Our Daily Scripture – 10/11/24 (Friday)

SCRIPTURE:  JEREMIAH 48

A MESSAGE ABOUT MOAB (VS. 1-47)

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says about Moab:

  1.  Moab will be broken with destruction and anguish cries (vs. 4-5)
  2.  The destroyer will come against every town and not a town will escape.  The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed. (v. 8)
  3.  A curse on him who is lax in doing the Lord’s work and who keeps his sword from bloodshed. (vs. 10)
  4.  They will be poured and emptied from jars.  Her jugs will be smashed and they will be ashamed. (vs. 12-13)
  5.  Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter. (v.. 15)
  6.  The fall of calamity is at home and the calamity will come quickly. (v. 16)
  7.  Moab will be disgraced, shattered and destroyed. (v. 20)
  8.  Judgment has come to all the towns of Moab. (v. 24)
  9.  Moab’s horn is cut off, her arm is broken. (v. 25)
  10.  Moab will be an object of ridicule. (v. 26)
  11.  Moab’s pride and arrogance accomplish nothing. (v. 30)
  12.  Moab’s ripe fruits and grapes will be destroyed. (v. 32)
  13.  Joy and gladness are gone. (v. .3)
  14.  Their sounds of cry rises. (v. 34)
  15.  Gone are wealth they acquired. (v. 36)
  16.  There is nothing but mourning in all of the roofs of Moab. (v. 38)
  17.  Moab have become an object of ridicule and horror. (v. 39)
  18.  Their cities will be captured and the hearts of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor. (v. 41)
  19.  Moab will be destroyed with terror, pit and snare. (v. 43)
  20.  No one can flee from the terror of Moab’s punishment. (v. 44)
  21.  A fire will burn Moab. (v. 45)
  22.  Their sons and daughters will be taken into exile and captivity. (v. 46)

THOUGHTS:

Moab were descendants of Lot through an incestuous relationship with one of his daughters.   They led the Israelites into idolatry.  They were later conquered by Babylon and disappeared as a nation.

When Israel was divided into Northern and Southern kingdom, the Northern kingdom set up gold calf idols in Bethel in order to keep people from going to worship in Jerusalem, the capital of the Southern Kingdom.

God condemned Moab because of its pride.  They took personal credit and looked down on others.  God cannot tolerate pride.  He wants us to have an honest and humble heart.