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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle—with you I
shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, with you I shatter horse and
rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver, with you I shatter man and woman,
with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young
woman, with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and
oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.”
“Before your eyes I will repay Babylon
and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion,”
declares the Lord. “I am against you, you destroying mountain, you who destroy
the whole earth,”
declares the Lord. “I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain. No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.
declares the Lord. “I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain. No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.
“The
land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand—to lay
waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there. Babylon’s warriors
have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is
exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars
of her gates are broken. One courier follows another and messenger follows
messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured, the
river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”
Jeremiah 51:20-26, 29-32
This ends today’s reading
from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
What does the wrath of God look like when it comes?
We get a snapshot of it in today’s devotion as we continue
to study from Jeremiah 51 and look at what God brought on the mighty empire of
Babylon. Look again at these verses:
“You are My war club,
My weapon for battle—with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, with
you I shatter horse and rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver, with you
I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I
shatter young man and young woman, with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with
you I shatter farmer and oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.”
“Before
your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong
they have done in Zion,” declares the Lord. “I am against you, you destroying
mountain, you who destroy the whole earth,” declares the Lord. “I will stretch
out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out
mountain. No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a
foundation, for you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.
“The land trembles and writhes, for the
Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand—to lay waste the land of Babylon so that
no one will live there. Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain
in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her
dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken. One courier
follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of
Babylon that his entire city is captured, the river crossings seized, the
marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.” Jeremiah 51:20-26, 29-32
Note here that God is calling on a nation to be His war club
and weapon He will use for battle but that war club is no longer Babylon.
Rather, it is the Persians who God will use to take down the Babylonians and
leave their nation shattered and in ruin. The Persian forces would indeed serve
as God’s avenger against Babylon, an avenger who would repay them and bring punishment
for all the wrong they had done. The Lord was stretching out His hand against
Babylon and wielding His war club, Persia, against them. When it was all said
and done, nothing would be left of any worth and the once feared and mighty
nation would be left desolate forever. Babylon would be laid to waste and no
one would be able to live there anymore.
Not a pretty sight. It never is when the wrath of God comes.
The
very thought of God being unhappy with any nation should bring trembling and
fear because no country can stand against Him. It is no contest when He brings
His power to bear in any fashion against anyone or anything. We read what
happened to the fierce Babylonian warriors. In the face of God’s judgment, they
stopped fighting and remained in their strongholds, afraid to even try to
oppose what God was bringing against them. They found their strength to be no
match for the Lord’s, reduced to mere weaklings who were terrified before Him. The
same will happen today if any other nation chooses to pursue the same path the
Babylonians took.
And
unfortunately, there is no shortage of candidates. You can bet the wrath of God
is going to come again and again well more than 2,000 years after His assault
on the Babylonians and when it does, the nation He targets will have no chance.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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