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Hope is on the Way

March 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM Leave a comment

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Up to this point in Jeremiah, emphasis has been on judgment. However, beginning with Jeremiah 30, there is hope or consolation coming from God. The emphasis changes from negative warnings to repent to…promises of a wonderful future God has in store for Israel and the final remnant of Jewish people who make up that nation in the coming days.

Restoration of Israel (Jeremiah 30-31)
Here God, through Jeremiah, looks ahead to the future to promise a restoration of all things related to Israel. God promises to restore the nation and the people.

God asks, “Ask now, and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?” (v6)

Of course, it’s interesting to realize that in today’s world, people within the transgender movement actually want us to believe that the above is completely possible – that men can become pregnant. The absurdity boggles the mind. Of course, God was using that example as hyperbole to reinforce the notion that what seems improbable (men groaning in labor pains), actually occurred (men groaning as if in labor pains over the trauma of what was happening in Israel.

Ultimately, a terrible time of unrest was coming. Men would behave as though they were in labor; they would hold themselves in pain as women do when they are about to give birth. This is a picture of powerlessness and panic and shows just how low the men of Israel had sunk. They had gone from being proven warriors with God supporting their movements and campaigns against other nations, to being completely afraid to move one way or the other solely because of their lack of faith in God.

Jacob’s Trouble (v7)
This is a term used for the coming Tribulation period of seven years. The reason it is called Jacob’s Trouble is due to the fact that the Israelites (at the time it happens), will suffer more during this coming time that any at other point in history! (cf. Matthew 24-25; Revelation 6-18). This has not been fulfilled in history yet. It is still in front of us.

However, in spite of the fact that He will pour out His wrath onto this unbelieving world and use the abject terror occurring then, the Lord also promises deliverance (Zechariah 12:10 to Zechariah 13:1), to the only nation He directly created for His salvific purposes.

During the coming time of woe (the Tribulation), tables will be turned. God will break the yoke of foreigners and Israel will never enslave Israel (v8). This will occur after God purifies His people through the tremendous trouble He is bringing.

Jeremiah 30:9 is ultimately referring to Messiah, not King David. We know that the ultimate successor to King David is Jesus (Luke 1:69; Acts 2:30; Acts 13:23; Acts 13:34; Acts 13:38). Jesus comes from the line of David and He is the promised Righteous Branch. In vv10-11, God promises to save His people from their captivity. God also states even if He completely destroyed the nations that harmed Israel, He would not completely destroy Israel. God is proving again and again that He and He alone is in control of what occurs in this world. To us, it may look like chaos and we don’t know what will happen in the next moment. However, God has all things in His control and He controls them for His specific purposes and for His glory.

In vv12-15, God reminds Israel why they are persecuted and it is became of their sin. Remember, this is going back hundreds of years into the past with Jeremiah, but as we look at society and especially Israel from where we stand, it is clear that Israel continues to reject the God of the Bible. Many to most Jewish people are simply social Jews. They love the get togethers, the social events, and look fondly at what they believe is their “elevated” status before God in society. However, they are just as guilty today of rebellion and ignoring God who created them. They withstand God at every turn yet believe they are victors.

However, in contrast to this, God says Israel’s wound is incurable due to their sin. He says all their “lovers” (nations) have left them. From ancient days, Israel has always relied on neighboring nations to help them out of messes they created for themselves and they are doing the exact same thing today by relying on the USA or some other nation when they should be relying solely on God Himself. God sees their rejection of Him and sees their preference in running to their “lovers” to help them out.

Ultimately, when God’s corrective judgment begins to rain down on Israel, God takes credit for doing the things He did way back when (and will do in the coming Tribulation), (v15) because of their rejection of Him. There is little difference between the Israelites/Judahites of Jeremiah’s day and the Jewish state today. In fact, this is a good description of Israel today.

Yet, in spite of Israel’s continued waywardness, Israel will be restored to health (v17), by God Himself after He brings them through the trials meant to purify and perfect them. Part of the reason God does this is because the nations claim God had forsaken His people. This is happening today with increasing ferocity. Anti-Semitism is seriously on the rise. It is not that Israel is guiltless before God. They need a reckoning and God will bring it, but please note, He will bring it for two reasons: their purification and His glory.

Many Christians today are saying God is DONE with Israel. Have you heard the increase in voices? Many theologians believe God finished His work with Israel when He created the Church. The false charges exist that Dispensationalists believe there are two ways of salvation; one for the Jew and one for the Christian. This is patently false. Salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone. This does not mean that God cannot have separate programs for Israel and the Church. Once the Church is removed from the earth in the Rapture, then God will pick up where He left off where Israel is concerned.

No, God is not done with Israel and His Word bears this truth out repeatedly. He has a plan yet for Israel and we can be certain that He will bring it to fruition.

Ultimately, Israel will be God’s people and He will be their (only) God (v22). How could it be otherwise? To believe this will not happen is to literally call God a liar. Theologians bypass this by stating that all the blessings originally given to Israel have been passed onto the Church. This is absurd and completely false. The only way to arrive to this conclusion is through the allegorization of Scripture/prophecy related to Israel.

God promises in His wrath to accomplish these things with Israel (vv23-24). Israel will be rebuilt and planted by a loving God (vv2-6). Israel’s salvation rests on God’s eternal commitment to that nation. We see God’s restoration of Israel to the Land in vv7-14. God would change their mourning into comfort and rejoicing. It will happen and it’s not pointing to the Church here at all. The nations will take notice as well finally and rejoice in God. Anti-Semitism will become a thing of the past. However, Israel has a terrible time of seven years to go through in His God’s purification campaign for that nation, while He pours out His wrath onto this world. Folks, this world deserves whatever God chooses to pour out onto it because of the filth, the corruption and the abject evil that is pouring out onto the surface of global society. Anyone who might disagree with that lacks understanding of what God has decreed in Scripture.

We see the regathering of Judah in 31:23-26 (previous verses speak of regathering of the Northern areas of Israel). There have been partial fulfillments of this regathering but there is to be a final, full and permanent regathering of the nation of Israel at the end of the coming Tribulation period. It will be that nation/group of Jewish people who believe on the Lord Jesus in faith and make up the final remnant of Israel. They then will enter into the coming Millennial Kingdom (following the physical return of Jesus to end the coming Tribulation), and will enjoy all the prophecies and promises originally given to Israel through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

All Israel – north and south – would once again be fully united. The Lord Himself will do this! The future fruitfulness is outlined in 31:27-30. The New Covenant with Israel is seen in 31:31-34 and will be fulfilled at the Lord’s discretion and timing. At that time, God will put His law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and He will be their God, and they shall be His people.

This is God describing a “heart of flesh” and is what God promises all of His children. For the Christian, it starts with the salvation (Ezekiel 36:26). In fact, for every believer – Jewish or Gentile – it starts with embracing His salvation. There is a time coming when the final remnant of Israelites will fully embrace Jesus as Messiah and because of that, God will replace their hearts of stone with a true heart of flesh. From that point, they will be anxious to put Him as Lord and fully embrace Him.

Our job as believers is to want God to enlarge that heart of flesh He gives us at salvation, to ask God enlarge it on a daily basis. In the coming day for Israel, during the Millennial Kingdom, people will all know the Lord at this time (v34). No one will need to tell their neighbor to know the Lord, because that final remnant will all know Him. Their sin will no longer be remembered.

The new Jerusalem is outlined in 31:38-40. This is not a metaphor for something else. God is telling us that He will create a brand new Jerusalem under the supervision of the physical Jesus, who will have returned at the end of the Tribulation.

All of chapter 32 centers around one event in Jeremiah’s life. This was one year before Jerusalem fell. Things were not looking good because of the movement of Nebuchadnezzar’s troops.

Jeremiah had been imprisoned at this time by King Zedekiah for preaching against Jerusalem saying Babylon would destroy the city. It’s also interesting that God prompted Jeremiah to purchase land from his cousin while in prison. This was a test by God because the land was already in possession by Nebuchadnezzar. God commanded Jeremiah to take the Land even though Nebuchadnezzar was ready to take Jerusalem! (v25) Kind of weird but if we consider that God was essentially telling Jeremiah that He would be victorious over Nebuchadnezzar after He finished using the king for His purposes for Israel. In essence God is saying that the Land would come back to Israel eventually.

Jeremiah’s Letter to Captives (Jeremiah 29)
Jeremiah writes a letter to captives advising them to settle down, build homes and be good citizens of Babylon while in captivity (vv4-7). Instead of telling them to fight Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah actually tells the people to calm down, live peaceably among the Babylonians and support that government. Jeremiah also condemns false prophets (vv8-9; 20-32) and speaks of the promise of return after 70 years (vv10-14).

Jeremiah promises that God will be found when the people turn and seek Him (vv12-14). In the interim, God would judge those who disobeyed and remained in Jerusalem (vv15-20). They stayed behind because they wanted to fight for Jerusalem, however, God was not in their plans and once again they rejected God’s will that they should allow themselves to be taken to Babylon.

Application for Christians Today

Jeremiah 26-29 help us understand:

• God’s sovereignty
• God’s care and concern
• The importance of trusting the Lord by following Him regardless of how things may look to us
• We should avoid surrounding ourselves with “prophets” who tell us what we want to hear instead of what God’s Word actually says to us
• We should diligently look forward to the time we are permanently with Jesus in eternity
• We should look for stability and purpose in difficult situations

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