“The Lord has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have admonished you this day. v.19
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The everlasting command to Israel since the Exodus: "Do not go to Egypt." Egypt was the rival kingdom at this time with Babylon and so those that had not been taken captive by Babylon thought it best to join the enemy, yet God warned them against this idea and plan of theirs. The people asked Jeremiah to ask the Lord for direction on what they should do, yet they had already made up in their minds that they would go to Egypt no matter what God would say despite them taking the step to ask of the Lord through the prophet. The sword and famine would follow them no matter where they moved to thinking they would be safer in another land than where God was commanding them to go: Babylon. God said if they would stay in the land of Babylon that He would build them up and not pull them down and to not be afraid of the king of Babylon for God will save and protect them. Yet their eyes and ears were fixed on where they thought there was no war or no hunger. Yet just moving to a "safer" place doesn't mean you're hidden from sin and disobedience of the Lord. It's foolish to just leave a place because there is trouble in it, especially if the Lord tells you to stay there. There may be some benefit of less temptation of certain sins if you are moving today for that reason, but the sin and desire inside of us needs to be confronted for you cannot move from you own self. Have you ever moved (homes, friend groups, jobs, etc) to fix a problem? Did it work? What "moved with you" that you didn't expect to follow?
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