Subject: WAR IN IRAQ
Jeremiah 50
The Fiftieth Prophecy of Jeremiah
1. The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by
Jeremiah the prophet.
Comment: If you were to look on a map, Iraq is the modern day Babylon and south Iraq is the land of
the Chaldeans. Notice the Lord spake against Babylon, not for it.
2. Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say,
Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her
images are broken in pieces.
Comment: The Lord is angry at the land of Babylon, translated (confusion), for its idolatry, so they
are going to war (set up a standard or plant your countries flag). Compare to
Rev.14:8, showing that this prophecy is still future.
3. For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate,
and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
Comment: This north country is Medo-Persia or modern day Iran, also a type for anti-christ.
If you look at Iraq today, the U.S. Has inserted a leader, (Jalal Talabani), Iran has always disputed
that Iraq is their land, (Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988).
4. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.
Comment: This prophecy refers to the future. Israel (twelve tribes), which most of them have been
scattered around the world today will join together with Judah, Ezek 37:16-28. This will be at the
return of Christ and when God will set up His kingdom on earth.
5. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join
ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Comment: These next few verses almost repeat the aforementioned scripture of Ezek 37: 16-28. As
a side note, this verse also tells us that Jeremiah was in Egypt at this writing.
6. My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have
turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their
restingplace.
Comment: Check out Matt 10:6, 15, 24. Also God is calling for "my people", Hosea 1, trying to get
them away from idolatry and declaring He is their restingplace which they have forgotten.
7. All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they
have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
Comment: If you look throughout history many leaders or Nations have tried to take that land or
came from that land to take other lands. Ironically we are their right now, and why do they say we
offend not? Because they (nations/leaders) think that what they are doing or have done is justified.
8. Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the
he goats before the flocks.
Comment: God is saying get out of that land and remember Babylon means "confusion", come out
of confusion.
9. For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the
north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken:
their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Comment: This prophecy is coming to past at this time.
10. And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
11. Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are
grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Comment: Many leaders have become very wealthy on oil in that region and have oppressed their
people and have done it in the name of religion in most cases.
12. Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the
hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Comment: Mother here refers to a nurturing heritage, not forefathers because they have done evil.
God is trying to relay the care of a mother to her children.
13. Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every
one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14. Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her,
spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.
Comment: A declaration of War. Spiritual and flesh. War in Heaven and on Earth begins.
15. Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are
thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do
unto her.
Comment: God is going to allow Satan and man to bring themselves down and ironically fulfill His
Will. Of course God always has full control.
16. Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of
the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own
land.
Comment: I believe there is a time segment associated to this verse. God cuts off the sower (he
who farms, literally and symbolically he who plants good seeds). God cuts off he who handles the
sickle "in the time of harvest" (again the farmer, literally and symbolically the Angels or the Reapers,
Rev. 14:14-20, this scripture refers to the time when Christ returns, so we know this is well before
that. When you begin to look at Nations today especially Iraq it shows we are not far off to Christs
return.
17. Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath
devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Comment: Israel or the Twelve Tribes are scattered, check out Daniel 12:7. Ten of those Tribes
crossed over the Trans Caucasian Mountains and settled in Europe and some migrated to the USA.
Two of those Tribes stayed in the Middle East. Nebuchadrezzar is a type for the anti-christ or Satan
breaking those scattered sheep with lies and deception.
18. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon
and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Comment: Ezekiel 28:16-19, these are all names or types for Satan as anti-christ, in Ezekiel he is
called king of Tyre (fake rock).
19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his
soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
Comment: When Christ returns he will join Israel back together and we will feed spiritually on the fruit
of the land.
20. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there
shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
reserve.
Comment: Who does God reserve? His election or the set aside ones who God has judged in the
first Earth age.
21. Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod:
waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded
thee.
Comment: Merathaim means "double rebellion" and is another name for Babylon. Pekod means
"visitation".
22. A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a
desolation among the nations!
Comment: Hammer is the powers of man and leaders of the world.
24. I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou
art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.
25. The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for
this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Comment: In the proceeding verses you see that Gods weapons are His election putting forth His
Word.
26. Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and
destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27. Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the
time of their visitation.
28. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the
vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29. Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round
about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she
hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the holy one of Israel.
Comment: Again spiritual war and a literal flesh war.
30. Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that
day, saith the Lord.
31. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come,
the time that I will visit thee.
32. And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in
his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed
together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34. Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause,
that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon
her princes, and upon her wise men.
36. A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be
dismayed.
37. A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are
in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall
be robbed.
Comment: Mingled people means those of the night, and could even mean Arabians.
38. A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and
they are mad upon their idols.
39. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and
the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation.
40. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord; so
shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41. Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised
up from the coasts of the earth.
Comment: These people are none other then the fallen angels. Jude 1:10-13, Rev. 9:7-11, Joel 2:
4-11, in Joel 4:11 he calls them His army, so again God is in full control.
42. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall
roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took
hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
44. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong:
but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over
her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
before me?
Comment: Only one who can fill all these answers, Jesus.
45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his
purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Jeremiah 51- (Isaiah 13 coincides with these chapters)
1. Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the
midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
Comment: God will raise up against Babylon "confusion", against those who confuse His children.
This is directly speaking to the false teachers, who even claim to be Christians. The destroying wind
is "ruach" or the Holy Spirit.
2. And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of
trouble they shall be against her round about.
Comment: What is a fanner? Someone who fans a flame already kindled. You could look at this
literally "Iraq" or symbolically "false teachers". In Iraq their has been many wars over this region,
example (Iran/Iraq war 1980-1988) and that's just one that I mention. That land has been the stage
for so called world dominance "oil, or democracy" etc. We know the United Nations have been
fanning many flames for years in the world, let alone recently in Iraq and Iran (nuclear sanctions).
3. Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his
brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
4. Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
Comment: The land of the Chaldeans is modern day lower Iraq or Kuwait.
5. For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land
was filled with sin against the holy One of Israel.
Comment: Remember who Israel is, the Twelve Tribes, Ten Tribes went to Europe then some to the
USA, and Judah stayed in the geographical area of Israel. Ezekiel 37:17-28.
6. Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for
this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations
have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Comment: Rev. 18:1-9
8. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may
be healed.
9. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into
his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
10. The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the
Lord our God.
Comment: This verse and the prior verses are at the Lords Day, the destruction of Babylon.
11. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the
vengeance of his temple.
Comment: Now this verse backs up in time a bit to just prior to the Lords Day. The kings of the
Medes is Iran and as I mentioned earlier it has always been in the hearts of the Persians (Medes) or
Iran to rule Iraq.
12. Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen,
prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the
inhabitants of Babylon.
Comment: This is a declaration of war, so Iran is going to try to take Iraq again just before the Lords
Day. Today Iran runs weapons, ammo and bombs to the terrorists who are fighting our troops.
13. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the
measure of thy covetousness.
14. The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with
caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
15. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
Comment: God is declaring His mighty power and He is very angry with "confusion" and the war
over this land.
16. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the
vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the
wind out of his treasures.
Comment: What are these waters? Rev. 17:15, of course here he is talking about the peoples in
Heaven. The wind is His Holy Spirit.
17. Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for
his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Comment: Flesh man or woman who has no knowledge of the True Word of God, or studies and I
emphasize studies His Word with understanding. They listen to some man who claims to be
Christian even Muslims who worship idols and not Christ, or some Christian based religions that
pray to statues. The first three Commandments of the Ten are against these things.
18. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19. The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his
inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
Comment: Here God is speaking of those who do follow Him, His election (set aside ones).
20. Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and
with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
Comment: God is calling His election to action, and are His weapons for this spiritual war.
21. And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces
the chariot and his rider;
Comment: Remember who these are that ride on horses, the fallen angels. Rev. 9, Joel 2.
22. With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old
and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23. I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in
pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and
rulers.
Comment: These shepherds are the false teachers. The captains and rulers are our leaders of the
Nations.
24. And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have
done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.
Comment: In this verse He literally says in your sight, this directly refers to flesh man seeing these
things happen, so again it sets a time element.
25. Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth:
and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a
burnt mountain.
Comment: Mountain = Nation (Babylon).
26. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be
desolate for ever, saith the Lord.
Comment: This Stone is none other than Jesus Christ. Check out Eph: 2:20 and
1Peter 2:4-8
27. Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations
against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a
captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Comment: Another declaration of war with Turkey or the previous Ottoman Empire who controlled
that region for 1300 years.
28. Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the
rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against
Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30. The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might
hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31. One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of
Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32. And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of
war are affrighted.
33. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a
threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Comment: This daughter is false religions and the time of harvest is the Lords Day.
34. Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me
an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates,
he hath cast me out.
Comment: This king of Babylon is Satan, and a dragon? because one of his names is the dragon.
Rev. 12: 7-9.
35. The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and
my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Comment: Keep your eyes on Jerusalem, it is the barometer of the end times.
36. Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I
will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an
hissing, without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
Comment: A young lion crying for his mother.
39. In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
Comment: 2Thess. 2:9-12.
40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Comment: These are the people who think the anti-christ or Satan is God or Jesus, 2Thess. 2:4.
Their all mixed up.
41. How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon
become an astonishment among the nations!
Comment: Sheshach means "thy fine linen" remember the harlot Babylon.
42. The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth,
neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44. And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath
swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon
shall fall.
45. My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger
of the Lord.
Comment: Gods election will deliver some people.
46. And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall
both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land,
ruler against ruler.
Comment: Matt. 24:6.
47. Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon:
and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48. Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall
come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.
Comment: The spoilers or the spoiler is none other than Satan and his fallen angels. The word
spoiler means "devastator or desolater". Dan. 9:27 and Rev. 9:11 look up the words Apollyon and
Abaddon.
49. As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50. Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let
Jerusalem come into your mind.
51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for
strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.
52. Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven
images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her
strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.
54. A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55. Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her
waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
56. Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.
57. And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her
mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the
Lord of hosts.
58. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high
gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they
shall be weary.
59. The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
60. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words
that are written against Babylon.
61. And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all
these words;
62. Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall
remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
63. And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to
it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
64. And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon
her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.