This is my 250th post! I am happy to celebrate that by finishing the book of Jeremiah. As with Isaiah, I've enjoyed reading Jeremiah too. I especially like the way he described what God told him to do and how he would say, "So I did."
God had made plans to destroy Babylon and nothing would stop Him. They were rich, but the time had come for them to die. God swore on His own life that enemy soldiers would fill their streets and celebrate their victory. After Jeremiah praised God he pronounced idol worshipers stupid! He said, "Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed." (Jeremiah 51:18 CEV) Babylon was God's hammer which He used to pound nations to bits. Now Babylon would experience God's hammer! God promised that Babylon would forever be a desert. God's people prayed and asked Him to make Babylon pay for what they'd done. So God would lull them to sleep, never to wake up. God told His people to get out of Babylon and run for their lives. "Everything that nation worked so hard to gain will go up in smoke." (Jeremiah 51:58 CEV) Zedekiah went to Babylon during his 4th year as king. Baruch's brother Seraiah went also to arrange places to stay. Jeremiah sent a scroll with Seraiah and told him to pray and throw it in the Euphrates River and then say that as the scroll sinks so will Babylon.
This ends Jeremiah's writing.
Chapter 52 is nearly identical to 2Kings 24:18-25:21 (April 25). Instead of the details about Gedaliah and Ishmael, there is a counting of the people taken to Babylon. The details of the release of king Jehoiachin are nearly the same as well.
Tomorrow read Lamentations 1-3:51
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