Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-21

Jeremiah had at this time been a prophet
1Sfty years, for he began in the thirteenth
year of Josiah, after which Josiah contin-
ued eighteen years, and the eleventh of
Zedekiah was twenty-five years later der.
i, q; II Kings xii l. xiii, 81, 36; xiv, s.
49,. The thirty-five years which elapsed
between Josiah's great passover in the
eighteenth year of his reign Oh Chron.
xxxv, 100 and the destruction of the city,
is suggestive and perhaps typical of about
the same period which elapsed between
the greatest Of all passovers, when Christ
our passover was sacrificed for us Il Cor.
v, y and the last destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus.
g. 1.-THE famine prevailed in the city, and
there was no bread for the people of the
land"
4. "And the city was broken up, and all
the men Of war fled by night; and the king
went the way toward the plain"
And yet this was the city which God had
chosen to put His name there-the city of
the Great King, beautiful for situation, the
Joy Of the whole earth
n "And the army Of the Chaldees pur-
kued after the king and overlook him in
the plains Of Jericho, and all his army were
scattered from him"
This also was made known to the captives
at Babylon by the prophet Ezekiel Geek.
xii, 10, T. CO.. Contrast the safety Of Heze.
kiah when besieged by the great army OF
Sennacherib, and the wonderful deliverance
God wrought for him in answer to the
prayer of himself and Isaiah Oil Chron.
xxi, 2O-22; lisa. xxxvii, 36). SEQ also the
peace and safety OF Elijah when besieged by
the Syrians (lI Kings vi, Is, ~, and con
slider what God did for Abiiah and Asa be
cause they relied on him Oh Chron. xiii, 49,
xiv, II, ~.
g. $50 they took the king and brought
him up to the king Of Babylon to Riblah
and they gave Judgment upon him"
At the same place, just twenty-five years
before, the king Of Egypt had put bands
upon his brother Jehoahaz and took him
to Egypt, where he died Oh Kings XXiiD.
T. "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Gedekiah, and bound him with letters Of
Irass, and carried him to Babylon"
jeremiah had said, Thine eyes shall be-
hold the eyes Of the king of Babylon, and
he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth,
and thou shalt 90 to Babylon" DER. xxxiv,
-. The same spirit had said through
Ezekiel, IL will bring him to Babylon, to
the land of the Chaldcans; yet shall he not
see il, though he shall die there (Ezek.
xii, 49, See how these somewhat difficult,
and in measure seemingly contradic-
tory, prophecies were literally fulfilled, and
all made perfectly plain in the fulfllment.
He saw the king Of Babylon; they looked
upon each other and spoke to each other.
He also went TO Babylon, but he never saw
Babylon, for after seeing the king Of Baby
lon at RiDlah, and after being compelled 10
witness the death Of his sons, his eyes were
put out How fearfully sad the conse-
quences OF unbeliefl but what is all present
physical suffering when compared with
the endless torment Of Rev. xiv, 9-ll'
g. "Nebuznr adam, captain Of the guard,
a servant u the king of Babylon"
The literal meaning Of the Hebrew phrase
here translated captain OF the guard" Is
kchief Of the slaughtermen or execution
y" (see the margin OF Gen. xxxvii, a).
-. And he burnt the house of the Lord,
and the Kings house, and all the houses OF
Jerusalem, and every great mans house
burnt he with FIRE"
The people could now truly say, 20 God,
the heathea are come into thine inherit
anee; thy holy temple have they dedled; they
have laid Jerusalem on heaps" (Ps. xxx,
-. "Our holy and our beautiful house
where our fathers praised Thee, is burned
up with ere, and all our pleasant thing,
are laid waste" lisa. Xiv, IL. This mig
nifsent building costing hundreds Of mill
ioos Of dofiass, and which stood less than
thirty four ye&ss in iss Original splsndss
81 KisGs xiv, 81, "a, Is now completely de
stroyed sod al the city burned with Gre
and ain did II all.
TO- And all the army OF the O,aldees
that were With the captain Of the guard
brals~ down the walls OF Jerusalem reund
about"
And ta,as they continued until the re
turn Of Nehemiah, many years after tn,
return Of ale "a, go under Ier1bbdbel fNeh
i, 81 ssd snpid the greasest opposition aud
hatred was the wall rebuilt (Nsh. iy, VI.
n Now the rest Of the people thst wers
left in the city did Nebuzar-adan, the cap
tain of the guard, carry away"
Sons were slain Tvs. lS-2l); at three diff
ferent times 1900 were carried captive der
M, $50, while some were left in the land
Some were carried captive for their good
that He might bring them again, and builC
them and plant them in their own land
and give them heart to know Him; whfl,
others who were disobedient were taken u
be consumed and destroyed because o
their sins Tread Jer. XIV. The sam
event or series Of events may happen Il
both the righteous and the wicked; to tn,
one IL means blessing, 10 tue OCner ours
ing. The same glad tidings of salvation
preached to a congregation may mean lif
TO some and death TO others III Cor ii
Is, 49,
IL. But the captain of the guard left o
the poor OF the land to be vine dressers an'
husbandmen."
To the poor of the people, who had moth
ing in the land, he gave vineyards ant
fields DER. xxx, l0) Gedaliah was mad
governor over these, and jeremiah chos
to dwell with him among the people tina
were left in the land der. XII, 40. Ged
allah was slain by Ishmael, and he in turn
was defeated by Jobanan, who ere lonl
took all the remnant Of the people, men
YQmen and children and kings daughter
and Jeremiah and Baruch, and went dow
TO Egypt, where probably jeremiah die
(Jer. XII, 3, 8, IL, ~; xiii, 40.
Thus was the land desolate ''To fulfil
the word Of the Lord by the mouth o
jeremiah" Oh Chron. xxxvi, ~ Mari
the last four verses Of the books of III King
and the prophecy Of jeremiah, then rea'
Jer xiii, SO, and believe that the God VIII
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