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Before I get into the actual meat of this current series, let me say beforehand, that I recognize that some of my Christian brethren are going to find it challenging, and perhaps even very difficult, to accept some of the things I'll be sharing here. Trust me; I understand this, because there have been certain beliefs which I have embraced for many years of my life before the Lord has helped me to see the Scriptural light, no longer clouded by the many false doctrines of men which are now so prevalent at this present time.

There were in fact some doctrines which I was introduced to in my Christian youth over fifty years ago, which I held on to for literally decades, because I was absolutely convinced that they were right. Not only was I convinced that they were right, but I shared those same doctrines with others as well. However, it is not that those ideas were right, rather it was how certain Bible verses which had been shared with me seemed to make said doctrines right. There is a difference which I hope you understand. However, let me also inform you that in order for me to embrace those misguided doctrines, I had to ignore certain Bible verses which contradicted my beliefs, and which said something to the contrary.

Having said the above, I imagine -- and in fact know -- that there will be some of you who read this series, who will be in a very similar position. You have been so indoctrinated with certain beliefs, utterly convinced that they are right, that you will resist what I am about to share with you. My prayer is that before proceeding to read the rest of this series, you will stop and pray for a moment, and ask the Lord to give you an open mind and heart, and that you will seriously consider what I have to share here, regardless of how difficult it may be for you to do. If after reading this series you have not been persuaded to believe otherwise, then so be it. As the Apostle Paul writes:

". . . Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."


So let us begin now. In other articles, such as "Welcome to Greater Israel, USA!", "Greater Israel Doctrine: Exposed!", "Modern Deception: Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?" and "The International Jew and the Protocols of Zion", I expose some of the lies, deceptions, machinations and evil plans of the Zionist Jews and the International Bankers, many of whom are in fact Jewish. In this current series, I will be exposing yet another deception and lie which has been perpetrated and widely promoted by the Zionists, with help from quite a few misguided American Christians who have been deceived by the Zionist Jews.

As I point out in my seven-part series entitled "The Fruits of Disobedience", the Israelites -- including the modern-day Jews -- have a very long history of constant rebellion and backsliding from the Lord. Each time they have done so, God has found it necessary to seriously deal with them through a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, persecution, invasion, enslavement in foreign countries, famine, drought, crop failure, disease, etc. In other words, all the things which Moses and Joshua repeatedly warned them would happen, if they were to backslide from the Lord, did in fact happen. Allow me to share a few Scriptural examples of these warnings with you:

"Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known."


"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me."


To fully understand the precise nature of the chastisements which the Lord pronounced against the Israelites, please go to the aforementioned two chapters and read the surrounding verses. It is not a pretty picture. The point is, they knew exactly what would befall them if they turned away from the Lord and worshipped other gods. Being as this topic is amply discussed in the aforementioned series, as well as in other Bill's Bible Basics articles, I will refrain from spending a lot of time delving into what I have already previously discussed.

For this particular series, I would like to concentrate our attention on a set of four verses which are found in the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah. This group of verses concerns God's promise to allow the Jews to return to Israel, following a period of exile and enslavement in Babylon. Consider what the Prophet Jeremiah tells us:

"The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and Judah."


As I briefly explained earlier, the reason why this occurred is because as they had done on previous occasions, the Jews were totally backslidden from the Lord. They were worshipping the "queen of heaven", which was most likely the Babylonian's goddess, Ishtar. They were hewing down trees in the forest and making false gods plated with gold and silver. They had groves in the hills surrounding Jerusalem where they likewise worshipped these false gods and goddesses. Worst of all, they were sacrificing their very own children in the fires of the false god Molech, just outside the walls of Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom.

Is it any wonder then that after forty years of warning by the Prophet Jeremiah, the Lord finally said enough is enough, and He sent Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar and his armies to lay siege to Jerusalem three times? It was during the third siege that both Jerusalem and Solomon's temple were destroyed, and the Jews were carried off by the many thousands to Babylon to begin their period of exile and punishment. Exactly how long was this Divine Chastisement to be? Jeremiah and other writers inform us that it was to endure for a period of seventy years, as we can easily determine by the following group of verses:

"Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, TO FULFIL THREESCORE AND TEN YEARS."


"And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon SEVENTY YEARS. And it shall come to pass, when SEVENTY YEARS are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations."


"For thus saith the LORD, That after SEVENTY YEARS be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place."


"In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish SEVENTY YEARS in the desolations of Jerusalem."


"Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those SEVENTY YEARS, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?"


Now, there is something extremely important that I want you to notice regarding all of the previous verses, including Jeremiah 30:1-4. In those verses, we are told three different things:

1. What the punishment will be.
2. How long the punishment will last.
3. When the Jews will be allowed to return to Israel.

Please notice in particular that in Jeremiah 29:10, the Lord informs the Jews via Jeremiah that once they have fulfilled their seventy years of captivity in Babylon, He will allow them to return to the land of Israel. Why is this important? Because it is in the very next chapter that this very same promise of return is repeated. Let me share those verses with you again to refresh your memory:

"The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and Judah."


Jeremiah was not the only Prophet who prophesied regarding the return of the Jews from Babylon, and from all of the other places where they had been driven and carried off as slaves. The Prophet Ezekiel was a contemporary of Jeremiah. In fact, as we discover by reading the very first verse in the Book of Ezekiel, he prophesied while being a captive in Babylon, as we read here:

"Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I WAS AMONG THE CAPTIVES by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."


Similar to Jeremiah, and all of the other Jews who were held captive in Babylon -- which also included the Prophet Daniel -- Ezekiel longed for the day when he would be able to return to the land of Israel. So it should come as no surprise to us that God would likewise use Ezekiel to give a message of hope and eventual redemption to the captives in Babylon. Ezekiel's mission was not just to help his brethren to understand why they found themselves in such a predicament, and why God had allowed their enemies to invade and capture Jerusalem. It was also to give them comfort and hope, by letting them know that their captivity would not last forever, and that someday they would be allowed to return to Israel as free people again. Consider the following verses:

"For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment."


As you can plainly see, Ezekiel was preaching the very same message as the Prophet Jeremiah, because as I already said, they were contemporaries during the Babylonian captivity. It makes absolutely no sense that Ezekiel, who was a captive in Babylon, would be prophesying about a return to Israel 2,500 years in the far future, as some Zionist Jews and pro-Israel Christians like to insist. What kind of comfort could such a message possibly give those captives? They would obviously be long gone and dead. On the other hand, if, just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel was really speaking of a more immediate return -- in other words, within decades, and not in centuries -- such a message would certainly offer a lot more hope to the Jewish captives in Babylon.

Now, perhaps some of the older Jewish captives might not live long enough to see the return to Israel, but some of their children most definitely would. Returning to Jeremiah chapter 30 for a moment, in verses seven and eight, the Lord says the following through the Prophet Jeremiah:

"Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacobs trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:"


Please notice carefully that the verses say "I will break his yoke from off thy neck". What is "his yoke" referring to? The simple, clear answer is found in verses such as the following:

"And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand . . . But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live."


"For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also."


There should be no doubt in your mind then, that the verses in Jeremiah chapters 29 and 30, as well as in Ezekiel 34, are speaking about the very same return, which occurred exactly seventy years after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's temple, tore down the walls surrounding Jerusalem, and carried the Jews by the dozens of thousands off to serve as slaves in Babylon.

Let me also point out that Zechariah 7:5 -- which I shared with you a moment ago -- is written in the PAST TENSE. Stated another way, the Prophet Zechariah is describing the seventy years of captivity in Babylon as a past event which has been fulfilled. In short, the captivity occurred, and the return likewise occurred. When? Over 2,500 years ago! Period. Those Scriptures have absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with any kind of modern-day return of the Jews to the state of Israel. This doctrine is nothing but a very crafty lie and deception which the Zionist Jews have foisted upon not only the secular world -- which is for the most part very Biblically ignorant -- but also upon many gullible Christians as well.

This prophecy regarding a return to Israel following seventy years of captivity in Babylon was in fact fulfilled to the letter when Persian king, Koresh -- a.k.a. Cyrus the Great -- rose to power following the abasement of the Babylonian Empire. As amazing as it may seem, in the Scriptures, God even said that He had specifically anointed Cyrus for this very special task, even though Cyrus did not know the God of Israel.

Furthermore, the Lord also said that He was going to do this through Cyrus, as a fulfillment of the words which He had spoken through the mouth of the Prophet Jeremiah. So again we see a direct connection between the promise of return in the Book of Jeremiah, and the fulfillment of that return seventy years later through Cyrus. There is simply no other way to understand all of these verses. Now if you doubt that this is so, please carefully consider the following group of verses:

"Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me."


"Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up."


"Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered. Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem."


"But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place. Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished. Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God."


"And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king."


"And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus."


"So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian."


What we also know from the Scriptures is that during his time in Babylon, the Prophet Daniel himself discovered the writings of the Prophet Jeremiah, and thus learned exactly how long their punishment would be, before they would be allowed to return to Israel. So this is again yet another way in which we know EXACTLY when the prophesied return to Israel would occur. Consider the following verses:

"In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish SEVENTY YEARS in the desolations of Jerusalem . . . Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."


If you are interested in learning a lot more of the details regarding the Jews' return to Israel, the rebuilding of the wall and temple, etc., please read such Books as Ezra and Nehemiah. Trust me when I say that you'll learn quite a bit, including the struggles that they faced once they returned to Israel, the sacrifices they were willing to make in order to return to the Lord's favor, as well as the call to national repentance.

Sadly, despite how very clear all of the previous verses are regarding the promise of return to Israel, and the timing of that same return, as I briefly mentioned earlier, similar to a number of other Scriptures, the true meaning of Jeremiah 30:1-4 has been totally twisted, distorted and given a false, modern interpretation by the Zionist Jews, which has likewise then been erroneously promoted by many misguided Christians who have been foolishly deceived by the Zionist Jews' agenda. As I have explained before, the reasons why this happens to so many of our Christian brethren are various.

One primary reason why it happens is because many Christians do not possess a deep knowledge of the Scriptures, much less a clear understanding of Bible prophecy and the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. This fact alone makes them very vulnerable to deception and manipulation by the Zionist Jews. Another reason why this occurs is because in recent decades -- since the 1970s, actually -- many of these Christians have become totally infatuated with, and mesmerized by, all things Jewish and related to Israel. They bend over backwards to prove how pro-Israel they are.

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