Jeremiah 24

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Jeremiah 24:1-10 (KJV) 




1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 


There were two baskets of figs sitting outside of the temple of the Lord.  These baskets were sitting in this particular place after Nebuchadrezzar had taken king Jeconiah of Judah, the princes, carpenters, and smith all from Jerusalem, but now they are in Babylon as captives or slaves.


2 One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 


God told Jeremiah about the figs:  he said the figs that were just ripened were very good.  He described the other figs as being naughty and these figs were not fit to eat because they were so bad. (disobedient, badly behaved, and derivative of ungodly sexual disposition).


3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.


After God described the figs himself, he asked Jeremiah what did he see?  Jeremiah saw the same thing that God saw.  We can know we are being used by God, and God wants to communicate with us when we say what we see as what he said and saw.



 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 


Then God spoke to Jeremiah again and said,




5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good. 


God explained the reason for the figs Jeremiah saw.  He said the good figs represented the good he saw in some of the people he removed from Judah to the land of those who captured His people, and he said he would bring those particular people back to Jerusalem at the appointed time.



6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up. 


God told Jeremiah he would do good for the people who do good.  Although God was putting all of Judah in exile, he carefully separated how he was going to divide the good people from, those who behaved naughtily.



7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. 


God said he would give them the heart to know Him.  God will give us the heart to know Him if we ask Him to.  They want me to be their God and I want to be their God:  when these who return to me, they will be serious about doing what I said.




8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: 


As for the figs in the basket labeled no good, I will not do good to them.  God even pointed out the name of the king who he would not allow to be a part of His plan of returning to Jerusalem after the exile.



9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 


Those bad figs or bad people will be placed all over the place so they can be hurt for all they did to my people.  People will know them to be a curse and a reproach in all the places they will be sent to.  The king and the people left with him will experience the hurt I sending their way.




10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.


If the famine does not take their lives, the pestilence will, if the pestilence doesn't kill them, the sword will.  I will remove them from the land I gave to the children of Abraham.

 

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