THE MESSAGES OF THE ELEVEN SYMBOLICAL ACTIONS OF JEREMIAH PART TWO

PART TWO: The boiling tilting pot to the North Jeremiah 1:13-19

 

The children of Israel have forsaken God and revolted from their allegiance to Him and have burnt incense to other gods, strange gods, and all false gods, pretenders, usurpers, the creatures of their own fancy, and they have worshipped the works of their own hands. Ezekiel 11:7-13; Ezekiel 24:6. That boiling pot was an emblem of war, and the desolations it produces.  

 

LESSONS:

1.       He intimates to him where the intended ruin shall arise, Jeremiah is a second time asked: What seest thou? And he sees a seething pot. Jer. 1:13

2.       God is pleased to give warning of His judgments beforehand, that sinners may be awakened to meet him by repentance, and so turn away his wrath, and that, if they do not, they will be left inexcusable. Jer. 1:14-16; Mic. 2:10; 2 Pet. 3:7-12; Jer. 16:1-5; 1 Corinth. 7:6,7…

3.       Without addition or diminution, declare the whole counsel of God. Jer. 1:17; Acts 20:26-27

4.       No flattery, he must not spare the priests thereof; though he himself was a priest, and was concerned to maintain the dignity of his order, yet he must not therefore flatter them in their sins. He must appear against the people of the land, though they were his own people, as far as they were against the Lord. Jer. 1:18; Matt. 28:20

5.       Those that rest on their own credit, ease and safety, more than their work and duty, are justly left of God to themselves, and to bring upon themselves the shame of their own cowardliness. Jer. 1:17; Ezekiel 3:9

6.       The fear of God is the best antidote against the fear of man. Let us always be afraid of offending God, who after He has killed has power to cast into hell, and then we shall be in little danger of fearing the faces of men that can but kill the body, Luke 12:4-5; Jer. 1:17

7.       It is better to have all the men in the world our enemies than God our enemy. Acts 4:18-19; 5:28-29; Prov. 21:30

8.       This young soul winner and prophet is made by the power of God as an impregnable city, fortified with iron pillars and surrounded with walls of brass. Jer. 1:18-19

9.       God create the good and bad for His purpose of judgment execution. Isaiah 45:7

10.   The fulfillment of this prophecy that foreign kings would set up their thrones in the gates of Jerusalem is recorded in Jeremiah 39:1-4; Ezekiel 24:1-6