Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar"
Text: Jeremiah 27:6
A MESSAGE FROM GOD I
The LORD had a word to give to all these envoys who had gathered together at the court of King Zedekiah. These were very solemn words to listen to!
“And command them to say to their masters,
‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel—
thus you shall say to your masters:
‘I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground,
by My great power and by My outstretched arm,
and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me.
And now I have given all these lands
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant;
and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.
So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son,
until the time of his land comes;
and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.””
Jeremiah 27:4-7
1. “And command them to say to their masters, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel—thus you shall say to your masters'”
a) These words were to be given to the envoys.
b) They were to relay this word from God to their masters.
c) These were the kings of the nations that had sent their envoys to Zedekiah.
2. “I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me”
a) God speaks in His authority as the Creator.
i) He made both man and beast.
ii) He has sovereignty over all the earth.
b) The great power of God.
i) He has supreme power.
ii) He can give man and beast to whomsoever He decides.
3. “And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him”
a) By divine decree
b) God had given all these lands to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon.
c) He is God’s servant.
d) Even the beasts of the field are to serve the king of Babylon.
4. “So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them”
a) All nations are to serve Nebuchadnezzar.
i) His son.
ii) His son’s son.
b) “Until the time of his land comes”
i) His empire will not last forever.
ii) His tenure as king is as long as the Lord had determined.
iii) There will come a time when the Babylonians will have to serve another king (whom God will also appoint).