When “Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things” (Jer 20:1), against Judah, “Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord” (Jer 20:2), but when Jeremiah was released the next day, he told Pashhur, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. Jeremiah the Prophet was a contemporary of the mighty empire of Babylon, the most dominant power the world had ever seen up to that point, and so it’s no surprise that Jeremiah wrote more about Babylon than any other author in the Bible (151 times), but he was writing specifically to warn the nation of Judah about God’s impending judgment over their idolatrous practices. Where is modern day Babylon located today? Does Babylon play a role in the end time events mentioned in Bible prophecy? A Superpower
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