Day 1528

Trust the Judge!

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, May 23.

When a judge strikes his gavel, it declares that his judgment is final. At the end of a two-chapter, one-hundred-ten-verse oracle of judgment against Babylon, God strikes His gavel through a prophetic action,described in Jeremiah 51:60-64:

So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. … And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’”

The prophetic action was done vicariously through Seraiah, the brother of Baruch and royal quartermaster. He read the scroll aloud to Babylon, containing the disasters that would befall them, then cast it into the Euphrates River. This symbolized that not only would the list come true, but that Babylon itself would sink, never to rise again due to the judgment of God; it was His gavel strike.

In Micah 7:19, the prophet proclaimed a similar prophetic image, “He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” In the same way that Babylon would sink to never rise again, so our sins will be cast away from us forever. That is why Jesus Christ came, to defeat the domain of darkness by striking the gavel against the law ofsin and death so that all who trust Him for forgiveness of sin shall be set free (Colossians 1:13-14; Romans 8:1-2).

Seize the moment and trust the Judge for the forgiveness of your sins – “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12).

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