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5 days ago · Revelation 18 concerns the judgement of ‘Babylon’, identified in the previous chapter as Israel (‘Mystery Babylon’), with the usual clue occurring in verse 24 – Almost every verse in Revelation 18 is reminiscent of God’s judgement on past nations, applied to Modern Israel.
2 days ago · This scripture, telling us to come out of Babylon, has a dual message. It is a command and a promise. All we have to do is figure out how to come out of her. She sits on “many waters.” (Revelation 17:1). The waters are symbolic of people, so she must be worldwide. She is a city that rules the governments of the earth (Revelation 17:18).
2 days ago · Judaism - Babylonian Exile, Diaspora, Torah: The survival of the religious community of exiles in Babylonia demonstrates how rooted and widespread the religion of YHWH was. Abandonment of the national religion as an outcome of the disaster is recorded of only a minority.
4 days ago · But we know from the biblical record that that is exactly what transpired with regard to the Jewish captives in Babylon (2 Chr 36:22–23; Ezr 1–6; Neh 1–6). Moreover, the famous Cyrus Cylinder, discovered in Babylon in 1879, documents Cyrus’s victory over Babylon and his policy of liberation and religious tolerance:
5 days ago · The contrast between Babylon and Jerusalem runs throughout the course of history, and Dyer succeeds in convincing the reader that this contrast is a key to understanding the future. Dyer is balanced and restrained in his interpretation of the prophetic significance of current events.
5 days ago · Lebanon - Assyrian, Babylonian, Phoenicia: Between the withdrawal of Egyptian rule in Syria and the western advance of Assyria, there was an interval during which the city-states of Phoenicia owned no suzerain. Byblos had kings of its own, among them Ahiram, Abi-baal, and Ethbaal (Ittobaʿal) in the 10th century, as excavations have shown.
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3 days ago · In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great, king and founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, took Babylon. As Cyrus began consolidating territories across the Near East, the Phoenicians apparently made the pragmatic calculation of "[yielding] themselves to the Persians".
