SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/6/2014
9:14 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Ignoring God’s Warnings PT-V
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
13:17-20
Message of the
verses: We are looking at the fifth
sub-point from Warren Wiersbe’s commentary and the thing that we are looking at
is the fifth vivid image that will depict the judgment that will fall upon
Judah.
The Captive Flock (Jeremiah 13:17-20): “17 But if
you will not listen to it, My soul will sob in secret for such pride; And my
eyes will bitterly weep And flow down with tears, Because the flock of the LORD
has been taken captive. 18 Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a
lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head." 19 The
cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All
Judah has been carried into exile, Wholly carried into exile. 20 “Lift up your
eyes and see Those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given
you, Your beautiful sheep?” (NASB)
17 And if you
still refuse to listen, I will weep
alone because of your pride. My
eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock will be led away into
exile. 18 Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones
and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns
will soon be snatched from your heads.’’
19 The towns of the Negev will close their gates, and no one will be
able to open them. The people of Judah will be taken away as captives. All will be carried into exile. 20 Open up
your eyes and see the armies marching down from the north! Where is your flock-
your beautiful flock- that he gave you to care for?” (NLT)
8 ¶ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king,
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta
the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 He did evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done. 10 At that time the servants of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under
siege. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his
servants were besieging it. 12 Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of Babylon, he and
his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him
captive in the eighth year of his reign. 13 He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD,
and the treasures of the
king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon
king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said. 14
Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the
mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the
smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land. 15 So he led Jehoiachin away into
exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his
officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from
Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the
craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these
the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon. 17 Then the king of Babylon
made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 18
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah
of Libnah. 19 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done. 20 For
through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He
cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon (2Kings 24:8-20).”
The portion of Scripture from 2 Kings 24:8-20 was a
fulfillment of what Jeremiah was telling the people of Judah before it actually
happened to them, showing that Jeremiah was a true prophet of God. We see again the tears of Jeremiah as he saw
what was going to happen to Judah before it happened. Jeremiah was the weeping prophet and there
was no shame in his weeping for the people of Judah for he would have good
company as the Lord Jesus Christ would weep over the people of Jerusalem in the
future: 41 When He approached Jerusalem,
He saw the city and wept
over it, 42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make
for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 “For the days will
come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and
surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will level you to the
ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone
upon another, because you
did not recognize the time of your visitation’ (Luke 19:41-44).” The
things that Jesus told would happen to the people and the city happened in 70
AD as Titus and the Roman Legions came into the city and destroyed it. Titus did not want to destroy the beautiful
temple, but there was gold between the stones and the only way to get it out
was to take it apart and destroy it. Daniel prophesized that this would happen for
in the 9th chapter of Daniel the prophecy was given as we looked at
when we studied the book of Daniel.
Daniel set up what we can call a great stop watch with a total of 490
years on it. The clock began ticking as
seen in Nehemiah chapter two when Nehemiah was given permission to go and
rebuild the city and the sanctuary in Jerusalem and 173,880 days later, which
was 383 years later Jesus came into the city riding on a colt of a donkey telling
the people after He wept over them and the city that because they rejected Him
the city would be destroyed. It happened
as I mentioned and the stop clock stopped and will begin again when antichrist
makes a covenant with Israel for seven years which will begin the tribulation
period ending with the return of Jesus Christ to planet earth to set up a 1000
year kingdom. Moses also spoke of this
dispersion of the Jews in Deuteronomy 28 and said that they would offer
themselves as slaves but no one would buy them.
This also happened just as Moses said it would and the reason it
happened was because the salve market was overflowing and so the Jews could not
even be bought as slaves just as Moses said.
Dr. Wiersbe quotes Proverbs 16:18 which says “Pride goes
before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” This was true of proud Judah as she listened
to the false prophets and the priest who were corrupt.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: My memory verses
have to do with being humble, and the example of humility is from the Lord
Jesus Christ. I desire to be humble and
not proud for all that I have both in the physical and also in the spiritual
was given to me by the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to work on memorizing Philippians
2:5-8 and pray that I will put it into practice.
Memory verses for the
week: Philippians 2:5-8
5 Have this attitude in
yourself which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form
of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied
Himself, taking on the form of a bond-slave, and being made in the likeness of
men. 8 Being found in appearance as a
man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death
on a cross.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Paul” (Acts 27:1).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Which New Testament book is
composed almost entirely of prophecies of the future?”
Answer in our next SD.
3/6/2014 9:53 AM
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