Jeremiah 30 FSI - HEAR, O EARTH

> [!title|noicon] **Jeremiah 30 Notes** > [[Jeremiah 29 FSI|<Prev]]   \[[Jeremiah 31 FSI|Next>\]] > [[Jeremiah 30|Verse list view]] > [Jeremiah 30:1](Jeremiah%2030.md#^1), [2](Jeremiah%2030.md#^2) note > > In verse 2, God gives us a statement of how He wrote the Bible. It wasn't Jeremiah, or Luke (for example), or Matthew, or any of the other scribes who actually wrote the Bible. *God* wrote the Bible *through* His messengers such as Jeremiah, Luke, Matthew and the others. God gave them the words so that they could write exactly as they did. We can really see this, for example, in the book of Genesis, which was penned through Moses who lived thousands and thousands of years after creation and after the flood. And yet he detailed conversations between God and Adam or God and Noah, and there's no way Moses could have gotten that information from anyone except God Himself. And when we look at the book of Jude, he quotes what Enoch the seventh from Adam said way back when he was living, thousands of years before ([Jude 14](Jude.md#^14), [15](Jude.md#^15)). So this is how God is coming to Jeremiah now, telling him to write these words He has spoken in a book. And God will develop this idea further when we get to [Jeremiah 36:2](Jeremiah%2036.md#^2). > > This is why the Bible is so wonderful -- it comes from the very Mouth of God Himself and it is *absolutely trustworthy*. When we have the Bible in our hand, we have the most precious, most wonderful information that can ever be imagined. > > Now, in 2 places in the book of Revelation we read about a book. In [Revelation 5:1](Revelation%205.md#^1), [2](Revelation%205.md#^2), [3](Revelation%205.md#^3), [4](Revelation%205.md#^4), [5](Revelation%205.md#^5) and [6:1](Revelation%206.md#^1) and following, we read about a book that is sealed with 7 seals, and only the Lamb (Christ) was worthy to open them. And as Christ opens the seals of the book, He is discussing aspects of His salvation plan throughout the church age: Christ going to the cross and God's plan to send the Gospel into the world. Only Christ Himself could open the seals of this book. This represents how the Gospel was written throughout the Old Testament, but it was never very well articulated until Christ came to open the book. Once He came, then the seals were taken off and these truths became apparent to benefit the church during the church age. > > Then we read of Christ with an open book in [Revelation 10:1](Revelation%2010.md#^1), [2](Revelation%2010.md#^2), [3](Revelation%2010.md#^3), [4](Revelation%2010.md#^4). So again, we read about a book, but in this case it's going to be sealed. But then in [verses 7](Revelation%2010.md#^7), [8](Revelation%2010.md#^8), [9](Revelation%2010.md#^9), [10](Revelation%2010.md#^10), [11](Revelation%2010.md#^11), we read where God instructs John to eat the book and to prophecy *again* before many peoples, nations, tongues and kings. And this time God specifies that this was in the *days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound and the mystery of God shall be finished*. And we read about when the seventh angel sounds in [Revelation 11:15](Revelation%2011.md#^15) ... [18](Revelation%2011.md#^18) -- where it is dealing with the very time of the end. So God has specifically sealed the information concerning the time of the end until that time (which has now come), as we read also in [Daniel 12:9](Daniel%2012.md#^9). So we are now living in that time when these mysteries are being revealed. So this book relates to the content of the book that we read about here in Jeremiah 30 which relates to the very end of time. So this is what we can expect to understand from the remainder of this chapter, as well as what we have been reading throughout the book of Jeremiah. ^jer30-1-2 > [Jeremiah 30:3](Jeremiah%2030.md#^3) note > > Verse 3 begins to show a bit of sunshine in the book of Jeremiah, which focuses so much on God's judgment. And we'll see why this is in a moment. There is *going* to be deliverance! It isn't just *all* doom and gloom as we've read about consistently so far in Jeremiah, and will see again as we continue on in coming chapters. Remember, Israel and Judah were the *visible* representation of the kingdom of God in their day, and they point to the churches and congregations in our day as the visible kingdom of God. They are today's Israel and Judah, in other words. And the people of Israel and Judah who have been driven out, the true believers, will return to the land that God had given to their fathers (as represented by the Promised land, the land of Canaan, given to Abraham and the patriarchs and which typified the kingdom of God), which land is the *eternal* Jerusalem, or the *eternal* kingdom of God ([Heb 11:10](Hebrews%2011.md#^10)). So even during this time of judgment, God still has a salvation plan as we will see. ^jer30-3 > [Jeremiah 30:4](Jeremiah%2030.md#^4), [5](Jeremiah%2030.md#^5), [6](Jeremiah%2030.md#^6) note > > We might hesitate here and ask, "What's going on here? This doesn't sound like sunshine at all like we just read in [verse 3](Jeremiah%2030.md#^3)." Here is the voice of trembling and fear, and not of peace ([v5](Jeremiah%2030.md#^5)). And in [verse 6](Jeremiah%2030.md#^6) we see that this relates to a woman travailing with child. > > Whenever the Bible speaks of a woman travailing with child ([v6](Jeremiah%2030.md#^6)), God is talking about *judgment* and *the great tribulation* ([1 Thess 5:2](1%20Thessalonians%205.md#^2), [3](1%20Thessalonians%205.md#^3)). Eventually that woman with child is *going* to give birth -- she doesn't know precisely when, but it is going to come. She may experience enormous pain, but she cannot stop it. (Of course, in our day a woman can have a C-section to alleviate a lot of the issues, but it wasn't normally that way throughout the history of time.) That baby is going to be born with all of the pain that is associated with it. And only God knows when that's going to happen. > > So God uses this as a very important picture of judgment day, as we'll see in [verse 7](Jeremiah%2030.md#^7). Judgment day is *going* to come, and it's going to be painful beyond measure for the unsaved. But you can't stop it. It's going to come. You can be in denial like many in the churches and those out in the world are. They can pretend like it's not going to happen. They can mock the Bible and try to discredit it in any way they can. But deep in their hearts they have a deep-seated fright. Since God's Law is written on the heart, and every human being is created in the image of God and intuitively knows they are accountable to God for sin and that there is a judgment day -- even though they might completely suppress the Truth in their conscience -- nevertheless there is fear and trembling because judgment day is going to come. And they do not want to face it. But you can't change it, it is going to happen. ^jer30-4-6 > [Jeremiah 30:7](Jeremiah%2030.md#^7) note > > This is the day we are in, it is the time of great tribulation and judgment, it is the day that the woman in travail has come to the birth. And here we read that it is the time of *Jacob's trouble*. Jacob can refer to Israel -- he was the progenitor of the nation of Israel. Jacob also identifies with Christ Himself ([Ps 24:6](Psalm%2024.md#^6)). > > The word *trouble* is also found in [Daniel 12:1](Daniel%2012.md#^1), which speaks of this same time -- it is the time of trouble, the time of affliction -- that is, it is the time of great tribulation when judgment begins with the house of God and transitions to the entire world (compare with [Mt 24:21](Matthew%2024.md#^21)). > > But then here in verse 7, God says that, "he (that is, Jacob) shall be saved out of it." So Jacob here refers to the body of true believers who will be saved out of the final judgment, they are the spiritual seed of Abraham through faith in Christ. So God is saying that salvation is still possible *even during this severe time of trouble* which is the time of judgment. And that, too, is parallel to what we read in [Daniel 12:1](Daniel%2012.md#^1) where God says, "...and at that time shall thy people be delivered, every one that shall be written in the book." ^jer30-7 > [Jeremiah 30:8](Jeremiah%2030.md#^8), [9](Jeremiah%2030.md#^9) note > > Study in progress 1.2026. > > ^jer30-8-9 Tags: #Old_Testament #Jeremiah #Gods_judgment_on_His_people #FSI