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VEN with the Jew's compliant
spirit toward their captivity in Babylon, those “roasters-of-humans” were not
easy taskmasters. In fact, the time that the believing Jews spent with the
Babylonians is called in this chapter, "the
time of Jacob's trouble" - not that the prophecy only extended 70
years into the future. Of course, we all know that Jacob's most awful and
unbearable troubles are yet future. The
7 years span between the Rapture of the bride of Christ and the return of
Christ Himself with His saints will be the final day of Jacob's Trouble. The
pains of those days will eclipse all of their many past pains (Jeremiah 30:5
& 7). Yet somehow, through those days, God will cure the incurable. So, in
addition to the references that Jeremiah made here concerning the immediate
future of his people, Jeremiah 30 speaks of them in the latter days; in the
last days.
If God is willing to put His
original people through such grievous pains, should we really be surprised if
God demands a few sacrifices from us in order for us to learn a few vital
lessons along the way? So, let’s be cheerful in trials, because He has overcome
this world.
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