Jeremiah: The Reluctant Firebrand (Part 2)
Jeremiah wrote the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, full of more biographical insights than any other. To summarise it is to do it an injustice, but here it is anyway.
The prophet’s early messages to the people were condemnations and ca…
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Jeremiah: The Reluctant Firebrand (Part 1)
[table id=BabylonianCaptivityTheEcclesiaInExile4_1 /]Imagine, for a moment, a Jerusalem Bible Class in around 610BC. Maybe it’s even a special weekend. The room is very full and some of the people in it will be world famous in the next …
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From around 610BC, Nebuchadnezzar began the invasion and destruction of the ancient kingdom of Judah. What had begun as a theocracy moved through various stages of its sometimes glorious history until finally, after over eight centuries of living in their promised land Zedekiah, the last mon…
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Reading: Lamentations 3:1-41
As members of a generation at an end of an age, it would be profitable for us to consider some of the last words of the prophet Jeremiah, who also lived at the end of an age. The book of Lamentations was written probably a few months after the final fall of Jerusa…
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Our previous articles have examined grief largely from a clinical perspective, providing an overview of contemporary thinking about grief and grieving. Naturally, what has been missing from all of these articles is the perspective that we might gain from our Father in heaven through the w…
This very short prophecy in the book of Jeremiah has been given scant attention over the years. Orthodox commentators have been content to trot out a few facts and figures but they have never truly come to a satisfying conclusion as to what it is actually talking about. A closer inspection allows us…
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