Jeremiah 26 – 29
Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, Jeremiah is given a message from the Lord that he is told to deliver in the courtyard in front of the Temple. The purpose of this message was to try to get God’s people to turn from their sins so that he would not have to destroy them. Did this ever tick off the priests, the prophets and the people. People don’t usually like to be reminded of the things they have done wrong. They mobbed Jeremiah and called for him to be killed. Of course, Jeremiah contended to the officals that his message was just what God had told him to say. A man named Ahikam son of Shaphan persuaded the court not to turn Jeremiah over to the mob.
The Lord gives Jeremiah another object to make his point to the people: a yoke to wear fastened to his neck with leather thongs. This was to demonstrate that they would be submitting to Babylon’s king and serving him with their necks under Babylon’s yoke.
When Hananiah son of Azzur, prophesied that Jeremiah was wong and that they would throw off the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar within two years. He took the wooden yoke from Jeremiah’s neck and broke it into pieces. The Lord had Jeremiah tell him that the wooden yoke would be replaced with a yoke of iron and the people would be forced into slavery under Nebuchadnezzar. He predicts Hananiah’s imminent death and, sure enough, within two months Hananiah died.
After the king, court officials and others had been deported from Jerusalem, Jeremiah sent a letter from Jerusalem to them telling them to plan to stay in Babylon, to build homes, plant gardens and eat the food they produce. He also told them they would only be there for seventy years and then he would bring them back. “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. For in those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me… I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
What a gracious and forgiving God we have!
Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 30 – 31.
God Bless America and those who love her
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Michael Vey II: Rise of the Elgen
Today, the second book in the Michael Vey series was released. In preparation for this, I re-read the first book. I had sort of forgotten how great the first book (Michael Vey: The Prisoner in Cell 25).
If you like a good read, you’ll love this series.
Until next time…
/ Thanks for keeping us posted, Kathy. Here's what I found on the ever present web. Enjoy. /
ReplyDeleteDANGEROUS RADICALS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT !
by Dave MacPherson
[quotes are from Vital Quotations by Emerson West]
ROBERT E. LEE: "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." (p. 21)
DANIEL WEBSTER: "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper." (p. 21)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year." (p. 22)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this book." (p. 22)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." (p. 22)
HORACE GREELEY: "It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people." (p. 23)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man. I adhere to the principles of the first age; and consider all subsequent innovations as corruptions of this religion, having no foundation in what came from him." (p. 45)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would by now have become Christian." (p. 47)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see." (p.49)
WOODROW WILSON: "The sum of the whole matter is this----that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can only be saved by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit." (p. 143)
PATRICK HENRY: "There is a just God who presides over the destiny of nations." (p. 145)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." (p. 225)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus." (p. 237)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it." (p. 283)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped." (p. 301)
CALVIN COOLIDGE: "The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions." (p. 305)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The perpetuity of this nation depends upon the religious education of the young." (p. 306)
Prior to our increasingly "Hell-Bound and Happy" era, America's greatest leaders were part of the (gulp) Religious Right! Today we have forgotten God's threat (to abort America) in Psa. 50:22----"Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver."