Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
A strong and full wind from the surrounding places shall come, and then God will pronounce sentence and judgment against the people. The warning is spoken to Israel and Jerusalem, to God's own people, denouncing their sin and unfaithfulness in uniting with the world as fornication and adultery, and declaring judgment of waste and desolation upon the whole land for a people grown corrupt in vice and violence. Zion and Jerusalem stand for the church in all ages, so the sentence is not limited to old Jerusalem but applies to the time just before the second coming of Christ, with Jerusalem's destruction a faint shadow of the terrible last-day destruction. The winds represent strife and war among the nations, political feuds and rivalries stirring the nations, preparing all the nations for battle in the great coming war of Armageddon before the day of the Lord. Its fulfillment is seen when cities become Sodom-like cesspools of corruption calling for God to visit them with destruction in fierce anger, leaving the earth desolate and without people during the thousand years, after which God will create new heavens and a new earth.
Words and Original Warning
The Hebrew word rendered wind carries the plain sense of wind, and the saying declares that a strong, full wind from the surrounding places shall come, after which God himself will pronounce sentence or judgment against the people. That declaration belongs to the portion of the chapter directed to Israel and Jerusalem. It stands among denunciations of sin and warnings of judgment spoken against His own people.
In the larger setting of Jeremiah 2 to 4, this union of His church with the world is named fornication and adultery. As part of that warning against unfaithfulness and union with the world, the saying shows that God will bring judgment against those who reject His way. It means He will give sentence against a people grown corrupt in vice and violence. It belongs to a warning of destruction upon destruction, with waste and desolation coming upon the whole land and upon all the cities.
End-Time Prophecy and Fulfillment
Zion and Jerusalem stand for the church in all ages, so the sentence is not limited to old Jerusalem and the Jewish nation before Christ but applies to the time just before the second coming of Christ. Jerusalem's destruction is a faint shadow of the terrible last-day destruction to which the chapter also turns. The judgment is the personal visitation of Jehovah in fierce anger for the destruction of evil at the end of time. Its fulfillment is seen when cities become Sodom-like cesspools of corruption, when men assemble in troops at harlots' houses and souls faint before murderers, literally fulfilled in widespread prostitution, vice commissions, and sickening corruption of modern cities that must very soon call for God to visit them with destruction. What befell Israel of old was written as an example for admonition upon those on whom the ends of the ages are come.
The verse belongs to a prophecy of the period before the day of the Lord when all the nations of the earth shall be prepared for battle, predicting the great coming war of Armageddon and warning that the nations face God's judgment. The winds in Jeremiah 4:11-13 represent strife and war among nations, political feuds and rivalries stirring the nations and the sea, and those conflicts bring about the rise and fall of earthly world powers, kingdoms, and rulers. In the context of Jeremiah 4:7-13, the lion represents Babylon, identifying Babylon as the beginning of the sequence of world empires symbolized in Daniel's vision. Jeremiah 4 shows that after Christ's coming the earth will be desolate and without people, for the wicked have been slain, leaving no one for Satan and his fallen angels to tempt during the thousand years. Jeremiah 4 describes the awful confusion and trouble that will come upon the earth when people are no longer worthy of God's favor and are set aside, and after this destruction God will create new heavens and a new earth.
A strong and full wind from the surrounding places shall come, and then God will pronounce sentence and judgment against the people. The warning is spoken to Israel and Jerusalem, to God's own people, denouncing their sin and unfaithfulness in uniting with the world as fornication and adultery, and declaring judgment of waste and desolation upon the whole land for a people grown corrupt in vice and violence. Zion and Jerusalem stand for the church in all ages, so the sentence is not limited to old Jerusalem but applies to the time just before the second coming of Christ, with Jerusalem's destruction a faint shadow of the terrible last-day destruction. The winds represent strife and war among the nations, political feuds and rivalries stirring the nations, preparing all the nations for battle in the great coming war of Armageddon before the day of the Lord. Its fulfillment is seen when cities become Sodom-like cesspools of corruption calling for God to visit them with destruction in fierce anger, leaving the earth desolate and without people during the thousand years, after which God will create new heavens and a new earth.
Words and Original Warning
The Hebrew word rendered wind carries the plain sense of wind, and the saying declares that a strong, full wind from the surrounding places shall come, after which God himself will pronounce sentence or judgment against the people. That declaration belongs to the portion of the chapter directed to Israel and Jerusalem. It stands among denunciations of sin and warnings of judgment spoken against His own people.
In the larger setting of Jeremiah 2 to 4, this union of His church with the world is named fornication and adultery. As part of that warning against unfaithfulness and union with the world, the saying shows that God will bring judgment against those who reject His way. It means He will give sentence against a people grown corrupt in vice and violence. It belongs to a warning of destruction upon destruction, with waste and desolation coming upon the whole land and upon all the cities.
End-Time Prophecy and Fulfillment
Zion and Jerusalem stand for the church in all ages, so the sentence is not limited to old Jerusalem and the Jewish nation before Christ but applies to the time just before the second coming of Christ. Jerusalem's destruction is a faint shadow of the terrible last-day destruction to which the chapter also turns. The judgment is the personal visitation of Jehovah in fierce anger for the destruction of evil at the end of time. Its fulfillment is seen when cities become Sodom-like cesspools of corruption, when men assemble in troops at harlots' houses and souls faint before murderers, literally fulfilled in widespread prostitution, vice commissions, and sickening corruption of modern cities that must very soon call for God to visit them with destruction. What befell Israel of old was written as an example for admonition upon those on whom the ends of the ages are come.
The verse belongs to a prophecy of the period before the day of the Lord when all the nations of the earth shall be prepared for battle, predicting the great coming war of Armageddon and warning that the nations face God's judgment. The winds in Jeremiah 4:11-13 represent strife and war among nations, political feuds and rivalries stirring the nations and the sea, and those conflicts bring about the rise and fall of earthly world powers, kingdoms, and rulers. In the context of Jeremiah 4:7-13, the lion represents Babylon, identifying Babylon as the beginning of the sequence of world empires symbolized in Daniel's vision. Jeremiah 4 shows that after Christ's coming the earth will be desolate and without people, for the wicked have been slain, leaving no one for Satan and his fallen angels to tempt during the thousand years. Jeremiah 4 describes the awful confusion and trouble that will come upon the earth when people are no longer worthy of God's favor and are set aside, and after this destruction God will create new heavens and a new earth.