Bible Food Daily Reading on Day 58

Good morning Vietnam; all all nations that come across this reading today.

We are going to begin this todays reading in Jeremiah 48.

Jeremiah 48

We see prophesy against Moab. They, like Edom, helped Judah get become cut off from being a nation. They wanted Judah ousted from the land. It is never good to cheer at someone else's demise. Moab will be destroyed - ⁴²And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD. How do you magnify yourself against the Lord? You disobey what He commands.

They will go into captivity; but will also be brought back again in the latter days.

Jeremiah 49

¹Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? Here we are going to have prophesy against the children of Ammon (who are the brothers of Moab).


They will have some calamity and suffer captivity then the Lord will restore them as He will do Moab. The Lord will get each country back for their deeds and behavior to the children of Israel. This is why it is best to treat everyone well and equal and as you would want to be treated.


Now we move on to verses 7 through 15 and the Lord is speaking against Edom. They are the twin brothers to the children of Jacob and treated the children of Israel horribly all because of the birthright.


¹⁴I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
¹⁵For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.


The Edomites always have problems with different nations governments and are despised by men. Why? Mainly because they get themselves involved with every nations finances. They are relatively small, but they are definitely despised.


When the Lord takes these people down, the entire earth is going to know about it (verse 21).


²³Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
²⁸Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
³⁵Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
³⁶And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.


The Lord is just going down the list of nations and people He is going to put a calamity on, some in Nebuchadnezzar's day and some when He returns.

Jeremiah 50

¹The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
⁴In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.


Here it is speaking against Babylon, but not just the Babylon of old, but the entire Babylon also known as Babylon the great. And this is during the time period of the return of the Lord because in verse four it gives us the time that the children of Israel will be returning to their land, weeping seeking God; who will be on the earth.


The children of Israel, at that time, will be asking how to get to Jerusalem and see their God; because they have forgotten their home because of their shepherds (pastors), they have gone from government to government, and religion to religion. All nations that saw them took great advantage of them and did not feel any guilt about doing so. The Lord tells the children of Israel and all inhabitants of the earth to get out of Babylon because when He comes He will take it down with everyone still on board.


The Lord is going to send great nations from the north country (countries north of Europe) and make Babylon desolate, so bad that people will be really astonished at the end result. sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.


It will be during the great tribulation that things will be so bad that everyone is going to leave and return to the land in which they were born. They will go back to their own people because at that point that is all they will trust.


The Lord is bringing this to get everyone's attention, and the nations because of what people have done against Israel, scattered them and broken their bones. The Lord at that time will forgive Israel's sins and pardon them because He has given them double for their sins.


How is the Lord going to take down Babylon? ⁴¹Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. With a great nation that are allied with many kings.

Jeremiah 51

¹Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
²And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. We are still reading on the destruction of Babylon in the end time. This has nothing to do with Nebuchadnezzar, but it has much to do with his children throughout the generations.


⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. The Lord tells Israel to certainly get out of the middle of Babylon and other nations too; because they are going to get a whipping like no one ever believes they can get. We know it's serious when the Lord warns you to get out of the way.


¹¹Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. Now we know the great nation that will come against Babylon; it is the kings of the Medes. The Medo-Persian reign consisted of a cluster of tribes but two being of great strength. The Persians are thought to be the Iranians and the Medes are the Russians. I can only think of Russia when you speak of a great nation to the north that are fierce warriors.


²³I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
²⁴And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. The Lord is going to break into pieces a lot of people, one in particular are the ministers of the world who are dealing falsely and their flock. And Babylon because of all their evil they have done, which is a lot by deception. So we found out who will take down Babylon, we have to find out who Babylon is.


⁶⁰So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
This is the book we are reading and other prophets in different time period wrote about the same thing; the fall of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52

¹Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
²And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. We already know this because the Lord threw him out and afflicted him greatly because of his evil.


In Zedekiah's 11th year of reigning the city was taken by Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar. They captured Zedekiah, and gave judgment on him, killing his sons, and putting his eyes out. Then they burned the temple of God and the kings palace.


This last chapter in Jeremiah just recaps the final taking out of the children of Judah out of their land as written by Moses and warned of by every prophet. This is recorded history that the Lord performs on what He speaks!
We are going to go right into Lamentations and continue reading.

Lamentations 1

¹How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
By not keeping the commandments of their God. A God who came down on the mountain and spoke to a people face to face and did not kill anyone in doing so. That is how!
Jeremiah is lamenting on the fall of Jerusalem, once a great nation now nothing is there.


¹⁸The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.


The Lord is right in what He is doing because the children of Israel have rebelled against His commandments and all people still do to this day; look at Israel's results! Ours today will be no different, just affliction on every side when you break God's law.


Now Israel is calling for his lovers, his other gods, other nations, but no one is standing up for Israel then or today. All they had, and all we have in this earth is our God!


This finishes today's reading. We had really long chapters today thus we only had a few. We will pick it up on day 59 tomorrow and then we are down to the final 30 day stretch. The Lord is good, all the time! Grace, peace and understanding be upon all of us in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

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