Let's give the Bible the benefit of the doubt and there is an intentional trend in the OT prophecy to cover 2 Babylon's while masking the fact that the last Babylon is Satan's kingdom on earth during the last 3 1/2 years before Babylon was destroyed. The only way to tell them apart id Neb's Babylon was ended and it will never be reborn. Neb died of old age and the verse below shows he was right with God before he died. Daniel was also in Neb's Babylon so it was not 'void of God' until long after Neb's death.
Da:4:37:
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven,
all whose works are truth,
and his ways judgment:
and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
What will never be 'reborn' of that Babylon is that God will actively be helping or guiding any Gentile Nation until Christ is acting as their single king. Neb was a king of kings who was given dominion over fowl and beast and that authority did not get passed on but that is a trait of the King of Kings that is Christ and He also has authority over fowl and beast.
The verse below is mentioning Satan's Babylon so all terms in OT prophecy that uses the term 'day of the lord' is also referencing only Satan's Babylon and that trait is quite consistent in the OT. The utterly destroyed Babylon is not Neb's as Neb is even called a servant of God.
Jer:46:8-12:
Egypt riseth up like a flood,
and his waters are moved like the rivers;
and he saith,
I will go up,
and will cover the earth;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Come up,
ye horses;
and rage,
ye chariots;
and let the mighty men come forth;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans,
that handle the shield;
and the Lydians,
that handle and bend the bow.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts,
a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Go up into Gilead,
and take balm,
O virgin,
the daughter of Egypt:
in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
for thou shalt not be cured.
The nations have heard of thy shame,
and thy cry hath filled the land:
for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
and they are fallen both together.
The Egypt in the verses are the ones that will be at armageddon.
Jer:25:15-19:
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand,
and cause all the nations,
to whom I send thee,
to drink it.
And they shall drink,
and be moved,
and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand,
and made all the nations to drink,
unto whom the LORD had sent me:
To wit,
Jerusalem,
and the cities of Judah,
and the kings thereof,
and the princes thereof,
to make them a desolation,
an astonishment,
an hissing,
and a curse;
as it is this day;
Jer:25:26:
And all the kings of the north,
far and near,
one with another,
and all the kingdoms of the world,
which are upon the face of the earth:
and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and his servants,
and his princes,
and all his people;
Jer:25:31-33:
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth;
for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations,
he will plead with all flesh;
he will give them that are wicked to the sword,
saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation,
and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered,
nor buried;
they shall be dung upon the ground.
Da:11:42-43:
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries:
and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver,
and over all the precious things of Egypt:
and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
The language might be 'fanciful but Satan's Babylon is just as real as Neb's was. This time Babylon get control of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days.
The whole OT does a wonderful job of giving all the fine details but it is a bit lacking on a timeline and that is for a reason such as this post covers. That applies to all of Isa:65, for those that are interested in longer passages than a verse singled out.
Da:4:37:
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven,
all whose works are truth,
and his ways judgment:
and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
What will never be 'reborn' of that Babylon is that God will actively be helping or guiding any Gentile Nation until Christ is acting as their single king. Neb was a king of kings who was given dominion over fowl and beast and that authority did not get passed on but that is a trait of the King of Kings that is Christ and He also has authority over fowl and beast.
The verse below is mentioning Satan's Babylon so all terms in OT prophecy that uses the term 'day of the lord' is also referencing only Satan's Babylon and that trait is quite consistent in the OT. The utterly destroyed Babylon is not Neb's as Neb is even called a servant of God.
Jer:46:8-12:
Egypt riseth up like a flood,
and his waters are moved like the rivers;
and he saith,
I will go up,
and will cover the earth;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Come up,
ye horses;
and rage,
ye chariots;
and let the mighty men come forth;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans,
that handle the shield;
and the Lydians,
that handle and bend the bow.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts,
a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Go up into Gilead,
and take balm,
O virgin,
the daughter of Egypt:
in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
for thou shalt not be cured.
The nations have heard of thy shame,
and thy cry hath filled the land:
for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
and they are fallen both together.
The Egypt in the verses are the ones that will be at armageddon.
Jer:25:15-19:
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand,
and cause all the nations,
to whom I send thee,
to drink it.
And they shall drink,
and be moved,
and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand,
and made all the nations to drink,
unto whom the LORD had sent me:
To wit,
Jerusalem,
and the cities of Judah,
and the kings thereof,
and the princes thereof,
to make them a desolation,
an astonishment,
an hissing,
and a curse;
as it is this day;
Jer:25:26:
And all the kings of the north,
far and near,
one with another,
and all the kingdoms of the world,
which are upon the face of the earth:
and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and his servants,
and his princes,
and all his people;
Jer:25:31-33:
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth;
for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations,
he will plead with all flesh;
he will give them that are wicked to the sword,
saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation,
and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered,
nor buried;
they shall be dung upon the ground.
Da:11:42-43:
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries:
and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver,
and over all the precious things of Egypt:
and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
The language might be 'fanciful but Satan's Babylon is just as real as Neb's was. This time Babylon get control of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days.
The whole OT does a wonderful job of giving all the fine details but it is a bit lacking on a timeline and that is for a reason such as this post covers. That applies to all of Isa:65, for those that are interested in longer passages than a verse singled out.
That was short.damngrumpy;1958585[B said:
I didn't realize that '16 tons of number 9 coal' was a Hebrew work song. I though they were more into white collar 'work'.
