Today: [Jeremiah 8] The Aftermath of Judgment. In this chapter Jeremiah, almost against his will continues seeing by the Spirit the aftermath of the Babylonian invasion. The Babylonians not only destroy the temple and sack Jerusalem, but dig up the bones of the kings of the line of David and desecrate them before the pagan altars of the gods that these kings worshipped in idolatry. In the midst of this dark picture the question continually put by the Spirit of God speaking through Jeremiah, emphasizes how utterly unnecessary all this is – if the people had only returned to God in their appointed season of repentance and contrition.
