Another “Out of Egypt” Exodus
Because of a rebellious heart and a stiff neck, Israel was cast out, and had gone about worshipping other gods, their shepherd seeing false visions and had never returned.
Then say thou to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and served them, and worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and not kept my law; Jeremiah 16:12.
And ye did yet worse than your fathers; and behold, ye walk each after the stubbornness of your evil heart, hearkening not unto me. Jeremiah 16:13.
Therefore I cast you out of this land into the land which he know not, neither ye nor your fathers, and there may ye serve other gods day and night, because I will show you no favour. Thus the House of Israel was exiled in 712 BC; and had never returned.
The restoration of the full House of Israel back to the promised land would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; the consolation is incidental here.
The prominent thought is the severity of their punishment, so great that their rescue from it will be that their Exodus from Egypt would be of no comparison; especially after being chastised by the Sword and Flaming Fire from the South!
Jeremiah 16:14-15
14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” saith the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
15 but, ‘the Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had driven them.’ And I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Jeremiah 16:14-15
These two verses above, by promising a deliverance greater than that from Egypt, implied also a chastisement more terrible than the bondage in the iron furnace there. Instead of their being placed in one land, there was to be a scattering into the north and many other countries—because they have defiled My land—followed finally by a restoration.
Therefore, the prophet, Jeremiah, rejoicing at the hope of restoration to come, addressed the Lord as his strength and refuge, repeated the prophecy that their deliverance from it shall be a greater benefit than that originally out of Egypt.
Jeremiah 23:7-8
7 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” saith the Lord, “that they shall no more say, ‘The Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
8 but, ‘the Lord liveth who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.” Jeremiah 23:7-8
The children of Israel went out of Egypt as a unified group in the first Exodus, since they all lived in the land of Goshen in Egypt.
But just as this deliverance will exceed the earlier one, so would much the greater will the affliction of Israel in this second Exodus be than the Egyptian bondage had been. “For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My house have I found their wickedness,” saith the Lord, Jeremiah 23:11.
However, in this second Exodus of the last days, scattered Israel, by virtue of the fact that they have been scattered around the world, will not return to Israel as a single unified group. They will likely return in waves at various times from various places.
16 “Behold, I will send for many fishers,” saith the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For Mine eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have defiled My land; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.” Jeremiah 16:16-18
Many from Judah have already returned to the land of Israel since 1918. One hundred years later the House of Judah are still returning; but the House of Israel has not return, but they have 190 years ahead of them to return.
Currently, they are blind, their shepherd prophesy false dreams; they couldn’t see their shepherd “for I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err” Jeremiah 23:13.
But when they are chastised, they will remember their forefathers’covenent with God; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And they will recall that the first Exodus involved the ancient Israelites coming out of Egypt;
But the prophesies of another second Exodus involving the last days’ descendants of those ancient Israelites who have been scattered to the four corners of the globe will make the Egyptian Exodus fades into insignificance:
“Therefore behold, the days come,” saith the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ Jeremiah 16:14
Then from the “four corners of the globe” their eyes will be opened; and the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, and “Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely.”
Japheth
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