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"I will destroy My people"

Text: Jeremiah 15:7

THE JUDGMENT OF GOD

It was a difficult doctrine to accept for the children of Judah. They could not comprehend the thought of God judging them! This was a teaching that Jeremiah struggled with personally!

“And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan
in the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they do not return from their ways.
Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.”
Jeremiah 15:7-8

1. “And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land”

a) Winnowing was done at harvest.

b) What winnowing does.

i) It separates the kernel from the chaff.

ii) The faithful will be spared.

iii) The wicked like chaff would be driven away.

c) The faithful need not be overly alarmed!

2. “I will bereave them of children; I will destroy My people, since they do not return from their ways”

a) Bereavement would be experienced.

b) People will be destroyed.

c) “My people”

i) It is a generic term.

ii) It is another term for “the children of Judah”.

iii) Not all Israel is true Israel.

d) Destruction is for the ungodly.

i) They refuse to return to God.

ii) They refused to return from their ways of sin and wickedness.

3. “Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a plunderer at noonday; I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly”

a) More would become widows.

i) When the men fall in battle.

ii) When they die in the famine.

b) The surviving mothers would not have an easy passage.

i) They will face problems in broad daylight.

ii) They will be vulnerable to plunderers who will take advantage.

c) Anguish and terror would fall on all survivors:

i) Suddenly

ii) Terribly