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A Timeline of Daniel's 72 Year Captivity
 
By Servant of God

 
We know that the book of Daniel is an overlay of the book of Revelation.
 
Here is the timeline of Daniel's 72 year captivity:
 
                  BC 497   Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem
                  BC 496  Daniel is taken to Babylon
                  BC 495  Daniel begins, Nebuchadnezzar`s dream of the great Image.
                  BC 454  Daniel`s  Seventy weeks,  
                  BC 429  Daniel`s vision of the four beasts. first year of Belshazzar
                  BC 426 Daniel`s vision at the Ulai,   3rd year of Belshazzar, and “Daniel understood the books” the 70 years of the desolations, and receives the revelation of the “seventy sevens” Dan 9, 1 –27.
                  BC 424 Daniel`s last date,(Chapter 10 verse 1) third year of Cyrus the Hiddekel vision.
 
So Daniel was taken to Babylon in BC 496 and Daniel`s last date was BC 424
 
                 496 – 424 = 72 years, So Daniel was in captivity 72 years.
 
Now lets go to the book of JEREMIAH   chapter 24 is in the year BC 488,  we have 2 baskets of figs, One basket had very good figs, and the other basket had very naughty figs.

In verse 6 we see that the Lord said that He would bring them back to this land (Jerusalem) and would plant them and not pluck them up.

We know that happened in the year 1948 when Israel became a state again. ( 1948 + 72 = 2020) The generation of the fig tree? 
 
Now lets go to chapter 25, in the year BC 496, 8 years before Chapter 24,

The timeline of Chapter 25, verse 1 to 11 are the TIME.  SEVENTY YEARS,  verses 12 to 38 NATIONS, THE CUP (cup of wrath)

So we see that this Chapter is pertaining to the end of time when Gods cup of wrath is poured out.
 
In Chapter 25 God is telling the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to turn from their evil ways and from their evil doings, and not to go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and not provoke God to anger with the work of their hands.
      
Chapter 25 verse 8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because you have not heard My words,
 
Chapter 25 verse 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 
The king of Babylon is a type for Anti-Christ in the end times.
 
Chapter 25 verse 11  And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
 
Chapter 25 verse 12  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.
 
Chapter 25 verse 15  For thus saith the LORD GOD of Israel unto me ; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
 
Chapter 25 verse 17  Then I took the cup at the LORD`S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me.
 
Chapter 25 verse 18  To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day.
 
Chapter 25 verse 26  And all the king of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach ( The Massorah explains that this word is “Babel”) shall drink after them. (should read “and the king of Babel shall drink after them")
 
So we see that this is the final judgment of the nations is yet future; when “Great Babylon’ comes into remembrance, it will “drink after them”. Cp. 49 verse 12
 
Revelation 16 verse 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell; and “great Babylon” came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.
 
Isaiah chapter 51 verse 17   Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which has drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

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The tools used to produce these Bible studies were:

The King James Companion Bible
Companion Bible Appendixes
Strong's Concordance 

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