Tempest onoculus

The rise of Babylonia In it’s over two thousand year history it is cited as ranging from a small town to a flourishing metropolis at the center of an empire or, as rubble. At one point in history it is mentioned as a mere blip by being known as a quarry. Pretty much, people would go there to collect rocks from the rubble to build there own abodes only knowing its name and nothing of its former glory. Babylonia’s first rise to glory was under king Hammurabi who instituted the first set of laws historically. This first incarnation of the Babylonian empire was short lived and declined under the rule of his son. Afterward there was a seemingly endless string of conflicts for  control of the city as it was passed back and forth through the hands of different rulers and ruling tribes. some being nomadic,  some being parts of larger kingdoms till it came under rule of the Assyrian empire as a province.  In a period of decline for the Assyrian empire, around 626 BC,  Nabopolassar, an Assyrian

Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, teachers if the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices- mint, dill and cumin. But you reject the more important matters of the law- justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without rejecting the former.” Matthew 23:15 “ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much the child of hell as you are.” Acts 22: 8 “For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, not spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.” Matthew 21: 12 – 17 12 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’;     but you are making it a den of robbers.” 14 The blind and the lame came to him in th