Posts by KerryHuish

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The apostle Paul was WRONGLY inspired by the H.S.: The New Covenant is NOT everlasting!

by BoogerMan in

only its benefits will be everlasting.

(for the earthly 2nd class sheep).

w80 7/1 p. 31 - questions from readers - why does the november 15, 1979, issue of the watchtower (pages 26, 27) speak of the “new covenant” being near the end of its operation, when hebrews 13:20 speaks of this covenant as being “an everlasting covenant”?

KerryHuish

Who is the Israel of God (Gal. 6:15, 16)? According to Rom. 11 Paul explained it with an olive tree. All Israel (olive tree) = Jewish remnant (natural branches) + Christians (wild olive branches): Rom. 9:27; 11:16, 17, 25-27.

The nation of Israel was specifically created for the purpose of welcoming and accepting the Messiah.
Until the Messiah's appearance, these were like branches within this coming purpose, vine dressers and cultivators of this main purpose.

Without the Christ, their role would become one without purpose as their entire future depended upon listening to him.

Acts 3:22, 23 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.’

Jesus spoke of himself as being a rootstock and his disciples as being the branches.

John 15:1-9 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

The Jewish nation got a little too big for its boots, thinking that somehow the root was dependent on the branches. This is probably why they had this attitude:

Luke 3:8...Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.

The truth is, the tail does not wag the dog, it simply does not work like that.
The Jews wanted the Christ to serve them in a way they they seemed fit.
When this was not panning out for them the way they had imagined they sought to kill him and take what he had.

In view of this, Jesus said this to them:

Matthew 21:33-45 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:“ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’ ? “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.

When this "wicked Jewish nation" rejected Christ, there was a need for a new nation to be created, a fresh start. Those among them who would listen to and accept this Christ had to abandoned Jerusalem and its ways, becoming Christians.

Since the 1st century, there has come into being a new Israel.
This new Israel it is not a place, it is a people - a true Israel of God.

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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The apostle Paul was WRONGLY inspired by the H.S.: The New Covenant is NOT everlasting!

by BoogerMan in

only its benefits will be everlasting.

(for the earthly 2nd class sheep).

w80 7/1 p. 31 - questions from readers - why does the november 15, 1979, issue of the watchtower (pages 26, 27) speak of the “new covenant” being near the end of its operation, when hebrews 13:20 speaks of this covenant as being “an everlasting covenant”?

KerryHuish

Our sin is the "ability we are born with" that of deciding for ourselves what is good and what is bad.
This ability was taken, it was not authorized, we have this ability as a result of a trespass.
It is this very condition - us having this unauthorized ability - that condemns us to death.

Even if we were to make all and every decision totally in line with the divine will, the fact that we are making such decisions is sin, we were not authorized to have this ability.

We do well to accept this fact, rather than trying to prove ourselves righteous from a condition that has doomed foundations:

Luke 18:9-14 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Jesus sacrifice atones for this sin, provided we humbly accept Christ as head and teacher and learn from him, as a disciple of Christ.

But the sin itself is hereditary.

We cannot un-eat the fruit of the tree that granted us this ability and neither can our children.
Jesus sacrifice does not reverse the error but rather it allows us to truly learn what is good and bad without being condemned, provided we follow and accept Christ, then we have an atoning sacrifice for said condition.

Every person 'individually" has to accept and subject to Christ in order to be redeemed and have their sin cancelled.

Thus every person born here, forever, will need Jesus sacrifice, individually.
The covenant is everlasting, it needs to be, in order to redeem every person that is born here, forever.

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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Is there “new light” on 1914?

by wallsofjericho in

i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

is this regarding 1914?

or micheal the arch angel?.

KerryHuish

@ Scholar, again in relation to this:

SCHOLAR WROTE:
Daniel along with King Jehoiakim of Judah and others were deported to Babylon in 597 BCE and not 605 BCE as shown in Dan.1:1.as Nebuchadnezzer came up against Judah for the first time because of Jehoiakim's rebellion.

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Lets calculate this out and see where the logic places us.
If 597 BCE was Jehoiakim's 3rd year, as you propose above, and knowing that:

1. Jehoiakim ruled for 11 years.
(2 Kings 23:36) Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years...

It was in Jehoiakim's 3rd year that Nebuchadnezzar came to Jerusalem and took tribute, which included some of the Royal offspring - hostages.

(Daniel 1:1, 2) In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.

2. Jehoiachin (his successor) ruled for 3 months.
( 2 Kings 24:8) Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months..

It was during Jehoiachin's rule that the exile began

(2 Kings 24:12) King Je·hoiʹa·chin of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, along with his mother, his servants, his princes, and his court officials; and the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

(2 Kings 24:14) He took into exile all Jerusalem, all the princes, all the mighty warriors, and every craftsman and metalworker—he took 10,000 into exile. No one was left behind except the poorest people of the land.

3. Zedekiah (his successor) ruled for 11 years.

(2 Kings 24:18) Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years...

It was during the 11th year of Zedekiah's reign, Jerusalem was destroyed:

(2 Kings 25:2-11) The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth a month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah, but the Babylonian d army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him. They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.

Chart showing if Jehoiakim's 3rd year was 597 BCE vs if it was 605 BCE

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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Is there “new light” on 1914?

by wallsofjericho in

i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

is this regarding 1914?

or micheal the arch angel?.

KerryHuish

SCHOLAR WROTE:

Daniel along with King Jehoiakim of Judah and others were deported to Babylon in 597 BCE and not 605 BCE as shown in Dan.1:1.as Nebuchadnezzer came up against Judah for the first time because of Jehoiakim's rebellion.

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The bible clearly teaches that Daniel was already in Babylon during the 2nd year of King Nebuchadnezzar.

(Daniel 2:1) In the second year of his kingship, Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had a number of dreams, and he was so agitated that he could not sleep.

(Daniel 2:25) Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.”
Now if you truly believe what the Witnesses teach, then you will be touting that Nebuchadnezzar 19th year was 607 BCE meaning his 2nd year was 624 BCE?

Even if you date that start of Nebuchadnezzar reign, on the widely accepted starting point of 605 BCE, then his 2nd year would be 603 BCE?

Based on this understanding, how can you keep on teaching that Daniel was taken to Babylon in 597 BCE if the Bible clearly teaches he was ALREADY THERE during the 2nd year of Nebuchadnezzar to be on hand to interpret the Kings dream?

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You seem to be completely misunderstanding the simple events surrounding the destruction of Jerusalem.

1. Jerusalem and the surrounding nations were given into the hand of the King of Babylon in 609 BCE.
This was the start of desolations.

(Jeremiah 25:11) This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

2. Nebuchadnezzar became King in 605 BCE.

3. In 605 BCE Nebuchadnezzar came to Jerusalem to put an end to an alliance that Jehoiakim had made with Egypt.

(2 Kings 24:1) In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years...

It was at this time, in 605 BCE that Jehoiakim switched sides and paid tribute to Babylon, part of this tribute included some of the Royal offspring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoiakim

Jehoiakim was appointed king by Necho II, king of Egypt, in 609 BC, after Necho's return from the battle in Harran, three months after he had killed King Josiah at Megiddo.[5] Necho deposed Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz after a reign of only three months and took him to Egypt, where he died. Jehoiakim ruled originally as a vassal of the Egyptians, paying a heavy tribute. To raise the money he "taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments."[6]

However, after the Egyptians were defeated by the Babylonians at the battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem, and Jehoiakim changed allegiances to avoid the destruction of Jerusalem. He paid tribute from the treasury in Jerusalem, some temple artifacts, and handed over some of the royal family and nobility as hostages.[5] In the Book of Daniel, Daniel is described as being one of these.

4. In 597 BCE - the 8th year of Nebuchadnezzar - Jerusalem again needed correction because of rebellion and many captives were taken:

(2 Kings 24:12) King Je·hoiʹa·chin of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, along with his mother, his servants, his princes, and his court officials; and the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

(2 Kings 24:14) He took into exile all Jerusalem, all the princes, all the mighty warriors, and every craftsman and metalworker—he took 10,000 into exile. No one was left behind except the poorest people of the land.

5. In 586/587 BCE during the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem was destroyed.

(2 Kings 25:8-10) In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, that is, in the 19th year of King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king of Babylon, Neb·uʹzar·adʹan the chief of the guard, the servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He burned down the house of Jehovah, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he also burned down the house of every prominent man. And the walls surrounding Jerusalem were pulled down by the entire Chal·deʹan army that was with the chief of the guard.

6. In 539 BCE - 70 years after God had given Jerusalem and its surrounding Nations into the hand of Babylon - Babylon's time was up:

(Jeremiah 25:12) “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever.

(Daniel 5:30, 31) That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.

7. After 539 BCE The Jews were released from captivity in Babylon, to rebuild the temple - as the 70 years for Babylon were now complete - but Jerusalem still lay desolate for many more years to come.

(Ezra 1:1-4) In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

But the actual word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, did not come until much later, during the 20th year of King Artaxerxes.

(Nehemiah 2:1-6) In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before, so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid, but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” The king said to me, “What is it you want?” Then I prayed to the God of heaven, and I answered the king, “If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it.” Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.

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Thus, the desolation of Jerusalem lasted for way longer than 70 years.
It was made subject to Babylon for 70 years, which lead to its destructions because of its continued rebellion.

The 70 years was for BABYLON which ran from 609 BCE to 539 BCE

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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Is there really a Bible rule against sex without marriage?

by Halcon in

regarding the poster from jw headquarters, who claimed that the gb would eventually loosen the rules regarding sex.

the question is, is there really a bible rule explicitly prohibiting sex without marriage?

because this would be the only possible reason why loosening those rules would even come up in a discussion.

KerryHuish

@ Halcon

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all..

ALL as in the married and the unmarried?

Hebrews 13:4...and the marriage bed kept pure...

If a unmarried person engages in sex before marriage, then they are not keeping "their own future" marriage bed pure, nor are they honoring the institution of marriage, it is sexually immoral.

If a married person has sexual relations with someone outside of their marriage, then they are not keeping their marriage bed pure, nor are they honoring the marriage arrangement.

But for the married person, it is not just sexual immorality they commit, but adultery.

This is why it says that those dishonoring the marriage arrangement will be judged by God.
Be they married (adulterers) or unmarried (sexually immoral) persons.

Hebrews 13:4...God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

The Bible principle is, show respect for the covenant of marriage, regardless of if you are married or not.
Can a Christian really see it any other way?

Kind Regards

Kerry

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Is there really a Bible rule against sex without marriage?

by Halcon in

regarding the poster from jw headquarters, who claimed that the gb would eventually loosen the rules regarding sex.

the question is, is there really a bible rule explicitly prohibiting sex without marriage?

because this would be the only possible reason why loosening those rules would even come up in a discussion.

KerryHuish

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

So yes, there is a clear Bible rule against sex before marriage and extramarital affairs.

A person engaging in sex outside of marriage or inviting other partners into the marriage bed, is not compatible with this principle.

Kind Regards

Kerry

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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

KerryHuish

Jesus was a Jew and observed Jewish law.

That very law stipulated the exact day on which the Passover was to be celebrated.

It was not upto a Jew to decide that they would do it earlier or at a time of their choosing, as this would be a clear deviation from the law, an apostasy.

(Numbers 9:13) But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

In view of the religious leaders attempts to frame Jesus with some crime punishable by death, then I am sure that if he had celebrated the Passover with his disciples on any other day than that which was explicitly stipulated, then this most certainly would have been mentioned at his trial and would have indeed been something to have him lawfully cut off with.

I believe that Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples in accordance with Jewish practice on the evening of Nisan 14 and was killed that very same day.

I do not believe nor teach that Jesus was an apostate.

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

KerryHuish

@Anony Mous

I respectfully disagree with the assertions that you made in your earlier post:

1. You assert that somehow Nisan 14 was a Sabbath and that travel was restricted on that day.

This is not true, Sabbath restrictions came into effect on Nisan 15 not Nisan 14.
Nisan 14 was a 'day of preparation' for this, not a day of restriction.

2. You assert that Jesus could not have travelled between the Mount of Olives, Herod’s Palace to the Temple twice and then to Golgotha - because he did not have a car.

Again, these assertion are simply not true, the distances involved easily allow travel on foot through the night and morning of Nisan 14, to all those places:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-Jerusalem-at-time-of-Christ-Jesus-left-Upper-Room-and-walked-with-disciples-to_fig1_19648788

For those that are interested, there is good information here on the distances and times involved:

https://ed5015.tripod.com/BCrucifixionDistances117.htm

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

KerryHuish

@Anony Mous

I respectfully disagree.

On the evening of Nisan 14 Jesus celebrated the Passover and his last meal with his disciples.

Jesus was then betrayed and killed on the following day, which was still Nisan 14, as the Jewish day ran from sunset to sunset.

Nisan 14, the day Jesus died, was a day of preparation for Nisan 15, which was always regarded as a Sabbath, a complete rest, no matter what day it fell.

(On this particular occasion, Nisan 15 coincided with the weekly Sabbath, which began Friday at sunset and ran until to Saturday's sunset - which made this particular Sabbath a High Day or Great Sabbath)

‭‭(John 19:31) The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

For Jesus to have died on the day of preparation for this Sabbath, means he died on Friday, before sundown, before Nisan 15 and the Sabbath came into effect.

His final meal was on the evening that preceded this event, which was Nisan 14 which began at sunset on Thursday and ran until sunset on Friday - where Nisan 15 kicked in and the Great Sabbath began.

Out of curiosity, what day and meal are you saying should be remembered?

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

KerryHuish

@Anony Mous

The day after Passover, aka Nisan 15, was always regarded as a Sabbath regardless of which day it fell, it was a complete rest:

(Leviticus 23:5-7) The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

Thus Nisan 14, the day Jesus died, was a day of preparation, as restrictions came into force from sundown on Nisan 14 as Nisan 15 was always regarded as being a Sabbath.

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In the case of the death of Jesus and its following day, it actually coincided with the weekly Sabbath making this particular Sabbath a Great Sabbath or Special Sabbath - See John 19:31

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Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

KerryHuish

Posts by KerryHuish

SCHOLAR WROTE:Daniel along with King Jehoiakim of Judah and others were deported to Babylon in 597 BCE and not 605 BCE as shown in Dan.1:1.as Nebuchadnezzer came up against Judah for the first time because of Jehoiakim's rebellion.

SCHOLAR WROTE:
Daniel along with King Jehoiakim of Judah and others were deported to Babylon in 597 BCE and not 605 BCE as shown in Dan.1:1.as Nebuchadnezzer came up against Judah for the first time because of Jehoiakim's rebellion.