The name Jeremiah is pronounced in Hebrew as YIR-MEY-AHU. It is a word that means God founds, exalts, loosens or throws. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet because much of his writing is music in the form of lamenting. Jeremiah was only a boy about thirteen years of age when he was called into the ministry of prophecy. The year was about 627 BC, and the king ruling in Judah was King Josiah. Remember that the nation of Israel had split in two, forming two different nations around 930 BC. The ten northern tribes became Israel, and the tribes to the south (Judah and Benjamin, along with Simeon) became known as Judah, which is where Jeremiah lived and ministered. It’s interesting to note that Jeremiah was born into a family of priests living in Anathoth, a small town northeast of Jerusalem. These priests could have been
descendants of the priest banished by Solomon to Anathoth years before.
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Jerusalem Falls; Jeremiah 5-9
Jeremiah began his ministry in the time of King Josiah—a king who conducted one of the greatest revivals of God’s law in history. But it did not last long. The people did not faithfully grab and hold onto the reality of God’s provision. The Law was still simply a set of laws, not God’s perfect wo...
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Being Destroyed; Jeremiah 13-15
What does it mean when we say we are ‘being destroyed’? Is our economy wrecked? Is our community at odds with one another? Is our house struggling to make ends meet? Is the population declining? What does it really mean to ‘be destroyed’? The answer to that question comes in Jeremiah 13, in which...
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God's Peace; Jeremiah 16-18
One of the things God did in the time of Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, living around 606 BC, was to remove His blessing of peace from Judah. This set the pace for a cultural decline into turmoil. This is something we must learn: the peace of God does not come because we are good people. God favour...
