The Hezekiah (Heb: Chizkiyahu) narrative in II Kings (chapters 17 – 20) and Isaiah (36 – 39) concludes on a dissonant and haunting confrontation between King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah. Hezekiah has just shown his kingdom’s wealth to messengers of Brodach Baladan, King of Babylonia. Isaiah asks Hezekiah about his guests, and when Hezekiah tells him where they are from, Isaiah proclaims:
Behold, days are coming and everything in your house and what your
ancestors have collected until this day will be carried off to
Babylonia, nothing will remain saith the Lord. And the children that
you will beget will be taken to be eunuchs in the palace of the King
of Babylonia. And Hezekiah responded to Isaiah, the word of the Lord
that you have spoken is good, insomuch as there will be peace and
truth in my days. (II Kings 20:17-18, JPS translation).
This prophecy of doom is devastating and perplexing. Does Isaiah mean to say that Hezekiah is literally responsible for the future exile and destruction at the hands of Babylonians? If so, what did he do wrong? How should Hezekiah have known it was bad to receive foreign emissaries from Babylonia?
Robert Erwine
definitely not ! not a hint of Rome as Rome was not a theocracy like the OPEC nations .
Link Hudson
Well rome sort of was a theocracy a little hit with a small t. Their religion was a bit intertwined with government, but they usually waited for the emperors to die to declare them gods.. But I might as wellask if the local hair salon is rhe revised Roman empire.
Robert Erwine
completely different views on how the Romans and Muslim nations conduct their policies. Rome was far more united than OPEC in the sense of political unity , rival OPEC nations would and have bombed each other .
Link Hudson
Of one were going to argue this couldn’t they associate it with Babylon without mentioning Rome? Wjy make Babylon revived Rome at all if it does not include Rome?
Jimmy Swaggart used to believe Babylon was going to literallybe rebuilt and that Revelation referred to that city. I hear it has been but I am notcoming down on the side of that interpretation.
Varnel Watson
Babylon has been rebuilt as Dubai Both Babylon and Rome were part of the empire HOWEVER the question was is OPEC part of RRE and Robert Erwine seems to be against such notion
Robert Erwine
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/iraq-could-be-the-next-to-quit-opec-after-qatar.html
Varnel Watson
IS IT by chance FB decided to do major update TODAY and WordPress released new unstable release that cause half of the internet websites in America to stumble BOTH on the day when Manafort’s total sentence is seven and a half years in two cases stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Link Hudson
I heard it had been. But in Dubai?
Varnel Watson
yes – just across the gulf Hence the gulf oil war
Robert Erwine
Update? You mean information purge