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Mar 29, 2016 · In Jeremiah 1 verse 5, Jeremiah was told that long before he was born, God had chosen him for this important task. He was to be a prophet, not just to the Kingdom of Judah but “a prophet unto the nations”. He was called by God and charged with an awesome responsibility.
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Jun 2, 2014 · Jeremiah’s sufferings began with a divine call: God did wonderful things for Jeremiah before he was even born. He knew him. He formed him. He set him apart and appointed him as a prophet to the nations. He did all this long before Jeremiah drew his first breath or shed his first tear.
When the man or woman is ready, God then teaches them what they need to know to fulfill their calling. Jeremiah was called to be a prophet and continued in that calling for fifty years. Jeremiah’s name means “Jehovah throws.”
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Long before Jeremiah was born, Israel fell into shameless idolatry. King Ahaz set up a system of child sacrifice to the god Molech just outside Jerusalem. His son, Hezekiah, tried to end the practice (Isaiah 36:7), but when Hezekiah’s son, Ahaz’s grandson, Manasseh, came into power, child sacrifice was reimplemented (Jeremiah, 7:31; 19:5; 32:35). T...
Jeremiah repeatedly warned Israel to repent and avoid God’s righteous judgment. He repeatedly prophesied Jerusalem’s siege by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 26). He even wrote God’s warning on a scroll that his scribe, Baruch, read aloud before the Temple court where the general public assembled. After hearing Baruch speak, the king’s scribes read the s...
Jehoiakim naturally scoffed at Jeremiah’s prophecy. The Babylonians had already attacked Jerusalem once before in 605 B.C., but they did not destroy the Temple. They only took captives, people like Daniel and his friends (Daniel 1). Jehoiakim felt confident that would be the worst if there were another attack. The people’s welfare was not his conce...
Jeremiah continued to prophesy all during this time, urging the people to repent. His messages did not always go over very well. Twice he was imprisoned: once on the assumption he was defecting to the Chaldeans (Jeremiah 37:15), and once for encouraging people to defect to the Chaldeans in order to diminish Jerusalem’s destruction (v2-6). The peopl...
When the time came for the Jews’ return home, God caused King Cyrus of Persia, an empire that took power from the Babylonians following Nebuchadnezzar’s madness (Daniel 4:28-33), to decree that the Israelites could return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple in 539 B.C. As a point of reference, Zerubbabel and Joshua led the first return to rebuild t...
As for Jeremiah, he was forced against his will to flee with a remnant of poor Jews to Egypt (Jeremiah 43-44), where he continued to prophesy, warning the people God would punish them for going to Egypt. He warned that God would hand Egypt over Babylon, and He did. God also handed over Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Elam, and most of the M...
Jeremiah did not only give warnings to the Jewish people. He also gave them hope. Following the death of Jehoiakim, Jeremiah prophesied that God would raise up “a Branch of righteousness,” and the Branch would sit on David’s throne forever. “’ Behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, that I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness. A King ...
Oct 7, 2016 · John Job explains the great modern relevance of Jeremiah's message and notes strong links with the life and teaching of Jesus. Jeremiah's message was inextricably linked with the history of Israel in his day. He first addressed the North, with a plea for unity with the Southern Kingdom.
Jeremiah served as one of God’s prophets through the rule of five kings of Judah (Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah). He even continued to plead God’s case against Judah during the time of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. ( Jeremiah 1:3 ; 52:7-11 ).
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Josiah’s reign was a renaissance of godly worship, reverence for the Scriptures, and justice. And it was during Josiah’s reign that Jeremiah received his call from Yahweh to become a prophet (Jer 1:2; approximately 627 BC).
