Flight of the Prisoners, by James Tissot.
Ezekiel 45:21-25
English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio Bible
21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. 23 And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin [hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters] of oil to each ephah. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.
Winston Churchill famously said, " History will be kind to me because I intend to write it." So, the ruins, the total ruins of Judah being reclaimed by the ruined, enslaved Babylonian slave/prisoners. Okay. Why, why, why, and more why, aren't we impressed with this???
What songs do you know of the 2nd Exodus? Poetry? Only reliable, impressive and dusty/forgotten archaeology. Forgotten - unknown, left out of discussion. Name for me, please, the Charlton Heston movie of the 2nd Exodus. Or how about the Disney cartoon?
Exodus - the faithful believe it. Passover - the gift of God to enable the Children of Israel to have freedom. Celebrated today by Jews and Christians in the Christian Easter.
Second Exodus - we even know the date of the Siege of Jerusalem. 2 Adar (March 16) 597 B.C. From the Babylonian Chronicles photographed below.
This is wondrous. An absolute, verifiable miraculous act of the LORD. What else in archeology?
Michael Jursa, associate professor at the University of Vienna, made the discovery in 1991. Nebo-Sarsekim is found in a perfectly preserved Babylonian Tablet. The tablet reads "the property of Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, the chief eunuch - Discussed in the 40th Chapter of Jeremiah.
Where is the epic movie for this????
We have prophets (convenient with name recognition to Books of the Bible = 3), princes, Emperors -3, Empires -2, the rise of the God's amazing Temple and the Temple Tools returned by said Emperor, made by (name recognition again) .... Moses.
And.... last but not least.... we have a curse in the middle of all this drama..... picked up in this seemingly dry passage of today.... which is actually anything but dry....
On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land
Jeremiah 22:28-30 Jeconiah is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. However, because of a curse upon Jeconiah, Joseph would never be able to sit upon the throne of David, nor have any of his blood-descendants sit upon the throne of David.
To whom does this prince passage refer? Zerubbabel , a governor of the Persian Province of Judah (Haggai 1:1) and great-grandson of King Jeconiah of Judah. Zerubbabel led the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian Captivity in the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia (Book of Ezra).
In the Second Temple of the Lord, the Davidic line does stop. Zechariah and Haggai both give unclear statements regarding Zerubbabel’s authority.
When we think about Churchill declaring the victor - in this case the Children of Israel - we see they loose the king.
So - in faith - would you prefer to be without shelter -in the desert. Without a reliable source of food and water. Without a trained army or writ of a king. Relying upon a pillar of fire by night and cloud by day?
Or would you prefer to have a king's note, riches and provisions as you come into God's kingdom?
Passover. God's blessing upon us, in the midst of life.
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