Jeremiah 50

It is really amazing that God declares judgement on Babylon and predicts the nature of their destruction because no one would have expected it at this time in history. They were the top dog. They swept through and destroyed all the nations as God said they would. They were His instrument in fact. But just because you are God’s instrument it doesn’t mean you can do wrong things (true for them and us). Just because you are God’s instrument, it doesn’t mean God isn’t going to expect that you recognize Him and turn to Him. It is for these reasons that God will judge them. And yet He gives his people a promise to return to the land and promises to forgive their sin as well. When we have seen all the things He has instructed Jeremiah to say about the nature and depth of their sin, what a testimony to the nature of God’s forgiveness that He says they will look for them and not find them because He has forgotten them. Now that is mercy!