From Genesis to Revelation: The One Story – The Golden Thread that Explains Everything – Part 8

By Andre Eksteen

And so we finally arrive at Babel — the place where the history of mankind changed forever.

We will have to deal with Babel in more than one article, because there is simply too much important information to try to fit into a single part.

After the Flood, Noah’s sons began to repopulate the earth — a new beginning for mankind, but not for the seed of rebellion. For the seed of Satan, through Ham’s wife Na’elatamauk and their son Canaan, began to grow again — slowly, quietly, but deliberately. It is precisely in this bloodline, the line that carries the seed of Satan, that we see, through his son Cush and his grandson Nimrod, how the first great attempt to rise up against God unfolds once more.

Genesis 10:8–10 says:

“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth… And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.”

Nimrod was not merely a powerful man — he was the first world ruler after the Flood, the first to unite people against God’s order. He began to rebuild what God Himself had torn down: a human kingdom without God.

Genesis 10:8–9 continues:

“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

Most people read that verse as if he was simply a skilled hunter of animals. But the original Hebrew says something very different. The word for “mighty one” is gibborim — the same term used in Genesis 6:4 for the Nephilim, “the mighty men of old, men of renown.” In other words, Nimrod was not just a great man — he was of the same nature and bloodline as the giants before the Flood. The text does not say that he hunted animals, but that he was a hunter against the LORD — an open rebel against God’s authority.

His very name reveals his nature. Nimrod comes from the root marad, which means “to rebel.” His name literally means: we will rebel. He was the embodied rebellion of Satan’s seed after the Flood — the first world leader of the corrupt line.

Just like the first Nephilim before the Flood, Nimrod was born as an ordinary child. But within him was something else — a bloodline that was not fully human. As with the giants of old, the corrupted seed in him began to activate as he grew older. His body grew rapidly, his strength exceeded human limits, and his appearance began to change.

That is why Genesis says: “He began to be a mighty one.”

He was not born that way — he became that way. The corrupt blood within him was activated, exactly as in the children of the Watchers. And just like those first giants, he did not merely grow — he kept on growing.

But here lies the difference between him and the giants before the Flood:

After the Flood, God limited the lifespan of man to a maximum of 120 years (Genesis 6:3). Before that, people lived for centuries — some for more than nine hundred years — and that gave the corrupt DNA time to continue growing and developing until it reached monstrous forms.

But when God shortened human lifespan, He effectively placed a natural limit on this corruption — an act of judgement for evil, but mercy for mankind. He limited their strength so that the seed of Satan could never again completely dominate the earth.

Less time means less growth, less mutation, less room for rebellion to again take full physical form. The human body was restricted, and with it God also restricted the physical power of the corrupt seed.

The post-Flood giants therefore still had superhuman strength and size, but they were significantly smaller — between three and six metres tall. Large enough to dominate people, but restrained by the new order God had established. Nimrod was one of them — a living proof of what happens when the corrupt seed of Satan begins to grow in human flesh.

The Book of Jasher describes how Nimrod built his power from the remnants of the corrupt bloodlines that came through Canaan. His kingdom was not purely human. He bound to himself the strongest and most violent among the peoples of Canaan, the descendants of Ham — and among them were those who carried the same infected blood that had survived the Flood.

It is from this line, the ancient writings say, that Nimrod selected his soldiers: men of unusual size, strength, and cruelty. They were the gibborim — the mighty men of Babel — the first army that rose up against God’s authority. They were not ordinary people, but the revived seed of the old world — the blood of the Nephilim that had spread into mankind through Canaan and his descendants.

With their help, Nimrod began building his kingdom, and together they began building the tower that was meant to reach into heaven. But that tower was not merely a structure — it was an attempt to regain access to heaven, to break the separation between flesh and spirit that God had restored with the Flood.

Nimrod began his kingdom in Babel, in the land of Shinar — the same region where, centuries later, the kingdom of Babylon would arise. And this is important, because in Revelation 17 and 18 we see that the spirit of Babel never died. It simply moved from kingdom to kingdom — from Babel to Babylon, from Babylon to Rome, and from Rome to today’s world system.

Nimrod was the first king to unite nations under one government, one economy, and one religion. He laid the foundation for the first world system in which man declared himself god. He was the first world leader to openly proclaim Satan’s message — that man can build his own throne and reach his own heaven without God.

But there is more. Genesis 10 shows us that Nimrod was the son of Cush, the son of Ham. And we already know that Ham’s wife came from a mixed line — the corrupt seed that passed through the Flood. This means Nimrod was literally the physical descendant of that line — a carrier of the DNA of Satan’s rebellion.

He was not merely symbolically evil — he was evil in his very nature.

A mixture of human and demonic blood, a walking revival of the old Nephilim spirit. That is why his power was so overwhelming, and why people began to worship him as a god.

The Book of Jubilees says Nimrod himself commanded that he be worshipped as a god, and his name lives on in various cultures under different titles: Baal, Marduk, Osiris, Gilgamesh. It is the same man — the first king of the new world order, the son of the corrupt seed.

And see how consistent the Bible is: every time that spirit appears again on earth, it builds the same kind of kingdom — a Babylonian system of unity without God. It is the pattern of Nimrod. It is the pattern of the Antichrist. It is the pattern of Satan himself.

The prophet Micah says of him:

“And he was a hunter against the LORD.”

He was therefore not a hunter of animals — he was a hunter of souls.

But before we come to the tower itself, we must understand what truly happened — because in this chapter begins the real separation of peoples, cultures, languages, and even skin colours. This event divided the DNA of mankind — literally and spiritually.

The church proclaims it merely as a lesson in pride: “They wanted to be like God.”

But by now you already know: nothing in Scripture is that superficial.

Babel was not just a tower — it was an altar. A gate. An interdimensional doorway, like Mount Hermon, Jacob’s ladder, and other sacred places in the Bible.

For you see — through the spirit of Satan in his seed, they had the ability to perceive the boundaries between realms. Babel was not merely a building project; it was an attempt to re-enter heaven — a reinstatement of the old covenant between mankind and the fallen powers of heaven.

The tower of Babel was not a skyscraper as people imagine today. It was not an attempt to physically build up to the stars, because the people of that time knew very well that no brick or clay could reach heaven. The tower was a ziggurat — a stepped sanctuary, designed according to heavenly patterns that the fallen angels had taught mankind in the old world.

A ziggurat was not merely a temple; it was a portal structure. Each level served a specific purpose, and at the top was an altar — a place where mankind once again sought to “meet” the gods, the fallen powers that God had banished before the Flood.

In other words: Babel was a spiritual rebuilding of Hermon — the mountain where the Watchers swore to descend and mingle with mankind. Nimrod wanted to do exactly the same: enter heaven through demonic knowledge and rituals, not through obedience to God.

Archaeological remains of such structures — like the Etemenanki in ancient Babylon — show us how these towers were designed to be “the gate of the gods.” That is, in fact, what “Babel” means: Bab-El — “the gate of El” or “the gate of God.”

But note the irony: they wanted to build a gate to God without God.

They wanted to break open the separation between heaven and earth that God Himself had restored after the Flood. And by doing so, Nimrod once again tried to restore the old covenant between mankind and the fallen spirits — the same rebellion God had ended in the days of Noah.

The tower was therefore not just a building. It was a portal of contact, a monument of human pride and spiritual deception. Mankind once again wanted to ascend to heaven — not to honour God, but to replace Him.

And here, on the plains of Shinar, mankind once again did what it always does — it tried to climb up to God instead of bowing before Him. And just as before the Flood, God would have to intervene again. Because every time man tries to build without Him, He breaks the work of human hands so that His plan may stand.

And that is exactly where we will continue next time — at the moment when God came down to confuse the languages, and in doing so, separated the bloodlines of the earth.