Bad Girls Part 2 Series

The love you think that you first had turns out to be hatred. In dating you mostly only see the good points of a person. After you live together then you get to fully understand who the person really is.

The love and affection that the nation of Judah gave to the Chaldeans was not returned. In fact it turned to great hatred. If you are a Christian and turn back to former ways, your results will be far worse then those who do not know the Lord.

“30 have brought this upon you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. 31 You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand. “

Some people are wise. They learn and adhere to good advice. Some people watch and learn what others experience and avoid the same problems. Some people have asked me if I believe that drunkenness is a hereditary condition. I tell them that I do not believe that to be true. I tell them that I believe much more is caught then taught. A child exposed to years of watching parents live a lifestyle of drinking gets to understand this as a normal way of life, which you and I know is not a correct way of thinking. Sadly, for some this is the only way they know of. The people of the Southern Kingdom had history books describing the terrible destruction their relatives went through. However, hundreds of years had passed, so these truths were only stories. It couldn’t happen to them.

Our Lord says ‘you have [done the same thing] walked in the ways of your sister, therefore I will give her cup into your hand [you are going to go through the same horror]. To ‘drink’ was to fully experience the action.

32 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. 34 You will drink it and drain it dry; you will dash it to pieces and tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

The experience is like someone chugging down a drink. Kind of what you see at the college fraternity’s. Her beverage however is sorrow, waste, and desolation. As people laugh at a drunk so will the evil Babylonian persecutors laugh when the brutally injure the Jewish captives. This type of evil humor was directed at our Precious Lord Jesus.

Matthew 27: 27 – 31, “27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. 28 And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. 29 When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. 31 And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.”