- The Word of the LORD Read Jeremiah 32:1-5,
- This
is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar.
- The
army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in
the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
- Now
Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying,
"Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, 'This is what the LORD
says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
- Zedekiah
king of Judah will not escape out of the hands of the Babylonians, but will certainly be handed over to
the king of Babylon and
will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes.
- He
will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with
him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will
not succeed.' "
The Babylonians began the siege of Jerusalem in mid-summer
587 B.C. The supplies of food were carefully rationed. The king and his
family were given food first, then the soldiers defending the City, and lastly the poor. With little to eat and poor
sanitation in the City, probably many died due to starvation
and disease. Six months later, the walls were breached and the City taken (2 Kings 25:1-4).
The word
from God that Jeremiah gave to Zedekiah was not appreciated. Zedekiah
wanted words of success, of salvation, not words of defeat. The Babylonians
would take the City of Jerusalem Zedekiah would be
captured and taken to Babylon. The siege
would end when the wall was breached, the soldiers slain, and the City sacked. The people would be
harshly treated by the Babylonian soldiers who were unrestrained in their
anger. Finally the City with its temple would be
burned. This was not the word Zedekiah wanted to hear.
B. Buying a Field: Jeremiah 32:6-17,
- There
will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Come,
let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' "
- This
is what the LORD says: "Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the
foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, 'O LORD,
save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
- See,
I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the
ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame,
expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.
- They
will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will
lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not
stumble, because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
- "Hear
the word of the LORD, O nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands:
'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his
flock like a shepherd.'
- .For the LORD will ransom Jacob and redeem
them from the hand of those stronger than they.
- They will come and shout for joy on
the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the
LORD-- the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks
and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will
sorrow no more.
- "In
their presence I gave Baruch these instructions:
- This
is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take these documents, both the
sealed and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase, and put them in a
clay jar so they will last a long time.
- For
this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will
again be bought in this land.'
- "After
I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to
the LORD :
- "Ah,
Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great
power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
From the commentary of NIV.
P. 1595: Trust doesn¡¦t come easy. It wasn¡¦t easy for Jeremiah to publicly buy
land already captured by the enemy. But the trusted God. It wasn¡¦t easy for
David to believe that he would become king even after he was anointed. But
the trusted God (1 Samuel 16-31). It wasn¡¦t easy for Moses to believe that
he and his people would escape Egypt, even after God spoke to
him from a burning bush. But he trusted God (Exodus 3:1-4:20). It isn¡¦t
easy for us to believe that God can fulfill his ¡§impossible¡¨ promises
either, but we must trust him. God, who worked in the lives of Biblical
heroes, will work in our lives too, if we will let him..
C. The Promise of the Lord Je.32:42-44,
42 "This
is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this
people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.
43 Once more
fields will be bought in this land of which you say, 'It is a desolate
waste, without men or animals, for it has been handed over to the
Babylonians.'
44 Fields
will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed
in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the
towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western
foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes, declares
the LORD."
The immediate
future of Judah was bleak.
The desolation was the work of God in response to the sin of the people.
But this was not God¡¦s final word. God through Jeremiah spoke words of
comfort, words of hope. The people of Israel were still
God¡¦s people. They would return again to the Promised Land to buy fields,
plant crops, breed herds of animals, and build villages and towns. All this
came true when a Persian king named Cyrus conquered Babylon (539 BC) and
allowed the exiled peoples to return home. Those who place their trust in
God know that His plans are not shattered by the immediate, but
stretch into the future, even into eternity.
Question: Do you know? The Persian king Cyrus II (576-530) was also
called Cyrus the Great, or Koresh the Great. His empire
stretched from India
to the Aegean Sea. When he conquered Babylon
he allowed exiled peoples, including Judeans to return home. What does this
truth mean to you?
D. Conclusion: Hope is a
feeling of certainty that God will keep His promises. Hope grows out of
trust in God. We trust
God when we believe He is good and keeps His promises, then depend on and
obey Him. God
is trustworthy.
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