Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"You are My battle-ax"
Text: Jeremiah 51:20
A PROFOUND STATEMENT
The following text is a very profound statement. The question is to identify the person. In context, this would actually be Babylon!
“You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.”
Jeremiah 51:20-23
1. “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: for with you I will break the nation in pieces;
with you I will destroy kingdoms”
a) The present tense used would limit the choices.
b) The current, existing world power would be Babylon.
c) Babylon was indeed God’s battle-ax and weapons of war.
d) The nation of Judah was broken by Babylon.
e) Many kingdoms were destroyed by the Babylonians.
2. “With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider”
a) Babylon had the power to break in pieces many things.
b) Highlighted were:
i) The horse and its rider.
ii) The chariot and its rider.
3. “With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
with you I will break in pieces old and young;
with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden”
a) More things were listed as broken in pieces.
b) Highlighted here:
i) The human factor for death killed both old and young.
ii) Relationships were broken too.
4. “With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
and with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers”
a) Even more things were broken in pieces.
b) Industries were destroyed:
i) Shepherds and sheep-breeding.
ii) Farmers and their yokes of oxen.
c) Government bodies were also destroyed.
i) Governors
ii) Rulers