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805. Bible Study: Jeremian 52 (Fall of Jerusalem- Prophecy Fulfillment) · Faith by annm2705

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This is the last chapter of Jeremiah.
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It's chapter 52. So let's get started.
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Dear Lord, please be with us and let the Holy Spirit goes.
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Give us wisdom and insight as we read through this text.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. This is about the fall of
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Jerusalem. It's somewhat summarizes.
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So Zedekiah was 21 years old, that was the king when he became
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king, and he reigned in Jerusalem 11 years.
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His mother's name was Hamudul, daughter of Jeremiah.
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She was from Libna. He did evil in the eyes of the
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Lord, just as Jehoah Kim had done.
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It was because of the Lord's anger that all this happened to
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Jerusalem and Judah in the and in the end he thrust them from
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his presence. We'll talk a little bit more
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about what led up to that as after we get through the parts
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of this chapter. Now Zedekiah rebelled against
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the king of Babylon. So in the ninth year of
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Zedekiah's reign, on the 10th day of the 10th month,
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Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, marched against Jerusalem with
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his whole army. They encapped, encamped outside
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the city and built siege works all around it.
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The city was kept under siege until the 11th year of King
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Zedekiah. By the 9th day of the fourth
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month, the famine in the city had become so severe that there
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was no food for the people to eat.
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Now remember in prior chapters, that's what God said would
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happen, that there would be famine and sword and and plague.
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Those were three different things that he said was
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prophesied through Jeremiah to tell the people of Jerusalem if
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they didn't stop their idolatry, this would happen.
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And they didn't listen, of course.
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And so this is happening and I mean, everything that God said
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to Jeremiah was being fulfilled. And this is this is kind of a
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summary of it. OK, going to back to verse 7.
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Then the city wall was broken through.
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The whole army fled. They left the city at night
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through the gate between the two walls near the King's garden,
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though the Babylonians were surrounding the city.
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So this is what the king did. And that's what God had also
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told the king, that you're not going to escape this.
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You're going to you're going to die from this and you're never
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going to be returned back to Jerusalem.
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So it's again, this is showing how the prophecy did get
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fulfilled. They fled through the Araba and
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the study Bible says, or the Jordan Valley as a footnote.
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But the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him
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in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated
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from him and scattered and he was captured.
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So again, that was prophecy being fulfilled.
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He was taken to the king of Babylon at Ribla in the land of
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Hemeth, where he pronounced sentence on him.
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There at Ribla, the king of Babylon killed the sons of
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Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the officials
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of Judah. That was another prophecy that
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was told to Zedekiah that his family, if he didn't listen, I
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believe that his family would also be killed before him.
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So this is prophecy that also was fulfilled.
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Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him with bronze shackles
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and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison until the
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day of his death. So again, prophecy fulfilled.
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On the 10th day of the 5th month, in the 19th year of
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Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzuradan, commander of the
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imperial guard who served the king of Babylon, came to
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Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the
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Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem, every
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important building he burned down.
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So this fulfills prophecy also that it was burned down by fire.
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And what's interesting is that in the future Mystery Babylon
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that will be destroyed, it also gets destroyed by fire.
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So this is like, again, a foreshadowing or a foreshadowing
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of a future event that we were talking about in the last
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several chapters. Every important building.
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He burned down the whole Babylonian army under the
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commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around
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Jerusalem. Nebuchzuradin, the commander of
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the guard, carried into exile some of the poorest people, and
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those who remained in the city along with the rest of the
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Craftsman are Chaldeans and those who had deserted to the
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king of Babylon. But Nebu Zuraidan left behind
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the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the
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vineyards and the fields. So some were were spared.
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They were left to work. They were the poor and they
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didn't, I guess, seemed to be a threat and they needed somebody
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to work the land. So he let people stay.
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Now this is interesting because a lot of there's, you know,
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there's a focus right now in 2025 on building the third
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Temple and a lot of the the items, furniture, fixtures that
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would go into the temple are in storage.
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I guess right now as until they get permission or are allowed to
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build the Third Temple, everything's been recreated.
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So everything is ready to go. And there's a lot of talk and a
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lot of preparation in Israel for the third Temple.
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And that's also causing a lot of the conflict that I wouldn't say
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causing, but it's been alluded to that that coming temple is
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something that the enemy quite honestly wants to prevent
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happening. And so it it was actually said
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that this October 7th event in 2023 was supposedly to distract
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from or keep them from proceeding with building the
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third temple. But in the meantime, Israel is
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doing all the preparations of the people, the priests that are
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required for duties of the temple.
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They're getting prepared. The red heifers are another
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preparation for atonement that Israel has been focused on.
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And, and those came to Israel in 2020.
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September 15th, 2020, I think is when they arrived in Israel.
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So it there's just a lot of stuff that's happening that's
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biblically prophetic and we'll just see how it unfolds.
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But a lot of things happening all at one time in 2025.
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And I find this the next couple chat, not chapters.
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The paragraphs talk about the actual temple furnishings from
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the this first temple. They went into Babylon and
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Babylon is modern day Iraq. I don't know that these items
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actually got recovered and somewhere I forgot where, but I
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I want to say that I recall that the Lord says I will return
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those items someday. So I'm wondering if when you
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know, like the second coming, when Jesus returns, if there is
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going to be that bringing of the actual articles from the very
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first temple back. I don't know and I need to find
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it in Scripture. I probably should have said that
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before looking it up and confirming, but this is from
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memory. My memory is not always the
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best, but if you know, check it out and see if you see that
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anywhere in Scripture. But the interesting part is that
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the next couple paragraphs, this is where they went.
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So I might look into that a little bit more after this
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podcast. The Babylonians broke up the
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bronze pillars, the movable stands in the bronze sea that
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were at the temple of the Lord, and they carried all the bronze
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to Babylon. They also took away the pots,
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shovels, Wick, trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and
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all the bronze articles used in temple service.
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The commander of the Imperial Guard took away the basins,
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sensors, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls
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used for drink offerings, all that were made of pure gold or
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silver. So they were probably looking at
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these items just for the metal that was used.
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And who knows what they did with that.
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If, you know, they could have actually destroyed it too, but
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it doesn't see it seems like in the buyable somehow these
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articles are being preserved. We'll see.
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OK, The bronze from the two pillars, the sea and the 12
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bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands which King
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Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord was more than could
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be weighed. Each pillar was 18 cubits high
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and 12 cubits in circumference. Let's see what that at the
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footnote. So it says that is about 27 feet
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high. We're talking about pretty
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sizable structure here and 18 feet in circumference are about
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8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference.
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So that's that's pretty significant.
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Each was 4 fingers thick and hollow.
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The bronze capital on top of one pillar was 5 cubits high and was
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decorated with a network of pomegranates of bronze all
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around. And that says that's it was
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about 7 1/2 feet, or about 2.3 meters.
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So these are pretty sizable things.
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I mean, it'd be interesting to see if these ever show up in the
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near future. There were 96 pomegranates on
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the sides. The total number of pomegranates
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above the surrounding network was 100.
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Some of these details, I think God actually inspires his
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prophets or the people, you know, the people who wrote these
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books, puts these things down again, because this is going to
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be future evidence of God's Word being real.
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Remember, this was written in the BC time frame, thousands of
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years ago. So if something like this comes
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up again, it'll just prove the word of God to be true and it'll
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be significant. And maybe those are some of the
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things that God will do or use in the future.
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I don't know that I'm actually going to just search right now.
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Like have any temple articles from Solomon Temple been found?
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No. So currently, no definitive
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artifacts from King Solomon's actual temple have been found,
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as the structure was destroyed by the Babylonians and later
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rebuilt. But archaeologists have found
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10th century BCE pottery, animal bones and olive pits near the
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Temple Mount and similar temple models that support the biblical
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description of a monumental structure, while direct remnants
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are absent. Evidence suggests that a
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significant Israelite presence and worship at the site during
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that era, with some fines dating to Solomon's time, but not
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specific temple furnishings. Well, we wouldn't anticipate it
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being at the Temple Mount since, you know, the Bible is telling
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us right now that it went to Iraq, modern day Iraq.
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So let's see the commander of the OK going back to Scripture,
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verse 24, the commander of the guard took as prisoners Soraya,
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the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest Nixon rank, and the three
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doorkeepers of those still in the city.
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He took the officer in charge of the fighting men and seven royal
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advisors. He also took the secretary, who
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was a was chief officer in charge of conscripting the
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people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city Nebu
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zu Raiden. The commander took them all and
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brought them to the king of Babylon at Ribla.
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There at Ribla, in the land of Hamath, the king had them
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executed. So Judah went into captivity
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away from her land. This is the number of the people
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Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile in the 7th year 3023.
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Jews in Nebuchadnezzar, 18th year, 832 people from Jerusalem.
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In his 23rd year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzzuraiden, the
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commander of the Imperial Guard. There were 4600 people in all.
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I just think that's kind of interesting too.
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And I'll talk about that in a minute.
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When there's numbers like these, I don't know, like this time I
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just thought 4600, is that written elsewhere in the Bible?
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And I looked it up and there is a little bit of yes, it is
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written. There's only two times where
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that number is shown up in the Bible.
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So we'll talk about that in a minute too.
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So then it talks about Jehoiachin released verse 31 in
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the 37th year of the exile of King Jehoiichen, king of Judah,
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in the year Awel Marduk became king of Babylon on the 25th day
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of the 12th month. It's kind of interesting.
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It's not the same as our calendar month, it they're
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different months, but just kind of interesting that it's 12/25.
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He released Jehoiichen, king of Judah, and freed him from
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prison. He spoke kindly to him, gave him
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a seat of honor higher than those of other kings who were
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with him in Babylon. So Jehoiachin put aside his
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prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the
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King's table. Day by day.
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The king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance
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as long as he lived till the day of his death.
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I thought that was really strange because here he is like
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a, you know, an Israelite and somehow he's found favor with a
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Babylonian king who serves another God, yet they're eating
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together at the same table and he is being treated well.
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And so I did look that up as well because I was just, I
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thought was really interesting and I thought, well, would God
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really be happy with that? And, and Jehoiachin was, you
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know, he was considered that he did evil in the eyes of the
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Lord. So I looked that up and I have
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more to share with that in a minute.
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So, and then here's another thing too.
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Well, I'll, I will go through that in a little bit, but I'll
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read through the questions and answers from the study guide and
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then I'll go into a few things that I found as well.
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So going back to verse 7, how did they breakthrough the wall?
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Armies sometimes used battering Rams to break down city gates.
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Other times they tunneled under the wall using wooden beams to
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keep the wall from falling in on top of them.
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They then set on fire the supports, causing the wall to
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collapse. Sometimes invaders used ladders
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or built huge earthen ramps to reach the top of the wall.
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How did Zedekiah, Zedekiah and his army escape?
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If the Babylonians had surrounded the city, the king
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and his army officials may have made preparations for their
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escape when they saw the end approaching.
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Apparently they were able to make their initial getaway under
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the cover of darkness. In similar circumstances, others
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have escaped using bribes or disguises, perhaps as women,
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since women and children were sometimes permitted to go free.
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Why didn't Nebuchadnezzar just kill Zedekiah?
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Nebuchadnezzar was not content to merely conquer Judah.
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He wanted his barbarous tactics to demoralize and intimidate
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other nations as well. Allowing Zedekiah to live after
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so much personal and political devastation was perhaps worse
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than death. Was this a different Soraya than
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the one in in chapter 51, verse 59?
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We're not sure, but it appears that this saraya, the chief
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priest, was a different man than the Saraya of 51 of chapter 51,
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verse 39. 59 Who was a staff officer?
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The Suryayah mentioned earlier, a staff officer was the brother
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of Baruch, Jeremiah's secretary. Why were only 4600 Jews
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deported? 3 deportations are listed here
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#1 the deportation in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar's
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reign, the deportation in his 18th year, and three the
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deportation in his 23rd year. The total in verse 28, three
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1023 conflicts with Second Kings 2414, which states that 10,000
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Jews were deported. The number here likely included
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only men, not women and children.
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The low figure in the 2nd deportation 832 at the time of
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Jerusalem's destruction indicates that many were killed
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rather than deported. Those taken in the 3rd
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deportation 745 were perhaps exiled as punishment for
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Geldea's or Gedalia's assassination.
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From chapter 41 verses one through 3 of Jeremiah.
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So sometimes when I see explanations like this, I I
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think yes, that's a logical conclusion to that.
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And other times, I think is there something prophetic and
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significance to this? And the only thing that flags it
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for me is that there's a certain number that are deported after
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the 7th year. So the number 7 is usually
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significant. But then, you know, the 18th
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year, I don't know that that that necessarily is significant.
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And then the 23rd year, there's a lot of things that if you see
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what it, you know, what does the number 23 represent?
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And Judaism, you'll see that there's some, I don't know, some
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numbers that mean certain things in Judaism.
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And so I don't know, did did God, you know, have these things
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happen that way? Just to say another message,
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prophetic message, I guess. So why would an imprisoned king
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be released after 37 years in prison?
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Possibly because Nebuchadnezzar was no longer king.
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The new political regime of Awel Marduk apparently did not see
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the aging Jehoachin as a threat. Crowned in 598 BC when he was
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only 18 years old, Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon just three
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months later. Released in 561 at age 55,
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Jehoiachin would have posed little threat to his captors.
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The simultaneous release of several other captive kings
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suggest a general amnesty to celebrate the new King's
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coronation. Why was Jehovah Chin given a
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seat of honor higher than those of other captive kings?
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This honor was a gracious provision from God.
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God continued to watch over the Davidic line even in exile.
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This allows the book to end on a hopeful note.
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God's other promises of restoration will be fulfilled.
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God has not been stopped. He will move his plan forward in
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the days ahead. So this is, you know, it's kind
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of alluding to a future prophetic fulfillment of this as
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well. So I did look up King Jehoiachin
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in the Bible, and this is from godquestions.org and just
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searching King Jehoiachin. And so I will read these things
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because it's some, I don't know, I like the way they summarize
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all these different chapters. So King Jehoiachin, also
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referred to as Jaconia and Konia, ruled in Judah for three
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months and 10 days according to Second Chronicles 36 verse 9.
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I think I'm not going to read the references to.
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If you want to look it up online, you can see that all
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these statements that they make are referred to in Scripture and
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read more about it. So he was, he was, he ruled in
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Judah for three months and 10 days in 597 before he was taken
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captive to Babylon. He was 18 years old when he
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began to rule and did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
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So I always think that's interesting that he did evil,
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but yet God preserved him. And then you'll find something
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even more important about him and probably the reason why it
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was documented that, you know, he received favor from the king
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of Babylon and he was spared even though he was evil.
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So this is interesting and we'll get to it soon.
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Jehoiachin's father, Jehoiah Kim, formerly named Eliah Kim,
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was the son of a good king, Josiah.
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Pharaoh Neko had taken Jehovah Jehovah as the son of Josiah,
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who initially succeeded him captive, and placed Eliah Kim,
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whose name he changed to Jehoiah Kim, on the throne instead.
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Sometimes hard to keep track of all these names.
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Pharaoh Neko also imposed a levy on Judah's on Judah, which
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Jehoiah Kim paid by taxing the people heavily.
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King Jehoiah Kim reigned for 11 years and did evil in God's
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eyes. During Jehoiah Kim's reign, King
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Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Jerusalem.
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Jehoiah Kim became Nebuchadnezzar's vassal for
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three years. This is also significant to me.
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Prophetically, there's a lot of things that happen in three-year
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increments. But then he rebelled.
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In response, the Babylonians proceeded to attack Judah, and
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God sent Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite Raiders against Judah
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as well. Babylon took over and Egypt
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stood down. Remember, God never wants Israel
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to go to Egypt for help. He wants God.
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He wants Israel to go to God. So Jehoiah Chin 6 Chin OK, so
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this is different than Kim. There's Kim and there's Chin.
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So Jehoiah Chin succeeded his father Jehoiah Kim in Jerusalem,
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but his rule was short lived as King Nebuchadnezzar laid siege
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against Jerusalem and the young king, along with the Queen
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Mother and the royal officials surrendered to Babylon.
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This again, when God sent through the prophet, he said if
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they surrender, they will, their life will be spared.
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So again, this is also prophetic fulfillment.
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So all this happened in accordance with the things
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prophesied against Judah due to the sins of Manasseh.
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So when I read that, I thought I, I knew Manasseh was
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idolatrous, but I just, I also searched that.
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So we'll talk about Manasseh as well.
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In this second deportation of the Jews from from Jerusalem,
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Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin prisoner along with his mother,
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his wives, his officials and the leading men in Judah.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took 10,000 others into exile, leaving only
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the poorest behind, and he raided the Temple.
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With Jehoiah Chin imprisoned in Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar
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installed Jehoiah Chin's uncle Zedekiah on the throne.
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Zedekiah was rebellious against God and against King
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Nebuchadnezzar. After 11 years of Zedekiah's
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rule, Jerusalem fully fell to Nebuchadnezzar.
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More exiles were carried off, and Babylonians destroyed
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Jerusalem's walls and burned the temple and the palaces.
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Jerusalem was destroyed 37 years after his deportation.
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Jehoiachin was given some freedom in Babylon.
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Evil Murodak. Well, the Bible that I have says
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Awell Marduk. So these names, sometimes it's
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interesting get changed, had become the king of Babylon and
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quote, he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave the
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imprisoned king a seat of honor at his table and a daily
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allowance. This daily allowance thing in my
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mind, just like it triggered a thought because I thought about
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King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba who would give him this
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recurring payment of 666 talents.
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You know, that's, I don't know, it's, it just are those things
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related? And it's just interesting.
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So Jehoiachen put aside his prison clothes and for the rest
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of his life ate regularly at the King's table.
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This also makes me think about a prophecy where it says 2 kings
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are seated at the same table. I think it's about the end times
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are the kings of the north and the South from the prophet
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Daniel. So the, the north and the South
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king and I, I don't know the timing of all those things, but
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it just, you know, I'll have to reread that and see if there's
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a, a significant tie in to this here.
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Just that the Hoya Chen was seated at the at the seat of the
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king of Babylon. So the king of Babylon could be
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the king of the North and I don't know, just again, prophecy
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is always hard to understand, but when you see things like
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this, sometimes they tie together and explain things.
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So going back to the explanation, the tragedy that
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befell Jehoiah Chin was predicted by the prophet
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Jeremiah. God said that Jehoiah Chin would
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be removed from the throne and be taken to Babylon where he
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would die. But the curse upon Jehoiah Chin
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went further than just his deposition and exile.
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This is what the Lord says. Record this man as if childless,
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a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his
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offspring will prosper. None will sit on the throne of
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David or rule any more in Judah. Wow, that's really interesting.
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That's where God just said no more of this.
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And Oh my gosh, this really just ties into prophecy.
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So thus the king, the line of kings from David's family ended
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with Jehoiachin, a fact that had ramifications for the Messiah
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who was to be the son of David. Isn't that interesting?
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Because this is something else that I researched and in Matthew
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chapter one verse 12, it talks about this family line.
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Like God, he can't he, you know, he won't contradict his prophecy
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or the information, but he can work all things despite, you
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know, like his will still is accomplished.
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So even though he promised that a line through, you know,
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through the Davidic line, there would be someone referring to
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the Messiah sitting on the throne.
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But then he says you're not going to ever have an offspring
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in this part. And I guess that's Jeremiah 22,
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verse 30, that that was the curse that went upon him.
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So how did God do that? God didn't use a man to be the
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father of Jesus. It was his own spirit who
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enabled Mary, a virgin, to become pregnant.
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But interesting enough, her husband came through this legal
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line of the Davidic line. So isn't it interesting how God
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works out the details? So it's still like because of
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her marriage to Joseph, he was from that line, but biologically
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he wasn't interesting, right? And then there's another account
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of the genealogy that there's two different accounts and they,
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you know, people have struggled with the like conflicts, but I
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think one of them is like a familial line and another is a
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royal line and how it, how Christ, how Jesus proceeded from
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each one of those lines. So that's another interesting
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study that I'm not prepared to talk about because I read it
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once, but I don't have it committed to memory.
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Anyway, Jehoiachins is a strange tale.
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A son of a puppet king of Egypt, imprisoned by the king of
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Babylon to make room for another puppet king, taken in the second
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wave of exiles, yet released from prison and given a gracious
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end to his life. Jehovah Chin seems to be a man
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stuck in the middle of history. We do not know what happened
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during his years in prison or why evil Murodak or as my Bible
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says, a well Marduk was so kind to him.
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What is evident in the story of Jehovah Chin is God's righteous
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judgement as well as his merciful grace.
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So the way I see it, well, we'll get to that in a minute.
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So we'll talk about that. Just remember what we just read
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about now, King Messiah, King Manasseh, that was saying that
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all of this happened because of what King Manasseh did.
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So what did he do in the Bible? So I'm going to read through
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this is also from godquestions.org and it you know
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who was King Manasseh in the Bible.
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So I will not refer to all of the scripture.
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So if you want to go to gotquestions.org you can search
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King Manasseh and find this. The story of King Manasseh is
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told in Second Kings 21 verses one through 18 and Second
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Chronicles 32 verses 33 through chapter 33 verse 20 and he is
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also mentioned briefly in Jeremiah 15 verse 4.
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Manasseh was king of the southern Kingdom of Judah and
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the son of the godly king Hezekiah.
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I always think that's interesting too.
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Like you could have someone who is a godly man and his child may
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not be, despite you know those influences.
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So Hezekiah had undertaken reforms in Judah to rid the land
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of idolatry. So the dad was good, he got rid
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of the idolatry. Manasseh, a wicked king,
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reversed these reforms and did much worse.
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The 1st 5 verses of Second Kings 21 are a frank and stunning
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account of Manasseh's apostasy. Manasseh was 12 years old when
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he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem 55 years.
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That's also interesting how Jehovah Chin or Jehoiah Chin was
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55 years when he was released from prison, but I don't know.
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable
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practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the
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Israelites. He rebuilt the high places his
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father Hezekiah had destroyed. He also erected altars to Baal
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and made an ash Ashira pole. So remember we were talking
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about these before like we were in prior chapters.
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We were making a connection between Baal and Satan and
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Ashira and Ashtar, Ishtar Inana. These are connected throughout.
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There is a, you could, if you search that, you'll find it.
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So and it also like ties into potentially Mystery Babylon and
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the beast and the end times. So I think all of these things
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are very significant in prophecy, in studying prophecy,
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and we don't really know how it's going to happen in detail.
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But we do know from prophecy that Satan gives power to the
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symbolic beast, which is made-up of human people, like an
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alliance of people who who reign on the earth for a short period
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of time. But someone controlling them is
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Mystery Babylon, which I have sensed has been spiritual.
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And I think it is this this goddess, which, you know, it
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could be Satan in disguise or there is another spiritual
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entity that we don't really know.
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That is something that is maybe like female or some bizarre
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thing that Inanna or Ishtar, who has been worshipped and was the
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goddess from the area of Babylon, which was always an
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issue for God Nineveh, Babylon. It's always been in Iraq.
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So there's I pay attention to anything about Iraq in, in, you
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know, future our current, you know, just sees listen to stuff
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about it or look into Iraq just to see what's happened over the
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years because it features very prominently in the Bible.
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And it also seems like the Garden of Eden might have been
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there because of the rivers that are described in the book of
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Genesis. So I'm getting off track here.
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I'll get back to this Manassas story.
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So he he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole as
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Ahab, king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry
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host and worshipped them. You know the stars or you know,
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maybe the fallen angels. In the Book of Revelation, the
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stars are symbolic of angels, and Satan took several of the
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angels from the heavenly realms with him, So that's why they're
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called the fallen angels. OK.
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He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had
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said in Jerusalem, I will put my name.
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So he was going directly against what God said, because God
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claimed Jerusalem, and yet he's building altars to basically,
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let's just say it, Satan. He's building altars to Satan in
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the place where God said he was going to put his name in the two
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courts of the temple of the Lord.
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He built altars to all the starry host.
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That's another reason if you look throughout the Bible, it
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warns us not to, you know, practice divination.
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Astrology is bad probably because of this, because what
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people don't understand is there's evil behind that and
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you're worshipping something or you're seeking guidance from
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something, something spiritual other than God.
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And people are not aware of this and they think, oh, it's
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harmless. You know, these are just things
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that, you know, I mean, I used to think that myself too.
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I just thought it was, you know, just for entertainment.
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But I think it's way more than that.
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And people need to stay away from it.
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Why would the Bible tell us we need to stay away from that, or
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that it was evil, or that those who do those things will not
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inherit the Kingdom of God? We need to pay attention to
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those. Those are important warnings
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from God. Stay away from it.
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If you have questions about things, pray to God about it.
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Ask God to answer it. Why would you go to anyone else
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except for our Creator? Just go direct to him.
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And as Jesus said, ask for things in Jesus in the name of
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Jesus. And, and if we are faithful
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followers or faithful servants of Jesus, those things will be
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done. That's what the Bible tells us.
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OK, going back to Manasseh, he sacrificed his own son in the
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fire practice divination, sought omens, consulted mediums and
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spiritists. So Manasseh is very much in the
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occult practices. He did much evil in the eyes of
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the Lord, arousing his anger. Although we are not given
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specifics, Manasseh was also a treacherous king killing
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innocent people. Manasseh also sheds so much
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innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from quote end to end
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in Second Kings verse 21. That's interesting too because
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God brings about like he brings justice.
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So anything that is done, whether this is going to be in
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our lifetime, we have to remember that our deeds are
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going to be done to us because God is just.
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However, when we come in repentance to God and we accept
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Jesus as our Savior, His death on the cross and His
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resurrection, and receive the Holy Spirit, we don't have to
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worry about what we've done in the past.
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But I do believe that God will place us in a certain place in
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His Kingdom based on what we do once we repent and turn to God.
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Like what do we do with the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives
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us? But the prior things, I believe
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that it says if they, you know, come to me and, you know,
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confess their sins or whatever I will their sins, I will remember
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no more. So I believe that God gives us a
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clean slate. That's why that's why it's so
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important to be born again. You want your slate to be
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cleaned because we all are sinful people.
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So we want to get rid of all of that stuff.
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And if I'm reading it correctly, that's all wiped away and we're
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not going to have heavenly consequences as a result of our
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sins. We may have natural consequences
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as a result of our sins here on earth, but we aren't going to
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have like a retribution from God like he says.
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He forgives and he remembers the sins no more.
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It's another reason why it's so important for us to come in
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repentance to God and ask for forgiveness.
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OK, so he was pronounced by God to be more wicked than the
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Amorites who had lived in Canaan before they were displaced by
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Israel in an act of God's judgment.
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Not only did Manasseh sin personally, but he as king LED
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Judah in forsaking the Lord and worshipping idols.
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Such was the extent that God. He declared he would wipe out
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Jerusalem as he had the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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In Second Kings 21 and Jeremiah 15 notes that it was the sin of
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Judah initiated by Manasseh that brought the judgment that
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Jeremiah proclaimed the destruction of Jerusalem and the
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Temple and the exile of the people.
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According to Jewish tradition, it was King Manasseh who
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murdered the prophet Isaiah. I didn't even know that.
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So King Manasseh, the prophet Isaiah, he was the one that
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killed the prophet Isaiah. That's crazy to me.
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All right, Second Chronicles 33 adds more information not
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recorded in Second Kings. God reached out to Manasseh and
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the people, presumably through prophets, but they would not
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listen. So God sent the Assyrians who
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captured Manasseh and took him away to exile.
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According to Second Chronicles 33.
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While in exile, in his distress he sought the favor of the Lord
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his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his
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ancestors. And when he prayed, the Lord was
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moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea.
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So he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his Kingdom.
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Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
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That's pretty interesting and showing about God's mercy and
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his compassion towards his people.
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He doesn't want us to be destroyed.
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He gives us warning after warning after warning.
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And so and if we don't listen to his warnings, then we will get
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the consequences. But look at what happens to.
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But look at all the horrible things that just listed that
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Manasseh did and it says that God was that once Manasseh
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humbled himself and pleaded with him in his distress.
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That's often happens to us when we are at our lowest point.
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We turn to God when nothing, you know, there's nothing else left.
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And finally, we're like God. If you're real, you know,
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whatever. Just look at look at how God is
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so loving instead of him being angry that we were so distant
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from him for all those years, he compassionately, you know,
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accepts A sincere plea of I've been terrible and want to be
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right with you. That kind of a prayer.
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So it. The apocryphal book The Prayer
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of Manasseh claims to record Manasseh's prayer of repentance,
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but it's highly unlikely that the contents of the Prayer of
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Manasseh accurately represent Manasseh's prayer.
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The repentant Manasseh was restored to his Kingdom and
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started to rebuild Judah militarily, according to Second
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Chronicles 33, and he also began to institute religious reforms.
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He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the
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temple of the Lord, as well as the altars he had built on the
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temple hill and in Jerusalem, and he threw them out of the
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city. Then he restored the altar of
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the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank
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offerings. On it.
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He told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Even though Manasseh had a personal conversion, he was
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never able to lead Judah out of the sin that he had previously
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LED them into. They did not follow him in his
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reforms. The people continued in their
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idolatry, and when Manasseh died, his son Ammon did evil in
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the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done.
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Ammon worshipped and offered sacrifices to all the idols
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Manasseh had made, but unlike his father Manasseh, he did not
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humble himself before the Lord. So that's kind of sad to read
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that because, you know, something that Manasseh did
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influenced his son. But again, it also shows that
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people are only responsible for them.
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So I mean, well, not yeah, that I mean, that's true.
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But I'm thinking three things in my head as I'm saying this.
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So parents are responsible for how they raise their children,
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but they aren't punished regards to how their children turned
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out. Each individual is responsible
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for their own actions. And likewise, if children came
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from bad parents or, you know, ungodly parents, they are not
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going to be judged because of their ungodly parents.
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They're going to just be judged based on who they are as an
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individual. And so are who the person is as
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an individual. So it's, it's good that each of
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us doesn't have the, the, the bad baggage from somebody else.
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Like we are fully responsible. That's why we can't blame
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anybody that blames anyone else for things that happen.
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We need to just be accountable. And that's what the Bible tells
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us is that we're, we're accountable for ourselves.
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And so we don't have to blame anybody else.
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We can be a good person from someone bad, or we can be a bad
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person from someone good, but it's our choices that bring
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about the consequences. So Manasseh is a tragic figure
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in Scripture. Although he repented of his sin,
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he was unable to do undo the damage he had done to the nation
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or to his own son who followed him.
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Manasseh demonstrates that while any sin may be forgiven when we
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repent, forgiveness does not necessarily remove the natural
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consequences that flow from disobedience.
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So that's something that we can all remember.
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I did look up and I don't know if this is I was, I was just
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curious about this a well, Marduk or evil Meridok in the
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Bible in the relationship with Jeho Chen.
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That just seems very odd. Like God, you don't think would
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bless that? Like he doesn't want us to be
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associated with people of idolatry and all of that.
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So how did God use this for good, which he does.
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But again, this is the Last King of Judah, so this is important
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in the line of the Messiah. So anyway, I searched up AOL,
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Marduk and Jehoia Chen just to see what other information there
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was. So it says that showing him
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great kindness by granting him a seat of honor, regular meals at
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the King's table and a lifelong allowance, signifying a
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significant shift in policy and offering hope during the exile.
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So AOL Marduk or Evil Meridoc, the son and successor of King
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Nebuchadnezzar the Second. He reigned for a short period
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from 562 to 560 BCE, so it was only two years.
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It looks like Jehoiachin was king of Judah.
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He was exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar the Father, where
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he had been imprisoned for 37 years.
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The event In the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity, AOL
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Marduk became king and released him from prison.
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Prison. It was an act of kindness.
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He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin, gave him plenty, gave him a
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place of honor above other captive kings, provided him with
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royal clothing, and gave him a regular allowance to eat at the
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King's table for the rest of his life.
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This act, recorded in Second Kings 25, verses 27 through 30
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and Jeremiah 52, often cited in translations as Awel, Marduk or
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Evil Meridoc, marked a hopeful turning point and shows God
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showed God's Providence in the lives of His people.
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Babylonian ration tablets from the Ibabar archive independently
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confirm Jehoiachin's presence in Babylon and receipt of
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provisions aligning with the biblical account of his special
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treatment. So that's cool that there's
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actual evidence that shows that what's stated in the Bible from,
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you know, the 5600BT time frame that this is just, you know, an
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artifact is found that supports what the Bible says again.
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So then I was curious about Jehoiachin's lineage lineage.
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And he was he was also known as Jaconeai GJECONIAH.
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It's kind of hard when their names are so there's so many
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multiple names for one person. But anyway is he was also known
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as Jaconia is significant in the Bible as the last Davidic king
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before the exile. His descendants, including she,
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LTL, Pedia and Zerubbabel continued the royal line by
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bypassing A prophetic curse on Jehovah Chin to connect to Jesus
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ancestry, particularly through the legal line via Joseph.
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In Matthews Gospel First Chronicles 3, verses 17 through
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18 list his sons Shialtiel, Malkrem, Pedaya, Shinaza,
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Shinazar, Jakamaya, Hoshima, and Nedibaya.
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The key descendants were Shialtiel, Jehoiachin's eldest
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son listed prominently, Pedaya Aya, father of Zerubbabel, and
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Zerubbabel was a key leader in the post exilic return and
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rebuilding of the temple, sometimes called the Son son of
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Shialta, like in Ezra in another one of the the books.
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So the curse in Jeremiah 22 verses 24 through 30, it
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prophesied that no descendant of Jacona Ayah would sit on David's
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throne, a curse linked to his captivity, Messianic
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fulfillment. Despite the curse, Jesus's
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lineage traces through Jaconia's line according to Matthew verse
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chapter one, verse 12, fulfilling the Davidic covenant
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by being born of Mary, Luke's lineage avoids Jaconia and
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legally descended from Joseph, bypassing the curses direct
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effect. Restoration.
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Zerubbabel's role as leader in Haggai in the book of Haggai
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chapter 2 verse 23 symbolized restoration, reversing the
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imagery of the cursed signet ring.
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That's also very interesting. So the Bible is just so
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interesting the more you get into it.
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So in Matthew, I don't know if I should read this whole thing.
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I mean, it's really interesting just to read Matthew chapter 1,
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the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah, the son of David, the
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son of Abraham. And it goes through all of the
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names. So you can follow that direct
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lineage. And then when it gets down to
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it, you know it says and then verse 16 says and Jacob the
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father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of
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Jesus, who is called the Messiah.
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Thus there were 14 generations in all from Abraham to David, 14
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from David to the exile into Babylon, and 14 from the exile
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to the Messiah. Just showing gods like
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mathematical on. I mean, just the all the
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different things. I mean, when you when you start
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studying these things and you see all of these quote
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coincidences, I mean, the, the, the probability of these
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coincidences happening by random chance.
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I mean, it's like, I don't know what that probability is, but
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it's very significant. Like how all these little
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details all just really show us how true the Bible is and the
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like I said, the more you study, the more this becomes apparent.
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So in the I always go to theblueletterbible.org and I
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looked up the number 4600 in the NIV version and there's only two
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times where 4600. For some reason when I was
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reading this today, I just thought, I wonder if there's any
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4600 that's significant and and I there could perhaps be.
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So it's only listed twice in First Chronicles chapter 12
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verse 26, and it talks about from Levi there were 4600.
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And then in Jeremiah 52 verse 30, there were 4600 people in
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all that were taken, I guess, that were taken into captivity,
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into Babylon. So let me just read this because
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I did search that the number 4600 appears significantly in
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the Bible's 2 main context #1 as a specific count of Levites.
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Now the Levites were the ones who were like the priestly line
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that had certain duties with the Ark of the Covenant.
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I believe they were the ones they could carry the Ark of the
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Covenant, but they had specific responsibilities.
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But it was like the priestly line was the Levites.
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So this 4600 was a specific count of Levites supporting
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David. And again, I think this is just
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a coincidence. It doesn't really tie together,
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but it's just something that it caught my attention and and
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apparently it is significant. So it signifies A unified
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divinely appoint approved kingship.
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And as a total number of Judean exiles deported into Babylon in
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the final tally according to Jeremiah 5230, it's highlighting
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God's judgment and faithfulness to his promises, even in
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discipline like his remnant. While the Levite number points
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to communal support and foreshadows Christ's perfect
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Kingdom, the exile number demonstrates God's precise
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justice and sovereignty, showing his care for a remnant.
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In First Chronicles 1226, the support for David, a large
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contingent of Levites, typically temple servants, join David's
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forces, showing nationwide loyalty and unity.
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It validated David's kingship as divinely approved, merging
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military and spiritual leadership, and foreshadowed the
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ultimate king, priest Jesus. This emphasizes that every
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individual's contribution matters in God's plan, even for
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those consecrated to worship. Then in Jeremiah 52, verse 30
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records, it records the final deportation of 745 men, bringing
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the total counted exiles to 4600, representing heads of
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households during the Babylonian exile.
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So that kind of supports what the Bible says.
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Like they probably didn't count the women and children in this
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count, it was the head of household.
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So this confirms God's judgement for Israel's disobedience,
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fulfilling prophetic warnings, and shows his precise control
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over historical events. Like these numbers are just not
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coincidences. It underscores themes of
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corporate responsibility, covenant curses, the hope of
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restoration for a faithful remnant, even admit admit
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judgment. There's other potential
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meanings, which is really interesting.
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Linguistically, Strong's Greek #4600 refers to Saigon or
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SIAGON, meaning jaw or cheek, symbolizing vulnerability or
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insult, insult in prophetic imagery.
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And then Strong's Hebrew #4600 is maak maak, meaning to press
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or crush, relating to oppression or squeezing.
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In summary, the number 4600 points to significant events of
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unified support in David and divine judgment slash
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preservation in the exile, showcasing God's active
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involvement in Israel's history. I just thought that was
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interesting. You know, it's, you could call
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it a coincidence, but I kind of think that God does these things
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that when we, when we study, all of a sudden there's something
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like this that comes out that that's just interesting.
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Like I think God is, you know, he's obviously and overseas
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everything in control of everything.
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And when you see things like this, you're like, God really
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was in control of that. And it's symbolic of things.
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So I was curious too after reading that all of these temple
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artifacts were taken from the temple and into Babylon, which
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is modern day Iraq. And so I was curious about any
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has anything been found? And actually I think I just read
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this so I will read it once again.
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Though it says no definitive artifacts from King Solomon's
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actual temple have been found, as the structure was destroyed
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by the Babylonians and later rebuilt.
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But archaeologists have found 10th century BCE pottery, animal
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bones and olive pits near the Temple Mount, and symbol similar
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temple models like Aindara that support the biblical description
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of a monumental structure, while direct remnants are absent.
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Evidence suggests a significant Israelite presence and worship
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at the site during that era, with some fines dating to
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Solomon's time but not specific temple furnishings.
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Again, I just think that this will be interesting because I
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have a feeling they're, they're going to come up in the future.
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Like I said, I need to find that scripture where I think it says
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like I will, you know, they will be like taken into exile until I
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bring them back at my return. It might even be in Jeremiah,
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what we read earlier. I just can't remember.
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I know I read it in Scripture where it's almost like, well,
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Jesus cause somebody from Israel to find them, or will Jesus
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himself find them from Israel and bring them back at his
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second coming? I, I don't know if this has
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happened. And then there's also things
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about Jeremiah and his people where he, they buried our, I
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think some of the Dead Sea Scrolls on our there because
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during that time, I think they had, they hid some things in
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caves. So some of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
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I think, are also linked to Jeremiah or perhaps people
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during his time that hid things that have, you know, come about
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in interesting times, like in 1948 when Israel became a nation
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again or was recognized as one. It was also shortly thereafter
1:00:02
these Dead Sea Scrolls confirming the the Bible that we
1:00:06
have today. The truth of that, because these
1:00:09
are, you know, portions of documents that have been found
1:00:13
that match up to what we have is the Bible.
1:00:15
So very interesting. And and God, it's like God
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planned this to, you know, ever. I mean, anything that God does
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that's miraculous like this, it's all to make, to reveal
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himself, to make himself known to us so that we know that God
1:00:31
is real. This is not just some mythology
1:00:34
or storybook or anything like that.
1:00:36
There's historical significant events that can be tied to
1:00:41
different rulers. And then there's artifacts that
1:00:43
are being found that support what the Bible says, just like,
1:00:46
you know, Noah's ark being found in Ariat or Era Rat.
1:00:52
I don't know how to say it in Turkey, but there's historical
1:00:58
archaeological evidence of that. And that's, you know, what the
1:01:02
Bible, I mean, it makes sense of where the ark actually ended.
1:01:06
It's time. So anyway, lots of stuff in the
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Bible that we get confirmed today and this wraps up the book
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of Jeremiah. We are going to go into Obadiah,
1:01:20
which is very short is our next book.
1:01:23
So the next recording will start with that book and we'll see
1:01:26
what we find when we go through that.
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