From the frying pan to the fire! Jeremiah continues to share God’s words no matter how ‘hot’ it gets. Today he is sinking in muck because he won’t stay quiet. Jeremiah will NOT be deterred. He has gone from freedom, to banned from the Temple, to imprisoned in the house of the secretary, to confined […]
Jeremiah has been speaking God’s words of judgment. Those who hear his words are not happy and make him a prisoner for it. When we read about Jeremiah being in prison earlier, I assumed it was by order of the king. I suspected that Zedekiah has him put there. Today I learned different. It isn’t […]
Zedekiah is on the throne and he sends word for Jeremiah to pray for Judah. God says they are DOOMED to fall to the Chaldeans; Babylon. We have shifted forward in time again today. We are with Zedekiah, the last king Judah had. He was put in place by Nebuchadnezzar when he took Jehoiakim’s son, […]
Jehoiakim burns the scrolls Jeremiah is writing. His contempt for God’s words did NOT make them any less true. And it condemned him. We are stepping backwards in the line of kings today. We stepped backwards yesterday but I failed to mention it. Jeremiah takes us back to Jehoiakim, Josiah’s second son to sit on […]
God calls Jeremiah to invite the Rechabites to a side room in the Temple and offer them wine to drink. They come but refuse to drink because they are honoring their ancestors. To start with, I wanted to know who the Rechabites were. I found an answer from my favorite searching site; GotQuestions.org. I also […]
