First Deportation from Judah - 2 Kings 24:1, 7; 2 Chronicles 36:6-7; Jeremiah Tells Length of Captivity - Jeremiah 25:1-38, 35:1-19
How remarkable is God's patience....
And so it finally happens.
For 23 years Jeremiah said it would and the people didn't listen. Arrested him. Humiliated him. Tried to kill him. And now it happens. They thought it never would. Lived like it would never happen. Built houses like there was no tomorrow. And now everything they had and put their heart and soul in is gone. Crops and animals, gone. Families...gone, too.
And that's our life. We do things that are destructive, that are against God's will and we know it. But we do them never thinking anything bad will happen because it hasn't to this point, right? I thought God would punish me but He hasn't. But is that because of God's patience or talent for getting away with things?
It's God's patience. Lord knows.
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