Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast! We're so glad you've joined us. And now your hosts, Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

Hey, thanks Bernard for that rousing introduction again, we're grateful for your presence here at our beck and call. Willing to say whatever Pastor Rod wants you to say at any time. He says whatever we want him to say. Does he? Does he it's a group effort. Hey, it's Saturday, which means it's Women's Bible Study Day, which means that your bride is busy. This morning she's out preaching to our ladies. She's been busy for this for a long time now. Well, yes. And she's teaching on Sunday for our kids men. Oh. I was like, is she preaching on Sunday? That's poor planning on our part. Should have arranged that a little better. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. But. She excited about Saturday or today as people are listening to this. Excited probably isn't the word, but she will be happy when it's done. Yeah. So it's one of those things where you, you go into it feeling the burden and the responsibility and this yearning and desire to do it really well. So of course if it's anything short of what you think is perfect, then it's gonna be. It's gonna be hard. But I, I think that that's, that served me well, so I don't necessarily discourage it. I, I like the pressure that I feel when I preach, and so I think she feels that too. And there's, there's a helpful sense of relief when it's all said and done. Fair enough. Well, what I trust that she's gonna do well. What? No, that's, that's, yeah. Say it not I have nothing. I have no comments. Yeah. Your face is, otherwise, I, I don't. Okay. I have no comments. Alright. I really don't. Okay. Yeah. Different strokes for different folks. That's, that's great. Yeah. Shirts. What, what do you mean by different shirts for different folks? Different strokes for different folks. Oh, okay. I thought you said No, not different shirts. It's another one here. Weird phrases. No, guys, the other day we were having a staff meeting. Are you at least gonna something, right? Are you gonna attribute something? No, I, I remember it. I remember it. PPJ says the weirdest things. We could have a whole podcast about the things that he says that appear. To be some, some people know these sayings, but they're so niche that basically nobody knows what he means. So recently he said something to the effect of, or we're, we're brainstorming ideas for, I don't even know what it was anymore, but he said, yeah, let's just throw pickles out the window and see what sticks. And so we look at each other like, did he say what we think? He said, what did he, did he just, what did, what did you, what did you just say? And he is like, yeah, throw pickles at a window. Like, like it's just something that everybody says every day. So we're sitting there trying to figure out and discern what he means. And I said, dude, where'd that come from? He's like, oh, you never heard that before? I said, no. No one's ever heard that before. I mean that there's other things. Bob's your uncle, I've never heard that one before. Him saying it. There's other stuff now. Now you're saying different shirts for different folks. Who knows what that even means? I been, all right guys, I just gotta have you. Any of you heard that before? Throw pickles at a window. Has anybody heard that? See what sticks. Let us know. Whatever. Listen, man, listen. And so now I'm gonna start using my own things. I'm gonna start making it my own stuff. Throw, do tamales at the crowd, you know? Let's see what happens. Okay, well, different tires for different vehicles, you know? Yeah. Well, our ladies are meeting today, but then next month there is no women's Bible study because next month these women's retreats. And so ladies, if you are not yet registered for Women's Retreat, would really highly encourage you to do that. We still have some time to to get registered. It's gonna be a great trip. Great facility good teaching, I trust, and and just a, a great time of fellowship. The, the theme is using our words, well, women and, and the words, women and their words, women of the word. And it's, it's gonna be just a, a, a good. Examination of, of how our words can be used for good and for harm, and also even for conflict resolution. So trust that it'll be a, a fruitful retreat, and that's gonna come up in September. So if you're not registered yet, ladies, time to get registered. Time to get on that that ball. What's the theme again? Women of the word. Women of the word? Yes. Not women. N Words. It's, it's, it's Women of the word, I believe is the, the title of the retreat. Oh, okay. Yeah. But the theme is about women and their words. But if we are women, well we, if they are women of the word, then their words will be, ah, also good. Okay. That's the idea. I see the connection. Yeah. Yeah. So I think Women N Words compass Women's, women N words. Women and words. That's what I said. Is that what you said? No. Nope. Okay. Women in words. Women N words. Yes. Women in words, which I see that, 'cause it's both, it's like throw pickles out a window, see what happens. Different shirts for different folks, different shirts for different folks. Anyways, yeah, sign up for that should be good. Well, let's let's do our DBR. We got only two chapters, but man, they're long chapters. They're thick. Yeah. As I was reading in preparation for this, I was like, man, this is, this is long. And, and the first chapter is continuing. It's on the nation. So we start out. With another nation now in God's target, in God's sites, and this is Amon and the Ammonites, you'll remember them. They are actually those that came in after the the Assyrians carried off the northern tribes and they took some of the cities of Israel there in the north. And so they kind of took advantage that kind of, they did take advantage of God's people during a very vulnerable time. And God is gonna. Exact vengeance upon them. You'll note down in verse two, the city of Rabba Rabba was one of their capital cities, their chief cities there. We talked about this yesterday, but down in verse three, you're gonna find the word milam. And milam was one of their gods. And so again, their gods are being targeted by Yahweh, the true God who's going to take them into exile. And once more, we find in verse six that there is still a future for the Ammonites. And so God is, is. Destroying these, these peoples, but then also holding out hope that they, they will be a future for them in the millennial kingdom timeframe. Notice also verse four, and he says, why do you boast of your valley's? Oh, faithless daughter who trusted in her treasure saying, who will come against me? You'll notice that this is also similar to what God charged Moab with thinking that they were too good, too strong, too powerful to be afflicted or to be overthrown. God hates pride, and this is one of the reasons that he judges the nations. He despises the pride of nations because it. Doesn't correspond to reality, and it attempts to steal glory from God alone who deserves pride. It's not pride because it's righteous. It is his right glory seeking because that's all that really. Is true. That's all that matters. So here, notice again, God is opposing them because of their pride. Yeah. This next section should sound familiar to us. If we remember back from Obadiah, because there's a lot of overlap here between what Jeremiah writes and what Obadiah wrote. Obadiah was judging, was prophesying about God's judgment against Edem, and that's what. We find next in this section here. In fact, Obediah of five has very similar language to what we read about there in verse nine. If the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave Gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy enough for them themselves? God had had said something very similar in, I. Five, about the destruction that was gonna come against the Edomites there. The Edomites, remember, are the descendants of Esau. And so this goes back to the relationship of Jacob and Esau, and God is so concerned with, with judging. The Edomites that he not only talks about it here in, in the book of Jeremiah, but he devotes an entire prophetic book to it in the book of Obadiah here. And I think it goes back to the fact that this is family. This is family turning against family. This was e Esau Jacob's brother turning against his own kinsmen and the Edomites and the way that they were a, a, a perpetual burn the saddle of Israel throughout the generations. There, and God is going to bring justice against them for that. And so Edman is gonna be judged. And, and even we see with the EDEMs, there's also proud pride that, that she's gonna be judged for in, in verse 16. The pride of your hearts who live in the clefts of the rock. Remember that edms, they dwelt south there near the Dead Sea territory and what we know as, as Petra today, and those, those impenetrable. Fortresses built into the rocks. Literally into the rocks there. God is calling out and saying, you trust in these things and yet your, your end is going to come and it's gonna be swift and it's gonna be thorough. In verse 11, he says, leave your fatherless children. I will keep them alive and let your widows trust in me. I, you see something about God here that is repeated in the New Testament. Basically what you're saying is God saying, I, I'll take care of your orphans and your widows. Leave them to me. I will care for them. James will say in the New Testament, James, the physical brother of Jesus or the half brother of Jesus, that is, he says, true religion, real religion is to care for orphans and widows, and that's because this is God's concern. God cares for the weak and the vulnerable, the powerless God is. Astutely aware of their plight, and he has a soft spot in his heart for them, if I can put it that way. God doesn't have spots in his heart. You get the idea. But notice genuine love for God will result in a love for the weak and the vulnerable among us, and that is the orphans and the widows, but that also includes. Everyday people that you might come across the elderly, I think would be included in the weak and the vulnerable. You could look at young children or women in general. That's why people used to say in the old times when a ship was going down women and children first, and now it's, I don't know what we say anymore. I'm not even sure if we say that because maybe it's too. It's offensive to people perhaps, but a biblical Christian, someone who cares about what God cares about, will care for the weak and the vulnerable. And here you see God caring for the orphans and the widows who of course are some of the most vulnerable. Yeah. Look, if, if you will, at let's see here. Verse 19 and 20. God says, for who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me? And then verse 20 specifically, therefore, hear the plan that the Lord has made against edem and the. Purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of teman. Now keep that, just put a pin in that, because we're gonna come back to that in just a second. When we talk about nebuchadnezzar's, boastful words against qar and hazo, which is to the, the nations coming up, the nomadic tribes. But between now and then we have to deal with Damascus. So Damascus, think of Damascus, the, the Syrians not. Us Syrians, but the Syrians, you have Ben Hayad and you have Haze. And, and you remember Ben Hayad was the one that that was one of the, the, the enemies of Israel as, as well as Hael. I think Hael was the one that, that assassinated Ben Hayad. And, and one of the prophets, I can't remember who it may have been, Isaiah was weeping when he was speaking with, with. Hail because he knew that hail was going to not only assassinate Ben Haida, but then was gonna cause problems for the northern tribe there in Israel. And so the Syrians, we can remember some of the context there of their travails against Israel. They were gonna be judged by God as well and taken off the scene. I. But now we come to Qar and Hazo and this is where Babylon is going to be on the scene again. And, and Babylon is the instrument in of God's judgment for a lot of these nations. Babylon is gonna be the one that he uses, much like we talked about in Habak, not only to bring justice against Israel, but to bring justice on, on a lot of these nations, including these. But here we get a foreshadowing of what Bab Babylon's downfall is gonna be. I just read for us a second ago what we read in verse 20 of chapter 49. Therefore here the plan the Lord has made against e. Him and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of taman. Now look over in verse 30, it says, flee, wander far away. Dwell in the deso inhabitants of his or declares the Lord for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed purposes against you. And so there you see that, that God is on the one hand saying, I've made a plan and I have my purposes. And yet there God says Nebuchadnezzar has his plan and his purposes. Now, God was using Nebuchadnezzar's plan and purposes, but Nebuchadnezzar was, was a God to himself. In fact, that's what Habak even talks about. He says that, that their own might was their God. And so I think the language there is intentional to call back to what we just read about in verse 20, that that God is the one with the plan and the purposes. And yet from Nebuchadnezzar's perspective, he thinks he's got his own plan and purposes and yet God is the one behind it using him the whole time. We get the, the next nation, the Elamites, the the nation of Elam. This is the, the final nation that we see here before we get to Babylon. And this is we pick up in verse 34 the first year of Zia's Reigns. So this is 5 97 BC that we're dealing with this. And this is again, again gonna be judgment verses 35 through 38, followed by a promise of future restoration in verse 39. Any guesses why they're gonna get restored, man. I, other than God's glory during the millennial kingdom. I mean, I, I think. Part of the purpose of the millennial kingdom is going to be that it's, it's his victory lap in, in essence, before the ultimate final victory. But Satan is bound and Christ is here, and Christ is reigning and his people are there and the church is there. It it reigning with Christ. I, I think God is, is flexing. And I think having the other nations, there is gonna be a way for God to continually magnify his own glory as they are realizing that all of their false gods that we've been reading about in Jeremiah have been. Brought to nothing. They are nothing. And the only true God is the God of Israel. The only true God is Jesus Christ reigning on the throne, and yet not all of them will be redeemed. As we've talked about before, the the millennial kingdom is not a time free from sin. They're still gonna be sin. They're still gonna need to. Put their trust in Jesus. We were talking about this at our community group on Tuesday night about Israel, and somebody was asking men, where do the people like, how are they? How are they saved? Israel's rejected Christ, and so why? Why is God gonna show favor to them in the future? And one of the prophets that we didn't talk about during our minor prophet series, Zacharia talks about that in chapter 12 into 13. He says, there's gonna be a time where they're gonna look on him, whom they. Pears and they're gonna mourn. And then he says in chapter 13 that there's gonna be a fountain that's opened up for the forgiveness of their sins. And so this is repentance and faith in Jesus. That's true. That was gonna be necessary for the inhabitants of the millennial kingdom. That's also gonna be true. It's gonna be necessary for the inhabitants of all these nations that are gonna be restored during the millennial kingdom. If they want to be right with God, they're gonna have to believe the gospel. The gospel is still gonna be operative and, and important for all of these nations, and that's gonna be the, the way that they can glorify Christ the most is through faith and repentance in him. Well, chapter 50, we get to Babylon. And, and this is the judgment against Babylon. And, and this is one of the longest sections that we have of any of the, the judgments against the nation saved for the nation of Israel themselves because of, of how strong and mighty Babylon was and the wickedness there. You'll note in verses two through three that it says A nation from the north is going to come against Babylon and overthrow her. We know from history and also Daniel, that the MEO Persians are gonna be the ones that come against Babylon. Now, they were not. North geographically, but they would attack Babylon from the north. That was often the, the direction of the attack of a, of an opposing army. And so they're gonna come from the north, even though geographically they were located east of the the, the people of Babylon, the, the, the, the north was known prophetically as the direction of judgment. And so I think that's why that's used here. Even the, the, the Meads and Persians are, are east from Babylon itself. There. Verses four through 10, Jeremiah predicts the return of the, the Jews here under Cyrus the mead. That, that God in judging Babylon is gonna set free his people and even allow them to return and send them back to Jerusalem. So there's hope for the, the people, even before they go into exile, that this is going to take place. Remember, Jeremiah has also prophesied about the 70 years of captivity. And so Jeremiah is a lot of hard truths for the pe for God's people, but there's. There's hope there contained in this message as well. Verses 11 through 16, Babylon is going to exalt over the destruction of Jerusalem, but at the same time face her own destruction in the end. And so this is hey, not so fast. Don't, don't bow up too much because of what's coming there. Verses 17 through 20, you get a quick summary here in, in chapter 50 of Israel's history, the North and south fell to Assyria and Babylon respectively. Judgment is going to come on those nations that, that. Cause the north and south to fall for their crimes against God. And Israel's ultimately gonna be restored, but that full restoration is gonna come in the millennial kingdom. This is such an interesting one because Babylon is being judged for what God used them to do, and it's one of those God's sovereignty man's responsibility. Dilemmas that we find ourselves in a again. And so thi this is fascinating as we read through this, even down to verse 40, when when Babylon's going to end up like Sodom and Gomorrah, she's gonna be completely destroyed and wiped away. And yet a, a lot of what Babylon does, she does in, in execution of God's plan, not just for Israel, but as we've been reading these other nations too. Babylon was used to judge. The nations. And so it's a, an an interesting juxtaposition of the fact that they're gonna suffer for doing what they did, even though what they did God had ordained for them to do. So one of our, our missionaries that we love and, and know not one of our, our church supportive missionaries necessarily, but, but one that we are, are connected with Eric Zeller. He got to go to, to Iran. I think a, a couple of years ago, and he and his son went and looked at, at a lot of the old sites of where Babylon was and where the city was and, and everything. And, and so as we read here, the ruins, that's what it is still today. And so if you go there and, and I wouldn't encourage you go into Iran today, but if you, if you were able to get into Iran today, you could go and look at a lot of these sites and all that's left is the rubble it, the, the. Prophecy about the, the destruction like Sodom and Gomorrah has come true. And that's what you're gonna find if you show up there. So God's word is, is true. It's reliable, we can bank on it. And when he says This is what's gonna happen, this is what happens and nothing is gonna change that or, or alter that outcome. I heard you say that you're setting up a Compass Bible Church, nor Texas trip to Iran. Yes. Is that what you just said? I'd like to be led in that trip. I'll sign up. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. You wanna lead that trip? Is that what you said? I'd like for you to lead it. Okay. So that we can follow you into Iran. Into Iran. Yeah. Okay, man. I hope we get to go to Israel someday though. That would be, that'd be awesome. I hear if you go now it's pretty cheap and empty. Well, yeah, it'd be a nice time to go. Could be. Second best time would've been during COVID-19. All Cire. Yeah. Yeah. One of my friends. That's a good time. That time was awesome. One of my friends is a, a tour guide over there and he would do these videos on YouTube of the sites and there was nobody there. That's crazy. So they got unprecedented access to, to areas where there were no tourists. Amazing. Which is heartbreaking for them. 'cause that's their number one industry. Yeah. It used to be ag agriculture and agriculture's still major in that region, but, but predominantly it's tourism. So hopefully we can support them in the future at some point. Anyways, so there you go. Judgment against the nations and, and a lot of what we talked about yesterday as far as our application points are, are, are true for these as well. Babylon remember is going to also represent the, the future final foe of the world system that is going to be defeated by Christ in the end as well. So we read about that in the Book of Revelation. So while this I think is dealing with the near term, there still is a, a little bit of a, the foreshadowing of the eschatological judgment of God against the world's system that he's gonna pour out in in the end times. Dense. Yep. Thick. Well, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we thank you for your word and and for Jeremiah, and we're almost done with this book. And and yet it's, it's such a, a good thing for us to, to go through books that are, are hard, that are dense, that are thick, and to wrestle with these things and to ask ourselves the, the hard questions. Okay, how do I take this and apply it to where I am, where I sit today? And there yet there's, there's good to be found there. It's so much. More valuable for us to do this than to pursue so many other things that we might spend our time on. And so I just pray that you keep us in your word and help us to endure and persevere when it does get difficult and to understand as much as we possibly can by your spirit. So we pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Keep your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said