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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}.