Monday, January 14, 2013

Two baskets of figs

Jeremiah 24:1-10
Two baskets of figs showed to Jeremiah, it is meaning of two kinds of destination of the people of Judah, good one is the exiles from Judah, bad one is the one remain in Jerusalem or went to Egypt.
The Lord will water over the good one, build them up and not tear the down, give them a heart to know God. They will be people of God, they will return to God with all their heart.
The poor figs, are Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt will be destroyed from the land by sword, famine and plague.
Why?
The date of Jeremiah's vision of the two basket of figs in front of God's Temple is some time after 597.
The exiles are the cream of God's people(Ezekiel was among these first captives. Daniel and his friends, according to Daniel 1:1-7, were in Babylon earlier still.)
God is shaping a future for them. For those who remain in Judah there is no future but destruction. Yet through Jeremiah God still perseveres with his 'bad figs'
Heart : The concept is all-inclusive: mind, will and emotions.
How?
Don't let the Lord disappoint to us. Keep my mind, my will and emotion on the Lord for He is good in everything to those who follow his words.

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