When God speaks to us a second time, it certainly behooves us to pay attention! God spoke to Jeremiah not only once, but a second time. Clearly God was extremely serious about what He was declaring.
At times we fail to heed God’s first word, so we are in no position to respond to a second one! Not so with Jeremiah. He accepted God’s first message and so a second one soon followed. You have no need of a second divine message if you have failed to receive the first one!
What God said was devastating. Judgment was coming. And it was going to be severe. Every inhabitant of Judah would experience the impact of God’s word. No one was exempt. God’s retribution would as widespread as it was thorough.
In this case God was going to use Judah’s enemy to punish her. Many generations earlier, God had promised that when His people obeyed Him, He would grant them victory over their enemies. But when God’s people rejected Him, then their enemies would defeat them. Now God’s people were about to experience how reliable God’s word was!
Today there are many enemies that surround our nation. We ought to be alert that God may choose to use one of them to bring His judgment upon us.