Our Daily Scripture – 10/13/24 (Sunday)

SCRIPTURE:  JEREMIAH 50

A MESSAGE ABOUT BABYLON (vs. 1-46)

  1.  Babylon will be captured.  Her image will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.  A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land.  Both men and animals will fly away and not live in it. (vs. 2-3)
  2.  An alliance of great nations will come with skilled warriors to attack them with arrows. (v. 8)
  3.  Babylon will be plundered. (v. 10)
  4.  Babylon will not be inhabited but will be completely desolate. (v. 13)
  5.  She surrenders, her towers fall and her walls are torn down. (v. 15))
  6.  Babylon will be completely destroyed leaving her no remnants nor your bulls. (vs. 26-27)
  7.  Her young men will fall in the streets and all her soldiers will be silenced. (v. 30)
  8.  The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up.  A fire will consume all her towns and her surroundings. (v. 32)
  9.  A sword will be against the Babylonians, her officials, her wise men, her false prophets, her warriors, her horses and chariots, all the foreigners in her ranks and all her treasures will be plundered. (vs. 35-37)
  10.  A drought on her waters will dry up her lands. (v. 38)
  11.  It will never against be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation. (v. 39)
  12.  Cruel men around with bows and spears came like roaring sea riding in their horses coming to attack Babylon. (v. 42)
  13.  The hand of the king of Babylon hand limp.  Anguish has gripped him with pain like that of a woman in labor. (v. 43)
  14.  The young of the flock will be dragged away and her pasture will completely be destroyed. (v. 45)
  15.  At the sound of Babylon’s capture, the earth will tremble and its cry will resound among the nations. (v. 46)

THOUGHTS:

The nation from the north was Mede-Persian, an alliance of Mede and Persia.  They came out of the north to defeat Babylon and leave it desolate.  Babylon’s brutal treatment to the Israelites was being judged.  King Cyrus took the city of Babylon by surprised and brought the nation to its collapse in 539 BC.  The complete destruction was accomplished by later Persian king.  So God enabled Babylon to crush Assyria.  Then Babylon in turn would be crushed by Mede-Persia.

Pride was Babylonia’s characteristic sin.  Pride came when one feels self-sufficient and believe that he does not need God.  Proud nations or people will eventually fail because they refuse to recognize God as the ultimate power.  Let us ask God to help us get rid of our pride and focus our attention on the greatness and goodness of God.