Understanding Jeremiah's Prophecy

Even in the days of Jeroboam I, the man who founded the Kingdom of Israel, God already knew that Israel would be troublesome. It was forewarned that, “…the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their forefathers and scatter them beyond the River, because they provoked the LORD to anger by making Asherah poles.” The Israelites’ reason of doubt for God was that they were unsure that they could take over their promised land. God told them that they could remove the current inhabitants, but they were convinced that they could not. Not believing in the word of the Lord led to their exile for forty years of “wilderness wandering.” They had forgotten all of the great things that He had done for them, such as delivering them from Egyptian enslavement. Hope was given up on Him

After conquering northern Israel in 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians engendered centuries of political intrigue and laid the foundation for future unscrupulous kingdoms and idolatrous people.1 Once the Babylonian empire overthrew Josiah, the King of Judah, Habakkuk began to compose a prophetic book, questioning the ways of God. Above all, Habakkuk could not comprehend why “the evil circumvented the just”2; he thought that the impiety of the world did not correlate with a supposedly just God.3 Throughout his narrative, this biblical prophet came to understand that “the just man, because of his faith, shall live” (Hb 2,4). Eventually discovering that righteousness and faith in God lead to justice, Habakkuk cried out to the people of Judah through

The place around the Euphrates river was where human life started, and it is the place where comes those who will finish with one-third of humanity. It also was the place where existed the great powers of Babylon, Persia, and Assyria, and it is also the land God promised to Abraham (Gen 15.18). It seems that the only way to save from the plagues and the army, is to repent. However, the remaining two-third, did not repent, resembling the hard-hearted answer of Pharaoh in Egypt.

Brown, M. L. (2010). Jeremiah. In T. Longman III & D. E. Garland (Eds.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Jeremiah–Ezekiel (Revised Edition) (Vol. 7, p. 358). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

God then goes on to judge the kings of Egypt and Tyre for viewing themselves as Gods. He holds these kinds accountable for their pride and announces that he will use Babylon to bring them down too. Soon after Ezekiel is visited by a refugee who tells him that the Babylonians have come and Jerusalem has fallen. Ezekiel’s warnings have become a reality. The rest of the book is designed to explore Ezekiel’s vison of hope for Israel, the nations, and then all of creation.

In His faithfulness, the Lord as Divine Judge will judge His covenant people Israel after they disregard their covenant obligations and then offer them deliverance once they demonstrate repentance.

As usual, the chapter begins with Israel’s rebellion against God. God sent the Midianites to oppress them for seven years because of their latest defection from Him (v. 1). The oppression was so severe that all of Israel’s crops and livestock were either taken or destroyed by the Midianites (v. 2-5). Israel cried to God for assistance, and He sent them a prophet to inform them of why they were downtrodden: they had disobeyed Him by turning to idols (v. 6-10).

Turning to 2 Chronicles 7:14, Short read, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Look around you for you will be amazed. I will do something in your coming week, even if I recovered what it is to you, you would not trust me. For I am using the Babylonians against Judah because I know their past and evil sense. For all they do is exceed for themselves, and conquer the places that are not their own. As for they disobey rules and laugh at the powerful. Violence is their strength, which they use as their god,

Babylon captivity is the period in Jewish history during which a number of Judahites of the ancient kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon. In the story “By the Waters of Babylon” it tells us about the mistakes we made and how they were made. Most of the time we learn from our mistakes, in this case we did not.

Jeremiah 31:33-34 1.“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. ” I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord.

This speaks directly to the situation of the Israelites in the way that they are being promised freedom, just at a future time. The definition that sticks out between the two is “in time to come.” Meaning, whether the false prophet was correct, and the time was two years, or in this case, Jeremiah being correct and seventy years being the timeline, it was to happen. There is a sense of calm with this phrase as well, because it promises restoration and a tomorrow, and for a people that had been through so much pain and suffering up to this point, that is very reassuring. 5 Turner, Thomas.

Jeremiah’s message was especially unwelcomed, since he proclaimed Judah’s destruction; he

This passage comes at a very important time for Jeremiah and the Jews. The covenant had caved in because the people habitually broken it. Because of this, a question had arose, how can a holy God maintain a relationship with a sinful nation that had been deprived of a country and then sent into captivity? There was only one solution: a New

During Jeramiah’s preach he encountered false prophets. Jeramiah brought the truth saying that the people of Israel would be destroyed if they did not repent. The false prophets where telling them that the kingdom of Judah would not be taken captive. Jeramiah then made a picture. He was to take a yoke this yoke represented the bondage that the people of Judah would be put into under the control of