Jeremiah 25:32
“A Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: ‘Prepare for the worst! Doomsday! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation. A huge storm is about to rage all across planet Earth.’”
“The is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: ‘Look! Disaster will fall upon nation after nation! A great whirlwind of fury is rising from the most distant corners of the earth.’”
Preceding verses in Chapter 25 prophesize destruction to all nations of the then known world, in the Fertile Crescent, the Levant, and Egypt. The prophesy was fulfilled as Babylon swept through, scorching the earth and deporting the intelligentsia. Excepting Egypt, all these nations ceased to exist. Then this warning at the chapter’s center of a storm raging across the earth. Having just watched a WWII documentary, reading was a wake up, like a slap across the face.
The remaining verses balance the chapter with similar prophesy. But this time the warning is general for all the earth. And it describes more potent and widespread destruction. Students of history see present signs of coming conflagration. Warnings like this are a great mercy to those with eyes to heed them. May we be prepared, within and without.
O Lord! It is obvious something big is coming. Make us ready. Pour out your Spirit upon this land that we may turn from our selfishness towards you. May you heal and spare us as you did when Ninevah repented at Jonah’s preaching. Give me wisdom in helping to train the young to look ahead in preparation. They have inherited some big problems. Give them big shoulders on which to carry them in these darkening times.