SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/03/2025 9:35 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-7
“The Inspired and Inerrant Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:16-17
Message of the verses: “16 All Scripture is
inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for
training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped
for every good work.”
I
continue quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary relating to these two
wonderful verses. As mentioned this will
take me a fairly long time to get through this.
“For
many years some scholars charged the book of 2 Kings with error for reporting
that ‘the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred
talents of silver and thirty talents of
gold’ (2 Kings 18:14). They based that judgment on an ancient Assyrian record
of the transaction that gives the amount of silver as being 800 talents. But later archaeological findings have
revealed that, although the Assyrians standard for a talent of gold was the
same as that used by Judah and Syria, the standard for silver was considerably
different. When adjusted for that
difference, the biblical figure was found to be accurate.
“Not
only is the Bible’s reporting of
history unerring but so is the prediction
of History. Ezekiel foretold in
amazing detail the destruction of Tyre, first by Nebuchadnezzar, later by
Alexander the Great (Ezek. 16:1-21; 29:18); and then of Egypt (30:10-26). In similar detail, Nahum predicted the
devastation of Nineveh (Nahum 1:15-3:19; cf. Zeph. 2:13, 15), which was
conquered and destroyed in 612 B. C. by the Medes and Chaldeans. Both Isaiah (Isa. 13-14; 21:1-10) and
Jeremiah (Jer. 50-51) accurately predicted the ultimate destruction of Babylon,
which would ‘never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation’
(Isa. 13:20). That great city was
conquered first by Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire and the man whom God
prophesied would free His people Israel from Babylonian captivity (Isa. 44:28; 45:1-14). That noble king not only allowed the Jews to
return to Jerusalem, but with an amazing awareness of his divine mission under
the true God, charged them to rebuild the temple there and returned to them all
the sacred and valuable temple objects pilfered by Nebuchadnezzar (Ezra
1). Other Assyrian and Persian kings
successively conquered the plundered Babylon.
Its final conquest was by Alexander the Great, who intended to rebuild the
city but was prevented by his untimely death at the age of thirty-two. When the capital of the Syrian empire was
moved from Babylon to Seleucia by Seleucus Nicator in 312 B. C., Babylon
gradually died. By the time of Christ,
the city was inhabited primarily by a small group of scholars, and bricks from
its rubble were carried away to build houses and walls in surrounding
towns. Today the almost barren site of
ancient Babylon, located in the southern part of modern Iraq, is valued only
for its archaeological significance.”
The
following is a quote from my phone (AI Overview). The question I asked my phone is whether or
not Saddam Hussein rebuilt the old city of Babylon. Here is the answer “Yes, Saddam Hussein did
order the rebuilding of the old city of Babylon. He initiated the project in 1993 according to
Atlas Obscura and had the work complete in 1987, according to Atlas Obscura. Hussein’s reconstruction efforts included
building new structures, including a palace for himself, and restoring some
areas. He saw himself as a modern
Nebuchadnezzar and aimed to project an image of Iraqi power and legacy by
linking his rule with the ancient city.”
I
remember reading that when the war with Iraq was going on that nothing was ever
done to destroy the city of Babylon as it was off limits to the fighting. Some think that perhaps the coming Antichrist
will reign from this city, as that is possible, but I don’t know if I believe
that.
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life Today: Those who doubt the accuracy of the Bible in
any way shape or form are doubting the God who wrote the Bible, and inside the
Bible is the plan for salvation, a plan that has brought many millions of
people to become born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I pray and trust that the Holy Spirit of God
will be pleased to use the Spiritual Diaries that I write to bring many people
to faith in Jesus Christ, for that is certainly one of the reasons that I write
them. The Holy Spirit of God has taken
some of the Spiritual Diaries around the world, and so when Jesus said “"Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I
commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’” This certainly is one of the reasons I write
my Spiritual Diaries and pray each day that the Lord will use them to save many
people.
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