God’s Judgment Against Babylon

“We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the … More

Judgment

This passage has to do with God’s Judgements against Babylon (vv. 1-10).

Jeremiah is God’s prophet declaring God’s truth that the heathen Babylonians will be captured and punished for their sins of pride and corruption. Their God Bel (also known as Marduk) who was the chief deity of Babylon, would be crushed in pieces and put to shame (vv. 1-2). Even though the instrument in the hand of Jehovah is described as people from the north coming to make the land of Babylon desolate, yet we see judgment is clearly declared and accomplished by the vengeance of Jehovah (v. 3). All the things in which Babylon had put her trust in (her treasures, mighty men, her waters, bring about complete overthrow of  her pride and her power.

God speaks regarding the Jews (vv. 4-10). They were like lost sheep that their shepherds had led them astray. Then they turned them loose in the mountains where they didn’t know how to get back to the fold. They were being devoured by their enemies because they have sinned against God. About this passage, Warren Wiersbe says, “While the immediate application is to the return of the exiles from Babylon, the ultimate reference includes the gathering of the Jew in the latter days. God warned the people to flee from Babylon so as not to be caught in the judgment that would fall. (Rev. 18:4). He would bring the Medes and the Persians against Babylon and give them victory.”

Application

God tells me what we are to flee or stay away from. (I Thess. 5:22) says to avoid or “abstain from all appearance of evil.” Lord help me to abstain from all appearance of evil because the results are tremendous (I Thess 5:23) “and the very God of peace sanctify me wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Jeremiah 50:1-10 (English Standard Version)


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