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Default Day 224. Jeremiah 4-6 - 11-04-2009, 10:39 PM

Jeremiah 4-6

Jeremiah 4

1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

Remember, Israel (and Judah) have gone whoring after other gods (fake gods). God seems to be willing to take them back. Like always happens when a husband accepts back an adulteress wife.

2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

That's all the people had to say, which doesn't sound too tough, except that God wants them to believe what they say.

4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Ok, so in addition to making the statement, they also had to circumcise themselves.

7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah is talking about the coming destruction from the Babylonians in 605.

9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.


He is not talking about the real prophets, although there were plenty walking around at this point. Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed in 586. There were plenty of prophets speaking of the coming doom; Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Daniel, Ezekiel, but the prophets that are wondering here are the false prophets of the false gods. They thought everything was going to be ok, even though all the real prophets were saying it wasn't.

14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Jeremiah is still hoping that the people could be saved if they return back to the LORD, they won't.

19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.


Jeremiah didn't just see and hear things; a recurring theme with Jeremiah is that he felt the pain. Here we see that the coming destruction is causing his guts to hurt. In fact, to announce the coming war, Jeremiah made noises like a trumpet. If it's his bowels that make the noise, then he's farting.

21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

The trumpet was the call to war. Jeremiah felt the call to war, and all those around him could probably smell the call to war.

31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

The first kid is always the hardest.

Jeremiah 5

1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Where were the other true prophets at this time? Daniel, Ezekiel... Jeremiah's father... how come Jeremiah couldn't find one person who seeks the truth?

The search for a good person, in order to save a place if very similar to the saving of Sodom and Gomorrah back in Abraham's time (Genesis 18).

2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

Did the prophets not hang out together? The northern kingdom was already taken away, so all the prophets that remained HAD to have belonged to Jerusalem and Judah. How could they not have run into one another? How come they never speak of one another?

13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Once again, this is talking about the false prophets and not the real ones.

15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Does no one speak Babylonian? Or just not yet.

19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.

When the bad finally comes, how many people today still blame God? Even though they never praise Him, they are more than willing to blame Him.

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

When the bad things do happen, it's your own damn fault.

Jeremiah 6

2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

God made Jerusalem seem pretty, so that the Babylonians would want to attack and capture it.

9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

Remember, a few people from the north managed to escape to Judah and get away from the Assyrians. These people wouldn't be lucky enough to escape from Babylon.

11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

God is so pissed he can't hold it in anymore. He's going not going to spare anyone (in Judah... pretty much) he'll take husbands and wives, and the old and young.

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Like people today who aren't disgusted when they perform a homosexual act.

22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Jeremiah so far hasn't promised any redemption or return, he only promises destruction.

So what have we learned today?

1. If you circumcise yourself to the LORD, you may be able to avoid destruction, except if you avoided the destruction, then the false prophets would be right, so you will be destructed even though you circumcised yourself.

2. One good man (or 10) can prevent the oncoming destruction. Except, there's never more than one good one at any point. Even though Isaiah was around during Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah; Jeremiah was around for Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah (and still wrote during the entirety of the Babylonian captivity); Ezekiel was around during Zedekiah. Zedekiah was the last king of Judah before the destruction. Apparently Jeremiah and Ezekiel didn't know each other.

3. Jeremiah's bowels blew like a trumpet.

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Judges 9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
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