Book of Jeremiah – Jer 50:16-32  Every Shipmaster Cried When They Saw the Smoke of Her Burning

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Jer 50:16-32  Every Shipmaster Cried When They Saw the Smoke of Her Burning

[Study Aired September 25, 2022]

Jer 50:16  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Jer 50:17  Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Jer 50:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Jer 50:19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
Jer 50:20  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Jer 50:21  Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Jer 50:22  A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jer 50:23  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jer 50:24  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Jer 50:25  The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jer 50:26  Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jer 50:27  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jer 50:28  The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jer 50:29  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Jer 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Jer 50:31  Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
Jer 50:32  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

It is while we are yet in our sins, and while we are yet in Mystery Babylon the Great, that the Lord begins to deliver us from that great harlot, and He begins the painful, fiery process of dragging us out of her:

Mic 4:10  Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

When the Lord begins to cause us to question the doctrines of Mystery Babylon, He is at that point beginning to “cut off the sowers from Babylon”, and He is beginning to cut off “him that handles the sickle in time of harvest” while we are still in Babylon. It is “there [where we] shall be delivered, there the Lord shall [begin to] redeem [us] from the hand of [our] enemies”.

Just as Christ has His own sowers and reapers, both being His anointed, His Christ, so Babylon has her sowers and reapers who first appear to us as angels of light:

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousnesswhose end shall be according to their works.

The ministers of Babylon “sit in Moses’ seat”, and we give them our attention and respect at that time of our journey through this experience of evil (Ecc 1:13). However, they will be rewarded “according to their works”:

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Jer 50:16  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

“The sower” in Christ’s parable of the sower is the positive application of this phrase. He and His Christ are those who sow His word in His field.

“Him that handles the sickle” is the person who gathers in the fruits of the harvest. ‘The harvest’ is the time of judgment, when ‘all the tares are gathered together first to be burned’:

Mat 13:24  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
Mat 13:25  But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Mat 13:26  But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Mat 13:27  So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Mat 13:28  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Mat 13:29  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. “The harvest” is the day of judgment. Therefore, when the ‘Householder’ tells His servants to “let them both grow together until the harvest”, He is telling His servants to let those who like their lives in Babylon to stay there until He begins to drag them out:

Rev 22:10  And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time [of the harvest, the time of judgment] is at hand.
Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

“Let them grow together until the harvest”.

In the case of spiritual Babylon, the ‘reapers’ would be the ‘enemy’, the ravenous wolves who scatter and devour the Lord’s flock with false doctrines, charging them and making them pay for all their lies, while also demanding and exacting tithes and offerings from the Lord’s flock.

It all takes place within our own lives, and it will take place outwardly in what Jeremiah is inspired to call “the time of harvest”. ‘The time of harvest’ is the time of the Lord’s wrath upon all the ‘sowers and handlers of the sickle’ who will all be “judged, according to their works”. I repeat:

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Here is the New Testament version of this time of judgment, both now in “the house of God” and at the great white throne judgment:

Rev 18:14  And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Rev 18:15  The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
Rev 18:16  And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
Rev 18:17  For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
Rev 18:18  And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
Rev 18:19  And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

The Lord’s elect are “the apple of His eye” even when He is in the process of judging and purifying them, and he will judge those whom He uses to judge His people:

Jer 50:17  Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Jer 50:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Jer 50:19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

‘Carmel and Bashan, mount Ephraim and Gilead’ are all the inheritance of ancient Israel through the promises the Lord made to Abraham. As such they now signify the Lord’s inheritance in the saints:

Gal 3:29  And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Jer 50:20  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. [H7604: ‘shaar’, remnant]

This verse makes it very clear that the Lord has “reserved… a remnant to [Himself]” as the Lord told Elijah and as Paul reiterated concerning ‘this present time’:

1Ki 19:18  Yet I have left [H7604: ‘shaar’, remnant] me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

Rom 11:4  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

‘Seven thousand’ is not the precise number of the Lord’s remnant elect. Rather ‘seven thousand’ signifies the complete complement of the Lord’s remnant elect whom He has and will “reserve unto Himself” even as Babylon is being judged.

Eph 1:23 which is His body, the complement of the One completing the all in all. (CLV)

Eph 3:19 to know the love of Christ as well which transcends knowledge – that you may be completed for the entire complement of God. (CLV)

Eph 4:13 unto the end that we should all attain to the unity of the faith and of the realization of the son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the complement of the Christ, (CLV)

Jer 50:21  Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

This command to “Go up against the land of Merathaim” is just another command of the Lord for the destroyers of Babylon to ‘go up’ and do what the Lord had predestined to be done. The meaning of the name itself reveals that Merathaim is just another name for Babylon:

How does the Lord reward Mystery Babylon within us?

Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. ,

Jer 50:22  A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

“The sound of battle… and of great destruction [is] in the land” in His elect. Speaking specifically of the Lord’s judgments upon His elect we are told:

Rev 14:6  And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

What is this “everlasting gospel”? What is this ‘good news’?

Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 14:13  And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Blessed are all who “offer [their] bodies as a living sacrifice unto God”, and blessed are all who “die daily”, and are “crucified with Christ… in this present time” (Rom 12:1, 1Co 15:31, Gal 2:20, Rom 8:18)

Physical ancient Babylon was the most powerful nation on earth at that time. Nebuchadnezzar conquered Tyre and Egypt, two of the greatest powers of that time:

Eze 26:7  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
Eze 26:8  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

Eze 30:10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Mystery Babylon has also been given “all nations” to partake of her adulterous fornications against the Lord and His Christ:

Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Jer 50:23  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

How is the destruction of such powerful nations accomplished? This is how it is done:

Jer 50:24  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Jer 50:25  The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

The Lord’s ‘armoury’ is so well equipped that no past, present or future military power could ever hope to escape the day of His visitation.

Jer 50:26  Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jer 50:27  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Babylon’s ‘bullocks’ are those who sacrifice themselves for the doctrines of this great harlot system, just as the Lord’s bullocks are those who present their bodies as a living sacrifice to God (Rom 12:1)

‘The day of the Lord’s visitation’, like every other Word of God, has both a positive and a negative application. “The time of their [Babylon’s] visitation” is the negative application which results in her utter destruction for her rebellious self-righteousness.

Jer 50:28  The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

‘Vengeance’ is a Biblical doctrine. However, it never originates from those who know that the Lord has made all things, the good and the evil, for Himself, that everything is beautiful in His time; that all things are  being worked by the Lord after the counsel of His own will, and that no man can resist His will:

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

Ecc 3:11  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

2Ch 20:5  And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
2Ch 20:6  And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?  and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Dan 4:17  This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

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:

If the Lord grants us the faith to believe that He is working all things after the counsel of His own will, then it will be much easier for us to also accept these words:

Rom 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

As a parent, nothing upset me more than for my children to usurp my position and authority and take it upon themselves to discipline their siblings. Discipline belongs to those who are given that responsibility. Vengeance belongs to the Lord, and the Lord’s vengeance will accomplish His good purpose in all things for all men. The Lord’s vengeance applies to each of us also because “all have sinned… and of the people there was… none righteous, no, not one”:

Isa 63:3  I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Isa 63:4  For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

Here is a new testment take on revenge.

2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

When we read pronouns like ‘their’, ‘them’ and ‘they’, put your name there because it includes you and me as in Psalm 14:3.

Psa 14:2  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psa 14:3  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Rom 3:10  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

“All have sinned”, and all men must go into the religious system called ‘Mystery Babylon’, and all men must “come out of her” (Rev 18:4). Babylon is not just the Christian religion. Babylon is any and every and all religion which has rebelled against the covenant the Lord made with “Noah… and his seed after him”:

Gen 9:8  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Gen 9:9  And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Remember that even Adam and Eve were in covenant with God before they became of their father the devil. Whether they are aware of it or not, all men are in covenant with God, and all men have broken that covenant with God and have entered into “Mystery Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots and of Abominations of the Earth”:

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.

Those words certainly apply to Christianity, first and foremost, but Christianity is not the only religion which hates the doctrines of Christ. Every religion, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the religion of Atheism, one and all, are “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus”. That is why Christ died for all men, and that is why “His Christ… dies daily… for His body’s sake which is the church”:

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Because Babylon so detests Christ and is drunk with the blood of His martyrs, Mystery Babylon must be destroyed and burned out of every man:

Jer 50:29  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

We have already demonstrated that ‘archers’ signify teachers and ‘arrows’ signify doctrines, good or evil. Babylon within us abuses the Lord’s ‘arrows’ and disobeys His doctrines even as we teach them. Therefore, those same ‘arrows’ will be used to judge Babylon:

Mat 23:1  Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2  Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
Mat 23:3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Mat 23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

All the ‘holy men’ of this present time also “sit in Moses’ seat” because they are all “under the law”, be it the law of Moses or the law of the Gentiles. In the eyes of Christ there is no difference as the apostle Paul explained:

Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

Paul goes on to demonstrate that the law of Moses is nothing more than “a carnal commandment… the form of knowledge and of the Truth in the law”.

Rom 2:19  And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Rom 2:20  An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Here is the Greek word translated as ‘form’ in this verse:

This word appears only one other time in the New Testament, and it conveys the same message:

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Paul speaks of the works of Mystery Babylon “in the last days” in these words:

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

The “form of godliness” they have is the law which they are under, and it is not “the law of Christ”, rather it is “a carnal commandment”:

Heb 7:15  And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Heb 7:16  Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Even Moses condemns us when we place ourselves under His dominion as those in Mystery Babylon do:

Job 15:6  Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Luk 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge theethou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

Again, the punishment for our sins is double “according to [our] works”:

Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

Jer 50:30  Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

We are witnessing both the inward and the outward fulfillment of this verse as we witness the fiery destruction of all the false doctrines of Babylon from within our heavens, and as we watch the secular world turn on her and expose her naked hypocrisy, and eat the flesh of Mystery Babylon, and burn her with the fire of her own words:

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, [all religions of men] which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Jer 50:31  Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

I must repeat, “the day of visitation”, like every Word of God, has both a positive and a negative application, but as despised as this Truth is, the overwhelming weight of the scriptures is always the negative application and for a very good reason, because the flesh is so quick to forget and to minimize the consequences of sin:

Psa 89:32  Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Jer 49:8  Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Jer 50:32  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

It is the time of the Lord’s visitation upon Mystery Babylon, and the day of His judgment, and His vengeance. Nevertheless, the end is a good end when the Lord will visit us for our good:

Deu 8:16  Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Jer 15:15  O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer 27:22  They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

Jer 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

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