Recently, after contemplating a theoretical connection between Babylon’s Chaldeans, Babel, and Rome, I proceeded to craft a revised supplement to our past study, Isaiah 47: The Daughter of Babylon. In this commentary, we will share with the reader our revised supplemental addition to Isaiah 47: The Daughter of Babylon and expand upon the premise behind the concept.
All underlined Scripture passages are my own emphasis.
The Chaldeans – A Distinct Ethnic People
“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.” – Daniel 5:30
“In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans…” – Daniel 9:1
The Hebrew word for “Chaldeans” is 3778 כַּשְׂדִּימָה “kaśdîmâ” and 3779 כַּשְׂדַּי “kaśday” and has three meanings available for the Bible student: 1. A territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf. 2. The inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris.
There is no doubt the Chaldeans were a distinct people living in and around Babylon and were also known as Babylonians.
However, a third definition for the Hebrew word for “Chaldeans” is 3778 כַּשְׂדִּימָה “kaśdîmâ” and 3779 כַּשְׂדַּי “kaśday.” 3. Those persons were considered the wisest in the land.
It is the third definition – those persons [Chaldeans] considered the wisest in the land – that we are obviously taking specific note of in this piece. For we see something very interesting in the book of Daniel linking the name Chaldeans with magicians, astrologers, and sorcerers/soothsayers. Therefore, I began to ponder why the Chaldeans were included with these occultic mystics in the Babylonian court, similar to the pagan Egyptian court of Pharaoh.
The Babylonian Chaldeans in the Book of Daniel
Here are other passages in Daniel that mention the Chaldeans in connection with the other pagan occultic practitioners within the Babylonian court, with a brief synopsis for each.
King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and asked the occultists in his court to proclaim the dream and give the interpretation thereof.
“Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.” – Daniel 2:2
The Chaldeans seemed to be the major spokespeople representing the other pagan magicians, astrologers, and sorcerers/soothsayers, but they were essentially speechless when it came to the king’s demands.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.” – Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans, wise as they surely were in the occultic arts, had their limitations! Yet the Lord God of all creation, and the personal God of Daniel, always possesses the answers to everything in His unlimited omniscience! Because of Daniel, the lives of the Chaldeans, magicians, astrologers, and sorcerers/soothsayers were spared.
King Nebuchadnezzar had another dream that would speak to his being abased from his kingdom for seven years, which, again, only Daniel, through the revelation of the God of Israel, could interpret.
“Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.” – Daniel 4:7
Many years later, a descendant of King Nebuchadnezzar, King Belshazzar, acted foolishly and attempted bribery for the one who could read the writing on the wall to no avail.
“The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” – Daniel 5:7
But God! While the pagan Chaldeans, along with their counterparts of the magicians, astrologers, and sorcerers/soothsayers, had no idea how to interpret the writing on the wall, again, the God of all creation and the God of Daniel could!
“There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers…” – Daniel 5:11
It seems obvious to conclude that the Chaldeans in the Babylonian court were most likely a pagan priesthood who were steeped in occultic wisdom and idol worship.
The Chaldeans – A Distinct Occultic Pagan Religious Order
Already perceiving the answer to a question I posed on a search engine, I had the following experience. As a disclosure, I never use AI willingly in any of my writings, research, or basically ever; however, it seems one cannot run away from the technology. When doing some research on this subject, I entered “Were the Chaldeans of Babylon a pagan priesthood?” in my DuckDuckGo search engine and noticed that the AI search assistant automatically responded, “Yes, the Chaldeans were often associated with a priesthood that practiced pagan rituals and worshiped various deities in Babylon. They played a significant role in the religious and cultural life of the region, particularly during the Neo-Babylonian Empire.”
Other sources emphasize that the Chaldeans searched for wisdom and knowledge within the pagan uses of astrology and the art of astronomy as some of their other endeavors, yet the truth is the Chaldeans were a pagan priesthood responsible for the pantheistic ceremonies to Babylon’s gods, and their respective idols worshiped by the Babylonians.
The Babel Connection
The Land of Shinar, Nimrod, and Babel are intrinsically linked.
“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… in the land of Shinar.” – Genesis 10:8-10
Most of us know the story of Babel, their outright rebellion against God, and God confusing the languages of the people.
“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 thoroughly. 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.
“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
“So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” – Genesis 11:1-9
Once more, I knew the answer to my next research question, but I checked anyway. I searched “Was Chaldea in Shinar?” on DuckDuckGo, and the AI search assistant’s response was front and center again, replying, “Yes, Chaldea is generally considered to be part of the region known as Shinar, which refers to southern Mesopotamia and includes areas like Babylon. The terms are often used interchangeably in biblical contexts.”
Scripture declares and Zechariah informs us that the Antichrist and his Mark of the Beast economic and worship system will be housed in Babel/Babylon in the land of Shinar following the destruction of Mystery Babylon (aka, the Whore of Babylon, the Daughter of Babylon) by the 10 Kings at the midway point of the Tribulation (Revelation 17:12-18). I note this because many can get confused, as there are two entities referred to as Babylon in last days eschatology: the ecumenical religious system of Mystery Babylon (aka, the Whore of Babylon, the Daughter of Babylon) that has a relationship to the world system in the first half of the Tribulation (Revelation 17:1-6), and the final Babel/Babylon empire of Antichrist in the land of Shinar (Revelation 13 and 16) in the last half of the Tribulation, the Great Tribulation.
Again, our focus is on Mystery Babylon (aka, the Whore of Babylon, the Daughter of Babylon) and a possible connection with Babylon’s Chaldeans, Babel, and Rome within this study.
The Chaldeans were also connected to the Sumerians, who are linked to Babel!
This connection of Nimrod’s Babel and the Chaldeans, being “a priesthood that practiced pagan rituals and worshiped various deities in Babylon,” including the god Marduk, the chief deity, the goddess Ishtar (a.k.a. Inanna), and Tammuz, are paramount to our theory that is formulated below.
While the concept we are going to present is somewhat well-known and considered speculation by some, there is so much logic surrounding the plausibility of this potential historical narrative scenario that it is truly hard to ignore.
I had one last question – again, I was certain of the answer in research I had done in the past – and that was, “Did Babylon worship Nimrod as Marduk and Semiramis as Ishtar? Keeping the AI Assistant theme going, the Assistant replied, “Yes, in ancient Babylonian religion, Nimrod is often associated with Marduk, a major deity, while Semiramis is linked to Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. This connection reflects the blending of historical figures and mythological deities in ancient Mesopotamian beliefs.” And, of course, we already know that the Babylonians worshiped Tammuz.
The Rome Connection
Finally, here is our revised supplemental addition to Isaiah 47: The Daughter of Babylon, of a theory connecting Babylon’s Chaldeans, Babel, and Rome that I spoke of at the beginning of this article, and is the title to our study:
“As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.” – Isaiah 47:4-5
The “daughter of Babylon,” or “daughter of the Chaldeans,” is also known as “The lady of kingdoms.” We see this very description of the city where the woman sits in Revelation 17, as…
“… the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” – Revelation 17:18
And “the lady of kingdoms” has committed fornication with the kings of the earth:
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,” – Revelation 18:3
“With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” – Revelation 17:2
The name “Chaldeans” can obviously mean the ethnic people of Babylon, but in Scripture, it is also used as what appears to be some type of pagan priesthood that is mentioned along with the other wise men and occultists in Babylon.
“There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers…” – Daniel 5:11 (Note also, Daniel 2:2, 10, 4:7, 5:7)
What I am about to share with the reader is a condensed rendering of a very real historical possibility and a theory of a priesthood that emerged soon after the Genesis Flood in the Land of Shinar.
“The Chaldeans” may have had their beginning in Babel under Nimrod and continued as a pagan priesthood in virtually every prominent empire up to their establishment in Rome. This priesthood’s pagan beliefs would revolve around Nimrod, his wife, Semiramis, and their supposed son, Tammuz. The mythologies derived from Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz worship, apart from, and yet including, the mythologies developed around the Nephilim of Genesis 6 and the Rephaim of ancient Canaan, account for most, if not all, of the mythologies found within Egypt, Greek, Roman and other mythologies of the ancient world.
While we will not go into the details of this pagan priesthood’s worship of these ancient people and what they believed regarding Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz, we will cover a few of their supposed rites and rituals and their connection to the Roman Catholic Church.
Where Did the Church of Rome Come From?
In the early 300’s, the Roman Emperor Constantine supposedly converted to Christianity. Constantine needed and desired his own brand of “Christianity,” as Christianity was growing exponentially in the empire, and he also wanted to blend his “Christian” Church with the already established pagan religions of the day for even further unity within his empire. Catholic means “universal,” and by uniting paganism with “Christianity,” Constantine would be the first to begin an ecumenical movement that the Roman Catholic Church has been feverishly working to achieve, especially today in the last of days.
The theory is that Constantine took an already established pagan priesthood in Rome – The Chaldean Priesthood that worshiped Nimrod, Semiramis (who would be the originator of all female gods and the Queen of Heaven), and Tammuz, a religion that began at Babel – and transformed them into a “Christian” Church and “Christianized” their rites and rituals.
Examples would include the following:
- This pagan priesthood used “holy water.” This was an easy one to keep, and we see holy water used religiously in RCC churches and services.
- This pagan priesthood had a physical expression when worshiping Tammuz of making a “t” from their forehead to the middle of their torso and to the left and right of their shoulders. This ritual was continued in the RCC with the “t” for Tammuz changed to signify the cross on which Christ sacrificed Himself for the sins of the world.
- This pagan priesthood had many statues of the mother Semiramis and the child Tammuz throughout their temples. They changed the names of these statues to represent the virgin Mary and the child Jesus.
- This pagan priesthood changed the meanings of their other statues, art, and relics as well.
- This pagan priesthood prayed to dead people, which the Roman Catholic Church does on a regular basis.
- This pagan priesthood’s worship of The Queen of Heaven (Semiramis) was changed to the worship of the Virgin Mary, the new Queen of Heaven.
For more on the strange rites, rituals, and customs of the Catholic Church that may very well have originated with Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz worship, please see Witnessing to Catholics and Catholic Dogma.
This theory does make total sense, especially in light of how God speaks of the Roman Catholic Church in Isaiah 47 and Revelation 17 and 18. Therefore, it is not surprising that God uses the name of “the daughter of the Chaldeans” in this verse when prophesying on the Roman Catholic Church in Isaiah 47.
Since the above revised supplement that I recently added to Isaiah 47: The Daughter of Babylon was material that many people would not have seen, I suppose it was warranted for me to share this with the reader and the prophetic community within the context of this examination.
“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.” – Revelation 17:1-5
When it comes to our family and friends who are involved in the Roman Catholic Church, we must warn them, with love, grace, and the true gospel of Jesus Christ, for as the Bible says…
“… Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” – Revelation 18:4
In the end, “… seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1) and the men and women who follow their pantheistic pagan mystical occultism are never a match for the Almighty omniscient omnipotent God who created them!
For studies exclusively focused on Mystery Babylon – a.k.a., the Whore of Babylon and the Daughter of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church – please see the following articles.
- A Combined Interpretive Scenario of Revelation 17 & 18
- Isaiah 47: The Daughter of Babylon
- Revelation 6:6 – The Oil and the Wine
For other studies which include the reign of Mystery Babylon – a.k.a., the Whore of Babylon and the Daughter of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church – within end-time eschatology, please see the following articles.
- An Interpretive Scenario of the Abomination of Desolation
- Revelation 14: Tribulation Outline
- Revelation 13 – The Beast
- Revelation 6: Our Marriage and The Gap
To witness and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with your Catholic family members, friends, and acquaintances, please see Witnessing to Catholics and Catholic Dogma.
May we all keep Answering the Call of The Great Commission, and giving an answer to every man and woman who so desperately needs Jesus and asks us, “Why Am I Here and What Is It All About?”
Love, grace, mercy, and shalom in Messiah Yeshua, and Maranatha!
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