Jeremiah 27:1-22
The words of the Lord came to Jeremiah, not only Judah but also to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon, if they bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will let that nation remain in it own land till it and to live there.
Jeremiah make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on his neck to speak the parable to those people.
Do not listen those who are prophesying lies to you. 'I have not sent them,' declares the Lord.
The Lord let everything inverses results as the false prophet said to the priests and people of Judah. Babylonia will taken everything to Babylon and there they will remain until the day God comes for them.
It is 597. The Babylonians have taken the first captives from Jerusalem and placed King Zedekiah on the throne. But the Babylonian king has troubles at home, and in the small nations to the west, including Judah, revolt is in the air.
Why?
The nation of the Lord is not the nations of the words, the way of the Lord is not the way of human beings thinking. It is good to people, but it does not mean please to the Lord.
Jeremiah walks the streets of the city wearing a wooden yoke in token of submission to Babylon. Only by servitude can Judah and the nations escape destruction. It was not a popular message, and provoked a head-on clash with the false prophets.
The time is hands of the Lord.
How?
Mediate the words of the Lord, does it coincidence between our hearing and the words of the Lord in Bible? Then we will know it is the words of the Lord.
Searching for the way of the Lord is not depends on my prospective good or not but on the sign of the Lord. I am bowing down my neck to the Lord.
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