Jeremiah 13:12-14 (ESV)
“You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”
Jeremiah is in the midst of conveying God’s word (His wrath) to Israel. He is telling them that God has offered them everything, but they have rejected Him.
In the above paragraph we read an opening statement that is heard by the people as a ridiculous statement to make. God says,
“Every jar shall be filled with wine.”
The people respond with,
“Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’
Their response is one of sarcasm. They know what wine jars are for. But this is God’s illustration. They were to be jars for His glory. That was His point of putting them in the land. But they instead turned His glory into disobedience. So, now He is going to fill them to the point of being drunk. They want to follow false gods and disobey Him, so He will accommodate. This is something equivalent to Paul’s statement to the Romans:
Romans 1:24-28 (ESV)
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
This is what God is doing for Israel because of their disobedience. When He created us as jars for HIs glory and we reject that, God gives us up to the desires of our flesh and we are consumed (drunk) by it and the consequences of it.
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