Jer 36:17-32 He Shall Have None to Sit Upon The Throne of David

[Study Aired April 24, 2022]

Jer 36:17  And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jer 36:18  Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Jer 36:19  Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
Jer 36:20  And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Jer 36:21  So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
Jer 36:22  Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jer 36:23  And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Jer 36:24  Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Jer 36:25  Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
Jer 36:26  But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
Jer 36:27  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 36:28  Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Jer 36:29  And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Jer 36:30  Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jer 36:31  And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Jer 36:32  Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

For chapters 35 and 36 to have their intended impact upon us we must remember that the events of these two chapters are repeated for the purpose of reminding the people of Judah and Jerusalem in the time of Zedekiah that breaking their covenant with the Lord has always brought down His wrath upon them.

Judah and Jerusalem had turned their backs on the Lord and were under the Lord’s wrath in the form of a Babylonian siege. So, they repented and covenanted with the Lord to release their Hebrew slaves, and they had released their slaves for as long as the siege against them had lasted. However, when the Lord lifted the siege and the pressure was off, they, as types of us (1Co 10:6 and 11), they immediately forgot the covenant they had made with the Lord and had brought the Hebrew slaves they had agreed to free back into bondage. That is a commentary on our flesh. We attempt to play mind games with the Lord, and it will always backfire against us.

Going back to the days of King Jehoiakim, well over a decade earlier, chapter 35 reminded those of Zedekiah’s day of the covenant the Rechabites had made and had kept with their patriarch, Jonadab. The Lord then contrasted the fidelity of the Rechabites with the infidelity of Judah and Jerusalem in bringing their Hebrew slaves back into bondage in the days of King Zedekiah.

Chapter 36, again going back to the time of King Jehoiakim, over a decade earlier, reminds us that the Jews, as types of us (1Co 10:6 and 11), have already been warned in the scroll which was read to them from the mouth of Jeremiah, by Baruch the scribe, that the Lord has already poured out His wrath on their (our) disobedience and He is about to do so again in an even greater way. King Jehoiakim demonstrated His disdain for the fiery Word of the Lord from Jeremiah (Jer 5:14) by burning the scroll in the fire in the hearth of the fireplace in his winter home.

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

King Jehoiakim is a type of our self-righteous, old man, and King Solomon has warned us of the fate of our rebellious old man:

Pro 29:1  He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

It was the princes who actually feared the words of the Lord from Jeremiah, as the last verse of our last study informed us:

Jer 36:14  Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
Jer 36:15  And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
Jer 36:16  Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

This sets the stage for our study today which informs us of the fate of our own old man and his kingdom:

Jer 36:17  And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jer 36:18  Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Jer 36:19  Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
Jer 36:20  And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

The story of King Jehoiakim is the story of our own rebellious, self-righteous old man when he is first confronted with the gospel of the chastening grace of God:

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching [G3811: paideuo, chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Being “purified” is no longer a matter of taking a physical bath. In scripture, spiritual purification is a matter of going through “fiery… chastening” trials:

Mal 3:3  And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth [G3811: paideuo], and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

At first none of us are aware that we are all by default to begin with “of [our] father the devil” before we are dragged to see ourselves as such. In fact, those words are addressed to “those Jews which believed on Him”. It is while we are “of [our] father the devil” that we believe in “another Jesus”. While serving this false Jesus we, typified by King Jehoiakim, hate the doctrine of the true Christ, and we want Him dead “because [His] word has no place in [us]”:

Joh 8:30  As he spake these words, many believed on him.
Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 8:33  They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed [We are Christians, we ‘believe on You’], and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Joh 8:34  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh 8:35  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

This is all being said for our sakes. Christ knew these ‘Jews which believed on Him’ did not consider a life of sin to be spiritual bondage. Not even His own twelve apostles had yet been given any spiritual understanding. That did not come until the day of Pentecost. Nevertheless, “for [our] sakes” the Lord informs these Jews who typify us while we are in Babylon:

Joh 8:37  I know that ye are Abraham’s seed [I know you believe in Me]; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Joh 8:38  I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Joh 8:39  They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Joh 8:40  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Joh 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

King Jehoiakim signifies our self-righteous carnal mind which does not see itself as either self-righteous or carnal. After all he is sitting on the throne of King David, and as such he is “the Lord’s anointed”. In this stage of our “experience of evil” (Ecc 1:13), the doctrines of the beast with two horns like a lamb appeal to us, and we hate the doctrines of the true Lamb of God:

Rev 13:1  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Rev 13:2  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Rev 13:3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev 13:5  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Rev 13:6  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rev 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear.
Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

What is “the patience and faith of the saints”? It is the ability to acknowledge that we are the ones who have “opened our mouths in blasphemy against God… made war with and overcame the saints… and have worshipped the beast and his image”, which ‘beast and his image’ is within every one of us. If we cannot confess to the Truth of these verses, then we do not yet have “the patience of the saints [nor] the faith of Jesus”:

Rev 13:6  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Do you “dwell on the earth”? If you do, then you have worshiped the beast and must be repenting of having done so. We have all been deceived by the beast that ‘comes up out of the earth’:

Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12  And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13  And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

There is a spirit that rules over this beast within us. Christ tells us who that spirit is. Again, remember that these words are addressed to “those Jews which believed on Him”. These words are addressed to those today who have “two horns like a Lamb [but they] speak as a dragon”:

Joh 8:30  As he spake these words, many believed on him.
Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue [G3306: meno, abide] in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth [Christ (Joh 14:6)], and the truth [Christ] shall make you free.
Joh 8:33  They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

It is “those Jews which believed on Him” who contend with our Lord telling Him they have never been in bondage to any man and asking Him how He can say, “If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the Truth and The Truth shall make you free.”

It is the same ‘Jews which believed on Him’ whom the Lord informs are of their father the devil even if Abraham is their physical patriarch:

Joh 8:37  I know that ye are Abraham’s seed [I know you believe on Me]; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Joh 8:38  I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. [‘Christians’ are notorious for killing other ‘Christians’. They do so because they cannot ‘abide in His Word’.]

The Jews which believed on Christ while He was here on this earth in a body of flesh and blood signify the multitudes of Christians who profess to believe in Christ yet have no place within themselves for His Word:

Joh 8:39  They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Joh 8:40  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Joh 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. [‘We are Christians… Christ is our Savior’]
Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

We may read these words and wonder how anyone could want to kill the very person who had taught them the Truth, healed all their sick, and fed them all with His loaves and fishes. Yet that is exactly what each of us did while we ‘had no place for His Word within us’ and while we ‘could not hear His Word’. That is a perfect description of where I was for most of my own life, and that is the circumstance into which every man is born in this dying world. This world has no place for His Word, and we “cannot hear [His] Word” because we do not understand it.  His Word really is foolishness to our old man (1Co 2:14), who is typified by King Jehoiakim:

Jer 36:21  So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
Jer 36:22  Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him [That is the same month in which King Jehoiakm had proclaimed a fast (vs 9)].
Jer 36:23  And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Jer 36:24  Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Jer 36:25  Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

Jeremiah and Baruch the scribe had ‘made friends of the mammon of this world’, and this story is one of many in scripture which demonstrate how they receive us into “everlasting habitations [Greek: skene, tabernacles]” when the Lord causes us to “fail” at being received with His Word:

Luk 16:8  And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luk 16:9  And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations [G4633: skene, tabernacles]
Luk 16:10  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Luk 16:11  If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luk 16:12  And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
Luk 16:13  No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

“The mammon of unrighteousness” is the same as “the children of this world” because “where your treasure is there will your heart be also” (Mat 6:21):

The Lord wants us to know that our works are actually “His workmanship” (Eph 2:10) and that when we do “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling” it is still “God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of [our] works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

If Christ is living His life within us, then He will bring forth good works, but those good works are not our works. They are “His workmanship… which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

If we are granted to walk in “good works”, and we desire to have faith that Christ is living His life within us, then we do so for this reason and for this reason only:

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

God works our will, and He works our actions “of His good pleasure”. What is ‘His good pleasure’? Are we being told that ‘His good pleasure’ involves only pleasant blessings which deliver us from all the fiery, painful trials of this temporal dying life? The answer to that question is that ‘His good pleasure’ includes both the good and the evil things of this present time. Consider what the scriptures state so clearly for all who are given eyes that can see and ears that can hear the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven (Mat 13:9-17). This is the Truth concerning God’s control over all evil, all the wicked, and His control of our very thoughts:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. [Oh, how true that is!]

“The proud in heart” deny that their evil thoughts and actions are made for the Lord’s own purposes. We are all by nature ‘proud in heart’, and we want to at least be responsible for our own sins and transgressions. However, this is what the Lord wants us to know about our own sins and transgressions:

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

But doesn’t James tell us:

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he [G848: hautou, Himself] any man:

There is one thing wrong with this King James Version translation of this verse. The Greek does not say ‘neither tempeth he any man’. The truth of “the sum of [the Lord’s] word” (Psa 119:160 ASV) is that the Lord tempts every man just as He tempted Abraham and King David:

Gen 22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Gen 22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

2Sa 24:1  And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

This apparent contradiction is easily understood when we observe how the Lord sent Satan to tempt Job and used Satan as “[His] hand”:

Job 1:11  But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

How does the Lord “put forth [His] hand”?

Job 1:12  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

It is the Lord who instructs Satan just exactly how far he can go in trying Job. He is given to do as he will with all Job owns but He is instructed “Upon himself put not forth thine hand”. Satan does exactly as He is instructed. No more and no less.

The exact same story is repeated in the next chapter:

Job 2:4  And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job 2:5  But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 2:6  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

Once again Satan is given precise instructions which he obeys to the letter. He covers Job’s body with boils for head to toe “but save[s] his life”.

The sum of the Lord’s words gives us the Truth on any matter:

Psa 119:160  The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. (ASV, Darby, ESV, ISV, LITV, etc.)

When we get the sum of the Lord’s words together, we find that this verse summarizes all the Lord reveals to us about the extent of His involvement in the affairs of His creatures:

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them. (ASV)

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Add to all these verses which reveal “sum of Thy Word” that James actually says is “neither tempteth He Himself any man”, and it becomes clear that the Lord tempts us by sending an evil spirit from the Lord to trouble us:

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: (ASV)

1Sa 16:14  But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

So, the Lord does tempt Abraham, and King David, but he does so through a proxy as this verse clarifies how the Lord tempted King David to number the people:

1Ch 21:1  And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

If we are given to accept that our own wicked man is made by the Lord for our own “day of evil”, then we must acknowledge it is also true for all wicked men. When we are given to acknowledge this great Truth, we are no longer able to blame anyone for erring from the Lord’s ways. When the Lord hardens our hearts we cannot do His will, and that is the preordained first experience of all men:

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Jeremiah, who typifies who we are in Christ, knew that these words of Isaiah applied to wicked King Jehoiakim. He and the scribe Baruch hid from their king, but they did not blame him for the wickedness he was made to do against them.

Jer 36:26  But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

Remember “the friends of the mammon of unrighteousness” (Luk 16:9) had warned Jeremiah and Baruch to hide themselves and tell no man where they were:

Jer 36:19  Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be [Not even the princes themselves].

Jer 36:27  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 36:28  Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Jer 36:29  And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

King Jehoiakim typifies the beast which comes up out of the earth:

It is easy to confuse physical Babylon with spiritual “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the World”:

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Mystery Babylon is a mystery because it was this great whore who physical Babylon carried away captive. When Nebuchadnezzar, the king of physical Babylon, carried the Lord’s adulterous wife away into physical Babylon he caused these words to come to pass in physical type:

Rev 18:21  And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all [The harlot city, Jerusalem (Isa 1:21)].
Rev 18:22  And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev 18:23  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev 18:24  And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Physical Jerusalem, the capital of the land of the Lord’s own people, is the harlot who typifies this great harlot of Revelation 17-18. “In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth” certainly includes the Lord’s two witnesses and our Lord Himself, which we are specifically informed is the case:

Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, [the two witnesses] the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

It is the great harlot who insisted upon the death of the Lord. It is the great harlot who wanted Jeremiah and Baruch put to death. Nebuchadnezzar and physical Babylon typify the ten horns on the beast which hate the whore and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

King Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, made Jerusalem desolate and naked. He ate her flesh, and he literally burned her with fire. Mystery Babylon is a mystery because she is the Lord’s own rebellious creatures who have turned their backs on their true spiritual husband.

Physical Jerusalem typifies all the religions of mankind which are all in rebellion against their Creator from the time of the Tower of Babel. We have all been a part of this spiritually promiscuous system of worship. Thinking we are worshiping Christ, we are brought to see that we are taking part in her sins and are destined to receive of her plagues until the Lord drags us out of her. Jehoiakim typifies our old man who slays our Lord and His witnesses. He typifies our old man who cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven (1Co 15:50).

Jer 36:30  Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jer 36:31  And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Jer 36:32  Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

Even the Lord’s elect must endure the fiery judgment of the Lord’s purifying words, but if we are given to be judged in this present time the suffering of that judgment is not worthy to be compared with glory which will be revealed within us and the manifested sons of God:

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.