![]() There are a lot of prophecies that can be seen as having a former and a latter, and one such case in point is in Jesus’ Olivet Discourse, and where He elaborates very deeply in response to His disciple’s two questions. Even as powerful as Babylon was in Jeremiah’s day, that empire will pale in comparison to the end-time Babylon that will rise someday. And Judah was taken captive by Babylon not long after he said this, and Babylon carried away all the wealth of the nation (Jer 20:5), but when the Apostle John wrote about “Babylon,” he may have already been familiar with the ancient power and so they may be regarded as an arch-type of a dominate world power that will even exceed that of ancient Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword” (Jer 20:3-4). ![]() And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. When “Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things” (Jer 20:1), against Judah, “Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord” (Jer 20:2), but when Jeremiah was released the next day, he told Pashhur, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. Jeremiah the Prophet was a contemporary of the mighty empire of Babylon, the most dominant power the world had ever seen up to that point, and so it’s no surprise that Jeremiah wrote more about Babylon than any other author in the Bible (151 times), but he was writing specifically to warn the nation of Judah about God’s impending judgment over their idolatrous practices.
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