Jeremiah 22:15-17

Any country built on oppression, greed and violence will implode. Make no mistake what  is sown is reaped!

We need justice for all people. Keep in mind that God reigns on the just and the unjust and He provides for those who believe and those who do not. He shows no partiality. He wants no one to perish but all to come to His salvation in Christ….but He forces no one! 

God’s will for believers is for us to hold up this great love that He provided in Jesus for all the world to see so that others will be drawn to it not run the other way. 

Israel perished because of its lack of knowledge of God. Knowledge of God here is related to concern for the poor and needy.This triad of sins characterizing the reign of Jehoiakim would hammer home a resounding message to Judah concerning the collapse of its kingship. 

Covenant violations would not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

¹⁵ “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?

Did not your father eat and drink,

And do justice and righteousness?

Then it was well with him.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy;

Then it was well.

Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.

¹⁷ “Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,

For shedding innocent blood,

And practicing oppression and violence.”

¹⁵ And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” 

Luke 12:15

¹⁰ “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 

Isaiah 3:10

²³ But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 

Jeremiah 7:23