JEREMIAH 50: wecrymerc

Let us back up a chapter and see what WISDOM Jeremiah 50 can offer us concerning this NEAR FAR PROPHECY:

Jeremiah 50: 1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

Jeremiah 50: 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Please allow me to make this comment first before we begin this study:

Our LORD is a WONDERFUL, MERCIFUL COUNSELOR. HE is also, RIGHTEOUS, JUST and HOLY. Through HIS wonderful GRACE and through HIS PROPHETS HE WARNS HIS PEOPLE and a WICKED WORLD of HIS JUDGMENTS.

HE did this throughout the OLD TESTAMENT and HE is doing this even now through HIS people today.

For those that don’t want to HEAR HIS WARNINGS or STUDY HIS PROPHECIES will be left unprepared for the dark days ahead, and subject to the lies and deceptions of the enemy.

Those that seek to CUT OFF or SILENCE the HAND or FOOT, which is GIVEN as a measure of HIS MINISTRY GIFTS to the BODY, that is meant for the COMMON GOOD, are truly being UNJUST and showing PARTIALITY to the other ministry gifts.  May the LORD find MERCY.  

We don’t study the EVENTS of the WORLD to make them fit into the WORD of GOD, but through the WORD we seek REVELATION that the events of the WORLD according to scripture would be revealed.

The WORD of GOD holds all the AUTHORITY and satan can not accomplish his will without the LORD’S foreknowledge or authority. Satan will seek to devour, cause fear, and confusion to the BODY of CHRIST, and though he will make many attempts the BODY of CHRIST, ONLY the LORD knows what he ALLOWED to be SUCCESSFUL at.

NOW on with the STUDY:

 LET us begin with verse 2.. THE LORD SAID:

JEREMIAH 50: 2 DECLARE ye among the nations, PUBLISH, set up a standard. CONCEAL NOT.

Jeremiah has been commanded by the LORD to “NOT CONCEAL” the events that are about to unfold. To DECLARE the JUDGMENT and to PUBLISH IT.

JEREMIAH 50: 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

JEREMIAH 50: 4  In 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.

For me JEREMIAH 50: 4 holds some of the most convincing evidence that this is a NEAR FAR PROPHECY. 

1. IN THOSE DAYS, and in THAT TIME.

It appears that this is proclaiming that this prophecy is TWO FOLD. IT will happen once, and then it will happen again.

2. ALSO, in JEREMIAH’S time ISRAEL had already been captured by ASSYRIA. During the DIVIDED KINGDOM, ISRAEL had been exiled around 733 BC when JEREMIAH ministry is typically known to have occurred around 626-585 BC.

Jeremiah is prophecy says that ISRAEL and JUDAH (the divided kingdom) will come together, weeping and seeking their GOD. So he was obviously speaking of a FUTURE EVENT.

The TWO divided KINGDOMS have not fulfilled this prophecy as of today.

Jeremiah 50: 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.

Jeremiah 50: 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Jeremiah 50: 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

What we do know “in that time”, that the MEDES captured BABYLON, they basically took over the GREAT CITY BABYLON and the CENTRAL CITY of their EMPIRE was “SUSA”.

Susa is actually located in IRAN. According to the map, it is located to the EAST of BABYLON.

MAP

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa

So a COUPLE Of interesting question are:

When the LORD SAID an “ASSEMBLY of GREAT NATIONS from the NORTH” will enter in:

What exactly did HE mean: Would they enter in from the NORTH of BABYLON or was HE referring to an END TIME BEAST, of GREAT NATIONS that will enter in from the NORTH? I don’t know the answer to that.

The MEDES and PERSIANS, were always consider as ONE KINGDOM, when in fact they were actually Two kingdoms that seemingly worked together.

JEREMIAH 50: 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

In JEREMIAH 50: 13 we see that the LORD is about to pour out HIS WRATH, and that BABYLON will not be INHABITED. BABYLON will be desolate and everyone that goeth by BABYLON shall be astonished, and his at all her plagues.

Two things here that I find interesting:

1. BABYLON is desolate
2. Everyone will be astonished, at her plagues

AS an empire BABYLON has faded, it never fully recovered as an EMPIRE, history tells us that this happen at some point in the second century A.D.

Yet it has not become DESOLATE, nor has it become Uninhabited as a land, as has been PROPHESIED. (JEREMIAH 50: 35-39)

Personally I have not found anything CONCERNING PLAGUES that were announced over BABYLON of that day. Please if anyone knows the history on that please let me know.

This verse also reminded me of what is prophesied in REV 17: 6, the FUTURE BABYLON EMPIRE.

REV 17: 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

REV 17: 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

REV 17: 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The words:

Admiration  actually means “amazement”

Perditions actually means “destruction”

It appears that the END-TIME BABYLON will fulfill the prophecy to completion:

REV 18: Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her.

REV 18: 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

LET us also remember that the LORD SAID concerning the END-TIME EMPIRE:

REV 18: 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

REV 18: 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

REV 18: 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Conclusion: 

Could JEREMIAH’S prophecy be TWO FOLD? Considered a NEAR FAR PROPHECY? You will have to decide for yourself, but it appears to me that the END TIME EMPIRE BABYLON, will be subject very much to the PROPHECY the LORD gave to JEREMIAH as a final fulfillment of HIS WORD.

IF this is TRUE: That JEREMIAH'S prophecy was a NEAR FAR PROPHECY

And the BABYLON of OLD was considered an EMPIRE, with BABYLON as the CENTRAL CITY of POWER. SHOULD we also be looking at something that very much RESEMBLES this empire in the FUTURE END-TIME EMPIRE of REVELATIONS?  

Amen.