How God works (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 19:04 (4324 days ago) @ David Turell

You want specifics and details? ... Ok... coming right up.-Concerning Babylon and it's fall-Jeremiah 25:9 Israel would be conquered and held captive by Babylon. Called Nebuchadnezzar by name. -Jeremiah 25:11 Gives the specific length of their captivity. -Jeremiah 25:12 Specifies that the last rulers would be Chal'dean. Nabonidus and his son Belshazzar were Chaldean(Not all Babylonian Kings were), and the last rulers of Babylon. Also specified that the city would become a desolate waste. -Jeremiah 51:28 Tells that the nation conquering Babylon would be the Medes. (Between this and the confirming of Cyrus we have the sum of the Medo Persian Empire which had not been formed yet. Babylon was taken by Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian. )-Jeremiah 51:39 Says they will be conquered while 'at banquet'. (Confirmed by the Cyrus Cylinder #23)-Isaiah 44:28 - Specifically names Cyrus as the one to give the order to rebuild Jerusalem. (Confirmed in the Cyrus Cylinder.)-Isaiah 45:1 - The gates would be left opened. (Confirmed by Josephus. Cyrus Cylinder #40 notes that there was no siege, the city was not surrounded)-Isaiah 45:4 - That Cyrus would not be a Jew.(He was Persian, confirmed numerous times)-Isaiah 45:13- That Cyrus would let the Jews go. (Confirmed by the Cyrus Cylinder#26 & #32)-45:13 that he would rebuild the city and the temple, and that he would do so without bribes or asking for tribute. (Confirmed by both Josephus and the Cyrus Cylinder.)-
Isaiah 46:11 Cyrus would come from the east, and would move swiftly in his conquest. (This one is a little more vague, but it held true none the less.)-Isaiah 47:5 Babylon would never recover as a world power. (Confirmed by history)-Isaiah 47:9 That Babylon would fall in a single day. (Confirmed by Josephus)-
The nice thing about these(and the reason I used this particular line of prophecy) is that the events themselves are written in the stone of time. They are immutable. They can not change. They are not open to interpretation. They either happened, or they did not. The commentary is specific. It is not vague. It gives names, indicates dates, supplies confirmable details. These are not subject to my faith or yours, instead being binary in nature. They are either true, or false.-
But I am certain you will have a way of saying none of those are valid, credible evidence... Either they are hearsay, or the cylinders can't be confirmed, or Josephus's sources can't be confirmed, or that they were not specific enough. "The very stones cry out..", but people will not hear what they do not want to hear. To admit any of it is true(beyond a purely secular history) is to admit the possibility that all of it is true, and that would be a cause for fear to people and people do not want to be afraid.

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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.