Choose righteousness and live
Two eagles: Israel was to stay loyal to Babylon, rather than turning to Egypt; God’s righteous justice; a funeral song …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Judgement makes sense to the exiles
Jerusalem’s leaders are idolators, Judah is worse than a prostitute, and judgement is inevitable: Ezekiel 14–16 Jerusalem’s fall was to be inevitable, …
Judgement delivers the people from false prophets
Judgement and exile for the people, God’s glory leaves the Temple and Jerusalem, and false prophets get a special mention: Ezekiel …
Spared from death by a mark
Judgement to come on Jerusalem, Israel and idolators, but those grieved by the sins are to be spared: Ezekiel 5–9 In …
Slow down, don’t rush to blurt it out
Ezekiel’s commission and his vision of living beings and the siege of Jerusalem: Ezekiel 1–4 It wasn’t only Jeremiah who saw …
Hope for the exiles
Hope for Judah and Jerusalem, and Jeremiah’s message about Babylon—written and sent to Babylon to be thrown into the Euphrates River: Jeremiah …
The showdown: peace in our time?
Jeremiah speaks over Elam, then he wears an ox yolk and takes on Hananiah: Jeremiah 49:34–39, 27–28 Hananiah’s promises of peace for Jerusalem …
King Zedekiah is a rotten fig
Judgement for Jerusalem’s remaining elite, with a special focus on false prophets: Jeremiah 24, 23, 29 Jeremiah had some courage. Jerusalem would still …
Zedekiah rules over not much
Jehoiachin deported in chains after a siege of Jerusalem; he’s replaced by his uncle, Zedekiah: 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Kings 24:10–17; …
Power shift from Egypt to Babylon
Jehoiakim taken by Nebuchadnezzar and replaced with Jehoiachin (the second exile); Jeremiah prophesies against Jehoiachin: 2 Kings 24:5–7; 2 Chronicles 36:6–8; 2 Kings 24:8–9; 2 …
Because you refuse to listen or answer
The faithful Recabites; Jeremiah’s prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor: Jeremiah 35, 49:1–33 The Recabites had kept the rules their …
How important is the Sabbath
Jeremiah not allowed to marry; he seeks wisdom from God; sermons about the Sabbath, the potter and the clay; more …
The hard life of a prophet
A short prophecy against the nations, and more warnings for Judah, including a reason for the drought and the inevitability of …
Jeremiah told to ‘pray no more’
Jeremiah weeps for Judah’s sin and idolatry and starts to prepare the people for worse to come; people from his home town …
Nebuchadnezzar recognises God’s power
Nebuchadnezzar’s first invasion of Jerusalem and Daniel’s first few years in exile: 2 Kings 24:1–4; Daniel 1–3 Jeremiah heard God well: Judah …
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