Jeremiah 25

August 14, 2022

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Reading along with us in Jeremiah? Here’s today’s reading:

Jeremiah 25 (NIV)

Seventy Years of Captivity
1 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 2 So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and to all those living in Jerusalem: 3 For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.............Continue Reading

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  1. God may have used the Babylonians to administer His judgement but it doesn’t excuse their own evil deeds. God will send His judgement on them as well in His time. This is why we can’t question god…He knows the big picture and He always has a plan. Just because it seems the evil are prospering we must trust that He is in control. Pastor always says God will be glorified through us or in spite of us but make no mistake He will always be glorified!

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  2. 70 years of judgement are declared for the people of Judah and they only have themselves to blame. God did what He could to warn them and call them back from their sin and false worship and yet they refused to listen. And even though God is using the Babylonians to bring judgement on His people, they too have operated wrongly, so they too will be judged. And it is almost as if the land of Judah was a protection for then nations around them, but because judgement is coming against Judah, the surrounding nations will be swept up in judgement as well. They too are deserving because of their evil practices and there rejection of the positive influence of the Jews on them. God had showed Himself through the Jews to these surrounding nations and now their time is up as well as Babylon sweeps through the area. God’s hand is in it all as He raises up some leaders and tears down others according to His will. In His mercy He gives this warning and to HIs glory those will see Him working in the way that He has said.

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  3. Jeremiah 25 how many chances did God give them to change from their evil ways. He warned them many times but to no avail. His judgement was to be upon them!

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  5. I know that the 70 years under Babylon was completed, and Daniel mentions it coming to a close in Daniel 9. And that is where God tells him about the 70 weeks. Is that what is mentioned here in Jeremiah in 15-38? The last 7 years of those 70 weeks? Those verses refer to worldwide, whole earth destruction by God.

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    1. It certainly does refer to judgement that will extend over the earth, but it also sets it in the time frame of God judging Israel and specifically the city that bears His name (29) which is more consistent with Jeremiah’s time than the end times. The end times aren’t usually framed as judgement on Jerusalem as I recall. But what is mentioned here is reflective of what God will do at the end as well….

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