JEREMIAH IS SHUT UP IN PRISON FOR PROPHESYING THAT JERUSALEM WILL BE TAKEN BY NEBUCHADREZZAR (JEREMIAH 32:1). The scene now shifts from the rebuilding of the new Jerusalem to the time of the siege of the old Jerusalem, with the enemy camped around the city, and its people within being slowly starved... [ Continue Reading ]
SECTION 2 SUBSECTION 2 PART 2). HAVING BEEN IMPRISONED DURING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM JEREMIAH BUYS A PIECE OF HEREDITARY LAND IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF THE LAND OF JUDAH, SOMETHING RESULTING IN A PROMISE OF RESTORATION AND OF THE COMING OF THE SHOOT OF DAVID (JEREMIAH 32:1... [ Continue Reading ]
SUB-PART A. AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION JERUSALEM WILL ONE DAY BE RESTORED, SOMETHING GUARANTEED TO JEREMIAH IN A SYMBOLIC ACT OF PURCHASING FAMILY LAND (JEREMIAH 32:1). Jeremiah is commanded to buy an hereditary piece of land as a symbol of what YHWH is going to do with regard to Judah. This confuses Jer... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH IS COMMANDED BY YHWH TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF JUDAH BY BUYING LAND FROM HIS COUSIN HANAMEL ON THE DEATH OF HIS UNCLE. BUT EVEN JEREMIAH IS PUZZLED BY IT AND IT DRIVES HIM TO PRAYER (JEREMIAH 32:6). There is no reason to doubt that Hanamel had taken shelter in Jerusalem... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRANSACTION (JEREMIAH 32:7). Jeremiah 32:7 “Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum your uncle, will come to you, saying, ‘Buy you my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it'.” YHWH prepared Jeremiah for the visit that was about to be made to him by telling him a... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH QUESTIONS YHWH AS TO WHY HE HAS COMMANDED HIM TO DO THIS STRANGE THING OF BUYING LAND IF THE LAND WAS IN FACT SIMPLY GOING TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE CHALDEANS. HE MAY WELL HAVE WONDERED WHETHER THIS DID THIS THEN MEAN THAT YHWH INTENDED TO INTERVENE AT THE LAST MOMENT AND SAVE HIS PEOPLE (JER... [ Continue Reading ]
YHWH'S ANSWER IS UNEQUIVOCAL. IT IS TRUE THAT NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM, BUT THAT MUST BE SEEN AS PRECISELY THE REASON WHY HE WAS DELIVERING THE CITY INTO THE HANDS OF THE CHALDEANS. FOR HE WILL ALSO LATER CAUSE HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN FROM EXILE SO THAT LAND WILL ONCE AGAIN BE BOUGHT AND SOLD IN JUD... [ Continue Reading ]
JERUSALEM WILL BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE'S GROSS SINFULNESS (JEREMIAH 32:28). Jeremiah 32:28 “Therefore thus says YHWH, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it,” And it is on this basis that He... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWEVER, ONCE JERUSALEM HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND A REASONABLE PERIOD HAS ELAPSED, YHWH WILL RESTORE HIS PEOPLE TO THEIR LAND AND WILL ONCE AGAIN BE THEIR GOD, GIVING THEM A NEW HEART TO FEAR HIM FOR EVER, AND HE WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM PLATING THEM IN THE LAND SO THAT THEY WILL ONC... [ Continue Reading ]