Jeremiah 27:5 (ESV Strong's)
“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.
Subject: Leadership and the sovereignty of God
If you ever doubt who is in charge, the above verse makes it clear. In this section of Jeremiah the world is being told that God will put the leader in charge whom He wants. The rest of the world is to honor this truth. God does not live in a politically correct society and culture. God reigns In a world He created. Jeremiah is tasked with the responsibility to tell the nations that Babylon is the new nation God wants in charge and everyone is to obey King Nebuchadnezzar. If not, they will be destroyed. The above truth is something God actually fulfills later. Note the following:
Jeremiah 28:13-14 (ESV Strong's)
“Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”
In these verses Jeremiah is talking a false prophet, Hananiah, that God has indeed put Nebuchadnezzar in charge and given him the beast of the field. In our current political climate these thoughts are best believed and held to be true: God puts in charge whom HE wants in charge. We ought not fight it.
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