Jeremiah 33:1-34:22, 1 Timothy 4:1-16, Psalm 89:1-13, Proverbs 25:23-24
Today is the 19th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today, taking the next step forward in the Scriptures around the Global Campfire that is our community. So, let’s, let’s dive in for that next step. We’re reading from the God’s Word Translation this week. We’re in the book of Jeremiah. Today, we’ll read chapter 33 verse 1, through 34 verse 22, before taking the next step forward in Paul’s first letter to Timothy. But first, Jeremiah 33.
Commentary:
Okay, so, in the book of Jeremiah, it’s kind of all going down. So, Jeremiah has been prophesying for a couple of decades, okay, so a long time, and he’s, you know, he’s been listened to, he’s been marginalized, he’s been imprisoned, he’s, you know, he’s been through ridicule, he’s been through all kinds of stuff and he’s had to do a lot of stuff along the way to get the attention and symbolically show Israel what God is saying and now it’s happening. The Babylonians are overrunning the land and there’s these three cities that are left, Azeeka, Lachish, and Jerusalem. And to this very day Jerusalem is the only one of those three cities that are still standing. And yet, these were the three remaining fortified walled cities. The ruins of Lachish and the ruins of Azeeka, they exist, but they were destroyed. Jeremiah, right, we talked about this. He sent a letter which contains the most popular verse in the Bible. He sent this letter to those who have been deported into exile and told then to settle in and pray and prosper and grow in numbers. And of course, people sent letters back to the leaders who were still in Jerusalem about Jeremiah. So, now Jeremiah is, he’s kind of under house arrest in the courtyard of the prison, even as the Babylonians are cutting Jerusalem off from the outside, and attacking the walls. So, if you think about those circumstances and put yourself in those circumstances, it’s, it’s a pretty dire situation that we find ourselves in, in the reading today. And even as walls are being attacked and cities are being surrounded and fear, I mean the fear of…of defeat and exile and death and destruction, even as these things are imminent, God is still speaking. God is still telling Jeremiah what to say. So, even as it looks like pretty much all hope is lost, God is still speaking.