Jer 32:35 | KingComments | STEP | Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah ( ). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” ( ), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children ( ). The city will be taken by the Babylonians ( ). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city ( ). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city. Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation ( ). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose ( ). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it ( ). The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him ( ). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good. Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house ( ). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless ( ). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them ( ). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.

‏ Jeremiah 32:35

The Answer of the LORD

Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah (Jer 32:26). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” (Jer 32:27), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children (Gen 18:14).

The city will be taken by the Babylonians (Jer 32:28). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city (Jer 32:29). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city.

Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation (Jer 32:30). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose (Jer 32:31). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it (Jer 32:32).

The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him (Jer 32:33). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good.

Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house (Jer 32:34). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless (Jer 32:35). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them (Jam 1:13). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.