Tag: Babylon

Connecting the dots – Babylon (Part 5)

Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.(Daniel 9:24)

Babylon and the Number 70

The Three “Seventy’s” in Jeremiah

120-Babylon from Genesis to Revelation

Jeremiah 25:11-12, 29:10
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

The Two “Seventy’s” in Daniel

Daniel 9:2  (vs 1-19)
In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:24  (vs 20-27)
Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

The 70th Week

Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

62 Generations
Matthew 1:17  42 Generations
Adam-Noah  10 Generations
Noah to Abraham  10 generations

Matthew 24:15
Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand)

Daniel 9:27
Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.” 

Connecting the dots – Babylon (Part 4)

The number 120 speaks of the end of all flesh.

Babylon and the Number 120

Unity in the Upper Room

Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Unity in Solomon’s Temple

2 Chronicles 5:12
And the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets—

Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

120 Jubilees from Adam to the time of the 2nd Coming.

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom;

120 mention of “Kings” in the New Testament.

Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.