Our Hope

(I originally wrote and posted this to my previous blog 03/06/2007.)

Reading: YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 46-48

This section is mainly devoted to descriptions of what YHWH is going to do to the nations among whom He has scattered His people in punishment for their idolatry. Those nations will also be held accountable for their idolatry.

But the Israelites are given reassurance that all is not lost and that a faithful remnant will be preserved through all the calamity once the punishment is complete.

Jer 46:27 "But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Ya'aqob, and do not be discouraged, O Yisra'el! For look, I am saving you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Ya'aqob shall return, and shall have rest and be at ease, with no one disturbing.
Jer 46:28 "Do not fear, O Ya'aqob My servant," declares יהוה, "for I am with you. Though I make a complete end of all the gentiles to which I have driven you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in right-ruling, and by no means leave you unpunished."

Even Moab (gentiles) is offered hope:

Jer 48:47 "But I shall turn back the captivity of Mo'ab in the latter days," declares יהוה. Thus far is the judgment of Mo'ab.

YHWH, through Yeshua Messiah, is the hope of Israel and the nations.