And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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.
Babylon existed between 605 -539 BC but the prophecy states that Babylon would reign for 70 years.
Notice how the 70-year prophecy is worded.
"And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
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 says that the Babylon captivity of Israel would last 70 years. But it lasted only 66 1/2 years. The final 3 1/2 years of Jeremiah's 70-year captivity of the Jewish nation, and the 3 1/2-year reign of the Islamic antichrist are both quoted as being done by the hands of "the king of Babylon."
In 605 B.C. Jerusalem was attacked and Daniel and other captives were taken to Babylon. Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE. The math.
605
538 (or 539)
66 -67 years.
Some just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a 70-year prophecy that lasted only 66-67 years. About this discrepancy. DR. David Jeremiah says, "that's close enough." So, they attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of its fulfillment to historical error, and some have changed the dates. Most scholars do agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years.
Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled.
That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy." That's the precise length of time the Islamic anti-Christ is said to reign in the book of Revelation.
God doesn't approximate! Nebuchadnezzar's seventy years are not 'accomplished' but will be completely 'fulfilled' in the coming 3 1/2-year reign of the Islamic man of sin.
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.
Babylon existed between 605 -539 BC but the prophecy states that Babylon would reign for 70 years.
Notice how the 70-year prophecy is worded.
"And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
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 says that the Babylon captivity of Israel would last 70 years. But it lasted only 66 1/2 years. The final 3 1/2 years of Jeremiah's 70-year captivity of the Jewish nation, and the 3 1/2-year reign of the Islamic antichrist are both quoted as being done by the hands of "the king of Babylon."
In 605 B.C. Jerusalem was attacked and Daniel and other captives were taken to Babylon. Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE. The math.
605
538 (or 539)
66 -67 years.
Some just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a 70-year prophecy that lasted only 66-67 years. About this discrepancy. DR. David Jeremiah says, "that's close enough." So, they attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of its fulfillment to historical error, and some have changed the dates. Most scholars do agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years.
Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled.
That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy." That's the precise length of time the Islamic anti-Christ is said to reign in the book of Revelation.
God doesn't approximate! Nebuchadnezzar's seventy years are not 'accomplished' but will be completely 'fulfilled' in the coming 3 1/2-year reign of the Islamic man of sin.