Justice, Truth, and a Heart to Know the LORD (Jer. 23-24)

Have you ever been eating pistachios – or dates – or some other fruit or nut – enjoying a tasty snack – and then you come across one that is spoiled, and the foul, rotten flavor just explodes in your mouth?!

What do you do? Well, you look carefully at the next 4 or 5 in order to get the good flavor back!

But the remnant of Jerusalem are like bad figs – so bad that they could not be eaten. That’s right. The remnant. The exiles – those people who were driven out of Jerusalem for their sins – they are like the good figs – the first-ripe fig that my soul desires! But the remnant are spoiled figs that no one can eat.

But God has a habit of turning the world upside-down. This is why (as I look at our topsy-turvy world) I begin to wonder what God might have up his sleeve!