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Jeremiah 27:21-22 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; They shall be carried to Babylon and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD: then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.' "


The vessels remaning in the house of the Lord, that are carried to Babylon until He visits them are His very elect, His kings and priests, His saints, His man child, the seven thousand reserved men....those of the first resurrection! They are the firstfruits of God and the Lamb.


They/we are in Babylon (religious confusion) until the day He visits us, the day He calls us by name and brings us up to restore us!


That raises the question....How long are we to stay...or have we been...in captivity?

From the literal historical example, our Father shows us the spiritual event about our captivity....how long it will last and what to do during this time.



Jeremiah 25:11-13 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

• We're given a time....seventy years will we serve the king of Babylon before he/they are punished. There is a second witness to that.....

Jeremiah 29:1-2 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem.)

• This letter is addressed not to those first taken captive by the king of Babylon (Satan's deception) but is written to those God said were to go into captivity but would be called by Him...it is addressed to us, His saints waiting to be visited!

29:4-7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.


29:8-10 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in My name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD. 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.

• We are warned....there are false teachers, prophets, leaders in our midst! Know them and know "they prophesy falsely" and do so in His name...saying they are of Christ/Christian.

29:12-14 Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

• Concerning us, this is not a physical gathering of humans to be taken to Jerusalem as it was historically....but is a spiritual gathering...it must be understood spiritually. He awakens us, we see, we find and then...we are no longer captive to the king of Babylon. We are free.

29:16-19 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: Because they have not hearkened to My words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

• So we now know it is seventy years of captivity but from which point do we reckon that time. When did it begin for us? What clues has He given us?

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