The Spiritual World of Ancient China and the Bible: Biblical Background to the Novel Qin: Dragon Emperor of China by Godawa Brian

Author:Godawa, Brian [Godawa, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Embedded Pictures Publishing
Published: 2019-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3:

The Spiritual World of China

Tower of Babel and the Tomb of Qin

In the novel Qin: Dragon Emperor of China , reference is made to Chinese oracle bones that record contact between King Cyrus of Persia and the Chinese in the sixth century B.C., four hundred years before the Qin dynasty. This is based on real modern discoveries of cuneiform clay cylinders about Cyrus the Great and his conquest of Babylon that match those found on Chinese oracle bones in China. [38] The ancient Babylonians most likely had interaction with the ancient Chinese.

But there is also biblical evidence of that connection. As explained in Chapter 1, the Tower of Babel incident in Genesis 11 is a foundational narrative to the Deuteronomy 32 worldview, or as I call it, “the Watcher paradigm” that guides the Chronicles of the Watcher series along with its sister series, Chronicles of the Nephilim and Chronicles of the Apocalypse.

This paradigm understands the fallen biblical Watchers over the nations to be identical or connected to the gods of the Gentile nations. And these gods were allotted the various nations as their “inheritance” of ownership. Every Gentile nation territory was under the authority of the demonic false gods that they worshipped.

By way of review, the Tower of Babel was a ziggurat step pyramid that was built as a “stairway to heaven” for the gods to come down and meet with priests in the temple at the top of the pyramid. The word for Babylon in Akkadian is babil-ani , which means “gate of the gods.” [39] This temple tower symbolized a “cosmic mountain,” and its basic pyramidal structure is apparent in most ancient civilizations across the globe, from Mesopotamia to Egypt to India to South America. [40]

One theory that explains this uniformity of structure across geographically and culturally diverse civilizations is that the original unified people at Babel were split up by God at the Confusion of Tongues incident and brought with them their knowledge of such sacred architecture. The biblical word “Babel” is a polemical mockery of the Akkadian name of Babylon that turns the “gate of gods” into “confusion.”

One of those separated seventy nations from Babel would end up settling in the territory we now call China. Modern Chinese researcher Dr. Thong, Chan Kei writes,

I have now come to the studied conclusion that the ancient Chinese were one of the many original nations dispersed after the confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel, described in Genesis 11 of the Bible. Some among these dispersed nations were alienated from God, while others wanted to follow His way. Like the Pilgrims who went to America to preserve the purity of their religious beliefs, the people group that went on to found the Chinese civilization was, I believe, a God-fearing race that desired to worship God appropriately. [41]

Another researcher of this issue, C.H. Kang concludes the same Babel origin of China at the Great Dispersion, concluding that because of China’s geographical isolation, it was cut off from the outside influence of the west and thus remained relatively undisturbed for 2000 years.

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