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  • August 28 – Jerusalem Falls

    Reading 2 Kings 25:2-4a Jer. 39:2-5a; 52:9-11 2 Chron. 36:17 Jer. 52:12-14, 24-27a, 17-23; 39:9-10; 52:15-16, 27b-30 2 Chron. 36:20-21 2 Kings 25:22 Jer. 39:15-18, 11-14; 40:1-6 Devotional In 586 B.C., Babylon broke through the wall of Jerusalem and captured the city. The famine was so bad that there was literally nothing to eat. Apparently…

  • August 27 – Suffering Humbles the Proud

    Reading Jer. 37:3-21; 38:1-28 Devotional It has been three or four years since Zedekiah king of Judah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. Zedekiah was a proud man who obviously thought he was in control of his people’s fate. Over the next few years, GOD would use Nebuchadnezzar to humble Zedekiah. Even the most proud…

  • August 22 – King Zedekiah Refuses Mercy

    Reading Jer. 21:1-14; 22:1-9; 34:1-7; 32:1-44; 33:1-9 Devotional Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has surrounded the city of Jerusalem. Zedekiah, king of Judah, sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of GOD, hoping that GOD would all of a sudden deliver them from Nebuchadnezzar even though Jeremiah had been prophesying of these very events for years. Instead,…

  • August 21 – GOD Kills Ezekiel’s Wife As A Sign

    Reading Eze. 24:1-27 Devotional On the very day that Jerusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, GOD spoke to Ezekiel and told him what was happening hundreds of miles away from Babylon. In one of the saddest and most difficult to explain events in all of Scripture, GOD tells Ezekiel that He is going to take the…

  • August 15 – GOD Calls Ezekiel

    Reading Eze. 1:1-7:27 Devotional In 592 B.C., GOD appeared to a man named Ezekiel who had been taken to Babylon in the great deportation from Judah in 597. Ezekiel lived by the Kebar River in Babylonia among the exiles. Here is how GOD first appeared to Ezekiel: 4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm…

  • August 14 – GOD Says Medes Will Defeat Babylon

    Reading Jer. 50:41-46; 51:1-64a; 49:34-39; 34:8-22 Devotional In continuing His prophecy regarding the fall of Babylon, Jeremiah writes the following word from GOD: 41 “ Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth. 42 They shall hold the…

  • August 13 – GOD Will Destroy Babylon

    Reading Jer. 51:59; 50:1-40 Devotional GOD gave Jeremiah a message which was to be sent to the captives in exile in Babylon regarding the coming destruction of Babylon. 1 This is the word the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians: 2 “Announce and proclaim among the nations,…

  • August 11 – Satan’s False Message of ‘Peace’

    Reading Jer. 24:1-10; 29:1-32; 27:1-22; 28:1-17 Devotional Now the vast majority of Israelites from Judah are in exile in Babylon. GOD is in the process of punishing them for their rebellion and wickedness. GOD told Jeremiah, who remains in Jerusalem, to write a letter to the exiles. As part of His letter, GOD wants the…

  • August 10 – The Great Deportation

    Reading 2 Kings 24:6b, 8-9 Jer. 22:24-30 2 Kings 24:10-12; 2 Chron. 36:10a 2 Kings 24:13-16; Dan. 1:2 2 Kings 24:17-18; Jer. 37:1 2 Kings 24:19-20a 2 Chron. 36:12, 13b-16; Jer. 37:2 Devotional After Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, died, his son Jehoiachin reigned in Jerusalem for three months. He was 18 when he became king and he…

  • August 9 – Jehoiakim Dies

    Reading 2 Kings 24:1b-4 Jer. 48:1-47; 49:1-33; 22:18-23 2 Kings 24:5-6a Devotional Despite numerous attempts from GOD to call Jehoiakim king of Judah to repentance, Jehoiakim refused. He was very proud and unwilling to humble himself before GOD. He even rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. As a result the LORD sent raiders from Babylon, Aram, Moab, and…