Jeremiah
Chapter
24
{Good
Figs and Bad Figs - Doctrine of Two types of People in the Face of
National Disaster -
'Attack
at Pearl Harbor' Predicted and Will Happen Again}
1~~
Jehovah/God caused me to see {study on},
and,
behold, two baskets of figs
were
set before the temple of Jehovah/God,
after
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had
carried away captive
Jeconiah,
the son of Jehoiakim,
king
of Judah {Jeconiah had ruled 100 days},
and
the princes of Judah,
with
the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem,
and
had brought them to Babylon {598 BC this happened}.
{Note:
Use of 'figs' in the Bible:
1) Fig leaves - first act of human good. Man getting right
with man not God
2) Lump of Figs portrays Jesus Christ on the Cross - Isaiah 38-21
3) Lump of Figs applied to Hezekiah's boil of II Kings 20:7
4) Falling of a fig from a fig tree is used to depict destruction
of a nation under 5th cycle of discipline Isaiah 34: 4-5,
Jeremiah 8:13
5) The fig tree is used to measure the production of Israel,
Matthew 21:19
6) The use of the fig tree represents Israel in the Tribulation,
Matthew 24:32-33
7) Here in Jeremiah 24:1 it represents the 2 kind of people in
Judea.}
2~~One
basket. . . {had} very good figs
{represents believers with ECS in Judea who will survive
national disaster},
like
the figs . . . {that are} first ripe.
And
the other basket . . . {had} very evil/degenerate figs
{to the very point of being traitors to their country -
better red then dead attitude},
which
are so rotten
they
could not be eaten.
3~~Then
said Jehovah/God unto me,
What
do you keep on studying, Jeremiah?
And
I said, 'Figs; the good figs . . . very good;
and
the evil . . . very evil,
that
cannot be eaten, they are so evil'.
{Note: In times of disaster, you are either very good, or very evil. There is nothing in between! Pressure does not leave anyone walking the on the fence!}
{Verses
4-7: History of the Good Figs}
4-5~~
Again the word of Jehovah/God {introduction to an oracle}
came
unto me, saying, 5~~
Thus
said the Jehovah/God, the Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
"Like
these good figs,
and
I will cause them
to
be acknowledged {grace, love, and compassion}
who
are carried away captive of Judah,
whom
I have sent out of this place
into
the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
{Note: These 'good figs' went on a very hard 'death march' recorded in Psalm 119, but this was needed to get them out of idolatry in Judea. Nebuchadnezzar would attack Judea again in 586BC.}
6~~For
I {God} will set My eyes upon them . . . for good,
and
I will bring them again to this land.
And
I will build them {end product of study of bible doctrine - ECS},
and
not pull them down
{God cannot tear down what HE builds- only YOU can
tear down your ECS}.
And
I will plant them {the seed of doctrine in their soul - GAP},
and
not pluck them up {God does not fight doctrine or the ECS}.
{Note: God is taking a group of young people with bible doctrine in their souls. He is removing them from the bad environment and will destroy the bad environment. And He is putting this group under great testing. In the end, they will be hardened by bible doctrine and the testing and will become very mature believers. Then they will know some of the greatest prosperity of anyone -anywhere - ever! And, then they will permit God to generate divine good through them.}
{Category
1 Love of the 'Good Figs'}
7~~And
I will give {nathan - verb of Grace} them
a
right lobe/heart to know Me,
that
I . . . {am} Jehovah/God.
And
they shall be My people,
and
I will be their Elohiym/Godhead.
Then
they shall return unto Me
with
their whole right lobe/heart
{from doctrine in their souls - have the maximum capacity
to love God}.
{Verses
8-10: History of the Bad Figs}
8~~And
as the evil/bad figs,
which
cannot be eaten,
they
are so evil/bad;
surely
thus said the Jehovah/God,
"So
will I give Zedekiah {youngest son of Josiah - a 'bad fig'}
the
king of Judah,
and
his princes {in the pro-Egyptian party},
and
the residue of Jerusalem,
that
remain in this land,
and
them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
9~~And
I will give them
to
agitation {because negative toward doctrine}
for
evil
to
all the kingdoms
of
the earth {wherever they go they are trouble makers},
to
be for a reproach {a source of scorn}
and
for a proverb
{a short instruction - in this case - what happens when
you are 'bad'},
a
for a taunt {a short pointed insult}
and
for a curse {to be reviled},
in
all places
where
I will cause them to be driven out {5th cycle of discipline}.
{People
in a Negative Nation}
10~~And
I will send them
the
sword {military disaster},
the
famine {economic disaster},
and
the pestilence {personal disaster - disease},
among
them . . .
till
they be consumed
from
off the land
that
I gave unto them
and
to their fathers {Principal of Grace before Judgment}.
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