Jeremiah 30:24: “The fierce anger of the LORD will not return until He has done it, / And until He has performed the intents of His heart. / In the latter days you will consider it.”

October 29th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional

The last part of this verse, “In the later days you will consider [understand] it,” points both the hearer and the reader to prophecies that will be fulfilled and make sense near the end of time. God is encouraging us to trust Him until we understand all His word, sometime in the future. The Apostle Peter indicated that even the prophets, like Jeremiah, did not fully understand the things they wrote about, saying, “This salvation was something even the prophets wanted to know more about when they prophesied about this gracious salvation prepared for you” (1 Pet. 1:10). They must have had many questions as to exactly what their prophecies meant, since they did not get to see many of them fulfilled. They were like miners searching after precious ore, seeking to fully understand the prophecies they delivered. God carefully made certain that their predictions were written down and preserved for the later days, when the prophecies will be fulfilled and their meanings at last clear. Today the world has witnessed the fulfillment of some of these prophesies, like the physical return of the Jews from all over the world to the land of Israel.

In spite of the prophecies that have already been fulfilled, the majority of our world remains skeptical. But when He does finally come, all will understand completely. The prophet Zechariah wrote 2700 years ago about the second coming of the Lord: “And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, / Which faces Jerusalem on the east. / And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, / From east to west” (Zech. 14:4). In 1927, a newspaper reported that Professor Bailey Willis, a seismological expert at Stanford University, made a striking statement before the British Association for the Advancement of Science: “The area around Jerusalem is a region of potential earthquake danger . . . A fault line along which earth slippage may occur passes directly through the Mount of Olives.”

“Come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray.”