Jeremiah is in Egypt with these who have resisted the word of the Lord at every step. Now they complain that they were better off when they made, in Jeremiah 44:17 “smoke offerings to the queen of heaven”. Jeremiah reacts…
Tag: December
I Am With You to Save You
After about nine months of peace, Ishmael and a small group of men kill Gedaliah and take captives. Johanan and others pursue and in Jeremiah 41:14 “all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned…
The Crown Has Fallen From Our Head
This cry to the Lord in Lamentations 5:1–2 “take note, and see our disgrace! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers” is not news to the Lord. It has only come because of Judah’s hard refusal to listen to…
Let Us Lift Up Our Hearts
The name of this book, Lamentations, describes the state of the house of Israel as they shrink fully into their seventy years of exile. There is a sense of the depths of their despair in Lamentations 3:5-6 “bitterness and hardship.…
I Am For Peace They Are For War
There are those around us that are against us with in Psalm 120:2 “lying lips from a deceitful tongue”. There is a recognition that in Psalm 120:2 “I sojourn in … I dwell among” people that do not know God…
Restore Us O God of Our Salvation
The word of the Lord by his prophets has been fulfilled. The leaders of Judah have been struck down and those that weren’t are deported to Babylon. Some, the poorest, are left behind, but the Lord says in 2 Kings…
I Will Rescue You on That Day
The word of the Lord is fulfilled, the siege of Jerusalem is over. In Jeremiah 39:2 “the city was taken by assault” and the army of Nebuchadnezzar burns the city, takes the gold, silver and bronze from the temple and…
Turn Back Why Should You Die
Judgement is coming in Ezekiel 32:23 to “those who spread terror in the land of the living”. And in Ezekiel 32:22 “all of them killed” and in Ezekiel 32:25 “all of them uncircumcised”. These great warriors fought with everything in…
But You Beloved
Dear Friends We have an admonition written to us as brothers and sisters in Christ. It begins, though, with us understanding the world that we live in. There are those in the world that have a destructive and divisive nature.…