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God's Patience - May 28, 2010

Verse: "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Daniel 9:1-2

Summary: What lesson can we draw from this mention of the 70 years the children of Israel lived in Babylonian captivity? And can we draw any parallels between the 490 years and the 70 x 7 mentioned in the New Testament?