THE FALL OF BABYLON: GOLD GIVES WAY TO SILVER
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Fall Of Babylon
a) Jeremiah had predicted seventy years of captivity in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11-12, Jeremiah 29:10). Both Jeremiah and Isaiah foretold the destruction of Babylon to end the captivity (Jeremiah 50 and 51, Isaiah 13 and 14). After Nebuchadnezzar's reign in Babylon, five kings reigned in succession over about 23 years. The last was Belshazzar son of Nebuchadnezzar.
2. Gold Gives Way To Silver
a) The city of Babylon (or Babel) was built by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (Genesis 10:8-10).
b) Founded more than 2000 years before Christ, the city was the wonder of the ancient world for more than a millennium. It was here that an attempt was made to build a tower to reach into heaven (Genesis 11:4).
c) The head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's dream image (Daniel 2), Babylon was a royal city, located on the lower Euphrates River. Its fortified brick wall was 100 km long, extending more than 10 m underground, over 100 m high, and nearly 30 m thick.
d) Magnificent buildings adorned Babylon, among them Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the Temple of Marduk, and the hanging gardens which Nebuchadnezzar made to please Amytis his wife. The city of Babylon had an amazing system of reservoirs and canals.
e) Babylon was an idolatrous city. Archaeologists have uncovered many temples and altars to false gods. Some believe that Nimrod was one of the founders of paganism, so the city may have been a seat of false religion since long, long ago.
f) It was mainly because of this idolatry that God decreed its destruction. It fell to the Medes and the Persians, the breast of silver in the image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Daniel 2).
g) When Cyrus king of Persia conquered Babylon, Darius the Mede was given rule over it (Daniel 9).
h) Cyrus (as Isaiah had predicted 200 years earlier) decreed that the exiles should be allowed to leave Babylon and return to Jerusalem to rebuild it. Ezra and Nehemiah record this matter, (they cover the reigns of five Medo-Persian kings namely Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes).
i) As for Babylon, it remained rebellious and history tells us that, not many years later, the ancient and glorious city was besieged, attacked, and completely destroyed.
The End ...
1. The Fall Of Babylona) Jeremiah had predicted seventy years of captivity in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11-12, Jeremiah 29:10). Both Jeremiah and Isaiah foretold the destruction of Babylon to end the captivity (Jeremiah 50 and 51, Isaiah 13 and 14). After Nebuchadnezzar's reign in Babylon, five kings reigned in succession over about 23 years. The last was Belshazzar son of Nebuchadnezzar.
2. Gold Gives Way To Silver
a) The city of Babylon (or Babel) was built by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (Genesis 10:8-10).
b) Founded more than 2000 years before Christ, the city was the wonder of the ancient world for more than a millennium. It was here that an attempt was made to build a tower to reach into heaven (Genesis 11:4).
c) The head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's dream image (Daniel 2), Babylon was a royal city, located on the lower Euphrates River. Its fortified brick wall was 100 km long, extending more than 10 m underground, over 100 m high, and nearly 30 m thick.
d) Magnificent buildings adorned Babylon, among them Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the Temple of Marduk, and the hanging gardens which Nebuchadnezzar made to please Amytis his wife. The city of Babylon had an amazing system of reservoirs and canals.
e) Babylon was an idolatrous city. Archaeologists have uncovered many temples and altars to false gods. Some believe that Nimrod was one of the founders of paganism, so the city may have been a seat of false religion since long, long ago.
f) It was mainly because of this idolatry that God decreed its destruction. It fell to the Medes and the Persians, the breast of silver in the image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Daniel 2).
g) When Cyrus king of Persia conquered Babylon, Darius the Mede was given rule over it (Daniel 9).
h) Cyrus (as Isaiah had predicted 200 years earlier) decreed that the exiles should be allowed to leave Babylon and return to Jerusalem to rebuild it. Ezra and Nehemiah record this matter, (they cover the reigns of five Medo-Persian kings namely Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes).
i) As for Babylon, it remained rebellious and history tells us that, not many years later, the ancient and glorious city was besieged, attacked, and completely destroyed.
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