As the LORD has said, "I will render unto Babylon and to all of the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. Behold, I am against thee O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth (("for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow")): and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down ((O destroying mountain!)) from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain." (Jeremiah 51:24-25e, Revelation 18:7d-g, Jeremiah 51:25f-h.)
Thus "saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts." (Haggai 2:23b-j.)
"Babylon shall fall. My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD." (Jeremiah 51:44[e]-45.)
For Babylon is "confusion"! (What? Know you not of the Tower of Babylon, which is "Babel", meaning "confusion, of Genesis 11:1-9? Know you not that that chapter precedes the next chapter, namely Genesis 12:1-7, wherein God told Abraham to go out of Babylon, the land of the Chaldees? And have you never read Revelation 17 and 18?) Yes, Babylon is "confusion".
And Zerubbabel are you who "come out of Babylon, come out of confusion"! And, O Zerubbabel, you are begotten of Shealtiel, which is "I have asked God". "Hitherto have ye asked nothing." (John 16:24[a].) "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.... But let him ask in faith". (James 1:5a-b,6a.)
For what is the promise made to the SEED of Abraham? "I am the LORD that brought thee out of ((BABYLON!)) Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit." (Genesis 15:7b-c.) Did you see that O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel? (Behold, a mystery before you!)
"For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched... But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem". (Hebrews 12:18a,22a-c.) "Wherefore ((you who be)) receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, ...have grace, whereby ((you)) may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For ...God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:28-29.)
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