FEAR NOT: God’s Children are Corrected; God’s Enemies are Annihilated

‎”But FEAR NOT thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
FEAR thou NOT, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.” ~ Jeremiah 46:27-28

FEAR NOT: God’s Children are Corrected; God’s Enemies are Annihilated

Christ Defeats His Enemies

“¹⁴And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
¹⁵And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
¹⁶And He hath on his vesture and on His thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

¹⁹And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army.
²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
²¹And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth…” ~ Revelation 19:14-16, 19-21a

Notice, in our text, the phrase, “for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee”.

God destroyed the nations that held Israel captive, but He never destroyed Israel. The Babylonians were completely wiped out as a people: Babylon existed where there is modern-day Iraq. However, the people of Iraq are not descendants of the Babylonians, they are all gone.

The message for us is straightforward: God disciplines/corrects His children: “I will… correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished”. BUT, He removes/annihilates His enemies. Where do you stand?

Children of God: FEAR thou NOT!
Enemies of God: FEAR a LOT!”

This post is a part of a series on several of the “FEAR NOT” sayings in the Bible.