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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“For I am God, and there is no other;  I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’” (Isaiah 46:9-10, ESV).[/quote]

I love quoting Isaiah!

"See, the day of the Lord is coming — a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger. . . . I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty. . . . Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated." (Isaiah 13:9–16 NIV)[/quote]

That is about the city and people of Babylon. In the Old Testament Babylon was a city; in the New Testament Babylon is a spirit.

Babylon was an empire that kept Jewish people in captivity for 70 years. They brutally they laid siege to Jerusalem for over a year, killing many people and destroying the Jewish temple, taking captive many thousands of Jews, and leaving Jerusalem in ruins. The Jewish people suffered greatly during this time. They were deported by force into captivity.

The number of people killed by the Babylonians probably were in the thousands; many of the buildings in Jerusalem and several cities of Judah were destroyed.

History tells us that the Babylonian Empire fell very suddenly and very unpleasantly to the Persians under Cyrus The Great in 539 BC. Later when Darius was King the Babylonians revolted unsuccessfully and as a consequence they experienced many of the same brutalities they had previously inflicted upon the Jews. The Babylonians themselves strangled many of their wives and children to keep them from starving to death during the siege or being taken as slaves by the Persians. After the city was defeated Herodotus says that the city gates were pulled down and 3000 of the leading citizens were impaled upon the walls.

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Thanks for explaining that.  It completely justifies rape of women and killing of infants.[/quote]

That was during the old testament.  All that changed in the New Testament When God decided to send his only son to earth to have him crucified as the only way he could figure out to forgive the many sins of the humans he had placed here.[/quote]

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