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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
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Day 555

"You are My battle-ax"

Text: Jeremiah 51:20

A PROFOUND STATEMENT

The following text is a very profound statement. The question is to identify the person. In context, this would actually be Babylon!

“You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.”
Jeremiah 51:20-23

1. “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: for with you I will break the nation in pieces;
with you I will destroy kingdoms”

a) The present tense used would limit the choices.

b) The current, existing world power would be Babylon.

c) Babylon was indeed God’s battle-ax and weapons of war.

d) The nation of Judah was broken by Babylon.

e) Many kingdoms were destroyed by the Babylonians.

2. “With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider”

a) Babylon had the power to break in pieces many things.

b) Highlighted were:

i) The horse and its rider.

ii) The chariot and its rider.

3. “With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
with you I will break in pieces old and young;
with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden”

a) More things were listed as broken in pieces.

b) Highlighted here:

i) The human factor for death killed both old and young.

ii) Relationships were broken too.

4. “With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
and with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers”

a) Even more things were broken in pieces.

b) Industries were destroyed:

i) Shepherds and sheep-breeding.

ii) Farmers and their yokes of oxen.

c) Government bodies were also destroyed.

i) Governors

ii) Rulers