#9 Given What They Chose: Babylon
Posted: Monday, April 30th, 2018
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Daniel believed in God as Ruler, so he brought Heaven’s Rule into his earthly government and heathen captors. Do you rule and reign like Daniel did?
Devotional
So Babylon was allowed to absorb Israel into its worldly values and heathen culture. AND to its gods. That is always the intent of the ‘world system,’ to take you to the foot of its false god.
God’s people were given what they chose! They were not captured by Babylon but by their own abandonment of God.
The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his (Nebuchadnezzar’s) hand along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god…
Daniel 1:2 NASB
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#9 Given What They Chose: Babylon (Currently Viewing)
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