1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,920 Jeremiah chapter 27 The yoke of Nebuchadnezzar in the beginning 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,880 of the reign of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah. 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,440 His word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,760 Thus says the Lord to me, Make yourself straps and yoke bars 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,800 and put them on your neck. Send word to the king of Edom, 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,920 the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Amon, the king of 7 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,600 Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the envoys who have 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,520 come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah king of Judah. 9 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,800 Give them this charge for their masters. 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,400 Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel. 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,760 This is what you shall say to your masters. 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,120 It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,480 made the earth with the men and animals that are on the earth, 14 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,960 and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 15 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,240 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,440 the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the 17 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,040 beasts of the field to serve him. 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,080 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,640 until the time of his own land comes. 20 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,960 Then many nations and great kings shall make him their 21 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,560 slave. But if any nation or Kingdom 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,200 will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 23 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,200 put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,560 I will punish that nation with a sword, with famine, and with 25 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,440 pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,240 hand. So do not listen to your 27 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,600 prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune tellers, 28 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,040 or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, You shall not 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,120 serve the king of Babylon. For it is a lie that they are 30 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,280 prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed 31 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,200 far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,440 perish. But any nation that will bring 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,120 its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I 34 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,280 will leave on its own land to work it and dwell there, 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,320 declares the Lord to Zedekiah, king of Judah. 36 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,960 I spoken like manner, bring your necks under the yoke of the king 37 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,600 of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. 38 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,520 Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by 39 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,120 as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will 40 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,360 not serve the king of Babylon? Do not listen to the words of 41 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,200 the prophets who are saying to you, You shall not serve the 42 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,240 king of Babylon, for it is a lie that they are prophesying to 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,480 you. I've not sent them, declares the 44 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,640 Lord, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the 45 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:26,360 result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the 46 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,200 prophets who are prophesying to you. 47 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,240 Then I spoke to the priest and to all this people, saying, Thus 48 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,400 says the Lord, do not listen to the words of your prophets who 49 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,720 are prophesying to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the 50 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,200 Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon, for 51 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,080 it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 52 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,520 Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and 53 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,480 live. Why should the city become a 54 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,080 desolation? If they are prophets, and if the 55 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,080 word of the Lord is with them, then let them intercede with the 56 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,240 Lord of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the House of 57 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,680 the Lord, in the House of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, 58 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,800 may not go to Babylon. For thus says the Lord of hosts 59 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,440 concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the 60 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,560 vessels that are left in the city, which Nebuchadnezzar king 61 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,760 of Babylon did not take away when he took into exile from 62 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,400 Jerusalem to Babylon. Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim 63 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,520 king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,880 Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the 65 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,000 vessels that are left in the House of the Lord, in the House 66 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 67 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,000 They shall be carried to Babylon, and remain there until 68 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,800 the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. 69 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,920 Then I'll bring them back and restore them to this place. 70 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,920 Jeremiah chapter 28. Hananiah the false prophet. 71 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,000 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,720 Zedekiah king of Judah, in the 5th month of the fourth year, 73 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,200 Hananiah the son of Azor, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me 74 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,800 in the House of the Lord in the presence of the priest and all 75 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,160 the people, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of 76 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,680 Israel, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon within 77 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,840 two years. I will bring back to this place 78 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,200 all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar, 79 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,279 king of Babylon, took away from this place and carried to 80 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,720 Babylon. I will also bring back to this 81 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,840 place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and all 82 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:26,200 the Exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, 83 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,240 for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. 84 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,880 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the 85 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,600 presence of the priest and all the people who were standing in 86 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,360 the House of the Lord. And the prophet Jeremiah said, 87 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,760 Amen. May the Lord do so. 88 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,280 May the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, 89 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,560 and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the 90 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,040 House of the Lord and all the Exiles. 91 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,920 Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,320 hearing of all the people. The prophets who preceded you 93 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,640 and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and 94 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,440 pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. 95 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,920 As for the prophet who prophesized peace, when the word 96 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,120 of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,160 Lord has truly sent the prophet. Then the prophet Hananiah took 98 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,880 the yoke barks from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke 99 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,920 them. And Hananiah spoke in the 100 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,760 presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the Lord, Even 101 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,040 so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 102 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,920 from the neck of all the nations within two years. 103 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,240 But Jeremiah the prophet went his way. 104 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,640 Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke 105 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,200 bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word 106 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,880 of the Lord came to Jeremiah. Go, tell Hananiah Thus says the 107 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,600 Lord, You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their 108 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,640 place bars of iron. For thus says the Lord of hosts, 109 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,680 the God of Israel. I have put upon the neck of all 110 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,560 these nations and iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of 111 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,200 Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I've given to him even 112 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,160 the beast of the field. And Jeremiah the prophet said to 113 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,400 the prophet Hananiah, Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent 114 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,400 you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. 115 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,240 Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I'll remove you from the 116 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,360 face of the earth. This year you shall die, because 117 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,280 you have uttered rebellion against the Lord. 118 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,280 In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet 119 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:29,720 Hananiah died. Jeremiah chapter 29, verses one 120 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,000 through 23. Jeremiah's letter to the Exiles. 121 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,640 These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet 122 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,000 sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the Exiles 123 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,920 and to the priest, the prophets, and all the people whom 124 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,600 Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 125 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,000 This was after King Jeconiah and the Queen Mother, the eunuchs, 126 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,160 the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the Craftsman and the 127 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,400 metal workers had departed from Jerusalem. 128 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,720 The letter was sent by the hand of Elisa the son of Shaifan, and 129 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,280 Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent 130 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:09,360 to Babylon, To Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 131 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,400 It's said Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all 132 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,360 the Exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 133 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,880 Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their 134 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,560 produce. Take wives and have sons and 135 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,400 daughters. Take wives for your sons, and 136 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,080 give your daughters and marriage that they may bear sons and 137 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,360 daughters. Multiply there and do not 138 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,040 decrease, but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent 139 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,880 you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its 140 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,880 welfare you will find your welfare. 141 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,560 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. 142 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,680 Do not let your prophets and your diviners whom are among you 143 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,720 deceive you. And do not listen to the dreams 144 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,080 that they dream, for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you 145 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,200 in My name. I did not send them, declares 146 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,440 the Lord. For thus says the Lord, when 70 147 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,560 years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will 148 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,800 fulfill you to my promise and bring you back to this place. 149 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,800 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans 150 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,440 for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 151 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,720 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will 152 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,280 hear you. You will seek me and find me. 153 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,480 When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you, 154 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,160 declares the Lord. And I will restore your fortunes 155 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,800 and gather you from all the nations and all the places where 156 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,840 I have driven you, declares the Lord. 157 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:36,600 And I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into 158 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,600 exile, because you have said the Lord has raised up profits for 159 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,960 us in Babylon. Thus says the Lord concerning 160 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,040 the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the 161 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,720 people who dwell in the city, your kinsmen who did not go out 162 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,720 with you into exile. Thus as the Lord of hosts, 163 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,480 behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, 164 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,080 and I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, 165 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,560 to be a curse, a terror, A hissing, and a reproach among 166 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,520 all the nations where I have driven them, because they did 167 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,760 not pay attention to my words, declares the Lord, that I 168 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,000 persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets. 169 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,560 But you would not listen, declares the Lord. 170 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,680 Hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles whom I sent away from 171 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:22,720 Jerusalem to Babylon. Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the 172 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,640 God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kalea, and Zedekiah 173 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,440 the son of Ma Asiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my 174 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,240 name. Behold, I will deliver them into 175 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,640 the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike 176 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,240 them down before your eyes because of them. 177 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,440 This curse shall be used by all the Exiles from Judah in 178 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,720 Babylon. The Lord make you like Zedekiah 179 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,840 in Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire, because 180 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,880 they have done an outrageous thing in Israel. 181 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,600 They have committed adultery with their neighbors wives. 182 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,400 They have spoken in my name, lying words, that I did not 183 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,960 command them. I am the one who knows and I am 184 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:09,560 a witness, declares the Lord. 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 185 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:15,440 Greeting Paul, Sylvanus, and Timothy to the Church of the 186 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,120 Thessalonians and God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 187 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:23,160 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 188 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,000 Christ. Thanksgiving. 189 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,600 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is 190 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,920 right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love 191 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,480 of everyone of you for one another is increasing. 192 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,680 Therefore, we ourselves boast about you and the churches of 193 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,800 God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions 194 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:49,960 and in the afflictions that you are enduring the judgment of 195 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,200 Christ's coming. This is evidence of the 196 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,040 righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of 197 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,240 the Kingdom of God for which you are also suffering. 198 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:04,160 Since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction 199 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,000 those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are 200 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 afflicted as well as to us. When the Lord Jesus is revealed 201 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 from heaven with His mighty angels and flaming fire, 202 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,320 inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those 203 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,000 who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus, they will suffer 204 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,080 the punishment of eternal destruction away from the 205 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,760 presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might, when He 206 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,800 comes on that day to be glorified in His Saints and to 207 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,960 be marvelled and among all who have believed, because our 208 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,920 testimony to you was believed. To this end, we always pray for 209 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,880 you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and may 210 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,000 fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His 211 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,800 power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in 212 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,560 you and you and Him, according to the grace of our God and the 213 00:11:54,560 --> 00:12:00,520 Lord Jesus Christ. Proverbs chapter 6 verses one 214 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,480 through 11. Practical warnings, my son, if 215 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,560 you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your 216 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,960 pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your 217 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,280 mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my 218 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,160 son, and save yourself. For you have come into the hand 219 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,840 of your neighbor. Go hasten and plead urgently 220 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,640 with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep, in your 221 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,840 eyelids no slumber. Save yourself like a gazelle 222 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,160 from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the 223 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,440 Fowler. Go to the Ant, O slugger, 224 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,160 consider her ways and be wise without having any chief officer 225 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,520 or ruler. She prepares her bread in 226 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,840 summer, and gathers her food and harvest. 227 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,560 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? 228 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:47,960 When will you arise from your sleep? 229 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,480 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the 230 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,880 hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and 231 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,760 want like an armed man.