Tag: exile
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Are the 70 weeks of Daniel and Jeremiah prophecies about the Babylonian exile of the 6th century BC or about the age of the Messiah?
Jeremiah ostensibly predicted that Israel would be destroyed and be in captivity to Babylon for 70 years: [Jer 25:11 NLT] 11 This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylo…
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2/23/26 – Ep. 7264 – The Covenant, the Exile, and the Rebirth
Does Genesis 12:3 apply only to Abraham — or is it still in effect today? Are Ezekiel 36 and 37 really about the modern rebirth of Israel? And why did […]
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Would the Judeans in Babylonian exile have learnt to write “Cush” to mean Mesopotamia?
When did the cuneiform literature use the term “Cush” to refer to all or part of Mesopotamia, as happens in Genesis, if ever? Why does this matter? In the Pentateuch, “Cush” seems only to refer to Mesopotamia, but all subsequent Biblical…