Seventy Years



May 14 2018 -  Seventy Years

Amos 1:6 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
  • Edom = Russia
  • Gaza = Gaza Strip
  • The whole captivity = a wholesale captivity.
  • Captivity = captives or a whole body of captives.
  • Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
  • Jeremiah 47:1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
    2 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
  • 2 Chron 21:16 Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
    17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
    18 And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
  • 2 Chron 28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
    18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
    19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
  • Wall = the whole city
8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
  • Sceptre = the leaders = their religion
  • Ashdod = Afterward called by the Greeks, "Azotus".
  • Now Esclud, in the plain of Philistia, thirty-five miles north of Gaza.
  • Ashkelon = Now "Askalan, on the coast of Philistia.
  • 1 Macc 1:10 And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
  • Ekron = Afterward, Greek, "Accaron"
  • Now "Akir, six miles west of Gezer.
  • For "Gezer " = Gezer was formerly under the suzerainty of Egypt.
  • Correspondence of the time of Amen-hotep III and IV, about 1450 B.C, has been found at Tel-el-Amarnah explorations, which mentions Yapakhi as "king" of Gezer.
  • Letters from Abdkhiba, king of Jerusalem, complain of the Gezerites.
  • First mentioned in Josh 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
  • Conquest only partial = Josh 16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
  • Judges 1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
  • Allotted to Levites = Josh 21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
  • In excavation by Palestine Exploration Fund a contract was found, dated 649 B.C. (in Assyrian).
  • Gezer then still under an Egyptian Governor.
  • Another contract, dated 647 B. C, was found, showing an Assyrian occupation in the time of Manasseh.
  • This may explain the "captains" of 2 Chron 38:11.
  • Saith = hath said.
  • For "thus hath said Adonai God"
9 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
  • Tyrus = stones = Satan = rock
  • Christ is are Rock (Deut 32)
 
 
Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
 
  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
 
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25

 
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