Jeremiah Week 12
The End
If things are constantly destabilized, it is very hard to live faithfully. Nevertheless, in particular times and places, God needs to shake things up. Sending prophets is one of the ways God does this.
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If things are constantly destabilized, it is very hard to live faithfully. Nevertheless, in particular times and places, God needs to shake things up. Sending prophets is one of the ways God does this.
The thing about idolatry, however, is that it often induces a case of spiritual blindness so that you can鈥檛 properly diagnose your own illness. This is exactly where the 涩里番 of Judah find themselves.
The word of the LORD finally comes to pass. Jerusalem falls and the Babylonians take over. The destruction is terrifying and the suffering is immense. After months of mistreatment at the hands of Jerusalem鈥檚 political powers, Jeremiah turns out to have been right.
Without question, the book of Jeremiah is unrelenting in its account of the LORD鈥檚 judgment of Judah. There is much more in this text about plucking up, pulling down, destroying, and overthrowing than there is about building and planting (Jeremiah 1:10). This week鈥檚 chapters, however, focus on restoration and renewal using a variety of styles and images.