What is in the cup of God? Why are the Nations made to drink from this cup? When is this drinking from this cup going to happen?
The cup of God was known to the Israelite nation, they would sing about the judgment of God that was coming and about those who would have to drink from his cup.
Psalms 75:8… For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand, full of wine blended with spices, and He pours from it. All the wicked of the earth will drink, draining it to the dregs.
All the wicked ones will drink from this cup and there will be no way around it. What other Scriptures refer to drinking from this cup and what effect does it have upon them? Again, ask yourself why they are made to drink the cup, as we review the following scriptures:
Habakkuk 2:15-16… Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath and even making them drunk, in order to look at their nakedness!You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory. You also—drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,
and utter disgrace will cover your glory.
There is a Woe pronounced for anyone causing or tricking another person into drinking the cup of the anger of God. These very shepherds will become blood guilty before God for their treachery and trickery due to their lying. They will be exposed showing that their heart is not circumcised before God. They had been warned. Habakkuk 2:4-8
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Revelation 14:9-12… And a third angel followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is mixed full strength in the cup of His anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb, 11 and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name. 12 This demands the perseverance of the saints, who keep God’s commands and their faith in Jesus.”
God judges those who worship the wild beast and its image and those who receive the mark as worthy to drink the cup of his wrath and become tormented.
We can see that the wicked have to drink from the cup of the Lord. Then the people of God had to drink from it. Then the nations drink from this same cup. Who is the last to drink from this golden cup?
Jeremiah 25:15-16… For this is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of rage out of my hand, and you must make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink it. And they must drink and shake back and forth and act like crazed men because of the sword that I am sending among them.
What is in the cup of the Lord’s hand? The cup that Jehovah makes the nations drink is full of the rage of God. It gives them knowledge of what is coming and like a drunk they will lack the ability to stop it, and they will be made sick from it.
Who is the last to drink from this golden cup?
Jeremiah 25:26 says Sheshach is the last on the list. Who is this king over Babel? Why are the nations made to drink from the cup?
Jeremiah 25:30-31… And as for you, you will prophesy to them all these words, and you must say to them, from on high Jehovah himself will roar, and from his holy dwelling he will give forth his voice. Without fail he will roar upon his abiding place. A shout like that of those treading [the winepress] he will sing out against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise will certainly come clear to the farthest part of the earth, for there is a controversy that Jehovah has with the nations. He must personally put himself in judgment with all flesh. As regards the wicked ones, he must give them to the sword, is the utterance of Jehovah.
Jehovah God has a controversy with the nations! God is judging all flesh, and you may be asking yourself why? What have they done or what are they doing that’s got God so angry?
Jeremiah 25:32-38… This is what Jehovah of armies has said, Look! A calamity is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest itself will be roused up from the remotest parts of the earth. 33 And those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth. They will not be bewailed, neither will they be gathered up or be buried. As manure on the surface of the ground they will become. 34 “Howl, YOU shepherds, and cry out! And wallow about, YOU majestic ones of the flock, because YOUR days for slaughtering and for YOUR scatterings have been fulfilled, and YOU must fall like a desirable vessel! 35 And a place to flee to has perished from the shepherds, and a means of escape from the majestic ones of the flock. 36 Listen! The outcry of the shepherds, and the howling of the majestic ones of the flock, for Jehovah is despoiling their pasturage. 37 And the peaceful abiding places have been rendered lifeless because of the burning anger of Jehovah. 38 He has left his covert just like a maned young lion, for their land has become an object of astonishment because of the maltreating sword and because of his burning anger.”
God has said that the wicked will be put to death. And it semes to be that whatever the shepherds and the majestic ones of the flock have been doing has something to do with God’s anger. When God says because of slaughtering and scatterings have been fulfilled.
Who are these shepherds and majestic ones of the flock? Well, we are shown in God’s word a prophecy, about the slaughtering and scatterings that have been going on in the past.
What is this great tempest that is going forth over the land? Will consider that under the subheading The Windstorm
Ezekiel 34:7-10… Therefore, YOU shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah, 8 ‘“As I am alive,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, “surely for the reason that my sheep became something for plunder and my sheep continued to be food for every wild beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my sheep, but the shepherds kept feeding themselves, and my own sheep they did not feed, 9 therefore, YOU shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah. 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am against the shepherds, and I shall certainly ask back my sheep from their hand and make them cease from feeding my sheep, and the shepherds will no longer feed themselves; and I will deliver my sheep out of their mouth, and they will not become food for them…
The shepherds are taking the lead over the people of God and the majestic ones of the flock are the self-righteous ones who are arrogant and full of themselves, they are unloving and judgmental of all others around them.
Ezekiel 34:17-22… And as for YOU my sheep, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am judging between a sheep and a sheep, between the rams and the he-goats. 18 Is it such a little thing for YOU men that on the very best pasturage YOU feed but the rest of YOUR pasturages YOU should trample down with YOUR feet, and that the clear waters YOU drink but the ones left over YOU should foul by stamping with YOUR very feet? 19 And as for my sheep, on the pasture ground trampled by YOUR feet should they feed, and the water befouled by the stamping of YOUR feet should they drink? 20 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said to them: “Here I am, I myself, and I shall certainly judge between a plump sheep and a lean sheep, 21 for the reason that with flank and with shoulder YOU kept pushing and with YOUR horns YOU kept shoving all the sickened ones until YOU had scattered them to the outside. 22 And I will save my sheep, and they will no longer become something for plunder; and I will judge between a sheep and a sheep.
Who are the ones butting their heads against the sick? Is it not the ones who do the shoving of others! Do you not know that you are not loving by your actions?
The Windstorm
What about this windstorm that is going forth over the earth? Who will be affected by it?
Jeremiah 25:32-33… This is what Jehovah of armies has said, Look! A calamity is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest itself will be roused up from the remotest parts of the earth. 33 And those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth. They will not be bewailed, neither will they be gathered up or be buried. As manure on the surface of the ground they will become.
The Scriptures are very clear about what this windstorm is all about. It is a war that none can escape from.
Jeremiah 30:23-24… Look! A windstorm of Jehovah, rage itself, has gone forth, an onward-sweeping tempest. Upon the head of the wicked ones, it will whirl. The burning anger of Jehovah will not turn back until he will have executed and until he will have carried out the ideas of his heart. In the final part of the days, YOU people will give YOUR consideration to it.
Not much really needs to be said about this, it is just as plain as the nose on your face. Will you give consideration to the windstorm that is starting to whirl around you? Or will it be too late?
We all need to repent – you people before it’s too late. This is going to require perseverance from us, those who are keeping God’s commands and their faith in Christ Jesus the appointed Lord over heaven and earth . Amen Come Lord Jesus!
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