Jeremiah 25:30-31 – The Roar of Glory
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“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:
‘The Lord will roar from on high,
And utter His voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against His fold.
He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
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A noise will come to the ends of the earth—
For the Lord has a controversy with the nations;
He will plead His case with all flesh.
He will give those who are wicked to the sword,’ says the Lord.” Jeremiah 25:30-31, New King James Version
"The cosmic story intersects your personal story," measures Russell Moore in Tempted and Tried, "and it's dangerous if you can't see where."
So it is in Jeremiah 25:30-31. The Lord's declared roar of His glory, the prerogative enmeshed in His character is before every earthling. The heavens themselves, Scripture says elsewhere, declare the glory of God. He pleads His case, attests Jeremiah 25:31, with all flesh. The end verdict is that He, righteous in judgment, will give those not covered with the righteousness of Christ to the sword.
But Christian, member of His covenant community, as Moore says we are in danger if we bypass where this cosmic story intersects with our personal story. For, this isn't just about other people. He will, confronts Jeremiah 25:30, roar mightily against His fold. We will, with Jerusalem in the original context, here the same roar. We will experience some of the same consequences of confrontation and correction as the world around us. We will suffer. We will wonder. We will deal with the impulse to fear.
But we were not created on to wrath. In Christ, the roar of which once intimidated us, which ones bid us wish in our heart of hearts that the rice would fall upon us rather than God discover us in our sinful state, this roar gives us the opportunity to search ourselves and see if we be in the faith, to join its insistence that the holiness of God's character is not reachable by human striving, and to declare at the top of our lungs that Jesus alone is worthy.
Beware, for it could be that the Father means His roar will also be heard by His fold in the sense that there are those nominally included with His people but still deserving of His wrath. This is certainly true for the day in which Jeremiah spoke. We find not, brothers and sisters, our security in the congregation with which we gather, nor in the history of a denomination. No, the cosmic story must intersect with our PERSONAL story and bring us to confession, once and forever.
Shout on, Father, for You are worthy to judge the Earth. Your Son is worthy to open the scroll and move world events back toward the redemption of the world's original purpose, which meant so carelessly forsook.
“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:
‘The Lord will roar from on high,
And utter His voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against His fold.
He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31
A noise will come to the ends of the earth—
For the Lord has a controversy with the nations;
He will plead His case with all flesh.
He will give those who are wicked to the sword,’ says the Lord.” Jeremiah 25:30-31, New King James Version
"The cosmic story intersects your personal story," measures Russell Moore in Tempted and Tried, "and it's dangerous if you can't see where."
So it is in Jeremiah 25:30-31. The Lord's declared roar of His glory, the prerogative enmeshed in His character is before every earthling. The heavens themselves, Scripture says elsewhere, declare the glory of God. He pleads His case, attests Jeremiah 25:31, with all flesh. The end verdict is that He, righteous in judgment, will give those not covered with the righteousness of Christ to the sword.
But Christian, member of His covenant community, as Moore says we are in danger if we bypass where this cosmic story intersects with our personal story. For, this isn't just about other people. He will, confronts Jeremiah 25:30, roar mightily against His fold. We will, with Jerusalem in the original context, here the same roar. We will experience some of the same consequences of confrontation and correction as the world around us. We will suffer. We will wonder. We will deal with the impulse to fear.
But we were not created on to wrath. In Christ, the roar of which once intimidated us, which ones bid us wish in our heart of hearts that the rice would fall upon us rather than God discover us in our sinful state, this roar gives us the opportunity to search ourselves and see if we be in the faith, to join its insistence that the holiness of God's character is not reachable by human striving, and to declare at the top of our lungs that Jesus alone is worthy.
Beware, for it could be that the Father means His roar will also be heard by His fold in the sense that there are those nominally included with His people but still deserving of His wrath. This is certainly true for the day in which Jeremiah spoke. We find not, brothers and sisters, our security in the congregation with which we gather, nor in the history of a denomination. No, the cosmic story must intersect with our PERSONAL story and bring us to confession, once and forever.
Shout on, Father, for You are worthy to judge the Earth. Your Son is worthy to open the scroll and move world events back toward the redemption of the world's original purpose, which meant so carelessly forsook.
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