Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"The bad figs"
Text: Jeremiah 24:8
THE FUTURE OF THE BAD FIGS
The prophecy of the bad figs was in direct contrast to what God had planned for “the good figs”. This was a solemn and yet obvious future of the wicked!
“‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—
surely thus says the LORD—
‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes,
the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land,
and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth,
for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse,
in all places where I shall drive them.
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them,
till they are consumed from the land
that I gave to them and their fathers.'”
Jeremiah 24:8-10
1. The bad figs identified
a) Zedekiah
He was the last king of Judah.
b) The princes
c) The residual group of people in Jerusalem.
d) There were those who fled to Egypt (Thinking they could escape their fate).
2. The Lord’s judgment and punishment
a) They will have trouble.
b) They will come to harm.
c) They will become a reproach and a byword.
d) Many will taunt and curse them.
e) In all the countries that they would be sent.
3. They will feel the full brunt of:
a) The sword
b) The famine
c) The pestilence
d) Till the wicked are all consumed from the land they had been given (Israel/Judah).
e) The land that God had given them as their inheritance would be lost!
f) This was forewarned (Deuteronomy 4:15-28).