Just as he left through the clouds, so Jesus will return. Will he find us busy telling others about him?
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“Babylonian Captivity, also called Babylonian Exile, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 BCE. Historians agree that several deportations took place (each the result of uprisings in Palestine), that not all Jews were forced to …
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What of the people? On March 16, 597 B.C., the Babylonian captivity began. In October 539 B.C., Jerusalem, the greatest city of the ancient world fell to the Persians. The captivity formally ended in 538 B.C., 60 years later, when the Persian conqueror of …
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The priests of this time knew they should honor the LORD, but they…
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