PRAYER - "False Prophets Should Pass A Prayer Test"
False prophets told the people that the vessels of the Temple would quickly be brought back from Babylon, although Jeremiah had prophesied "seventy years." "They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD." Jeremiah challenged them to a prayer test to prove they actually had power with God.
Jeremiah 27:18 - "If they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left ...at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon."
PRINCIPALS - "The Yoke Of Babylon"
God often instructed Jeremiah to use pantomime. This time, He told him to make several yokes, and send them by messengers to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Zidon, and Zedekiah of Judah. The messengers conveyed a message from the LORD. Every nation is under His control.
Jeremiah 27:6-8 - "I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ...and all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, ...that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar ...will I punish, ...until I have consumed them."
PRINCIPLES - "Cooperate With Your Captors"
Jeremiah instructed every king in the region to cooperate with Nebuchadnezzar, for in doing so, God would guarantee their safety. But if they resisted Nebuchadnezzar, they would surely die. He also gave this word to his own king, Zedekiah. Jesus taught a similar principle in His day: "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest [he] deliver thee to the judge, ...and thou be cast into prison," Matthew 5:25.
Jeremiah 27:9 - "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live."
PROPHECIES - "Jeremiah Prophesies Global Calamity At Armageddon"
The LORD showed Jeremiah a time far beyond the Babylonian captivity when He would finally bring every evil nation to judgment. He foresaw Jesus Christ destroying the grapes of wrath at the Battle of Armageddon.
Jeremiah 25:29-30,33 - "I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. ...The LORD shall roar from on high, ...as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. ...And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth."
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Saul Could Not Prevent David's Destiny
The women of Israel sang and danced in the streets after David defeated the Philistines. They said, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." This infuriated and frightened Saul. He plotted to kill David. He snared David by offering his daughter, Michal, in marriage. He required the foreskins of 100 Philistines as her dowry, thinking David would surely die in battle. But Saul could not prevent David's prophetic destiny.
1 Samuel 18:27 - "Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins."
Fleeing To The Man Of God
Saul was insanely jealous of David, trying twice to murder him. David fled to the prophet Samuel in Ramah. Saul sent three companies to retrieve David, but the Spirit of God was so strong in the place that nobody could do anything but prophesy. Finally, Saul came. He rent his clothes and prophesied a day and a night. God dwells powerfully among his intercessors.
1 Samuel 19:20 - "When they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied."
The LORD Hath Sent Thee Away
Saul was determined to prevent David from becoming king, but Jonathan knew God was with David. He made a covenant with David in exchange for David's blessing when he became king, and then hid David outside town. Jonathan learned of his father's evil intentions during dinnertime. Shooting three arrows as a signal, Jonathan warned David to flee far away. Jonathan knew God was working. Be sensitive to God's plan in your circumstances.
1 Samuel 20:22 - "If I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away."
Exile
Exile is a major Bible principle, if not a doctrine. Virtually every major Bible character suffered a period of exile (Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, the Assyrian captivity, the Babylonian captivity, and many others, including Paul). Why does God ordain His people to be exiled from home or country? Because righteousness and sin cannot dwell together. Sooner or later, they drive each other apart. Exile is a reminder of the ongoing war between good and evil. Exile is a companion to the anointing.
1 Samuel 21:10 - "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath."
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