Peace?

"Do not listen to them (the lying prophets);

serve the king of Babylon

and live.

Why should this city become a desolation."

Jeremiah 27:17

Our natural minds cannot comprehend these type of things. 'If you want to live, then serve the evil Babylonian empire and its prideful king.' The moral of the entire book of Jeremiah has to be 'God is in utter control'. Whether that means things are looking great around us , or things are looking grim around us. God is still in utter control. Oh and by the way you are not God and therefore wont understand fully everything that goes on around you in the world and in your own individual life. Let me repeat this, you wont FULLY understand everything your entire life you live on Earth. There isn't enough Wikipedias, Encyclopedias, Google searches to be able to grasp the knowledge and power of the One True King. We must submit to the Lord and trust that even though were called to serve a Babylonian king, we still are walking in the will of God. It makes no sense. But again, we are not God and we must trust that He is Good.