Steve Webb: Come to grips with it.
This is the Lifespring one year Bible coming to you from
Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I'm Steve
Webb, your og Godcaster. This is the daily podcast where we're
reading through the entire Bible in what a year. Yeah. I'm
grateful to be with you today. Thank you. It's prophecy Friday,
and we'll read chapters 47 through 52 of Jeremiah, which
will complete that book. The title of today's episode is, is
there a limit to God's patience? Before we read, let's pray. Our
gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for our time around
your word today and we pray, Lord, that You would speak to
our hearts and our minds. Teach us we pray in Jesus name, amen.
Okay, are you ready? Let's begin.
Jeremiah chapter 47. This is the Lord's message to the prophet
Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza before it
was captured by the Egyptian army. This is what the Lord
says. A flood is coming from the north to overflow the land. It
will destroy the Land and everything in it cities and
people alike. People will scream and terror and everyone in the
land will wail. Here the clatter of stallions hooves and the
rumble of wheels as the chariots rushed by terrified fathers run
madly without a backward glance at their helpless children. That
time has come for the Philistines to be destroyed
along with their allies from Tyre and Sidon. Yes, the Lord is
destroying the remnant of the Philistines. Those colonists
from the land of Crete, Gaza will be humiliated, its head
shaved bald. Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the
Mediterranean coast. How long will you cut yourselves in
morning? Now sort of the Lord, when will you be at rest again?
Go back into your sheath rest and be still. But how can it be
still when the Lord has said it on a mission for the city of
Ashkelon and the people living along the sea must be destroyed?
Jeremiah chapter 48. This message was given concerning
Moab. This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of
Israel says, What sorrow awaits the city of Niebo. It will soon
lie in ruins. The city of curio Fayoum will be humiliated and
captured, the fortress will be humiliated and broken down. No
one will ever brag about Moab again, for an Heshbon there is a
plot to destroy her. Come they say we will cut her off from
being a nation. The town of madmen two will be silenced the
sword will follow you there. Listen to the cries from Hora
Nam cries of devastation and great destruction. All Moab is
destroyed. Her little ones will cry out, her refugees weep
bitterly climbing the slope to lose faith. They cry out in
terror descending the slope to Hora Nam, flee for your lives
hide in the wilderness, because you have trusted in your wealth
and skill you will be taken captive, your god key Marsh with
his priests and officials will be hauled off to distant lands.
All the towns will be destroyed and no one will escape either on
the plateaus or in the valleys for the Lord is spoken. Oh that
Moab had wings so she could fly away for her Towns will be left
empty with no one living in them. Cursed are those who
refuse to do the Lord's work who hold back their swords from
shedding blood. From its earliest history. Moab is lived
in peace, never going into exile. He has like wine that has
been allowed to settle. He has not been poured from flask to
flask and he is now fragrant and smooth. But the time is coming
soon, says the Lord when I will send men to pour him from his
jar. They will pour him out then shatter the jar. At last Moab
will be ashamed of his idol ki Mosh as the people of Israel
were ashamed of their gold calf at Bethel. You used to boast we
are heroes mighty men of war, but now Moab in his Towns will
be destroyed. His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter
says the king whose name is the Lord of Heaven's armies.
Destruction is coming fast for Moab. Calamity threatens
ominously, you friends of Moab, weep for him and cry. See how
the strong scepter is broken? How the beautiful staff is
shattered. Come down now from your glory and sit in the dust
you people die bond for those who destroy Moab will shatter
dive on to they will tear down all your towers. You people have
Aroer stand beside the road and watch shout to those who flee
from Moab. What has happened here and the reply comes back.
Moab lies in ruins, disgraced, weep and wail tell it by the
banks of the Oregon river Moab has been destroyed. Judgment has
been poured out on the towns of the plateau. On Holon and Jhas
in the fab on die bong and Niebo and Beth Dibbler Thamm on curio
Thamm and Beth gameau and Beth Mian on Curie off and Basra. All
the towns of Moab far and near. The strength of Mo app has
ended. His arm has been broken, says the Lord. Let him stagger
and fall like a drunkard for he has rebelled against the LORD,
Moab will wallow in his own vomit ridiculed by all did you
not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the
company of thieves that you should despise them as you do?
You people of Moab, flee from your towns and live in the caves
hide like doves that nest in the clefts of the rocks. We have all
heard of the pride of Moab, for his pride is very great. We know
of his lofty pride, his arrogance and his haughty heart.
I know about his insolence, says the Lord. But his boasts are
empty, as empty as his deeds. So now I will wail for Moab. Yes, I
will mourn for Moab. My heart is broken for the men of Kier
Harris chef, you people of sigma rich and vineyards I will weep
for you even more than I did for Jazer you're spreading vines
once reached as far as the Dead Sea but the destroyer has
stripped you bear. He has harvested your grapes and summer
fruits, joy and gladness are gone from fruitful Moab. The
presses yield no wine, no one treads the grapes with shouts of
joy. There is shouting Yes, but not of joy. Instead, they're
awful cries of terror can be heard from Heshbon clear across
to Le ALA and J has from Zophar all the way to Hora Nam and egg
Leth Sheila ShiGGa even the waters of nem RAM are dried up
now. I will put an end to Moab says the Lord for the people
offer sacrifices at the pagan shrines and burn incense to
their false gods. My heart morons like a flute for Moab and
cure Harris chef for all their wealth is disappeared. The
people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slashed
their hands and put on clothes made of burlap. There is crying
and sorrow in every Moabite home and on every street. For I have
smashed Moab like an old unwanted jar. How it is
shattered. Here the wailing see the shame of Moab. It has become
an object of ridicule, an example of ruin to all its
neighbors. This is what the Lord says, look, the enemy swoops
down like an eagle spreading its wings over Moab. Its cities will
fall and its strongholds will be seized. Even the mightiest
warriors will be in anguish like a woman in labor. Moab will no
longer be a nation for it his boasted against the Lord. Terror
and traps and snares will be your lotto Moab says the Lord.
Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap. And those who
escaped the trap will step into a snare. I will see to it that
you do not get away for the time of your judgment has come says
the Lord. The people flee as far as Heshbon but are unable to go
on. For a fire comes from Heshbon King sigh Hans ancient
home to devour the entire land with all its rebellious people.
What sorrow awaits you oh people of Moab, the people of the god
of key Marsh are destroyed. Your sons and your daughters have
been taken away as captives. But I will restore the fortunes of
Moab in days to come. I the LORD have spoken. This is the end of
Jeremiah's prophecy concerning Moab.
Jeremiah chapter 49. This message was given concerning the
Ammonites, this is what the Lord says, Are there no descendants
of Israel to inherit the land of Gad? Why are you who worship
Molek living in its towns in the days to come, says the Lord. I
will sound the Battlecry against your city of Rabbah it will
become a desolate heap of ruins and the neighboring towns will
be burned. Then Israel will take back the land you took from her
says the Lord cry out Oh hash bond for the town of AI is
destroyed. Weibo people have Rabba put on your clothes of
mourning, weep and wail hiding in the hedges for your god Molek
with his priests and officials will be hauled off to distant
lands. You are proud of your fertile valleys but they will
soon be ruined. You trusted in your wealth you rebellious
daughter and thought no one could ever harm you. But look, I
will bring terror upon you says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's
armies. Your neighbors will chase you from your land and no
one will help your exiles as they flee. But I will restore
the fortunes of the Ammonites in days to come. I the LORD have
spoken. This message was given concerning Edom. This is what
the Lord of Heaven's Armies says. Is there no wisdom and
Tieman is no one left to give wise counsel, turn in flee hide
in deep caves you people have D Dan, for when I bring disaster
on Edom I will punish you to those who harvest grapes always
leave a few for the poor. These came at night they would not
take everything. But I will strip bear the land of Edom, and
there will be no place left to hide. Its children, its brothers
and its neighbors will all be destroyed, and Edom itself will
be no more. But I will protect the orphans who remain among
you. Your widows too can depend on me for help. In this is what
the Lord says, if the innocent must suffer, How much more must
you you will not go unpunished, you must drink this cup of
judgment, for I have sworn by my own name says the Lord, that
Basra will become an object of horror and a heap of ruins. It
will be mocked and cursed. All its towns and villages will be
desolate forever. I have heard a message from the Lord that an
ambassador was sent to the nations to say, form a coalition
against Edom and prepare for battle. The Lord says to eat
them, I will cut you down to size among the nation's you will
be destroyed by all you have been deceived by the fear you
inspire in others and by your own pride. You live in a rock
fortress and control the mountain heights. But even if
you make your nest among the peaks with the Eagles, I will
bring you crashing down says the Lord Eden will be an object of
horror. All who passed by will be appalled and will grasp but
the destruction they see there. It will be like the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah in their neighboring towns, says the
Lord. No one will live there, no one will inhabit it. I will come
like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan leaping on the sheep
in the pasture. I will chase Edom from its land. And I will
appoint the leader of my choice for who is like me and who can
challenge me. What ruler can oppose my will listen to the
Lord's plans against Edom and the people of Tiemann. Even the
little children will be dragged off like sheep and their homes
will be destroyed. The earth will shake with the noise of
itams Fall, and its cry of despair will be heard all the
way to the Red Sea. Look, the enemy swoops down like an eagle
spreading its wings over Basra. Even the mightiest warriors will
be in anguish like a woman in labor. This message was given
concerning Damascus. This is what the Lord says. The towns of
Haman that are Panthers struck with fear for they have heard
the news of their destruction. Their hearts are troubled like a
wild sea and a raging storm. Damascus has become feeble, and
all her people turn to flee. fear, anguish and pain have
gripped her as they grip a woman in labor. That famous city the
city of joy will be forsaken. Her young men will fall in the
streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed, says the
Lord of Heaven's armies, and I will set fire to the walls of
Damascus that will burn up the palaces of Ben Hey dad. This
message was given concerning keytar and the kingdoms of
hazer, which were attacked by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
This is what the Lord says, advanced against Keator destroy
the warriors from the east. their flocks and tents will be
captured and their household goods and camels will be taken
away. Everywhere shouts of panic will be heard. We are terrorized
at every turn. Run for your lives, says the Lord. Hide
yourselves in deep caves you people have hazer for King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is plotted against you and is
preparing to destroy you. Go up and attack that complacent
nation says the Lord. Its people live alone in the desert without
walls or gates, their camels and other livestock will all be
yours. I will scatter to the winds these people who live in
remote places I will bring calamity upon them from every
direction says the Lord hazer will be inhabited by jackals and
it will be desolate forever. No one will live there, no one will
inhabit it. This message concerning Elam came to the
Prophet Jeremiah from the Lord at the beginning of the reign of
King Zedekiah of Judah. This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies
says. I will destroy the archers of Elam the best of their
forces. I will bring enemies from all directions. I will
scatter the people of Elam to the four winds. They will be
exiled to countries around the world. I myself will go with
Elam 's enemies to shatter it. In my fierce anger I will bring
great disaster upon the people of Elam says the Lord. Their
enemies will chase them with a sword until I have destroyed
them completely. I will set my throne and Elam says the Lord
and I will destroy its kings and officials. But I will restore
the fortunes of Elam in days to come. I the LORD have spoken.
Jeremiah chapter 50. The word the Lord spoke about Babylon the
land of the Chaldeans through Jeremiah the prophet announced
to the nations proclaim and raise up a signal flag proclaim
and hide nothing. Say Babylon is captured. Bell is put to shame
Mar Duke is devastateneeded, her idols are put to shame her false
gods devastated for a nation from the North will come against
her, it will make her land desolate. No one will be living
in it, both man and beast will escape in those days and at that
time, this is the Lord's declaration, the Israelites and
Judeans will come together weeping as they come and will
seek the Lord their God. They will ask about Zion, turning
their faces to this road, they will come and join themselves to
the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be
forgotten. My people are lost sheep, their shepherds have led
them astray, guiding them the wrong way in the mountains. They
have wandered from Hill to Hill, they have forgotten their
resting place. All who found them devoured them. Their
adversary said we're not guilty. Instead, they have sinned
against the Lord, their righteous grazing land, the hope
of their ancestors, the Lord escaped from Babylon, depart
from the Chaldeans land, be like the rams that lead the flock for
I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon and assembly of
great nations from the North Country. They will line up and
battle formation against her. From there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warrior who does
not return empty handed, the Chaldeans will become plunder.
All Babylons plunderers will be fully satisfied. This is the
Lord's declaration, because you rejoice because you sing and
triumph you who plundered my inheritance, because you frolic
like a young cow treading grain and nailing stallions, your
mother will be utterly humiliated, she who bore you
will be put to shame. Look, she will lag behind all the nations
a dry land, a wilderness and ARAVA, because of the Lord's
wrath, she will not be inhabited, she will become a
desolation, every bit of her. Everyone who passes through
Babylon will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds,
line up in battle formation around Babylon, all you archers,
shoot at her, Do not spare an arrow, for she has sinned
against the Lord, raise a war cry against her on every side.
She has thrown up her hands in surrender, her defense towers
have fallen, her walls are demolished. Since this is the
Lord's vengeance, take out your vengeance on her, as she has
done do the same to her. Cut off the sower from Babylon as well
as him who wields the sickle at harvest time. Because of the
oppressors sword, each will turn to his own people, each will
flee to his own land. Israel is a stray lamb chased by lions,
the first who devoured him was the king of Assyria. The last
one who crushed his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel
says, I am about to punish the king of Babylon and his land.
Just as I punished the king of Assyria. I will return Israel to
his grazing land and he will feed on Carmel and Batian. He
will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephram and of Gilead
in those days and at that time, this is the Lord's declaration.
One will search for Israel's guilt, but there will be none.
And for Judas sins, but they will not be found, for I will
forgive those I leave as a remnant. go against the land of
Mara fam and against those living in Peacock, put them to
the sword completely destroy them. This is the Lord's
declaration. Do everything I've commanded you. The sound of war
is in the land a great destruction, how the hammer of
the whole earth is cut down and smashed. What a horror Babylon
has become among the nation's Babylon. I laid a trap for you
and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found
in captured because you fought against the Lord. The Lord
opened his armory and brought out his weapons of wrath,
because it is a task of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the
Chaldeans come against her from the most distant places. Open
her granaries, pile her up, like mounds of grain and completely
destroy her, leave her no survivors, put all her young
bulls to the sword. Let them go down to the slaughter, wolf to
them because their day has come the time of their punishment.
There is a voice of fugitives and those who escaped from the
land of Babylon announcing in Zion the vengeance of the Lord
our God, the vengeance for his temple, summon the archers to
Babylon, all who string the bow, camp all around her, let none
escape, repay her according to her deeds, just as she has done
do the same to her, for she has acted arrogantly against the
Lord against the Holy One of Israel. Therefore, her young men
will fall in her public squares. All the Warriors will perish in
that day. This is the Lord's declaration. Look, I am against
you, you arrogant one. This is the declaration of the Lord God
of Hosts because your day has come the time when I will punish
you. The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick
them up. I will set fire to his cities and it will consume
everything around him. This is what the Lord of hosts says.
Israelites in Judea. Anza like have been oppressed. All their
captors hold them fast, they refuse to release them. Their
Redeemer is strong, Yahweh of hosts is his name. He will
fervently plead their case so that he might bring rest to the
earth but turmoil to those who live in Babylon. A sword is over
the Chaldeans. This is the Lord's declaration against those
who live in Babylon, against her officials and against her sages.
A sword is against the Diviners and they will act foolishly. A
sword is against her heroic warriors and they will be
terrified. A sword is against his horses and chariots and
against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like
women. A sword is against her treasuries and they will be
plundered, a drought will come on her waters and they will be
dried up, for it is a land of carved images, and they go mad
because of terrifying things. Therefore, desert creatures will
live with hyenas and ostriches will also live in her. It will
never again be inhabited or lived in through all
generations. Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighboring towns. This is the Lord's declaration,
so no one will live there. No human being will even stay in it
as a temporary resident. Look up people comes from the north, a
great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the remote
regions of the earth. They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel
and show no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea and they
write on horses lined up like men in battle formation against
you, daughter Babylon. The king of Babylon has heard reports
about them at his hands fall helpless, distressed is seized
him pain like a woman in labor. Look, it will be like a lion
coming from the thickets of the Jordan to the water grazing
land. Indeed, I will chase Babylon away from her land in a
flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her for who is like
me, who will summon me, who is the shepherd who can stand
against me. Therefore, here are the plans that the Lord has
drawn up against Babylon and the strategies he has devised
against the land of the Chaldeans. Certainly the flocks
little lambs will be dragged away. Certainly the grazing land
will be made desolate because of them. At the sound of Babylons
conquest, the Earth will quake a cry will be heard among the
nations.
Jeremiah chapter 51. This is what the Lord says. I am about
to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the
population of lead Kim I, I will send strangers to Babylon who
will scatter her and strip her land bear for thy will come
against her from every side in the day of disaster. Don't let
the archers string his bow. Don't let him put on his armor.
Don't spare her young men completely destroy her entire
army. Those who were slain will fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, those who are pierced through in her streets for
Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord
of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy
One of Israel. leave Babylon save your lives each of you
don't perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of
the Lord's vengeance. He will pay her what she deserves.
Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord's hand, making the whole
earth drunk. The nation's drank her wine, therefore the nation's
go mad. Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Well for her
get balm for her wound. Perhaps she can be healed. We tried to
heal Babylon but she could not be healed. abandon her. Let each
of us go to his own land for her judgment extends to the sky and
reaches as far as the clouds. The Lord has brought about our
vindication Come let's tell in Zion what the Lord our God has
accomplished. Sharpen the arrows fill the quivers, the Lord has
put it into the mind of the kings of the Medes because his
plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her. For it is the
Lord's vengeance, vengeance for his temple. Raise up a signal
flag against the walls of Babylon. fortify the watch post.
Set the watchman in place. Prepare the ambush. For the Lord
has both planned and accomplished what he has
threatened against those who live in Babylon. You who reside
by many waters rich and treasures Your aunt has come
your life thread is cut. The Lord of Hosts has sworn by
himself I will fill you up with men as with locusts as they will
sing the victory song over you. He made the Earth by His power
established the world by his wisdom and spread out the
heavens by his understanding when he thought yours the waters
in the heavens are in turmoil and he causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and
brings the wind from his store houses. Everyone is stupid and
ignorant. Every Goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image.
For his cast images are a lie. There is no breath mm. They are
worthless or work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment,
they will be destroyed. Jacob's portion is not like these
because he is the one who formed all things. Israel is the tribe
of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name. You are my
battle club my weapons of war. With you I will smash nations
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin with you I will smash
the horse and its writer with you I will smash the chariot and
its writer. With you I will smash man and woman with you I
will smash the old man and the youth. With you I will smash the
young man and the young woman with you I will smash the
shepherd and his flock. With you I will smash the farmer and his
ox team. With you I will smash governors and officials. I will
repay Babylon and all the residents of Cal dia for all
their evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes. This
is the Lord's declaration. Look, I am against you devastating
mountain. This is the Lord's declaration. You devastate the
whole earth. I will stretch out my hand against you roll you
down from the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. No
one will be able to retrieve a cornerstone or a foundation
stone from you because you will become desolate forever. This is
the Lord's declaration. Raise a signal flag in the land blow
ram's horn among the nations set apart the nation's against her
summon kingdoms against her era rat Minaya and Ashkenaz appoint
a marshal against her bring up horses like a swarm of locusts
set the nation's for battle against her the kings of media
her governors and all her officials and all the lands they
rule. The earthquakes and trembles because the Lord's
intentions against Babylon stand to make the land of Babylon and
uninhabited desolation. Babylons warriors have stopped fighting.
They sit in their strongholds. Their mind is exhausted. They
have become like women. Babylons homes have been set ablaze. Her
gate bars are shattered messenger racist to meet
messenger and Harold to meet Harold to announce the king of
Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end. The
Fords have been seized. The marshes set on fire, and the
soldiers are terrified. For this is what the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel says. Daughter Babylon is like a threshing
floor at the time it is trampled in just a little while her
harvest time will come. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has
devoured me he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an
empty dish. He has swallowed me like a sea monster. He filled
his belly on my delicacies. He has vomited me out, says the
inhabitant of Zion. Let the violence done to me and my
family be done to Babylon. Let my blood be on the inhabitants
of Cal dia says Jerusalem. Therefore, this is what the Lord
says. I am about to plead your case and take vengeance on your
behalf. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals den, a
desolation and an object of scorn without inhabitant. They
will roar together like young lions, they will growl like lion
cubs. While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a
feast and I will make them drunk so that they rebel, then they
will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the
Lord's declaration. I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams together with male goats. How Shishak has
been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized what a horror
Babylon has become among the nations. The sea has risen over
Babylon, she is covered with its turbulent waves. Her cities have
become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one
lives where no human being passes through. I will punish
Belle and Babylon. I will make him vomit what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him, even Babylons
wall will fall come out from among her my people save your
lives each of you from the Lord's burning anger. May you
not become cowardly and fearful when the report is proclaimed in
the land for the report will come one year and then another
the next year. There will be violence in the land with ruler
against ruler. Therefore look the days are coming when I will
punish Babylons carved images her entire land will suffer
shame and all her slain will lie fallen within her heaven and
earth and everything in them will shout for joy over Babylon
because the destroyers from the North will come against her.
This is the Lord's declaration. Babylon must fall because of the
slain of Israel, even as the slain of all the earth fell
because of Babylon. You who have escaped the sword go and do not
stand still. Remember the Lord from far away and let Jerusalem
come to your mind. We are ashamed because we have heard
insults, humiliation covers our faces because foreigners have
entered the holy places of the Lord's temple. Therefore, look,
the days are coming. This is the Lord's declaration, when I will
punish her carved images and the wounded will grown throughout
her land. Even if Babylon should ascend to the heavens and
fortify her tall fortresses, destroyers will come against her
from me. This is the Lord's declaration, the sound of a cry
from Babylon. The sound of great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans, For the Lord is going to devastate Babylon, he will
silence her mighty voice. Their waves roar like abundant waters,
the tumult of their voice resounds for a destroyer is
coming against her against Babylon. Her warriors will be
captured, their bows shattered, For the Lord is a God of
retribution, he will certainly repay. I will make her princes
and sages drunk along with her governors, officials and
warriors, then they will fall asleep forever and never wake
up. This is the Lord's declaration Yahweh of hosts this
his name. This is what Yahweh of hosts says. Babylon is thick
walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates
consumed by fire. The peoples will have labored for nothing.
The nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the
fire. This is what Jeremiah the prophet commanded Surya son of
Nuria son of Maaseiah, the quartermaster when he went to
Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of
Zedekiah, his reign, Jeremiah wrote on one scroll all about
the disaster that would come to Babylon. All these words were
written against Babylon. Jeremiah told Surya, when you
get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud, you
must say, Lord, you have threatened to cut off this place
so that no one will live in it man or beast, indeed it will
remain desolate forever. When you have finished reading this
scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the
Euphrates River. Then say in the same way, Babylon will sink and
never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her,
they will grow weary. The words of Jeremiah and here
Jeremiah chapter 52. Zedekiah, was 21 years old when he became
king and rained 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
her mutal, daughter of Jeremiah, she was from Libnah Zedekiah did
what was evil in the Lord's sight just as Jehovah Kim had
done. Because of the Lord's anger. It came to the point in
Jerusalem and Judah that he finally banished them from his
presence. Nevertheless, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon in the ninth year of Zedekiah. His reign on the 10th
day of the 10th month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege
to the city and built a siege wall all around it. The city was
under siege until King Zedekiah his 11th year by the ninth day
of the fourth month, the famine was so severe in the city that
the people of the land had no food. Then the city was broken
into and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by
way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden.
Though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way
along the route to Arab. The Kaldi and army pursued the king
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho Zedekiah his
entire family was scattered from him. The Chaldeans seized the
king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land
of Emeth. And he passed sentience on him. At Riblah, the
king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah his sons before his
eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders. Then he
blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of
Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in
custody until his dying day. On the 10th day of the fifth month,
which was the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards entered Jerusalem as
the representative of the king of Babylon. He burned the Lord's
temple, the king's palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all
the houses of the nobles. The whole Chaldean army with the
commander of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding
Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan the commander of the guards deported
some of the poorest of the people as well as the rest of
the people who were left in the city, the desert leaders who had
defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen,
but some of the poorest people of the land of Nebuzaradan, the
commander of the guards left to be vinedressers and four armors
now the Chaldeans broke into pieces, the bronze pillars for
the Lord's temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir
that were in the Lord's temple and carried all the bronze to
Babylon. They took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers,
sprinkling basins, dishes and all the bronze articles used in
the temple service. The commander of the guards took
away the bowls, fire pans, sprinkling basins, pots,
lampstands pans, and drink offering bowls whatever was gold
or silver. As for the two pillars, the one reservoir and
the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts that King Solomon
had made for the Lord's temple. The weight of the bronze of all
these articles was beyond measure. One Pillar was 27 feet
tall, had a circumference of 18 feet, was hollow, four fingers
thick, and had a bronze capital on top of it. One capital
encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates stood seven and
a half feet high. The second pillar was the same with
pomegranates. Each capital had 96 pomegranates all around it,
all the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100 The
commander of the guards also took away Surya, the chief
priest, Zephaniah, the priest of the second rank and the three
doorkeepers. From the city he took a court official who had
been appointed over the Warriors, seven trusted royal
Ades found in the city, the Secretary of the commander of
the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military
duty, and 60 men from the common people who are found within the
city. Nebuzaradan the commander of the guards took them and
brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. The king of
Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Emeth. So
Judah went into exile from its land. These are the people
Nebuchadnezzar deported in the seventh year 3023 Jews in his
18th Year 832 people from Jerusalem, it Nebuchadnezzar his
23rd year Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards deported
745 Jews, altogether. 4600 people were deported. On the
25th day of the 12th month of the 37th fear of the exile of
Judas King Jehovah can evil marodex king of Babylon, in the
first year of his reign, pardoned King, Jehovah can of
Judah, and released him from prison. He spoke kindly to him
and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who are
with him in Babylon. So Jehovah can changed his prison clothes,
and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon
for the rest of his life. As for his allowance, a regular
allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion
for each day until the day of his death for the rest of his
life.
So as we close out, Jeremiah, much of what we read was God
warning the people of coming judgment. And that does not make
for fun reading does it? But imagine how difficult it was to
be in Jeremiah shoes being the one chosen to deliver these
messages. No wonder he's known as the weeping prophet. It's
much more enjoyable to talk about the love of God, His
faithfulness, His love, His forgiveness, his grace. But for
there to be forgiveness in grace, there has to be a turning
away from sin, there has to be repentance. And often the people
who were under judgment showed that they had no interest in
following the will of the Lord. In Genesis six, three, God said,
My Spirit will not contend with man forever. God is patient, but
he doesn't wait forever. This is true for nations. And it's true
with individuals. Beloved, it would be good for each of us if
there's something in our life that we know is not pleasing to
God, to come to grips with it, and ask for forgiveness and His
strength to leave it behind to get it out of our life. Think
about how terrible it would be to continue to ignore his
pleading to turn to him, how terrible it would be to come to
the end of God's patience. Well, so what do you do with the
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