In Jer. 29, a few years after Habakkuk, there are still 57 years left of the Babylonian captivity. The encouragement to those in Babylon is to build houses, plant vineyards, marry your children, and to grow so that they would increase in Babylon. Many of those encouraged to be faithful in captivity would never see the return to Jerusalem, but they needed to remain faithful for the benefit of the next generation. We need to commit to teach the next generation so they will have a blessed kingdom to inherit when we are gone.
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