August 22: Jeremiah 46-48

August 22, Jeremiah 46-48

Through the rest of Jeremiah, we learn about God’s Judgment on the nations… These prophecies were also talked about in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Amos and some others… God was warning what was coming. 

Jeremiah 46 God’s Word came to Jeremiah about the coming judgment on Egypt. God was the one that would be instigating it. There is discussion about war preparation and the Day of the Lord’s Judgment on Egypt. It will be a day of vengeance so that God can be avenged against those that were against Him. God was going to use Babylon to accomplish the invasion of Egypt. Egypt will not be able to stand against what God was going to do. Israel needed to not fear what was coming, because they were still His people and God was with them.

Jeremiah 47 Now Jeremiah gets a Word from the Lord about the Philistines and their destruction. They have been a part of a lot of the Biblical stories for a very long time. The Lord was the one who would be destroying the Philistines and this was fulfilled about 20 years after Jeremiah wrote this. 

Jeremiah 48 Next in line was the judgement of Moab.They will be laid waste as well “because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials. The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape…” Instead of trusting in God, they did their own thing without God and this lead to their judgement. God will use Babylon again to overtake Moab. There will be no joy there…

To sum it all up: 

• When God says something is going to happen, we can trust in it because it is God’s Words and they will happen - I hope that you have realized this through our journey together this year reading the Bible chronologically.