Read Jeremiah 19.
God instructed Jeremiah to call a meeting of Judah's national and spiritual
leaders. They met in the Valley of Hinnom or Topheth. It was the
city dump and it provided the perfect stage for the message God wanted the
leaders to hear.
Topheth means fireplace or oven. It was here that a cult of the
Canaanites practiced the worst kind of demonic worship. They literally
burned their children in sacrifice to a made-up god. Some of the people
in Judah had joined in as well (vv.5-6).
How could a parent do such a thing to their innocent children? How could
these leaders look the other way and allow this abomination in their land?
The LORD declared to Jeremiah in 16:9, "The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?"
Once a person rejects God and His word, then they have opened the door to every
and any kind of sin.
Jeremiah was further told to take along a pottery jar as a visual aid.
Dashing the jar to pieces illustrated the message. God would break
the nation; their plans, hopes and dreams. The spiritual condition of
Judah had reached a point where it could not be repaired.
How a person responds to what God has said determines their future here and
where they will spend eternity. Disaster or deliverance is at stake.
The God of heaven desires to look upon us with loving acceptance.
What then does He require?
"But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in
spirit and trembles at my word." (Isaiah 66:2b)
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