_NON-ACCEPTANCE OF CHASTISEMENT_ ‘Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes.’ Jeremiah 39:7 What are the speakings of this ‘Moreover’ to us? It says to us— I. REJECT NOT LIMITED CHASTISEMENT OR TRIAL, FOR YOU KNOW NOT HOW WIDE GOD MAY REMOVE THOSE BOUNDS WHEN IT COMES UPON YOU AS SOMETHING REJECTED B... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE CAPTIVE DAUGHTER OF ZION_ ‘The Chaldeans … brake down the walls of Jerusalem.’ Jeremiah 39:8 How Zedekiah must have repented now that he had not listened to the prophet’s word! How his neglect must have stabbed him to the heart when he saw his little children massacred! But it was all too la... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘SOME SHALL BE TAKEN AND OTHERS LEFT’_ ‘Nebuzar=adan … left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.’ Jeremiah 39:10 I. IT IS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD, AND THE SACK OF JERUSALEM STRANGELY BLESSED THE POOR.—... [ Continue Reading ]