08/09/2023
As we study the Scriptures we find reasons why God was silent for the 400 years prior to Jesus' First Coming. Yes, the Jews had rebuilt Jerusalem and the Temple. Those things had to be done for Jesus to come to do What was to be done in Offering Himself as our Savior.
We also find out why He called the leaders a Brood of Vipers and of their Father the Devil. The Religion that returned from Babylon was not the Religion of God. Judaism had drastically been changed and was influenced during the time in Babylon into a corruption of what was to be the religion of God's people. Jesus came to set things straight and Save His People. Yes, Save His Sheep.
Joh 10:26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Joh 10:28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone sn**ch them out of My hand.
Jesus clearly says to some of them that they did not believe because they were not His Sheep.
The one thing we need to do is understand that what was being practiced as Judaism in Israel in Jesus Day is not what should be practiced today by any who have understanding.
Babylon the Great is found in Revelation 17 and 18, and it describes the end time apostate religion that will deceive the world into worshiping it. It is a culmination of all Paganism since early Babylon, mixed in with Christianity.
The Babylon Influence of the Religion in Jesus' day is still an influence that we do not need today.
Ezekiel taught a hard to understand lesson in Ezekiel 16 about a Corrupt Jerusalem, the Jerusalem of the days after the Rebuilding after Babylon, which will be replaced by the New Jerusalem that is coming from Heaven.
Understand, the Old Jerusalem failed in its mission and purpose and has been superseded by New Jerusalem under the New Covenant.
Jimmie Robbins