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Blessings!

Listened to this one last night, that goes along with this topic of discerning counterfeit from genuine and Art uses Jeremiah as an example in this message as well.

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 2011/11/13 11:44
ginnyrose
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 Jeremiah 52: 1-17 NASB

I know, it has been three years since I visited this thread...but in the adult sisters class we were skimming through Jeremiah with me teaching since nobody else wanted to touch it. Like usual - I gained more insights - that is the beauty of the WORD - never can exhaust it. Anyhow, our lesson was from this chapter today and I was so richly inspired. ginnyrose
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1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

5 So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

7 Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

12 Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

13 He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

14 So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

17 Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the LORD and the stands and the bronze sea, which were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

and etc...

COMMENT:

Jeremiah had the most thankless job - that of warning stubborn, bull-headed people to repent who never had a mind to do so. And they didn't. He warned them of calamities to come but they paid no heed. None. It seemed as though they were bent on doing the opposite of what he said. And so they did.

In this scripture we read how Jeremiah's prophecies did come to pass. They experienced some terrible things, awful things, horrible things, even getting to the point where they resorted to cannibalism for survival. But it did not stave off the inevitable - the Babylons still took them captive - all that resisting to the will of God got them nowhere but more suffering - all self-inflicted because of their disobedience.

In the meantime, how were the people who were carried off to Babylon earlier faring? How were they getting along? (Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel's lives and ministry overlapped.)

Daniel and his three friends earned high positions in the Babylonian government; Nehemiah was a cup-bearer to the Babylonian king - no mean job; Esther rose to prominence and saved her people all while living in Babylon. These are merely a few examples of people who bloomed where they were planted (Jer. 29:6,7).

A few lessons:

1. God is to be obeyed - his word is not to be modified to our liking.
2. Disobedience always brings severe consequences.
3. Sin will always effect others, even innocent people like it did Daniel and his three friends.
4. Obedience is not always fun or pleasant.
5. The prophet will rarely experience approval by the people he is ministering to. He will be subjected to severe persecution, disapproval by the people.
6. God's judgement is always undertaken with the purpose of motivating people to repent.

There may be more lessons...

Then I wonder - what would be the state of the modern church if God's people would always challenge sin when they see it indulged in?

This is what I have been thinking recently...maybe someone else can relate?


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