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+- First John -
+(Chapter 1:1-10)
+N.A.S.V.
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+What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes,
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+what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life -
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+and the life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness and proclaim to you the eternal life 
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+which was with the Father and was manifested to us - what we have seen and heard we proclaim
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+to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, 
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+and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
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+And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and 
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+in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in 
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+the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the 
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+light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanes us from all 
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+sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth in not in us. If we 
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+confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all 
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+unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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+2 Peter 1: 1-7  NASB
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+1. Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the 
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+    same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
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+2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you  in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
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+3. seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, 
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+    through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
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+4. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them 
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+    you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the 
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+    world by lust.
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+5. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in 
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+    your moral excellence, knowledge;
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+6. and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your 
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+    perseverance, godliness;
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+7. and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness Christian love.
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+2 Peter 1:8-15  NASB
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+8. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful 
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+    in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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+9. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or shortsighted, having forgotten his purification from  
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+     his former sins.
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+10.  Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing   
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+     you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
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+11.  for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will 
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+     be abundantly supplied to you.
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+12.  Therefore, I shall always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know 
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+     them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.
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+13.  And I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of 
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+     reminder,
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+14.  knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ 
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+     has made clear to me.
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+15.  And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you may be able to call these 
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+     things to mind.
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+2 Peter 1: 16-21
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+16. For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming 
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+     of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we eye witnesses of His majesty. 
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+17. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made 
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+     to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This is My beloved Son with whom I am well pleased," 
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+18. and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy 
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+     mountain.
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+19. And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to 
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+     a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
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+20. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,
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+21. for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit 
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+spoke from God.
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+2 Peter 2: 1-8
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+1. But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among 
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+    you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought  
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+    them, bringing  swift destruction upon themselves.
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+2. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;
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+3. and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgement from long ago is not 
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+    idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
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+4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to 
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+    pits of darkness, reserved for judgement;
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+5. and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven 
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+    others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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+6. and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to 
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+    ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;
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+7. and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
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+8. (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous 
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+    soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds),
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+2 Peter 2:9-16
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+9. then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under 
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+    punishment for the day of judgement,
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+10. and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, 
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+    self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
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+11. whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against 
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+    them before the Lord.
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+12. But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, 
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+    reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be 
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+    destroyed,
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+13. suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. 
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+    They are stains and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you;
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+14. having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin; enticing unstable souls, having a heart 
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+    trained in greed, accursed children;
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+15. forsaking the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of 
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+    Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
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+16. but he received a rebuke for his own transgression; for a dumb donkey, speaking with the voice 
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+    of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.
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+2 Peter 2:17-22
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+17. These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has 
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+    been reserved.
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+18. For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality those who 
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+    barely escape from the ones who live in error,
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+19. promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is 
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+    overcome, by this he is enslaved.
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+20. For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and 
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+    Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become 
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+    worse for them than the first.
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+21. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known 
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+    it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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+22. It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, 
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+    "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."
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+2 Peter 3:1-9
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+1. This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere 
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+    mind by way of reminder,
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+2. that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the 
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+    commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.
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+3. Knowing this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following 
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+    after their own lusts,
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+4. and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all 
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+    continues just as it was from the beginning of creation."
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+5. For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed 
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+    long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
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+6. through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
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+7. But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of 
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+    judgement and destruction of ungodly men.
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+8. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, 
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+    and a thousand years as one day.
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+9. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not 
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+    wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
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+2 Peter 3: 10-18
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+10. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar 
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+    and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned 
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+    up.
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+11. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy 
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+    conduct and godliness,
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+12. looking for and hastening the coming of the day of the God, on account of which the heavens 
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+    will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat.
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+13. But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which 
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+    righteousness dwells.
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+14. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, 
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+    spotless and blameless,
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+15. and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, 
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+    according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,
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+16. as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to 
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+    understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of Scriptures, to 
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+    their own destruction.
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+17. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your gaurd lest, being carried away by 
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+    the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness,
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+18. but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, 
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+    both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

PATEXT/BABYLON.TXT

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+-What is Babylon doing in the End Times?-
+
+     When we first started this study, Matthew 24: 36-39 was used as the started point because our Lord Jesus had told His disciples; "...But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be,...", and now, in a number of places in Revelation, the name of the ancient city of  Babylon is showing up. (Chapters; 14: 7-9; 16:17-19; 17:1-6; scattered throughout chapter 18:1 to chapter 19:3.) It (or she) is a central target for God's wrath and fury. In the Genesis account of the time before the flood, there is no mention of Babylon, or any other cities for that matter, but now it is a major issue for the end times. It might be a good idea to go back to the time before the flood and see what it was about 'Babylon the Great' caused God to; "...and God remembered Babylon the Great and made her drink the wine from the cup of his raging fury." (Rev. 16:19)
+     The ancient city of Babylon is located in the country of Iraq, roughly 60 miles south of Bagdad, the capital of Iraq. It is a city that has been a wealth of information concerning the beginning of  early civilizations for both secular and Biblical archaeologists. Many of the discoveries found in the Mesopotamian area include the cultures of the Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian dynasties. According to research of the archaeologists, both secular and Biblical, the Sumerian and Babylonian cultures seem to have been  the oldest. With some variation these civilizations can be dated as far back as (approx.) 3,000 to 4,000 B.C.. This rough dating puts them in the exact time between the fall of man and the flood of Noah. (for more information see: Light from the Ancient Past; By; Jack Finegan.(1947 ed.) and Archaeology and the Old Testament; by Merrill F. Unger. (1973 ed.) or others of your own choosing.)
+     One of the questions that has been difficult to explain, has been the rapid decline in man's moral and spiritual life after the fall. In Adam Clarke's Commentary; (1884 edition; Phillips and Hunt, New York) there is an interesting depiction of this decline of man that is worth including in this study.
+     (Quote from: Adam Clarke's Commentary concerning the beginnings of Idolatry. This item was written in an older form of English. It's style and spelling is one that is not used today)
+     Genesis chapter 4 verse 26; 
+"And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name
+Enos then began men to call upon the name of the Lord."
+Verse 26. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.]  The marginal reading is, Then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord; which words are supposed to signify that in the time of Enos the true followers of God began to distinguish themselves, and to be distinguished by others, by the appellation of sons of God; those of the other branch of Adam's family, among whom the Divine worship was not observed, being distinguished by the name, children of men. It must not be dissembled that many eminent men have contended that (Hebrew spelling of) 'huchal', which we translate began, should be rendered began profanely, or then profanation began, and from this time they date the origin of idolatry.  Most of the Jewish doctors were of this opinion, and Maimonides has discussed it at some length in his Treatise on Idolatry; as this piece is curious, and gives the most probable account of the origin and progress of idolatry, I shall insert it here.
+     "In the days of Enos the sons of Adam erred with great error, and the counsel of the wise men of that age became brutish, and Enos himself was (one) of  them that erred; and their error was this: they said, For as much as God  hath created these stars and spheres to govern the world, and set them on high, and imparted honour unto them, and they are ministers that minister before him; it is meet that men should laud, and glorify, and give them honour. For this is the will of God, that we magnify and honour whomsoever he magifieth and honoureth; even as a king would have them honoured that stand before him, and this is the honour of the king himself. When this thing was come up into their hearts they began to build temples unto the stars, and to offer sacrifice unto them, and to laud and glorify them with words, and  to worship before them, that they might in their evil opinion obtain favour of the Creator; and 
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+this was the root of idolatry, &c. And in process of time there stood up false prophets among the sons of Adam, which said that God had commanded and said to them, Worship such a star, or all the stars, and do sacrifice unto them thus and thus; and built a temple for it, and make an image of it, that all the people, women and children may worship it. And the false prophet showed them the image which he had feigned out of his own heart, and said it was the image of such a star, which was made known unto him by prophecy. And they began after this manner to make images in temples, and under trees, and on tops of mountains and hills, and assembled together and worshipped them, &c. And this thing was spread through all the world, to serve images with services different one from another, and to sacrifice unto and worship them. So, in process of time, the glorious and fearful name (of God) was forgotten out of the mouth of all living, and out of their knowledge, and they acknowledged him not. And there was found no people on the earth that knew aught, save images of wood and stone, which they had been trained up from their childhood to worship and serve, and to swear by their names. And the wise men that were among them, as the priests and such like, thought there was no God save the stars and spheres, for whose sake and in whose likeness they had made these images; but as for the Rock everlasting, there was no man that acknowledged him or knew him save a few persons in the world, as Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Shem, and Heber. And in this way did the world walk and converse till that pillar of the world, Abraham our father, was born."  Maim. in Mishn. and Ainsworth in loco.
+
+     From the time of the fall (approx. 4100 B.C.) to the time of the flood (approx. 2353 B.C.) the area we recognize today called Mesopotamia, was occupied and influenced by at least the Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian cultures. These nations had fallen into gross paganism that included sexual fertility rituals, the offering up human sacrifices, including babies, homosexual activities and more. Just a few of the deities they offered their sacrifices to included (but not limited to) Ashteroth and Anath (two fertility goddesses), Baal, Marduk (a Babylonian god). As the above Treatise indicates; 
+"And there was found no people on the earth
+that knew aught, save images of wood and stone, 
+which they had been trained up from their childhood 
+to worship and serve, and to swear by their names."  
+     As it was in the time of Noah, will we see these gross activities of pagan worship again? I fear that we will, and the book of Revelation confirms it.
+"But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
+(see: Matt.24:36-39)