Why God Hates Babylon – Section 2: The “Unholy Trinity”

To grasp the depth of God’s hatred for Babylon, we must see it for what it truly is: not merely an ancient city, but the very heart of a spiritual rebellion—a satanic system that counterfeits God’s promise and subverts His redemptive plan. At its core stands a blasphemous imitation: the so-called “Unholy Trinity” of Nimrod, Semaramis, and Tammuz. This is not a secondary matter. The logic of justification, inheritance, and sonship is at stake, for Babylon’s system is designed to replace God’s covenant with a satanic alternative.

The Genesis of Counterfeit: Nimrod, Semaramis, and Tammuz

History and Scripture converge on Nimrod—a “mighty one” who set himself against God. According to ancient accounts, Nimrod took Semaramis as his wife, who may have originally been his own mother. This perverse union was only the beginning. Semaramis, driven by ambition and spiritual rebellion, ultimately killed Nimrod in a brutal religious sacrifice, seizing power for herself. In her hands, Nimrod was posthumously exalted as a god, associated with the sun and the serpent—symbols of satanic authority.

Semaramis then claimed the title “Queen of Heaven,” aligning herself with the moon and elevating herself to divine status. She bore a son, Tammuz—by all accounts illegitimate—and declared him to be Nimrod reborn, the divine child. In a direct assault on God’s promise, she twisted the prophecy of the “seed of the woman” (Genesis 3:15), announcing Tammuz as the messianic deliverer. But this was not the seed of the woman; it was the seed of the serpent—a false messiah, a satanic parody of Christ.

The Unholy Trinity: The Pattern of All Idolatry

Here, in this triad—Nimrod as the self-styled “Lord of Heaven,” Semaramis as the “Queen of Heaven,” and Tammuz as the counterfeit messiah—we see the satanic template for all false religion. This is not a harmless myth. It is the root from which every mother-child cult, every idolatrous system, and every false messianic hope has sprung. The images of the mother holding the child, so prevalent in pagan religions, are not innocent—they are the legacy of this original rebellion.

This “Unholy Trinity” is not merely a distortion; it is a deliberate counterfeit, designed by Satan to rival the true Trinity and to seduce the world into spiritual adultery. The logic is inescapable: if you accept the counterfeit, you forfeit the reality. If you embrace the seed of the serpent, you reject the seed of the woman, and with it, the only hope of justification and inheritance.

Babel: The Scattering of Deception

When humanity, unified in rebellion, built the Tower of Babel, God intervened—not as an arbitrary judge, but as a deliverer determined to disrupt the spread of this satanic system. He confounded their languages and scattered the people across the earth. Yet, in their dispersion, the core of Babylon’s deception was not destroyed. Instead, its myths and rituals were carried into every culture, its names and attributes adapted to new tongues.

The result? The same unholy triad appears in every major civilization:

• Lebanon: Baal, Tammuz, Ashtoreth
• Phoenicia: El, Bacchus, Astarte
• Babylon: Belus, Tammuz, Rhea/Ishtar
• Assyria: Ninus, Hercules, Beltis
• Greece: Zeus, Dionysus, Aphrodite
• Rome: Jupiter, Attis, Cybele/Diana
• Egypt: Ra, Osiris/Horus, Isis/Hathor
• India: Vishnu, Krishna, Isi/Devaki
• China: Pan-Ku, Yi, Heng-O/Ma Tsoopo
• Mexico: Teotl, Quetzalcoatl, Coattlicue
• Scandinavia: Odin, Balder, Fregg/Freyda

Not only were the names preserved, but the very characteristics of Nimrod and his family were fragmented and multiplied, becoming the foundation of countless legends and myths. The mother-child cults, the rituals, the feasts—all trace their origin back to this unholy source.

What Is Lost If the Error Is Accepted

If we accept this Babylonian counterfeit—if we allow its logic to stand—then the very foundation of the Gospel collapses. Justification by faith is replaced by idolatrous works. Inheritance as sons is exchanged for slavery to false gods. The conscience, meant to be cleansed by the finished work of Christ, is instead defiled by participation in spiritual deception. Babylon’s system is not a parallel path; it is a direct assault on the covenantal promise. To embrace it is to abandon the only means of salvation.

God’s Hatred: The Only Righteous Response

This is why God’s hatred of Babylon is not arbitrary or excessive—it is the only righteous response to a system that perpetuates spiritual rebellion and deception. Babylon is the archetype of everything that stands against God’s promise, everything that seeks to enthrone the serpent’s seed in place of Christ. God’s judgment on Babylon is not merely historical; it is ongoing and final. He calls His people to come out, to reject every counterfeit, and to cling to the true Messiah—the seed of the woman, the Son of God, the only Savior.

Let no one imagine this is a matter of indifference. The logic is covenantal, the stakes are salvific, and the call is uncompromising: reject the unholy trinity, and receive the inheritance that is yours in Christ alone.