Daily Reading: 4-20-16
Jeremiah 50:17-20 New Living Translation (NLT)
Jeremiah the prophet was given a word from the Lord concerning Babylon. Babylon was a mighty empire in Jeremiah’s time. In fact, God used Babylon to punish Judah for her sin. When God was done with Babylon, it was destroyed by the Medes and Persians around 539BCE (Daniel 5:30-31). In our passage below, we can discern a message that spiritually applies to a time when God will wipe out all sin forever; called the end times. It is a message of Hope found in Messiah!
Jeremiah 50:17-20 Hope for God’s People
17
“The Israelites are like sheep
that have been scattered by lions.
First the king of Assyria ate them up.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar[a] of Babylon cracked their bones.”
18
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
the God of Israel, says:
“Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
just as I punished the king of Assyria.
19
And I will bring Israel home again to its own land,
to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan,
and to be satisfied once more
in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
20
In those days,” says the Lord,
“no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah,
for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.