Babylonian captivity

Okay.

So Akkadian, which is the language of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian empires.

Um, Arabic.

Aramaic, which is the language that Jesus most likely spoke.

Israel is prophesying, okay, largely to the, uh, some to the Northern Kingdom, some to the Southern Kingdom and telling them, "You need to repent because if you don't repent, the Assyrians are going to come and take you away." So he's prophesying this first taking away into exile.

Now, later on, the Assyrian Empire fell.

The Babylonians were the, the successors of the Assyrian Empire, and they're the ones that took Judah into exile.

Okay? Their exile was different.

Well, we're nearing the end of the book for sure, but we're nearing the end of this whole chapter before captivity comes to Judah.

If you want to just... watershed certain events in the Old Testament, you want to always remember the Babylonian captivity.

Even when we talk about the prophets of the Old Testament, we talk about the pre-exilic prophets, so pre-exile prophets, the prophets that came before the Babylonian exile.

We talk about the exilic prophets.

prophets, those that prophesied during the exile, people like Daniel or Ezekiel or Jeremiah.

And this all goes back to Hanukkah that the Jews still celebrate today.

Hanukkah goes back to after the Jews came back from their BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, AND DURING THE DAYS OF MACHABEES, THE MACHABEES WENT IN, AND THEY ONCE AGAIN RECLAIMED JERUSALEM, AND THEY BEGAN THE WORSHIP, AND THEY HAD THIS ZERUBA...

ZERUBABAEL'S TEMPLE.

I'M NOT SURE I PRONOUNCED THAT PROPERLY, BUT ANYWAY, HE WAS THE KING OF JERUSALEM AT THAT TIME, AND WHEN HE BUILT THAT TEMPLE, IT WAS MUCH INFERIOR TO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, BUT NONETHELESS, IT WAS A TEMPLE, AND THEY...

There's more and more things being exposed, and there's more exposed just in life in general.

And I've thought for a while that we're coming out of a Babylonian-type world, captivity like when they went and it's I think it's been about 70 years I'm almost 70 years old here in a couple of months and I mean my whole life this has just been a train wreck and I've thought about how much has changed and and what this captivity which I believe is totally connected to mind control has done to society in general and so i've been thinking about that for a while and i thought i know god's telling me we're coming to the coming out of babylon coming out of egypt getting away from the greco-roman all of that pagan stuff and so i was just sitting and praying and he said read the book of ezra and so ezra is Nehemiah are the books that talk about when they came out of Babylonian captivity and it's pretty interesting when you just read the whole thing and I noted a couple of things and I talked to this about Mike and that's what he's going to be talking about today the title is The Purpose of Judgment as part of the restoration process and we have to have restoration or we're not going to be able to do complete what God wants us to do And there were different things that just stood out because when they came out of captivity and they started laying the foundation, putting a new foundation, and They had a lot of conflict after they started building.

I mean, the old enemy didn't want them to rebuild, and so they had a lot of conflict.

But I noted several things that they did.

In Ezekiel chapter 4, there's a strange prophecy that, in a sense, just to summarize it, predicts 430 years of judgment on the nation Israel.

And 70 of those we can account for, the Babylonian captivity.

70 from 430 leaves 360.

Those 360 years are a problem because they don't fit Any which way you try to tie it to history, try to understand that, it doesn't seem to fit.

You also have nine months and 21 days left over to equal.

So in other words, the passage would seem to indicate that the judgment on Israel would be about 2,483 years, nine months, and 21 days.

You say, Chuck, that's exciting, but where do you start counting? Well, it all hangs in the Babylonian captivity.

In the passages in Scripture, you'll find that there is a thing called the servitude of the nation, and that's prophesied to be 70 years.

End of A Long Time Ago by Floyd Dell.

Play Five of One-Act Play Collection Twenty-One, The Babylonian Captivity by Lesya Ukrainka.

This is a LibriVox recording.

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An Overseer read by Brian Fullen.

Stage Directions read by Inkel.

The Babylonian Captivity.

A wide plain.

Time covered, BC seven hundred and twenty-two minus five hundred and eighty-seven equals one hundred and thirty-five years.

Eleven: the Period of Babylonian Captivity, from the fall of Judah to the restoration of Jerusalem.

Second Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel.

Time covered, BC five hundred and eighty-seven minus five hundred and thirty-seven equals fifty years.