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Jeremiah 21
Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
maketh war against us; if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all
his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war
that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and
against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble
them into the midst of this city.
5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a
strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall
die of a great pestilence.
7 And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his
servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence,
from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that
seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall
not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before
you the way of life, and the way of death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by
the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege
you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith
the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
burn it with fire.
11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the
Lord;
12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and
deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go
out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your
doings.
13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain,
saith the Lord; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord:
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things
round about it.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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