That Cushite Woman

The murmuring of Aaron and Miriam

Numbers 12:1

When they were in Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against their brother, Moses, because of the Cushite woman he had married:

"He married a Cushite woman! Has Yah spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?"

Yahweh heard them.

Yahweh calls to them: Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting.

Then he calls out Aaron and Miriam and He said:

"Hear these words of Mine: when a prophet of Mine arises among you, I make Myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. Not so with My servant Moses; he is trusted throughout My household.  With him I speak mouth to mouth, plainly  and not in riddles, and he beholds the likeness of Me.  How then did you not shrink from speaking against My servant Moses!"

Yahweh was incensed with them as He departed.  Miriam was struck with snow-white scales. Aaron pleads with Moses admitting their sin they committed in folly. Moses cried out to Yah to heal her, but He says:

If her father spat in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days?  Let her be shut out of the camp  for seven days then let her be readmitted.

Let us now refer to the historical accounts of Moses as they are written in the book called Jasher, beginning with the time Moses killed an Egyptian.

Moses was eighteen years old and desired to see his parents who were living in Goshen. On his way he came across a 'work place' where he saw an Egyptian hitting one of his Hebrew kin.  This man who was being beaten saw Moses and ran to him for help, as Moses was greatly respected in the house of Pharaoh.  He tells Moses that this Egyptian came to his house at night, tied him up and then had his way with his wife in his presence, and now intended to kill him.  Moses was angered and struck the Egyptian, which killed him. Eventually Pharaoh found out about this and sent his guards to kill Moses. Yah sent a Messenger/angel who guided Moses from Egypt, 40 days journey from the border.

Moses ends up in the camp of King Kikianus of Cush and remained with them for nine years.  The king and princes and all the fighting men loved Moses, for he was great and worthy, his stature was like a noble lion, his face like the sun and his strength was like that of a lion - he became counsellor to the king.

When the king died, his men found no other choice but to make Moses their new king - he was now 27 years old and reigned 40 years.  Yahweh granted him favor and grace in the eyes of all the children of Cush.

The people gave to Moses for a wife Adoniah the Cushite queen, wife of Kikianus.  Here it is mentioned that Moses feared Yahweh the Elohim of his fathers, so he did not go to her nor look her in the eyes.  He remembered how Abraham made his servant Eliezer swear not to take a woman from the daughters of Canaan for his son Isaac. Therefore, Moses did not turn his heart to nor take the wife of Kikianus as his own.  But he did strengthen himself in the kingdom of Cush and guided them with his usual wisdom and he prospered.

In the fortieth year of his reign, Adoniah the queen has had enough of pretending.  She speaks in front of Moses, the nobles and princes saying, "What is it you have done for all this time?  This man (Moses) has not approached me nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush.  Therefore, let him reign no more. My son (from Kikianus) is grown up and it is better for you to serve him than a stranger, slave of the king of Egypt.

The people gave in but were afraid to go against Moses - they knew his Elohim was with him - and they remembered the oath they swore to Moses so they did him no harm and sent him packing.  He was sixty six years old when he left the land of Cush and traveled to Midian. He was afraid to go back to Egypt on account of Pharaoh.  This is when he comes upon a well and meets the seven daughters of Reuel the Midianite. (Exodus 2:16)

Having this information helps explain why Yah got so angry with Miriam and Aaron for speaking out 'falsely' against their brother.   He was not married to the queen of Cush - she was given to him but he stayed true to Yahweh Elohim.

A Woman Rides the Beast

Revelation 18 (lightly paraphrased) 

Fallen is Babylon the great... it has become a cavern of demons, and the home of every unclean spirit, and every unclean and hateful bird and every unclean and hateful beast of prey. All nations have drank the wine of her wrath and the kings of the earth have practiced whoredom with her... the merchants of the earth have been enriched by the abundance of her luxuries.

We are warned to 'come out of her' so as not to participate in her sins, which have reached high heaven, nor should we partake of her plagues because Yahweh has remembered her wickedness.

This Babylon was pleased with herself and her lusting, thinking of herself as a queen who will see no sorrow. But in one day Yah judges her and along with her plagues will be death and mourning and famine, as she burns. She was one of the biggest importers of goods, which makes the merchants sad because now they cannot sell their inventory: 

gold; silver; precious stones; pearls; fine linen; purple; silk; scarlet; aromatic wood; ivory; precious wood; brass; iron; marble; cinnamon; cardamon; aromatics and unguents; frankincense; wine; oil; fine flour; wheat; beast of burden; sheep; horses chariots; and the bodies and souls of men.

Those who had gotten rich off her, every pilot, navigator and sailor, will stand far away for fear of her torment. They cry and say "Alas! that great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, because in one hour such riches are laid waste." She will be thrown down and never found again. In her was found the blood of prophets and Set Apart believers and of all those that have been slain on the earth.

(As of 01/27/2017 The USA is the largest importer of goods, although this may change according to plans Mr. Trump has about 'making America great again'...)

Mystery Babylon

A woman sits upon a red beast of prey which has 7 heads and 10 horns. This beast is full of blasphemous names. The woman appears to be either in control of the world's governing system or extremely influential in its decision making process, but the others end up hating her. We are told she will be totally destroyed. Could this represent the status of the Roman Catholic Church and the power it wields over the world? Or is Trump positioning the U S of A into position?

This final world system would need to be in place in order for the woman to control it. This woman is also referred to as "Babylon the great which made all nations drink of the wine of the rage of her whoredom." 

We are all familiar with 'types and shadows' contained in Scripture: people and events which occurred then and point towards what will happen later. It occurred to me to look at Babylon, which was one of the greatest cities on earth at one time, from an historical context to help define our perception of Mystery Babylon. We might have to use some outside sources to discover more about Babel as Genesis 11 is a short reference but sets the ground work:

Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said, "Let us make hard bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for ourselves..." When Yahweh came down to take a look, He said, "If these people of one language can come up with an idea like this, then there is nothing that they set their mind to that will be out of reach. Lets go down and confound their speech so they won't be able to understand each other" (thus putting an end to such behavior). Yah scattered them from there over the face of the earth and they stopped building the city. It is called Babel (Babylon) because it was there Yahweh confounded their speech and scattered them.

Notice, out of their pride and arrogance they came together for the sake of their own glory... they wanted to make a name for themselves. Not only did Yahweh confound their speech but He scattered them. Years later the House of Israel was scattered, part of which was exiled to Babylon in Nebuchadnezzar's day. During those seventy years many bad habits were picked up by those dispersed Israelites, and brought back with them to Judea whence they returned.

Nimrod 

Nimrod's name is from the verb "let us revolt." He is said to be a mighty hunter (gibbor tsayidh) in the sight of Yahweh, but the language has a dark meaning. He becomes a tyrant or despot leading an organized rebellion against the rule of Yahweh. He hunts not animals, but rather the souls of men. Cain, a condemned murderer had started the first cities before the Flood. Nimrod builds the first post-Flood cities.

More from the website of L. Dolphin:

Nimrod is the founder of both Babylon and Nineveh, the two great cities of antiquity which became, ultimately, enemies of Israel. Nimrod evidently gained a great reputation as such a hunter, but he was more than a hunter of wild animals. By the founding of Babylon and Nineveh we have a hint given of the nature of this man. We are told here that he was "the first mighty man on earth," i.e., after the flood. That phrase, "mighty man," takes us back to Genesis 6 where, in that strange story of the invasion of the "sons of God" into the human race, there resulted a race of giants called Nephilim. We are told that "these were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." This demonic invasion of the race, with sexual overtones, brought into being a race of giants that were morally degraded. These also appear later on in the Canaanite tribes. We have found this suggestive line of thought running through the Scriptural account up to this point. Nimrod apparently was one of these "mighty men," and therefore introduced a perverted, degraded form of religion into the world. It began at Babylon, spread to Nineveh, and can be traced in history as it subsequently spread throughout the whole of the earth. Thus, in this man Nimrod, we have the seed of idolatry and false religion coming in again after the flood... In the Babylonian religion, Nimrod (false god Marduk) held a unique place. His wife was Semiramis. Marduk and Semiramis were the ancient god and goddess of Babylon. They had a son whom Semiramis claimed was virgin-born, and they founded the mother and child cult. This was the central character of the religion of ancient Babylon, the worship of a mother and child, supposedly virgin-born. You can see in this a clever attempt on the part of Satan to anticipate the genuine virgin birth and thus to cast disrepute upon the story when Yahshua would later be born into history.  

This ancient Babylonian cult of the mother and child spread to other parts of the earth. You will find it in the Egyptian religion as Isis and Osiris. In Greece it is Venus and Adonis, and in the Hindu religion it is Ushas and Vishnu. The same cult prevails in various other localities. It appears in the Old Testament in Jeremiah where the Israelites are warned against offering sacrifices to "the Queen of Heaven." This Queen of Heaven is Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, the original mother of the Mother and Child cult. The cult has also crept into Christianity and forms the basis for the Mariolatry that has prevailed in the Roman Catholic Church, where the Mother and Child are worshiped as joint redeemers. This idolatrous religion culminates at last in the Bible in the book of Revelation. There, a "great harlot" appears, whose name is "Mystery Babylon the Great," the originator of all the harlotries and false religions of earth. The essence of Babylonianism, as we understand from Scripture, is the attempt to gain earthly honor by means of religious authority. That is Babylonianism, and it has pervaded Christian churches, Hindu temples, Buddhist shrines, and Mohammedan mosques. Everywhere it is the element that marks falseness in religion - the attempt to gain earthly power and prestige by means of religious authority. That is what Nimrod began and what YHWH will ultimately destroy, as we read in the book of Revelation.

Babylon was founded by Nimrod.  He was considered a Babylonian god.  His wife was Semiramis, goddess of Babylon. They had a son whom Semiramis claimed was virgin-born, and they founded the mother and child cult. This was the central character of the religion of ancient Babylon, the worship of a mother and child, supposedly virgin-born. 

Many moons later, reported in the Book of Revelation, she, the Queen of Heaven, Mystery Babylon, a city full of evil, is characterized by the same old false religious system, propagated by the Roman Catholic Church who has gained earthly honor by religious authority via the Pope.

Let that sink in for a moment.

... the merchants of the earth have been enriched by the abundance of her luxuries and she was one of the biggest importers of goods... she is described as that great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls (that attire represents royalty, wealth). The blood of all slain believers was found in her... Who is responsible for a multitude of deaths? the inquisition? or Islam? Does the RCC import goods? 

Mystery Babylon is most likely the final world religious system, totally devoid of YHWH  and dismissing His Son, attempting to negate the Kingdom to come.  We can see it promoted now as 'all religions lead to 'God'.  I think even the pope said something like that.