Issachar Gazette: Common Sense in an Age of Vain Ideology
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1. Prophets and Time Line
2. Shinar (site of Babel/Babylon) mentioned: Gen 14:1-9; Joshua 7:21; Isaiah 11:1; Daniel 1:2 and Zechariah 5:11. - Mystery Babylon: see Revelation 17. See: 'Hussein's Babylon: A Beloved Atrocity'. New York Times, 19 Aug 2003
3. Principles of Judgment
Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt , wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan , whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus 18: 21, 28, 30 "you shall keep my Ordinance"
4. Judgment of Judah and the Babylonian Captivity (for a time certain) and the judgment of Babylon
Isaiah 39: 5-7 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord Almighty: The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. ”
2 Chronicles 36:14-21 (God hates and judges sin) Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.1 The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and spared neither young man nor young woman, old man or aged. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar. He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there. He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.
5. Nebuchadnezzar as the servant of God! Instructions to submit to Nebu or be in rebellion against God
Jer 25:9 - I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord,
Jer 27:6-8 Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him. “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the Lord, until I destroy it by his hand.
6. Destruction of Babylon and Likening to Sodom & Gomorrah as caution (What were the conditions of Sodom which attracted the judgment of God? Contrast with how God dealt with Nineveh in Jonah 2-3)
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Amos 4:11 I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.
Romans 9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."
Matt 10:15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Jeremiah 51:24 "Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 25:98-12 Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever. I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians' pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
2 Peter 2:6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. Promise that the scattered will return
Isaiah 11:11-12 (KJV) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Jeremiah 16:14-15 Therefore, days are coming, declares Yahweh, when it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,” but, “As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.”
Jeremiah 29: 10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.
Jeremiah 32:36-37 (626-586 BC) "You are saying about this city, 'By the sword, famine and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon'; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety
Isaiah 48:14 Have any of your idols ever told you this? Come, all of you, and listen: The LORD has chosen Cyrus as his ally. He will use him to put an end to the empire of Babylon and to destroy the Babylonian armies.
Isaiah 44:28 who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid."'
Cyrus Cylinder Departs; Moslehi Status in Doubt; Khatami Speaks Out

Farvardin/April 18 The 2,500-year-old Cyrus Cylinder, regarded by some as one of civilization's first recorded expressions of human rights, was returned to the British Museum yesterday. It had been on display in Tehran since September. The 2,500-year-old artifact bears a text written in cuneiform script attributed to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, on the occasion of the Persian conquest of Babylon.
Commentator Jon Snow observes that leading nonclerical figures in the Islamic Republic, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have recently been promoting a "'nationalist narrative' of Iran which long predates Islam. Hence the dislike of the object in the highest echelons of the clergy.... The Cyrus Cylinder has ignited a new debate in Iran about the country's culture and history. The mullahs boycotted the exhibition. The President, the man who could well be his successor [presidential chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei], and a current Vice President all embraced the Cyrus Cylinder." The third reference is to Hamid Baghaei, one of Iran's eight vice presidents and head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization, who referred to Ahmadinejad as "the Cyrus of our times."
The Iranians regarded Cyrus the Great him as "The Father", the Babylonian as "The Liberator", the Jews as 'Law-Giver' and The Anointed of the Lord.'