25:8-11
So we have the theology, if you like, in verse 7. In these verses we have the practical outworking of it all. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, would invade, destroy and carry off into exile. Joy and gladness would be banished from the land. The place would become a desolate wasteland. However, Babylon’s power would not last forever, but only for seventy years.
25:12
In Jeremiah we have had extremely harsh word about Judah from the Lord. There is absolutely no mistaking the reality and seriousness of Judah’s sin and God’s anger against it. Yet the goal is salvation! We have both the condemnation and judgement of sin and salvation. In our human thinking we tend to go with one or the other, but not with God. On the cross sin received its due punishment, and we were saved through Christ. So here there is a limit to the time they will spend in Babylon. After seventy years the land would be left desolate.
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