Prelude to World War 3
Deu 11:18-19 "Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
All Jewish youths were supposed to be educated and knowledgeable in the laws of God for every parent is mandated to teach their children. In fact, Jewish children are supposed to memorise and to understand Moses' laws.
Thank God that with King Josiah having purged the land of idolatry and the Levites and Priesthood empowered with the books of the Law, the people especially the Jewish youth were taught His words.
Filled with faith, they obeyed God's words and surrendered to their enemies trusting Him to protect them under captivity.
Jer 27:17 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?
All Jewish youths were supposed to be educated and knowledgeable in the laws of God for every parent is mandated to teach their children. In fact, Jewish children are supposed to memorise and to understand Moses' laws.
Thank God that with King Josiah having purged the land of idolatry and the Levites and Priesthood empowered with the books of the Law, the people especially the Jewish youth were taught His words.
Filled with faith, they obeyed God's words and surrendered to their enemies trusting Him to protect them under captivity.
Jer 27:17 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?
Powerful God's Words
Dan 9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Knowing that it was God's will for them to serve the Babylonians for seventy years, these Jews had decided to live in peace and serve the Babylonians faithfully as though they were serving God.
God had shown to Daniel and the Israelites the vision that
1. the Babylonians would conquer Jerusalem and burn it to the ground,
2. the Israelites would be taken as captives to Babylon for seventy years,
3. not to listen to false prophets.
and also their missions that
1. they must serve the Babylonians,
2. settle down and bear children,
3. live in peace with all.
With these visions and missions, the Israelites were able to live peacefully in exile while joyfully and faithfully serving the Babylonians.
Whereas the captives from the other nations will be living in sorrows, pains and hatred for the death of their beloved family members and friends, the destruction of their cities and countries and the present sufferings. They would be planning revenge and rebellion.
With the guidance of the word of God (Law), they were faithful to their masters and lived in peace in the land, so they were treated more favourably than those from other nations. The kings trusted them and promoted them to become their ministers and assistants.
Jer 29:6-7 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters -- that you may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace."
Ezra 6:3, 5 In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: “Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits ... Also let the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God”
King Cyrus sent the Jews back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple of God along with all the golden utensils.
Note - in the late days, Satan will send the Antichrist to sign a 7 years Peace Treaty with the Jews to allow all Israelites (descendants of Jacob or Israel) to immigrate back to Israel and Jerusalem to help rebuild the Temple of Antichrist (God) to deceive Christians to worship the Antichrist as God.
Dan 9:27a Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;