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Jeremiah 27 Devotional

Restored in His Own Time

“‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’””Jeremiah 27:22 (BSB)

Wearing a yoke of leather straps, Jeremiah sends a message through envoys from five nations (27:2-3). His message for their kings is that the LORD made the earth, its people, and its animals by his great power, and he hands it to whomever he chooses (27:5). For now, he has placed these lands under Nebuchadnezzar, and the nation that bends its neck to that yoke will remain in its own land (27:11).

Meanwhile Jerusalem's prophets promise that the temple articles taken to Babylon will be back very soon (27:16). Jeremiah answers that the rest, the pillars and the bronze Sea, will follow them to Babylon and stay there until the day the LORD attends to them. Then he will bring them back himself (27:19-22). The false prophets were right to hope for restoration. They were wrong about whose timetable it ran on. Daniel praises the God who removes kings and sets them up (Daniel 2:21). Hope that rushes God breaks. Hope that waits on him can carry a heavy yoke without despair.

To think about: What are you hoping God will do quickly, and what would it look like to trust his timing while you wait?

About Jeremiah 27: Jeremiah Wears a Yoke

Jeremiah wears a yoke as a sign that Judah and its neighbors must submit to Nebuchadnezzar, to whom God, the Creator of the earth, has handed these lands for a set time. He warns Zedekiah and the priests against prophets promising the temple treasures will soon return; the rest will go too, until God restores them.

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