Jeremiah 29: 10 This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 14 I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
I wrote a post about this a few years ago.. we always look at the good part of this scripture.. where God says he has a hope and a future for us.. and good plans.. but we overlook the fact that we have to be in the land of the enemy for 70 years...
just now it occurs to me.. the bible also says that the span of a 'man's' life (or woman's) is 70 years... babylon signifies the enemy.. so possibly God is saying to us.. we will live in the earth 70 years.. in the land of the enemy.. with the enemy reigning.. and if we are faithful to God through this time he will restore us to him.. maybe he is talking about heaven.. talking about at the end of our lives we will no longer have to deal with the enemy and we will return to our own land.. his land.. which would be heaven...
now I can tell you I don't like to hear that.. I want everything to be great here on earth... I want the enemy to be defeated here on earth.. while I am still in what we call the land of the living...
also in the chapter he states: 8 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let your prophets and fortune-tellers who are with you in the land of Babylon trick you. Do not listen to their dreams, 9 because they are telling you lies in my name. I have not sent them,” says the Lord.
I don't agree with every man (or woman) that says he is from God.. I don't think everyone that said they are called was actually called.. but I do know that we are easily deceived.. I have found in my own lifetime I have been deceived on major issues at least twice.. idk what the answers to deception are..
in the bible in Genesis it states that eve was deceived but adam sinned knowingly.. I have never understood this part.. what I mean by this is that I too have sinned knowingly sometimes.. but idk what makes women become deceived and led wrong.. idk how we are to know what is from God and what is deception other than to wait it out and see what God does about it.. because if it was actually God.. then HE will bring it to pass.. nothing we do..
these are some of the questions I have when I make it into heaven.. if we are allowed to ask them..
