Read 225.) Jeremiah 24:1-10, 29:1-32 and 27:1-28:17. We are still right in the 597 BC time frame and the matter of Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon taking away much of Judah and Jerusalem into exile. The time clues are clear, and so let's go right into the content.
We first read 24:1-10. The first verse lets us know it's 597 as Jehoiachin has been taken away, and afterward Jeremiah is given a rare vision from the Lord. What is it about? It is of 2 baskets of figs, one good and the other bad. Now those taken away were bad, but the Lord is going to consider them good, because from out of them He is going to fulfill The 6th Promise and Prophecy concerning ancient Israel. These will repent and turn to the Lord… in time, and He will bring them back to restore them as a nation once again back into their Promised Land. But, of King Zedekiah and those that remained in Jerusalem with him, they are as that basket of bad figs. Nothing is going to go well for them.
Then chapter 29:1-31 is a letter to those exiles taken away to Babylon from Jeremiah… he brings them a word from the Lord. What does the Lord have to say to them? As with chapter 24, we have our time clue in verse 2. It is in this very same time of 597. Verses 10 thru 14 are beautiful. (Many divorce verse 11 from its context and misuse it. It is to these exiles, the remnant in Babylon, and not to anyone today.) It is the reiteration of The 6th Promise and Prophecy unto them. He will bring these back to Israel! But it won't be for a couple of generations still. There is the word that those who were left in Israel will be destroyed, and the false prophets among the exiles will be slain and burned by Nebuchadnezzar! Whoa! Beside the 2 false prophets named, there is even a personal message to one Shemaiah who sent a 'prophecy' back to Jerusalem to have Jeremiah arrested. His end was prophesied of the Lord to also be a most unpleasant one.
Now with 27:1-28:17, we enter a little further into the reign of Judah's very last king, Zedekiah. It is an incredible prophecy directly to the envoys of the surrounding nations of Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon also coming for them. And LOOK at verse 7. He says that Babylon will have 3 rulers, and then their end will come! And so this will be. Her fall will take place in 539, some 58 years away. Chapter 28 relates an account of an actual run-in that Jeremiah had with a false prophet by the name of Hananiah. We only need to point out that verse 1 called it the 5th month and the last verse spoke of this Hananiah's death in the 7th month right after Jeremiah told him he would die within a year! Don't trifle with the Word of the Lord. Faithfulness unto God's Word… It's what the Book is all about!
ForeverKingdom,
Harold F Crowell
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