Background: Ancient Israel drove God out of its land it did not stay empty. Other gods, dark spirits, and all kinds of demons came in to take possession fo the space once filled by the presence of God. Each of the new gods had an altar, and the valley was filled with them. One of those gods was Molech. Molech was known as the “abomination of the Ammonites.” Molech was especially known for child sacrifice. The practice extended over to other gods such as Baal, who was chief of the Cananite pantheon and the principal deity of Israel’s apostasy. Both gods were represented in the valley. In our modern world this sin is known as abortions.
God called on the Prophet Jeremiah to warn his people of the end. Jeremiah prophesied to the people of Israel saying,
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jeremiah 32:35)
1 Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, (Jeremiah 19:1-2)
The prophet Jeremiah was to take a clay vessel, bring it to the Valley of Hinnom where the children had been sacrificed, and brake/smash it in the sight of the nation’s leaders. The broken/smashed vessel would serve as a prophetic sign: a nation that kills its own children stands in the judgment of God, “The blood of the innocent invokes the judgment of God.” The nation would be destroyed.
The Potter’s vessel; it is a representation of God breaking this people. This people (ancient and modern) is also us/this current generation alive on earth today who keeps on murdering God’s innocent unborn babies. Their health and mental stability has been broken through the COVID-19 plague. They enjoyed the sex, but wanted to murder the babies.
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: (Jeremiah 19:1-5)
As the people of Israel had brought death to their children, so death would return to them. It would come through what appeared to be natural events and yet which served as vessels of God’s judgment.
“And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence (plague). - Jeremiah 21:6
In the Hebrew it is called a “Dever Gadol” a great pestilence, a plague of epidemic proportions , a dangerous and highly contagious disease, a mass contagion; a pandemic