The Truth in Print Vol. 27 Issue 2, March 2021
A Publication of the Valley church of Christ,
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THREE STAGES OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY (PART ONE)
An End! The Babylonian Captivity
(Part One: Focus On First & Second Stages)
Eze
7:2 “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An
end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Eze
7:3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My
anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay
you for all your abominations.
What “End”?
THE 70 YEARS BABYLONIA CAPTIVITY –
THREE STAGES:
§ 605 B.C.
First Stage: ELIAKIM (JEHOIAKIM) – made king by Pharaoh Necho (Egypt) -- became
Nebuchadnezzar’s servant for three years then rebelled -- Daniel and friends
taken. *Ezekiel 18 yrs. old *Pharaoh
Necho was defeated by Babylon in 4th yr. Jehoiakim.
§ 597
B.C. Second Stage: JEHOIACHIN
(*JECONIAH, CONIAH) – son of Eliakim - Ezekiel and 10,000 captives taken.
§ 586 B.C.
Third Stage: ZEDEKIAH (MATTANIAH) – Destruction of Jerusalem, Temple destroyed.
Notes:
The
Divided Kingdom (931 B.C.).
1)
The Northern Kingdom (10 Tribes) God gave to Jeroboam (Capital Samaria) was
taken captive by King Shalmaneser V of Assyria in 722 B.C. * Lasted 209 years).
2) The Southern Kingdom left to Rehoboam,
Solomon’s son, (Benjamin and Judah, capital Jerusalem) would last about 117
years until it is taken captive by Babylon.
Ezekiel
(593-559 B.C.)
*BIG
JUMP IN TIME: WHAT WOULD DANIEL PRAY AND CONFESS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS?
WHAT DANIEL PRAYED AND CONFESSED
IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS THE MEDE (539-525 B.C.)
THE OATH HAS BEEN
CONFIRMED
•
Dan 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have
rebelled against Him.
•
Dan 9:10 We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.
• Dan 9:11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed
Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse
and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured
out on us, because we have sinned against Him.
• Dan 9:12 And He has confirmed His words,
which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing
upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done
as what has been done to Jerusalem.
THE CURSE AND OATH WRITTEN
BY MOSES
*Moses,
the Wilderness and the Law (Ca. 1445-1405 B.C.)
•
The Curse Written in the Law:
*
The culmination is written in Lev. 26:27-33.
• The Oath Written in the Law: De.
4:25-28; in De. 30:18 it is stated with the curses (De. 27-30).
•
Deu 4:25 “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the
land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do
evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,
• Deu 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will
soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess;
you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
•
Deu 4:27 And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left
few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
•
Deu 4:28 And there you will serve gods, the work of
men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
HOW MANY YEARS?
•
Moses, the Wilderness and the Law (Ca. 1445-1405 B.C.) *THEY CARRIED THEIR
IDOLS WITH THEM (AMOS 5:25-27).
•
The Northern Kingdom (10 Tribes) God gave to Jeroboam (Capital Samaria) was
taken captive by King Shalmaneser V of Assyria in 722 B.C. * Lasted 209 years).
•
The Southern Kingdom and the Destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.
1405-586 = 819 YEARS
*SEE THE TRUTH IN
THESE STATEMENTS:
•
Deu 9:6 Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good
land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked
people.
•
Deu 9:7 "Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to
wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt
until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
•
Deu 9:24 You have been rebellious against the LORD
from the day that I knew you.
THE BOOK OF THE LAW IS FOUND IN THE TEMPLE CLEANSING (2 KI 22)
ü King Josiah
(640 B.C.) is read the “book of the Law” found in the rubbish of
the Temple it was being restored and
cleansed of the idols put in it by Manasseh (697 B.C.). *Hilkiah the high
priest found the book of the Law and gave it to Shaphan the scribe who read it
to the King.
•
2Ki 22:8 Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have
found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the
book to Shaphan, and he read it.
•
2Ki 22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, "Hilkiah the
priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.
•
2Ki 22:11 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the
Law, that he tore his clothes.
THE POINT OF NO RETURN
• 2Ki 22:14
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to
Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of
Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.)
And they spoke with her.
•
2Ki 22:15 Then she said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Tell
the man who sent you to Me,
•
2Ki 22:16 “Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and
on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read—
•
2Ki 22:17 because they have forsaken Me and burned
incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works
of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall be aroused against this place and
shall not be quenched.' " '
THE POINT OF NO RETURN CONT’D.
EVEN
AFTER ALL THE REFORM OF JOSIAH:
• 2Ki 23:25 Now before him there was no king
like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and
with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any
arise like him.
•
2Ki 23:26 Nevertheless the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great
wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the
provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
• 2Ki 23:27
And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I
have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen,
and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.' "
·
They Would Not Listen, 2 Ch 33:10 “And the LORD spoke to Manasseh
and his people, but they would not listen.”
GOD’S JUDGMENT BEGINS
ü KING JOSIAH
TRIES TO STOP PHARAOH NECHO KING OF EGYPT GOING TO AID THE KING OF ASSYRIA AND
IS KILLED BY PHARAOH NECHO.
• 2Ki 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of
Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh
Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him.
•
2Ki 23:30 Then his servants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought
him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land
took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his
father's place.
ü JEHOAHAZ
(JOAHAZ, SHALLUM) (609 B.C.) JOSIAH’S SON *REIGNED 3 MONTH.
•
2Ki 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem. …
• 2Ki 23:33
Now Pharaoh Necho put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath,
that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of
one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Died there 2Ki
23:34
FIRST STAGE
ü FIRST STAGE:
ELIAKIM NAMED JEHOIAKIM (609 B.C.) *REIGNED 11 YEARS.
• 2Ki 23:34 Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the
son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to
Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he died there.
•
2Ki 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. …
•
FIRST
STAGE: (605 B.C.) 2Ki 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then
he turned and rebelled against him.
•
(605 B.C.) IN 3RD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM (ELIAKIM), NEBUCHADNEZZAR
BESIEGED JERUSALEM (2 Ch. 36:6-7; Dn. 1:1 *Daniel among the captives).
SECOND, THIRD STAGES
ü SECOND
STAGE: (597 B.C.) JEHOIACHIN *JECONIAH OR CONIAH, Son of
Jehoiakim.
* Eighteen years old when became king, reigned 3 mo. (2 Ki 24:8-17 gives
detailed account).
·
Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with
valuable articles
from the Temple and made Zedekiah
king. *Ezekiel and 10,000 captives (2 Ki
24:14). (Released from prison in 37th year of exile by Evil-merodach of Babylon
(562-560 B.C.) and treated kindly until death, 2 Kings 25:27-30).
ü THIRD
STAGE: ZEDEKIAH (MATTANIAH) Kinsman to Jehoiachin (597-586
B.C.)
*Reigned 11 years – rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
·
2 Kings 25: (586 B.C.) The Destruction of Jerusalem,
Temple burned.
ISRAEL’S AND JUDAH’S LUSTS FOR IDOLATRIES
WHY ISRAEL AND JUDAH
PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER
BRIEF EXCERPT:
• Jer 32:29
And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to
this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense
to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger;
•
Jer 32:30 because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done
only evil before Me from their youth. For the children
of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work
of their hands,' says the LORD.
• Jer 32:31
'For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from
the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before
My face
• Jer 32:32
because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of
Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their
princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem.
TAUGHT AND HAVE NOT LISTENED TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION
•
Jer 32:33 And they have turned to Me the back, and not
the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they
have not listened to receive instruction. ß Pr. 19:27
•
Jer 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
• Jer 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the
Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire
to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'
Notes:
Pro 19:27 Cease listening to instruction, my son, And
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
FIRST STAGE (609-597 B.C.)
MESSAGE TO JEHOIAKIM (ELIAKIM) The
Son of Josiah
THE KINGS HOUSE:
•
Jer 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice, Who uses his neighbor's
service without wages And gives him nothing for his work,
•
Jer 22:14 Who says, 'I will build myself a wide house
with spacious chambers, And cut out windows for it, Paneling it with cedar And
painting it with vermilion.'
•
Jer 22:15 “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your
father eat and drink, And do justice and
righteousness? Then it was well with him.
•
Jer 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Then it was well. Was not
this knowing Me?" says the LORD.
•
Jer 22:17 “Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and
violence." Duty of the king to have own copy of the Law (De.
17:18-20).
FIRST STAGE (609-597 B.C.) JEHOIAKIM’S (ELIAKIM) – Death Foretold
•
Jer 22:18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for
him, Saying, 'Alas, my brother!' or 'Alas, my sister!' They shall not lament
for him, Saying, 'Alas, master!' or 'Alas, his glory!'
•
Jer 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, Dragged and cast out
beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
• 2Ch 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old
when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil
in the sight of the LORD his God.
• 2Ch 36:6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.
He was killed before he left!
•
2Ch 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of
the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
• 2Ch 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did,
and what was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
FIRST STAGE (609-597 B.C.) Days of Jehoiakim…
THE RECHABITES ARE AN
EXAMPLE OF “LISTENING”
Jer. 35 - They Came To
Jerusalem for Safety
They refused Jeremiah’s “test” to drink wine
for they had obeyed their father Jonadab who commanded they would not drink
wine forever, nor sow seed or plant a vineyard or own one, nor build a house
but dwell in tents that they might live many days in the land.
•
Jer 35:18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Because you have obeyed the commandment of
Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts and done according to all that
he commanded you,
•
Jer 35:19 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever."
Notes: Rewarded
for doing what Judah did not do --- they listened. They were a rebuke to Judah
who did not “listen” to God. *The
rewards the righteous receive before those in the church today who do not
listen are a rebuke for their not listening.
FIRST STAGE (609-597 B.C.) Reign of Jehoiakim,
JEREMIAH’S SCROLL
CONTAINED ALL THE WORDS SPOKEN SINCE THE DAYS OF JOSIAH.
Jeremiah
36
• Jer 36:1
Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:
• Jer 36:2 “Take a scroll of a book and write on
it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah
even to this day.
• Jer 36:3
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I
purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from his evil way, that I
may forgive their iniquity and their sin.“
•
Jer 36:10 Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of
the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the
upper court at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the hearing of
all the people.
FIRST STAGE (609-597) JEHOAKIM CUT UP GOD’S WORD AND THREW IT
INTO THE FIRE – NO FEAR OF GOD’S WARNINGS!
•
Jer 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll,
and he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the
hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the
king.
•
Jer 36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house
in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him.
• Jer 36:23
And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the
king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast it into the fire that was on the
hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Can’t get away from God’s Word by destroying
it or avoiding it! Didn’t wait to hear all God had to say! Acts 20:27. *Church
members get ½ through a sermon and walk out!
•
Jer 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear
their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
(Cf. Heb.10:29-31, 12:25-29)
•
Jer 36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to
burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them. (Cf. Ja. 1:19-20)
• Jer 36:26
And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah the son of
Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and
Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.
Notes:
Pro 19:27 Cease listening to instruction, my son, And
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
FIRST STAGE (609-597) ANOTHER SCROLL FORETELLS JEHOIAKIM’S
DEATH
• Jer 36:28 “Take yet another scroll, and write
on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the
king of Judah has burned.
•
Jer 36:29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of
Judah, 'Thus says the LORD: "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why
have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy
this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?' "
•
Jer 36:30 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of
David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost
of the night.
• Jer 36:31
I will punish him, his family, and his servants for their iniquity; and
I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah
all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed." ‘“ ß Pr. 19:27.
•
Jer 36:32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe,
the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all the words
of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And besides,
there were added to them many similar words.
SECOND STAGE: JEHOIACHIN
– JERUSALEM CAPTURED 597 B.C.
ü SECOND STAGE: (597 B.C.) JEHOIACHIN
*JECONIAH OR CONIAH, Son of Jehoiakim.
JEHOIACHIN REIGNS IN
JUDAH
•
2Ki 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned
in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of
Elnathan of Jerusalem.
•
2Ki 24:9 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done.
•
2Ki 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
•
2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his
servants were besieging it.
• 2Ki 24:12
Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes,
and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in
the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
SECOND STAGE: JEHOIACHIN – None Remained Except the Poorest
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
BROUGHT HIM TO BABYLON WITH VALUABLE ARTICLES FROM THE TEMPLE AND MADE ZEDEKIAH
KING. *EZEKIEL AND 10,000 CAPTIVES
•
2Ki 24:14 Also he carried into captivity all
Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest
people of the land.
•
2Ki 24:15 And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon.
The king's mother, the king's wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land
he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
• 2Ki 24:16
All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one
thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon
brought captive to Babylon.
• 2Ki 24:17
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his
place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
•
Released from prison in 37th year of exile by Evil-merodach of Babylon (562-560
B.C.) and treated kindly until death, 2 Kings 25:27-30.
CONCLUSION:
These Penalties For Not Listening Speak Volumes!
Notes:
Pro 19:27 Cease listening to instruction, my son, And
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
1.
How many years for the nation? 1405-586 = 819 YEARS (from the wilderness to the
complete destruction).
2.
How many years for a lifetime?
Hearing and Doing the
Word
Jas
1:19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Jas
1:20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Jas
1:21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive
with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas
1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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