Nimrod established a totalitarian, despotic kingdom built on rebellion against God's authority.
After the flood, Noah's descendants gathered at the Tower of Babel under Nimrod instead of scattering as God instructed. Les Feldick calls Nimrod 'the first world's totalitarian despot' and says he was not just a hunter of animals but a hunter of men. The kingdom he built was also religious in nature, aiming to usurp the throne of heaven.
Genesis 10:8-10 — This passage names Nimrod and states that the beginning of his kingdom was Babel in the land of Shinar.
The Bible names Nimrod as the son of Cush and says he 'began to be a mighty one in the earth' and was 'a mighty hunter before the LORD' (Genesis 10:8-9). Scripture also states that 'the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar' (Genesis 10:10). This directly identifies Babel as the starting point of Nimrod's kingdom. In Genesis 11, the whole earth was of one language and one speech. The people journeyed from the east, found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there. They said one to another, 'Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth' (Genesis 11:1-4). The biblical account presents the Babel project as a unified human attempt to resist being scattered over the earth.
Les Feldick teaches that after the flood, Noah's descendants stayed together in the Middle East instead of scattering as God had instructed. They gathered at the Tower of Babel under a single leader, Nimrod, and Les emphasizes that this gathering was an act of total rebellion against God's authority (Clip 1). Nimrod, according to Les, was 'not just the hunter of animals, he was the hunter of men' and 'the first world's totalitarian despot' (Clip 7). Les explains that the Tower of Babel was never meant to be a literal construction reaching heaven; it was 'a place of religion' intended to usurp the throne of God, following Satan's goal (Clips 1 and 7). At Babel, under Nimrod, all pagan and occultic religion has its root. Les teaches that every idolatrous system—Eastern religions, mythology, the occult, and even many modern cults—traces back to what began at the Tower of Babel (Clips 2, 5, and 6).
Les Feldick presents Nimrod's kingdom as both political and religious. He calls Nimrod 'the first world's totalitarian despot' (Clip 7), showing that his rule was politically dictatorial. At the same time, the Tower of Babel project was a religious system: 'it was going to be a religious system that would usurp the very throne room of heaven' (Clip 7). So the kingdom was a combination of absolute political control and false religion.
Scripture says 'the beginning of his kingdom was Babel... in the land of Shinar' (Genesis 10:10). Les identifies Babel with the Tower of Babel built by the people gathered in the Euphrates River Valley in Mesopotamia (Clips 5 and 6). Instead of scattering, they stayed there in the plains of Shinar under Nimrod.
In Clip 7, Les says Nimrod was 'not just the hunter of animals, he was the hunter of men.' He connects this directly to Nimrod's role as 'the first world's totalitarian despot' who brought the people to the Tower of Babel. In other words, Nimrod's hunting was not for game but for gathering human beings under his domination.
Understanding the Tower of Babel: Genesis 9-11 Explained
the chapter, you'll get to verse 21, and then you pick up Shem. Now there's the three sons, Japheth in verses 1, 3, 4, and 5, then the sons in the genealogy of the Hamites, and then picking it up in verse 21, the offspring of Shem. And out of the line of Shem we're going to run into, in the last part of chapter 11, the family of Abraham. Terah, the father of Abraham, came out of the line of Shem.
Rebellion at Babel Under Nimrod
Les Feldick explains that the gathering at the Tower of Babel under Nimrod was an act of total rebellion against God's command to scatter and repopulate the earth.
Root of All Idolatry
Les teaches that all idolatry and paganism in the world have their roots at the Tower of Babel, where the people were united under Nimrod.
Daniel's Vision of 4 Beasts & the Antichrist Explained
There will be no consensus. It'll be a glorious kingdom. Now had Nebuchadnezzar been a benevolent type individual, had he had the love and the graciousness of God, he could have had that kind of an empire, I guess, but no human has those kind of attributes. So Nebuchadnezzar, like any other great dictator, was a despot. He was a totalitarian.
Daniel's Four Beasts and the Revived Roman Empire Explained
There will be no consensus. It'll be a glorious kingdom. Now had Nebuchadnezzar been a benevolent type individual, had he had the love and the graciousness of God, he could have had that kind of an empire, I guess, but no human has those kind of attributes. So Nebuchadnezzar, like any other great dictator, was a despot. He was a totalitarian.
Babel in Shinar
Les places the Tower of Babel in the plains of Shinar in the Euphrates River Valley and says Satan used Nimrod to institute all pagan and mythological religions.
Beginning of Pagan Religion
Les reiterates that Nimrod gathered the people at Babel in rejection of God's instructions, and that every religion contrary to the one God concept began there.
Nimrod the Totalitarian Despot
Les directly answers the question by describing Nimrod as 'the first world's totalitarian despot' and 'the hunter of men' who set up a religion to usurp heaven's throne.
Genesis 10:8-10: And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
This is the key passage identifying Nimrod and the beginning of his kingdom at Babel.
Genesis 11:1-4: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
This verse describes the unified human project at Babel that Les relates to Nimrod's despotic religious system.
Les Feldick describes Nimrod as the leader who united Noah's descendants at the Tower of Babel. He calls him 'the first world's totalitarian despot' and a 'hunter of men' who gathered the people in rebellion against God (Clip 7).
Les teaches that the Tower of Babel is where all idolatry and pagan religion began. It was not a literal attempt to reach heaven, but a religious system designed to usurp God's throne, initiated by Satan through Nimrod (Clips 1, 2, 5, and 7).
No. Les says God had instructed the people to scatter and repopulate the earth, but instead they united under Nimrod in total rebellion. God then scattered them from Babel (Clips 1 and 6).
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