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.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
( Jeremiah 29:10-12)
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. ( Isaiah 54:8).
These two passages show that during specific time frames God was leaving His influence from His people. The first verse is part of a lengthy section which reinforces the idea that the false prophets predicting a short time of exile and or good news about resisting Nebuchadnezzar and his army was to be ignored and that the 70 years in the land predicted was a done deal as far as God was concerned. We see this pattern as well with 7 years determined for the Tribulation which in this Isaiah passage and also Isaiah 9 which is in today's Bible verse describes in regard to the conditions during His rule and reign over the earth.
We only need to look at the passages in the Gospels regarding God the Father turning away for the brief moment Christ was on the cross to see the hour of darkness which enveloped the earth ( Luke 22:53) and see the parallel with the son of perdition at that time (Judas Iscariot) and the future one during the Tribulation once the Restrainer is removed ( 2 Thess. 2:6-7).
Jeremiah 3:14 states
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:.. This; despite the passage in verse 8 in the same chapter announcing God's divorce from His people due to spiritual adultery; as it were.
God therefore has purposes in His hidden counsel ( Deut. 29:29); but a greater purpose
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
( Jeremiah 29:10-12)
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. ( Isaiah 54:8).
These two passages show that during specific time frames God was leaving His influence from His people. The first verse is part of a lengthy section which reinforces the idea that the false prophets predicting a short time of exile and or good news about resisting Nebuchadnezzar and his army was to be ignored and that the 70 years in the land predicted was a done deal as far as God was concerned. We see this pattern as well with 7 years determined for the Tribulation which in this Isaiah passage and also Isaiah 9 which is in today's Bible verse describes in regard to the conditions during His rule and reign over the earth.
We only need to look at the passages in the Gospels regarding God the Father turning away for the brief moment Christ was on the cross to see the hour of darkness which enveloped the earth ( Luke 22:53) and see the parallel with the son of perdition at that time (Judas Iscariot) and the future one during the Tribulation once the Restrainer is removed ( 2 Thess. 2:6-7).
Jeremiah 3:14 states
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:.. This; despite the passage in verse 8 in the same chapter announcing God's divorce from His people due to spiritual adultery; as it were.
God therefore has purposes in His hidden counsel ( Deut. 29:29); but a greater purpose
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