Nebuchadnezzar's yoke of iron.
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, was also called a king of kings in Ez. 26:7. I think he is the king of Babylon, "THE OPPRESSOR" mentioned in Isaiah 14. An instrument of God's wrath.
Isaiah 14:2 says Israel "shall rule over their oppressors." (nations against Israel) and the king of Babylon is described as Israel's oppressor.
His pride and evil nature is compared to the fall of Lucifer. Only the antichrist can be equated with Lucifer in the end. This "king of Babylon" or "Assyrian" could very well be a resurrected Nebuchadnezzar!
So what is Nebuchadnezzar's yoke of iron?
Nebuchadnezzar was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:48 as to the yoke of iron that would one day come on Israel if they kept disobeying God.
Jeremiah writes in Jeremiah 28:14 about Nebuchadnezzar as the yoke of iron king.
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Isaiah 14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Jeremiah 30:6-9 speaks of a yoke that will break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
This yoke can't be broken until the captivity or the 70 years are accomplished.
Now look at how these verses are worded.
Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 25:11 has yet to be completely fulfilled because Nebuchadnezzar or the Babylonian kings never ruled the seventy years required to fulfill that prophecy.
The second invasion of Nebuchadnezzar came in 597. Jerusalem was captured, King Jehoichin was deported to Babylon, and Zedekiah was placed on the throne. (2 Kings 24:17) The final end is described in 2 Kings:
Nebuchadnezzar ascended to the throne of Babylon on the death of his father Nabopolassor in September 605 after defeating the Egyptian armies under Pharaoh Neco at the famous battle of Carchemish in May and June of that year. (Mighty Egypt was permanently weakened at that battle and Babylon moved into ascendancy as the greatest gentile power in the ancient world). Daniel, and others were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar in the same year (2 Kings 24:1). King Jehoiakim was made a vassal at that time, but soon proved rebellious.
And the whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the Lord; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation. (Jeremiah 25:12,13).
Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE,[4]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-4"[5]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-5"[6] and more than 40,000 are said to have returned, as noted in the Biblical accounts of Jehoiakim,
The math.
605
538
67
There are some people in denial about this discrepancy of unfulfillment. They just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a prophecy that was supposedly fulfilled. They have attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of fulfillment to historical error and some have changed the dates. Most bible scholars who are not in denial agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years. It lasted between 66 and 67 years. Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled. That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy". I heard Dr. David Jeremiah say that even though the captivity did not last 70 years, "That's close enough"!
Well, I don't think God works in approximations.
The seventy years have not "been accomplished" but will be 'fulfilled' in the coming 3 1/2 year reign of the man of sin.
Now check out some things about this "Assyrian" who was born between the Euphrates and the Tigres...the middle of ancient Assyria.
Saddam Hussein believed he was the re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar. He also idolized Nebuchadnezzar and the Assyrian Empire.
The bible say's that the "man of sin" will recover from a fatal wound. Saddam's head was nearly removed from his body when he was hung. I'm not at all convinced we got the right Saddam because there were 5 Saddam's! I just don't believe that the real Saddam would have been found in a hole in the ground with the amount of money he had. I think we found one of his doubles.
Saddam also believed he was "the god of rebirth and ressurection".
I think, as crazy as it sounds, that Saddam will return to fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years prophecy as the antichrist. He will unite the countries of the Arab/Muslim world currently in apostasy as well as the the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, (the two horned beast) and form a ten nation Arab/Muslim confederacy (the ten horned beast) otherwise know as the kingdom of the antichrist.
On the day Saddam was captured, The U.S. version of Time Magazine had the articles written and the cover photo done about another very important person. But because of the significance of Saddam's capture, they only had a few days to "replace" the cover photo and articles of this other person with Saddam's. The person that Saddam replaced was none other than...Jesus Christ.
These many reasons are why I believe that Saddam will return and fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years of Jeremiah's prophecy.
Other things to consider.
The empire that Saddam emulated most was the Assyrian Empire... and Saddam qualifies as an Assyrian and a fatally wounded one at that!
Saddam has his and Nebuchadnezzar's name inscribed on every brick of some temples he built in honor of his greatness. Saddam idolized Nebuchadnezzar.
Nine-tenths of all the bricks amid the ruins of Babylon are stamped with Nebuchadnezzar's name on them.
There are carvings of Saddam and Nebuchadnezzar face to face on some buildings and mosque in Iraq.
Is it too strange to consider that the scripture above could refer to some type of demon possession reincarnation of an evil despot like Nebuchadnezzar into Saddam Hussein? If Saddam returns as the one who unites the Arab world and forms the 10 nation Islamic empire...the world will wonder for sure.
The origin and bloodline of the world's final enemy is in the bible if you are willing to accept it. It's not Rome and it's not the EU or the US.
In Micah 5:4-6 The Assyrian antichrist comes and Israel is delivered by Christ at his second advent.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Isaiah 10:24 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
________________
Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Read Ezekiel 31.
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon...16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
The ships of Kittim.
Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Asshur" or Northern Iraq.
Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel. Genesis 10:8-11. (This is where I believe the antichrist will come from.)
Asshur and Eber are northern and southern Iraq.
Daniel 11:30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
The ships of Chittim, (or ships of Kittim) Numbers 24:21-24. Daniel 11:30... are called the ships of the Western Coastland in the NIV.
Numbers 24:24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
"The ships of the Western Coastland shall subdue Asshur and Eber and they too will come to ruin." This could be the US and Brittian.
It's believed that the Ships of Kittim (Chittim) came from Cyprus. And Ashur is the Hebrew word for Assyria.
Asshur and Assyria and Eber and Chaldea are the area of Iraq. Iraq in Arabic is Mesopotamia meaning the land between two rivers i.e. the Tigres and the Euphrates. This is where scripture say's the little horn will come from.
U.S. NAVY USES CYPRUS AS BASE
MOSCOW [MENL] -- The United States has expanded its use of Cyprus as a base for operations in both the Mediterranean and Black seas.
Russian officials said the U.S. Sixth Fleet has increased its presence in Cyprus and has employed the island as a base for naval operations, intelligence and reconnaissance. They said the fleet has deployed surface and underwater vessels as well as maritime patrol aircraft in Cyprus in reconnaissance missions for both the United States and NATO.
The expanded U.S. deployment in Cyprus began in mid-2004 and was expected to increase in 2005, the officials said. They said the U.S. Sixth Fleet and other military commands have obtained permission from Britain to use its bases on the island to help monitor countries believed to be supporting Al Qaida-aligned groups or exporting weapons of mass destruction. The United States has sought to recruit NATO and other allies to intercept WMD exports in a program termed the Proliferation Security Initiative. PSI held an exercise off the coast of Japan, near North Korea, in October 2004.
The expanded U.S. military presence in Cyprus has prompted U.S. missions in and over the Black Sea, which borders Russia. In November 2004, a U.S. Navy P-3C Orion left its base in Cyprus and conducted a reconnaissance mission along the Russian border.
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, was also called a king of kings in Ez. 26:7. I think he is the king of Babylon, "THE OPPRESSOR" mentioned in Isaiah 14. An instrument of God's wrath.
Isaiah 14:2 says Israel "shall rule over their oppressors." (nations against Israel) and the king of Babylon is described as Israel's oppressor.
His pride and evil nature is compared to the fall of Lucifer. Only the antichrist can be equated with Lucifer in the end. This "king of Babylon" or "Assyrian" could very well be a resurrected Nebuchadnezzar!
So what is Nebuchadnezzar's yoke of iron?
Nebuchadnezzar was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:48 as to the yoke of iron that would one day come on Israel if they kept disobeying God.
Jeremiah writes in Jeremiah 28:14 about Nebuchadnezzar as the yoke of iron king.
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Isaiah 14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Jeremiah 30:6-9 speaks of a yoke that will break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
This yoke can't be broken until the captivity or the 70 years are accomplished.
Now look at how these verses are worded.
Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 25:11 has yet to be completely fulfilled because Nebuchadnezzar or the Babylonian kings never ruled the seventy years required to fulfill that prophecy.
The second invasion of Nebuchadnezzar came in 597. Jerusalem was captured, King Jehoichin was deported to Babylon, and Zedekiah was placed on the throne. (2 Kings 24:17) The final end is described in 2 Kings:
Nebuchadnezzar ascended to the throne of Babylon on the death of his father Nabopolassor in September 605 after defeating the Egyptian armies under Pharaoh Neco at the famous battle of Carchemish in May and June of that year. (Mighty Egypt was permanently weakened at that battle and Babylon moved into ascendancy as the greatest gentile power in the ancient world). Daniel, and others were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar in the same year (2 Kings 24:1). King Jehoiakim was made a vassal at that time, but soon proved rebellious.
And the whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the Lord; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation. (Jeremiah 25:12,13).
Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE,[4]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-4"[5]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-5"[6] and more than 40,000 are said to have returned, as noted in the Biblical accounts of Jehoiakim,
The math.
605
538
67
There are some people in denial about this discrepancy of unfulfillment. They just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a prophecy that was supposedly fulfilled. They have attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of fulfillment to historical error and some have changed the dates. Most bible scholars who are not in denial agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years. It lasted between 66 and 67 years. Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled. That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy". I heard Dr. David Jeremiah say that even though the captivity did not last 70 years, "That's close enough"!
Well, I don't think God works in approximations.
The seventy years have not "been accomplished" but will be 'fulfilled' in the coming 3 1/2 year reign of the man of sin.
Now check out some things about this "Assyrian" who was born between the Euphrates and the Tigres...the middle of ancient Assyria.
Saddam Hussein believed he was the re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar. He also idolized Nebuchadnezzar and the Assyrian Empire.
The bible say's that the "man of sin" will recover from a fatal wound. Saddam's head was nearly removed from his body when he was hung. I'm not at all convinced we got the right Saddam because there were 5 Saddam's! I just don't believe that the real Saddam would have been found in a hole in the ground with the amount of money he had. I think we found one of his doubles.
Saddam also believed he was "the god of rebirth and ressurection".
I think, as crazy as it sounds, that Saddam will return to fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years prophecy as the antichrist. He will unite the countries of the Arab/Muslim world currently in apostasy as well as the the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, (the two horned beast) and form a ten nation Arab/Muslim confederacy (the ten horned beast) otherwise know as the kingdom of the antichrist.
On the day Saddam was captured, The U.S. version of Time Magazine had the articles written and the cover photo done about another very important person. But because of the significance of Saddam's capture, they only had a few days to "replace" the cover photo and articles of this other person with Saddam's. The person that Saddam replaced was none other than...Jesus Christ.
These many reasons are why I believe that Saddam will return and fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years of Jeremiah's prophecy.
Other things to consider.
The empire that Saddam emulated most was the Assyrian Empire... and Saddam qualifies as an Assyrian and a fatally wounded one at that!
Saddam has his and Nebuchadnezzar's name inscribed on every brick of some temples he built in honor of his greatness. Saddam idolized Nebuchadnezzar.
Nine-tenths of all the bricks amid the ruins of Babylon are stamped with Nebuchadnezzar's name on them.
There are carvings of Saddam and Nebuchadnezzar face to face on some buildings and mosque in Iraq.
Is it too strange to consider that the scripture above could refer to some type of demon possession reincarnation of an evil despot like Nebuchadnezzar into Saddam Hussein? If Saddam returns as the one who unites the Arab world and forms the 10 nation Islamic empire...the world will wonder for sure.
The origin and bloodline of the world's final enemy is in the bible if you are willing to accept it. It's not Rome and it's not the EU or the US.
In Micah 5:4-6 The Assyrian antichrist comes and Israel is delivered by Christ at his second advent.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Isaiah 10:24 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
________________
Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Read Ezekiel 31.
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon...16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
The ships of Kittim.
Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Asshur" or Northern Iraq.
Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel. Genesis 10:8-11. (This is where I believe the antichrist will come from.)
Asshur and Eber are northern and southern Iraq.
Daniel 11:30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
The ships of Chittim, (or ships of Kittim) Numbers 24:21-24. Daniel 11:30... are called the ships of the Western Coastland in the NIV.
Numbers 24:24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
"The ships of the Western Coastland shall subdue Asshur and Eber and they too will come to ruin." This could be the US and Brittian.
It's believed that the Ships of Kittim (Chittim) came from Cyprus. And Ashur is the Hebrew word for Assyria.
Asshur and Assyria and Eber and Chaldea are the area of Iraq. Iraq in Arabic is Mesopotamia meaning the land between two rivers i.e. the Tigres and the Euphrates. This is where scripture say's the little horn will come from.
U.S. NAVY USES CYPRUS AS BASE
MOSCOW [MENL] -- The United States has expanded its use of Cyprus as a base for operations in both the Mediterranean and Black seas.
Russian officials said the U.S. Sixth Fleet has increased its presence in Cyprus and has employed the island as a base for naval operations, intelligence and reconnaissance. They said the fleet has deployed surface and underwater vessels as well as maritime patrol aircraft in Cyprus in reconnaissance missions for both the United States and NATO.
The expanded U.S. deployment in Cyprus began in mid-2004 and was expected to increase in 2005, the officials said. They said the U.S. Sixth Fleet and other military commands have obtained permission from Britain to use its bases on the island to help monitor countries believed to be supporting Al Qaida-aligned groups or exporting weapons of mass destruction. The United States has sought to recruit NATO and other allies to intercept WMD exports in a program termed the Proliferation Security Initiative. PSI held an exercise off the coast of Japan, near North Korea, in October 2004.
The expanded U.S. military presence in Cyprus has prompted U.S. missions in and over the Black Sea, which borders Russia. In November 2004, a U.S. Navy P-3C Orion left its base in Cyprus and conducted a reconnaissance mission along the Russian border.
