Sun.’s Devo - Recompense

Read: Jeremiah 26:1-27;22; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18; Psalm 85:1-13; Proverbs 25:16
God sent Jeremiah to the courtyard of the temple to tell them one more time to repent or destruction is coming on their land. The priests and the prophets seized Jeremiah and would have killed him had not the elders spoken up for him. The elders reminded them of other prophets who had said the same thing and of the kings that heard their words. Hezekiah had repented and God saved them. Jehoiakim killed the prophet Uriah. Now they had a choice and they chose to let Jeremiah live.
God then told Jeremiah to make a wooden yoke and wear it on his neck. He was to send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon. God was king of the earth and he was going to hand them over to Babylon to serve Nebuchadnezzar also. Any nation that did not bow its knee to Nebuchadnezzar, he would bring sword, famine and plague to destroy it. He warned them not to listen to their prophets and mediums when they told them that they would not serve Babylon because they would not be speaking the truth.
To his own people he said the same thing and added that the articles of the temple would not return now. Even the articles that have not been taken to Babylon would be taken and they would not return until God came for them.
Jeremiah and Paul were both trying to make the people responsible for their own actions. Paul told the people not to associate with people who refused to walk in truth and pulled their own weight. He told them to warn them like a brother but not to associate with them.
Lord, prepare us to walk in blessings and prosperity and may we always live with the kingdom in mind.