Jeremiah 46-48

[wolfpurplemoon]

God predicts destruction for Egypt and some other nations he doesn't like.

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God gives Jeremiah warnings about several nations:

To Egypt, he says that Egypt can fight all it wants, but it will not win. God has chased away Apis (an Egyptian idol in the shape of a bull). The Egyptian king will be one who makes noise, but doesn't accomplish anything. This prophecy was fulfilled many years later by Cambyses II the King of the Persian empire. Cambyses led an attack on Egypt and killed the Apis bull (a living bull that was revered as an embodiment of the idol) and then succeeded in conquering Egypt in 525 BC (about 60 years after Jeremiah would have written this; Jeremiah would have died by the time it was fulfilled).

The people of Israel/Judah will be returned home.

The Philistines will be defeated by an army from the North (commonly the Babylonian Empire was referred to in this fashion). When Babylon conquered the Assyrians and then later Judah, this did indeed happen. Note that the Philistines were referred to as refugees from Crete. It should be noted that modern archaeology considers the Philistines to have cultural ties to the Mycenaeans who were based, throughout Greece, including Crete.

Moab is doomed according to Jeremiah's prophecy; their god, Chemosh, won't save them. Fulfilled during the Persian Empire; Moab ceased to exist as a nation (Jeremiah died well before the Persian Empire came to power).

It appears that God is predicting the end, not just of nations, but of their religions. Showing that their idols are not truly gods (if they were, their faiths would not end; their gods would keep the cultures and faiths alive). This is in comparison, of course, to the Jewish faith which still exists and still worships God.

-- Jeff