Jeremiah 47: The Time Will Come

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The More We Dig. The More We Find.

Chapters

• 0:48 Welcome and Episode Introduction
• 1:23 God's Promise of Future Hope
• 2:08 The Philistines: Israel's Persistent Enemy
• 3:32 God's Judgment on the Philistines
• 5:44 Finding Peace When Others Prosper
• 7:39 Final Prayer and Conclusion

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:24

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bible Breakdown Podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today, jeremiah, chapter 47, and today's title is the Time Will Come. If you're patient, the time will come. We're getting to all that in just a moment. But if you like what we're doing here, make sure you like, share and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure you leave us a five-star review on the podcast. Make sure you're going to the Bible breakdown discussions. I'm going to tell you something the more we dig, the more we find, and this is going to be one of those, especially today. So, if you have your Bibles, want to open up with me to Jeremiah, chapter 47.

Speaker 1: 0:59

Don't forget, the overall goal of Jeremiah is constantly talking about God giving us a future and a hope, and one of those things has to do with the fact of delayed victory. And what I mean by that is I don't know if you've ever had one of those times when it seems like, for a season, that you're losing. It seems like, for a season, the bad person wins. They get ahead and because you're trying to honor God, you just lose right, you're just not doing well. Well, that is definitely something that happens in the life of the nation of Israel over and over again, and it's one of those things where God is just, he's being faithful even while the nation of Israel is being very, or nation of Judah is being very, very unfaithful. Well, in today's chapter, there is a thorn in the side of Israel Judah. Every time I say Israel, imagine I'm saying Judah. Okay, and this country, this people group, called the Philistines. Now, the Philistines have been a thorn in the side of Judah for like a few hundred years. At this point, goliath was from a place called Gath, which was part of the Philistine territory. Saul, the very first king. He warred constantly with the Philistines. The Philistines were a nomadic tribe that stayed more toward the shore of the Sea of Galilee and different places like that, and they just or. Mediterranean Sea, rather, they're not good, they're not nice people. Mediterranean Sea, rather, they're not good, they're not nice people. And many, many, many times, they were constantly at war with the nation of Judah. But one of the things is, though, is God is declaring these longtime enemies that have beat the snot out of you, judah, for a long time. Their time is finally coming. It is over for them, and the thing is and we're going to learn. This is many times. There are people, for a season, that get ahead, that seem like they win, but their time will come if we trust God and we let him do what he's going to do you ready?

Speaker 1: 3:08

Chapter 47, verse 1 says this this is what the Lord's message to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza before it was captured by the Egyptian army. This is what the Lord says. A flood is coming from the north to overflow the land. It will destroy the land and everything in it, cities and people alike. People will scream in terror and everyone in the land will wail, hear the clatter of stallions, hooves and rumble of wheels as the chariots rush by. Terrified fathers run madly without even a backward glance at their helpless children.

Speaker 1: 3:43

The time has come for the Philistines to be destroyed, along with their allies from Tyre and Sidon. Yes, the Lord is destroying the remnant of the Philistines, those colonists from the island of Crete. Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald. Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning? Now, o sword of the Lord, when will you be at rest again? Go back into your sheath, rest and be still. But how can it be still when the Lord has sent it on a mission, for the city of Ashkelon and the people living among the sea must be destroyed. Wow. So in other words, it's over for you fools. It is bad. It is bad news. Y'all is done right.

Speaker 1: 4:36

And the thing is is for so long the Philistines were a thorn in the side of Israel and Judah, but when the time was right, god said okay, they're done. And you know what's crazy about that is, by the time you get to the New Testament, you don't hear the Philistines ever again. Now they are around in some form or fashion, but they never become a nation. You don't have the Republic of the Philistine Nation. None of that's going on anymore. They do not ever rise to the prominence they had after about this time when they are utterly destroyed, and that is after years and years and years and years of them being around the nation of Israel and Judah they would have had many opportunities to know about Yahweh, and they decided not to.

Speaker 1: 5:19

And what does that do for us today? What that does for us today is it is so very possible to get bitter at God when you see people around you who are not honoring God, but they're living the good life, they're getting ahead. They are actually doing things that is actually making your life harder, and you sit there and you go. God, why am I trying so hard? Why am I trying to live according to your word? Why am I saying no to sin as best as I can? Why am I forgiving people who hurt me? Why am I doing all these good things when all these bad people who are doing bad things seem to be getting ahead for it? And I wonder what God would say to that, and I wonder if maybe he would say be patient, you have no idea what I'm trying to work out in their life.

Speaker 1: 6:07

The same grace I'm showing them is the same grace I'm going to give you, but a time will come when I won't show that grace anymore. Instead, it will be time for justice, and we can trust that when it's time for justice, god will show justice. So our job is not to declare judgment on other people, but to show as much grace as we can, because at the right time, god will have his way. Let's pray together right now, god.

Speaker 1: 6:28

This is such a hard chapter because, if we're honest, there are people that we wish you would go ahead and judge. We're just honest, god. There's other times when we feel so bad about that, and there's just so many times we feel conflicted. I'm thankful, god, that the grace that you show people around us is the same grace that you show toward us. So, instead of getting angry, I pray you'll open our eyes to see it as another example of your goodness and your faithfulness and the process.

Speaker 1: 6:55

Lord, have your way, show mercy and show grace. Help us, lord, to get to the place to where, when those who are against us are judged it doesn't make us feel better, but we mourn over it because you've so healed our heart that we don't see them as enemies anymore, but as fellow hurting people trying to find you. We thank you for that. Today, in Jesus name, we pray amen. And what God's word says in Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 13 if you look for me wholeheartedly, say it with me, you will find me. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow. For Jeremiah, chapter 48.