Jeremiah 50-51 Be Careful About Being God's Tool

It sure seems that, after all God had said about Judah and what awaited the nation as it was taken to Babylon to be punished, God was then going to rip the heart out of Babylon for being evil enough to have been used by Him to punish His own people for their apostasy.  Where Jerusalem would be destroyed and later rebuilt, Babylon would remain a ruin forever.

 

God said, “Babylon, I set a trap for you, and you were caught before you knew it!”  Ten times god said of Babylon, “I use you…”  Babylon wasn’t supreme.  It was a puppet used by the Lord to chasten His people.  Everything that God had told Jeremiah to say was written on a scroll and sent to Babylon to be read to King Zedekiah and all the Israelites in captivity, so that they’d know what would later befall their captors.  Then it was to be thrown into the Euphrates River, weighted by a stone.  Wouldn’t that be awesome to find on a fishing trip today!

 

Father, we ought to understand from this that we cannot become evil and fight You and expect to win.  You are sovereign, and any people who work against You are doomed from the start.  Their stubborn pride will be their ruin.  Please don’t let that be America’s ruin, Father.