Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"Because you have not heard My words"
Text: Jeremiah 25:8
THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT HEARING GOD’S WORD
Judah rejected the prophets the LORD had sent to them. The word of God went unheard and unheeded! There would be consequences that Judah did not believe could happen!
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts:
‘Because you have not heard My words,
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD,
‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant,
and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants,
and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.'”
Jeremiah 25:8-9
1. “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words'”
a) These words came from God Himself.
b) He was described formally as “The LORD of hosts”.
i) A title of great majesty.
ii) A title that spoke of great might and authority.
2. “‘Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD”
a) “All the families of the north”
i) This was a description of the many groups that made up the Babylonian
Empire.
ii) It was not just Babylon by itself.
b) “Says the LORD”
i) This was added for emphasis.
ii) This was stated for impact.
3. “And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant”
a) Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
b) But he was, in fact, only God’s servant!
4. When Nebuchadnezzar comes:
a) He will be against this land. This was Judah.
b) He will come against its inhabitants.
c) He will fight and against these nations all around.
i) There will be an attempt to battle against the Babylonians.
ii) Judah had an assortment of allies.
5. But Nebuchadnezzar will prevail
a) He will utterly destroy them, Judah and her allies.
b) The conquest would be very complete.
c) The defeated nations would become:
i) An astonishment.
ii) A hissing.
iii) And perpetual desolations.