I find it interesting that God tells the people there to settle down, to make peace, that he is going to bring them back later, after 70 years from Babylon, back into the promised land. Yet in the midst of this, he also tells them that, though he has brought them there to keep them safe, they, too, have not been obedient. They, too, have disobeyed and are looking for false answers and looking to false prophets. Yet these are the very people whom God gave the vision to Jeremiah that were the good figs, the good people. These are the ones that God is saving.
Just a reminder that sometimes what God is going to do
may not be right now. God is going to make these people ready to return. But
for right now, many of them aren't looking to God the way they should.
But God's got a plan. And God is going to take these,
many of these, who are still looking for salvation in their time and
deliverance from Babylon, he's going to take them and change them and prepare
them so that they will be the people, or their children or grandchildren will
be the people that God can take back to the promised land. Because God has a
plan. A plan to prosper and take care of them, even if they may not be looking
for it right now.
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