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• Daniel now understood that the time had come, and the exile was over. It was time for the Jews to return back to the land of Israel. But something else happened to bring the end of Jeremiah’s seventy year prophecy.
• God had warned that the Medes and the Persians would bring an end to the Babylonian Empire. Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, would be destroyed completely for all time - never to be re-built, never to be inhabited, and to remain desolate for the rest of eternity. We read of this remarkable prophecy in Isaiah chapter 13.