And then Jeremiah saw and felt--how we cannot tell--but there
his words, the words of this text, stand to this day, to show that he
did see and feel it, that some day or other, in God's good time, the
Jews would have a true King--a very different king from Jehoiakim the
tyrant--a son of David in a very different sense from what Jehoiakim
was; that He would come, and must come, sooner or later, The unseen
King, who had all along been governing Jews and heathens, and telling
his prophets that Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, the Chaldee and the
Persian, were his servants as well as they, and that all the nations
of the earth could do but what he chose. "Behold the days come,
saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and
a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute justice and
judgment on the earth."
This was the blessed knowledge which God gave Jeremiah in return for
all the misery he had to endure in warning his countrymen of their
sins. And this same blessed knowledge, the knowledge that the earth
is the Lord's, that to Jesus Christ is given, as He said Himself, all
power in heaven and earth, and that He is reigning, and must reign,
and conquer, and triumph till He has put all His enemies under His
feet, God will surely give to everyone, high or low, who follows
Jeremiah's example, who boldly and faithfully warns the sinner of his
way, who rebukes the wickedness which he sees around him: only he
must do it in the spirit of Jeremiah.
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