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By Elmer A. Martens

ISBN-10: 0585253110

ISBN-13: 9780585253114

ISBN-10: 0836134052

ISBN-13: 9780836134056

Elmer A. Martens explores the message and insights of Jeremiah for this day. In Jeremiah, God disciplines humans and punishes them. but there's additionally forgiveness and thepromise of a brand new covenant. This historical booklet is unusually suitable to our iteration. The extra we find out about the annoying instances within which Jeremiah lived, concerning the passionate prophet himself, and concerning the association of the ebook that bears his identify, the extra forceful the message turns into.

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The young man wished to be excused and pleaded inexperience. However, before long he was preaching with passion. You have forsaken God, he told his people. You have forsaken the fountain of living waters, and as a second evil you have hewed out cisterns that can hold no water (2:13). You are an adulterous people. " He preached at the temple gate (7:1-15), pressed God's message upon the elders in the valley of Topheth (19:1-13), and had his message read in the king's court, where it was irreverently dissected with a penknife and cast into the fire (36:1-26).

Josiah of Jerusalem seized the moment of Assyria's weakness and enlarged Judah's territory. Economically, times were briefly prosperous. Religious reforms were inaugurated after the remarkable discovery of the law scroll in the temple. Josiah wanted to serve God and led his people away from their evil ways. Then, tragedy. In the battle at Megiddo in 609, this good king was killed. Jehoiakim, one of the important successors, despised Josiah's efforts at restoring godly living, and the long slide to disaster began.

Jeremiah, an Unusual Prophet The book begins as the international balance of power was shifting from Assyria to Babylon. God called a youth, probably in his late teens, Jeremiah by name, son of Hilkiah the priest, to be his prophet (627 B. ). The young man wished to be excused and pleaded inexperience. However, before long he was preaching with passion. You have forsaken God, he told his people. You have forsaken the fountain of living waters, and as a second evil you have hewed out cisterns that can hold no water (2:13).

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