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November 24, 2018 at 3:39 pm #7642

spencel

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Jeremiah suffered greatly bringing God’s message to Judah, warning of the consequences of turning their collective back on God. He is called the “weeping prophet.” He was maligned and rejected by most of Judah even while they were in captivity. Jeremiah writes, “Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name. But His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”(20:9) He wants to give up but because of his love for God and man he could not help but continue he, “could not stay”.
Jeremiah wrote to a remanent in captivity and did reach some hearts. One being his contemporary Daniel, see Jeremiah 29. Daniel writes, “…I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:And I prayed unto the Lord my God,…”(Daniel 9) We did a Bible study on “Daniel’s Prayer”, April 29th, 2017.