CroMagnon Posted:

* God says that Solomon’s kingdom will last forever. It didn’t of course. It was entirely destroyed about 400 years after Solomon’s death, never to be rebuilt. 2 Samuel 7:13, 16

* God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people As part of the punishment God will take the land of the Babylonians and “make it perpetual desolations.” A false prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite occupied. (or at lest, it was) Jeremiah 25:12..

some more bull****.

Solomon’s kingdom lasting forever, in a similar way to David, his father, was symbolic. Jesus was a direct descendant of both those kings, and as the eternal King, he reigns forever.

Babylon’s being turned into a land of eternal desolation was a proclamation of utter destruction against the people, not of the land itself. He meant that they would be completely crushed until nothing alive remained.

Yes, people moved in afterwards, but the empire of babylon was absolutely destroyed.