Deliver from enemies

 

 

 

People expected to be protected by Yahuah as they confess to believe in Him but still were involved with sin.  They thought there would not be any consequences for practicing sin.

This is what King Zedekiah of Judah thought when he asked Jeremiah to inquire of Yahuah to deliver them from their enemy when Babylon was preparing to attack Jerusalem.

 

Jeremiah 21:2 Please inquire of Yahuah for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonis warring against us. Perhaps Yahuah will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that he may go up from us.

Perhaps the King of Judah thought that all Yahuah’s threatening would not be executed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Jeremiah informs them that Yahuah has removed His protection from Jerusalem and that the city and its people will be punished. Remember Yahuah sent all the prophets long before to warn the people to turn away from their sin.

They ignored these warnings. This needs to be an eye opener for us today that Yahuah will punish His people who live in sin.

Jeremiah 21:4-6 So says Yahuah, the Elohim of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hand, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall. And I will gather them together in the middle of the city. And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched arm and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. And I will strike the people of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great plague.

This prophesy of punishment on Jerusalem happened.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before the punishment happened, Yahuah gave the people of Judah an opportunity of grace when He said this to Jeremiah in chapter 22:1-4.

So, says Yahuah, go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak this Word there, and say, Hear the Word of Yahuah, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. So, says Yahuah, do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one robbed from the oppressor's hand. And do not oppress the foreigner, the widow, or the orphan, and do not do violence nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you indeed do this thing, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants and his people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History shows the people of Judah (Yahudah) did not hear the Word of Yahuah.

Will we hear the Word of Yahuah?