As you open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 46, I want us to notice how this section of the book of Jeremiah begins. It simply reads, “The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations” (Jeremiah 46:1). The majority of the book of Jeremiah has been God’s gracious call to his people to listen to him through Jeremiah’s teaching. But there is something that people of God and the world should never forget. God is not a God who only rules over his own people. God rules over the earth. God rules over the nations. God rules over the earth’s leaders. We can sometimes come to the prophetic messages that are directed to the various nations in history’s past and want to skim or skip over what God proclaims. But God is giving the world an important reminder when we come to scriptures like these. The Lord rules over the whole earth and is actively involved in what happens in the world…
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