Against Babylon Part 1

Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 

‘The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet …’ This is the 90th and last prophecy in Jeremiah (50:1-51:64) Jeremiah 50:1-12, 14-18, 21-38, 41-46 and Jeremiah 51:1-4, 9-25, 27-35, 38-61are fulfilled; Jeremiah 50:13, 19-20, 39-40 and Jeremiah 51:5-8, 26, 36-37, 62-64 are unfulfilled.

130 Predictions are fulfilled: Babylon will be taken (50:2). Bel will be confounded. Merodach will be broken into pieces. The idols of Babylon will be broken. Out of the north will come a nation against her (50:3). They will make her land desolate, and none will dwell therein. Both man and beast will depart. In those days the children of Israel will return to their land together with the children of Judah (50:4). They will go weeping back to their own land, seeking the Lord. They will ask the way to Zion with their faces toward (50:5). They (both houses of Israel) will say, Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten. I will raise up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country and they will set themselves in array against her (50:9). From thence she will be taken. Their arrows will be as of a mighty expert man. None will return in vain – they will hit the mark. Chaldea will be a spoil (50:10). All that spoils her will be satisfied. You will be punished because you rejoiced over the fall of Israel, and because you have become lazy and careless (50:11). Your mother will be sore confounded (50:12). She that bore you will be ashamed. The hindermost of the nations will be a wilderness and a desert. Her enemies will surround Babylon, shout against her, and shoot at her (50:14-15). Her foundations will fall (50:15). Her walls will be thrown down. The farmers will be cut off from Babylon (50:16). They will flee every one to his own land because of the invaders. I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished Assyria and her land (50:18). The inhabitants of Merathaim and Pekod will be destroyed (50:21). The invaders will do as I commanded. The sound of battle and great destruction will be heard in the land (50:22). The hammer of the whole earth (Babylon) will be broken (50:23). Babylon will become a desolation among the nations. I have laid a snare for you and you will be taken (50:24). You will not be aware of the time you will be taken (50:24; Dan. 5:1-31). You will be found and caught because you have striven with the Lord (50:24). The Lord will open His armoury and bring forth the weapons of His indignation in the land of the Chaldeans.

To be continued…