Love me or else (Part Two) (Where is it now?)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, December 21, 2012, 02:43 (4138 days ago) @ David Turell

Ok, as you wish. :)-Two prophecies, one from Isaiah, one from Daniel, because they are tied together. Isaiah 44-45 tells that the Israelite nation would be led into captivity, and that Jerusalem would be destroyed. It names Babylon as the one to destroy them. It also names Cyrus, King of Persia, (in 45:1) as the one that would free them from captivity and rebuild the temple. This would happen some 200 years later.-Nebudchadnezzar, King of Babylon, in 618 B.C.E. In 539 B.C.E, the Medo-Persion empire headed by Darious I of Mede and Cyrus of Persia overthrew Babylon. -The book of Daniel, Chapter two has him interpretting a dream for Nebudchadnezzar, around approx 606/605 B.C.E. In his interpretation, stated that, counting Babylon, there would be 6 world powers, and by the description of them gave some indication of whom they would be, namely:Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, Anglo-American, and the final would be a politically divided world power, the iron like tyrants and the clay like democracies that were ruled by the people (i.e. the League of Nations and it's second incarnation the U.N.).-I chose these two because you are able to verify them in outside historical records. There is also the prophecy regarding the destruction of Babylon that said it would never be inhabited again, which it has not been to this day, despite the fact that it is still prime real estate in the middle east.-
We can keep going if you like. There are something like 2000 prophecies in the Bible, though I do not claim to be as familiar with all of them.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.