You are blatantly ignoring the scriptures I just quoted to you, it's called balance. And the most obvious thing in the world is that when God has said 'all' we all know what he means, All Germany followed Hitler, and God destroyed Germany!!!!! Is this a true statement??? Well by your standard of deduction, No! Because there were many who did not follow him and many towns left completely untouched. But by common sense and logical reasoning - we all understand what "ALL' actually means within this context.kwrandolph wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 9:48 pm Chris: Look at Jeremiah 41:17 and it says “everybody”. Again 42:17 all die. 43:5–6 all those left in the land went to Egypt, none left in Judea.
Jeremiah sent his writings to Babylon from Egypt. Jeremiah 51:60.
As I wrote before, who am I to contradict Jeremiah?
Karl W. Randolph.
In God's economy 'ALL' has always meant the seriousness of the situation while at the same time leaving a few, a remnant, no matter how small. The scripture clearly states that a remnant shall return out of Egypt and scripture intimates very clearly that Jeremiah also did, and his parchments must have come by the hand of someone who escaped Egypt
God said many times that He would destroy and utterly annihilate the Northern Kingdom of Israel and that all ten tribes would disappear and never return and he would no longer have mercy upon them. Is this a true statement? There are many scriptures where we read about Jews belonging to the different tribes of the Northern Kingdom living long after this happened, even up to 100 AD we read about them! There are also many scriptures where God clearly says that the the Northern Kingdom would be restored and Israel would return along with Judah! There is no contradiction here, scripture NEVER cancels each opposing statement out, we do not choose which one is more correct - both are correct and both have happened and both are equally true.
So the fact remains, God brought his Judgment upon those who willingly chose to go down to Egypt and ended up in serious rebellion, but God had compassion on those hearts whom He foreknew, and declared that a few would return to Judah. This is what scripture says.
chris watts