Is Iraq today the Babylon of Jeremiah 50-51?: March 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Explosions across Iraq kill dozens

Voice of America March 20, 2012 Edward Yernanian | Cairo

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Iraqis inspect the site of a car bomb in the central town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, March 20, 2012

A Series of bombs struck close to a dozen Iraqi cities as people went to work Tuesday morning. The worst bombings, which came despite heavier than normal security ahead of next week's planned Arab summit in Baghdad, took place in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk and the southern Shi'ite holy city of Karbala.

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Is modern day Iraq found in bible prophecy? Was the war in Iraq predicted by ancient biblical prophets? Is Iraq the Babylon of Jeremiah 50-51? That is what this blog seeks to answer.

Jeremiah chapters 50-51 in the Hebrew bible recount a horrific prophecy against Babylon. Not against the ancient city, which no longer exists, but against "the land of the Chaldeans" (Jer 50:9); it is against the "cities, and... all (the) environs" (Jer 50:32) of the "inhabitants of Chaldea" (Jer 51:24) -- what today would be the current nation called "Iraq." And the judgment culminates in utter desolation:

"Her cities have become an object of horror, a parched land and a desert, a land in which no man lives..." (Jer 51:43). "Babylon (will be) cut off (to) perpetual desolation" (Jer 51:62).

There are nine sequential judgments predicted by Jeremiah:

1) The land is invaded by "a great nation and many kings from the remote parts of the earth" (Jer 50:41).

2) It will be "seized" with "great destruction" (Jer 50:22,24).

3) The arrogant one will be punished (Jer 50:31).

4) The cities will burn (Jer 50:32).

5) The nations will be exhausted because of the fire (Jer 51:58) and so the nations will say, "We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; forsake her, and let us each return to his own country" (Jer 51:9).

6) "The LORD will arouse the spirit of the kings of the Medes (Kurds), because his purpose is against Babylon to destroy it" (Jer 51:11), "Devote all her army to destruction, and they will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans" (Jer 51:3-4).

7) "A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!" (Jer 50:37).

8) "The sea (will) come up over Babylon; she (will be) engulfed with its tumultuous waves" (Jer 51:42).

9) "I shall dry up her sea and make her fountain dry" (Jer 51:36).

"And Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants" (Jer 51:37).

This blog, begun in October of 2006, continues to explore through headline news accounts in real time whether the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, 7-year multi-national forces occupation, execution of Saddam Hussein and current U.S. reconstruction of Iraq has begun to fulfill the explicit decrees of destruction against the land of Babylon, and what we can expect to happen in further sequence if these current events in Iraq prove to be the literal fulfillment of Jeremiah's 2,600 year-old prophecy.

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