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In detailing Babylon\u2019s impending doom, Jeremiah spoke of its up-and-coming enemy as a club with which God will smite them.<\/span><\/p>\n

You are My war club, [my] weapons of battle; with you I clubbed nations, with you I destroyed kingdoms. With you I clubbed horse and rider, with you I clubbed chariot and driver. With you I clubbed man and woman, with you I clubbed graybeard and boy, with you I clubbed youth and maiden. With you I clubbed shepherd and flock, with you I clubbed plowman and team, with you I clubbed governors and prefects. (20-23)<\/span><\/p>\n

This imagery is highly reminiscent of the language that the prophet Isaiah used to address Babylon\u2019s forerunner: Assyria. Speaking, of course, in God\u2019s voice, he declared:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ha! Assyria, rod of My anger, in whose hand, as a staff, is My fury! I send him against an ungodly nation, I charge him against a people that provokes Me, to take its spoil and to seize its booty and to make it a thing trampled like the mire of the streets. (10: 5-6)<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as God used Assyria to punish Israel for its transgressions, now He will use Persia and Medea to settle His score with Babylon. The nations of the world are but tools with which He crafts history, but they are unwitting tools. As Isaiah noted: \u201cBut he does not imagine it so and His mind thinks otherwise; for he means to destroy, to wipe out nations, not a few (10:7).\u201d As interpreted, there, by Radak:<\/span><\/p>\n

The king of Assyria does not imagine that he is My agent and the rod of My anger. Rather, he imagines that whatever he has accomplished has been the result of his own strength, he is unaware that he is My agent, and whenever I please, I will prevent him from destroying; even though he is intent on destroying everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare may well have had a similar thought in mind when he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

All the world’s a stage,<\/span>
\n<\/span>And all the men and women merely players;<\/span>
\n<\/span>They have their exits and their entrances,<\/span>
\n<\/span>And one man in his time plays many parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>As You Like It<\/span><\/i>: Act II, Scene VII, Line 138)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":72814,"id":72814,"title":"jer51-club","filename":"jer51-club.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer51-club.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/assyria-was-a-staff-medea-will-be-a-club\/jer51-club\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer51-club","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72812,"date":"2020-04-05 03:44:24","modified":"2020-04-05 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