Worshipping Ladies Community Group
This group is for Christian women only. We seek to love and encourage one another with the compassion Christ gives us.
Chapter 5:
God tells Jeremiah and anyone who will listen to run around Jerusalem and try to find one faithful person who acts justly and searches for the truth, so that God can pardon Jerusalem as a whole.
He can't find a single person.
God says it's impossible to pardon these people because they've followed other gods and coveted their neighbor's wives.
God orders Israel destroyed like a bad vineyard. The people and their false prophets have been comforting themselves by predicting they'll avoid punishment, but that's just wishful thinking.
The so-called prophets are now an empty wind without God's word in them.
God won't destroy Israel utterly, but they'll pay for serving foreign gods by being led into exile and being forced to serve a foreign people.
In their hearts, they're forgetful and disobedient, and don't remember God who controls the changing seasons and guides the growth of their crops and harvest.
They've all gotten rich at the expense of the orphans and other needy people.
The people love their false prophets and priests, but when the end comes, they'll definitely regret it.
Chapter 6:
Jeremiah urges the tribe of Benjamin (the people of Judah) to flee Jerusalem because the invasion's imminent. He says that the people aren't listening to him, but he's filled with the wrath of God and is tired of holding it in.
God's wrath will flow out onto everyone: children, young people, husbands and wives, and the elderly. Their houses will be inherited and lived in by others.
People should return to the ancient godly way they used to follow. But they don't, so of course God is going to dish out some more punishment.
Judah will be invaded by these merciless Babylonians from the north, who sound like a raging sea when they march into battle.
The people are terrified and anguished, scared to go out onto the roads alone lest they be killed by the invaders.
God tells Jeremiah that he's meant to refine the people, but the people are still rebellious and are more like unrefined metals, bronze and iron. Judah's like silver that has been rejected because of its impurities.
Verse 19 ( chapt. 5) the Lord tells the people the reason for the destruction is because they have not kept their covenant agreement.
5:29-God's justice is built upon the fact that compensation is required for every unrighteous act.
6:18-19 The Gentiles nations are to witness what the Lord is about to do to Israel.
God would have spared the whole entire city for only ONE just person. This was after many warnings, and God was still showing His mercy, if people would just listen and repent. I don't think God wanted to bring destruction.