Approaching Doom
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Those times of change, so fraught with peril to the Israelitish nation, were marked with many messages from Heaven through Jeremiah.....prophecies of oncoming judgment were mingled with promises of final and glorious deliverance.Thus the Lord gave the children of Judah ample opportunity of
*freeing themselves from entangling alliances with Egypt,
*and of avoiding controversy with the rulers of Babylon.
When men's hearts are softened and subdued by the constraining influence of the Holy Spirit, they will give heed to counsel; but when they turn from admonition until their hearts become hardened, the Lord permits them to be led by other influences. Refusing the truth, they accept falsehood, which becomes a snare to their own destruction.
Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land," several thousand in number, together with "craftsmen and smiths a thousand. With these the king of Babylon took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house.
2 Kings 24:15,16,13