Thursday, February 7, 2013

You will know whose word will stand -- mine or theirs

Jeremiah 44:1-30
The Lord determined to bring disaster on you and to destroy all Judah. God will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there.They will all perish in Egypt.
None of the remnant of Judah who has gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah; none will return except a few fugitives.
Jeremiah tall the people in Egypt, but they won't listen to his warning. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, ' Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows! But hear the word of the Lord, all Jews living in Egypt:' I swear by my great name,' says the Lord, 'that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear.' 'This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place, so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand. I am going to hand Pharaoh Hophra king f Egypt over to his enemies who eek his life, just as I handed Zedekiah king of Judah over to Nebuchadnezzar.
The whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand -- mine or theirs.
This pharaoh helped Jerusalem against Babylon in BC 588, then withdrew. In 569 a revolt deposed him, he died trying to regain the throne in 566.
Why?
Despise all that has happened in consequence of playing God false, the people still refuse to listen. Then will go back to worshiping the 'Queen of heaven' and all will be well again!
We here no more of Jeremiah after this. Tradition has it he was stoned to death in Egypt.
The Lord left a few fugitives in Egypt, then they will be witness of what the Lord had warned them before.
How?
The word of the Lord will stand forever. Blessing is the man who obey the word of the Lord, so am I will obey the word of the Lord.


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