Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Defended the cause of the poor and needy

Jemeriah 22:10-30
He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. is that not what it means to know me? declares the Lord.
Josiah will has gone from this place:"He will never return. He will die in the place where they have led them captive.
Jehoiakim son of Josiah will have the burial of a donkey - dragged away and thrown thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Even if you, Jehoiachiin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off. I will deliver you into the hands of those who want to kill you, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.
Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.
This prophecy is earlier than chapter 21 Jeholakim reigned from 609 to 597 - the year Jerusalem first surrendered to Babylon.
The doom-laden diatribe(誹謗) to verse 13 contrast Jehoiakim - who sees his kingship in terms of cedar wood palaces - with his godly father, Josiah. No one will mourn his passing or honor his death.
Verse 24, concern Jehoiakim's 18-year-old sin Jehoiachin who reigned only three months before he and his mother were indeed taken into exile with may other captives.
Why?
Jeremiah prophecy destination of  kings of Judah, those who defended the cause of the poor and needy. So no prosper in his lifetime. none will sit on the throne of David.
For their evil were huge and serious, they did not listen to the warning of the Lord, so were be discarded.
How?
Fear the Lord for God is righteousness and sees heart of everyone on the earth.


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