00:00 Introduction and Updates

01:17 Jeremiah 23: The Righteous Branch

06:04 Jeremiah 24: The Two Baskets of Figs

08:21 Jeremiah 25: The 70-Year Captivity

11:29 Conclusion and Prayer

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like today's, as I'm recording this

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But for now, Uh, you got me.

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So Jeremiah 23, 24, 25, 23,

24, 25 is where we're at today.

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Well, Jeremiah 23, we're still

in the ninth message there.

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And I alluded to it yesterday, but, uh,

there is going to come a king and that

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king is going to be the righteous branch.

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He's going to be better than anyone else.

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He's going to be better than any

other king that has come because this

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righteous branch is going to be the.

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The king of Kings is going to be Jesus.

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But before we get there verses one

through four men, you know what Israel's

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national leaders had failed her.

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And that's what we were looking at at

the end of chapter 22, all of these

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Kings had failed and they were going to

be judged, but there will be a day when

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God gathers his people together into

their land and multiplies their number.

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Again, think Abraham at

covenant land offspring.

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Gives them good leaders who are

going to faithfully care for them.

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Versus five to six.

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During these days, the Messiah here called

the branch is going to rule from the land.

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The Messiah is called the branch and

referred to as the branch multiple

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times, Isaiah 11, one through five.

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We find it there as well as Zechariah.

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Ariah three eight.

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We find it there.

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Also, uh, Zechariah six, 12 through 13.

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Again, the branch is there as well.

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And this is in stark contrast

the branches to the rulers.

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Who had been.

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Uh, that that Israel had been under

recently and towards the end of

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their time, under his rule, under

the branches rule and reign, Israel

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will enjoy peace and security

and Judah is going to be safe.

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So where does this imagery

of the branch come from?

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Well, it comes from the idea of the

shoot of David, this offspring of

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David, that that is, is going to emerge,

and that is going to be this branch

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and the branch is going to be Jesus.

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Um, and so that's kind of the,

the imagery there is that he's an

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offshoot of the line of David and

he is going to be the one that is.

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Is the Messiah.

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Now, is there anything in the

new Testament that we can point

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to and say, look, here's Jesus.

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Stepping into the fulfillment

of the title of the branch.

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Well, not specifically.

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Uh, but it is interesting because

he's from the town of Nazareth.

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And in this, I heard one.

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Uh, one pastor wants to preach on this.

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And I think even had, I even had

a college professor talk about

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this, but he's from Nazareth.

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Well, the Hebrew word.

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Nazi there, which is the root of Nazareth.

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There means branch.

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And so it's possible that

there's an illusion there that

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he hailed from the branch town.

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So he's the branch man

from the branch town.

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It's a stretch, but it might be there.

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But we do know that this is

talking about the Messiah.

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Uh, because the prophecies and we do know

that the, that Jesus is the fulfillment.

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Jesus is the Messiah, and he's gonna,

he's gonna rule and he's going to

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reign verses seven through eight.

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Uh, the future gathering of the people

of Israel is going to be greater in

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scope and power than even the Exodus.

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And we've talked about that before

in the podcast that the pinnacle

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of, uh, of things that the thing

that people pointed back through

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and said, look how great this was.

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Look how faithful God has been, has

been the Exodus up until this point.

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Well, In the future, it's going

to eventually be something even

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bigger and better than that.

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And that's going to be the regathering of

the people during the millennial kingdom.

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And that's another reason why we

know this has not yet occurred.

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Because there has not been a regathering

of the people that's caused people

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to say, look at how great that is

compared to it's even better than

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the Exodus that doesn't happen yet.

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That's still in the future.

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Got still going to do that

for his people in the future.

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Verses nine through 12, besides the

corrupt national leaders is real

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spiritual leaders had also fallen.

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Her prophets and priests

had become immoral.

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Liars is what we really find

here in verses nine through 12.

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And then in 13, through 14, as in so many

other things, Judah head out, done some

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area in the corruption of these profits.

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So she saw her sister to the

north and everything that'd be

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fell her, and she did not repent.

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Instead she became even worse

than, than her sister did.

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And they were now to the

Lord as Sodom and Gomorrah.

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What.

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Uh, sobering reality.

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That is because those were

obviously two cities of great

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wickedness and God is comparing.

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Judah now to Sodom and Gomorrah, we know

what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Uh, verses 16 through 22, God warns.

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As people here not to listen

to the false prophets.

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Uh, because they, they didn't

speak for him and he was going

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to judge them for the deception.

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So God, through Jeremiah saying,

don't listen to the other prophets.

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Don't listen to the false profits

because I am not speaking through them.

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Versus 23 through 32, then God is saying,

look, I'm not mocked and I'm not deceived.

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He knew the lies of the prophets

in bed telling, and he was

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not going to stand idly by.

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His word is powerful and an exchange

through conviction, but their word.

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Uh, the word of the prophets is mere

chaff in the wind with little weight

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or power to accomplish anything.

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So God has contrasting his word with the

word of the false prophets and the Lord

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was against these faults profits verses

33 through 40 judgment would come to them.

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Judgment was going to come to them.

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And that's what we find laid out for us.

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In the last part here of chapter 23.

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He's going to lift them up and cast them

away from his presence, them and the city

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that he gave to them and their fathers.

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And so we see, uh, God's judgment against

the false prophets is, is laid out for us.

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They're really beginning in verse nine,

all the way through the end of chapter 23.

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All right.

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Chapter 24, we get into the 10th message

here, again, 10 of 12 to open the book.

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And so in this 10th message and chapter

24, we're not looking at events that take

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place after 5 97 BC, when Jack and Naya.

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Or joy chain was taken

captive by Nebuchadnezzar.

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was installed in his place.

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So.

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Uh, around 5 97 BC, we're jumping

around a lot in the book of

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Jeremiah in different timeframes.

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And the book is not chronologically

organized here, but.

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Perhaps the magically organized, but

God is dealing with the judgment.

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And so now we're jumping forward and

seeing some of it's already happened.

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And as we're looking here, this is

actually the second of four deportations

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that we're going to find here.

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Uh, the first was back in 6 0

5 BC and would have included

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Daniel and his three friends.

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So 6 0 5 BC first deportation that

would have been when Daniel Shadrach,

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Meshach and Abednego or Hannah and I as

Ryan and Michelle were taken captive.

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This one here in 5 97 is the

second of the four deportations.

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The third is going to be the largest and

that's going to take place in 5 87, 86.

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After the fall of Jerusalem, that's

going to be the largest deportation.

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The city has fallen at this point.

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The city has not yet fallen.

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Uh, but, but there have been captains

that have been taken 5 86, 87, 5

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86, that the fall of Jerusalem.

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And that's the largest deportation.

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And then there's finally a fourth

smaller one that takes place.

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In the future in 5 82

BC, but three main ones.

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And then that fourth, small one.

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This is the second of the three

main ones, 5 97 BC one chapter 24.

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What Jeremiah sees here

are two baskets of figs.

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And these two baskets of figs represent

two different people that the good

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figs are the exiles in Babylon

who repent and return to the Lord.

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And so these good figs that are the,

the exiles they're in Babylon, who

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repent returned to the Lord, God, God

is going to bring them back to the land

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in partial fulfillment of his prophecy

under Cyrus's rain, but then the complete

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fulfillment of this tech still awaits that

future date in the millennial kingdom.

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Again.

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And so the, the, the

good figs are the, the.

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The people of God that are going to

repent and come back to the Lord, right?

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The bad figs.

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Then in the other basket, the bad figs

are the corrupt Israelites who remain

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or flee to Egypt thinking they're

gonna escape the judgment of the Lord.

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And they would die for

their sinful rebellion.

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And so the bad figs are the ones that

don't heed the words of Jeremiah that

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stay in the city that, that don't flee.

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And they're going to end up, uh, suffering

for not believing the message of God.

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So that's chapter 24, the 10th

message 11th message chapter 25.

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Now we're going to jump back again.

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So we jumped forward to 5 97.

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Now we're jumping back again.

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This time we are jumping back to 6

0 5 BC under the reign of Jehoiakim.

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And so these time markers are helpful

for us as we read through the book

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of Jeremiah, but we're back in.

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Uh, 6 0 5 BC under the reign of Jehoiakim

the year significant because this is the

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year Babylon, Dell, Egypt, a major defeat.

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And as a result, Judah was conscripted

as a tributary because Judah kind of

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had Egypt as a shield, so to speak.

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Uh, because they were another

world power will, now that Babylon

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is attacked and defeated Egypt.

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Now they can begin to turn up the heat

on, on Israel and on, on Jerusalem there.

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And that's exactly what

they're going to do.

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Uh, the, the tributary setup in

this basically sets the stage for

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Israel's ultimate defeat in captivity.

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And so in this chapter, Jeremiah

tells the people that captivity

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is going to last for 70 years.

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And that's what we see here.

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So verses one through seven, again,

this is why judgment is coming.

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And so in case anybody was still.

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Uh, not clear on why the loader

was going to judge the people.

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Uh, verses one through

seven, lay that out.

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You've neither listened to, or

inclined your ears to hear verse four.

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Although the Lord persistently sent

you all his servants, the prophets,

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and so the people's wickedness

and their refusal to listen.

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That's why this judgment was coming.

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Verse nine.

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Notice what he calls Nebuchadnezzar.

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He names Nebuchadnezzar here.

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So notice that Nebuchadnezzar is

actually named here and called by

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name, and then he calls him my servant.

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And so there's no doubt

about what's happening in.

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God is laying this out for

his people to understand.

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When this comes to, to, to bear

when this happens, remember I

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told you this was going to happen.

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Nebuchadnezzar is not

doing this of his own.

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He's doing this as my servant.

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God's sovereignty there over calamity.

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As we've talked about previously in

the podcast, verse 12, this captivity

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note, how long it's going to last,

it's going to last for 70 years.

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Now.

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In, uh, in Daniel, Daniel is going

to be found reading the prophet,

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Jeremiah reading the scroll

towards the end of that 70 years.

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And he's going to read this

section that talks about that.

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And that's going to prompt him into his

prayer for repentance is his national

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confession, prayer of repentance.

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So kind of interesting.

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That we're, we're seeing the

interaction of scripture.

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Uh, with one another there as, as

Daniel is going to be reading this

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section that we're reading right now.

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In, uh, in captivity himself

and he's going to realize, oh,

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it's coming to the conclusion.

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What do we need to do?

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Versus 15 to 29, then the cup of

God's wrath was going to be poured out

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on all the nations, not just Judah.

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And so the prophetess told, make

the nations drink of this cup.

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Now the question is going to be,

is this, did he actually do this?

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Is this literal?

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Did he go to the Kings of

all these nations and force

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them to drink from this cup?

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And the answer is most likely not.

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It's probably a symbolic act.

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Uh, it's it's possible.

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He went to their representatives that

were gathered there in the, the areas

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around them and, and had them drink of it.

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It's certainly possible there.

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Others have suggested this may have

been a vision, but the point is this.

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God's wrath is coming

for the nations as well.

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It's not just for Judah, but

it's coming on the nations.

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As well, and in verses 30 through 38

and the rest of the chapter, we get

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the explanation of what that wrath

upon the nations is going to be like.

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There you go.

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Jeremiah 23, 24, 25.

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Let me pray.

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And then we'll be done with

a rather shorter episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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But again, thanks so much

for sticking with us.

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Let's pray.

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God, we thank you.

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Uh, for your kindness to us in that we

don't have to fear the cup of wrath.

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We thank you that Jesus bore it for us

on the cross, and that there's not a

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single drop left that we ourselves are

going to have to drink on that day.

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And so we are grateful and

thankful for your kindness, your

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mercy, your grace, to us in that.

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And so God help us never

to take that for granted.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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