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1. Prophets and Time Line

 

  • Isaiah: 760-673 BC (fall of Jerusalem and Babylon)
  • Jeremiah b. 650, prophesies: 640-626 BC 
  • Daniel 620-540 BC 
  • Ezekiel: sees first vision: 593, 574 (25 years in exile) 

     

 

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  

 

 

8.      Who will deliver the Judahites in Captivity? Cyrus! [Note that Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and sponsored the rebuilding of the Temple]   

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

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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."

   

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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.'  

 

 

 

 

 

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Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:34:00 -0700 Mystery, Babylon (Or, Uncovering the Harlot) http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/mystery-babylon-or-uncovering-the-harlot http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/mystery-babylon-or-uncovering-the-harlot

UNRAVELLING MYSTERY BABYLON

(Babel, Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar, Rev 17 Mystery Babylon)

 

 

 

 Nimrod - Genesis 10 - great empire encompassed Shinar

 

8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.  11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city. (NIV)

 

8 Kush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful ruler on earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Adonai this is why people say, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.10 His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar. 11 Ashur went out from that land and built Ninveh, the city Rechovot, Kelach, 12 and Resen between Ninveh and Kelach — that one is the great city (CJB) 

 

Rabbinical literature Nimrod is the prototype of a rebellious people, his name being interpreted as "he who made all the people rebellious against God" (Pes. 94b; comp. Targ. of pseudo-Jonathan and Targ. Yer. to Gen. x. 9). He is identified with Cush and with Amraphel, the name of the latter being interpreted as "he whose words are dark" ( ; Gen. R. xlii. 5; for other explanations see below). As he was the first hunter he was consequently the first who introduced the eating of meat by man. He was also the first to make war on other peoples (Midr. Agadah to Gen. x. 9).   

 

The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews (c AD 94), recounted history as found in the Hebrew Bible and mentioned the Tower of Babel.

 

Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power... Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners [in the Flood]; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion... 

 

§       Note: Noah's ark was covered with pitch (Tar) to water proof it. - Genesis 6:14 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 

 

Babel

 

Babel - Genesis 11

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

11 (S: vii) The whole earth used the same language, the same words. 2 It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shin‘ar and lived there. 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them in the fire.” So they had bricks for building-stone and clay for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”

5 Adonai came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 Adonai said, “Look, the people are united, they all have a single language, and see what they’re starting to do! At this rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them! 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.” 8 So from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 For this reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth. (CJB)

 

 Shinar, Again: Daniel 1: 1-2 site of Babylonian Empire (Nebuchadnezzar)

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

Promise of God to recover His remnant from various places, including Shinar

Isaiah 11:11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Mystery, Babylon

 

Rape of Europa

Revelation 17:4-6 (ESV)

4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

Note: Contemporary Babel?

 

 

 

 

 

1.     European Parliament:http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/sinister-sites-%E2%80%93-the-eu-p..."> replica of Babel?  

 

The Rape of Europe (David Hathaway)

 

2.     Isaiah 9:10 and America (pride in rebuilding, not humility)

Sid Roth with guest Rabbi Jonathan Cahn - Pt-1 - Is There an Ancient Mystery Behind 9/11?

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