Daily Devotions
Zechariah
"Flee from the land of the north"
Text: Zechariah 2:6
THE CAPTIVITY PERIOD IN BABYLON
The prophet Jeremiah prophesied that Judah would go into captivity to Babylon for seventy years (Jeremiah 25:11). He also wrote a letter to the captives as to how they may survive in Babylon (Jeremiah 29).
AT THE END OF THE CAPTIVITY PERIOD
Many of the Jews did well though they were captives. Daniel served Nebuchadnezzar so well that he was promoted to a very high position in the Babylonian civil service. There came a time when the Captivity period was over. Zechariah proclaimed this word from the LORD to the captives.
“‘Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD;
‘for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,’ says the LORD.
‘Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.'”
Zechariah 2:6-7