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August 24th

The bible reading is in Jeremiah 51,52, the last two chapters of the book.

“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord. “

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the Lord.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭51:24-26‬ ‭ESV‬‬

God said through Jeremiah that He would one day repay Babylon. God said, “one day I will destroy you, O destroying mountain...even as I will destroy the whole earth...you who shed the blood of my people, I will stretch out my hand against and you will become a perpetual waste.”

God did bring Babylon down by the Medes and Persians. It was so phenomenal a defeat, that other nations would teach their children of the demise of Babylon the Great. But there was something in Jeremiah ‘s prophesy that has yet to be fulfilled...the total destruction of Babylon, which is modern day Iraq. Jeremiah prophesied that God would destroy Babylon like He would destroy the whole world. So apparently a part of this prophesy is yet to come. And we read about it in Revelations chapters 17,18.

Revelation has been referred to as the tale of two cities...Babylon and Jerusalem. It has also been referred to as the tale of two worlds...the world of sin and death and Satan and the World of Righteousness and Eternal Life and the Kingdom of God in Heaven.

Believers reading ahead to Revelations will see the contrasts between this world and Heaven, the contrasts between Babylon and the New Jerusalem. Believers reading Revelations will always be confronted with an inescapable question: Which God will you worship and which city will you love and live for?

O friends, that ‘s the whole point of God’s judgments...God ‘s dealings in the world of man...all the way back to the day of Jeremiah and the Babylonian exile of unfaithful Judah and the destruction of Babylonia by the Persians later...which God will you worship and which city will you love and live for?

“And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.””

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭17:3-5‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Babylon would one day be completely destroyed, but not just the physical place in the middle east, but what it represents...the “love the world” perspective.

In Revelations the harlot that entices all of us, (Babylon the Great), is the seductress of “loving the world instead of our Savior God”.

Let us listen to God’s word describe “Babylon living and loving”...“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Who are we going to worship... who are we going to love? The things of this world, or the Father?

For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh (moral impurity)and the desires of the eyes (greed) and pride of life (bitterness) —is not from the Father but is from the world...Babylon the Great.

‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:15-16

O Lord, the Judeans would be encouraged by Jeremiah’s prophesy of Babylon’s demise. And we as believers today on this side of the cross, we too can be encouraged that one day the seductress that targets our hearts and minds today to the love the world rather than You...she will be destroyed too. Praise your name.

Have a great day