The Timeline: Part 2

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     772 BC (the boxed A)- Assyria conquers 10 tribes

o   2 Chronicles 36:17-21

·         Deportations:

o   605 BC- deportation (took all the smart ones & made them Babylonian including Rac, Shack, and Benny)

o   597 BC- Nebakenezer comes back for another deportation (along w/ Ezekiel)

o   586 BC- Neb. burns city and destroys temple because Israel wouldn’t “bow” to a foreign king

o   3 deportations in all

§  Neb. would keep the king alive to keep kind of as a pet

o   Ezekiel 36: 22f-22 (first person mentions of God)

o   Chronicles 36:22-23 & Ezra 1:1-4

·         Temple:

o   ((Little box on left represents temple/ right little box is temple with walls surrounding it))

o   50,000 Jews return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple under the rule of Sirus (a pagen king) (1^st Return)

o   536 BC- took 2 years to lay foundation for temple (surrounding people oppressed the Israelites)

o   Haggai & Zacharia came back with the 50,000 & got the people to repent and they used the wood + gold (which they had used on their homes) to rebuild the temple

o   Darius = King

o   Darius reinstates Sirus’ old decree to fund the building of the temple & sent letters to the surrounding kingdoms telling them to stop harassing them & also to send workers to help

o   458 BC- 20,000 more return, mostly servents (2^nd Return)

o   444 BC- Nehemiah comes back & they rebuild walls around the city (3^rd Return)

·         Alexander the Great comes to power in Greece- 400 yrs of silence (Greek empire brings common language) 1^st time since Tower of Babel that there’s peace & can talk to anyone anywhere

o   331 BC- A.T.G. (Alexander The Great) conquers Palestinian empire

·         323 BC- Egypt becomes leader over Israel

·         One of A.T.G.’s children/grandchildren destroyed the 2^nd temple

·         3^rd temple- Herod’s temple (he rebuilt it)- stood when Jesus was there

·         167- Israel begins to rule themselves (rise pharasies, sagacies, zealots)

·         63 BC-44 BC- Caesar

·         37-4 BC- Herod

·         Herod’s family becomes the backdrop for the life and ministry of Jesus

·         Matthew 11 & 12

·         John 7:37-38

·         John 12:22-23- death and burial

·         Luke 24:26- risen life

·         John 12:16- ascended

·         New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

·         Our faith is not mythical

·         Where the books of the bible fit in the timeline