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Through the Bible Study Jeremiah 50-51 THROUGH THE BIBLE STUDY JEREMIAH 50-51 An important characteristic of Bible prophecy is its dual nature. Many prophecies have an immediate and a future fulfillment embedded in the same passage. One example are the prophecies that speak of the coming of the Messiah… Jesus comes twice. He came in first century Judea to save us. He’ll come again to rule! These two comings are separated by at least 2000 years. Yet many of the biblical passages included elements of both comings in the same prophecy… Luke 4 is a great example. In the synagogue at Nazareth, Jesus opened the scroll to read an OT description of His ministry. He turned to Isaiah 61:1-2… It read, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God…” But Jesus stopped before He read that last line, “day of vengeance of our God…” He read the part of the passage describing His first coming, but stopped in mid-sentence, because the next phrase was referring to His second coming. Jesus realized there were two events, separated by many years, intertwined in the same prophecy. And this is the case with many biblical prophecies… !1 In addition to two comings of Christ the Bible speaks of two forerunners, two destructions of Jerusalem, two re-gatherings of the Jews to their ancient homeland… Teachers of Bible prophecy speak of this Scriptural tendency as “The Law of Double Reference.” I have a hammock that I like to take out into the backyard, and look up into the tops of the trees. From under the tree, gazing upwards, you lose depth perception. Limbs that are separated by 10-20 feet appear as if they’re stacked on top of each other… All you see is a maze of crisscrossed leaves and limbs - and this is what it’s like to study Bible prophecy! The OT prophets were given glimpses into the future, but they were all under the tree looking up. They saw events, but found it hard to distinguish if what they were seeing was two similar events, or just one - and if they were looking at two events, they had a difficult time gaging how much distance separated them on the timeline - perhaps 10 years, maybe 1000? And this is the scenario we have in Jeremiah 50-51. The prophet sees two defeats of the city of Babylon. One was historical. The other is still future. But the details are all intertwined into one prophetic picture. Remember the context of these chapters. Jeremiah was a prophet, not only to the Jews, but to all nations. In Chapters 46-49 he uttered God’s judgments on the nations surrounding Judah. He’s moved from west to east - !2 from the Nile to the Euphrates, and declared God’s displeasure on all the nations in between. In fact, the sword by which God executed His punishment on the nations of the world, was the army of the Babylonians and their leader, Nebuchadnezzar. On several occasions in the book, Jeremiah even refers to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar as “the servant of Yahweh.” And this was a strange use of the phrase. Usually, it’s a name given to Judah, God’s chosen people, not a idolatrous nation like the Babylonians. But it goes to prove that God can use anybody. The Babylonians were ruthless and cruel, yet God used them as His sword - an instrument of His judgment. And this also proves that just because God uses you, it doesn’t mean He approves of who you are or all you do. In the previous four chapters He uses Babylon to judge the nations, but now He judges Babylon. As the ole saying goes, "What goes around comes around" In chapters 50-51 we’ll see that Babylon is destined to taste the same medicine she’s dished out. Chapter 50, “The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. “Declare among the nations, proclaim, and set up a standard; proclaim - do not conceal it - say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are humiliated, her images are broken in pieces.’ !3 Bel and Merodach were the chief gods - the idols - of the ancient Babylonians. Bel was the god of the wind and storm. Merodach, known in secular history, as Marduk was the solar calf - the bull-calf of the sun god. It’s interesting the term "idols" in verse 2 is not the normal Hebrew word for idol. This word means, "logs, blocks, shapeless things" - the rabbis put it, “things of dung.” The idols the Babylonians worshipped and revered are about to be shattered in thousand pieces. Verse 3, “For out of the north a nation comes up against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, both man and beast.” Before we go further, let me provide you a little background on the city of Babel. One way of looking at the Bible is to view it as “a tale of two cities.” The Bible chronicles the story of two kingdoms - the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. And every Kingdom has a capitol city… These two kingdoms were no exception… In the OT God's headquarters on earth was Jerusalem, while Satan also had his headquarters, the city of Babel. The founder of Babylon was a man named “Nimrod.” He was an expert archer. He taught men how to hunt and fend for themselves. He gave them power over nature, and encouraged them to rebel against God. Nimrod led the very first organized revolt against God. The Lord told mankind to scatter and multiply. !4 Instead, under Nimrod’s influence the people of the earth came together at Babel and built a tall tower. The Tower of Babel served several purposes… First, it memorialized Nimrod’s perceived greatness. Second, the tower became an observatory into the heavens. It gave birth to the occult practices of astrology - of discerning the future through the stars. And third, the Bible says Nimrod constructed it using “bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar” which can be translated “pitch.” It’s the same word used for the water-proofing material used to cover the ark of Noah and prepare it for its voyage… So, what is Nimrod doing, building a water-proof tower in the middle of the arid desert? Obviously, he refused to believe the rainbow and the promise of God it symbolized - that God would never judge the whole Earth will water again. In essence, Nimrod taught the people of Earth that God was their enemy. He would protect them from the big, bad God. This is why God destroyed the Tower, and confused the languages - forcing people to scatter and repopulate the Earth… Yet Babel remained the seat of Satan - the hub of heathenism. For the next 2000 years Babylon would remain the center and the chief exporter of idolatry, and paganism, and occult practice. Babylon reached its zenith, its golden age, under the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. He ruled from 606-562 BC. He made Babylon great. Under Nebuchadnezzar, Babel dominated the world commercially and militarily. !5 It was Nebuchadnezzar that destroyed Jerusalem, burned the Temple, and deported the Jews to Babylon. The capitol of Nebuchadnezzar was an extremely well fortified city. In fact, it was viewed as impregnable. Babylon was surrounded by two walls - the highest was 311 feet, it had 250 watch towers, some soaring another 100 feet into the air. Babylon’s ancient walls were an example of high- rise architecture. And it was a double wall! The largest was 87' thick. You could line 11 cars abreast on top of the wall. Underneath the walls flowed the Euphrates River, supplying the city its water… It was Nebuchadnezzar who built a 700 room palace, and the famous Hanging Gardens. The Greek historian, Herodotus, referred to Babylon’s gardens as one the world’s seven wonders. This past week the United States remembered the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As Roosevelt said, December 7, 1941 “is a day that will live in infamy.” Well Babylon’s Pearl Harbor occurred on October 12, 539 BC. This was the night the Babylonian emperor, grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, decided to throw a party. He invited a thousand guests to a drunken orgy. You can read about it in Daniel 5. Belshazzar’s party was in defiance of the Medes and Persians camped outside the city. Belshazzar partied in the face of danger, to show everyone his invincibility. !6 During the drink-feast Belshazzar called for the treasures his grandpa had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem - the bowls and saucers dedicated to God and used in the Jerusalem Temple. He took the holy bowls and used them as beer mugs and shot glasses. He was thumbing his nose in God’s face, mocking the one true God… an always dangerous proposition. That’s when suddenly, a man’s hand appeared writing on the wall. I love to read Daniel 5 from the Old King James, “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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