18th.: Here Come the Gentiles
In Jer. 16:1-18, Jeremiah saw God’s plan to exile Judah to foreign countries.
Jeremiah then made an ‘off-the-wall’,
“O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the Earth, and shall say,
‘Surely, our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.’” (Jer. 16:19).
Jeremiah 'knew' that the Gentiles, who do not know the Lord, will come to the Lord, as the only true God.
The Gentiles will then acknowledge that their ancestors told them untruths.
If the Spirit had not come upon Jeremiah, then how would he know?
What inside source told him what the future held?
Jeremiah may have logically concluded that when God’s glory finally shines across the world,
the Gentiles cannot but help realize that the things they were taught ‘in school’ were wrong.
Nevertheless, God reaffirmed that the Gentiles:
“shall know that my name is the Lord.” (Jer. 16:21).
“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Hab. 2:14)