Monday, January 15, 2018

People likes the good news but it is false prophecy

Jeremiah 27:1-22
Judah and Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon will serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.
Any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there.
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon. I have not sent them, declares the Lord.
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.
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(正面衝突) with the false prophets.
Why?
King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar was servant of the Lord, God allowed he take over all the nations in that period.
Wearing wooden yoke means to be slave under Babylon. But people don't like this true message, people and kings like good message, but it is false prophecy.
How?
God's word is not always good news but bad news to a man. But God loves us is the truth, discipline is needed to God's loved children.




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