Why did God impose the Babylonian Captivity on the Jews? (Solved)

[rakovskii]

After all, it is relatively easy to believe in G-d and His Law when things are going well but not the case when misfortune arrives.

It probably goes either way. There are people who are in such bad situations and cry out to God so much that while they are suffering and waiting for answers they think that probably there is no God. So for those people it’s harder to believe in God.

But there are other people who think alot more about God and pray more when they are in trouble.

 

[rakovskii]

Good discussions in this thread.

1. In Isaiah, King Hezekiah showed Babylonian emissaries his treasures, and Isaiah was indignant and predicted that the Babylonians would invade and take away the treasures. But I don’t know what was wrong with Hezekiah showing his treasures.

I read more about this and it looks like in 2 Chronicles the complaint is that King Hezekiah was prideful. It was an issue of God testing his heart, and showing off the treasures showed his pride.

 

[adgloriam]

Good discussions in this thread.

adgloriam:

1. In Isaiah, King Hezekiah showed Babylonian emissaries his treasures, and Isaiah was indignant and predicted that the Babylonians would invade and take away the treasures. But I don’t know what was wrong with Hezekiah showing his treasures.

I read more about this and it looks like in 2 Chronicles the complaint is that King Hezekiah was prideful. It was an issue of God testing his heart, and showing off the treasures showed his pride.

I didn’t finish 2 Chronicles (I read 1 Chronicles thoroughly) because I had read 1 and 2 Kings in depth paying attention to every detail.

Now, the main problem with the reading you are doing -in my view- is that after the birth of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit emphasis changed and we are, currently, in a different period of the history of salvation.

Thus emphasis is, not on farfetched details of history or the mosaic law but, on charity and mercy. Living in the Spirit.

I’ll give one general, parallel, counter example that holds amazingly:

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The case of the blood moons that held in biblical times, several times afterwards, and just recently in 2015 repeated…Guess what the main event this time was?? Pope Francis invoked the Synod on the Family. (And family is where the emphasis is!!!) Sites like the one you quoted, however in depth their reading goes, where ready to blow the trumpets of the apocalypse…However, nothing happened!!

And my conclusion: live your own life in Christ as best you can, in simplicity if possible.

(I do appreciate the analyses you are conducting.)

God bless.