Dr. Jeanette Parker (file photo)

Has anyone ever been so truthful to tell you that you have an imbalanced diet? If your diet is: “self” for breakfast, “self” for lunch, “self” for dinner and “self” for snack” and if your sole (soul) diet is considering only self, I think you have a Nimrod diet.  

Here’s why. There are many Nimrods’ today – those whom God has given them instructions, but they consciously decide to follow their own “self” diet of ignoring the guidelines that God has given and disregarding God by defying Him. God’s heart (I believe) is grieving today.  

As it is written in Genesis 6:5-8, “God saw that the wickedness (immoral depravity) of man was great in the earth and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man and He was grieved in His heart. But the Lord found hope for humans and went to Noah in whom was found grace.”  

Most of us have some knowledge of Noah and the flood. It’s a salvation story for all of us to learn. Nimrod was a descendent of Noah. In reading about Nimrod, perhaps one’s immediate thoughts might be he is one to be admired. However, further reading reveals that during this time (about 2185 B.C.) the earth was corrupt before God and filled with violence.  

God took a divine survey of the earth and saw that man had corrupted the way which He had designed. He turned to Noah and told him what was on His mind. “The end of all flesh is come before me. I will destroy man.” His instructions to Noah were to build the ark (Genesis 6:9-14).  

So, there would be a remnant of mankind to start all over again. As it is mankind’s (people kind) way, he will move in another direction away from God and toward himself and his own self-aggrandizement; his self-serving “ego.”  

God gave Noah His blessing to “be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.” (Genesis 9:1) But Nimrod had his own selfish motivation. Nimrod had what today we might say, “He got the big head.”  

He began to have a name for himself. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord (Genesis 10:9). Nimrod is listed as Noah’s great-grandson born of Cush, who was a son of Noah’s son Ham. Genesis 10:8–9 introduces Nimrod by saying, “Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.”  

Therefore, it is said, ‘Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.’ The phrase “mighty man” can also be translated as “warrior, chief, or tyrant.” In fact, the following verses record that Nimrod started his kingdom by building Babel (Babylon) and extending his kingdom “in the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia).”  

He then turned his attention northward and “went into Assyria and built Nineveh” and other cities (Genesis 10:11). Nimrod was a conquering warrior and reigning tyrant and is actually believed to be the first person to have worn a crown. He was concerned with elevating his own name and relying on his own strength and power.  

 Nowhere is this self-promoting attitude better displayed than in the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. As the founder and ruler of Babel, Nimrod was surely involved when they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4).  

After the flood, God instructed Noah and his descendants to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Genesis 9:1). So, this desire not to disperse over the face of the earth was in direct rebellion to God’s command.  

In addition, he sought to build a one world government, which was against God’s plan. Furthermore, this desire to make a name for themselves is in contradiction to, as Moses later expressed, “proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God” (Deuteronomy 32:3). 

It is in this context that we begin to see the rebelliousness of God’s creation and Nimrod’s heightened ego that led to his downfall. After building renown as “the mighty hunter,” he found himself to not be as great as God and not greater than God, consequently, he could not be God.  

Man consistently seeks to not only imitate God and recreate what God has already perfected, but now through “artificial intelligence,” he seeks to control humanity. We can find this so-called recreation imitation throughout the Holy Scriptures.  

Jesus Christ’s Revelation clearly shows how the unholy trinity (the dragon, antichrist, prophet) the great harlot, political Babylon and religious Babylon seek to control all the nations through commercial system and worldwide one religion. This is what is happening today.  

Some governmental agencies took opportunity during the COVID pandemic to stop Christian churches, singing and more. Man will not be triumph in his fatal pursuit of demise and death. Jesus Christ is coming back. Will you be ready?  

Thanks for reading! Jeanette Grattan Parker is the founder-superintendent of Today’s Fresh Start Charter School, 4514 Crenshaw Boulevard, L.A. 90043, 323-293-9826, www.todaysfreshstart.org, (Ask Dr. Jeanette TM) “Inquiring Minds Want to Know.” All articles are copyright. All rights reserved © Any errors? Let me know. Sundays for music & message: 11:30 a.m. {1-712-775-8971—code 266751} References: The Holy Bible New Testament. Don’t stop praying and hoping. Studylight.org.