Comments on: Put A Lid On It

By: Mike Bull

Mike Bull — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:21:30 +0000

Good thoughts. Nimrod doesn’t tick all the boxes, but he does have this Babylon connection, which both the woman in the basket and Revelation 20 also have.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:27:21 +0000

Okay, maybe I need to leave more of an explanation than one word. Nimrod was originally a mighty hunter before God (not really a prophet though). Hunters are by nature wanderers, but he does an about face and settles down and makes cities to consolidate power, representing humanism or “the world”, in opposition to God. His big power play is the tower of Babel, then God puts the lid on it by confusing the languages, or as Jordan might say splitting humanism into the different religions (I could be falsely interpreting Jordan). This allows Israel and eventually the church to grow separate from any “united nations”. The lid is now coming off with the rise of a world united by trade and a growing monoculture, but this newly rising humanism will be finally destroyed by the successful discipleship of the nations. I’d think that the release of satan would be a separate thing after this takes place.

Okay, its a little outside of your original proposal in that it starts before there was an Israel, but the pattern is there (if extremely vague

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:36:24 +0000

Nimrod?

By: Mike Bull

Mike Bull — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:00:51 +0000

Good thoughts, guys. Although the pre-exile kings didn’t involve ministering in a new way or a constructing a new house of God.

After some more thought, I’m inclined to think it was the Ark itself that went into exile (under its ‘kapporet’ lid) when stolen by the Philistines. When it went, it deposed the priesthood of Eli. It was in exile for the entire reign of Saul (priest and king = bad Adam) and when it returned it enabled the beginning of Temple worship which lasted exactly 1000 years.

See http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/07/27/priest-and-king-ko/

By: Steven Opp

Steven Opp — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:41:33 +0000

or maybe it was the high priest-whats the preterist view of who the false prophet was?

By: Steven Opp

Steven Opp — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:29:08 +0000

How about any of the evil pre-exile kings? Don’t know what lid they went under, but they re-emerged with Herod who is supposed to be the false prophet, right? Thought I read that somewhere…

By: michael wells

michael wells — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:41:11 +0000

hey mike, well, i dont know. but thanks for the rev 20 thoughts, just what I needed. (literally, preparing a kids talk on this passage).
maybe Korah et al getting swallowed up by the earth, allowing moses to get on with his leading business?