The Uncomfortable and Necessary Warnings of Jeremiah, Come Follow Me Podcast-- Jeremiah 1- 3, 7, 16-18, 20

We have a word in the English language that is based upon Jeremiah's calling.

It is Jeremiah.

A Jeremiah is a long, mournful complaint or lamentation, a list of woes, a warning.

To see why the Lord chose Jeremiah for this prophetic calling, to give a warning, it is vital to know something about the context and the times.

First, remember that we are talking about a covenant people who have received among their blessings protection in their promised land, as long as they are true to the covenant.

Thus, if a nation of covenant people is about to fall because of their own folly, God is duty-bound through his unbroken promises to send prophets to warn the people.

You can have a chance to avert this calamity, and God will stand by you in the roughest times if you repent and return to your covenants.

This is Jeremiah's calling to warn.

If you remember, because of their wickedness, the northern kingdom, called Israel, had fallen to the Assyrians in 721 B.C., Jerusalem, in Judah, the southern kingdom, did not fall at that time because Hezekiah had put in place great religious reforms that turned the people back to God.

However, once he died, apostasy grew right back with a vengeance, supported by their rulers.

People turned again to the groves and fertility rites common to the Baal religions.

Asherah was a fertility goddess represented by a tree, a devilish parody on the tree of life.

People again streamed back to Moloch, where infants were passed through the fire on an idol.

The leaders approved these abominations.

Manasseh, Hezekiah's son, was only 12 years old when he became king, undoubtedly controlled by political factions that had just been waiting to emerge from Hezekiah's reforms.

The prophets were warning the people that the city would be wiped clean and desolate if they didn't repent.

Unfazed, tradition says that Manasseh killed the mighty prophet Isaiah.

Believers were purged, sacrifices made to dumb idols.

The temple grounds and shrines became corrupted.

If possible, Manasseh's son Ammon was worse than his father.

He aroused enough enmity that he was assassinated.

But then his son Josiah was born, and, like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, he was righteous.

He removed official worship of gods other than Jehovah.

He destroyed altars to Baal.

He made repairs to the temple during which a book of the law, some version of Deuteronomy, was found.

We have a word in the English language that is based upon Jeremiah's calling.

It is Jeremiah.

A Jeremiah is a long, mournful complaint or lamentation, a list of woes, a warning.

To see why the Lord chose Jeremiah for this prophetic calling, to give a warning, it is vital to know something about the context and the times.

First, remember that we are talking about a covenant people who have received among their blessings protection in their promised land, as long as they are true to the covenant.

Thus, if a nation of covenant people is about to fall because of their own folly, God is duty-bound through his unbroken promises to send prophets to warn the people.

You can have a chance to avert this calamity, and God will stand by you in the roughest times if you repent and return to your covenants.

This is Jeremiah's calling to warn.

If you remember, because of their wickedness, the northern kingdom, called Israel, had fallen to the Assyrians in 721 B.C., Jerusalem, in Judah, the southern kingdom, did not fall at that time because Hezekiah had put in place great religious reforms that turned the people back to God.

However, once he died, apostasy grew right back with a vengeance, supported by their rulers.

People turned again to the groves and fertility rites common to the Baal religions.

Asherah was a fertility goddess represented by a tree, a devilish parody on the tree of life.

People again streamed back to Moloch, where infants were passed through the fire on an idol.

The leaders approved these abominations.

Manasseh, Hezekiah's son, was only 12 years old when he became king, undoubtedly controlled by political factions that had just been waiting to emerge from Hezekiah's reforms.

The prophets were warning the people that the city would be wiped clean and desolate if they didn't repent.

Unfazed, tradition says that Manasseh killed the mighty prophet Isaiah.

Believers were purged, sacrifices made to dumb idols.

The temple grounds and shrines became corrupted.

If possible, Manasseh's son Ammon was worse than his father.

He aroused enough enmity that he was assassinated.

But then his son Josiah was born, and, like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, he was righteous.

He removed official worship of gods other than Jehovah.

He destroyed altars to Baal.

He made repairs to the temple during which a book of the law, some version of Deuteronomy, was found.