I know some Bible but not everything of course . What exactly or what did Babylon stand for in Jerimiah 51 it defines punishment for Babylon. Can you please shed some light on this for me . Serious answers only please as I take the God's Holy Bible serious. Thank you.
2007-02-07 07:25:11 · 8 answers · asked by sunshine 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
(Don't do as the unbelievers do, don't follow along with the ways of the world, and with those that hate Jesus Christ. Depart from the ways of the world. The Lord will judge Babylon (the fallen world), because...)
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
(the world in general is corrupt with the workings and rebellion of Satanism, i.e., the entire world is under the sway of the wicked one, except those who know Jesus Christ.)
Babylon represents man's rebellion against Jesus Christ and all the evil that Satan brings to the world, and therefore it is used by Satan throughout the ages to form his rebellion and those who choose to align with him.
It falls and is destroyed forever in the end, sent eternally to hell.
2007-02-07 07:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Babylon was one of the societies of the "ancient" world. They were actually the most tolerant of all societies.
Back in those times, if a "country" was overtaken, and the customs of the losing country were done away with, and they were forced to assimilate the customs of the new ruling class.
Babylon would not do this. The would allow the losing people to still practice the religions, customs, and so on even while they were in control.
Babylon was supposedly punished for attacking, and taking over "the chosen people" of god.
If your really want to learn of Babylon, put the bible down, and read some history books from ancient western civilization. They will give you more accurate accounts of what happened during those times.
2007-02-07 07:32:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The Babylonian Empire. Even though he allowed Babylon to take his people into captivity for failing to keep his laws, God intended to punish Babylon for that very thing. This told what was in store for Babylon when she fell as a world power.
2007-02-07 07:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by Sal D 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well in Revelation, Babylon stood for Rome.
May have been the actual Babylon in Jeremiah. The Babylonian Exile happened there until the Persians conquered it and allowed the Jews to return.
2007-02-07 07:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Jewish history, Babylon looms as the big bad guy, bigger than Egypt, the land they were rescued from by God. The northern kingdom of Israel had been conquered and obliterated by Assyria, but Babylon conquered Assyria, and the southern kingdom of Judah. It was effectively the end of "God's chosen people" as they understood it, and they agonized over how it could have happened. God had made promises of permanence to Abraham and to David, yet here they were, facing extinction.
Not quite extinction. The people who were agonizing over this were the leaders and scholars who had been deported as a group to Babylon and lived in a ghetto by themselves. The Temple was destroyed, the land was out of reach, but the people still existed to contemplate their fate. They determined that it was their fault for not worshipping God exclusively, for not following Torah perfectly.
They began to take their scriptures seriously, definitively writing down the oral Law they had carried with them. They wrote down the prophecies that had first warned them of their infidelity, then told them not to resist the invasion for it was God's punishment. This did not make Babylon just, but merely a tool of God's will. Prophets like Jeremiah warned Babylon that it would also eventually fall. (Jeremiah wrote his condemnation from Egypt, which had ironically become a place of refuge during the captivity.)
Babylon was a huge, bewildering, alien, fascinating world to the captives, full of images and art, languages and customs they had never imagined. It was the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, of "Ur of the Chaldees" from whence their patriarch Abraham had come. It could not help but influence them. It was seductive, and it terrified the Jewish elders. They worked hard to instill a spirit of separateness among their own people, in dress, in diet, in habits, to keep Babylon from diluting their Jewishness.
It paid off. Babylon fell to Persia and Persia allowed them to go "home". Many chose not to return to a land they had never seen. Those that did had a hard time reestablishing themselves, their Temple and their kingdom. But they remembered Babylon so that even among Christians, Babylon stood for irresistible power and decadence.
2007-02-07 07:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Babylon" as used in the Bible is a code word for the Pagan Roman Empire, which persecuted the early Christian (Catholic) Church until the Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity.
2007-02-07 07:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I really wna tto know that too!
Thanks for asking that :)
2007-02-07 07:27:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
babylon, is a tiny lawn.
2007-02-07 07:30:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋