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Jeremiah
Chapter
27
{Zedekiah
Makes Friends with other Apostate Nations -
See also Ezekiel 17:11-15, Isaiah 30:1 and 31:1}
1~~
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim
the
son of Josiah king of Judah
came
this word unto Jeremiah
from
the Jehovah/God, saying, 2~~
Thus
said the Jehovah/God to me {Jeremiah},
"Make
you bonds and yokes, and put them upon your neck."
{Note: God is telling Jeremiah to put himself in chains. Why? Because this is going to happen to the people.}
{Five
Nations All Get Together}
3~~And
send them to the king of Edom,
and
to the king of Moab,
and
to the king of the Ammonites
{3 of the worst liberal kings in history},
and
to the king of Tyrus {Phoenician King},
and
to the king of Zidon
by
the hand of the messengers
which
come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah.
4-5~~"And
command them to say unto their masters,
'Thus
said the Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
the
Elohiym/Godhead of Israel -
thus
shall you say unto your masters 5~~
I
have manufactured {`asah made out of something else}
the
earth, the man and the animals that are upon the ground,
by
My great power and by My outstretched arm,
and
have given it unto whom it seemed fitting for Me to do so."
6~~"And
now have I given all these lands
into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon . . . My servant.
And
the animals of the field
have
I given him also to serve him.
7~~And
all nations shall serve him {Nebuchadnezzar},
and
his son {Nabonitus sp},
and
his son's son {Belshazzar sp},
until
that very time comes.
And,
then many nations
and
great kings shall serve themselves though him.
8
"And it shall come to pass,
that
the nation and kingdom
which
will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
and
that will not put their neck under the yoke
of
the king of Babylon,
that
nation will I punish," said the Jehovah/God,
with
the sword,
and
with the famine,
and
with the pestilence,
until
I have consumed them by his hand."
9
Therefore do not listen to your prophets,
nor
to your diviners,
nor
to your dreamers,
nor
to your enchanters,
nor
to your sorcerers,
which
speak unto you, saying,
"You
shall not serve the king of Babylon."
10
"For they prophesy a lie unto you,
to
remove you far from your land.
And
that I should drive you out,
and
you should perish."
11
"But the nations that bring their neck
under
the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him,
those
will I let remain still in their own land,"
said
the Jehovah/God,
"and
they shall till it, and dwell therein."
12~~I
spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah
according
to all these words, saying,
"Bring
your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
and
serve him and his people, and live
{to live and also means to live in tranquility here}."
13~~"Why
will you die? {Zedekiah}
You
and your people,
by
the sword {in battle},
by
the famine {starvation},
and
by the pestilence {disease}",
as
the Jehovah/God has spoken against the nation
that
will not serve the king of Babylon?"
{Note: Nebuchadnezzar was a vassal of the Lord. Zedekiah gave his word to him. Keep your word and live. Break your word and 5th cycle of discipline.}
14~~"Therefore
do not listen to the words of the prophets
{false prophets preaching human viewpoint - per RBT
like a 'national counsel of prophets and priests'
like the liberal 'national counsel of churches today}
that
speak unto you, saying,
"You
shall not serve the king of Babylon."
For
they prophesy a lie unto you."
15~~"For
I have not sent them,"
said
the Jehovah/God,
"yet
they prophesy a lie in My name.
That
I might drive you out,
and
that you might perish,
you,
and the prophets that prophesy unto you."
16~~"Also
I spoke to the priests and to all this people,"
saying,
"Thus said the Jehovah/God,
do
not listen to the words of your prophets
that
prophesy unto you, saying,
'Behold,
the vessels of the Jehovah/God's house
shall
now shortly be brought again from Babylon.'
For
they prophesy a lie unto you."
17~~"Do
not listen unto them.
Serve
the king of Babylon, and live.
Why
should this city be laid waste?"
18~~"But
if they be prophets,
and
if the word of the Jehovah/God be with them,
let
them now make intercession
to
the Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
that
the vessels which are left in the house of the Jehovah/God,
and
in the house of the king of Judah,
and
at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon
{that would happen under the 5th cycle of discipline}."
19~~
For thus said the Jehovah/God of hosts
concerning
the pillars,
and
concerning the sea,
and
concerning the bases,
and
concerning the residue of the vessels
{all these items refer to the items in the house of God}
that
remain in this city,
20~~"Which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,
when
he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim
king
of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon,
and
all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem."
21~~Yes,
thus said the Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
the
Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
concerning
the vessels that remain in the house of the Jehovah/God,
and
in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem.
22~~They
shall be carried to Babylon,
and
there shall they be until the day that I visit them,
said
the Jehovah/God,
then
will I bring them up,
and
restore them to this place.
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