Jeremiah 47:1-7--Judgment on the Philistines

Jeremiah 47
English Standard Version

Judgment on the Philistines
47 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

2 “Thus says the LORD:
Behold, waters are rising out of the north,
    and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
4 because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the LORD is destroying the Philistines,
    the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
5 Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    how long will you gash yourselves?
6 Ah, sword of the LORD!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
7 How can it be quiet
    when the LORD has given it a charge?
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore
    he has appointed it.”

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I have mentioned before, but the people of Gaza today and the so-called Palestinian people have zero relation to the Philistines of the Old Testament (they try to make this claim so that they can somehow claim they have a more ancient right to the Land than the Jewish people).  How can I be so sure of that?  Passages like this that tell us that all of the original Philistines were going to be destroyed.  The Pharaoh of Egypt is going to attack Gaza (one of the three key city-states of the Philistines) and an enemy from the North would destroy Tyre and Sidon and all of Philistia.  The LORD is using these invading armies to help destroy those who escaped the original Conquest of the Land.

I already mentioned that Gaza was one of the main city-states of the Philistines and judgment is once again proclaimed against it.  Ashkelon, another city-state, is prophesied against that it will completely perish.  Everyone in that city state will die.  The LORD asks the people of that region  how long they will cut and gash themselves in memory of these dead Philistines, for they scarred themselves with "tattooed" that marked themselves for the dead--a practice the children of Israel were forbidden from participating in.  The LORD has chosen a people to execute His judgment that will be called "The Sword of the LORD" and it will destroy the Philistines and all the coastal peoples who have "coexisted" with the Jews and corrupted them and the LORD has no intention for them to continue to "coexist" with His people when they come back from Exile.  If His people would not obey the command to kill these pagan peoples and drive them out of the Land, then He will use other Gentile nations to accomplish His plans and the children of Israel will miss out on the blessing and glory that comes from complete obedience.