Isaiah 52-53 “The Suffering Servant” 08/9/2023

Their time of judgment as captives in Babylon was over.
God tells them to shake the dust of captivity off…now dust indicates the length of their stay…they had been there so long dust had formed…
So, God tells them, shake off the dust…prepare to leave Babylon.
However, we cannot say that their days of captivity to Gentile invaders are over.
Because as the remnant returned to rebuild the city and the temple…they would still be under Persian rule…
After the Persians would come the Greeks under Alexander the Great…and the Greeks would eventually fall to the Romans.
The Romans would dominate most of the world and they would rule over the city of Jerusalem for some two hundred years…
Until…in 70 AD. when the Roman General Titus came against Jerusalem and burned the city and the temple to the ground.
And it would stay that way for years…
The land would be trampled under foot by Gentiles (mostly Muslims) until Israel regained the land and their nation on May 14,1948.