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Promise of a Return We don’t know when Jeremiah received this prophecy. You’ve surely noticed by now that the prophecies of Jeremiah aren’t in strict chronological order. I think sometimes we imagine a WAY overly simplified process for how the scripture came to be. Raise your hand if you thought the biblical writers sat down…

More false prophets, letters, and tattle tales. 📜 Dear Exiles, This is gonna take a while. 70 years, in fact. Settle down and make Babylon your new home. Be good citizens and pray for your neighbors. I’ll bring your grandkids back home to Judah when it’s time. P.S. Don’t listen to the fake news prophets.…

Prophets and Yokes This is an incredible set of chapters and more applicable for today than might appear at first glance. Jeremiah’s yoke was probably not a big ol honkin’ yoke for a team of oxen. Human-sized yokes have been in common use for millennia. And they are still used in many parts of the…

You are here: Jeremiah 26 is a prophecy given “in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim.” The “Doomsday Clock” has about 22 years left until the last king is removed and Judah is reduced to a district governed by the Babylonians. But keep in mind that, politically, things are already rather unsteady. Jehoahaz was…

I know that the reading schedule has only chapter 24 for today, but 25 and 26 are both longer chapters while 24 is short. So I’m shifting. Again. After King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) and the royal family went out and gave themselves up to the Babylonians, Jeremiah received this prophetic vision of good and bad figs.…

Chapter 22 is a series of messages from Yawheh to Judah’s kings. To review the history of these guys, refer to 2 Chronicles 36:1-10 and 2 Kings 23:30-24:1-20. Here is the basic data: FINAL FOUR KINGS OF JUDAH These young men sat on the throne of their ancestor David, but would not listen to the…

Jeremiah’s latest prophecy – which involved taking an earthen jar that represented Judah and smashing it to smithereens in the Valley of Hinnom – well… it didn’t sit well with the High Priest. The high priest is a man called Pashhur. According to Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon his name means… Jeremiah smashing the pot and prophesying…

Lessons from pottery… 🏺 We could talk about a lot of things from these chapters, but… The best thing I could share with you today is a devotional called “Parables of the Potter” from The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It’s 22 minutes long. And I have no idea who filmed it. It’s…

We have come to (arguably) the most famous verse in all of Jeremiah: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬ The “heart” is the word leb in Hebrew. We westerners like to be all analytical and divide the inner man into neat boxes of mind/intellect, will,…

Jeremiah is still a young man. But he doesn’t hang out with other young people. Whatever the ancient equivalent of sitting by yourself at the lunch table was, that’s his lot. 😐 Maybe the stinky underwear had something to do with it. Personal hygiene goes a long way in making friends, ya know. Well….Can’t argue…

The Ruined Loincloth Prophecy Or The Sign of the Dirty Underwear 🩲 😆 That sounds like the title of a Captain Underpants book. Nevertheless, it is an appropriate title for this one-of-a-kind sign prophecy. It’s funny to me that King David dancing before the LORD in his linen ephod (a tunic, NOT a loincloth) gets…