Jeremiah

Others say Elijah.

Others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

And then he said, but who do you say that I am? And Peter answered, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

And he said to Peter, blessed are you, son of John.

Church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

And the prophets coming second there makes most scholars think he's talking about New Testament prophets, not just Isaiah and Jeremiah.

But this prophecy has ceased.

That was a part of God's way.

Others say Elijah.

Others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

And then he said, but who do you say that I am? And Peter answered, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

and he said to Peter blessed are you son of John for you did not learn this from mortal man it was revealed to you by my heavenly Father it's a revelation from the depths of the soul of man the Father and here the little child only eight years old and she makes the confession he appeared to me three times first as a man then as the king and now here as Jesus Christ the Lord he is the Son of God now you may be embarrassed to hear me make that claim from this platform And think what arrogance, what blasphemy.

Now that's kind of a weird thing, but follow me here.

In Jeremiah chapter 1, when Jeremiah is called, right? A very famous language in Jeremiah 1 where he's called, you know, from his mother's womb and all these things.

Right after that, in Jeremiah 1.11, the first vision that Jeremiah is given is, is the word of the Lord, verse 11 of chapter one, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And so this is the prophet that's going to foretell Israel's fall, but then also the resurrection and the coming of a king.

And he's going to establish a kingdom of perfect righteousness and peace and all of those things that are coming.

The first vision that God gives Jeremiah, he's like, what do you see? And Jeremiah said, I see an almond branch.

And then the Lord said to me, you have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.

And so in Hebrew, the words for almond is shaked, and the word for watching is shoked.

The question that I'm going to get to the heart of is really this.

Did the Bible predict 1948? When Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others spoke about Israel returning to their land, what did their original audiences think they were talking about? In other words, what did the Jews think they were talking about when they said, you people who are displaced will return to your land? For those who are not impacted by British Israelism, they would say, well, they were talking about in the ancient world, whenever they were displaced, they would be returning to their land.

Historically, that is really the answer.

Theologically, it turns into a much bigger debate because you're left with this question.

Remember Ezekiel's writing from Babylon and prophesying about and talking about those backs still in Israel.

And as God looks on the land there, he sees no one, no one in a position that can do anything about Israel's spiritual poverty and to stand up for the land granted Jeremiah was there he was a prophet for the land and Jeremiah was again involved in in condemning the land from Israel but he was not in a position of power or a position of authority that could do something to stand up for God and take the land back into a proper direction.

He was the prophet to those men.

God was using Jeremiah to declare that the nation should repent and turn back to him, and none would.

And so God's going to bring his holy justice.

Chapter 23 of Ezekiel is another word picture about these two sisters, clearly picturing... clearly picturing Samaria to the north, verse 4, and Jerusalem to the south, or Israel to the north, and the tribe of Judah to the south, and how even though the northern tribes all ran after evil and ran away from God, those of Judah just followed suit.

Peace, peace.

No, no, no. Don't listen to Jeremiah.

That guy.

Definitely don't listen to Isaiah.

So does Solomon and what we call some wisdom books like Proverbs.

And Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, they wrote more prophetic books.

Matthew is He writes a gospel, but he's like a former tax collector.

People hated tax collectors.

That distinction is the first thing she wants anyone nervous about this topic to hear.

Nobody in this episode is claiming to speak for God the way Isaiah or Jeremiah did.

They're talking about something else, a word from God handed to one ordinary person for the benefit of another ordinary person.

So where does scripture actually lay this out? Naysa pointed us to three chapters that are almost never read together.