- Pack Your Baggage for Exile <br /> November 5, 2018Judah is taken by Babylon and the seventy years of their exile begins. Egypt is also taken by Babylon and begins their own forty years of exile. This is the second great dispersion of the children of Israel and the ...... more
- I Will Give Your Life <br /> November 2, 2018Jeremiah is living through a very challenging time. People are not listening to the word of the Lord. Nations that have ruled with great power are falling away as others rise. The word of the Lord changes from Jeremiah 25:5 ...... more
- Can You Not Learn a Lesson <br /> November 1, 2018The Lord has spoken directly to the leaders and the people through the prophet, but they don’t listen. So, the Lord brings the Rechabites into the temple and tests them before everyone, saying “Drink wine”. They had been forbidden by ...... more
- Hear the Words of This Covenant
and Do Them <br /> October 31, 2018Again and again the Lord brings the word of the covenant to the people by the prophet. The words are specific about their sin in Jeremiah 7:9 “Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will ...... more - He is the Maker of the Earth by His Power <br /> October 30, 2018The Lord is the creator of heaven and earth and yet people boast about many things, their wisdom, their wealth, their strength. The Lord is looking for one who knows the Lord and demonstrates it by, in Jeremiah 9:24 “showing ...... more
- I Have Heard the Report of You <br /> October 29, 2018The prophet brings us a foretelling, a description of a time when, in Habakkuk 2:14 “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters cover the sea”. The prophet tells us of ...... more
- Act With Justice and Righteousness <br /> October 26, 2018The Lord makes what seems to be a simple request in Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says Yahweh, “Act with justice and righteousness …”. But the sons of Josiah are subject to tribute at the hands of Egypt. The peace the Lord ...... more
- The Wealth They Gained has Perished <br /> October 25, 2018As Judah and Jerusalem enjoy a period of thirty-one years of relative peace through the reign of Josiah, Jeremiah prophecies the destruction of Moab. As described in Jeremiah 48:11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth”. The Moabites have ...... more
- Consecrate Yourself and Prepare <br /> October 24, 2018Josiah restores not only the covenant with the Lord, but restores the Passover and feasts. But they had never celebrated Passover which is followed by the seven day feast of unleavened bread. There had been a priestly order, but they ...... more
- I Will Break His Yoke From Upon You <br /> October 23, 2018The Lord knows those that have a heart for him and will not allow there ungodly to go unpunished. The only question is when and how. We find God’s wrath delayed as king Josiah finds a scroll, the Torah, and ...... more