome. Greek religion actually parallels the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, but gives the opposite side of it. In other words, Satan's side of it.

In 1st John 5.19, God inspired the following statement and we just don't know how steeped this society truly is and most are in complete ignorance of it. In 1st John 5 verse 19 it says, we know that we are of God and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. So Satan is a great counterfeiter.

He is not going to appear as this absolute evil being, but he appears to be very friendly, very obliging. Notice what it says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. Second Corinthians chapter 11.

And it says in verse 13, describing false teachers that actually also were trying to infiltrate the church at that time.

And Paul denounced them. He said, for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Pretenders. Again, how do you know the true ministers of God from false ones?

Well, we're going to learn a little bit about that. You have to know the origins of true religion and false religion. If you know the background, the antecedents, and where they comes from, the history, it's much easier. That's what a detective does. He investigates the person. He doesn't just take it by face value, what you see. No, they go back and then you see a pattern established. It says, and no wonder for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers, in other words, human beings disguised as ministers of Christ, also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. And unfortunately, there's a lot of deceit.

This is something that you're not going to hear in typical churches because they're not interested. They don't want you to know the origins of things because that's when you become free of deception and lies. And so we're just going to take this opportunity to see about the Greek religion itself because it reveals so much of this false system. Now, I've had the chance to go to Peru many years ago and actually south of Lima, they have the famous Nasca lines, which are really hundreds of different drawings on the ground.

And I was able to fly in a small plane and look it over and then I was able to visit the museum there.

They have an archaeologist at that time, Maria Reich, who died. She was the one that preserved the place for 37 years at that time. And she had a helper with her as well.

And that that helper that she had eventually wrote a book and she mentioned that through these Nasca lines that she saw and also the pottery and vases of the these were the Inca rulers and previous to them also, that basically this whole valley was a big what they call a geographic and geolithic type of plane where they had the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis where they have the Garden of Eden, they have man falling into sin, and they even have an ark with somebody going, symbolizing the flood. Well, the Mayans also in Central America had the same knowledge and so did the Greeks, but all of them were part of this mystery religion where they had to hide their adoration of all of these gods after the flood because Noah and his sons were still in charge until they finally died. And so the Greeks actually wrote the history of the Greek people as they opposed the true religion after the flood. And so I just want to go over this subject and let's go to the next slide.

Here we have the Parthenon we're able to see up there, the Acropolis, and actually it's just pretty much an empty hall of what it used to be. Back in the 1600s the Venetians had a war there with the Turks and the Venetians sent a cannonball that exploded inside the Parthenon where they had all the gunpowder, so it just blew the insides out.

But until that time it was still pretty good condition, but thankfully there were sketches that artists had drawn, especially of the story of the Greeks that are found in the facade, the upper part, they drew their history in these sculptures.

And so recently, mainly through the research of Robert Johnson from his books, the Parthenon Code and Genesis characters and events in ancient Greek art, he used the Bible and hundreds of Greek vases and writings to help decode its symbols. So the Greeks were very proud of their heritage and they told the history, but not through writing so much as through these sculptures that they had around that whole Parthenon building.

And what we have is a basic outline to understand the origins of this Greek religion, which of course is still very influential.

This is called the Western Society Greco-Roman culture.

Thus the Parthenon portrays a history of the Greeks rebellion against God, and they were proud of it. They weren't going to have Moses tell them what to do, or God, or Noah.

They were listening to the other source, which was that other source. You're going to see it throughout this presentation. It's the serpent in the garden of Eden.

Remember, this serpent was Satan, so he's an angelic being. He gave them knowledge, and the Greeks were very proud because they wanted to defy God.

And so we're going to see that.

It was the Parthenon dedicated to the goddess Athena, and the following is what we best know about it. So from all of this, we have a basic outline. I'm not sure every detail that they figured it out, but yes, the basic outline coincides with what we know the Bible, what we know about archaeology, and world religions, because it's the same pattern.

The following, as I said, is the best we know, but the rebellion against God started in Babylon, and then went to Greece and other parts. But it was at Babylon that the Bible situates that rebellion that took place after man came back and populated the earth after the flood.

Notice in Jeremiah chapter 51, the Bible tells us if you want to know the origin of false religion, it's in the plane of Babel. That's where you have to go in Babylon.

Jeremiah 51, and I hope you take this as a good stimulus to study up a little bit more on the subject.

Jeremiah 51 verse 7.

It says, Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand that made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine, therefore the nations are deranged. So it talks about this was something God permitted, but the earth became drunk with its false teachings.

It says Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed, so God did take care of it, but it was at Babylon that the nations drank of that false teaching. Notice that here we have the Old Testament Babylon as the original source of false religion, but now in the New Testament we have a second Babylon. So it's not only in the Old Testament, we have one now in the New Testament. Notice in Revelation 17 verse 4 that the apostle John quotes Jeremiah 51.

All this under the inspiration of God, certainly this wasn't something they were just going to come up with on their own, but God is dictating and inspiring them. It says in Revelation 4, it says, the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup, just like we saw in the Old Testament, full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. Now it's not talking about physical fornication, it's talking about spiritual fornication.

She has a cup of teachings that people drink of, and that it is something that there's this church and state system that has appeared all the way from Babylon through our days, which is so powerful and influential.

It says, and on her forehead, remember when God says something is on the forehead of someone, it's to reveal the identity, where it comes from, and on her forehead a name was written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman, this system, religious system, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. So this woman, she was hostile at that time in Babylon, and she continues to be to this day, she doesn't want people to know the truth, the true origins of things.

And so Babylon still is alive today and influences us every day, and so it's good to know what the origins of things are.

Let's go to the next slide.

So on top of the Parthenon, you have this triangular type of section with the roof, and what they put here, this is what they call the pediment, which are sculpted figures.

This is the east pediment. I went there specifically to see that, and I did see the east pediment. Of course, just very few figures are left because some of them were taken by Lord Elgin, the British ambassador who persuaded the Turks who didn't care for any of this because it's all Greek religion, and they just wanted Muhammad, and the Qur'an is important. So they basically took, they're called the Elgin marbles. How many have seen that in the museum? Okay, yeah, probably about seven or eight people.

So what has been done is a reconstruction from all the pieces, from all the different sources that they have. So the first nine symbols reconstructed of the Parthenon pediment or façade by the computer expert Holmes Bryant, who worked with the author of the book the Parthenon Code, start the basic history of Greece, and this goes from right to left. So it starts in the corner, and I'm going to go through each one of those figures because it tells you the origins of Greek religion, and of course these are just figures that then you have all this information underneath. So I don't have time to go into all the details but give you here a basic outline.

And so on this corner you have four horses and the goddess named Nyx. So let's go to the next slide.

The Greek writer Hesiod, who wrote about the origins of the Greek religion, says in the beginning the goddess Nyx brought darkness out of the chaos. So they actually don't start in Genesis 1-1, they start in Genesis 1-2. I'll explain to you why in a moment.

But out of the chaos came darkness and it's a Greek distortion of Genesis 1-1-3.

So the Greeks don't actually start with Genesis 1-1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth because if they would have accepted that, you wouldn't have all these multiple gods.

What they do start with is that the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

And so for the Greeks, because they don't believe in a god that can bring existence out of nothing, they left out the part of God creating the universe.

They could not conceive of the universe starting from nothing but made of pre-existing matter. So the Greeks start already with matter existing and so that's why they have all these gods and the earth and the rest of the things.

That's the way it starts with this. So this is the way Phidias who was the one that the architect of the part he wanted to start so that just like in the plane of Nazca I was just fascinated that the archaeologists there explained that it's not this about having to take a balloon up or or that somehow they had some flying ships. No, they've actually had these tall mountains around the valley. So they would take their students to this kind of a trip to study and they would point out the different symbols. This is the beginning and so they have what they call the spiral with the man coming out. They think it's a thought it's a monkey but it isn't. It's coming out of nothing. Adam is created and then afterwards all of this. This is the same type of thing where you see the same standards going on.

So the next part of it you have three different angelic beings.

Can we get to the next slide? Yes. So after chaos was finished and then after the darkness now you start having light.

You're starting to have life. So here came the Greek version of the garden of Eden just like we have in Genesis chapter 2. God planted.

That's where mankind starts. The only thing is the Greeks didn't call it the garden of Eden because then they would say oh well the Bible is right and we have to abide. No, they had their own version which is called the garden of the Hesperides which were these angelic beings probably because there was a cherubim place there afterwards that you could not go in anymore. But here were these immortal beings and this was paradise. You see the three Hesperides reclining having leisure and a tree entwined by an old serpent.

I got a kick out of how accurate these Greek artists were.

So they wanted to show them well this wasn't some new serpent that was there. No, this was the old serpent. Exactly what it tells us in Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9. Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9.

It says so the great dragon this great serpent was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world. Not just a part of the world. He's deceived the whole world. He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him. So how did the Greeks depict this serpent? It's got a beard. See it's an old age.

So it has this little in his chin. It's a bearded serpent because young people until they get to mature don't have them. They can't have a beard.

So this is the expression that the artist had.

And so you have the same scene as in Genesis chapter 2 with a garden. You have a tree. You have a serpent and you have fruits.

For the Greeks it was golden apples. And that's where people get the idea that Eve took of the apple. But it wasn't that way.

The Bible doesn't tell us but the Greeks said it was golden apples. Here though the taking of the tree was thought to be a positive thing of knowing good and evil through the serpent's teachings and man's independent reasoning.

That is also called humanism where man is the center of all things.

So here Phidias was showing at the beginning there was darkness and well out of the chaos came first darkness and then eventually light. And now you have this garden of Eden with these angelic beings. It's a peaceful place.

And of course we're going to have Adam and Eve here in a moment.

Let's go to the the next person of note which is the god Atlas that is actually pushing up what is heaven. Greek religion hated God's law but loved the serpent's teachings. Look at the vase here at the bottom with that's Atlas holding up the earth but at the same time who's guiding him? The serpent. It's not talking about God.

That's where he's getting the source.

Atlas symbolically pushes heaven away from the earth and its creator for it is against the god of the bible and Abel's and Noah's faith. So the Greeks are saying no we're not going to have anything to do with God and Noah and submitting to God's law. No we're going to rebel. We're going to be independent.

Same attitude we see today throughout society.

I'm going to do it my way not God's way.

Notice in Hebrews chapter 11 and verses one through four. Again the bible tells us the origin of things and by the way this has been confirmed in the sense of through astronomy cosmology it says verse one now faith is the substance or the belief of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen that there is no evidence of things not seen.

That there is a God he does care for you he is going to answer you he's not not going to reveal himself physically but he says trust me come to me I'm there but I'm not going to reach out and grab you you have to do it on your own.

It says verse two for by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

People who followed God and not Satan's way. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.

That it was not constructed from pre-existent matter but from God's word he brought it to fruition. He brought it out materially so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible so matter cannot create itself. Somebody had to bring it forth and that's what we come to now in the 21st Century with all the knowledge we have people know that universe had a beginning.

Also it is expanding just like a clock and if you rewind that clock to zero there won't be anything because it all comes out at a certain moment of time. It says verse four by faith able offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain through which he obtained witness that he was righteous. God testifying of His gifts and through it he being dead still speaks of the true faith.

Abel's the first one who followed God's way and so of course a Greek religion does not want Abel. They followed Cain his brother and they thought it it just Cain was justified because he wanted to become independent of God. He wanted to do things his own way and the life of Cain continued that way. He not only disobeyed God when he killed his brother but then after being expelled God says you shall wander to and fro the earth and what did he do?

He didn't wander he set up the first city.

He stayed put and so that's why in the Bible it talks about the way of Cain and then there's the way of Abel and here we have Atlas who is pushing and saying get out of the way God we're going to do things on our own.

He's the symbol and as you study what the Greeks talk about Atlas. What pardon no that's that's a that's a later one.

Now this is the supposedly god Atlas and so you see in verse seven of Hebrews 11 also another one by faith Noah being divinely warned of things not yet seen moved with godly fear prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world why because nobody else paid attention nobody else believed nobody else had faith in God that that was going to happen. Did Noah have evidence concrete evidence?

Was it raining all the time? No he knew God cannot lie we can trust him he is absolute goodness and love it goes on to say and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith so you have to obey you have to that's the moment either you do it God's way or your way but God's not going to work with you until you decide to do it his way. He will bless you he will guide you but it takes faith you can't drive your own physical vehicle and put God in the back seat you have to bring God into the front seat and then you get in the back seat and say father I'm ready show me the way and God will bless and he will help you because now you're doing it according to Abel according to Noah.

The Greek said no no we don't want any type of submission we want independence we want to do things our own.

And so we go to the next slide and what happened after the flood a rebellion takes place at Babel. Let's go to Genesis chapter 10 because it's important like I said this you can look at even the Indians here in the United States if you go back to their legends they talk about a flood and they talk about what happened in the eastern part of the world and with the confusion of the tongues and everything that's not just in the Bible that's in all of these different religions and histories.

 Genesis 10 verse 8 through 10 God here identifies who are the ones who are going to just like Adam and Eve rebel listen to the serpent develop their societies according to the serpent's teachings and their own reasonings it says in verse 8 of Genesis 10, Cush begot Nimrod he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord therefore it is said like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. Now the translation here in the Hebrew should say against the lord for instance a Wycliffe version says and he was a strong hunter or oppressor of men before the lord. The Keil and Delitzsch commentary says Nimrod was mighty in hunting and that in opposition to God. The name itself Nimrod means we will revolt points to some violent resistance to God and Cush had something to do with that. How would you like to have a son called rebel. We will revolt and this is the lineage all the way from Cain that you see continuing and it says verse 10 and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel this is the place where Babylon was established and of his kingdom.

So he was the first one that started the empire and we certainly have had all of these world ruling kings we've had Alexander the great and Napoleon even Hitler wanted to do this at one time and rule the entire world well Nimrod was the first one that had that rebellious attitude and that was the first one that was the first one.

So after the flood we have another one of these who are really deified heroes of the Greeks these are dead people that they glorified and created this imaginary place where all of these dead ancestors were going to become gods what they call deified.

And one of them was Hermes he also shows where he gets his instruction from he carries his staff with a two-headed serpent showing that's my guide. He appears to be Dave the deified Cush the son of Ham and the father of Nimrod whose name means we will revolt Nimrod is portrayed in the Greek religion as Heracles or Hercules the mighty hunter who rebelled against God and set up the first empire at Babel later called Babylon. 

And so you see these first people that come in the bible is very important notes these people because you have to know where this origin of the wrong religion and false religion comes from. 

So the next in line is called Hephaestus with an axe in Roman world he was known as Vulcan he is the god of forging metals and a symbol of the deified Cain who slew his brother Abel of the true faith.

First John 3:11 and 12 tells us about Cain where did he get his guidance from. First John 3 verse 11 it says for this is the message that you heard from the beginning that we should love one another not as cable as Cain, sorry, not as Cain who was of the wicked one so he was being guided by Satan and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brothers righteous. So you see again you have the opposition those who want to obey God keep the Sabbath keep all the commandments of God which are holy just and good people rail against you they will attack you if you follow his way now if you follow the way of Cain and all of these loosey-goosey type of religions and well we'll accommodate and we'll do this and that and don't take sin so seriously and don't take God's law that's been abolished and listen to us we're we're your new laws. That's the way of Cain and we've been putting up with this almost six thousand years since the time of Adam and Eve from all historically uh we can tell it's pretty pretty close to the six thousand years allotted to man before Christ comes back. 

So Hephaestus supposedly brought forth Athena from the head of Zeus the deified Adam so Zeus he was the first one remember how from chaos you get darkness and then you get the the garden. And who are the first father and mother of mankind Adam and Eve. And so you have Zeus and Hera who are the ones who the Greeks say these are our first parents. They were and of course Zeus is in charge here of the system going on just like Adam and Eve was the one that took of the fruit and gave it to Adam and so they both started following the wrong way and so the Greeks glorified Eve. They didn't think there was nothing wrong with taking of the fruit of the ark the tree of good and evil. 

And Athena which supposedly comes out of the head of Zeus that Hephaestus hits him with an axe and out pops Athena and it's actually talking about how Eve is resurrected after the flood so now we have this goddess who is the new one not Hera that's why in many of the vase depictions you see Hera is very jealous of Athena. And Zeus is looking at Athena instead of Hera and so you have that type of rivalry going on.

From this rebellious race of Cain came Tubal Cain worker of metals Genesis 4 22 it says and remember we have here Lamech in verse 19 all of these are descendants of Cain verse 17 Cain knew his wife and and Lamech was the first one that started polygamy. He had two wives in defiance of God and then it talks about 32 verse 22 sorry and as for Silla she also bore Tubal Cain an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron.

And so here we have supposedly again one of these ancestors being deified as Hephaestus or Vulcan one of the gods now that you're supposed to worship especially people working and just like Catholics have saints for just about every type of work that you have. Well they had Vulcan was supposed to help you if you were in metallurgy and he'll protect you and guide you.

And so we continue on here next slide now we get to the center of this pantheon in the center who is it is Athena, Zeus, and Hera. The warrior Athena is the new Eve after the flood and passes on the false religion. It is a mystery religion because it has to hide its meaning. For Noah and his sons are still in charge. So when they started, everything had to be hidden.

He had initiatives or those that initiate these mystery religions they were symbols because they were still concerned about going back to the flood time what happened before that. Notice in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. Second Thessalonians chapter 2, Paul knew of this mystery religion. He says in verse 7 for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. So it was creeping inside the church changing the symbols only he who now restrains will do. So until he's taken out of the way and then the lawless one will be revealed whom the lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming.

Notice the coming of the lawless one the one who doesn't want to obey God just like Nimrod is according to the working of Satan with all power signs and lying wonders, They're going to be able to do miracles through black magic using Satan and his demons to carry it out, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish. Those who don't pay attention; they've been duped by the god of this world because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. So that's the greatest gift God can give us: not healing and making a cripple walk again because you still got a carnal mind. It's getting that love of the truth. That's what frees us from the deceits of Satan. That's the antidote that we need.

And so continuing on we go now to a place in Nashville, Tennessee. Did you know they actually recreated the Parthenon with the same ratio of the building? How many have seen that place in Nashville, Tennessee? Oh, about four, five! I didn't even know it existed until I started studying these things. And what do they have? Because Phidias, the architect at that time the Parthenon was built around the 500s BC. So they had this statue of Athena and I want you to look at it because look what she is touching. No let's go back. Look, look where the serpent is. It's on her left hand and she's kind of has it like a pet, the serpent the serpent likes Athena is teaching Athena. And what else does Athena have on the right hand she has the goddess Nike which is a symbol of victory.

Yes, we have triumphed over God and His way of life. We are independent. So again anybody have a doubt about it? It's pretty clear. You're going to see that serpent time and time. The Greek artists are telling you something where they got their source of information from.

Let's go to the next and this is the the last one this is the other side of the same facade. And finally we have the goddess Nike or victory. And she is looking at the three women called fates of death. Not to deal with Athena who is now immortal. So they're saying here that Athena is part of the gods and that she's not going to die, that religion the Greek religion is going to continue on. 

And it still is in all of these symbols, Then you have Heracles or Hercules who fought and won the victory over those of the true religion - Noah's religion. There, at the time of the tower of Babel or Nimrod built all of this up, and so, people took in different parts of the world. They took all of this original religion and they built it that you see it in the Hindus. You see it in ancestor worship in Japan. It's all based on the same principles. 

And finally, the god Helios which is the one in the corner and he is taking the horses but instead of Nyx going out of the scene he's coming into the scene. The god Helios the god of the sun of light who rises to a new day in the resurrected religion that originally came from Babylon. 

Paul denounced Greek religion whose art is quite obscene. And now, in Romans 1 verse 18, I'm not going to read the whole thing because I don't have enough time, but you can read it on your own. Romans chapter 1, this is God's condemnation of the Greek religion in particular which the Romans had also at that time basically adopted. But it says here in verse 18 it says for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. 

They know what is the truth but they want to follow their own ways because what may be known of God is manifest in them for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made, even His eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse. These Greeks for more for all they claimed about their sophistication were still going around being afraid of these different gods that they had to put all of these gods, as Paul mentioned, that they had some 30,000 statues at the time of the apostle Paul because they didn't want to offend. So they were basically enslaved by this false religion. 

And then verse 24 it says therefore God also gave them to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves. And I'll tell you if you look at this Greek religion and it's quite obscene. It's, it's horrible! And going to Greece and looking at some of these places where you have trinkets and all kinds of tourist things some of that is just filth. And God this is what happens when you start adoring creation instead of the Creator who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. For this reason God gave them to vile passions for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is called nature. And they actually have an island called Lesbos because it's famous for the lesbians. And likewise all the men leaving the natural use of the women burned in their lusts for one another men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which is due which is venereal diseases. Actually, venereal comes from the goddess Venus which was a goddess of this type of lustful love. And as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, the Greeks ignored God God gave them over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting.

Of course now we've got society and the origin of society has to do a lot not with just the Greco-Roman culture and religion it's the Babylonian Greco-Roman religion that now influences society so much and it's getting looser and looser.

So let's conclude last slide here's where the rubber meets the road. Brethren to summarize we come from the faith of Noah, Abraham, and ultimately Christ. Paul warned about following these pagan systems originating in Babylon and manifesting themselves as the fallen women of Revelation 17.

Remember Greece is the third through the sixth head of the beast in Revelation 13. The four Greek rulers after Alexander, those are the four heads Daniel 8:8 and part of the world's false religious system. So the the Bible describes the Greek world as a beast just like Babylon was Medo-Persia, Greece and then eventually Rome. And Rome is the one that's going to rise up one last time you know Benito Mussolini back in 1922 tried to revive the Holy Roman Empire. But there's another one that's going to be far more powerful.

In Revelation 18 4 through 5 God then warns: come out of her my people lest you share in her sins and receive of her plagues for her sins have reached to heaven. So it's eventually God's going to put a stop. Thankfully, He's been very merciful to us but at the same time we know we are living with borrowed time. 

As Christmas comes just in a few weeks, remember it also began in Babylon with the birth of Tamas the resurrected Nimrod also celebrated in Rome as the pagan Saturnalia in Paul's day. So you see all of this, I mean we love Christ and we love a fine spirit, but we're not going to keep a pagan day that goes all the way back to Babylon. You can study that we've got a booklet on Christmas that can explain to you. And so we are not going to participate of the ways of Cain. Let's never become the children of the way of Cain as Jude 11 says about the way of Cain.

Hope it's been profitable. Would you like to hear one more on my trip that I also have? It doesn't have to do with the Parthenon now, but also has something to do a lot with what happened in that area of the Greek world and how it influenced Israel. So I'll be preparing, God willing, for that next week.