Sometimes The Story Is Essential

Her noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.  Jeremiah 46:22

In our verse selected for this morning, you have...a need for the story behind it because the verse alone raises far more questions than it answers. John 3:16 is a story in itself, but for many Bible verses the story is essential. Who is this 'her' for example, and is that one of those 'they's' that crop up in conversation with the conspiracy theorists? Axes? Does that mean this army is assaulting a forest for firewood? If we read further into the prophecy in Jeremiah, we learn that this foretelling is against a specified pharaoh of Egypt during the time of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. No worries over looking for signs of the end time then, this took place more than two thousand years ago. It is one of those interesting prophecies the Lord sent though. One in which it would appear to be a potential advantage to that pharaoh if he were paying attention through his intelligence network to Jeremiah's words. The pharaoh could tell his army quartermaster to take steps to blunt those axes by a type of shield or armor and gain an advantage in combat. However, we who read the prophecies in the Word also know that the word of God is sure. And if one should like to blunt the axes foretold of the Lord, then repentance and prayer are the ways to go. Pretty well sums up the methods any should use to blunt the fear of the apocalypse as seen in the Revelation. 

Turn to the Christ!

Bucky