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Why, naturally, that which be was used in "rooting
out" of Judah-the THRONE OF DAVID which God swore
He would preserve forever! Jeremiah was set over not just
the
one
nation, J udah- but over ATIONS. Over THE
KINGDOMS- the Kingdom of Israel as well as J udah!
He was used in "rooting out" that throne from Judah.
Then what was Jeremiah commissioned to do. in
Israel?
Notice thc
second
half of his strange and little-understood
commission- to BUILD and to PLANT!
So far as the world knows, the last king to sit on that
throne of David was Zedekiah of Judah. He was thrown
down off the throne and the throne rooted out of Judah in
the year 585 B.C.- ncarly 600 years before Christ!
What happencd to that throne? Where was that throne
between 585 B.C. and the time of Christ, 600 years later?
We know Jeremiah did not plant and REBUlLO it in Baby–
Ion. God had promised that David's throne should rule
over lSRAELITES through
al/
generations-not over Gen–
tiles. We havc the history of the continuance of the Gen–
tile throne in Babylon.
David's throne was never again planted or built among
the Jews!
lt
was not reigning over the Jews in the time of
Christ. The Jews were then under the Roman rule. Jesus
did not ascend any such throne. The throne was not func–
tioning in Judah- it was not existing at that place or over
that people-it was not there for Jesus to take over. And
Jesus said plainly that H1s Kingdom
was not of this pres–
ent age!
Yet He was born to sit upon this very THRONE OF
HIS FATHER DAVID (Luke 1:32)!
But that throne was divinely commissioned to be
planted and REBUILT by the prophet
Jeremiah-during
his lifetime!
Jeremiah was set over
both
Judah and Israel.
To be used in
rooting out
David's throne in J udah. But
more! To plant and to build, then, of necessity, among the
house of ISRAEL, lo, these many days without a king–
among LOST Jsrael, now supposing herself to be GENTILE!
Therefore the identity and location of the replanting
musr
remain hidden ro rhe world until this time ofthe
END in
which we live.
Tearing Down the Throne
The life and work of Jeremiah is a most fascinating story.
The first chapters of the book of Jeremiah are devoted to
his ministry, warning of the impending captivity of the
Jews. He warned the kings, the priests, prophets and
people of Judah, delivering God's message. They threw
him in prison-and they refused to heed or obey God.
Then God caused their captivity.
lt
is generally known that Babylon took Judah in three
different stages. The first siege was in 604 B.C., a date
about two years later than has been commonly reckoned,
but a date now firmly established. The land did not
com–
plete/y
pass into the hands of these Gentile Babylonians,
however, until a full time-cycle of 19 years later, or 585
B.C. You can read the part played by Jeremiah in this
captivity in the book of Jeremiah.
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PLAIN TAUTH February 1979
But now notice an interesting fact. The last and final
king recorded either in Bible or secular history as having
sat on the throne of David was King Zedekiah of Judah.
Remember his name. Now notice 11 Kings 24:18: "Zede–
kiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his moth–
er's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Lib–
nah ."
Now notice briefly a description of the final tearing
down and rooting out of this throne of David: " In the
ninth year of Zcdekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month,
carne Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army
against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. And in the elev–
enth year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day
of the month, the city was broken up. And all the princes
of the king of BabyIon carne in, and sat in the rniddle gate,
even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
Jeremiah was to do two things: first, to
llpluck up," or "root out," to llpull
down," or to lloverthrow," and second,
to build, and to p/ant.
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the
princes of the king of Babylon. And it carne to pass, that
when Zedekiah the king of J udah saw them, and all the
rnen of war, then they fled , and went forth out of the city
by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate
betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the
plain. But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they
had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where
he gave judgment upon him. Then the king of Babylon
slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also
the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. More–
over he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon" (Jer. 39: 1-7).
In the 52nd chapter, first 11 verses, we find almost a
word-for-word description of the same events with the ad–
ded phrase: " ... and put him [Zedekiah] in prison TILL
THE DAY OF HIS DEATH."
These passages bring out these points:
1) The king of BabyIon slew
al/ the sons
of Zedekiah
who were heirs to the throne of David.
2) He also slew all the nobles of Judah so asto leave no
possible heirs for that throne.
3) Finally, after putting out Zedekiah's eyes, the king
who sat on David's throne was himself taken to Babylon
where he died in prison.
4) Thus, as it
appears,
and as the whole world has be–
lieved, the throne of David ceased, with no possible heirs,
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