Dear Doves,

I am currently reading in the book of Jeremiah.  In chapter 29, we read about Jeremiah sending a letter to those in exile in Babylon.  He is telling them to disregard their own “prophets” who are spewing lies and instead listen to him.  He says that their time in Babylon will be 70 years.

Many years later, we read in the book of Daniel how Daniel was reading this prophecy from Jeremiah (as the time was upon them for their return).  He believed and he donned sackcloth and ashes and prayed for forgiveness of his people and their return.

Meanwhile what follows next in Jeremiah is God telling them to do exactly that.  In other words, Daniel was fulfilling prophecy as set forth by God through Jeremiah.

The time in exile was set at 70 years and then they were allowed to return.

70 is an important number in the Bible.  Seven is the number of completion.  70 is often given as the life of a man.  It has been 70 years since Israel was established and the people returned.

“After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.” (Jer 29:10)

“I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” (Jer 29:14)

Could this be yet another example of future fulfillment in the Rapture?  I don’t know, but my heart beat a little bit faster as I read these words.

We have been in captivity on this Earth and long to go home.  We will be taken from every nation and land where God has sent us.  Pray that you will be found worthy to escape all the things promised in for those left behind.   

And for those who did not go out into Babylon into captivity, Jeremiah had this to say….

“Concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity – thus says the Lord of hosts:  Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.  And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth – to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all nations where I have driven them, because they have not heeded My words, says the Lord, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed says the Lord.”  (Jer 29: 16-19)

Looking up!


Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. – Luke 21:36