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Nergal: The Lion Headed Cock God of Babylonian Hell (Earth)
Nergal is die Held God of War and the Underworld – ie: Babilonië, Aarde, Hel, Land van die Dooies en wat ons vandag net kan noem – Moderniteit.
Nergal was die voorsitter van die aangeleenthede van mense as een van die strafmaatreëls, met sy belangrikste instrumente as towery, oorlog en pes. Hy was ook Koning van die Geeste van die Lug wat byna altyd vergesel was van sy vroulike gemeen Ereskigal en baie krygsduiwels as sy legioene.
Daar word gesê dat die God Nergal 'n afgod van die Samaritaanse Hebreërs is, wat ons ook ken onder die name van die Kush, Cuthah, Cuthites, Cushites en Cutheans. Nergal word genoem in 2 Konings xvii, en die Babiloniese Talmudiese verhandeling Sanhedrin (fol. 63, p. 2) wat lui dat die manne van Kuth Nergal hul god gemaak het.
Op grond van hierdie historiese beskrywings weet ons dat daar gesê word dat Nergal aanbid word in die vorm van 'n haan, of 'n man met 'n haan se kop. Maar hy word ook uitgebeeld as 'n “Man-Lion ” met die lyk van 'n man en die kop van 'n leeu.
In een van die oudste afbeeldings van Nergal sien ons ook die simbole soos die horings op sy kop, skerpioen, strydbyl, Grootmoeder en die Hellhound Cerberus – die driekoppige ‘Demon-Dog ’.
Die rituele van die Skerpioen is die geheime van die apokalips.
Hier is 'n antieke reliëfgrafiek van Nergal wat dateer uit ongeveer die eerste of tweede eeu nC.
Die onsterflike afgode wat Nergal, die haan (haan) en 'n man met 'n leeukop verteenwoordig het, is eintlik twee van die belangrikste simbole wat u in die geskiedenis kan vind.
Hierdie selfde simbole word ook prominent gesimboliseer in die Abrahamitiese godsdienste van die eksoteriese wêreld en ook die esoteriese wese van antieke gnostisisme wat aanleiding gegee het tot die moderne vrymesselary. Byvoorbeeld, ons het Yaldabaoth wat in Nag Hammadi beskryf word as die Hoof Archon wat deur die godin Sophia geskep is in die vorm van 'n slang met 'n leeu en sy oë soos bliksemvure was.
Laat ek 'n paar van julle Christene daaraan herinner dat ons Here ook in die Skrif gesimboliseer is as 'n haan, of ek moet die “Holly haan sê. ” Soos ek voorheen geskryf het, is die Engelse woord haan of haan in Latyn gallus of galinagtig wat verwys na 'n "haan of haan" (mannetjie hoender) en die term gallīna word gebruik vir 'n "hen" (vroulike hoender).
Daarom was een van die vanne vir Jesus “Jesus die Galileër uit Gallillee” en sy apostels, soos Simon, ook die naam “Petrus die Galileër”.
Laat ons ook nie die hoofsimbool vir die stam van die Here vergeet nie, en Juda is die leeu.
Dit is miskien die rede waarom Jesus die naam van die Galileër (haan/haan) van Gallillee (rivier Galli) gekry het, en die prins van die apostels, soos Simon die Samaritaan, wat Petrus genoem is, ook 'n Galileër was. (Matteus 26:69 Johannes 7:41)
WIE WAS DIE GOD NERGAL
Soos ek al baie keer op die Gnostic Warrior genoem het, gaan mitologie en teologie hand aan hand en oral waar hierdie priesterskap van die Holy Cock gereis het, het hulle dikwels hul onsterflike merke gelaat vir hul nageslag om die seël te breek om die pad te volg hul ware oorsprong.
Dit is miskien die rede waarom ons die God Nergal (Ner-gal, Nirgal of Nirgali) in die Bybel as die godheid van die stad Cuth (Cuthah):
Daar word gesê dat die manne van Babel Succothbenoth gemaak het, en die manne van Cut Nergal gemaak het, en dat die manne van Hamat Ashima gemaak het (2 Konings 17:30) die vader was van Kush (Kish) (1 Kronieke 8: 33). 1 Samuel 14:51 moet gelees word, en Kish, die vader van Saul, en Ner, die vader van Abner, was die seuns van Abiël. neefs (Comp. 1 Kronieke 9:36)
Daar word gesê dat die hoofsetels van die aanbidding van Nergal in die ou stede Cutha en Tarbissa was. Cutha was die heilige stad waar gesê word dat hy 'woon' en waar u in die ou tyd sy beroemde heiligdom kon vind. Die 'manne van Cuth', toe hulle as koloniste na Samaria vervoer is, het toe Bybels bekend geword onder name soos die Babiloniërs, Samaritane en Leviete.
In sommige historiese Babiloniese verslae was die belangrikste tempel die berg Gerizim, oorkant die tempel in Jerusalem, waar gesê word dat hulle 'n God aanbid genaamd ‘Nergal. ’ The Father of English History and Doctor of the Church, Saint Bede sê dat ons dit in die Book of Places gelees het Benoth en Nergal was stede wat in die gebied van Judea deur Samaritane gebou is wat uit Babilon getrek het.
Dit is interessant dat Bede sê dat Nergal 'n stad was wat naby die gebied van Judea gebou is, omdat ek in my eie navorsing en soos ek al baie keer in die verlede genoem het, ontdek het dat die stad vir die Ou Judea op die ou Heilige was Eiland Kreta aan die voet van die berg Ida.
Dit is dieselfde plek waar die antieke mites van die Groot Kretenzer Moeder wat ons ken onder name soos Cybele, Magna Mater en Rhea 'n spesiale priesteramp toevertrou het aan die baba God en Zeus wat verborge was in 'n grot op die berg Ida van sy wraakgierige vader Cronus. Dit was by die berg Ida -AKA Juda waar sy hom onder die sorg van 'n priesterskap geplaas het wat onder verskillende name bekend was, soos die Curetes, Telchnines, Corybantes, Dactyls en Cabiri.
Die eerste-eeuse Romeins-Joodse historikus, Josephus, bevestig hierdie feit as hy sê die stam van die Jud of die Judeans (Idumean) van die berg Ida. Vandag sou hulle bekend staan as die Judeërs of die stam van Juda en die stam van ons Here.
Dit is waarom ons die Samaritaanse Leviete by die berg Ida vind, wat waarskynlik ook dieselfde plek sou wees waar die beroemde wetgewer van die Levitiese priester – Moses die wetboeke van God op die berg Sinai ontvang het. Dit was immers op Kreta waar sommige van die beroemdste wetgewers in die geskiedenis, soos Epimenides Gnosis en King Minos, so natuurlik ontstaan het, dat Moses ook die “New Laws ” op die berg Ida op Kreta sou ontvang het.
Ons kan gerus sê dat die Samaritaanse Leviete die defacto sou wees van die regsbeskermers wat in hierdie 6de eeu aan die hoof van ons Here was.
'N Tydperk wat kan eindig wanneer die laaste wettige priesterskap vir ons Here ingestel word en ALLE pretenders afgeskaf of vernietig word.
Al hierdie antieke verhale kom na ons toe uit dieselfde Mount Ida -priesterskap wat ek glo die saad was vir die stam wat ons ken as die Samaritaanse Leviete. Priesterskap vir die Here is toegewys om die Ark van die Verbond te bewaak en te bewaak.
Nergal (Nirgal, of Nirgali) en wat bekend staan as 'n Ner in die Skrif, was die Ou Patriarg en Vader van hierdie stam.
In die etimologie van Nergal vind ons dat dit 'n saamgestelde woord is wat bestaan uit die twee woorde Ner en Gal. Die betekenis van Ner is 'n kers, lamp en of lig. Gal, soos ek vroeër genoem het, kom van die Latynse gallus of gallinaceous wat verwys na 'n "haan of haan" (mannetjie hoender) en die term gallīna word gebruik vir 'n "hen" (vroulike hoender).
Ner-Gal was ook die nageslag (pro-geni) van wie ons ken as ons Here in die Weste – Jesus die Galileër uit die Galilea en sy 12 apostoliese Galileërs, waaronder Simon die Samaritaan wat ons ook ken onder die bybelse vanne as St. Peter – AKA The First Gnostic en toe hy 'n afvallige van die geloof word waaruit hy gedoop is, word hy dan Satan – Die Here se linkerhandse man en beskermer.
Antieke sterrekunde
Tot onlangs in die geskiedenis van die mensdom is sterrekunde en astrologie as dieselfde beskou. Ou mense het die sterre, sterrebeelde en planete as geeste en gode beskou, wat beide sterrekunde en astrologie die oudste en heiligste wetenskappe maak.
Ou astronomiese kalenders is regoor die wêreld gevind. Daar word vermoed dat die antieke sterrekundige sterrewag by Gobekli Tepi minstens 12 000 jaar oud is. Argeoloë kan slegs bespiegel oor wat, indien enige godsdienstige (of astro-teologiese) betekenis daaraan toegeskryf is. Dieselfde kan nie gesê word oor die sterrekunde wat uit antieke Mesopotamië ontstaan het nie.
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Die probleem is dat die spykerskrif met die bewyse nog nie vertaal is nie. Kom ek verduidelik aan die hand van 'n voorbeeld:-
Op die 5de Julie 2007 verwag ek dat dr Michael Jursa 'n bietjie van vreugde in Londen gespring het nadat hy sy vertaling voltooi het van wat nou bekend staan as die "Nebo-Sarsekim tablet". Hierdie tablet bevestig die naam wat in Jeremia 39 vers 3 gevind word. Die King James Bybelvertalers was nie seker hoe om die verskillende name in die lys te skei nie, daarom is die King James-weergawe verkeerd: "Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris". Weens die vertaling van dr Jursa weet ons nou dat dit 'Samgar, Nebo-sarsechim, die hoof-eunug' moet lees (omdat 'Nebo' aan sarsechim behoort en dit ook nou bekend is dat 'Rabsaris' nie iemand se naam is nie, maar 'hoof' beteken) Eunuch ”in Assiries).
So in watter maand is die Nebo-Sarsekim-tablet van 'n argeologiese terrein gehaal? Vroeg in 2007 miskien ?? Nie so nie. Dit is die eerste keer in die 1870's gevind.
Die punt is dat daar duisende en duisende en nog duisende spykerskrifttablette wat nie vertoon word nie, maar in museums regoor die wêreld gebêre word en wag om vertaal te word. Die probleem is dat die wêreld nie genoeg spykerskrifvertalers het nie. Alhoewel dit waar is, het ons nog nie bewyse van die Bybel wat die verhaal van die drie mans in die vuuroond bevestig nie, maar dit is misleidend om te beweer dat daar geen bybelse bewyse is nie. Dit is onwaarskynlik dat ons dit sal kry, want die moontlike bewyse is nog nie vertaal nie: ons het nog nie die kans gehad om die oorgrote meerderheid van die materiaal waaruit sulke bewyse kan ontstaan, te vertaal nie.
Alhoewel ons nog nie spesifieke stawende bewyse het nie, is daar 'n fassinerende aspek van die gebeure in die boek Daniël. Ek dink ons weet almal dat Sadrag, Mesag en Abednego tydens die heerskappy van die Babiloniërs in 'n vuuroond gegooi is, en later is Daniël tydens die heerskappy van die Perse in 'n leeukuil gegooi. Maar let asseblief op dat as dit andersom was, ons geregverdig sou wees om ernstige twyfel te hê oor die egtheid van die hele boek: as die boek Daniël beweer dat die drie mans onder Babiloniese bewind vir die leeus neergegooi is, en Daniël is onder die Persiese bewind in 'n vuuroond gegooi, dan sou ons goeie rede hê om te twyfel of die skrywer vertroud was met die Persiese Ryk of die Persiese sensitiwiteit.
Dit is omdat die Perse sterk beïnvloed is deur die Zoroastrianisme. Kores die Grote was self 'n Zoroastriër. En Zoroastriërs (nou sowel as toe) het spesiale aandag aan vuur. Vir hulle is vuur rein en rein. Hulle het Fire Temples waar hulle seremonies uitvoer. Dit is nie soseer dat die vuur in aanbidding gebruik word nie, maar dat die vuur self vereer word vir sy suiwerheid. Byvoorbeeld, Zoroastriese priesters dra gesigmaskers om hul mond te bedek wanneer hulle hul rituele voor die vuur uitvoer om seker te maak dat hulle nie per ongeluk die suiwerheid van die vuur spuug of besoedel nie. Baie minder sou hulle dink om 'n persoon of mense in 'n vuur te gooi, dit sou 'n heiligmaking wees.
As ons meer en meer van hierdie soort omstandigheidsgetuienis afkom, het dit 'n kumulatiewe effektiwiteit, of dit behoort ten minste te wees.
Waarom het die Babiloniërs in elk geval warm brande gehad? Daar word voorgestel: om die afwerking op die metselwerk te vervaardig vir hul wonderlike konstruksies, soos die Ishtar -hek, met sy geglasuurde metselwerk.
En waarom het hulle 'n 'leeukuil' gehad? Dit was nie 'n plek waar leeus gekies het om te woon nie, dit was 'n plek waar leeus wat gevang is (of uit die buiteland gekoop is) aan die lewe gehou is totdat die koning gereed was om 'n leeujag te onderneem. Ten tyde van die leeujag sou die koning en sy vriende en lyfwag op 'n verlate plek te perd gereed wees, die leeu sou losgelaat word, en dan sou die leeu gejag en doodgemaak word. U kan groot fresco's van 'n leeujag sien op die mure van die British Museum, Londen, uit die tyd van die Assiriese Ryk. Die Babiloniërs het dieselfde vermaak aangeneem. In hierdie jagtogte sou die koning die leeu klaarmaak en sy dapperheid, dapperheid, krag en sy bereidwilligheid om die beskermer van sy onderdane mense te wees, demonstreer.
Daar is 'n ander moontlikheid vir die bestaan van die leeukuil:-
Die godsdienstige onderwyser Zoroaster was besig om lank voor Daniël te leer. Maar Zoroastrianisme is vandag nie 'n werklik groot godsdiens nie. Hoe het dit nie baie meer volgelinge vandag as dit nie? Daar word vermoed dat een van die redes waarom Zoroastrianisme nie meer gewild is nie, die manier is waarop hulle met hul dooies ontslae raak. Zoroastriërs begrawe nie hul dooies nie, want dit is om die suiwerheid van die aarde te verontreinig, en hulle verbrand ook nie hul dooies nie. dit sou wees om die suiwerheid van die vuur te verontreinig.
Hoe kan die Zorostriane dan ontslae raak van dooie liggame, destyds en vandag? Hulle gee die liggaam aan wilde diere om te eet. Dit kan 'n weerspieëling wees van die deel van die wêreld waar dit waarskynlik ontstaan het, oos -Persies/Iran, miskien Afghanistan. In die Himalaja selfs vandag is die grond vir die grootste deel van die jaar te ysig om die dooies te begrawe. Die liggaam van 'n geliefde word (teen 'n prys) gegee aan 'n man wat dit op die berg neem om buite die gesig aan die wilde diere gegee te word. Toe die Persiese en Mediane heersers na Babilon kom, spekuleer ek, het hulle leeus saamgebring vir hul vorm van 'begrafnis'. Ek veronderstel dat dit veral vir hul koninklikes en elite gewens was: om hul dooies op hierdie gruwelike manier privaat te "begrawe", weg van die nuuskierige oë van die algemene massa (en veral omdat baie hiervan nie Zoroastries sou wees nie en dus selfs meer nuuskierig sou wees). Die buitelandse heersers van Mediane en Perse wil die moontlikheid van die dood van 'n heerser tot 'n minimum beperk tot die oorsaak van oproerige viering onder die bevolking.
Kortom, Daniël is na die plek geneem waar die dooies van die Persiese en Mediane heersende elite ontslae geraak het.
Dit is opmerklik dat toe koning Darius die oggend vroeg in die kuil kom, hy nie 'n lig roep nie en in die kuil kyk om te sien of Daniel in orde is. roep hy na Daniël (Daniël 6: 19,20). Die wenk van Daniël 6 vers 19,20 is dat daar geen vensters was om net in te kyk nie, die leeus was nie in hokke om gesien en bewonder te word nie. Hulle was buite sig. Is dit nie presies wat almal sou wou hê as die leeus die gruwelike taak gehad het om gestorwe geliefdes te eet nie? As die leeus die taak verrig om geliefdes te eet, sou u regtig nie wou hê dat uself of iemand anders die opsie het om na te kyk nie.
Of hierdie spekulasie waar is of nie, ten minste maak die boek Daniël geen groot fout nie en word Daniel tydens die Persiese Ryk in 'n vuuroond gegooi. Nebukadnesar die Babiloniër het die drie mans beveel om in die vuur te staan: hy was nie 'n Zoroastriër nie.
Antieke Joodse geskiedenis: die Babiloniese Joodse gemeenskap
Daar was 'n groep Jode wat Babilonië nooit verlaat het na die Babiloniese ballingskap in die 6de eeu vC nie. Hierdie gemeenskap het min of meer floreer. Sedert 129 vC onder Partiese bewind, 'n losgebreide semi-feodale staat, kon dit sy outonome instellings ontwikkel met min inmenging van die koninklike regering. Die Partiërs wat altyd gevrees het vir Romeinse ingryping, verwelkom die Joodse opposisie teen Rome, ten minste tot die tyd van Hadrianus.
Die Partiërs het 'n Joodse skakeling tussen die regering en die Joodse gemeenskap gevestig, die exilarch, wat dus die hoof van die Babiloniese Jood geword het. Die exilarchs het na bewering uit die Huis van Dawid gekom, trots op hul geslagsregtheid, die kamara, die amp van die amp van die Parthiese hof, en betwiste voorrang by hoë parthiese amptenare.
Die gemeenskap onder wie hulle gelei het, was beide talle (ramings van die getal wissel van 800,000 tot 1,200,000) en ekonomies goed gebaseer, en bestaan uit 'n redelike aantal boere en baie handelaars wat ryk geword het as tussengangers in die winsgewende syhandel tussen China en die Romeinse Ryk deur Babylon gaan.
Die Jode geniet nie net die vryheid van aanbidding, outonome jurisdiksie nie, maar selfs die reg om hul eie markte te hê en markopsieners aan te stel (agoranomoi).
In 226 vC verower die Sassaniede die Partiërs. Hulle was vroom Zoroastriërs, en daar was spanning tussen die nuwe politieke leierskap en die Joodse gemeenskap. Na 'n tydperk van probleme en onenigheid aan die begin van die bewind van Shapur I (241 𤬀), is daar egter geleidelik beter betrekkinge met die koning gevestig.
Afgesien van hul politieke en ekonomiese status, was die belangrikste belang van die Babiloniese Joodse verhouding sy verhouding met die rabbynse sentra in Judea en die godsdienstige/politieke ontwikkeling daarvan, wat gelei het tot die skepping van die Babiloniese Gemara. Solank daar 'n tempel was, was Jerusalem die godsdienstige sentrum vir die Joodse volk. Met die vernietiging van die Tempel in 70 nC, is die verhouding tussen die Babiloniese Diaspora en Israel gekenmerk deur ambivalensie.
Daar was pogings om Babiloniese rabbynse howe so vroeg as 100 nC onafhanklik van Israel te maak. Hierdie pogings het misluk. Die mense en dus die Babiloniese Joodse leierskap erken die gesag van die Israeliese Joodse howe.
Tydens die Hadrianiese vervolging het verskeie geleerdes van stand, R. Yochanan Ha-Sandlar, R. Eleazar b. Shamua en ander leerlinge van R. Akiva vestig hulle tydelik in Babilonië en versterk sodoende sy aansien. Die meesterlike persoonlikheid van die aartsvader R. Juda I oorheers egter steeds uit Israel. Daar was ten minste vyf Babiloniërs by sy hof, en hy het beweer dat die regter ook vir Babilonië kon instel. R. Juda het inderdaad die genealogiese meerderwaardigheid van die exilarch, R. Huna, toegegee, maar slegs op 'n veilige afstand.
Die toestande in Babilonië het verander met die aankoms in 219 na Nehardea van Abba Aricha (Rav), een van die leerlinge van Juda HaNasi. Hy het in Nehardea aangekom met 'n afskrif van die nuwe topverkoper, die Mishnah. Samuel, die seun van Abba geb. Abba, 'n ryk syhandelaar, was die voorste wysgeer in Nehardea. Samuel het uitstekende betrekkinge met koning Shapur I aangegaan. Dit was aan hom te danke dat die reël dat burgerreg die krag van godsdienstige reg het, die leidende lig vir die Babiloniese Joodse gemeenskap geword het.
Rav, wat ernstige verskille tussen hom en Samuel opgemerk het, stig 'n nuwe akademie in Sura. Intussen is die skool van Nehardea versprei na die Palmyrene -aanval van 259 nC en weer bymekaargemaak in Pumbedita, wat die mededinger van Sura geword het onder die Babiloniese skole. Meer akademies ontwikkel by Machoza en Mata Mechasya. Die onderrigproses lyk in alle skole soortgelyk. Elkeen het begin met 'n paragraaf van Mishnah, waaraan daar blykbaar reeds tradisies en besprekings uit die tydperk voor die skryf van die Mishnah is gevoeg. Dit is bespreek en nuwe regsverklarings is bygevoeg. Elkeen van hierdie ontwikkelde stukke materiaal wat verband hou met 'n verklaring van die Mishnah word 'n sugya genoem. Elke opvolgende generasie het die sugya geleer en dan vrae, uitdagings (gewoonlik van 'n ander bekende sugya), filosofiese argumente en verhale bygevoeg wat verband hou met die werklike materiaal wat bespreek word, of met 'n veronderstelde beginsel wat die regstudente geglo het dat die vorige geslagte wyses gehou het. Aangesien die meeste onderwysers die studente van die vorige leier van die akademies was, word aanvaar dat baie van hulle verklarings direkte aanhalings van hul onderwysers was. Daar is ook baie voorbeelde om die gedrag van 'n onderwyser op te let as 'n bewys van die onderliggende beginsels van die onderwyser. Sommige onderwysers het geglo om filosofiese argumente aan te moedig, terwyl ander klem lê op die noukeurige ondersoek van die regstekste self.
Daar was steeds 'n groep wyses wat tussen Judea en Babilonië gereis het en tradisies uitgewissel het.
Met die krisisse wat die Joodse gemeenskap in die derde en vierde eeu nC in die gesig gestaar het, het die Babiloniërs, wat altyd trots was op hul afkoms, ook begin aandring op hul meerderwaardigheid in leer en in Joodse gesag. Tydens die regering van Konstantyn het die Nasi, Hillel II, dit vir hulle maklik gemaak. Hy het die reëls van die kalender openbaar gemaak en sodoende die enigste gesaghebbende band wat Israel oor Babilonië gehad het, gesny. Die gevolg was dat die regsakademies in Babilonië van die 4de tot 6de eeu die Joodse gesaghebbende sentrums van die Joodse wêreld geword het.
Babiloniese leeu - Geskiedenis
Openbaring 16:16 kondig die begin van die Slag van Armageddon aan: "En hy het hulle bymekaargemaak op 'n plek wat in die Hebreeuse taal Armageddon genoem word."
Die volgende drie verse beskryf die val van Babilon die Grote. "En die sewende engel het sy skaal in die lug uitgegooi ... en die groot Babilon het in gedagtenis voor God gekom om aan haar die beker wyn te gee van die grimmigheid van sy grimmigheid."
Hierdie gedeelte leer ons duidelik dat die vernietiging van Babilon tydens die Slag van Armageddon sal plaasvind.
Aangesien ons weet dat die Slag van Armageddon plaasvind aan die einde van die Groot Verdrukking, na die regering van die Antichris en na die Merk van die Dier, is dit duidelik dat Babilon nog nie geval het nie.
Nog 'n profesie van die vernietiging van Babilon
Die hele bediening van die Ou Testamentiese profeet Jeremia was toegewy aan die profesie van die vernietiging van Jerusalem en die wegvoer van Israel in ballingskap in Babilon. Hy het ook geprofeteer dat Israel na 70 jaar na Jerusalem terugkeer en die uiteindelike vernietiging van Babilon voorspel het.
Die profesie teen Babilon word gevind in Jeremia 50: 1-23.
“Die woord wat die HERE gespreek het oor Babilon en teen die land van die Chaldeërs deur die profeet Jeremia. Verkondig onder die nasies, en publiseer, en stel 'n standaarduitgawe op, en verberg dit nie; sê: Babel word ingeneem ... Want uit die noorde kom daar 'n nasie teen haar op, wat haar land 'n wildernis sal maak, en niemand sal woon nie. daarin ... Vanweë die toorn van die HERE sal dit nie bewoon word nie, maar dit sal heeltemal verlate wees: elkeen wat deur Babel gaan, sal verbaas wees en spot oor al haar plae. ”
Verse 17 en 18 bepaal vir seker wanneer hierdie verwoesting van Babilon sou plaasvind:
“Israel is 'n verspreide skaap wat die leeus hom verdryf het: eers het die koning van Assirië hom verslind en laastens het die koning van Babel, Nebukadnesar, sy bene gebreek. Daarom, so sê die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel, kyk, Ek sal die koning van Babel en sy land straf, soos Ek die koning van Assirië gestraf het. ”
Bogenoemde tekste leer ons dat hierdie spesifieke geprofeteerde vernietiging van Babilon tydens die era van die Babiloniese ryk Nebukadnesar sou plaasvind.
Verder het verse 39-40 verklaar dat Babilon nooit weer bewoon sal word nie. "Daarom sal die wilde diere van die woestyn met die wilde diere van die eilande daar woon, en die uile sal daarin woon; en dit sal vir ewig nie meer bewoon word nie ..."
Die twee vernietigings van Babilon het voorspel ...
Die profesie van Jeremia het duidelik gesê dat Babilon vernietig sal word en nooit weer bewoon sal word nie. Tog voorspel die boek Openbaring die vernietiging van Babilon tydens die tyd van Armageddon. Hoe versoen ons dit wat 'n Bybelse teenstrydigheid blyk te wees?
Letterlike Babilon vs Mystery Babilon
Die fisiese stad Babilon is oorspronklik deur Nimrod gebou na die vloed. Dit was geleë aan die Eufraatrivier, ongeveer 55 kilometer suid van waar Bagdad, Irak vandag staan. Die naam Babilon kom van die toring van Babel wat daar gebou is.
Babilon het tydens die bewind van Hammurabi 'n groot stad geword met wêreldwye bekendheid rondom 1728 v.C. Die gloriejare van Babilon is behaal onder Nebukadnesar II (604-562 vC). Die stad het tydens die bewind van Belsasar agteruitgegaan en verwoes toe Xerxes, die Persiese koning, dit in 478 vC vernietig het.
Jeremia se geprofeteerde vernietiging van Babilon is dus bewerkstellig, en net soos die profesie gesê het, is dit tot vandag toe nog nooit bewoon nie. Saddam Hussein het aan die einde van die tagtigerjare 'n projek van stapel gestuur om Babilon te herbou, maar die poging is deur die Golfoorlog gestaak en moet nog hervat word.
Maar as Babilon nooit herbou moet word nie, waarom is twee hele hoofstukke van die boek Openbaring gewy aan die vernietiging van Babilon? En waarom word die vernietiging van Babilon duidelik beskryf as wat dit gebeur het tydens die tyd van Armageddon?
Die Babilon wat in Openbaring beskryf word, word “Geheimsinnige Babilon” genoem. Die profesie van Mystery Babylon word gevind in Openbaring 17: 3-5.
'So het hy my in die gees weggevoer na die woestyn; en ek het 'n vrou sien sit op 'n skarlakenrooi dier, vol name van godslastering, met sewe koppe en tien horings. En die vrou was geklee in pers en skarlakenrooi, en versierd met goud en edelgesteentes en pêrels, met 'n goue beker in haar hand vol gruwels en vuilheid van haar hoerery. GROOT, die moeder van hoere en gruwels van die aarde. ”
Wie is Mystery Babylon?
'N Misterie is iets geheims of verborge - iets wat sommige verstaan terwyl ander dit nie verstaan nie. In Openbaring 17Daar is verskeie leidrade gegee oor die identiteit van Mystery Babylon. Ons sal vier van hulle hier bespreek.
Leidraad #1. Mystery Babylon is 'n stad
Let op in die profesie hierbo dat 'n vrou gebruik word om Mystery Babylon te simboliseer. Vers 18 van die hoofstuk vertel ons dat die vrou 'n stad is. "En die vrou wat jy gesien het, is die groot stad wat heers oor die konings van die aarde."
Leidraad #2. Mystery Babylon beskik oor 'n groot internasionale stelsel
In vers 1 word ons vertel dat die vrou op baie waters sit. Vers 15 verduidelik die betekenis van die waters. "En Hy sê vir my: Die waters wat jy gesien het, waar die hoer sit, is volke en menigtes en nasies en tale."
Hierdie vrou is nie net 'n stad nie, maar die stad is blykbaar die hoofkwartier oor 'n groot internasionale stelsel.
Leidraad #3. Die stad lê op 7 heuwels
In vers 3 word ons vertel dat die vrou met 7 koppe op 'n dier ry. Vers 9 onthul die betekenis van die koppe. 'En hier is die verstand wat wysheid het. Die sewe koppe is sewe berge waarop die vrou sit. ”
Onthou, ons het al geleer dat die vrou 'n stad is. Hierdie gedeelte vertel ons dat die stad op sewe berge sit. Daar is 'n stad op aarde wat bekend staan as 'The City of Seven Hills'. Dit is die stad Rome.
Maar is Rome die hoofkwartier van 'n internasionale mag wat heers oor "volke en menigtes en nasies en tale?"
Die Vatikaan beweer dat hy wêreldwyd meer as 'n biljoen Rooms -Katolieke regeer. Onthou, hierdie profesie is geskryf lank voordat die Katolieke Kerk bestaan het en lank voordat Rome haar hoofkwartier geword het.
Leidraad #4. Sy is geklee in pers en rooi
Openbaring 17: 4 "En die vrou was bekleed met pers en skarlakenrooi, en versierd met goud en edelgesteentes en pêrels, met 'n goue beker in haar hand vol gruwels en vuilheid van haar hoerery."
Daar is twee regerende liggame in die Rooms -Katolieke Kerk: The College of Cardinals en die College of Bishops and Archbishops. Hierdie twee liggame is ietwat soos die Senaat en die Huis van Verteenwoordigers hier in die VSA.
'N Artikel verskyn in Die kriterium, 'n Rooms -Katolieke publikasie, 1 Julie 1988. Die artikel het die titel "Meer as wat jy wil weet oor kardinale." Dit het gesê: "Kardinale dra rooi, terwyl nie-kardinaal biskoppe en aartsbiskoppe pers dra."
Laat ons dus hersien. Mystery Babylon is 'n stad op sewe heuwels. Rome staan wêreldwyd bekend as "The City of Seven Hills."
Mystery Babylon is om te "sit" op mense, menigtes, nasies en tale. " Rome is die hoofkwartier van die Rooms -Katolieke Kerk, met 'n biljoen lidmate wêreldwyd.
Mystery Babylon word beskryf as geklee in pers en rooi. Die amptelike kleure van die twee regerende liggame van die Roomse Kerk is pers en rooi.
'N Ander faktor moet verstaan word. In Openbaring 17, Het God gekies om 'n vrou - 'n hoer - te gebruik om die Rooms -Katolieke Kerk te simboliseer. Hoekom?
Dit is regtig baie eenvoudig. In die Skrif het God altyd 'n vrou gebruik om 'n kerk te simboliseer. Hy het 'n maagd gebruik om sy ware kerk voor te stel (II Korintiërs 11: 2), en Hy het 'n hoer gebruik om 'n valse kerk voor te stel - net soos in Openbaring 17-19.
Daar kan net een gevolgtrekking wees: Die Vatikaan is die Mystery Babylon of Revelation. En dit is hierdie valse godsdienstige stelsel wat die mense van die wêreld bedrieg het wat ten tyde van Armageddon vernietig sal word.
Babiloniese en Assiriese Demonologie
Die geloof in demone en bose geeste dateer uit die Joods-Christelike teologie. Die ou Babiloniese en Assiriese kulture het albei uitgebreide demoonklassifikasies gehad. Hierdie oorsig van Babiloniese en Assiriese demonologie verduidelik die verskillende klasse demone.
Feitlik alle kulture het op 'n stadium in goeie en bose geeste geglo. Die geloof dateer uit die Babiloniese en Assiriese godsdienste, voor Judaïsme.
Daar is oor die algemeen 2 tipes bose geeste:
- Vertrokke menslike geeste Daar word vermoed dat geeste van mense wat gesterf het, die lewendes agtervolg. Hierdie geeste kan vriendelik of vyandig wees, afhangende van die aard van hul dood of begrafnis en of hulle na vriende of vreemdelinge terugkeer. In sommige gevalle kan 'n gees van 'n vriend of geliefde vyandig word na die dood. Of in sommige gevalle kan hulle vriendelik wees op plekke en vyandig teenoor ander, sonder rym of rede vir hul optrede.
- Nie-menslike geeste Afgesien van afgestorwe menslike geeste wat vyandig kan word, het baie kulture geglo in geeste wat nog nooit 'n mens was nie. Weereens, dit kan vriendelik of vyandig wees, en in baie kulture het dit die vorm aanneem van diere soos reptiele, slange, bokke, gazelle, antropoïede, krokodille, akkedisse, valkies en jakkalse. Apep, die slangduiwel van Egipte, en Hebreeuse diere soos Leviatan en Behemoth is voorbeelde.
Demone in Babilon en Assirië
Die Babiloniërs en Assiriërs wat geleen is, het baie name vir geeste gehad, waaronder utukku (‘spirit), Alu (‘demon ’), Lilu ('n spook, die vroulike weergawes sluit in Lilitu en Ardat Lili) en Gallu (‘devil ’ ). Hulle het geglo dat daar baie bose geeste was en hulle het oral gewemel.
Volgens Morris Jastrow ’s Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Laai gratis af by Project Gutenberg), het hierdie demone op afgeleë of verborge plekke soos grafte, bergtoppe en in die skaduwees van ruïnes geloer. Hulle sou snags uitgaan, huise binnegaan deur gate en splete en hulle slagoffers martel. Hulle was verantwoordelik vir alles wat sleg was wat gebeur het van vernietigende winde, pestelike koors en siektes tot hoofpyn, klein twis, haat en jaloesie.
Die Vurige Oond, Leeukuil en Mure van Babilon
When skeptics read about three certain Jews, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, being cast into a fiery furnace, they scoffed. Same thing when they read about Daniel being thrown into a den of lions.
But archaeologists working in the ruins of Babylon discovered an ancient library on clay tablets. Included on these tablets were the punishments for violations of various regulations.
For the offense of impiety to any god, one was to be cast alive into a fiery furnace, and huge furnaces have also been discovered. For an untoward act relative to a king, like failure to worship his image, one was to be cast alive into the den of lions. Cages with iron bars have also been found in the ruins and the diggings of Babylon.
Furthermore, when Babylon was at the height of its glory, Ezekiel prophesied that the great walls of Babylon would be utterly destroyed. These walls were 60 miles long and as thick as 150 feet and 300 feet high, where a number of chariots could race on the top of those walls.
Archaeologists were digging down in the ground and they ran into the base, the foundation of the walls because they were utterly destroyed, just as God said they would be. If you ever see a picture of Babylon, it looks like it has been cut off by a scythe. Once again, the critics are wrong the Bible is right.
Almighty God, as we consider what happened to Your people in ancient Babylon, we can&rsquot help but think of Your people today in various parts of the world facing persecution for the name of Jesus. Grant them strength, grace, and perseverance until the end&hellip
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Azariah » A captive » Returned from » Babylon
who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel:
These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Restoration of the jews from
When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors. And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved, lees meer.
that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased!
“It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd!
And he will perform all My desire.’
And he declares of Jerusalem, ‘ She will be built,’
And of the temple, ‘ Your foundation will be laid.’”
Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,
Send it out to the end of the earth
Say, “ The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
“For thus says the Lord , ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.
“In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord , “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God they will seek.
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Conquests by
Then Jeremiah said to them, "You shall say to Zedekiah as follows: 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall and I will gather them into the center of this city. "I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, even in anger and wrath and great indignation. lees meer.
"I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast they will die of a great pestilence. "Then afterwards," declares the LORD, "I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion."' "You shall also say to this people, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. "He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty. "For I have set My face against this city for harm and not for good," declares the LORD "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire."'
thus says the LORD to me--"Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck, and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. "Command them to go to their masters, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters, lees meer.
"I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight. "Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated Thus says the LORD, "Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the men of the east. "They will take away their tents and their flocks They will carry off for themselves Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels, And they will call out to one another, 'Terror on every side!' "Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor," declares the LORD "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you. lees meer.
"Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease, Which lives securely," declares the LORD "It has no gates or bars They dwell alone. "Their camels will become plunder, And their many cattle for booty, And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair And I will bring their disaster from every side," declares the LORD. "Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever No one will live there, Nor will a son of man reside in it."
"As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost make it at the head of the way to the city. "You shall mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem. "For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver. lees meer.
"Into his right hand came the divination, 'Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. "And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes they have sworn solemn oaths But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized. "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand. 'And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,' thus says the Lord GOD, 'Remove the turban and take off the crown this will no longer be the same Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high. 'A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.' "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning-- while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end. 'Return it to its sheath In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. 'I will pour out My indignation on you I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. 'You will be fuel for the fire your blood will be in the midst of the land You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.'"
"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it." Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder and it will be wages for his army. "I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Destruction of
that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased! "The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution. lees meer.
"The whole earth is at rest and is quiet They break forth into shouts of joy. "Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.' "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. "They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us. 'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.' "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! "But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will make myself like the Most High.' "Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit. "Those who see you will gaze at you, They will ponder over you, saying, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms, Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?' "All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Each in his own tomb. "But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse. "You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever. "Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities." "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD.
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. A harsh vision has been shown to me The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused. For this reason my loins are full of anguish Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see. lees meer.
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink "Rise up, captains, oil the shields," For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees. "When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention." Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post. "Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground." O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.
‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord , ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Babylon » General references to
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Now the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord , and the stands and the bronze sea which were in the house of the Lord , the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How the oppressor has ceased,
And how fury has ceased!
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken
Wail over her!
Bring balm for her pain
Perhaps she may be healed.
Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.
Babylon » The great
And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “ BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.
Babylon » Nebuchadnezzar king of » Took zedekiah, &c captive to babylon
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.
Then the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.
Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple. From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the king's advisers who were found in the city and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. lees meer.
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.
Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Captivity of the jews by
"For thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as exiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword. 'I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon. 'And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.'"
"Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan Cry out also from Abarim, For all your lovers have been crushed. "I spoke to you in your prosperity But you said, 'I will not listen!' This has been your practice from your youth, That you have not obeyed My voice. "The wind will sweep away all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into captivity Then you will surely be ashamed and humiliated Because of all your wickedness. lees meer.
"You who dwell in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth! "As I live," declares the LORD, "even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. "I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
“ Writhe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth
For now you will go out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
There you will be rescued
There the Lord will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
Babylon » As a power, was » Cruel and destructive
Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’
“I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the Lord ,
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
And roll you down from the crags,
And I will make you a burnt out mountain.
"For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs. "They are dreaded and feared Their justice and authority originate with themselves.
Babylon » Empire of » Jews carried to
Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.
Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm He gave them all into his hand. All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. lees meer.
Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete.
Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,
Babylon » Nebuchadnezzar king of » Spoiled and burned the temple
He burned the house of the Lord , the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem even every great house he burned with fire.
Now the bronze pillars which were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea which were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. The captain of the guard also took away the firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver. lees meer.
The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.
All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.
Babylon » Nebuchadnezzar king of » Took jehoiachin, &c captive to babylon
Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths None remained except the poorest people of the land. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the Lord , and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Babylon » Empire of » Prophetic denunciations against
O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us. How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter
Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities.”
Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And will bring them all down as fugitives, Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice. "I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King." Thus says the LORD, Who makes a way through the sea And a path through the mighty waters, lees meer.
Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):
Babylon » Empire of » Called land of shinar
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the islands of the sea.
Babylon » Empire of » Divisions
Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.
The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
He has said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon Arise, pass over to Cyprus even there you will find no rest." Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
Babylon » City of » Capital of the kingdom of babylon
Now the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord , and the stands and the bronze sea which were in the house of the Lord , the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the Lord , and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
The king reflected and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Babylon » A type of antiChrist
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “ BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Babylon » Restoration of the jews from
“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord , the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!’”
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying: "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 'Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel He is the God who is in Jerusalem. lees meer.
'Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.'" Then the heads of fathers' households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. All those about them encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering. Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods and Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind and 1,000 other articles. All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem. Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city. These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: the sons of Parosh, 2,172 the sons of Shephatiah, 372 the sons of Arah, 775 the sons of Pahath-moab of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812 the sons of Elam, 1,254 the sons of Zattu, 945 the sons of Zaccai, 760 the sons of Bani, 642 the sons of Bebai, 623 the sons of Azgad, 1,222 the sons of Adonikam, 666 the sons of Bigvai, 2,056 the sons of Adin, 454 the sons of Ater of Hezekiah, 98 the sons of Bezai, 323 the sons of Jorah, 112 the sons of Hashum, 223 the sons of Gibbar, 95 the men of Bethlehem, 123 the men of Netophah, 56 the men of Anathoth, 128 the sons of Azmaveth, 42 the sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah and Beeroth, 743 the sons of Ramah and Geba, 621 the men of Michmas, 122 the men of Bethel and Ai, 223 the sons of Nebo, 52 the sons of Magbish, 156 the sons of the other Elam, 1,254 the sons of Harim, 320 the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 725 the men of Jericho, 345 the sons of Senaah, 3,630. The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973 the sons of Immer, 1,052 the sons of Pashhur, 1,247 the sons of Harim, 1,017. The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74. The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128. The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, in all 139. The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon, the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shalmai, the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim, the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha. The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Ami. All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392. Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan and Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their fathers' households and their descendants, whether they were of Israel: the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 652. Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name. These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood. The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim. The whole assembly numbered 42,360, besides their male and female servants who numbered 7,337 and they had 200 singing men and women. Their horses were 736 their mules, 245 their camels, 435 their donkeys, 6,720.
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Perpetual desolation of
And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there. lees meer.
Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.
"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD. "I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.
Critical Thoughts
A "Striding Lion," from ancient Babylon. I spotted it a few weeks ago on a cold December day in Chicago and took its picture.
One of the many gems on permanent display at the Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago’s remarkable museum which displays well its large collection of objects from the ancient Near-East, particularly Mesopotamia, Assyria, Egypt, and Persia.
Per the museum: From Babylon. Molded and glazed brick. Neo-Babylonian Period, circa 604-562 B.C.
Excerpt from legend: This colorful striding lion, its mouth opened in a threatening roar, once decorated in ancient Babylon (the Biblical city of Babel) a side of the “Processional Way,” which led out of the city through a massive gate named for Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war whose symbol was the lion.
These structures were built by Nebuchadnezzar II of Hanging Gardens fame. Die Ensiklopedie Britannica informs me that the Processional Way was a stone- and brick-paved avenue which ran over half a mile, and that its sides were decorated with an estimated 120 brick lions. The Ishtar Gate itself was decorated with hundreds of dragons and bulls, and along with the Processional Way has been partially rebuilt in Berlin at the Pergamon Museum from excavated material. I saw a short video of the museum exhibit on a TV travel show a while back and it looked quite impressive. Wikipedia has a photo from the Pergamon as well as sketches of how the original structure must have appeared (link).
The aesthetics seem remarkably refined and developed for a society near the beginning of recorded civilization.
