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801. Bible Study: Jeremiah 45 thru 48 (Promise to Baruch, Messages to Egypt, the Philistines (Land of Gaza), and Moab (Land of Jordan today) , · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 45 from the book of Jeremiah.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us and let the Holy Spirit give us
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  wisdom and insight as we read through the scripture.
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  We ask this in Jesus name. It's entitled A message to Baruk
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  when Baruk son of Niraya wrote on the scroll the words Jeremiah
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  the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoah Kim son of
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  Josiah king of Judah. Jeremiah said this to Baruch.
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  This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says to you.
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  Baruch, you said woe to me. The Lord had has added sorrow to
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  my pain. I am worn out with groaning and
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  find no rest. But the Lord has told me to say
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  to you, This is what the Lord says.
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  I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have
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  planted throughout the earth. Should you then seek great
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  things for yourself, do not seek them, for I will bring disaster
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  on all people, declares the Lord.
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  But wherever you go, I will let you escape with your life.
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  So that's the end. It's just a very short chapter
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  there, so I will read the commentary for this chapter.
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  Why are some of these chapters out of out of sequence?
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  At times the stories in Jeremiah appear to be strung together in
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  random order. Something a later editor prob
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  possibly rearranged the chapters for various reasons.
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  Others think the book was arranged thematically, not
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  chronologically, so that some sections that appear to be out
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  of place were placed there intentionally to support a
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  certain theme. What was Baruch complaining
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  about? Undoubtedly, Baruch shared in
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  Jeremiah's sorrows. Baruch may have experienced
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  emotions similar to those of Jeremiah, such as rejection or
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  disappointment because the people would not repent.
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  Or perhaps Baruch had misgivings about his humble lot in life.
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  And there's another note about this.
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  So what great things did Baruch want for himself?
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  Baruch wishes are not revealed. He may have been longing for a
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  quiet life in which he could escape the responsibilities of
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  being Jeremiah helper. Some think that so Sarah Aya,
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  Baruch's brother, enjoyed great things as a staff officer under
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  King Zedekiah. It may have been that Baruch
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  envied his brother's position now Chapter 46, a message about
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  Egypt. This is the word of law of the
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  Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nation's
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  There's many nations concerning Egypt.
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  This is the message against the army of Pharaoh Nikko, king of
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  Egypt, which was defeated at Karchimash on the Euphrates
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  River by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the fourth year of
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  Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah.
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  Prepare your Shields, both large and small, and March out for
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  battle. Harness the horses, mount the
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  steeds, take your positions with helmets on, Polish your Spears,
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  put on your armor. What do I see?
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  They are terrified, they are retreating.
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  Their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste, without
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  looking back, and there is terror on every side, declares
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  the Lord. The swift cannot flee, nor the
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  strong escape in the north by the river Euphrates.
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  They stumble and fall. Who is this that rises like the
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  Nile like rivers of surging waters?
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  Egypt rises like the Nile like rivers of surging waters?
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  She says, I will rise and cover the earth.
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  I will destroy cities and their people.
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  So I'm going to pause here for a minute because this is
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  interesting because is this a spirituality that's coming out
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  of Egypt? As you know, there are
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  principalities that cover different areas.
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  That was a belief that they had a long time ago.
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  And it it's supported by Ephesians 6, chapter 12, chapter
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  6, verse 12. And so is this, Like she says, I
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  will rise and cover the earth. So I'm just wondering if this is
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  something that is supernatural and evil.
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  Charge you horses, Dr. Furiously, you charioteers March
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  on you warriors, men of Cush and Put who carry Shields, men of
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  Lydia who draw the bow. But that day belongs to the
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  Lord, the Lord Almighty. A day of vengeance for vengeance
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  on his foes. The sword will devour till it is
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  satisfied, till it has quenched its thirst with blood for the
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  Lord. The Lord Almighty will offer
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  sacrifice in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.
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  Get up Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter Egypt.
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  But you try many medicines in vain.
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  There is no healing for you. The nations will hear of your
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  shame. Your cries will fill the earth.
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  1 warrior will stumble over another.
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  Both will fall down together. So I'm going to pause there and
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  go through some of the questions and answers for this portion of
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  chapter 46. So what nations were these?
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  The Gentile or non Israelite nations?
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  God commissioned Jeremiah to speak not only to Judah, but to
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  non Jewish people as well. Was this a prophecy before the
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  event or a political analysis after the fact?
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  Opinions are divided on this matter.
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  Egypt was defeated in six O 5 BC.
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  If these words came after Egypt's defeat, they may have
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  been a song expressing Judah's relief.
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  On the other hand, if these words were given before the
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  event, they would have announced Egypt's defeat as God's judgment
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  for the idolatry and past treatment of Israel and Judah.
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  Can vengeance be a godly attribute?
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  Only God can rightfully avenge wrong.
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  His vengeance is equivalent to justice.
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  His wrath against sin is always appropriate.
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  Human vengeance, on the other hand, is almost always distorted
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  by sinful human nature. God desires to balance the
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  scales of justice. People want to get even.
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  God wants to protect the truth. People want to protect
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  themselves. To desire revenge is human, but
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  it is not godly. It is not a godly attribute.
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  Retaliation should be left to God.
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  And you can find that it says the vengeance is mine.
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  And the verse that's quoted in here is Romans 1217 through 21.
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  So what is the difference between Lord and Lord Almighty?
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  These are two titles for God that come from the same Hebrew
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  phrase, Adonai Yahweh, which means the God who is master of
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  all things. Why would God offer a sacrifice?
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  So that the price of sin would be paid and Judah would be
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  judged for its sin? Jeremiah used human terms in the
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  only way he knew how to describe what God was doing.
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  God's vengeance would be like a sacrifice satisfying His holy
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  wrath. Who was virgin?
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  Egypt. This is a personification of the
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  nation of Egypt. Some think it was used
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  sarcastically. That is, the word virgin
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  referred to Egypt being conquered by other nations.
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  Yet Egypt would soon lose its virginity, for Egypt would be
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  conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar and be put to shame.
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  The only thing that is confusing, not the only thing,
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  but what is confusing to me in chapter 46 is that it's saying
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  that she says I will rise and cover the earth.
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  It's like Egypt personified. Is that some spiritual aspect?
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  I really just don't know. But then it says, but there's
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  going to be defeat, obviously, because the Lord, but that day
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  belongs to the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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  That's in verse 10 and a day of vengeance.
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  Vengeance on his foes. Well, God does have wrath at
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  times for injustice. But I also wonder, could this be
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  one of those foreshadowing type prophecies where it had a
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  partial fulfillment, but it ultimately is also pointing to
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  the last days just because the day of vengeance is usually like
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  the Lord's day. That's what it's usually
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  referring to. And so that's the only reason
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  why I think of that when I read that.
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  So going to verse 13, this is the message the Lord spoke to
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  Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar, king
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  of Babylon to attack Egypt. Announce this in Egypt and
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  proclaim it in Migdal. Proclaim it also in Memphis and
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  Tampanas. Take your positions and get
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  ready for the sword devours those around you.
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  Why will your warriors be laid low?
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  They cannot stand for the Lord will push them down.
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  They will stumble repeatedly. They will fall over each other.
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  They will say get up, let us go back to our own people in our
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  native lands away from the sword of the oppressor There they will
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  exclaim Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise.
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  He has missed his opportunity as surely as I live, declares the
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  King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
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  One will come who is like Tabor among the mountains, like Carmel
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  by the sea. Pick your belongings or exile
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  you who live in Egypt, for Memphis will be laid waste and
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  lie in ruins without inhabitant. Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but
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  a gadfly is coming against her from the north.
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  The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves.
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  They too will turn and fight together.
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  They will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster
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  is coming upon them. The time for them to be
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  punished. Egypt will hiss like a fleeing
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  serpent as the enemy advances in force.
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  So this doesn't really give Egypt a very good
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  personification to hiss like a fleeing serpent.
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  So that's very evil. That's Egypt is being compared
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  to something very evil. They will come against her with
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  axes, like men who cut down trees.
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  They will chop down her fork. Forest declares the Lord, dense
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  though it be. They are more numerous than
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  locust. They cannot be counted.
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  Daughter Egypt to be put. Daughter Egypt will be put to
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  shame, given into the hands of the people of the north.
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  The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says, I am about to
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  bring punishment on Ammon, God of Thebes, on Pharaoh, on Egypt
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  and her gods and her kings, and on those who rely on Pharaoh.
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  I will give them into the hands of those who want to kill them.
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  Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon and his officers.
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  I again I well I'll read what this chapter says.
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  So what was Jeremiah supposed to announce in Egypt?
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  Nebuchadnezzar coming destruction of Egypt.
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  The devastation of Egypt occurred in 568 BC after
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  Jeremiah death. What made the one coming like
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  Tabor and like Carmel? Tabor and Carmel are two
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  prominent mountains in Israel. Neither is particularly tall,
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  but they stand out from the surrounding terrain.
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  Tabor is an isolated mountain rising above a plain, and Carmel
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  is a prominent mountain range along the coast.
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  The coming king Nebuchadnezzar would similarly be distinguished
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  from the rest of the kings. What was a gadfly?
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  This is This is the only use of this word in the Old Testament,
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  so identification must come from the context.
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  The word comes from a Hebrew root meaning to nip.
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  To be consistent with this analogy, the gadfly was probably
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  a small biting insect, so a bite was painful, but probably more
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  of an annoyance than anything else.
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  Why would God want to punish false gods?
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  To show that these gods were in fact not gods at all.
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  God punished the city's supposed supposedly being protected by
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  then. God's judgement demonstrated his
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  complete sovereignty and power over all as he is the one true
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  God. So I when I see this that
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  Jeremiah is saying it, then I do wonder.
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  Obviously the people believed in Ammon or Amon, God of Thebes and
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  there were Egypt with her gods. So there were multiple gods that
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  they with a little G God, not like God, the one true God.
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  There's these others, but what were they?
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  Were they just figments of imagination or were they actual
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  spiritual entities that wanted to be gods that really truly
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  were not gods? The scripture doesn't tell us
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  that. But I do wonder when God tells
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  Jeremiah that he's going to punish these and he names like
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  Amon, God of Thebes, that, you know, if there wasn't an entity,
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  would God actually say that? Would he actually call it out by
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  name? It's just something that I think
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  about like some of these things when we read them in the Bible,
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  I think we should think about it just, you know, like we might
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  Passover these things and just think, well, none of that
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  exists. And when in reality, there are
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  things that I believe that we just don't really understand, we
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  don't know that do exist, and that when we read Scripture
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  carefully, then we see things like this.
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  So continuing on, it's well, he's talking about
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  Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his officers.
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  Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited as in times past,
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  declares the Lord. Do not be afraid, Jacob, my
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  servant, Do not be dismayed. Israel.
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  I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants
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  from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and
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  security, and no one will make him afraid.
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  So now that verse right there, I think his future.
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  Because Israel has never had peace and security, and they've
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  always been the subject of violence.
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  And so it says, Jacob will again have peace and security and no
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  one will make him afraid. Well, that's certainly not
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  today. Do not be afraid.
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  And Jacob is referring to Israel.
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  Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, for I am with you,
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  declares the Lord. Though I completely destroy all
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  the nations among which I scatter you, I will not
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  completely destroy you. I will discipline you, but only
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  in due measure. I will not let you go entirely
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  unpunished. Now this shows again how God is
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  just he. He's not.
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  He's first of all, He honors His covenant that He made with
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  Abraham, His promise to the people of Israel, and He always
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  keeps a remnant. That's one thing.
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  He's faithful to them even when they are not faithful to Him.
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  And he says, I, I'm not going to completely destroy you, but I
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  will discipline you. And it says in Scripture
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  elsewhere that God disciplines those he loves.
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  And the purpose of discipline is so that they come back to
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  repentance. So let's see, there's one more
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  paragraph about X, you know, in the Bible study notes.
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  So what is discipline in due measure?
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  The idea of discipline in due measure can sound can be found
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  throughout Scripture. God's discipline of His people
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  brings about restoration, character, and godliness.
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  God's discipline of unbelievers results in destruction,
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  banishment, and suffering for God's people.
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  Mercy ultimately triumphs over judgement because God's justice
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  has been satisfied through the one time sacrifice of Jesus
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  Christ, the Son of God. Then we'll continue in chapter
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  47, a message about the Philistines.
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  Now the Philistines are the area today where is Gaza.
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  So this is always interesting when that comes up, just to see
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  what it said in the past about this area.
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  This is what the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the
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  prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh
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  attacked Gaza. So this is interesting too,
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  because it says before Pharaoh attacked Gaza, so Egypt attacked
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  Gaza, and this just seems to come out of nowhere, but maybe
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  it will explain it further. And this is what the Lord says.
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  See how the waters are rising in the north.
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  They will become an overflowing torrent.
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  They will overflow the land and everything in it, the towns and
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  those who live in them, the people will cry out.
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  All who dwell in the land will wail at the sound of hooves of
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  galloping steeds, at the noise of enemy Chariots and the rumble
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  of their wheels. So right there we can see that
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  this, the waters that are rising in the north are actually
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  people. It's not waters because then
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  they start describing about the hooves of galloping steeds and
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  the enemy chariot. So this is a, a descriptive way
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  of talking about the people that are coming from the north
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  against them. Parents will not turn to help
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  their children. Their hands will hang limp, for
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  the day has come to destroy all the Philistines and to remove
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  all survivors. Who could help?
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  Who could help Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon?
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  The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines.
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  The remnant from the coast of Kaftor.
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  Gazza will shave her head in mourning.
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  Ashclon will be silenced. You remnant on the plain, how
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  long will you cut yourselves at last?
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  Word. Alas, Sword of the Lord, how
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  long till you rest? Return to your sheath, cease and
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  be still. But how can it rest when the
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  Lord has commanded it, when He has ordered it to attack
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  Ashkelon and the coast where all the Philistines destroyed?
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  Commentary. Apparently the the last biblical
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  reference to a Philistine city is found in Nehemiah, years
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  after Jeremiah's time. Most scholars believe the
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  Philistine cities were captured and their people deported by the
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  Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. At that point, it seems they
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  ceased to exist as a nation. Though the word Palestine is
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  linked to the word Philistine in the Hebrew, Palestinians today
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  are not related to the Philistines, They merely live on
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  the same land. Why would they cut themselves?
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  While we dress in black in our culture to express sorrow,
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  people in the ancient Near East express sorrow in other ways.
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  Cutting oneself, an expression of grief among the pagans, was
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  forbidden by the law. Other ancient mourning customs
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  included going barefoot here, tearing one's clothes, shaving
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  the head, putting ashes on the head, covering the head,
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  throwing dust in the air, and wailing loudly.
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  And there's a bunch of references throughout scripture
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  about that. And then we are at Chapter 48,
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  and this is a message about Moab, which is a portion of
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  Jordan today, the land area concerning Moab.
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  This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says.
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  Woe to Nebo, for it will be ruined.
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  Kiriatham will be disgraced and captured.
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  The stronghold will be disgraced and shattered.
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  Moab will be praised no more. In Hesh Brown, people will plot
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  her downfall. Come, let's put an end to that
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  nation. You, the people of Mad Men will
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  also be silenced. The sword will pursue you.
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  Cries of anguish arise from Hiranium cities of great havoc
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  and destruction. Moab will be broken.
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  The little ones will cry out. They will go up to the hill of
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  Lahuth, weeping bitterly as they go.
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  On the road down to Hiranayam, anguish cries over the
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  destruction are heard. Flee, run, for your lives become
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  like the Bush in the desert. Since you trust in your deeds
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  and riches, you too will be taken captive.
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  So this is another clue about God.
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  And what he doesn't like is since you trust in your deeds
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  and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Kimosh will
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  go into exile together with his priest and officials.
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  The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will
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  escape. The valley will be ruined and
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  the plateau destroyed because the Lord has spoken.
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  Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste.
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  Her towns will become desolate with no one to live in them.
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  A curse on anyone who is LAX in doing the Lord's work.
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  Again, here's another thing that we find out about God.
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  A curse on anyone who is LAX in doing the Lord's work.
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  Just something that stood out. A curse on anyone who keeps
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  their sword from bloodshed. Moab has been at rest from
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  youth, like wine left on its dreads, not poured from one jar
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  to another. She has not gone into exile.
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  So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.
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  But days are coming, declares the Lord.
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  When I will send men who pour from pitchers and they will pour
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  her out. They will empty her pitchers and
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  smash her jars. Then Moab will be ashamed of
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  Kimosh. I believe Kimosh was a God and
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  Israel was ashamed, as Israel was ashamed when they trusted in
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  Bethel. How can you say we are warriors,
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  men valiant in battle? Moab will be destroyed in her
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  towns, invaded her finest. Young men will go down in the
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  slaughter, declares the king, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
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  The fall of Moab is at hand. Her calamity will come quickly.
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  Mourn for her, all who live around her, all who know her
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  fame. Say how broken is the mighty
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  scepter, how broken the glorious staff.
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  Come down from your glory and sit on the parched ground, you
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  inhabitants of Daughter Dibin. For the one who destroys Moab
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  will come up against you and ruin your fortified cities.
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  Stand by the road and watch you who live in Aurora, and ask the
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  man fleeing and the woman escaping.
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  Ask them what has happened. Moab is disgraced, for she is
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  shattered. Wail and cry out.
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  Announced by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
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  Judgement has come to the plateau, to Halon, Jehaz and
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  Mifatha, to Diban, Nebo and Beth Dibliathum, to Kiriathiyum, Beth
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  Gemul and Bethmion, to Kiriath and Basra, to all the towns of
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  Moab far and near. Moab's horn is cut off, her arm
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  is broken. So a horn is usually strength or
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  power and it's cut off and her arm is broken.
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  Declares the Lord. Make her drunk, for she has
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  defiled the Lord. So that's giving a reason.
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  The whole reason that Moab is getting destroyed is because she
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  has defied the Lord. She has defied the Lord.
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  Let Moab wallow in her vomit. Let her be an object of
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  ridicule. Was not Israel the object of
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  your ridicule? Ridicule was she caught among
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  thieves that you shake your head and scorn whenever you speak of
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  her abandoned your towns and dwell among the rocks.
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  You who live in Moab. So this there's a few questions
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  and answers on this chapter. So what was Mad Men it was
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  talking about? It's a city.
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  This was not a person, but an otherwise unknown town in Moab.
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  The name could mean either be silenced or dung.
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  Jeremiah may have been using word play to lamb blast Moab
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  with a sort of poetic justice. Why become like a desert Bush?
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  It's not clear what the expression means.
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  The Hebrew word for Bush comes from a word meaning to be naked,
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  suggesting a shrub with tiny scaly leaves and small cones.
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  But the word may also refer to a Hebrew city named Aurora.
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  And whatever the specific meaning, the general thrust is
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  that those who had known the good life would be stripped of
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  everything and reduced to bare substance.
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  Why put salt on a nation? Some note that ancient
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  conquerors literally spread salt over defeated cities to prevent
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  crops from growing for years. Others think put salt could be
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  translated give wings. If that is the case, then this
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  would instruct Moab to wish for wings so it could fly to safety
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  away from all the destruction. Still others think it could read
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  set up a grave marker. Why would God call his work
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  bloodshed? The Old Testament approach to
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  getting rid of sin was to get rid of the Sinner, which often
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  resulted in men, women, and children being slaughtered.
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  Those who picked up the sword to slay the guilty were considered
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  agents of the Lord's wrath and judgement.
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  Those who were killed were not viewed as victims since it was
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  their own sin and hardened hearts that had brought
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  punishment on them. What was different about wine
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  left on its drugs? It became quite bitter, A vivid
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  analogy for Moab. The fermentation process left
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  sediment or dregs at the bottom of the wine.
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  The wine had to be carefully poured into the containers from
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  the from time to time during fermentation in a way that would
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  separate it from the sediment. This procedure, called
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  decanting, kept the wine from becoming bitter.
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  Why was Israel ashamed when they trusted in Bethel?
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  Bethel was an important religious city of the breakaway
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  northern Kingdom of Israel. It became a Center for Pagan
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  worship. Israel's shame was probably an
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  allusion to the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BC, the
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  final consequence of their continual fixation with false
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  gods. From what glory were they
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  supposed to come down? Diabon, an important city in
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  Moab, was perched atop 2 hills in a prominent place in the
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  central part of Moab. Its glory seems to be a
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  reference to its prominence both geographically and politically.
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  What kind of horn was cut off? Horn and arm were both symbols
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  of strength and military power. The source of this symbolism for
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  horn is probably connected to the power of the horns of a
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  bull. As a result, the crowns of gods,
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  the crowns of gods and kings of the ancient Near East, often
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  included an abundance of horns to signify power and authority.
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  So Moab's horn is a reference to Moab's power.
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  The fact that the horn was cut off indicates the breaking of
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  Moab's power. How could they have?
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  How could they make Moab drunk? Drunkenness is a common
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  prophetic theme. Earlier, Jeremiah had
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  prophesized that the nations would be made drunk as they were
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  forced to drink the wine of God's wrath.
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  That is probably the case here as well.
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  The verse is located in a series of prophecies against different
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  nations. The picture is 1 of helplessness
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  and confusion making Moab vulnerable and an object of
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  ridicule. They would not escape the wrath
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  of God and verse. Our chapter 48 continues, so
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  I'll keep reading that. Be like a dove that makes its
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  nest at the mouth of a cave. We have heard of Moed's pride.
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  How great is her arrogance, of her insolence, her pride, her
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  conceit, and the haughtiness of her heart.
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  I know her insolence, but it is futile, declares the Lord, and
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  her boast accomplished nothing. Therefore I wail over Moab for
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  all Moab. I cry out.
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  I moan for the people of care perish, Seth.
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  I weep for you as Jazer weeps. Your vines of Sigma, your
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  branches spread out as far as the sea.
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  They reach as far as Jazer the destroyer has fallen on your
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  what ripened fruit and grapes. Joy and gladness are gone from
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  the orchards and fields of Moabs.
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  I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses.
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  No one treads them with shouts of joy.
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  Although there are shouts, they are not shouts of joy.
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  The sound of their cry rises from Heshban to Ilea, and Jehas
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  from Zohar, as far as Horanium and Egleth sheblish Iya.
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  For even the waters of Nimrim are dried up in Moab.
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  I will put an end to those who make offerings on the high
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  places and burn incense to their gods, declares the Lord.
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  So my heart laments for Moab like the music of a pipe.
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  It laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hirosheth.
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  The wealth they acquired is gone.
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  Every head is shaved and every beard is cut off.
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  Every hand is slashed and every waste is covered with sackcloth.
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  On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares, there is
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  nothing but mourning. For I have broken Moab like a
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  jar that no one wants, declares the Lord.
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  How shattered she is, how they wail, how Moab turns her back in
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  its shame. Moab has become an object of
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  ridicule, an object of horror to all those around her.
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  This is what the Lord says. Look, an eagle is swooping down,
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  spreading its wings over Moab. Kiriath will be captured and the
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  strongholds taken in that day, the hearts of Moab's warriors
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  will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
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  So again, here this is something interesting like who is the
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  eagle? Is the eagle Babylon swooping
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  down? And that's another study
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  spreading its wings over Moab. And then it says in that day,
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  the hearts of Moab's warriors will be like the hearts of a
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  woman in labor. A lot of times the end times are
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  called like the birth pain, the woman in labor.
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  So these kind of statements, although they could refer to
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  just being in pain. A lot of times in the Bible it
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  talks about that towards the last days.
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  It talks about a woman in labor. So does this have a devil
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  prophecy fulfillment? I'm not really sure.
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  Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the
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  Lord. So God's giving his reason again
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  because she defied the Lord. Terror and pit and snare await
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  you, you people of Moab. Whoever flees from the terror
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  will fall into the pit. Whoever climbs out of the pit
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  will be caught in a snare, for I will bring on Moab the year of
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  her punishment. So I think that's interesting
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  too, the year of her punishment. Maybe that just means the time
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  of her punishment, or maybe it means like a future year that
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  there is a time frame. There are other prophecies that
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  talk about fleeing from terror and falling into a pit, climbing
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  out of the pit but still being caught.
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  Like there's no escape from this, so for I will bring on
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  Moab the year of her punishment, declares the Lord.
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  In the shadows of Heshban the fugitives stand helpless.
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  For a fire has gone out from Heshban, a blaze from the midst
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  of Sihan. It burns the foreheads of Moab,
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  the skulls of the noisy boasters.
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  Woe to you, Moab. The people of Kemesh are
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  destroyed. Your sons are taken into exile
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  and your daughters into captivity.
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  Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the days to come,
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  declares the Lord. Here ends the judgement on Moab.
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  So again, God seems to promise a future for many people who are
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  being destroyed. But he says I will restore the
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  fortunes of Moab in the days to come.
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  I, you know, if he's completely destroying and then Kemah is
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  some sort of a God that they were worshipping, I believe.
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  And so does this mean like the future, this, this is what's
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  going to happen? There's a few more chapters
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  about various nations and I think we're going to pick that
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  up because this is already getting along.
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  But we're almost finished with the Book of Jeremiah.
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  So just a few more to go. Probably.
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  I will read the last few questions and answers for
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  chapter 48. Why play the Blues on a pipe?
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  The pipe was an instrument used as funerals while people were
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  mourning. So the prophet could could
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  simply be referring to an internal cry of lament.
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  It may also have been considered the best interest instrument to
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  accompany the weighting of a lament.
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  However, the simile, like a pipe, probably refers to the
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  high pitched wailing of the one who is lint lamenting Moab.
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  Why did shaving, cutting and dressing and sackcloth have to?
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  What did shaving, cutting, dressing in sackcloth have to do
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  with sorrow? While we dress in black in our
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  culture to express sorrow, people in Ancient Near East
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  express sorrow in other ways. Since a beard beard signified a
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  man's maturity and dignity, to shave the beard or the head was
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  to suggest humility and great loss.
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  To tear one's clothing, which was handmade and more valuable
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  in their culture than ours, demonstrated the depth of a
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  tragedy greater than mere clothing.
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  Clothing garments represented personalities.
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  To tear them indicated A grievous inner hurt.
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  Cutting oneself was an expression of grief among
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  pagans, although it was forbidden by the law in
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  Leviticus. Other ancient morning customs
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  including going barefoot, putting ashes on the head,
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  covering the head, throwing dust in the air, and wailing loudly.
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  And that concludes chapter up to chapter 48 this time.
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  We'll pick up 49 the next time.