Sat.’s Devo - It All Ends Well

Read: Jeremiah 31:27-32:44; 1 Timothy 3:1-16; Psalm 88:1-18; Proverbs 25:20-22
While Jeremiah was still in prison in the courtyard, God gave him another prophecy that if they would call upon the Lord he would answer them and show them great and unsearchable things that they didn’t know. The houses of the wealthy had been torn down to use as fortifications against the siege and they would be filled with dead bodies because they refused to surrender to the Babylonians like God told them to do.
But, in spite of their rebellion, God had great plans for their city and one day it would flourish again and there would be sounds of joy and gladness in the streets. Prosperity and fortunes would be restored and Jesus would walk these streets and Judah would be saved and Jerusalem would be called “The Lord Our Righteousness.”
Other nations would look upon the destruction of Jerusalem and say that God had rejected his people, but the covenant God had with his people was as fixed as the laws of nature and the laws of heaven.
When the battle got the heaviest, God sent a message to Hezekiah that the Babylonians were about to take the city and burn it down. He would be taken to Babylon and see the king of Babylon eyeball to eyeball. Hezekiah would not die in the battle but die a peaceful death and be honored when he died.
Another word came to Jeremiah that the people were to make a covenant with God to free their Jewish slaves just like the law had told them to do every seventh year. They agreed and free their slaves. Over the space of time, they took back their slaves so God proclaimed they would either be killed by the sword of the Babylonians, plague or famine.
I love how the Bible messes with our theology. Paul wrote to Timothy that in the later times some would abandon the faith and be deceived by wrong teaching and liars who had seemed their consciences with a hot iron. They would forbid people to marry and forbid them to eat certain foods that God created for food.
He told the church not to have anything to do with their godless myths and old wives’ tales but to remember the good teaching and truths of the faith that they had been taught.
Paul told Timothy to not let people look down on him because of his young age but to prove his maturity by the way he lived, loved, his faith and his pure life. He told him to keep reading the scripture to the public and to keep teaching the truth and to use his gift that was given to him by their prophecy. He encouraged Timothy to keep going because he would see a harvest if he persevered.
Lord, remember your covenant of peace you have made with your people. We pray for the peace of Israel and America. Give us eyes to see the good you have proclaimed over our nation so that our prayers would line up with your heart.