Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"I will set My face against you for catastrophe"
Text: Jeremiah 44:11
A STRONG WORD OF WARNING
The LORD had to give a clear and strong word of warning to all who were in Egypt and all who desired to flee there. One problem was that the people felt secure because of the many gods that were worshipped in the land of Egypt.
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
‘Behold, I will set My face against you
for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah.
And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces
to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there,
and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt.
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine.
They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine;
and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!'”
Jeremiah 44:11-12
1. “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
‘Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah'”
a) This stern word of warning came from the LORD.
b) He is described as:
i) The LORD of hosts.
ii) The God of Israel.
c) He would personally set His face against the people.
i) For catastrophe.
ii) For cutting off all Judah.
2. “And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt
to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be
consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the
sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach”
a) The word of warning was given to all the remnant of Judah.
b) They had set their faces to go to Egypt, though warned not to do so.
c) Spelling out the disaster that would befall them:
i) They would be consumed.
ii) They would fall in the land of Egypt.
iii) They would be consumed by the sword and famine.
iv) They shall die, regardless of their status in life.
v) They would become “an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!”