THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
TEXT:
Jeremiah 50:1-13
1:
This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon
and the land of the Babylonians:
2:
“Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to
shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols
filled with terror.’
3:
A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will
live in it; both people and animals will flee away.
4:
“In those days, at that time,” declares the Lord, “the people of Israel and the
people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
5:
They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come
and bind themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be
forgotten.
6:
“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and
caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and
forgot their own resting place.
7:
Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for
they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture, the Lord, the hope of
their ancestors.’
8:
“Flee out of Babylon; leave the land of the Babylonians, and be like the goats
that lead the flock.
9:
For I will stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from
the land of the north. They will take up their positions against her, and from
the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who
do not return empty-handed.
10:
So Babylonia will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.
11:
“Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you
frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions,
12:
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who gave you birth will be disgraced.
She will be the least of the nations— a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.
13:
Because of the Lord’s anger she will not be inhabited but will be completely
desolate. All who pass Babylon will be appalled; they will scoff because of all
her wounds.
(New International Version Holy
Bible)
TOPIC:
JUDGMENT OVER BABYLON
God
clearly indicated that He would use Babylon to punish Judah for a period of 70
years. Thereafter He would avenge the wickedness against Judah by totally
destroying Babylon.
Notice
that from Jeremiah 46 to 49, God's judgment is prophesied as punishment to the
nations that were hostile to the Jews which included Egypt, Philistine, Moab,
Amnon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor and Elam.
These
series of judgments climaxed with the destruction of Babylon and the additional
sentence that it would never be inhabited by any human being again. The African
continent is bedevilled by series of terrorists' attacks, especially against
the church.
These
marauding evil forces think that they would continue like this forever. They
are very wrong because, soon, the Lord will descent upon them with judgment.
But the Church must, on its own part, stay focused on the Lord Jesus.
QUESTION:
Are you suffering under evil leaders and terrorists and think that God has
forgotten you?
PRAYER:
Dear Lord, l know that You will soon change my situation just as You did in the
case of Judah, in Jesus name. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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