Thursday, February 14, 2013

Let us tell in Zion what the Lord our God has done

Jeremiah 51:1-64
The Lord had vindicated us; come, let us tell in Zion what the Lord our God has done.
The Lord has stirred up the king of Medes, because ho purpose is to destroy Babylon.
He made the earth by his power, he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
he Lord is a God of retribution; he will repay in full.
Babylon will sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will fall.
The Medes would pour in on Babylon from the north like the sea. God's people are warned in advance to be out of harm's way when it happens.
Cyrus, at the head of an army of Medes and Persians, took Babylon in 539. In 482 BC the city was destroyed by Xerxes I.
Why?
Babylon was God's instrument to punish his people ( as the Assyrians had been earlier), but the sinful pride of the city calls out for judgment, and God declares that the looters will themselves be looted, the Babylonian hammer will be hammered.
Evil cannot be ignored: Judgment will come.
The words of Jeremiah end here.
How great our God, the Almighty is His name. He is sitting throne speaking with power, wisdom and full of understanding from earth to heaven.
Let us remember the grace of the Lord, let us tell others what God has done on us.
How?
Preach the grace and words of the Lord, each of us who follow his command is his good witness in our life.


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