Who was the world's first totalitarian despot?
Nimrod was the world’s first totalitarian despot. He was not merely a hunter of animals but a hunter of men, and he led humanity to the Tower of Babel, where a false religious system began that sought to usurp heaven’s throne room and established pagan idolatry.
Les explains that Nimrod was the first world’s totalitarian despot, a hunter of men rather than just animals. He brought the post-Flood population to the Tower of Babel, not merely to build a structure of clay and pitch, but to set up a religion. That religion was meant to reach to heaven and usurp the very throne room of heaven. Les notes this is where the beginning of all pagan idolatry lies, and that before the Flood there was no idolatry, temple worship, or organized worship.