It wasn't Moses that failed, it was the people he shared Gods majestic & magnificent words and laws with but they refused them due to their weakness & refused God's precious gifts that even to this day are being ignored to do the opposite!?! That's how you fall & lose in my eyes.— Anna Sophia⚖️✡️✝️☪☸ (@AnnaSophia777) February 16, 2018
“What was evil in the sight of the Lord”. If that foulness rises up then history will repeat or even worse! https://t.co/jZlZf4aWFW #Babylon2018 the good or the bad, good if smart but here we are yet again starting to witness hell rise up&about to repeat mistakes of past! imso— Anna Sophia⚖️✡️✝️☪☸ (@AnnaSophia777) February 16, 2018
The demonic want to bring their foulness out of the darkness for all to see but they forget that we all share in #TheGodEye 👁️ so you can understand why this can never see the light of day! #BabylonExile 2.0?! imso #AnnaSophia 🗽⚖️🦁💞🕊️🐍🌈
— Anna Sophia⚖️✡️✝️☪☸ (@AnnaSophia777) February 17, 2018
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pls remember another point of view is not meant 2 harm,meant 2 help us all get on the right track. I may seem like a pest but do care&can't help but share what I believe 2b important. Will b best 4 all in the long run or sooner, I believe. Pls understand that. 🗽⚖️🦁BEST > pest
— Anna Sophia⚖️✡️✝️☪☸ (@AnnaSophia777) February 17, 2018
The Babylonian exile
This revival continued with the beginning phase of the following cycle – although two impious kings still rose, which has to be considered a presage of the next apostasy – that of king Josiah (639-609 BC), who suppressed all the idols and sanctuaries of the pagans (2 Ki 23:4-14) and thus expiated Jeroboam’s apostasy by destroying the sanctuary of Bethel, where he had driven the northern kingdom into the religious separation from Judah (1 Ki 12:26-33; 2 Ki 23:15-20). Josiah also celebrated Passover for the first time since the Judges (2 Ki 23:21-25) and had renovations at the temple executed (2 Ch 34:8-33). This peace phase lasted as long as Josiah was king of Israel.
After his death, his son Jehoahaz became king, who again made “what was evil in the sight of the Lord”, as did his successor (2 Ki 23:29-36). In addition, “the Lord did not turn from his great anger which had been aroused against Judah for all the provocations whereby Manasseh had angered him”, namely the return to pagan rites in the middle of the reform begun by Hezekiah and continued by Josiah. Manasseh is one of the two impious kings mentioned above (2 Ki 21; 23:26-27; 24:3-4). This is why from 606 to 587 BC the whole territory of Judah and Jerusalem was conquered little by little by the Neo-Babylonian empire under king Nebuchadnezzar II, the temple looted, and the inhabitants deported (2 Ki 24-25).
The Babylonians were conquered by the Persians in 539 BC. Thus seventy years after the deportation – counting from Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jer 25:11-12), which we will examine in the next section – the Israelites could return to their country. A new temple was built and the city of Jerusalem rebuilt and provided with new battlements. The Mosaic Law and all rites were observed (Ezr; Neh). This reform joins the first phase of the next cycle.
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