Jeremiah
25:30-38:
This is what the
Lord, the God of Israel, said to me:
'Take from my hand
this cup filled with the wine of my wrath
And make all the
nations to whom I send you drink it.
When they drink it,
they will stagger and go mad
Because of the sword
I will send among them.'
So I took the cup
from the Lord's hand
And made all the
nations to whom he sent me drink it:
Jerusalem and the
towns of Judah, its kings and officials,
To make them a ruin
and an object of horror
And scorn and
cursing, as they are today;
Pharaoh king of
Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people,
And all the foreign
people there;
All the kings of Uz;
all the kings of the Philistines
(Those of Ashkelon,
Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);
Edom, Moab and
Ammon;
All the kings of
Tyre and Sidon;
The kings of the
coastlands across the sea;
Dedan, Tema, Buz and
all who are in distant places;
All the kings of
Arabia
And all the kings of
the foreign people who live in the desert;
All the kings of
Zimri, Elam and Media;
And all the kings of
the north, near and far, one after the other--
All
the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
And after all of
them, the king (Satan)
of Sheshach (Babylon) will drink it too.
Then tell them,
This is what the
Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
'Drink,
get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more
Because of the sword
I will send among you.'
But if they refuse
to take the cup from your hand and drink,
Tell them, This is
what the Lord Almighty says:
'You
must drink it!
See, I am beginning
to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name,
And will you indeed
go unpunished?
You will not go
unpunished,
For
I am calling down a sword upon all who live on the earth,'
Declares the Lord
almighty.
Now prophesy all
these words against them and say to to them:
'The Lord will roar
from on high;
He will lift his
voice from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land.
He will shout like
those who tread the grapes,
Shout
against all who live on the earth.
The tumult will
resound to the ends of the earth,
For
the Lord will bring charges against the nations;
He
will bring judgment on all mankind
And put the wicked
to the sword,' declares the Lord.
This is what the
Lord Almighty says:
'Look!
Disaster is spreading from nation to nation;
A
mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.
At
that time those slain by the Lord will be everywhere--
From
one end of the earth to the other.
They
will not be mourned or gathered up or buried,
But
will be like refuse lying on the ground.
Weep and wail, you
shepherds;
Roll in the dust,
you leaders of the flock.
For
your time to be slaughtered has come;
You will fall and be
shattered like fine pottery.
The shepherds will
have nowhere to flee,
The leaders of the
flock no place to escape.
Hear the cry of the
shepherds,
The wailing of the
leaders of the flock,
For the Lord is
destroying their pasture.
The peaceful meadows
will be laid waste
Because
of the fierce anger of the Lord.
Like a lion he will
leave his lair,
And their land will
become desolate
Because of the sword
of the oppressor
And because of the
Lord's fierce anger.' (Jeremiah 25:30-38)
'Is not My Word like fire,' declares the Lord,
And like a hammer that breaks rock in pieces? (Jeremiah 23:29)
Today, The Bride of
Christ understands
That what God told
Jeremiah is eminent, it is at the door.
She is prepared for
what lies directly ahead;
She is holding back the
battle at the gate
With Her prayer, praise and worship.
Today, the nations have
rejected the Christ of God and His Word;
The cup of their
iniquity is full and irreversible.
They exult in their
overweening pride and conceit;
Their pride and
arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
God sees their
insolence and knows that it is futile;
Their boasting
accomplishes nothing, before Him.
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